From: Adam Hyman (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Jun 09 2010 - 16:38:38 PDT
Hi all,
Hope you will make it to the Stephen Connolly show at Filmforum this Sunday.
We'll send a more detailed notice later in the week. And there are plenty
of other delights this week and next...
-- The Cardboard Lover shown with Fatty Arbuckle shorts, at Cinefamily, Wed
June 9 @ 8:00pm
-- Opening of The Alchemy of Things Unknown (and a visual meditation on
transformation), With a film performance by Raha Raissnia, at Khastoo
Gallery, Thurs June 10, 6-8 pm
-- SAN FRANCISCO EXQUISITE CORPSE & INTIMATE OBSERVATIONS at Echo Park Film
Center, Thurs, June 10 – 8PM
-- Flux Screening Series - Films by Jonas Odell, including animated
documentaries, at the Hammer Museum, Thurs June 10, 8:00 pm
-- FILMMOBILE SUMMER SCREENING SERIES: THE DECAY OF FICTION, location TBA,
Fri, June 11 – 8PM
-- New Media Film Festival, at the Downtown Independent Theater
June 11-13th
-- Kentucky Fried Movie, at Cinefamily, Fri 6/11 @ 10:00pm
-- Dance Camera West at the Hammer Museum, Sat June 12, 2010 4:30 &
7:00pm; Sun June 13, 2010 7:00pm
-- Another Animation Show by John and Cosmo, at the EPFC Analog Annex, Sat
June 12th, 8 pm
-- DOUBLE TAKE, at the Downtown Independent Cinema, Sat, June 12 - 7pm
-- Los Angeles Filmforum presents STEPHEN CONNOLLY: Occasional Pieces and
Afflicted States, at the Egyptian Theater, Sun June 13, 2010, 7:30 pm
-- Studio: Summer 2010 at REDCAT, Sun June 13 - Mon June 14, 8:30 pm
-- The Los Angeles Film Festival, June 17-27
-- Æ & Nanuka Tchitchoua: Moving Images and Song, at The Velaslavasay
Panorama, Thur, June 17, 8:00 pm
-- Los Angeles Filmforum Hosts Utopia in Four Movements
at the Los Angeles Film Festival, Sat., June 19, 8:30 p.m., REDCAT
-- WAH DO DEM at the American Cinematheque
Fri, June 18, 7:30 PM & 9:00 PM and Sat, June 19, 7:30 PM & 9:00 PM
-- Los Angeles Filmforum presents THE SOUND CINEMA OF STAN BRAKHAGE
At the Egyptian Theatre, Sun June 20, 2010, 7:30 pm
-- Ongoing: Powers of Ten: A Journey of Design and Scale
Exhibition at Eames Office, Santa Monica
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DETAILS:
The Cardboard Lover
shown with
Fatty Arbuckle shorts
6/9 @ 8:00pm
at Cinefamily
The Cinefamily / 611 N Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, 90036 / 323-655-2510
http://cinefamily.org/calendar/comedy.html#comedy
A double shot of two of the silent era's most lovable funny people! As
newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst's real-life mistress, Marion Davies
garnered a lifelong reputation for controversy and an unjustified caricature
in the form of Citizen Kane's ditzy charmer, Susan Alexander. The limelight
was often unflattering to Davies, and her ill-advised turns (at Hearst's
insistence) in overwrought dramas overshadowed her wonderful run as a
skilled comedienne in some of the Roaring Twenties' most playful films. The
Cardboard Lover casts Davies in the sort of role she was born to play -- a
flighty, loveable flapper who, while on a whirlwind European vacation,
unwittingly becomes the faux paramour of a tennis pro, as part of a ploy to
keep the pro's real-life two-timing girlfriend in check. The tables are
quickly turned, however, when she aims to keep her athlete lover all to
herself, for real. In addition to the feature, the night's screening kicks
off with three super-rare shorts starring the rolly-poly godfather of silent
shorts, Fatty Arbuckle. Watch as he bumbles and goofs with agile grace
through Zip The Dodger, Mabel's Willful Way and Fatty's Wine Party. All of
tonight's film prints are incredibly rare, and aren't on DVD! Hugh Munro
Neely (documentarian behind Captured On Film: The True Story of Marion
Davies) and Brent Walker (author of "Mack Sennett's Fun Factory") will both
be here in-person for introductory remarks before the show!
