Experience "Unwanted" by Marseille-based Dorothée Munyaneza at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. A performance combining movement, song, and visuals to investigate how the body can move from war trauma to the renewing power of life.

Virtual Reality is taking hold as a revolutionary new mode of storytelling, but what kinds of styles and subjects are best suited for the new medium, and how do filmmakers navigate this exciting new field? Come experience VR filmaking yourself through panel discussion and special viewings of French VR films. 

City/Cité St. Louis is the fourth event in the series, “City/Cité: A Transatlantic Exchange,” launched by the French association Métro-Univers-Cité and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in Chicago in 2015, in collaboration with partners in France and the United States.

City/Cité St. Louis brings together influential French scholars, activists, performers, policymakers, and non-profit leaders and their counterparts in the Gateway City to engage in a public dialogue about immigration, diversity, integration, discrimination, inequality, and the future of the city.

French-Rwandan hip-hop artist and author Gaël Faye will discuss his award-wining novel Small Country (Prix Goncourt des Lycéens), a poignant coming-of-age story of his fictional doppelgänger, Gabriel, who is forced to move to France when Burundi and Rwanda are hit by civil war and genocide. This depiction of a loss of innocence dives right into the maelstrom of African history, interweaving light and shadows, tragedy and humor in a stirring tribute to Faye’s past.
Oct 22 | BookCellar & Seminary Co-op Bookstores - Chicago
Oct 23 | DePaul University - Chicago
Oct 24 | University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

The University of Chicago welcomes internationally renowned French artist Philippe Parreno, well known for his installations featured at the Tate Modern in London, Park Avenue Armory in New York City, and Palais de Tokyo in Paris. In addition to screenings of selected clips from his films, Parreno will discuss his work alongside Ina Bloom of the University of Oslo and Jörn Schafaff of Freie Universität Berlin.