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MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS WELCOMES KARL LIND

EPFC | August 3rd, 2015

It’s that time again, cinefriends, when we welcome a new film/video artist to take us on a month-long cinematic journey on a theme of their choice in our weekly online-only screening series, MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!! We are excited to hand the August curatorial reins over to……

KARL LIND!!

Karl Lind is filmmaker and curator living in Portland, Oregon. He loves playing pinball and riding bikes.

WELCOME, KARL!!

And now, here’s Karl’s “A Brief Portrait of The Eternal Recurrence” for you to enjoy.

https://vimeo.com/98685124

THE RETURN TO THE RETURN TO REASON

EPFC | July 20th, 2015

MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
guest curator: Scott Fitzpatrick

Good evening friends of Echo Park Film Center and welcome back for another installment of Marvelous Movie Mondays. The theme for July has been “POST-FILM” – material films made entirely without the use of photochemical processes. Tonight we have a special treat, as this movie isn’t usually available online, but I have permission to share it with you for the rest of the month (i think!) .. “The Return to The Return to Reason,” by super-rad filmmaker Sabine Gruffat, is “a scratch film for the 21st century”. For this piece a digital laser engraver was used to meticulously etch every frame of Man Ray’s seminal 1923 film “Le Retour à la Raison (A Return to Reason)” – the first instance of the Rayogram – onto 35mm black leader, and the result is mesmerizing. I like this movie next to Libi Striegl’s piece I shared last week, because they both explore really cool, unexpected technological collisions. Hope you enjoy too !

https://vimeo.com/134036298

PLACES WITH MEANING

EPFC | July 6th, 2015

It is July, cinefriends! Each month, we bring in a new film/video artist to take us on a month-long cinematic journey on a theme of their choice in our online-only screening series, MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!! We are excited to welcome to the curatorial helm for the month of July……

SCOTT FITZPATRICK!!

Scott is a visual artist (Libra) from YWG, whose film and video work has screened at underground festivals and marginalized venues worldwide. He studied film theory and production at the University of Manitoba and began conducting lo-fi moving image experiments in 2010. Primarily a filmmaker, he is also invested in photography, re-photography, kaleidoscope, and collage.

WELCOME, SCOTT!!

And now, please enjoy Scott’s ultra-fabulous “Places with Meaning”
https://vimeo.com/44368692 Dingbats fans, this one’s for you.

Places with Meaning from Scott Fitzpatrick on Vimeo.

KING DAVID (1978)

EPFC | June 29th, 2015

MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
guest curator: Erin Christovale

hi folks, welcome back to freedom portals. here’s a reminder of the theme…”i’ve been thinking about this concept and the ways in which it manifests itself in the present day. as people (especially the youth) are uprising in solidarity to find ways to “get free” whether it be around issues of immigration, gender, police violence, etc. i’d like to explore how artists are interpreting this moment, especially through a speculative lens.”

going back in time today to Ulysses Jenkins short, King David (1978) a meditation/conversation between artists lamonte westmoreland and david hammons. thinking of the LA black artist community of the time and their collective response to the watts rebellion which was incited by police violence. this august will mark the 50th anniversary of the incident and i’m wondering what has changed?

(i’ll be reposting all of these on Black Radical Imagination)

King David (1978) – Ulysses Jenkins from UCI Studio Art on Vimeo.

FREEDOM PORTALS

EPFC | June 22nd, 2015

We’ve got double the Marvelous Movie Monday excitement today, with two videos specially selected by guest curator Erin Christovale.

hi folks, welcome back to freedom portals.

in light of witnessing Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art this weekend at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts coupled with the likeness of rachel dolezal i’m wondering what are the boundaries and limitations of black performativity, especially when it centers around womanhood?

Big Gurl by Lauren Kelley (2006)

Big Gurl, 2006; 6 min 40 sec from Lauren Kelley on Vimeo.

next up is artist Yoshua Okón! i first encountered his work at the Hammer Museum with this multimedia piece, Octupus.

Octopus, 2011
“Inserted within the US tradition of civil war re-enactments, Octopus re-enacts the Guatemalan civil war. Except, civil war re-enactments traditionally take place in the actual fields where historical battles happened and are performed by people who did not actually fight in the war. Instead, for this occasion the site responds to a symbolic nature: the battlefield is relocated to US soil at a Home Depot parking lot in Los Angeles. And it is performed by the actual combatants who, during the 1990s fought in the war that is being re-enacted: a dozen members of the Los Angeles Mayan community, all recent undocumented immigrants who gather to look for work as day laborers at the same parking lot where the shoot takes place.
The title makes reference to the nickname used in Guatemala for The United Fruit Company, UFCO (nowdays Chiquita Banana), a US Company based in Guatemala and directly linked to the CIA led coup and to the following civil war. At the time, UFCO was by far Guatemala’s largest land owner with tax exempt export privileges since 1901 and control of 10% of Guatemala’s economy through a monopoly of its ports and exclusive rights on the nations railroad and telegraph systems.”

http://yoshuaokon.com/ing/works/octopus/video_vi.html from Yoshua Okon on Vimeo.

 

(i’ll be reposting all of these on Black Radical Imagination)