The Cardboard Lover Dir. Robert Z. Leonard, 1928, 35mm, 75 min. (Library
35mm print courtesy of the Library of Congress Motion Picture Collection)
Fatty Arbuckle Shorts 1913-14, 35mm, approx. 30 min. (Library 35mm prints
courtesy of the Library of Congress Motion Picture Collection)
Co-presented by The Silent Treatment
Tickets - $12
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The Alchemy of Things Unknown (and a visual meditation on transformation)
Exhibition including Kenneth Anger, Cameron, Harry Smith, William Blake, Jim
Shaw, Zach Harris, Aleister Crowley, and more
Khastoo Gallery
7556 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90046
(323) 472 6498 / www.khastoo.com
Dates: June 10 - July 31, 2010
Reception: Thursday, June 10th, 6pm - 8pm
With a film performance by Raha Raissnia, sound by Charles Curtis.
"After the cursing comes laughter, so that the soul is saved from the
dead." - Carl Gustav Jung, The Red Book
This exhibition intends to examine and expose individual works of art in
relation to theosophy, sacred tradition and devotional practice. From
William Blake's illuminated works of divine imagination to Carl Gustav
Jung's drawings of collective symbolic unconscious, the visual is
undoubtedly an integral creative tool for reaching, exploring, animating and
pervading the indefinable spaces beyond body and mind.
The artists in this exhibition, some more explicitly than others, sought
after or seek spiritual truths through art making and employ an almost
fervent and reverent experimentation to their practice, one that is both
ritualistic and against the grain. This mystic behavior is what defines the
show; the persistence on new and unorthodox visual experimentation reaches
beyond the worldly sphere to heightened states of consciousness.
This exhibition is made possible, in part, by the generous contributions of
William Breeze, Ordo Templi Orientis, Richard Metzger, John Contreras, Scott
Hobbs, David Brafman, William Swofford Cameron, Hetty Maclise, and The
Estate of Alfred Jensen.
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SAN FRANCISCO EXQUISITE CORPSE & INTIMATE OBSERVATIONS –
Thursday, June 10 – 8PM
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado Street LA CA 90026
(213) 484-8846 * www.echoparkfilmcenter.org
Shows begin promptly @ 8 PM and are $5 (unless otherwise noted).
Super 8 films from San Francisco! Intimate Observations is a collection of
moving collages, left-field narrative and cinema vérité committed to the
confines of small gauge celluloid. These new and classic experimental &
narrative works capture candid situations, mundane objects and familiar
landscapes but reveal something extraordinary about them. SF Bay Area
filmmakers include Phoebe Tooke, Christian Bruno & Natalija Vekic, Paul
Clipson, Daniel Gorrell, Jim Granato, Miles Montalbano, Douglas Schultz and
"King of Super 8" Danny Plotnick. The impetus for the Exquisite Corpse Films
follows from the original surrealist construct presented by Andre Breton in
1920. Each film was created using a 3 minute cartridge of Kodachrome super
8 film and was assigned a topic chosen by the group, with (6) 30 second
opportunities to describe the subject. The filmmakers edited their
contributions 'in camera' and the films are presented as they were shot.
Live music by Don Black of GHIANT and Eric McCann of the New Amsterdams will
be featured to score the 2nd half of the show, SF Exquisite Corpse!! CURATOR
AND FILMMAKER JIM GRANATO IN ATTENDANCE!
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Flux Screening Series - Films by Jonas Odell, including animated
documentaries
Hammer Museum
Thursday June 10, 8:00 pm
http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/504
Flux and the Hammer present a quarterly series of special events showcasing
innovative film and music. Swedish music video and film director Jonas
Odell's short films and music videos (Franz Ferdinand, Goldfrapp, U2) have
won top prizes at Sundance, Berlin, and MTV Video Music Awards. The program
will include the Los Angeles premiere of Odell's Tussilago, an animated
short that tells the story of West German terrorists in the 1970s.
