The most unusual film showcase in Los Angeles is back!
The most imaginative, innovative filmmaking in America today is coming from the underground. You can discover this mind-bending world of surrealist, expressionist, cult and experimental films at Take Your Medicine and Smile's tenth short film showcase.
These are all new films, carefully selected from the underground scene and lovingly arranged by founder James Tyler Shaw to create an emotional journey unlike any other.
M. Woods’ Commodity Trading: Dies Irae is a surrealist nightmare wrapped in a documentary chronicling the void that emerged with the election of Donald Trump. The movie weaves a narrative through political hells, using 16mm film, mixed media digital experimentation, and archival footage to paint a hallucinatory landscape of Southern California’s break from reality.
Join us on February 24, 2024, at 3 pm ET for an exclusive digital screening of Eco-Art Experimental Films and Videos at Deering Estate Visitor Center Auditorium. Admission is free with Eventbrite registration. Please save the date for these diverse and challenging artist-crafted films and videos that intertwine the concern for nature and our relation to it expressed within the possibilities of experimental cinema.
Visual Studies Workshop (VSW) is pleased to share New Utopia and 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
Jonathan Schwartz made films as he lived his life. His short works are gestures of appreciation and awe towards the world and for those he loved. They are often also dialogs with texts and ideas he found compelling. In all his 16mm films, he gives expression to both the beauties of the concrete and the transience and potency of ineluctable time. A flower, a face, melting ice, a shift in light — Jonathan’s lens holds them with generosity and care, for his and our gaze. Time becomes a palpable preoccupation through his filming of the seasons and their variations, and in his own cinematic processes. These include his physical movements with the camera and the in-camera winding and re-winding of filmstock to embody both his and the world’s fortuitous memory.
CIRCUIT and Pyramid Club welcome French-American avant garde filmmaker, curator and musician Maximilien Luc Proctor to Aotearoa for a screening of his 16mm film works.
Ranging from the Arcadian village of Raftis to the American Southwest, he records oblique impressions with a sharp eye for composition and an intuitive sense of rhythm, gently arguing in favor of the minor and the fleeting” - Phil Coldiron
En esta sesión del programa mensual comisariado por el artista e historiador Pablo Marín descubriremos la obra de la norteamericana Sandra Davis, figura insólita del cine de vanguardia. De ella dijo Larry Jordan: “Su obra explota en el interior de la mente, abriendo agujeros, impresiones, vacíos profundos y visiones interiores desconocidas. Su montaje es tan implacable en la búsqueda de formas inciertas que, de algún modo, consigue hacer visible la mente interior”.
Se proyectarán tres de sus películas en formato de 16mm: