Lives:Visiblethe new film by Chicagoan Michelle Citron that looks at the working-class butch/fem world of pre-Stonewall Chicago, and the film-based snapshot that recorded everyday 20th-century lifewill run at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St., on Friday, June 23, 8 p.m. and Wed., June 28, 8:15 p.m.
Citron will be at both screenings.
The filmmaker, whose 1984 meta-documentary Daughter Rite is a classic of feminist cinema, centers her latest film on a box of more than 2,000 snapshots that had belonged to Norma and Virginia, a lesbian couple who lived together for nearly 50 years in Chicago's East Rogers Park.
The film will be followed by Leftovers ( 2014, Michelle Citron, USA, 23 min. ), described by Citron as an experimental documentary.
See genesiskelfilmcenter.pfestore.com/capacity/events/1b285c6e-4267-48b7-8ee9-da3fe34eaed0.aspx .