ALL HAMMER PUBLIC PROGRAMS ARE FREE. Tickets are required, and are available
at the Billy Wilder Theater Box Office one hour prior to start time. Limit
one ticket per person on a first come, first served basis. Hammer members
receive priority seating, subject to availability. Reservations not
accepted, RSVPs not required.
Easy parking is available under the museum for $3 after 6:00.
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FILMMOBILE SUMMER SCREENING SERIES: THE DECAY OF FICTION
Friday, June 11 – 8PM
Echo Park Film Center Filmmobile - location TBD
Pat O'Neill in person
Angelenos are invited to discover and explore their changing urban landscape
when the Filmmobile projects an array of classic films at (actual or
implied) cinematic locations across the city. The 2010 EPFC Filmmobile
Summer Screening Series kicks off with The Decay of Fiction, Pat O'Neill's
haunting meditation on The Ambassador Hotel. "If there were more
experimental films as entertaining as "The Decay of Fiction," Pat O'Neill's
luminous Hollywood ghost story, the notion of a thriving avant-garde cinema
might not be so intimidating to the moviegoing public. The 73-minute movie
is a semiabstract film noir shot largely in the empty corridors and bare
peeling rooms of the Ambassador, a once-grand Los Angeles hotel that went
spectacularly to seed after closing in 1989. The Ambassador was the site of
some of the early Academy Awards ceremonies in the 1930's and of the
assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. But instead of concentrating on that
public history, the film uses the building, emptied of its furnishings, to
imagine its mythical shadow history and its status as a metaphor for old
Hollywood, in all its fabulous glamour and corruption." — Stephen Holden,
The New York Times INTRODUCTION BY FILMMAKER PAT O'NEILL! CALL, EMAIL OR
FOLLOW THE FILMMOBILE ON TWITTER FOR LOCATION!
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New Media Film Festival
Downtown Independent Theater
June 11-13th
New Media Film Festival offers a platform to showcase innovative ideas and
technology thru visual medium.
New Media Film Festival honors stories in all media that are innovative,
imaginative and inspirational. Stories that can make you laugh, cry, think;
go beyond the ordinary: Stories worth telling.
TICKETS AND MORE INFO: http://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/
Including
RiP: A Remix Manifesto, June 11th 7 pm
Orgasm Inc, June 12th, 1 pm
Double Take (see below), June 12th, 7 pm
and more
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Amazon Women On The Moon
shown with
Kentucky Fried Movie
Fri 6/11 @ 8:00pm
at Cinefamily
The Cinefamily / 611 N Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, 90036 / 323-655-2510
http://cinefamily.org/calendar/comedy.html#comedy
Amazon Women On The Moon - 8:00pm
Long considered a classic in the spoof genre, Amazon Women On The Moon is
the star-studded unofficial sequel to Kentucky Fried Movie, and may even be
just a little bit funnier -- although that's for you guys to fight it out
over in the lobby. John Landis, Joe Dante and friends tag-team directed this
sketch comedy paean to that most time-honored American pastime -- channel
surfing -- and are aided by a laundry list of familiar faces like Michelle
Pheiffer, Griffin Dunne, David Alan Grier, Carrie Fisher and Arsenio Hall
(who steals the show with a pretty phenomenal extended sequence of
prodigious slapstick). Written by a duo of "Tonight Show" scribes, AWOTM is
as loving a portrait of time-worn late night viewing as one can get; worth
the admission alone is the "Roast Your Loved One" funeral parlor sketch,
directed by Dante and featuring the cream of the crop of the Friars
Club/Dean Martin roast circuit. If that thought of seeing Rip Taylor on the
big screen isn't enough to get you riled up, then good luck to you -- as
Harvey Pitnik says, "You're an albino, what the hell do you know?"
Dirs. Joe Dante, Carl Gottlieb, Peter Horton, John Landis & Robert K. Weiss,
1987, 35mm, 82 min.
