Fall 2013 Schedule
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Foregrounds (1978) by Pat O'Neill
Pat O’Neill: Spatial Affects
Date: Sep 12, 2013 7:00PM
Location: MOCA Grand Avenue, Ahmanson AuditoriumPat O’Neill, a founding father of the Los Angeles avant-garde film scene and a pioneer of optical effects, is perhaps best known for his highly graphic, layered, and reflexive film work. This program of short works, featuring two Los Angeles premieres, situates this important and singular artist within the broader context of contemporary art. In O’Neill’s films boundaries fade, narrative collapses, and multiple layers of imagery draw the viewer into the work, both suggesting and denying linear meaning. A master of experimental montage and compositing techniques, O’Neill has created a graphic language that focuses on the relationships between disparate elements assembled together in the frame. While his innovative optical techniques were prescient of our current digital landscape, his most recent work fully embraces the possibilities of this new technology. Formally rich, spatially ambiguous, and saturated with both color and feeling, O'Neill's films speak the language of painting while moving in time.
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Maintenance - Rayna (Adele Horne)
Maintenance by Adele Horne
Date: Sep 22, 2013 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianLos Angeles Premiere! Filmmaker Adele Horne in person!
Filmmaker Adele Horne returns to Filmforum with the Los Angeles premiere of her latest film, the superb documentary Maintenance. The winner of the Grand Prize of the Images Festival in April, Maintenance provides an intimate reckoning of cleaning house. -
The Skin I'm In
The Skin I’m In
Date: Oct 6, 2013 7:00PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianLos Angeles Premiere! Filmmaker Broderick Fox and Composer Ronit Kirchman in person! Los Angeles Filmforum presents the Los Angeles premiere of THE SKIN I'M IN, an autobiographical documentary by Broderick Fox, with a live pre-screening remix performance of the film’s score by composer Ronit Kirchman. THE SKIN I’M IN is a documentary about a son/ Eagle Scout/ valedictorian/ professor/ filmmaker/ club kid/ drag queen/ hustler/ alcoholic, his brush with death, and his search for self and spirit through the transformative ritual of tattooing.
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The Space in Back of You
The Space in Back of You
Date: Oct 13, 2013 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianLos Angeles Premiere! Simone Forti in person (schedule permitting)
In conjunction with LA Opera’s presentation of Einstein on the Beach, Filmforum presents the Los Angeles Premiere of this poignant documentary, which explores one key influence on Wilson’s art –the innovative, radical Japanese dancer and choreographer Suzushi Hanayagi. After losing touch and then finding her suffering from Alzheimer’s, Wilson creates a tribute to their artistic partnership—the final collaboration between a great teacher and her renowned student. Rutkowski’s film is a moving exploration of Hanayagi’s significance and the production of this work.
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Happiness Is A Warm Projector: Select work from Experiments in Cinema
Date: Oct 20, 2013 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianLos Angeles Premieres! Bryan Konefsky, curator, in person. Happiness is a Warm Projector is a program of select works from the first 8 years of Experiments in Cinema film festival. Each year EIC brings the international community of cinematic “un-dependents” to Albuquerque, New Mexico reminding us that filmmaking has a cultural responsibility that transcends the pathetically produced, popcorn poo-poo that we have come to know as “going to the movies.”
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Nightfall
Date: Oct 27, 2013 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianJames Benning in person! Los Angeles Filmforum presents James Benning’s Nightfall! "'Nightfall' is a study of real-time light changing from day to night. It was filmed in a forest high up in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains." (James Benning).
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Castro Street, by Bruce Baillie
Bruce Baillie: Two Nights of 16mm Treasures - Sunday
Date: Nov 3, 2013 7:00PM
Location: REDCAT“A metaphysical poet of film’s postwar avant-garde.”—Artforum In Person: Bruce Baillie. Presented by REDCAT and Los Angeles Filmforum
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Quick Billy, by Bruce Baillie
Bruce Baillie: Two Nights of 16mm Treasures - Monday
Date: Nov 4, 2013 8:30PM
Location: REDCAT“A metaphysical poet of film’s postwar avant-garde.” —Artforum. In Person: Bruce Baillie, presented by REDCAT and Los Angeles Filmforum
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Los Angeles Filmforum at MOCA: A Tribute to Allan Sekula
Date: Nov 14, 2013 7:00PM
Location: MOCA Grand Avenue, Ahmanson AuditoriumAllan Sekula (1951-2013) was an influential artist, writer, and teacher. His works, including books, photographic sequences, written texts, slide sequences, and sound recordings, are among the most moving and incisive critiques of global capital from the latter half of the twentieth century. In 2001, he turned to digital video as yet another means to make art that critically engages the world. Los Angeles Filmforum at MOCA is proud to present a program of Sekula’s work in video, with another program coming this Sunday, in tribute.
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A Warhol SLEEPover
Date: Nov 17, 2013 12:00AM
Location: Human ResourcesLos Angeles Filmforum, Human Resources, and Cal Arts present a rare screening of Andy Warhol's legendary 1963 debut film, SLEEP, in a 16mm all-night screening. SLEEP, which runs approximately five hours, has been called a "monumental screen piece" by Jonas Mekas, creating " a powerful mix of intimacy and detachment, of closeness to a living being and a foreboding feeling of distance, darkness, and separation," in the words of critic Fred Camper.
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The Forgotten Space
A Tribute to Allan Sekula: The Forgotten Space
Date: Nov 17, 2013 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianAllan Sekula (1951-2013) was an influential artist, writer, and teacher. His works, including books, photographic sequences, written texts, slide sequences, and sound recordings, are among the most moving and incisive critiques of global capital from the latter half of the twentieth century. In 2001, he turned to digital video as yet another means to make art that critically engages the world. Los Angeles Filmforum is proud to present two programs of Sekula’s work in video this week in tribute. On this second night, we screen his last film, The Forgotten Space.
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BLOOM
A Stark View of the World – An Evening With Scott Stark
Date: Nov 24, 2013 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianScott Stark in person! Scott Stark’s films, videos and installations are kinetic revelations that can be shocking, mesmerizing and narratively rich. We’re delighted to welcome Scott to Los Angeles again. We last featured him at Filmforum in 2002, and over two nights in November, he will present a wide array of new work created since then, along with a few earlier works.
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Intertidal, by Alex MacKenzie
Date: Dec 5, 2013 8:00PM
Location: The Velaslavasay PanoramaA live, dual projector performance with Alex MacKenzie in person from Canada!
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Les soviets plus l’électricité
Les Soviets Plus L’Électricité (Soviets Plus Electricity), by Nicolas Rey
Date: Dec 8, 2013 6:30PM
Location: The Velaslavasay PanoramaA cinetrip to a defunct country. Super-self-production in Sviemacolor by Nicolas Rey
Three hours of 16mm public transportation. Wandering through Russia as if through someone else's house.
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Handful of Dust
The 51st Ann Arbor Film Festival Traveling Tour, Digital Program
Date: Dec 15, 2013 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianLos Angeles Filmforum concludes its 2013 programming with what now an annual tradition – the Ann Arbor Film Festival Traveling Tour, giving Los Angeles audiences a chance to see the best new experimental works from around the world. Come on down!