From: Adam Hyman (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Oct 21 2009 - 13:20:14 PDT
Hi all,
We're really looking forward to the first appearance ever in Los Angeles of
avant-garde filmmaker Robert Beavers this Sunday, October 25, at the UCLA
Film & Television Archive, which Filmforum is co-presenting. None of these
are available on DVD (nor are likely to be in our lifetimes), so really it's
a must to see these beautiful films in person. More details below, along
with information on these events.
(This email brought to you courtesy of Los Angeles Filmforum)
-- Haxan with live score by Eddie Ruscha at Cinefamily, Wed Oct 21, 8 pm
-- Restoring the Los Angeles Avant-Garde: Films from the 60s and 70s,
at USC Cinematheque 108, Thurs Oct 22, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
-- Attack of the 50-Foot Reels, at the Egyptian Theater, Thurs, Oct 22 –
7:30 PM
-- Spontaneous Fantasia: The Omnicentric Universe, at Glendale Community
College Planetarium, Fri Oct 23 at 8 pm, Sat Oct 24 at 6:30 pm
-- Robert Beavers in Person at the UCLA Film & Television Archive, Sunday
Oct 25, 7:00 pm
-- Christine Panuska and Alberto Araiza, "Mosca and the Meaning of Life"
World premiere, at REDCAT, Mon Oct 26, 2009, 8:30 pm
-- Hell's Bells: The Cinefamily Mondo Remix, at Cinefamily,
Wed Oct 28 @ 8pm
-- The Golem, with a live score by Brian LeBarton, at REDCAT,
Fri Oct 30, 2009 - Sat Oct 31, 2009, 8:30 pm
-- AFI FEST 2009 Oct 30 - Nov 7 - Many interesting films, including a few
hosted by Filmforum
-- Lichtspiel: Contemporary Abstract Animation and Visual Music,
at REDCAT, Tues Nov 3, 2009, 8:30 pm
-- Los Angeles Filmforum presents Bodies, Objects, Films: An Yvonne Rainer
Retrospective (part 2 of 8) – Film About a Woman Who... (1974), at the
Egyptian Theater, Sun Nov 8, 2009, 7:30 pm
-- Ventana Al Sur: Argentine Experimental Films, at Documental,
Mon, Nov 9 at 8:30
-- The Making and Unmaking of Flaming Creatures: A screening and talk with
J. Hoberman, at REDCAT, Mon., Nov 9, 2009, 8:30 pm
DETAILS:
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Haxan
(w/ new live score by Eddie Ruscha)
Wednesday 10/21 @ 8pm
at Cinefamily
611 N Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, 90036 / 323-655-2510
http://cinefamily.org/calendar/wednesday.html#oct
The beautifully disturbing 1922 granddaddy of all shockumentaries, Haxan
employs a variety of techniques to weave its historic tale of the occult.
Mixing and mashing actual documentary footage with "re-enactments" and slide
shows (one of such slide shows was so famously used in the opening of The
Exorcist), Danish director Benjamin Christensen made a film full of vivid
and haunting visuals just waiting to be underscored by an audial equivalent.
Enter Eddie Ruscha (of Future Pigeon), a gifted artist and electronic
experimental musician with a score he composed to complement the film, one
that wowed audiences at the Hammer earlier this year.
Dir. Benjamin Christensen, digital presentation, 1922, 74 min.
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RESTORING THE LOS ANGELES AVANT-GARDE: FILMS FROM THE `60s & `70s
October 22, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
Location: SCA 108, George Lucas Building, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles,
CA 90007
Cinematheque108 Presents: Restoring the Los Angeles Avant-Garde
http://cinema.usc.edu/about/events/event_20091007.htm
Cinematheque108 invites you to a special program of
restored short avant-garde films from the 60s and 70s
Academy film preservationist Mark Toscano will introduce the program
RSVP: https://scacommunity.usc.edu/events/rsvp/eventRSVP.cfm?rid=463
Event URL: http://cinema.usc.edu/AvantGardeRestored
SCA 108, George Lucas Building, School of Cinematic Arts Complex
900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007
Free Admission. Open to the Public.
