Spring 2018
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Black Panthers, by Agnès Varda
1968: Black Panthers and Black Power
Date: Mar 25, 2018 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianFirst in a series this year of films from and on 1968, the program highlights the actions of the real Black Panthers in films by the Panthers and Agnès Varda. Following those is a document of a student strike at San Francisco State University, and the Los Angeles premiere of a rediscovered film by Amiri Baraka looking at cultural and political actions by African-Americans in Newark in 1968!
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Rat Film
Rat Film
Date: Apr 8, 2018 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian"Rat Film" is a documentary that uses the rat—as well as the humans that love them, live with them, and kill them-to explore the history of Baltimore. Producers Riel Roch-Decter and Sebastian Pardo in person!
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Mothlight, by Stan Brakhage, Courtesy of the Estate of Stan Brakhage and Fred Camper (www.fredcamper.com)
Metaphors on Vision: Films by Stan Brakhage
Date: Apr 13, 2018 7:30PM
Location: UCLA Film & Television Archive, Billy Wilder Theatre, Hammer Museum,The first of three nights of films by Stan Brakhage. Tonight's program presents key early films that Stan Brakhage made while he was writing Metaphors on Vision, works that inaugurated a radically new form of first-person cinema, preceded by a talk by Thomas Beard.
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Songs, by Stan Brakhage, courtesy of the estate of Stan Brakhage
Metaphors on Vision: Films by Stan Brakhage – Selected Songs
Date: Apr 14, 2018 7:30PM
Location: UCLA Film & Television Archive, Billy Wilder Theatre, Hammer MuseumThe second of three nights of films by Stan Brakhage. Tonight’s program includes rarely screened 16mm versions of Songs 1-7 and the monumental anti-war lament, Song 23: 23rd Psalm Branch, considered by many to be one of Brakhage’s greatest films.
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Panels for the Walls of Heaven. Image courtesy of the Estate of Stan Brakhage and Fred Camper (www.fredcamper.com)
Stan Brakhage: Life, Death, And The Elements
Date: Apr 15, 2018 7:30PM
Location: Echo Park Film CenterNew Restorations From The Academy Film Archive! The third of three nights of films by Stan Brakhage, this selection of five films pairs an early, celebrated masterpiece (Scenes From Under Childhood), a truly monumental but neglected work made the year before his death (Panels for the Walls of Heaven), and three more films that touch on some of Brakhage's most recurring and fundamental themes.
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Anagrams of Light, by Malena Szlam
Inexistent Time: A Retrospective of Malena Szlam
Date: Apr 20, 2018 8:00PM
Location: Echo Park Film CenterWorking in 35mm, 16mm, Super 8mm, and digital formats, Chilean-born Montréal-based filmmaker Malena Szlam’s silent, poetic, and ethereal compositions explore notions of time, self, the natural world and materiality.
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Through The Margin Of Mirrors
Through the Margin of Mirrors: a Lecture/Performance by Malena Szlam
Date: Apr 21, 2018 8:00PM
Location: Echo Park Film CenterIn this lecture/performance, Szlam will draw from her writing and personal visual film archive to compose an ephemeral re-enactment of her 2010 installation piece Through The Margin Of Mirrors. The performance will be followed by a special screening of short experimental works by international filmmakers, curated by Szlam.
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James N. Kienitz Wilkins
The Andre Trilogy: Three Films by James N. Kienitz Wilkins
Date: Apr 29, 2018 8:00PM
Location: The Downtown IndependentOne of most exciting and unpredictable filmmakers working today, Brooklyn’s James N. Kienitz Wilkins, presents the Los Angeles premiere of the Andre Trilogy, three films that helped establish Wilkins’ playfully provocative, self-reflexive sensibility.
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At the Hour of Tea, dir. Paul Sietsema, courtesy of Matthew Marks Gallery
Still Moving: Cinema, Photography, and the Real
Date: May 10, 2018 7:00PM
Location: MOCA Grand Avenue, Ahmanson TheaterConceived in conjunction with the exhibition at MOCA Grand Ave., Real Worlds: Brassäi, Arbus, Goldin, this program offers a series of thought-provoking films and videos that operate between the still and the moving image.
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May Days (Grands soirs et petits matins), by William Klein
May Days (Grands soirs et petits matins), by William Klein
Date: May 27, 2018 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianWilliam Klein's documentary about May 1968. Shot in black and white with a hand-held camera, this is the most precious, balanced and disturbing account we have of the spirit of May '68.
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The Sea Stares at Us From Afar / El Mar Nos Mira de Lejos
LA OLA: The Sea Stares at Us From Afar
Date: Jun 3, 2018 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianThe 4th showcase of the best independent contemporary films from Spain, LA OLA brings the award-winning film with the maker.
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IN THE INTENSE NOW (c) CineMemoire
In the Intense Now, by João Moreira Salles
Date: Jun 12, 2018 8:00PM
Location: Downtown IndependentPart 3 of 1968: Visions of Possibilities, In the Intense Now explores the revolutions of 1968 as they unfolded across four different countries and their political environments: France, Czechoslovakia, China, and Brazil.
“History made poetic, hypnotic in its provocation.” – Owen Gleiberman, Variety