Nightingale Projects: An Evening With Saif Alsaegh

The Nightingale is thrilled to announce that it will host six screenings in 2023 at the Gene Siskel Film Center under the title Nightingale Projects.

February 13

April 10

June 12

August 21

October 23

December 11

All screening dates fall on Mondays and all screenings are at 6pm.

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Monday, October 23 at 6pm

Order tickets on the Gene Siskel Film Center website.

Join Nightingale Projects for an evening of short experimental films by Saif Alsaegh. Alsaegh is a United States–based filmmaker from Baghdad. Much of his work deals with the contrast between the landscape of his youth in Baghdad growing up as part of the Indigenous Chaldean minority in the 90s and early 2000s, and the US landscape where he currently lives. His films have screened in festivals including Cinéma du Réel, Kurzfilm Hamburg, Kassel Dokfest, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, and in galleries and museums including the Wisconsin Triennial at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and the Rochester Contemporary Art Center. He received his master of fine arts in film from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Program Lineup:

Alazeef (2016, 21 min.)

Rosa (2018, 17 min.)

1991 (2018, 12 min.)

Bitter with a Shy Taste of Sweetness (2019, 9 min.)

Bezuna (2023, 8 min.)

Post-screening discussion with Alsaegh and programmer Drew Durepos.