Fall 2018
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Ex Utero, by Michelle Dizon, image courtesy of the artist
Deconstructing Portraiture: Embodied Landscapes
Date: Sep 13, 2018 7:00PM
Location: MOCA Grand Avenue, Ahmanson TheaterDeconstructing Portraiture: Embodied Landscapes presents film and video works that employ portraiture in their formally-varied visual odes to femme embodiment and its subversive potential to evade surveillance, mourn, and heal. Four Los Angeles premieres, and filmmaker Michelle Dizon in person!
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Half a Life
Half a Life (Mourir À Trente Ans) by Romain Goupil
Date: Sep 16, 2018 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian1968: Visions of Possibilities, part 8. Perhaps the best film about the May 1968 left-wing uprising in Paris (and its dispiriting aftermath), Romain Goupil’s autobiographical documentary draws upon his own ample you-are-there film footage, shot over 12 years as events unfolded. This winner of the Caméra d’Or at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival is undistributed in the U.S. so don’t miss seeing it in a DCP from France that is temporarily in North America.
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Barbershop from Hale County This Morning, This Evening Copyright IDIOM Film, Courtesy RaMell Ross & Cinema Guild
Hale County, This Morning, This Evening
Date: Sep 20, 2018 7:00PM
Location: Downtown IndependentAn inspired and intimate portrait of a place and its people, Hale County This Morning, This Evening looks at the lives of Daniel Collins and Quincy Bryant, two young African American men from rural Hale County, Alabama, over the course of five years. Winner of U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Creative Vision at the Sundance Film Festival, 2018. Director RaMell Ross in person!
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Napalm
Napalm, A Tribute to Claude Lanzmann
Date: Sep 24, 2018 8:00PM
Location: The Downtown IndependentThe Los Angeles premiere of the last film by Claude Lanzmann, director of Shoah.
“A mini-masterpiece... to my mind one of the year’s most romantic films.” - Christopher Small, Sight & Sound
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The Guests
The Guests, by Ken Jacobs
Date: Oct 9, 2018 8:00PM
Location: The Downtown IndependentLos Angeles premiere, with Ken & Flo Jacobs in person!
"Ken Jacobs does more than extend the time (and space) of the original footage: he invites us to see in a way that we have never seen before." (Bozar Centre for Fine Arts)
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I Choose Darkness, 2009, by Karen Yasinsky
Karen Yasinsky: Perpetual Motion
Date: Oct 19, 2018 8:00PM
Location: Echo Park Film CenterKaren Yasinsky makes simple and complex animations that are charming, resonant, beautiful, and a bit mysterious. Several LA premieres, with Yasinsky in person!
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From the Notebook of ... by Robert Beavers
Still Light: Films by Robert Beavers
Date: Oct 24, 2018 8:00PM
Location: The Downtown IndependentRobert Beavers in person with the LA premiere of his "masterpiece" "From the Notebook of ... " and "The Stoas"!
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Half-Moon for Margaret (Halbmond für Margaret), by Ute Aurand
Nature Preserves What The People Forget: The Films of Ute Aurand Part 1
Date: Oct 25, 2018 8:00PM
Location: Echo Park Film CenterBerlin-based filmmaker Ute Aurand presents several of her films in Los Angeles for the first time, in dialogue with selected works by Margaret Tait. Stemming from the lyrical tradition of diary filmmaking and artisanal practices, her active and playful films emphasize the natural and social worlds through intimate forms of portraiture.
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Terzen, by Ute Aurand
In and Around a House: Ute Aurand and Margaret Tait
Date: Oct 28, 2018 7:30PM
Location: Echo Park Film CenterFor our second screening with Ute Aurand, two longer works by Margaret Tait and Ute Aurand are paired. In their breadth and structure, these films give a sense of how these filmmakers cultivate a working practice that prizes the immediate details felt around them.
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One Plus One, by Jean-Luc Godard. Courtesy ABKCO.
One Plus One, by Jean-Luc Godard
Date: Nov 8, 2018 7:00PM
Location: MOCA Grand Avenue, Ahmanson TheaterFeaturing the Rolling Stones! Official Los Angeles Premiere of new 4K Restoration of Godard’s original cut, not seen at a proper public screening in Los Angeles since the 1970s, if ever!
Introduction by Tony Richmond, Cinematographer !