Kentucky Fried Movie - 10:00pm
It's difficult to craft a superlative boob joke for the ages -- but Kentucky
Fried Movie has no such problems. Right before the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker
birthed the seminal spoof Airplane, and right before director John Landis
helmed Animal House, together they unleased this raunchy sketch comedy
smorgasbord, happily inundating the social lexicon with a furious assault of
blatently offensive hilarity. Spiked with a one-two punch of Monty
Python-style irreverence and a relentless, precocious go-for-broke audacity,
this R-rated romp sends up the wide range of kooky American entertainment
culture, from drive-in movies to cloying TV commercials, from unnerving 16mm
educational films to insipid morning news programs, smothered in a healthy
dose of fun cameos by the likes of Bill Bixby, Henry Gibson and Donald
Sutherland (doing an inspired classic bit of messy slapstick). But don't
take our word for it -- there's a reason why Kentucky Fried Movie is one of
the most successful comedies of its time. Just remember: the popcorn you are
eating has been pissed in.
Dir. John Landis, 1977, 35mm, 90 min.
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Dance Camera West at the Hammer Museum
three programs over two days at the Hammer
June 12, 2010 4:30 & 7:00pm
June 13, 2010 7:00pm
http://www.dancecamerawest.org/event_100612.htm
Saturday - "Pina Bausch Celebration"
Pina Bausch, a master of transformative theater, surreal stagings and an
incomparable brand of neo-expressionist dance, was one of the greatest dance
artists of the last 40 years. Join us for a celebration with three West
Coast film premieres taking an indepth look at the work and life of Pina
Bausch.
Co-presented by the Goethe Institute.
SATURDAY JUNE 12, 4:30PM
Pina Bausch
>From confused and irritated audiences to standing ovations worldwide, Pina
Bausch shares stories of her journey in this documentary starting with
forming her company Tanztheather Wuppertal in the early 1970's to creating
over 30 astonishing works. Directed by Anne Linsel. (Germany, 2006, 45 min.)
A Breath with Pina Bausch
Award-winning director Huseyin Karabey's high-caliber documentary provides
unprecedented access into the creative process of one of modern dance's most
compelling minds. A Breath with Pina Bausch was inspired by the city of
Istanbul, the cosmopolitan centre that the Byzantine, Roman and the Ottoman
Empires all called home. (Turkey, 2004, 45 min.)
Saturday June 12, 7:00pm
Dancing Dreams
The documentary centers around a group of high school students rehearsing
for a performance of one of Pina Bausch's signature pieces, Kontakthof
(Comfort Zone) a stylized presentation of the entanglements of the sexes. It
is a dance about love, tenderness and feelings – always a huge challenge
especially for a group of young untrained dancers. Bausch gently encourages
the teenagers `to be themselves' as they slowly transform their clumsy
self-conscious attempts at body expression to graceful self-empowered
movement. The year-long project chronicles a group of 40 teens as they face
issues of self-esteem, cultural differences and emerging sexuality all the
while in front of a camera or during the culminating stage performance.
(Germany, 2010, 89 min. director Anne Linsel)
Sunday June13, 7pm
SurREEL Moves Weird & Wonderful Experimental Dance Shorts
>From poetic to peculiar, this collection of recent award-winning
international dance shorts presents both kinetic and immobile bodies in
space, defying traditional notions of dance. Sushi, reindeer, and a bright
pink wig prevail in this evening of smart, cool and LOL ridiculous dance
media. 6 Films 85 mins
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Another Animation Show by John and Cosmo
Sat June 12th, 8 pm
EPFC Analog Annex
1821 Tyburn St.
Glendale, CA 91204
213 484 8846
www.echoparkfilmcenter.org
***please note change in location (the NEW EPFC Annex - see below)****
Another evening of bizarre, surreal, and wonderful animation from around the
globe presented by John Cannizzaro and Cosmo Segurson. This evening's
screening will feature work by local animators including Colin Barton,
Norwood Cheek, Nancy Jean Tucker, and co-presenters Segurson and Cannizzaro;
as well as rare, 16mm classic animated films including THE HAND (Jiri Trnka
1965), CANON (Norman McLaren 1964), SCIENCE FRICTION (Stan Vanderbeek 1959);
as well as LIVE MUSIC and refreshments. Step up, climb aboard, and fasten
your seatbelts for a strange and wild ride. FILMMAKERS AND CURATORS IN
ATTENDANCE! EVENT IS AT THE NEW EPFC ANALOG ANNEX… CALL OR EMAIL FOR
DIRECTIONS!
