Winter 2020
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The Divine Way, by Ilaria Di Carlo
The 57th Ann Arbor Film Festival Touring Program #1
Date: January 12, 2020
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianCome see some of the best experimental films of 2018 and 2019, in this touring program with highlights from the Ann Arbor Film Festival.
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Wanderer (2017), by Danny Lyon, courtesy of the artist.
Danny Lyon: Wanderer
Date: January 16, 2020
Time: 7:00pm
Location: MOCA Ahmanson AuditoriumFilmforum at MOCA hosts the Los Angeles premieres of two films by renowned photographer and filmmaker Danny Lyon, followed by a conversation with Lyon by Skype.
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ALGO-RHYTHM, By Manu Luksch
Highlights from the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, 2019
Date: January 19, 2020
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianThe entire intellectual wealth of current international film production is to be discovered in this program.
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Mike Kuchar: The Stranger in Apartment 9F — Courtesy Video Data Bank
Sins of The Brothers Kuchar
Date: February 3, 2020
Time: 8:30pm
Location: REDCATREDCAT is delighted to welcome legendary artist Mike Kuchar for a program of films and videos made by himself and his late twin brother George. Co-sponsored by Los Angeles Filmforum.
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Knot/Not. by Larry Gottheim
Larry Gottheim: Chants and Dances
Date: February 7, 2020
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Echo Park Film CenterRenowned filmmaker Larry Gottheim returns to Los Angeles Filmforum with a couple of classic films and the LA premieres of two new digital works.
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Jeanne C. Finley: Journeys Beyond The Cosmodrome
Date: February 10, 2020
Time: 8:30pm
Location: REDCATJeanne C. Finley's Journeys Beyond the Cosmodrome (2019, 53 min.) is a riveting portrait of a remote Eurasian culture as revealed through fantasies and fears of its adolescents. Featuring a live performance by The Threshold Choir
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Posthaste Perennial Pattern, by Jodie Mack
Jodie Mack: Patterns, Posthaste!
Date: February 16, 2020
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianFilmforum welcomes back the wonderful animator Jodie Mack with a couple of her most recent films, followed by her epic feature The Grand Bizarre.
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Electric Arthropods, by Manuel DeLanda
Shocks to the System: An Evening with Manuel DeLanda
Date: February 24, 2020
Time: 8:30pm
Location: REDCATRenowned philosopher and moving image-maker Manuel DeLanda makes a rare Los Angeles appearance with selected films, videos and a lecture, “Cinema as an Emergent Phenomenon.”
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Carolee Schneemann in Plumb Line
Dangerous Erotics: A Tribute to Carolee Schneemann
Date: February 29, 2020
Time: 4:00pm
Location: REDCATREDCAT and Filmforum celebrates the life and work of Carolee Schneemann, one of the great artists of the 20th century, with a panel discussion and selection of her films and videos. Schneemann’s performances, films, paintings and installations were at the center of world art culture from 1960 until her death in 2019.
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A Moon for My Father
Mania Akbari and Douglas White: A Moon for My Father
Date: March 2, 2020
Time: 8:30pm
Location: REDCAT“Brave and never pitiful, A Moon for My Father is a visual, poetic diary, put into a larger socio-politic context, making it a multilayered documentary.” – CPH:DOX FIPRESCI Jury
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Maggie Cheung in Better Life (Ten Thousand Waves)
Isaac Julien: Better Life (Ten Thousand Waves)
Date: March 7, 2020
Time: 8:30pm
Location: REDCATThe LA Premiere of Better Life (2010), the single-channel version of one of Julien’s best-known installations, Ten Thousand Waves, inspired by the drowning of 23 Chinese undocumented cockle pickers in Morecambe Bay (northwest England).
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Disarm the Right to Violence!: Recent Mexican Experimental Short Films
Date: March 15, 2020
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianA selection of films produced between 2018-2020 in intensive filmmaking workshops at Catedra Ingmar Bergman and Filmoteca UNAM, in collaboration with DocsMX, led by Travis Wilkerson. The films open an impelling window into a dynamic, emerging Mexican avant-garde—at once deeply political, highly engaged, and formally stunning.