MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
Guest Curator: Kate Ewald
Theme: Internal Cinema

“It has been widely reported that prisoners confined to dark cells often see brilliant light displays, which is sometimes called the `prisoner’s cinema.’… The brain contains many (perhaps an infinite number) of feedback loops. One of these involves a pathway between a part of the frontal lobe of the brain, which extends through the cingulate gyrus, caudate nucleus and down to the thalamus. This particular pathway is associated with the neurotransmitter serotonin, which is involved in many biological processes, including those of depression and sleep”
– Salvatore Cullari

Vancouver friends! Join us Sunday, June 19 at 7 pm for the premiere of The Sound We See: A Vancouver City Symphony at the VanCity Theatre. Shot on 16mm by a dynamic team of street-engaged youth with a live musical score created especially for the event, the film shares a unique view of a rapidly-transforming city described by tourist brochures as “Spectacular by nature.”

MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!

Guest Curator: Kate Ewald
Theme: Internal Cinema

“For meaning is not, for image or word, in things; it is in people.”
– Hollis Frampton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao70icgZwqM

Saturday, December 5, 2015 – Late Night Marathon & Fundraiser – 7 pm until LATE!

Celebrate fourteen years of the Echo Park Film Center with films, videos, music, music videos, performances, poetry, toasted sandwiches, and more, stretching into the early hours of the morning. Sliding scale donations in any amount go towards keeping EPFC operations up and running for the year to come. Festivities begin with the EPFC Cabaret, hosted by Paolo Davanzo and Lisa Marr, and featuring Los Gatitos, Maya Abee, Michael Jefferson and Tom Duffy, Beaux Mingus, Shauna McGarry, and more! Then Rick Bahto will present a selection of works on Super 8, 16mm, video, and performance by alumni from the EPFC youth program, former LA AIR residents, and artists who have participated in his New Works Salon series, including Amy Halpern, Penelope Uribe-Abee, Jordan Biren, Kate Brown, Pablo Valencia, Ursula Brookbank, Kate Dollenmayer, Walter Vargas, and more tba! We’ll also have the World Premieres of Super 8 films commissioned by EPFC, including Janis Crystal Lipzin and Daniel Marlos. Miko Revereza will present MTV Off The TV Screen, featuring an hour of pirated music videos, dance scenes, and video oddities mixed on VHS. Beaux Mingus will host Grub Buds Film and Video Extravaganza!: The Sony AV-3400 Portapak, the world’s first portable video camera system, was introduced in 1967, and took the art world by storm. Madonna’s music video for her 1992 song, Erotica, used Super 8 film to make the footage look aged and gritty to mesh with the song’s atmosphere. A pie iron (also known as a pudgy pie or sandwich maker) is a cooking appliance that consists of two hinged concave, round or square metal, plates on long handles. In the United States, the Tostwich is possibly the earliest toasted sandwich maker, dating back to before 1920. What do all of these things have in common? Well, probably not much, but if you like to eat toasted sandwiches and watch movies, this is the screening for you! Toasted sandwiches provided by Grub Buds. Throughout the night there will be surprises, treats, and tricks of all kinds!

MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!! (sorta, again..)
guest curator: Karl Lind
theme for the month: breaking the fourth wall

This week’s film, “Portrait #3 House of Sound” by Portland based artist, Vanessa Renwick is a thoughtful meditation on the removal of walls, both literal as well as cultural.

https://vimeo.com/25736991