Program of Screenings
--- ------- (Thom Andersen & Malcolm Brodwick, 1967, color, sound, 12min.)
THROBS (Fred Worden, 1972, color, sound, 7min.)
BONDAGE GIRL (Chris Langdon, 1973, color, sound, 6min.)
PASADENA FREEWAY STILLS (Gary Beydler, 1974, color, silent, 6min.)
unc. (Bruce Lane, 1966, color, sound, 3min.)
VENUSVILLE (Fred Worden & Chris Langdon, 1973, color, sound, 10min.)
STASIS (David Wilson, 1976, color, sound, 8min.)
ROSE FOR RED (Diana Wilson, 1980, color, sound, 3min.)
MIRROR PEOPLE (Kathy Rose, 1974, color, sound, 5min.)
FUTURE PERFECT (Roberta Friedman & Grahame Weinbren, 1978, color, sound,
11min.)
OLIVIA'S PLACE (Thom Andersen, 1966/74, color, sound, 6min.)
VENICE PIER (Gary Beydler, 1976, color, sound, 16min.)
PICASSO (Chris Langdon, 1973, b/w, sound, 3min.)
Total: 101 mins.
About Cinematheque108
Cinematheque108 is an alternative screening series sponsored by Critical
Studies at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
For more information please call (213)-740-3334, or e-mail
email suppressed <mailto:cinematheque108%40cinema.usc.edu>
for a schedule. All events are free and are on Thursday evenings in SCA 108
unless otherwise noted. Please note that there will be no food, drink, or
gum allowed inside the theater.
To view the calendar of screenings, click
http://cinema.usc.edu/about/events/event_2009091484858.htm
About Parking
The USC School of Cinematic Arts is located at 900 W. 34th St., Los Angeles,
CA 90007. Parking passes may be purchased for $8.00 at USC Entrance Gate #5,
located at the intersection of W. Jefferson Blvd. & McClintock Avenue. We
recommend parking in outdoor Lot M or V, or Parking Structure D, at the far
end of 34th Street. Please note that Parking Structure D cannot accommodate
tall vehicles such as SUVs. Metered parking is also available along
Jefferson Blvd.
Contact Information:
Benjamin Miller
213-740-3334
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ATTACK OF THE 50-FOOT REELS
at the Egyptian Theater
Thursday, October 22 – 7:30 PM
http://www.americancinematheque.com/archive1999/2009/Egyptian/specialevent_O
CT_ET_2009.htm#ATTACK%20OF%20THE%2050-FOOT%20REELS
ATTACK OF THE 50-FOOT REELS, approx. 80 min. The Attack of the 50-Foot Reels
returns for its ninth annual challenge to 20 filmmakers to shoot a film with
one 50-foot cartridge of Super-8 film. The filmmakers will be in attendance
to introduce their short films, which represent the raw potential and grainy
magic that can only be achieved with limitations, in-camera editing,
30-year-old cameras and Super-8 film.
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Spontaneous Fantasia: The Omnicentric Universe
an entirely new experience of cosmic exploration performed live in
state-of-the-art immersive digital fulldome!
The Glendale Community College Planetarium presents
SPONTANEOUS FANTASIA
in their state-of-the-art
immersive digital fulldome theater
Tickets & full info:
http://spontaneousfantasia.com/glendale.html
Friday, October 23, 8:00pm
Saturday, October 24, 6:30pm
Friday, November 13, 8:00pm
Saturday, November 14, 6:30pm
Friday, November 27, 8:00pm
Saturday, November 28, 6:30pm
Friday, December 4, 8:00pm
Saturday, December 5, 6:30pm
Friday, December 11, 8:00pm
Saturday, December 12, 6:30pm
Glendale Community College Planetarium
Cimmarusti Science Center
1500 North Verdugo Road
Glendale, California 91208
Free on-campus parking after 5pm.
