Pamplona friends, join us tonight for The Sound We See: A Pamplona City Symphony, premiering tonight as the closing event for the 2018 Punto De Vista International Documentary Film Festival! 24 fabulous filmmakers in attendance and live score by Harkaitz Cano y Maite Arroitajauregi (Mursego). Share the love!
The 15th installment of Echo Park Film Center’s international analog project that invites people of all ages to explore their city on film is underway! Part of the fabulous Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival, The Sound We See: Pamplona will premiere on March 10. Check out all the action here!
Experimental Tuesdays at the Union Cinema is a free series unspooling on most Tuesdays (and in this case a Thursday!) throughout the semester that shares contemporary and canonical experimental media. Presented by the UWM Union Cinema and the UWM Department of Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres.
Free and open to all!
In recognition of their countless hours as the Center’s educators, programmers, projectionists and facilitators, Echo Park Film Center Co-op members were commissioned to make new experimental lens-based works exploring their relationships to Los Angeles. Coming from all walks of life, Co-op members include both experienced and self-taught filmmakers, queer identifying filmmakers, artists of color, art school graduates, and EPFC youth film program alumni.
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Program:
Quantum Identity Politics // Miko Revereza // Video // 10 min.
To be an undocumented immigrant in America is a performance. I am now exhausted of this performance. As long as documentation is used to exclude, deport, and incarcerate people by race and class lines, then our role as artists and thinkers is to decode, reconfigure, and subvert documents as conceptual play objects.
The Burning of Los Angeles // Cosmo Segurson // 16mm transferred to video // 4 min.
An interpretation of a painting described in Nathaniel West’s “The Day of the Locust” from 1939.
From Brooklyn to Broadway // Brenda Contreras // Video // 7 min.
The untold collection of short, bizarre narratives.
Angelus Novus // Gina Marie Napolitan // 16mm loop with 35 mm slides transferred to video // 6 min.
A hopscotch through our historical, geographical, and cultured memory. Los Angeles as a place of wilderness up-ended by human settlement, and subsequently, a place of human settlement up-ended by nature time and again. “This storm is what we call progress.”
A Beautiful Tragedy // Sharmaine Starks // Video // 15 min.
Inspired by the numerous candle light vigils that fill the alleys, parking lots and street corners of Compton, Watts and South Central LA.
Palimpsest // Penelope Uribe-Abee // Super 8 transferred to video // 3 min.
A look into the spiritual and phantasmic effects that gentrification has an identity, self and the landscapes that these ontological frameworks spring from.
Beauties // Lisa Marr // Super 8 transferred to video // 10 min.
A cinematic mash note to the Mack Sennett Bathing Girls.
Worlds Below, Or: Los Angeles Breaks Its Mother’s Back // Emett Casey // 16mm // 7 min.
A rhythmic study of cracks in Los Angeles sidewalks, and their relationship to free root structures.
Avanti Popolo (People Move Forward) // Paolo Davanzo // 16mm Dual Projection // 3 min.
A journey through the city on my bicycle shot on 16mm film and hand-processed. A look at the rapid changes happening in Los Angeles and a hope to reclaim the fragments of community life that are being taken away from us.
Filmmakers and EPFC Coop members Paolo Davanzo and Lisa Marr in attendance!
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This program has been made possible by a grant from the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts.
Launched in June of last year, the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts Artist Project Grants seek to further Mike Kelley’s philanthropic work and honor his legacy by supporting innovative projects with visual artists at L.A. nonprofit institutions and organizations. The goal is to benefit both visual artists and arts organizations alike and to support compelling and inventive projects in any medium, particularly work that is under-known, or has proven difficult to make or to fund.
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Marvelous Movie Mondays! It’s our final week to celebrate A Day In The Sun: Films by the EPFC Coop and we’re giving a super special shout out to the fabulous Ms. Kate Lain, charter Coop member and the creator/curator/champion of Marvelous Movie Mondays! Thanks for all you do, Kate, in bringing the global experimental community together here each week!
Let’s enjoy a nature break with Kate’s film Eaton Canyon (1.2 miles in 50 feet).
Traces of what has come before imbue the present. In Eaton Canyon, one of the most trafficked hiking destinations near Los Angeles, you can find a multitude of traces of its own making—traces of geologic change, of jurisdictional decisions, of plant and animal life, of constructions built to last but now left as ruins. This suite of works is imbued with traces not only of a particular moment in this canyon, but also of their own making.
Born and raised in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, Kate works in a variety of media including digital video, super 8 film, photography, paper, clay, and fabric. She is interested in intersections—of human and nature, myth and lived experience, feminine and masculine. Her video and film work verges on documentary and spans a wide range—from essay film to stop-motion collage to impressionist portrait. She has an MFA in Science & Natural History Filmmaking, and her works have screened at festivals and venues internationally.
We are delighted to welcome filmmaker Kaori Oda from Osaka, Japan, as EPFC’s 2017 Summer Artist In Residence.
During her month-long residency at EPFC, Kaori will be teaching a Super 8 Youth Workshop and presenting her own work as part of the ACTION! Cinema As Sanctuary series as well as working on some Super 8 and 16mm films inspired by her time in LA. Stop by and meet Kaori at an informal welcome reception at 7 pm before the Open Screen on Thursday, August 3!
Kaori Oda’s residency is made possible in part by the generous support of The Japan Foundation and Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.