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A Special Evening for Haruko Tanaka

EPFC | March 2nd, 2020

A Special Evening

March 6, 2020
7:30 pm – 11:00 pm
Human Resources 
410 Cottage Home St
Los Angeles, CA 90012

On October 21, 2019, the world lost an incredible & unique artist who lived a courageous life driven to create and live by her own rules.  And at the same time, she was a sister who never said “no” when a friend or the world came asking for help.  Please join me, her family, and friends for an evening to commune and remember Haruko and share her hope and inspiration and how she touched each of our lives.

Hosted by Asher Hartman, Tuni Chatterji, & Kevin McCarty with a special performance by the Reader’s Chorus, & screenings of Haruko‘s early films. Artist Kate Brown is collecting photos and ephemera from friends and family digitally to create a zine to preserve Haruko‘s memory.  Please email Kate Brown with your contributions.  A recording booth will be available for anyone to share their memories about Haruko, which will be shared with family and friends and preserved on www.kissoftheworld.net. This night is all about sharing. After the short program, the night is created for everyone to be with one another, sharing their stories, laughing, and loving. Please consider bringing a snack and beverage to contribute. This memorial is open to the public. Please spread the word.

Marvelous Movie Mondays: Where’s Wayne’s World?

EPFC | March 2nd, 2020

MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
guest curator: Cristina Kolozsváry-Kiss

Theme: Where’s Wayne’s World? A brief dive into the disappearing world of democratic and non-commercial television made possible by public access.

It all started about 12 years ago when I happened to catch a screening of Winnipeg Babysitter while studying in Syracuse, NY. The program was a compilation of clips from Public Access Television in Winnipeg, CA curated by artist Daniel Barrow. A description of the program that I found online should tell you all you need to know: “In the late 70s and throughout the 80s, Winnipeg experienced a ‘golden age’ of public access television whereby almost anyone with a creative dream was granted airtime and professional production services”.
Since then I have had a minor obsession with the subject of Public Access Television, which has led to a masters thesis in the preservation of this material. Much of this work–which was produced all over cities and towns across North America–is at risk of being lost forever. Turns out there isn’t any money in archiving non-commercial media, just like there isn’t any money in making it (which explains why so many stations are now gone). Until the problem of preservation is solved, Youtube (which, I feel compelled to emphasize, is not public and heavily monetized) is often the best and only resource for seeing this work, though often in terrible quality and without context.
Should Winnipeg Babysitter ever go on tour again, please catch it! Barrow’s work as both programmer and archivist is really loving and inspiring, and you will catch glimpses of lost treasures of television, such as Survival!, which aired from 1985-1987 and is linked below.

For the month of March, I ask you to think about what democratic media means in light of these questions: how has the industrialization and monetization of art and culture impacted us as a society? What systems of power determine what is “good” and who gets to be an “artist”? Who should be able to access the resources necessary to create art and media?

#marvelousmoviemondays

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kaMTqfHdPM

This Week at EPFC North

EPFC | March 2nd, 2020

This week, we celebrate the power of cinema to unite, inspire and comfort us, even in the darkest of times. Join as we welcome LA Filmforum’s Adam Hyman for Ism Ism Ism: Experimental Cinema In Latin America / Ismo Ismo Ismo: Cine Experimental en América Latina on Thursday (8 pm), honor the life and work of our beautiful  friend Haruko Tanaka on Friday (7 – 11 pm), and spend a day in the garden on Sunday, tending the plants in the morning with Lori Snyder (10 – Noon), making phytograms in the afternoon (1 – 4 pm), and enjoying a special international women’s day favorite in the evening for Dinner and a Movie (5 – 7 pm). Events at Moberly Fieldhouse are always free and always all-ages. Hug someone you love today!

Marvelous Movie Mondays: Ilha das Flores

EPFC | February 26th, 2020

MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
guest curator: Bernardo Britto

theme: social issue films that deal with their subject matter in ways that are not boring and obvious but rather new, fun, different, and cinematic

One of the bigger influences on my filmmaking, Ilha das Flores by Jorge Furtado is a ten minute dissection of society and the entire world that starts with a tomato and ends with you wondering how this system that we have created is at all okay. The use of voiceover, the editing, the macro/micro view of things are all tricks that I still use in my movies to this day. But every time I watch it, I still find myself completely transfixed by it. In some ways it is the total opposite of My Josephine, the Barry Jenkins student film that I wrote about earlier this month. Whereas that film was small and intimate, this is all encompassing. There’s no searching for an intangible feeling. Everything here is concrete and objective. It’s a film that lists facts. That categorizes and labels. A movie that doesn’t shy away from over-explaining something. But that only makes its power that much more compelling. Because these are things as they are. This is the world as we have made it. Even if it isn’t 100% a documentary, even if there are certain things about it that are exaggerated or glossed over, you can’t deny that a tomato is a tomato. And a pig is a pig. And trash is trash. And people are people.

Unfortunately I could not find a version of the film online with the original Portuguese audio and English subtitles. The version I am linking here just has a dubbed English narration. It’s pretty good but I’ve watched this movie so many times that I can’t help but feel like it’s not quite right (he over emphasizes some really weird words, instead of just having the confidence to maintain the matter-of-fact monotone). So, if you speak Portuguese, I would highly recommend watching the original version somewhere else. (though if you’re at all interested in film and you’re Brazilian, there’s a pretty good chance you’ve seen it already)

https://vimeo.com/53862971

This Week At EPFC North

EPFC | February 26th, 2020

We’ve got an action packed weekend at Moberly Fieldhouse! Make your own protest banner, rock out to Mecca Normal, meditate with Pauline Oliveros, and enjoy dinner and a movie… Always fun! Always free! Always all-ages!

Workshop: Let Your Freak Flag Fly: Creating Protest Banners and Signs
Saturday, February 29
1 – 4 pm
Join us as we explore the history of protest signs and banners, and make some of our own. Free event! Everyone welcome!

Event: Tiny House Concert Number 1 – Mecca Normal
Saturday, February 29
4 pm
For the first installment of a new semi-regular series dedicated to music, poetry and performance, we welcome the ever-inspiring Mecca Normal. Free event! Everyone welcome!

Workshop: Sonic Meditations
Sunday, March 1
1 – 4 pm
Ever wanted to Teach Yourself To Fly? Today’s the day! Guest Instructor: Pauline Oliveros. Free event. Everyone welcome!

Screening: Dinner and a Movie
Sunday, March 1
5 – 7 pm
Tasty images. Tasty food. Bring your own movie(s) to share or enjoy a cinematic gem from the EPFC North library. Free event! Everyone welcome!