Click here for GCC maps and parking info
Part of the proceeds supports GCC's free K-12 science outreach program.
Buy discounted tickets online
or pay cash at the door.
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Sunday October 25, 2009, 7:00 pm
Los Angeles Filmforum, UCLA Film & Television Archive, Getty Research
Institute, CalArts Film/Video, and REDCAT present
Robert Beavers in Person
First time in Los Angeles!
At the UCLA Film & Television Archive
Note change in time and place – 7:00 pm, at the Billy Wilder Theater in
Westwood
The Billy Wilder Theater is located in the Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire
Blvd., at the northeast corner of the intersection of Wilshire and Westwood
Blvds., just east of the 405. Parking is $3 in the lot under the theater.
Enter from Westwood Blvd., just north of Wilshire.
For advance tickets and directions, please visit
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/public/calendar/calendar_f.html
This presentation of work by avant-garde filmmaker Robert Beavers represents
the filmmaker's Los Angeles debut, after a career spanning from the
mid-1960s to the present day, and is organized in conjunction with the
Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, who will present Beavers' complete cycle
earlier in October.
"Beavers' films occupy a noble place within the history of avant-garde film,
positioned at the intersection of structural and lyrical filmmaking
traditions. They seem to embody the ideals of the Renaissance in their
fascination with perception, psychology, literature, the natural world,
architectural space, musical phrasing and aesthetic beauty." -Susan Oxtoby,
Pacific Film Archive
Interview with Robert Beavers, by Tony Pipolo, from Millennium Film Journal,
1998:
http://mfj-online.org/journalPages/MFJ32,33/pipolointerview.html
Interview with Robert Beavers in the Yale Daily News, 2009:
http://www.yaledailynews.com/scene/interview/2009/01/30/backstage-robert-bea
vers/
AMOR (1980, 15 min. 35mm, color, Italy/Austria)
AMOR uses themes of cutting and sewing as metaphors. Cloth is cut and fabric
is sewn; shrubs are trimmed and hedges form majestic garden archways; and a
male figure claps his hands as if to signal a sync cue on which there is a
visual cut. Central to this work are the complex emotions surrounding love,
separation, and the metonymic twinning of objects, including that of edited
image and sutured sound. —Susan Oxtoby, Pacific Film Archive
THE STOAS (1991-97, 22 min., 35mm, color, Greece)
The Stoas includes images of the deserted industrial arcades (stoas) of
Athens during siesta and the refreshing waters of a bountiful river. "An
ineffable, unnamable immanence flows through the images of The Stoas, a kind
of presence of the human soul expressed through the sympathetic absence of
the human figure" (Ed Halter).—Susan Oxtoby, Pacific Film Archive
THE GROUND (1993-2001, 20 min., 35mm, color, Greece)
The Ground uses seemingly simple components – the sun-baked landscape of a
Greek island, the blue waters of the Aegean Sea, and images of a man
chiseling stone – to conjure the fundamental experience of holding something
close to one's heart. A repeated close up of a man pounding his bare chest,
then gesturing with hand outstretched, lends dramatic tension to the film's
expression of devotional love. —Susan Oxtoby, Pacific Film Archive
PITCHER OF COLORED LIGHT (2007, 24 min., 16mm, United States/Switzerland)
Beavers' most recent film, Pitcher of Colored Light is a loving portrait of
his mother depicted in her Massachusetts home and garden, shot across
several seasons.