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DOUBLE TAKE
Saturday, June 12 - 7pm
Downtown Independent Cinema
251 S. Main St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Part of the New Media Festival
DOUBLE TAKE is making its Los Angeles premiere this Saturday as part of the
New Media Film Festival. This is likely to be the only LA screening as
there are currently no plans for an LA run. There will be a panel
discussion following the screening with Johan Grimonprez (Director, Double
Take), Tyler Hubby (Editor, Double Take), Robert Koehler (Writer, Variety)
Purchase tickets here:
https://www.newmediatickets.com/
DOUBLE TAKE is an ingenious hybrid – part mock-documentary, part conceptual
provocation – SCREEN
Galvanizing, elegant and wildly entertaining! – VARIETY
The top 10 of best films of 2009 - ARTFORUM
Edited by Dieter Diependaele and Tyler Hubby, DOUBLE TAKE is a virtuoso feat
of collage – SIGHT AND SOUND
Johan Grimonprez's ingenious documentary/fiction hybrid — a meditation on
identity, filmmaking, power and paranoia — looks at Alfred Hitchcock's late
50s and early 60s films against the climate of Cold War-era political
anxiety. Using a meticulous array of archive footage – as well as a story by
novelist Tom McCarthy (Remainder) about Hitchcock encountering his double
during production of The Birds – Grimonprez traces the global rise of fear
as a commodity, examining modern history through the lens of mass media,
advertising and Hollywood.
Official website:
http://www.kino.com/doubletake/
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Sunday June 13, 2010, 7:30 pm
Los Angeles Filmforum presents STEPHEN CONNOLLY: Occasional Pieces and
Afflicted States
At the Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas, Los Angeles
www.lafilmforum.org
Filmforum is delighted to host the premiere screening for UK-based filmmaker
Stephen Connolly here in Los Angeles. One of the leading strands of
experimental film today utilizes observational documentary techniques,
without necessarily tying the edited film to a clear narrative or leading
character. Instead, the work investigates the social, political and
historical terrain of contemporary spaces and landscapes through prolonged
gazes, careful composition and montage. Connolly's short films retain the
sensitivity to light, rhythm, and perception that characterize all fine
experimental and documentary work. If you are a fan of films by such
artists as James Benning, Naomi Uman, Ben Rivers, Vera Brunner-Sung (whose
film Common Ground traverses some of the same terrain as Connolly's Great
American Desert), and Laura Kraning, we think you'll find this show of great
interest. Stephen Connolly in person!
Admission for Filmforum screenings: $10 general, $6 students/seniors, free
for Filmforum members
Advance ticket purchase available through Brown Paper Tickets at
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/113930
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Studio: Summer 2010
at REDCAT
June 13, 2010 - June 14, 2010, 8:30 pm
F-Stop Serenade
Juan Diego Ramirez
Arianne Hoffmann
Catch Me Bird
Dino Dinco
Los Angeles Electric 8
http://www.redcat.org/event/studio-summer-2010
The ongoing series for new works and works-in-progress offers adventurous
audiences the opportunity to experience original, ambitiously offbeat
performances by an interdisciplinary mix of experimental Los Angeles
artists. This edition of Studio was curated with guest curators Sheetal
Gandhi and Marissa Chibas, and features the following six original works:
F-STOP SERENADE: LIGHT BULB PROJECT (PART ONE)
Combining found footage, original photography and live musical
accompaniment, Mark Cosmo Segurson and his musical ensemble F-Stop Serenade
present a visual history of the common household light bulb––from the first
incandescent to our current fluorescent nightmare.
JUAN DIEGO RAMIREZ: THE WHITEST MEXICAN
With rigor and humor writer-performer Juan Diego Ramirez's solo performance,
as a man obsessed with how other people perceive him, illuminates and
confronts the complexities of Mexican identity in the United States.
ARIANNE HOFFMANN: SOUND
Using a waterproof contact microphone and an underlying motivation to treat
the body as matter, dance-artist Arianne Hoffmann performs an exquisite
movement score to the sounds created by her own body as she moves.
CATCH ME BIRD: ANVIL
Equal parts reality show and high-powered contemporary dance, Catch Me Bird
transforms the ups and downs of their real life relationship into an
artistic journey, exploding the boundaries of art and life with intimate
portraits, verbal sparring and madcap humor.
DINO DINCO: REAL WOMEN HAVE PERIODS
In a gender-bending nod to Real Women Have Curves, artist and filmmaker Dino
Dinco and his cast celebrate sex education, bio-cycles and intra-familial
communication with a theater piece that employs dialogue extracted verbatim
from a 1970's public health video.
LOS ANGELES ELECTRIC 8: OCTET
With a sense of curiosity and humor, eight classically trained musicians
re-imagine Igor Stravinsky's Octet for Wind Instruments (1923) for eight
electric guitars and execute its deliberated timbral combinations with
glorious effect.
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The Los Angeles Film Festival
June 17-27
http://www.lafilmfest.com/2010/
Various locations, mostly downtown, and all sorts of films.
Now in its 16th year, Film Independent's Los Angeles Film Festival,
presented by Los Angeles Times, showcases the best of American and
international cinema. The 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival takes place June
17-27, 2010 in downtown Los Angeles. The Festival screens more than 200
features, shorts, documentaries and music videos from more than 40
countries. The Festival connects the movie-loving public to critically
acclaimed filmmakers, film industry professionals, and emerging talent in
the heart of Los Angeles, the entertainment capital of the world.
Passes on sale now. Tickets on sale June 1. For full Festival details,
please call
1.866.FilmFest or visit www.LAFilmFest.com
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Æ & Nanuka Tchitchoua: Moving Images and Song
Thursday, June 17, 2010
8 o'clock pm
Tickets $15 {$13 VPES Members}
Advance tickets are recommended and available here
<http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/115135>
The Velaslavasay Panorama
1122 West 24th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90007
(213)746-2166
panoramaonview.org
Thursday, June 17, The Velaslavasay Panorama will host a remarkable evening
of songs performed by Æ (Aurelia Shrenker and Eva Salina Primack) and images
by artist Nanuka Tchitchoua. Marking the collaborative debut of these
artists, Æ & Nanuka Tchitchoua: Moving Images and Song will present songs
from diverse traditions finely interwoven with moving images from the
Caucasus and beyond.
For further information including artists biographies and ticket link,
please visit The Velaslavasay Panorama Events & Updates Page
<http://panoramaonview.org/news.html> .
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Los Angeles Filmforum Hosts
Utopia in Four Movements
at the Los Angeles Film Festival
Sat., June 19, 8:30 p.m., REDCAT
Utopia in Four Movements
USA | DIR Sam Green, Dave Cerf
By their very definition, utopias are unobtainable—the original Greek
translates as "no-place"—but that doesn't mean mankind has ever stopped
trying to achieve them, as demonstrated in this wryly humorous "live
documentary."
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Sam Green and sound artist Dave Cerf have
combined forces to create this unique cinematic performance, in which Green,
microphone in hand and accompanied aurally by Cerf and the Brooklyn-based
band the Quavers, narrates the eclectic history of man's quest for his
ideals. Touching on efforts as varied as the creation of Esperanto to the
construction of the world's largest shopping mall, Utopia finds the common
thread connecting all these failed efforts—hope for the future.
Now in its 16th year, Film Independent's Los Angeles Film Festival,
presented by Los Angeles Times, showcases the best of American and
international cinema. The 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival takes place June
17-27, 2010 in downtown Los Angeles. The Festival screens more than 200
features, shorts, documentaries and music videos from more than 40
countries. The Festival connects the movie-loving public to critically
acclaimed filmmakers, film industry professionals, and emerging talent in
the heart of Los Angeles, the entertainment capital of the world.