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Barbara Hammer, photo by Eric McNatt
Barbara Hammer, Superdyke: Mediated Sensuality
Date: Nov 9, 2018 7:30PM
Location: the UCLA Film & Television Archive, Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer, MuseumThe opening night of a five-night retrospective of the amazing films of Barbara Hammer, with the inimitable Hammer in person this opening weekend! Book signing starts at 6:30 pm. Don't miss it!
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Stress Scars and Pleasure Wrinkles
Barbara Hammer, Superdyke: Prismatic Autobiography
Date: Nov 10, 2018 7:30PM
Location: UCLA Film & Television Archive, Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum,Barbara Hammer in person, book signing starts at 6:30 pm! Lustrous not only in their shimmering hues but in their ecstatic, deeply emotional, and highly personal narratives, these three works evoke an artist’s active attempts to define herself and self-compose a herstory leaving indelible marks on lesbian feminist cinema in the process.
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Superdyke
Barbara Hammer, Superdyke: Declarations of Identity
Date: Nov 17, 2018 7:30PM
Location: UCLA Film & Television Archive, Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer MuseumA mix of pseudo-documentary, role-play, and traditional documentation of Hammer’s international audiences combine to create an engaged intervention of queer and feminist testimony in the socially- and politically-charged climate of the 1970s and ‘80s.
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The Was by Soda_Jerk
The Festival of (In)appropriation #10
Date: Nov 18, 2018 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianThe Festival of (In)appropriation is a yearly showcase of contemporary, short-form, audiovisual works that appropriate existing film, video, or other media and redeploy them in “inappropriate” and inventive ways. This year marks the culmination of the Festival’s first decade!
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Jerome Hiler, photo by Nathaniel Dorsky
Three Films by Jerome Hiler
Date: Nov 30, 2018 7:30PM
Location: UCLA Film & Television Archive, Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer MuseumThe first evening of Enlightening Vision: Recent Films by Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler, with Dorsky and Hiler in person. Internationally celebrated for their bodies of work spanning over fifty years, Dorsky and Hiler will make rare appearances with three programs of recent films. Working with hand-held and hand-wound 16mm cameras, each creates a cinema of exquisite beauty that unfolds in time and retains the mystery and ambiguities of life lived rather than illustrated.
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Bagatelle I, by Jerome Hiler
Four Films by Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler
Date: Dec 1, 2018 7:30PM
Location: UCLA Film & Television Archive, Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer MuseumThe second evening of Enlightening Vision: Recent Films by Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler, with Dorsky and Hiler in person. This evening has films by both. Although Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler have shared the same world and have many of the same interests and occupations, their films express the inner spirit of two distinct individuals.
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News from Ideological Antiquity
Alexander Kluge's News from Ideological Antiquity
Date: Dec 2, 2018 12:00PM
Location: Human ResourcesPresented in its entirety as a 9.5 hour "marathon" screening / Installation. Over the course of 570 minutes, Alexander Kluge works his way through the “ideological antiquity”, inspired by Sergei Eisenstein’s unfulfilled plan to film Marx’s “Das Kapital“. "Kluge’s film, like Godard’s Historie(s) du Cinema, is the total culmination, not only of his work, but of modern cinema as such."
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Nathaniel Dorsky: Arboretum Cycle
Date: Dec 2, 2018 7:00PM
Location: UCLA Film & Television Archive, Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer MuseumThe third evening of Enlightening Vision: Recent Films by Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler, with Dorsky and Hiler in person. Dorsky's Arboretum Cycle is a major work, shot over a twelve month period beginning in the early spring of February and ending in the month of December. It was entirely photographed in the Strybing Arboretum in Golden Gate Park.
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Generations
Barbara Hammer, Superdyke: Ecstatic Subjectivity
Date: Dec 8, 2018 7:30PM
Location: UCLA Film & Television Archive, Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer MuseumThroughout her career, many of Hammer’s more visually ecstatic works reveal a psychedelic thread running through her filmography, from her 1968 debut Schizy, to one of her final works on 16mm, Generations (made with Joey Carducci). Here we highlight these films.
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Dream Age
Barbara Hammer, Superdyke: Hall of Mirrors
Date: Dec 15, 2018 7:30PM
Location: UCLA Film & Television Archive, Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer MuseumComposed entirely of recently restored films from the Academy Film Archive, this program explores various modes of self-envisionment, a strong, recurring theme throughout Hammer’s art practice.