—Susan Oxtoby, Pacific Film Archive
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October 26, 2009, 8:30 pm
Christine Panuska and Alberto Araiza, "Mosca and the Meaning of Life"
World premiere
REDCAT
http://www.redcat.org/event/christine-panushka-and-alberto-araiza
Mosca and the Meaning of Life is a groundbreaking multimedia piece in which
animated characters leap off the screen and join up with a live performance
crafted by award-winning filmmaker and animator Christine Panushka and
theater and spoken word artist Beto Araiza. Mosca and the Meaning of Life
questions our belief systems, customs, and social values, the truths and
lies with which we live out our lives, motivated as much by misinformation
and desperation as by hope. The program also includes The Sum of Them,
Singing Sticks and other films by Panushka, as well as an excerpt of Biting
the Pillow, a performance by Araiza.
In person: Christine Panushka and Alberto Araiza
Curated by Steve Anker.
REDCAT is located in the heart of downtown Los Angeles on the northeast
corner of the intersection W. 2nd and Hope Streets. Housed in the Walt
Disney Concert Hall complex, REDCAT has its own street entrance on 2nd
Street.
PARKING
Please plan on arriving at least 30 minutes before curtain time. Seating at
REDCAT is unreserved, and late seating is not guaranteed.
Parking is available in the Walt Disney Concert Hall parking garage. Enter
from 2nd St. and proceed to level P3 for direct access to REDCAT. The
evening event rate is $9 after 5pm, and $5 after 8pm.
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Hell's Bells:
The Cinefamily Mondo Remix
Wednesday 10/28 @ 8pm / SERIES: the sound of horror
at Cinefamily
611 N Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, 90036 / 323-655-2510
http://cinefamily.org/calendar/wednesday.html#oct
If Halloween is the Devil's favorite holiday, then surely heavy metal is his
favorite music. Our Sound of Horror series ends with a mind-bending,
soul-stealing, ear-shattering tribute to the Satanic roots of heavy metal --
from the born-again perspective. As our primary source material, we're doing
a remix of Hell's Bells -- an incredibly well-argued and researched Craig
Baldwin-esque video essay exposing heavy metal's awesome power to corrupt
our youth. Witness how rock and roll mocks Christ, tempts the libido and
promotes the worship of Satan, all through album covers, music videos,
backwards messages and occult iconography. Convincing as hell, you'll
believe rock n' roll is stuff of Beelzebub -- turn it up! And, as our final
piece of damning evidence, we present a live performance from hell's
houseband Nilbog, specializing in covers of themes from our favorite horror
movies.
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The Golem
with a live score by Brian LeBarton
October 30, 2009 - October 31, 2009
at REDCAT
http://www.redcat.org/event/golem
Celebrate Halloween with one of the earliest and surely creepiest horror
films in cinema history, accompanied with live music by tricked-out ghouls
under the direction of Brian LeBarton, best known as Beck's prodigious music
director. The 1920 touchstone of Expressionism tells the Eastern European
Jewish legend of the Golem—an oversize clay statue brought to life by a
Prague rabbi to do muscle work and help protect the city's Jews. It doesn't
take long, though, before the plan goes horribly wrong… With director Paul
Wegener as the Golem, cinematography by Karl Freund (Metropolis) and amazing
sets by architect Hans Poelzig. LeBarton's costumed band, meanwhile,
features analog keyboards, electronic treatments, cello, and special guest
Carla Azar on drums and percussion.
REDCAT is located in the heart of downtown Los Angeles on the northeast
corner of the intersection W. 2nd and Hope Streets. Housed in the Walt
Disney Concert Hall complex, REDCAT has its own street entrance on 2nd
Street.
PARKING
Please plan on arriving at least 30 minutes before curtain time. Seating at
REDCAT is unreserved, and late seating is not guaranteed.
Parking is available in the Walt Disney Concert Hall parking garage. Enter
from 2nd St. and proceed to level P3 for direct access to REDCAT. The
evening event rate is $9 after 5pm, and $5 after 8pm.
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The AFI FEST is coming! Grab the kids and head for Hollywood!
And shows are freeeeeee!
Indeed, many screenings have already run out of their free pre-sale tickets,
but will have some at Rush lines.
