Winter 2014 Schedule
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Century
The 51st Ann Arbor Film Festival Traveling Tour, 16mm show
Date: Jan 5, 2014 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianLos Angeles Filmforum kicks off 2014 with a great set of new experimental films in 16mm. Including recent works by Scott Fitzpatrick, Mark Toscano, Kevin Jerome Everson, Mary Helena Clark, Alexandra Cuesta, Kimberly Forero-Arnias, Josh Weissbach, Mariah Garnett, Kathryn Ramey, Jodie Mack, Baba Hillman, Christopher Becks & Peter Miller. Ann Arbor Festival Programming Director David Dinnell in person with filmmakers.
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Film Montages (For Peter Roehr) (Jones, 2006)
The General Secretary is Trapped in a Snow Globe: William E. Jones on Peter Roehr
Date: Jan 9, 2014 7:00PM
Location: MOCA Grand Avenue, Ahmanson AuditoriumWilliam E. Jones in Person!
Los Angeles Filmforum at MOCA presents William E. Jones, a Los Angeles based artist, filmmaker and curator whose diverse body of work explores materiality, memory and subcultures; he has recently produced a body of work in conversation with the career of the late German artist Peter Roehr.
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Far From Vietnam
Far From Vietnam
Date: Jan 12, 2014 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianNew restoration! A classic collaborative film by Jean-Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Chris Marker, and Alain Resnais, rarely screened.
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Lynne Sachs: Two Los Angeles Premieres
Date: Jan 19, 2014 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianFilmforum is delighted to welcome back New York filmmaker Lynne Sachs with the Los Angeles premieres of two of her unique works, The Last Happy Day (2009, 38 min., digital video) and Wind in Our Hair (Con viento en el pelo) (2010, digital video 42 min) (Spanish & English with English subtitles)
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AM/PM
Brigid McCaffrey: Three Desert Films
Date: Jan 26, 2014 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianLos Angeles-based filmmaker Brigid McCaffrey presents three of her recent films, including one area premiere and one world premiere!
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People’s Park
Date: Feb 9, 2014 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianA mesmerizing, one-of-a-kind window into modern China, People’s Park is a single-shot documentary that immerses viewers in an unbroken journey through a famous urban park in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. Filmforum is delighted to host the Los Angeles premiere of this provocative and absorbing film, and to host one of its directors, J.P. Sniadecki.
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Magic Mirror Maze, by Gregg Biermann
The Festival of (In)appropriation #6: Contemporary Found Footage Filmmaking
Date: Feb 16, 2014 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianFounded in 2009, the Festival of (In)appropriation is a yearly showcase of contemporary short audiovisual works that appropriate film or video footage and repurpose it in “inappropriate” and inventive ways. Whether you call it collage, compilation, found footage, détournement, or recycled cinema, this kind of work generates novel juxtapositions of elements which produce new meanings and ideas unintended by the original makers – meanings and ideas that are, in other words “inappropriate.”
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Okul Nodi
Song and Dance: Documentary Explorations by Tuni Chatterji and Satyajit Ray
Date: Feb 23, 2014 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianFilmforum is thrilled to welcome Los Angeles-based filmmaker Tuni Chatterji in person with the Los Angeles premiere of her short feature Okul Nodi (Endless River), paired with the very rarely screened short documentary Bala, by Bengali auteur Satyajit Ray.
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Chumlum
Performance/Anxiety
Date: Mar 13, 2014 7:00PM
Location: MOCA Ahmanson AuditoriumInspired by the upcoming exhibition Mike Kelley, Los Angeles Filmforum at MOCA presents a program of films and videos that explore questions of authority, performance, education, fantasy, and repression. Including works by Peggy Ahwesh; Abigail Child; Mike Kelley and Ericka Beckman; Owen Land (né George Landow); and Ron Rice.
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Trojan by Vanessa Renwick
To Its Logical Conclusion: Films on Decay, Debris, and Demolition
Date: Mar 16, 2014 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianFilmmakers Jason Byrne and Laska Jimsen in person! This program features five works which look at decay and demolition, transformation and transubstantiation, as embodied in the landscapes and spaces that surround us.
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Richard Newton - Flying With the Angels
Richard Newton: Flying with the Angels
Date: Mar 23, 2014 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianArtist Richard Newton brings old and new works investigating performance, media, and materials, confronting the laws of the land or the rules of good taste, some films seemingly casual, others rigorous.