Matt Cunningham talks with Will Schmenner, the director of Block Cinema and curator for the exhibition Casting a Shadow: Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film up through December 9 at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University. Then, Edgewater’s Experimental Sound Studio founder and executive director Lou Mallozzi shares a new exhibition, Signals Crossed Across Borders, that revisits and recontextualizes works from their archive.

Plus, Stuart Dybek explains that contrast is an important concept for film, sound and even his own literature.