Visual Studies Workshop is pleased to announce New Utopia, Light Fracture by Luther Price, the latest publication from VSW Press/Film Art Book imprint. This book features images taken from artist Luther Price's “handmade” 35mm slides with excerpts from texts and emails sent by the artist to Tate Shaw, editor of VSW Press, in 2017 and 2018.
A benefit screening with all proceeds collected at the door going to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund! Three experimental and radical classics of Palestinian Cinema: They Do Not Exist (directed by Mustafa Abu Ali, 1974, 25 min), Palestinian Identity (directed by Kassem Hawal, 1984, 38 min), and the avant-garde masterpiece A Hundred Faces for a Single Day (directed by Christian Ghazi, 1971, 64 min).
Gravitational Lensing is a curated series dedicated to exploring the visions, voices, concerns and lineage of women, non-binary, genderqueer and trans filmmakers through public film screenings, workshops, conversations and presentations.
Experience this ninth showcase of bizarre and experimental short films that have been carefully selected by Take Your Medicine and Smile from the local underground scene. See new surrealist, expressionist and cult films made by both NFU veterans and newcomers in a friendly social atmosphere. The films have been arranged by founder James Tyler Shaw to create a uniquly quirky emotional journey, so come to the Sherman Oaks and meet the next David Lynch or Maya Deren. Don't worry, you will see nothing normal here.
Microscope is very pleased to present a screening of works by New York-based artist Nina Sobell featuring a selection of videos spanning more than 50 years, from 1971 – shot with a Sony Portapak — to her present-day inquiries using social media platforms and AI. Through her very uniquely empathic lens, she has proposed a type of art based on human interactions through physical installations as well as through other forms of communication mediated by new tools and machines. Sobell will be in attendance and available for a Q&A following the screening.
