Fall 2019
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Memento Stella, by Makino Takashi
Makino Takashi: Memento Stella
Date: September 19, 2019
Time: 7:00pm
Location: MOCA Grand AvenueLos Angeles Filmforum and MOCA are thrilled to welcome Japanese artist Makino Takashi back to Los Angeles for the LA premiere of his mesmerizing new feature-length work, MEMENTO STELLA.
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Midnight Orange, by Gautam Valluri
Apparitions: Recent Handmade Wonders from L’Abominable
Date: September 22, 2019
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Echo Park Film CenterFilmforum hosts a new touring program of recent works by filmmakers at the French film lab L'Abominable, all films having their LA premieres!
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Visioni del deserto (Visions from the Desert) by Angela Ricci Lucchi and Yervant Gianikian
A Farewell to Angela Ricci Lucchi with Yervant Gianikian
Date: October 1, 2019
Time: 8:30pm
Location: REDCATFilmforum joins with REDCAT to honor the late Angela Ricci Lucchi, whom we have hosted several times. To commemorate Ricci Lucchi’s memory, and in collaboration with Gianikian (who will be present via Skype), we are showing seven short films of their sensual, poetic, and critical work on “found footage.”
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Phil Solomon, May 2013, at Los Angeles Filmforum (photo by Adam Hyman)
A Song Dissolved in the Dawn: Films by Phil Solomon, program 1
Date: October 20, 2019
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Echo Park Film CenterPhil Solomon (1954-2019) was an immensely passionate, inspiring, and kind-hearted figure to so many who encountered him and his work. He inhabited this world as a generous friend, dedicated teacher and mentor, and as an artist of profound talent and feeling, whose films have inspired countless over the decades. This program focuses on what might be considered the more intimate, inward-looking side of Phil’s work.
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Jonas Mekas, Dec 2017, by David E. James
Reminiscences of a Journey: A Tribute to Jonas Mekas
Date: November 3, 2019
Time: 7:00pm
Location: UCLA Film & Television Archive Billy Wilder TheatreThe importance of Jonas Mekas to the world of American independent and experimental film cannot be overestimated. Tonight’s tribute includes three examples, “Williamsburg, Brooklyn,” a more recent video piece that also includes some of his earliest footage from the 1950s; part one of “Walden” which also includes the short film “Notes on the Circus” and “Cassis”, and his feature film Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania, along with comments from his daughter Oona Mekas and scholar David E. James.
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The Manhattan Front
The Manhattan Front, by Cathy Lee Crane
Date: November 7, 2019
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Arena CineloungeLos Angeles Premiere! Free screening. In the signature style of filmmaker Cathy Lee Crane, her feature-length film blends fiction and rarely seen archival footage from the National Archives in Washington, D.C. to conjure the fantastically true story of how America entered WWI.
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True Life Adventures, by Erin Espelie
Erin Espelie: True Life Adventures
Date: November 10, 2019
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianThe films of Erin Espelie strike sparks at collisions between the scientific and the poetic. We’re delighted to host Erin Espelie, who also currently serves as the editor-in-chief of Natural History magazine, at the first screening of her short films in Los Angeles.
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Watermarks, by Sara Suarez
All That You Can’t Leave Behind
Date: November 14, 2019
Time: 7:00pm
Location: MOCA GrandA program of films that mix the personal and the political, using montage, memory, and archives not only as filmic strategies, but as tools of historical intervention
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Zia Anger
My First Film, by Zia Anger
Date: November 22, 2019
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Downtown IndependentMy First Film, a Live Cinema Presentation by Zia Anger, concludes its international tour tonight at the Downtown Independent. "An altogether new and daring work of art.” -- Richard Brody, The New Yorker.
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Salome, by Teo Hernandez
Salomé, a film by Teo Hernandez, Scored live by Dorian Wood
Date: December 5, 2019
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Philosophical Research SocietyWe bring you Salomé in 2019 with an original soundtrack performed by Dorian Wood, marrying the operatic evocations of Wood's singular voice with Hernandez’s baroque cinematography in the unique surroundings of the Philosophical Research Society.
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She Collage, by Kate Lain
The Festival of (In)appropriation #11
Date: December 8, 2019
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianFounded in 2009 and curated by Jaimie Baron, Greg Cohen, and Lauren Berliner, the 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. In person: Filmmakers Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Kate Lain, artist Terry Braunstein, and co-curator Greg Cohen!