Starting August 1, 2020, MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS is going on indefinite hiatus. It’s been nine fun years (almost eight of those with monthly guest curators). We’re in a time of intense change right now, and I’ve decided to pause MMM for now so I can take the time to regroup, listen, think, and figure out new ways forward. A huge thank you to Nicole Elaine, MMM’s guest curator for the past two months. And so much love to all of the wonderful artists who been the backbone of MMM as guest curators these past several years (find the whole list of guest curators and the themes they selected further down in this post!!). None of this would have been possible without your generosity and enthusiasm. Thank you for being part of this project and for sharing your love of cinema with the EPFC community!!! Thank you as well to Echo Park Film Center for being so supportive of #marvelousmoviemondays from day one. And thank you to all who have engaged with these posts over the years!!!! With gratitude, Kate Lain. Let’s see where we go from here!
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guest curators + themes: Dustin Zemel (10/2012 – The Long Take), Lyn Elliot (11/12 – Simple, Cheap, and Awesome), Lisa Marr (12/12 – Gifts), Evan Meaney (1/13 – Limitations, Transitions, Subverting Emotions to Preserve the Social Contract), Sarah Suta (2/13 – Taxidermy), Jennifer Hardacker(3/13 – Light), Deron Williams (4/13 – Text Films), John Warren (5/13 – Found Footage), Bryan Konefsky (6/13 – End Games), Jodie Mack (7/13 – Stroboscopic July), Roger Beebe (8/13 – Music Videos), Terri Sarris (9/13 – Screendance), Jesse Malmed (10/13 – FALL-LA-LA), Jen Proctor (11/13 – Experimental Remakes), Simon Tarr (12/13 – a bit of sunshine in the heaviness of winter), Caitlin Horsmon (1/14 – Our Animal Brethren), Kelly Sears (2/14 – Animated Non-fiction), Hannah Piper Burns (3/14 – textual healing), Caryn Cline (4/14 – haptic), Jason Livingston (5/14 – Body of Speech), peter burr (6/14 – Future Fictions of the 1980s Eastern Bloc), Paul Shepherd/Huckleberry Lain (7/14 – Mountain Movies), Mary Helena Clark(8/14 – Other Languages), Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa (9/14 – Experimental Medicine), Karen Yasinsky (10/14 – the uncanny and possibly eldritch in silent film), Charlotte Humpston (11/14 – Landscape in Film), Lucieta Williams (12/14 – Sound and Vision: Video Work of Christian Marclay), Amir George (1/15 – solitude and escape), Charlotte Taylor (2/15 – Optical Toys), Andrew Rosinski (3/15 – MYST), Ben Coonley (4/15 – Self-Taught CG), Ben Popp (5/15 – Psychedelic Animation), Erin Christovale (6/15 – Freedom Portals), Scott Fitzpatrick (7/15 – POST-FILM), Karl Lind (8/15 – Breaking the Fourth Wall), Ian Alan Paul (9/15 – Global Borders, Global Migrations), Kelly Gallagher (10/15 – NO COP ZONE), Mia Ferm (11/15 – Reconstructing Memory), Christopher Harris (12/15 – Down to Earth: Extraterrestrials and Heavenly Bodies), Eric W Mast (1/16 – Lo-Fi Comedy), Clint Enns (2/16 – Mind-Melting Mayhem), Yoshi Sodeoka (3/16 – artist-made music videos), Johnny Woods (4/16 – Broken Beings), Ephraim Asili (5/16 – intersection of experimental and documentary methodologies), Kate Ewald (6/16 – Internal Cinema), Christine Negus (7/16 – The Trouble with Being Born), Joel Wanek (8/16 – You Can’t Blame the Youth), Jennifer Juniper Stratford (9/15 – Behind the Scenes), Salise Hughes (10/16 – Seattle Plays Hollywood), David Zlutnick (11/16 – Documenting the Movements), Erica Magrey (12/16 – The Holiday Special), Brian C. Short (1/17 – Music & Motion), Christina Battle(2/17 – Visions of a Potential Future), Enrico Ostrowskini (3/17 – Glitch), Sophia Peer (4/17 – FAILURE + TENACITY = SUCCESS), Roger Hill (5/17 – Stateless), Elena Pardo (6/17 – Women Alchemists), Jennifer Sullivan (7/17 – Dancer in the Dark), Alison Kozberg & Amada Torruella (8/17 – Alternative Media from the American South), Lisa Marr + Echo Park Film Center (9/17 – Mike Kelley Grant films / A Place in the Sun), Amy Khoshbin (10/17 – Who’s the Monster? Middle Easterners as Enemy), Andy Spletzer(11/17 – Experimental Films are Funny!), Lorenzo Gattorna (12/17 – Wood Pushers), Will Rahilly (1/18 – Intersections of 3D and Reality), Nellie Kluz (2/18 – That’s Amore), Jennifer Reeder (3/18 – Unruly Women), Kiki Loveday (4/18 – Queer Reproduction), LJ Frezza (5/18 – THE END), Alexa Lim Haas (6/18 – Imitations of the Everyday), Adán De La Garza (7/18 – Cultural Geography and Performance for video), Morris Manuel Trujillo (8/18 – Love / Heartbreak Program: From the personal to the political), Angeline Gragasin (9/18 – Aging), Jenna Maurice (10/18 – Inner Thoughts), Georgia Fu (11/18 – Filial Piety – Parents and Kids), Brina Thurston (12/18 – Queen of the Trap), Leah Shore (1/19 – Beautiful Ugly), Jimmy Schaus (2/19 – Narratives Down the Rabbit Hole), Ariel Kavoussi (3/19 – WHAT’S THE BODY GOT TO DO WITH IT?), Alex Johnston (4/19 – “Says Who?”: Media and Authority), Karen Azoulay (5/19 – Mortality Blooms!), Lindsay Denniberg (6/19 – The Haunted Summer), Sean J Kenny (7/19 – FLICK-O-RAMA), Sarah Ellen Stephens (8/19 – Because, People), Florrie James (9/19 – Day Job, Night Shift, Soul Work), Zachary Epcar (10/19 – Extravagant Acts), Amy Ruhl (11/19 – MALL MADNESS), Doug Klinger (12/19 – Hybrid music video/documentaries), Emily Chao (1/20 – Rituals & Ruminations), Bernardo Britto (2/20 – Social Issue Films), Cristina Kolozsvary-Kiss(3/20 – Where’s Wayne’s World?), Kerry St. Laurent (4/20 – Tonal Contrast), Michael Woods aka M. Woods aka Disassociative Productions (5/1 – Body Politics + Digital Phenomenology), Nicole Elaine Baker (6/20-7/20 – It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)