Fall 2018
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Ex Utero, by Michelle Dizon, image courtesy of the artist
Deconstructing Portraiture: Embodied Landscapes
Date: September 13, 2018
Time: 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: September 16, 2018
Time: 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: September 20, 2018
Time: 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: September 24, 2018
Time: 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: October 9, 2018
Time: 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: October 19, 2018
Time: 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!