Filmforum is delighted that we will be hosting three films (in two programs)
at Filmforum at the Egyptian on November 1. We will also be the community
sponsor for the Los Angeles premiere of Werner Herzog's newest film "Bad
Lieutenant: Port of New Orleans"
But we also think several other films at the festival might be of interest
to you. Check them out below.
AFI FEST 2009 Presented by AUDI
October 30 - Nov. 7
Grauman's Chinese Theater, neighboring Mann 6 Theaters, and AFM locales in
Santa Monica.
ALL REGULAR SCREENINGS ARE FREE!
www.AFI.com/AFIFEST
1)
Los Herederos
Mexico | DIR Eugenio Polgovsky
(2008, 90 min., Mexico, HDCAM) – Los Angeles premiere!
Here as in his first film TROPIC OF CANCER, Eugenio Polgovsky uses his
camera as an exploratory tool to venture where other filmmakers might easily
turn away. And few filmmakers have managed to so intensively document and
reflect upon the poorest of the poor. The "herederos" of the title —children
who have "inherited" a legacy of grinding poverty—live on the land. They
plow, they harvest, they load wood and they build walls with the bricks that
they made with their hands. They also frolic, and play and dance. Polgovsky
and his extraordinary sound recordist Camille Tauss immersed themselves for
three years in the lives of these children as they toil in the states of
Guerrero, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Sinaloa, Puebla and Veracruz. LOS HEREDEROS is
both extremely intimate (the camera's point of view is like that of a tiny
creature scurrying to keep pace with the kids) and pointedly universal,
while rigorously refusing to draw conclusions.
One article on Los Herederos: http://www.jimlesse s.com/honouring/
2009/02/in- review-los- herederos- 2008.html
Playing with
A LETTER TO UNCLE BOONMEE directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2009, 18
min., Thailand/U.K. , Digibeta) – Los Angeles premiere!
Winner of two prizes at the 55th International Short Film Festival
Oberhausen
In Apichatpong' s hauntingly poetic piece—one part of his ambitious
"Primitives" project—the voices of three young men describe to an uncle how
their Thai village of Nabua has been abandoned in the wake of war.
Website of Apichatpong Weerasethakul: www.kickthemachine. com
Sun. Nov 1, 4:30 pm, Los Angeles Filmforum at the Spielberg Theatre at the
Egyptian
2)
The Anchorage
Sweden / USA | DIR C.W. Winter, Anders Edström
(2009, 87 min., U.S./Sweden, 35mm)
U.S. premiere! C.W. Winter and Anders Edstrom in person!
Winner of Locarno's Golden Leopard for Filmmakers of the Present
CAST: Ulla Edström, Marcus Harrling, Elin Hamren, Bengt Ohlsson
Immersing the viewer in magnificent Swedish landscapes, this sober and
meditative film reveals the beauty of nature and the beings that co-exist in
harmony there: a Rousseauesque vision of a relationship between a human
being and her environment. Ulla, the central character, relates in voiceover
how it will be when it snows, but her expectations are disturbed with the
arrival of a hunter, whose flashily colored clothing is out of place amidst
the island's greens and browns. Shot with a minimal crew, CalArts graduate
C. W. Winter's and photographer Anders Edström's first fiction feature
unobtrusively combines silence and the sounds of nature in contemplative
sequences, sometimes adding snatches of songs about local folklore.
Ultimately, the film—winner of Locarno's Golden Leopard for Filmmaker of the
Present—serves as an ode to a woman whose strength and grace are in perfect
harmony with nature.
