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Last May LACMA held the inaugural west coast screenings of Christian Marclay’s film, The Clock, a work which subsequently won Marclay the Gold Lion for best artist at the 2011 Venice Biennale. The film is a cinematic mash-up that seamlessly weaves together hundreds of television and film clips into a hypnotic montage of time related imagery.
Tweet I just stumbled upon this wonderful short time-lapse film made by LA based filmmaker Colin Mika that captures Los Angeles during the holiday season. According to Mika, “Snow Globe Los Angeles was created using over 4000 still images shot on a custom built camera rig. The effect was achieved using a Canon 5D MII, […]
This Thursday and Friday, NewFilmmakers LA (NFMLA) presents another eclectic program of shorts, documentaries and feature films by emerging filmmakers from the US, Germany, France, and South Africa. Attendees to these screenings will have an opportunity view works such as What’s Life Got To Do With It? about a dead guy who has something to teach the living; Maddoggin’, about two teens from East LA who are pressured to join a gang; and Profile, which explores the dark side of social networking websites, just to name a few. For an overview of the entire series, visit NFMLA.org’s Program Page for film trailers, details and synopses.
In an era of high budget 3D pictures and lavish special effects that so often immerse the audience in thundering sound and vivid color, the last thing you’d expect to see on screen during the lucrative holiday movie season is a black and white silent picture. And yet, that’s exactly what French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius, 44, has produced.
To help usher in the holidays, the Los Angeles Conservancy is sponsoring its sixth annual holiday film matinee. This year, you can bring the entire family to see Miracle on 34th Street (1947), starring Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O’Hara, John Payne, and Natalie Wood.
The legendary design team of Charles and Ray Eames is commonly associated with classic mid-century modern furniture produced using innovative production methods and materials such as molded plywood, fiberglass, plastic resin and wire mesh. What many don’t realize, however, is the breadth of their creative passions and the degree to which their personal lives and influence left an indelible mark on so many other design disciplines.
In 1973, artist Judy Chicago, graphic designer Sheila Levrant de Bretteville and art historian Arlene Raven founded The Woman’s Building in Los Angeles, one of the feminist art movement’s major centers of activity in the 1970’s. Out of this hotbed of innovation emerged the L.A. Women’s Video Center (LAWVC), which was cofounded at the Woman’s Building in 1976 by Annette Hunt, Nancy Angelo, and Candace Compton. Jerri Allyn joined the Center the following year.
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