Winter 2015
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Wormwood Star, featuring Cameron, by Curtis Harrington
Avatar and Aether: Visionary Women and the Cinematic Occult
Date: Jan 8, 2015 7:00PM
Location: MOCA Grand Avenue, Ahmanson AuditoriumCoinciding with the exhibition Cameron: Songs for the Witch Woman, Los Angeles Filmforum at MOCA presents a program of short films by visionary women that explore heightened states of observation and consciousness, transformation and transcendence, and the ecstasy of experience.
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Fe26 by Kevin Jerome Everson
A Series of Mysteries: The 52nd Ann Arbor Film Festival Traveling Tour
Date: Jan 11, 2015 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianFilmforum dives into its 40th anniversary year with our second show of the week, highlights of contemporary works from around the world. The Ann Arbor Film Festival Traveling Tour gives Los Angeles audiences a chance to see the best new experimental films and digital works.
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Harun Farocki (c) Hertha Hurnaus
Wie man sieht (As You See) – In memory of filmmaker Harun Farocki
Date: Jan 14, 2015 7:00PM
Location: Goethe-Institut Los AngelesFirst in a series of screenings in tribute to filmmaker Harun Farocki, who died in 2014. We start with his masterful feature film Leben: BRD (How to Live in the FRG).
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Bella Vista
Bella Vista
Date: Jan 18, 2015 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianLos Angeles premiere of the first feature by Vera Brunner-Sung. A meditation on displacement and adaptation in the contemporary American West, Bella Vista follows the lives of outsiders in Missoula, Montana.
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Harun Farocki in Nicht löschbares Feuer (Inextinguishable Fire)
Wie man sieht (As You See) – In memory of filmmaker Harun Farocki
Date: Jan 21, 2015 7:00PM
Location: The Goethe-Institut Los AngelesSecond in our tribute series to filmmaker Harun Farocki, who died in 2014. Tonight we'll screen Erkennen und Verfolgen (War at a Distance) and Nicht löschbares Feuer (Inextinguishable Fire).
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from 90 Degrees South, by Herbert Ponting
Mush! to the Movies: a Polar Film Club - The Race for the South Pole
Date: Jan 22, 2015 7:30PM
Location: The Velaslavasay PanoramaJoin us for the inaugural screening of Mush! to the Movies: a Polar Film Club as we watch films from two expeditions that raced to be first to the South Pole in 1911-1912, including the classic 90 Degrees South: With Scott to the Antarctic, a film by Herbert Ponting.
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Robert Gardner filming Forest of Bliss
Forest of Bliss: A Tribute to Robert Gardner
Date: Jan 25, 2015 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianJoin us as we pay tribute to the late filmmaker Robert Gardner, who died in 2014. Filmmaker Robert Fenz and anthropologist Nancy Lutkehaus share their thoughts on Gardner's complicated and vital legacy, and together we'll watch his earliest film, Mark Tobey, and his acknowledged masterpiece, Forest of Bliss.
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Videogramme einer Revolution (Videograms of a Revolution)
Wie man sieht (As You See) – In memory of filmmaker Harun Farocki
Date: Jan 28, 2015 7:00PM
Location: Goethe-Institut Los AngelesThird in our tribute series to filmmaker Harun Farocki, who died in 2014. Tonight we'll screen his tremendous film Videogramme einer Revolution (Videograms of a Revolution)
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Joe Gibbons
Joe Gibbons: Confessions of a Sociopath
Date: Feb 1, 2015 7:30PM
Location: The Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianFilmforum is grateful to share Gibbons’ semi(?)-autobiographical masterwork Confessions of a Sociopath (2001- ) and other items to be determined. Joe is currently in a New York jail cell, but his honorarium for this program will be placed in a support fund being set up by his friends while he’s temporarily indisposed.
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Stilleben (Still Life)
Wie man sieht (As You See) – In memory of filmmaker Harun Farocki
Date: Feb 4, 2015 7:00PM
Location: Goethe-Institut Los AngelesFourth in our tribute series to filmmaker Harun Farocki, who died in 2014. Tonight we'll screen his films Stilleben (Still Life) and Ein Bild (An Image).
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Das Eskimobaby
Mush! to the Movies: a Polar Film Club - The Eskimo Baby
Date: Feb 6, 2015 7:30PM
Location: The Velaslavasay PanoramaThe second night of Mush! to the Movies features the rare 1918 German silent comedy The Eskimo Baby, with more treats as well!