Sun. Nov 1, 7:30 pm, Los Angeles Filmforum at the Spielberg Theatre at the
Egyptian
3)
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
USA | DIR Werner Herzog
CAST: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer, Jennifer Coolidge, Fairuza Balk,
Alvin "Xzibit" Joiner
After RESCUE DAWN, Werner Herzog returns to American genre cinema, this time
taking on the mythic, audience-friendly framework of the gritty urban cop
film. Working from William Finkelstein' s tightly compelling script, Herzog
sets the plot in New Orleans, which allows for a few surreal Herzogian
touches—decaying buildings, men communing with alligators. But this dark,
shockingly funny drama keeps the focus on the title character, Detective
McDonough, who scarfs down narcotics to cope with his back pain—making bets
his body can't cover—while neck-deep in a murder investigation. Nicolas
Cage, in one of his strongest performances, invests McDonough with urgency
and compassion, and gets terrific support by Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer, Vondee
Curtis-Hall and Brad Dourif. Having positioned himself, in deed and word, as
the ultimate Hollywood outsider, Herzog suddenly earns comparison with
masters including Don Siegel, Nicholas Ray and Sidney Lumet.
Wed. Nov 4, 7:00 pm, Mann 1 / Wed. Nov 4, 7:00 pm, Mann 3
MORE RECOMMENDED FILMS:
SWEETGRASS – U.S. (Lucien Castaing-Taylor/ Ilisa Barbash, U.S.) Documentary
section--- Sat. Nov. 7, 1 p.m. Laemmle's Monica 4-plex (AFM)
BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO ((Jessica Oreck, U.S./Japan) Documentary
section--- Sat. Oct. 31, 10 a.m. Mann 1
LA DANSE: THE PARIS OPERA BALLET (Frederick Wiseman, France/U.S.)
Documentary section--- Sat. Oct. 31, 10 a.m. Mann 6
SWEET RUSH (Andrez Wajda)(2009 Poland 85 MIN 35mm) World Cinema Section --
Saturday, October 31, 1:00 pm
Grauman's Chinese
CASTRO – Argentina (narrative) (Alejo Moguillansky, Argentina) World Cinema
section--- Sun. Nov. 1, 1:30 p.m. Mann 1
LUNCHFILMS Mon. Nov. 2, 1 p.m. Mann 6
SHORTS PROGRAM Mon. Nov. 2, 4 p.m. Mann 6
A LAKE – France (narrative) (Philippe Grandrieux, France) World Cinema
section --- Mon. Nov. 2, 10 p.m. Mann 6
PERPETUUM MOBILE – Mexico/Canada (narrative) (Nicolas Pereda, Mexico/Canada)
World Cinema section--- Tues. Nov. 3, 4 p.m. Mann 6
TRASH HUMPERS – U.S./U.K. (narrative) (Harmony Korine, US) ALT Cinema ---
Tues. Nov. 3, 10 p.m. Mann 6
MOSCOW – Brazil (Eduardo Coutinho, Brazil) Documentary section-- Wed. Nov.
4, 10 p.m. Mann 1
PETITION (Zhao Liang, China) Documentary section-- Thurs. Nov. 5, 7 p.m.
Mann 6
NE CHANGE RIEN – Portugal/France (Pedro Costa, Portugal/France) screening
with LE STREGHE, FEMMES ENTRE ELLES (Jean-Marie Straub, France/Italy)
Documentary section-- Thurs. Nov. 5 10 p.m. Mann 1
POLICE, ADJECTIVE (Corneliu Porimboiu, Romania) New Lights Competition- --
Fri. Nov. 6, 1 p.m. Laemmle's Monica 4-plex
TO DIE LIKE A MAN – Portugal/France (narrative) (Joao Pedro Rodrigues,
Portugal/France) World Cinema section--- Fri. Nov. 6, 5 p.m. Laemmle's
Monica 4-plex
AFI FEST 2009 presented by Audi takes place October 30th - November 5 in the
heart of historic downtown Hollywood at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, the
neighboring Mann 6 Theater (in the Hollywood and Highland Center) and the
Roosevelt Hotel, then moves to Santa Monica for two days of screenings at
AFM, the American Film Market.
