Online screening and discussion: Incident with filmmaker Bill Morrison and journalist Jamie Kalven
Incident is “a breakthrough that offers the possibility of a new form of archival cine-education about aspects of American culture that have been ‘lost’ until recently, buried within official public archives. Incident has the brevity, directness, and clarity of a Hemingway short story.” – Scott MacDonald, The Edge
Arts workers and their accomplices are invited to join us for a screening and open discussion around Mission Drift, a new film by Charles de Agustin, at Spectacle Theater on Wednesday, November 8, 2023, at 7:30pm.
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.