Passes on sale now. Tickets on sale June 1. For full Festival details,
please call
1.866.FilmFest or visit www.LAFilmFest.com
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WAH DO DEM
at the American Cinematheque
Friday, June 18 – 7:30 PM & 9:00 PM [Spielberg Theatre]
Saturday, June 19 – 7:30 PM & 9:00 PM [Spielberg Theatre]
http://www.americancinematheque.com/archive1999/2010/Egyptian/specialevent_J
UNE_ET_2010.htm#WAH%20DO%20DEM18
WAH DO DEM, 2009, 76 min. The debut collaboration from young filmmakers Ben
Chace and Sam Fleischner is believable, beautiful, uplifting and profound. A
comedic OLD JOY set in rural Jamaica, Brooklyn and impoverished Kingston.
Max and his girlfriend Willow (played by musicians Sean Bones and Norah
Jones), break up two days before a cruise to Jamaica. Max takes to the high
seas alone, flirting with the ship photographer and drinking cocktails with
a celebrity juggler, and has some odd and hilarious encounters with the only
other loner (Kevin Bewersdorf). Once on land, Max embarks on a captivating
odyssey, discovering a part of the island unknown to the tourist eye. With
Carl Bradshaw (THE HARDER THEY COME). Winner of "Best Narrative Feature" at
The Los Angeles Film Festival 2009.
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Sunday June 20, 2010, 7:30 pm
Los Angeles Filmforum presents THE SOUND CINEMA OF STAN BRAKHAGE
At the Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas, Los Angeles
Admission for Filmforum screenings: $10 general, $6 students/seniors, free
for Filmforum members
Advance ticket purchase available through Brown Paper Tickets at
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/113794
www.lafilmforum.org
Among his more than 350 personal films, Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) produced
only 27 works with soundtracks (a complete list appears below). In this
program, five of these sound films will be shown, representing a variety of
approaches to what Brakhage referred to as "the `sound problem' of motion
picture aesthetic." (We hope you had a chance to join us for two other
Brakhage sound films – Visions in Meditation #3 and Scenes From Under
Childhood, Section One – which were screened in our program on June 6,
2010.)
Brakhage created his own soundtracks for a number of the films (three of
which are included tonight), but also worked with composers, who either
created new pieces for him, or authorized existing pieces to be used. Many
of them were also friends, including James Tenney (Interim, Christ Mass Sex
Dance, "..." Reel Five), Rick Corrigan (Visions in Meditation #3, Boulder
Blues and Pearls And..., Faust 4, others), and Joel Haertling (I...
Dreaming, Loud Visual Noises, others).
Although music and sound were of great significance to Brakhage, sound
cinema was a problematic area that he felt would often create more
unresolvable conflict in his work than the harmony of spirit that might be
desired. Brakhage approached the visual and rhythmic aspects of his films
in such an intensely musical way, that any attempt at soundtrack might only
create distraction, conflict, and competition between his visual music and
its aural counterpart. Nevertheless, he did work with sound on 27
occasions, sometimes to his great personal satisfaction (Passage Through: A
Ritual), sometimes only to resigned tolerance (Scenes From Under Childhood,
Section One).
Program curated and introduced by Mark Toscano, preservationist at the
Academy Film Archive. Prints from the Academy Film Archive and Canyon
Cinema.
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Powers of Ten: A Journey of Design and Scale
Exhibition at Eames Office at 850 Pico in Santa Monica, CA
http://www.eamesoffice.com/
Exhibition co-creators Eames Demetrios and Carla Hartman.
Based on the classic Charles and Ray Eames Film: Powers of Ten
(Carla is the Education Director of the Eames Office and Eames is the
Director.)
Since so many of the worlds challenges and problems are problems of scale,
the purpose of our exhibition is give people a better grasp of that
essential concept--or at least a solid start! In the future, it is going to
be harder and harder to be a good citizen of the world without a good
understanding of scale.
it will be open all year for our normal hours: 11-6, Wednesday through
Saturday
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