From: Stephanie Sapienza (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Jul 29 2010 - 13:57:12 PDT
Hi Frameworkers,
Please note that due to scheduling conflicts, the original October dates for
this symposium (as previously announced in a call for papers on this list and
elsewhere) have now shifted to November. I hope to see many of you there!
Best,
Stephanie
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 26, 2010
CONTACT: Stephanie Sapienza, Los Angeles Filmforum
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Symposium on Postwar Experimental Film to be held in Los Angeles at the
University of Southern California, November 12 – 14
Los Angeles, CA –Los Angeles Filmforum is partnering with the University of
Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, to present a three-day symposium
and film festival from November 12 – 14, 2010. The symposium is presented by
USC’s Arts and Humanities initiative, Visions and Voices, in collaboration with
Filmforum as part of a project entitled Alternative Projections: Experimental
Film in Los Angeles 1945 – 1980.
Alternative Projections aims to expand understanding of how experimental
filmmaking evolved in Los Angeles and to contextualize its place in postwar art
history. The project places focus on the community of filmmakers, artists,
curators and programmers who contributed to the creation and presentation of
experimental cinema in Southern California in the postwar era. It will add to
the definitive overview of the topic provided in David James’s book The Most
Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles,
while creating a complementary archive of resources for future scholars.
The project is currently underway in the research and planning phases, and will
culminate in a series of film screenings that will occur between September 2011
and June 2012. Researchers are gathering archival documents and creating a
comprehensive research database of films, artists, organizations and
exhibitions. In addition, over 40 new oral history interviews have been
conducted and transcribed. Scholars presenting at the three-day symposium will
utilize this new research to aid their presentations. Alternative Projectionshas
been generously funded by a grant from the Getty Foundation.
The symposium will feature 17 presentations on various aspects of filmmaking and
exhibition during the postwar era in LA. Presenters include: Ken Eisenstein,
Alice Hutchison, Adam Hyman, Carlos Kase, Katherine Kerrigan, Alison Kozberg,
Liz Kotz, Tim Lanza, Jesse Lerner, Ross Lipman, Mike Olenick, Stephanie
Sapienza, Marc Siegel, Pauline Stakelon, Erika Suderburg, Julie Turnock and
Grahame Weinbren. Select topics will include:
- Conceptualist media of the late 1960's, with a special focus on artist
Paul McCarthy
- Experimental Filmmakers and the Special Effects Industry in the 1970s
- Queer postwar experimental cinema in LA
- ASCO, Chicano community filmmaking and muralism
- Kenneth Anger’s inner circle – Anais Nin, Marjorie Cameron, Curtis
Harrington, particularly around the filming of Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
- Films made within the Venice poet community (Taylor Mead, Bob Wade
Chatterton)
- Raymond Rohauer as a presenter, sponsor, and distributor of experimental
film work in 1950s and 60s Los Angeles
- Jon Jost’s Los Angeles Films
- The Avant-Garde Canonization in 1970’s curatorship at the Theatre
Vanguard
- The Films of Roberta Friedman and Grahame Weinbren
- The Creative Film Society and Bob Pike as an early proponent of ‘West
Coast’ experimental filmmaking
These topics represent only a partial list, and are subject to change before the
time of the symposium.
Various screenings and panels with visiting filmmakers will also be a major part
of the symposium, with films selected specifically to complement the 17
presentations. There will be a screening of works by the members of Single Wing
Turquiose Bird Light Show, with discussion. In addition, there will be a small
exhibit of artifacts and archival documents on display in an adjacent gallery
area near the screening and presentation space.
The symposium will be held at USC School of Cinematic Arts, and admission is
free. Further details on dates, times and specific locations to be announced.
Please watch the news unfold on the Filmforum website at www.lafilmforum.org
(click on Blog), or visit the USC Visions and Voices site at
http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/.
About Los Angeles Filmforum: Filmforum was incorporated in 1975. Its mission is
to promote a greater understanding of film as an art form and the filmmaker as
an artist by providing a forum for independently produced, experimental films,
which have little opportunity of reaching the general public through normal
channels of commercial distribution. It showcases alternative media that aims to
inspire, enlighten, and empower, as well as to entertain. By featuring the
underrepresented voices and visions of truly independent filmmakers, Filmforum
exposes audiences to the full range of artistic expression, cultural
perspectives, and critical inquiry. It continues as the city’s longest running
organization that screens experimental and avant-garde film and video art,
documentaries, and experimental animation. For more information, visit our
website at www.lafilmforum.org.
About the USC Visions and Voices Initiative: Visions and Voices is a
university-wide arts and humanities initiative that is unparalleled in higher
education. The initiative was established by President-elect C. L. Max Nikias
during his tenure as provost in order to fulfill the goals set forth in USC’s
strategic plan; to communicate USC’s core values to students; and to affirm the
human spirit. Emphasizing the university’s commitment to interdisciplinary
approaches, the initiative features a spectacular array of events conceived and
organized by faculty and schools throughout the university. The series includes
theatrical productions, music and dance performances, conferences, lectures,
film screenings and many other special events both on and off campus. Each
program invites students to dialogue and interact with artists, writers,
professors and special guests. These interactions provide a dynamic experience
of the arts and humanities and encourage active exploration of USC’s core
values, including freedom of inquiry and expression, team spirit, appreciation
of diversity, commitment to serving one’s community, entrepreneurial spirit,
informed risk-taking, ethical conduct and the search for truth. For more
information, visit the initiative website at
http://www.usc.edu/VisionsAndVoices.
For further information please contact Project Director Stephanie Sapienza at
email suppressed, or Project Supervisor Adam Hyman at
(address suppressed) For questions directed to USC, please contact Alex Ago at
(address suppressed)
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