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EPFC FALL RUMMAGE SALE NOVEMBER 4!

EPFC | October 23rd, 2018

It’s that time again… we’re cleaning house and we’ve got bargain-basement-priced analog and digital TREASURES GALORE FOR YOU! And donuts! Save the date: Sunday, November 4: 12 – 5 pm. 

A Day In The Sun at Union Cinema Milwaukee

EPFC | October 12th, 2017

A DAY IN THE SUN: NEW WORKS FROM THE ECHO PARK FILM CENTER

TONIGHT! Thursday, October 12 at 7 PM – FREE!

UWM Union Cinema

2200 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211

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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A Day In The Sun: The California Tour

EPFC | September 2nd, 2017

Hey California! We’re coming at you this Labor Day Weekend (and week) to share A Day In The Sun: Films by the EPFC Coop with project support provided by the very awesome Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts! All shows are outdoors, free and fun for the whole family! Bingo, prizes, refreshments… What better way to say so long to summer??? Look out for the big blue Filmmobile and follow us on Instagram @epfcfilmmobile and Twitter @epfcfilmmobile for times and locations.

Saturday, September 2 – Ventura: Main Street

Sunday, September 3 – Santa Barbara: De La Guerra Street, across from Elsie’s Bar

Monday, September 4 – Morro Bay: Harbor Park

Tuesday, September 5 – Santa Cruz: West Cliff

Wednesday, September 6 – Kingsburg, beside the giant Swedish Coffee Pot!

Thursday, September 7 – Bakersfield, outside Roy’s Tiki-Ko

Friday, September 8 – Mystery Spot TBA

It’s Time For ACTION! New Summer Series at EPFC!

EPFC | May 7th, 2017

ACTION! Cinema As Sanctuary

Political documentary films take on a renewed role amid a reinvigorated rage against immigrants, refugees and people of color in many places around the world. Through politically engaged cinematic work, many filmmakers are confronting old and new forms of racism, the deepening ungrievability of Black and Brown lives, and precarious realities faced by minority communities including indigenous peoples, the elderly, refugees, women and children. ACTION! Cinema As Sanctuary features political documentary films and filmmaking workshops that re-assert the images and stories that remind us that a compassionate world rooted upon solidarity, friendship, and collective action is possible.

All events are FREE! Check the EPFC Cinema and Workshop calendars for more details.

Curated Nerve Macaspac of the Echo Park Film Center, with special support provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

 


MAKE A MOVIE IN 2017!

EPFC | January 5th, 2017