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DAREDEVILS
Daredevils, by Stephanie Barber
Date: Feb 8, 2015 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianStephanie Barber returns to Filmforum to present her first feature. A portrait of risk and language, DAREDEVILS presents the experimental narrative of a writer as she interviews a well-known artist and feels the reverberations of their discussion throughout her day.
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Wie man sieht (As You See)
Wie man sieht (As You See) – In memory of filmmaker Harun Farocki
Date: Feb 11, 2015 7:00PM
Location: Goethe-Institut Los AngelesFifth in a series of screenings in tribute to filmmaker Harun Farocki. Tonight we feature one of signature works, Wie man sieht (As You See).
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Iterations, by Gregg Biermann
The Festival of (In)appropriation #7
Date: Feb 15, 2015 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianThe Festival of (In)appropriation returns to Filmforum with its seventh program of cutting-edge experimental found footage shorts. Founded 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.
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Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges (Images of the world and the Inscription War)
Wie man sieht (As You See) – In memory of filmmaker Harun Farocki
Date: Feb 18, 2015 7:00PM
Location: Goethe-Institut Los AngelesSixth in a series of screenings in tribute to filmmaker Harun Farocki. This screening highlights his epochal feature Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges (Images of the world and the Inscription War).
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Gefängnisbilder (Prison Images)
Wie man sieht (As You See) – In memory of filmmaker Harun Farocki
Date: Feb 25, 2015 7:00PM
Location: Goethe-Institut Los AngelesSeventh in a series of screenings in tribute to filmmaker Harun Farocki. Tonight features his classic Arbeiter verlassen die Fabrik (Workers Leaving The Factory) and Gefängnisbilder (Prison Images)
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Historia Calamitatum (The Story of My Misfortunes), Part 2: The Crying Game, by Roger Beebe
Recycled Cinema with Roger Beebe
Date: Mar 1, 2015 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianFilmmaker/ philosopher Roger Beebe arrives with some of his expansive media works. The evening includes a live-scored two-projector performance of AAAAA Motion Picture, and also the dual-projector film TB TX Dance -- it’s gonna be quite a show!
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Shirley Clarke, 1970
Project Shirley: Short Films by Shirley Clarke
Date: Mar 3, 2015 8:00PM
Location: Echo Park Film CenterDennis Doros and Amy Heller of Milestone Films present short films from their Project Shirley
“Dancer, bride, runaway wife, radical filmmaker and pioneer —
Shirley Clarke is one of the great undertold stories of American independent cinema.”
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In Comparison
Wie man sieht (As You See) – In memory of filmmaker Harun Farocki
Date: Mar 4, 2015 7:00PM
Location: Goethe-Institut Los AngelesThe conclusion of our tribute series to the great filmmaker Harun Farocki. Tonight features Schnittstelle (Section/Interface) and Zum Vergleich (In Comparison)
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The Way Out Is the Way Two: Fourteen Short Films About Chicago and Sun Ra
Cauleen Smith: The Way Out Is the Way Two
Date: Mar 12, 2015 7:00PM
Location: MOCACauleen Smith presents The Way Out Is the Way Two: Fourteen Short Films About Chicago and Sun Ra, a feature-length constellation of experimental psychogeographic films on Sun Ra, improvisation, and creative music.
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Son of Sam and Delilah, by Charles Atlas. Images and content courtesy of the artist, Electronic Arts Intermix and Luhring Augustine, New York.
Dark Sides of Intimacy, with Charles Atlas
Date: Mar 15, 2015 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianThe violence of love. The pain of heartbreak. Filmmaker Charles Atlas’s two dark comedies take on death, love, lust and violence through humor, eroticism and pathos.
Part of ATLAS IN LA, a nine-day festival of film screenings of work by internationally exhibited filmmaker Charles Atlas, which will occur March 10th-19th at eight venues around Los Angeles.
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Nanook of the North poster
Mush! to the Movies: a Polar Film Club - Nanook of the North and The Idea of North
Date: Mar 20, 2015 7:30PM
Location: The Velaslavasay PanoramaWe go North for the third evening of Mush! to the Movies, with the classic 1922 documentary Nanook of the North, the meditative short, The Idea of North, by Rebecca Baron, and we poke around in the South as well with the short video Untitled (Ross Ice Shelf Antarctica), by Connie Samaras. Baron and Samaras in person!