The Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N. State St.) | April 4 at 8:15PM

A Special Program of the 34th Onion City Experimental Film Festival.

Presented in partnership with Cine-File & The Gene Siskel Film Center.

The 34th Onion City Experimental Film Festival opens at the Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N. State St.) with the newly restored TOUTE UNE NUIT (A WHOLE NIGHT) by Chantal Akerman, presented in partnership with Cine-File.

The 34th Onion City Experimental Film Festival (April 4 to April 7 at various venues across Chicago; April 8-14 online), opens with the newly restored TOUTE UNE NUIT (A WHOLE NIGHT), presented in partnership with Cine-File. On a sultry summer night in Brussels, various bodies in search of love collide: some succeed, others do not. Chantal Akerman’s rarely screened and recently restored urban nocturne, TOUTE UNE NUIT, foregrounds small gestures as it captures the shape of solitude itself. Locations criss-cross as characters meet and embrace, dance and split up, yank one another into cabs, or merely watch the action from doorways and stairwells. The choreography of indoors and out, upstairs and down, attraction and rejection distills the complex machinations of urban romance into a sweetly rhythmic dance. (Harvard Film Archives)