As our gift to moviegoers, free tickets are available to all festival
movies, including a limited number of free tickets to evening red carpet
galas. Get your tickets starting October 16 at AFI.com or AFI.com/AFIFEST,
or by calling 1-866-AFI-FEST. You can also obtain tickets by going to the
Festival Box Office located at the Mann 6 Theatre starting on October 26th,
or on the day of the screenings via rush lines.
Become a patron of the festival and purchase an AFI FEST Patron Pass,
available now. The AFI FEST Patron Pass provides early entry to screenings,
lounge access and other benefits. By becoming a festival patron, you help
make this free festival possible and support the art of film. For more
details, visit AFI.com or call 1-866-AFI-FEST.
Seating is limited, so get your free tickets starting OCTOBER 16TH!
*Requires RSVP and hard ticket for admission
**Patrons must be in their seats 15 minutes before the scheduled screening
time or admittance cannot be guaranteed.
PARKING
Hollywood & Highland parking garage
6801 Hollywood Blvd.
$2 for up to four hours with theater, restaurant or shopping validation; $1
for every 20 minutes thereafter, with a daily maximum of $10
Santa Monica
Santa Monica City Parking Structure #4
Across the street from the theater
Prior to 6 pm, the first two hours are free; $1 for each additional half
hour.
After 6 pm, there is a flat rate of $3.
GO METRO
Ride the Metro to the Hollywood/Highland Metro station.
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Lichtspiel: Contemporary Abstract Animation and Visual Music
Los Angeles premieres
at REDCAT
November 3, 2009, 8:30 pm
Co-presented with Center for Visual Music
http://www.redcat.org/event/lichtspiel
"Joost Rekveld has provided an undeniable masterpiece with #37."
International Film Festival Rotterdam
This ravishing "play of light" explores rhythmic abstractions in the
cinematic tradition of Oskar Fischinger and visual music animation. The
centerpiece of the program is the Los Angeles debut of Joost Rekveld's #37
(Netherlands, 2009, 31 min., 35mm CinemaScope), a stunningly beautiful study
of the propagation and diffraction of light through crystalline structures.
Sure to bend more than a few minds, the lineup also offers award-winning
animated shorts from around the world, most of which are screening in L.A.
for the first time. Featured artists include Scott Draves, Robert Seidel,
Steven Woloshen, Bärbel Neubauer, Thorsten Fleisch, Bret Battey, Michael
Scroggins, Samantha Krukowski, Mondi, Devon Damonte, Scott Nyerges, Vivek
Patel and Yusuke Nakajima. Plus the final film by the late CGI wizard
Richard "Doc" Baily.
In person: Joost Rekveld
Curated by Center for Visual Music with Steve Anker.
REDCAT is located in the heart of downtown Los Angeles on the northeast
corner of the intersection W. 2nd and Hope Streets. Housed in the Walt
Disney Concert Hall complex, REDCAT has its own street entrance on 2nd
Street.
PARKING
Please plan on arriving at least 30 minutes before curtain time. Seating at
REDCAT is unreserved, and late seating is not guaranteed.
Parking is available in the Walt Disney Concert Hall parking garage. Enter
from 2nd St. and proceed to level P3 for direct access to REDCAT. The
evening event rate is $9 after 5pm, and $5 after 8pm.
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Sunday November 8, 2009, 7:30 pm
Los Angeles Filmforum presents
Bodies, Objects, Films: An Yvonne Rainer Retrospective (part 2 of 8) –
Film About a Woman Who… (1974)
At the Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas, Los Angeles
Over the course of our 2009-2010 seasons, Filmforum is proud to present a
full retrospective of the media works of Yvonne Rainer. One of the most
significant artists in dance and film of the last fifty years, this is the
first full retrospective of her films in Los Angeles.
Please note that Yvonne Rainer will not be present at this screening. We
were going to screen Trio A and Lives of Performers tonight, but we will
screen those on a night in 2010 when Rainer can be present. We apologize
for any inconvenience.
Film About A Woman Who… (1974, 105 mins, b&w, 16mm)
Rainer's landmark film is a meditation on ambivalence that plays with cliché
and the conventions of soap opera while telling the story of a woman whose
sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger.
