Asco: Chicano Cinema and Agnes Varda’s Mur Murs
Friday November 11, 2011, 7:30 pm
Los Angeles Filmforum and LACMA Present
Asco: Chicano Cinema and Agnes Varda’s Mur Murs
At LACMA’s Bing Theater
Los Angeles Filmforum presents the sixth in our film screening series Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980 on November 11th with Asco: Chicano Cinema and Agnes Varda’s Mur Murs. The series will feature over 24 shows between now and May 2012.
Alternative Projections is Filmforum’s exploration of the community of filmmakers, artists, curators and programmers who contributed to the creation and presentation of experimental film and video in Southern California in the postwar era. Film series curated by Adam Hyman and Mark Toscano, with additional contributions by David James, Christine Panushka, Terry Cannon, Ben Caldwell, Stephanie Sapienza, and more.
Alternative Projections is part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945 – 1980, an unprecedented collaboration of more than sixty cultural institutions across Southern California, coming together to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene.
This screening series is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission; the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles; and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Special support provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Additional support generously provided by American Cinematheque.
Asco: Chicano Cinema & Varda’s Mur Murs
11/11/11
“In their No Movies and in performances such as Walking Mural and Instant Mural Asco extended and exploited what film scholar David James has called ‘the liminal zone between the mural movements and movies proper.’”
Agnes Varda's Mur Murs (1981) featuring ASCO's Death of Fashion performance, Courtesy of Harry Gamboa, Jr
Harry Gamboa, Jr., Blessed Bag Bombers (fotonovela), 1982 Courtesy of the artist