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MON, Nov. 9. VENTANA AL SUR : ARGENTINE EXPERIMENTAL FILMS
(1976-2008, 65minutes) at 8:30
DOCUMENTAL shows films at the Unurban Coffeehouse, 3301 Pico Blvd, Santa
Monica, CA, 90 404, 3 10-315-0056, free admission from 6-10pm. Info:
310-306-7330
www.myspace.com/sevendudleycinema
Curated by Mark Street and Lynne Sachs.This rollicking evening of
challenging, expressive and oppositional Argentine c inema off ers a window
onto artists shredding formal niceties, relishing in risk and daring to
access the sublime. From an achingly beautiful evocation of a field of
flowers to a darkly humorous evisceration of the tenets of the stock market,
this program will take us to the land where summer is winter and winter is
summer and render our souls topsy-turvy for a bit as well. Street & Sachs im
mersed themselves in the Buenos Aires film community through a variety of
collaborative cinematic endeavors, meeting and watching the works of local
moving-image makers – some young bucks as well as some veterans who have
been expanding the parameters of the medium since the=2 0early-1960s.
6pm-more Experimental films. also- HEAP US 'ROUND OUR RUINS ('09, 120m) from
6-8:30 - Ben Balcom & Josh Weissbach's (in person) engaging films are both
unified by an interest in the vitality of the moving image as an experience
of communication. Weissbach's films are based on the notion that as all
humans inhabit space, space simultaneously inhabits humans, and within this,
the main question that is raised is how does the relationship between
intimacy, trauma, and space function in the life of every human being?
Including an experimental documentary that focuses on Cuban exiles and the
intimate sites of their lives before, while, and after crossing the liquid
divide between Cuba and the United States. Ben Balcom's films teeter on the
line between reality and dream, characterized by the appearance and
disappearance of narrative. The form of these films change from pure
experimentation to character-based allegory. These films are trying to
discover the relationship between our nature and the representation of this
space through a reconfiguration of experience in an artificial medium. Each
of these films is united in their interest in poetry, mythology, and
perception, experienced through an interface of silence and the language of
the material. This body of work is meant to be eyes seeing humanity hiding,
running, lying, tearing itself apart.
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The Making and Unmaking of Flaming Creatures
A screening and talk with J. Hoberman
Los Angeles revival
at REDCAT
November 9, 2009, 8:30 pm
1963, 45 min., 16mm, b/w
http://www.redcat.org/event/j-hoberman
Recognized as an unprecedented visionary masterpiece, Flaming Creatures was
also reviled, rioted over, banned as porn, and pondered by the Supreme
Court. "Jack Smith described Flaming Creatures as `a comedy set in a haunted
movie studio.' It is that, as well as the single most important and
influential underground movie ever released in America," according to J.
Hoberman, film critic of The Village Voice for more than 30 years and an
authority on the Smith performance and film oeuvre. "Smith's movie was a
source of inspiration for artists as disparate as Andy Warhol, Federico
Fellini and John Waters but he never completed another." Find out why.
Hoberman's books include The Dream Life: Movies, Media and the Mythology of
the Sixties and Bridge of Light: Yiddish Cinema Between Two Worlds.
In person: J. Hoberman
Curated by Steve Anker.
REDCAT is located in the heart of downtown Los Angeles on the northeast
corner of the intersection W. 2nd and Hope Streets. Housed in the Walt
Disney Concert Hall complex, REDCAT has its own street entrance on 2nd
Street.
PARKING
Please plan on arriving at least 30 minutes before curtain time. Seating at
REDCAT is unreserved, and late seating is not guaranteed.
Parking is available in the Walt Disney Concert Hall parking garage. Enter
from 2nd St. and proceed to level P3 for direct access to REDCAT. The
evening event rate is $9 after 5pm, and $5 after 8pm.
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