Film/Video Events

Film/Video Events

The Jack H. Skirball Series screenings and other film-related events draw on a variety of cultural perspectives from around the globe to expand definitions of the moving images in film, video and new media.

September 20

Nina Menkes: Hitparkut (Dissolution)

Inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Nina Menkes returns to Israel, the site of some of her earlier work, and continues her exploration of sumptuous, digital black-and-white as a metaphor for the dark corners of the human psyche.

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September 27

THE BEST OF OTTAWA 2009

This selection of 12 outstanding films from the Ottawa International Animation Festival 2009, most of which are Los Angeles premieres, reflects the vitality of experimental animation today and includes work from Canada, England, Estonia, France, Germany, Poland, and the United States.

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October 4

Erie by Kevin Jerome Everson

Erie consists of single-take, 16mm black-and-white sequences filmed in and around communities near Lake Erie, including Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Cleveland and Mansfield, Ohio. The scenes relate to African American migration from the South to the North, contemporary conditions, realities affecting workers and factories in the automobile industry, theater, and famous art objects.

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October 11

Lewis Klahr: Dreaming Over the Flux of Things Past

Master collagist Lewis Klahr returns to REDCAT with a new series, Prolix Satori. A departure for him, the series is both open-ended and ongoing, with a variety of thematic focuses, and will include a combination of very short works (under a minute) and feature-length films.

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October 23

Between Displacement and Nostalgia: Conflicted Memories of Cuba

One of the first international successes of Third Cinema, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s classic film was banned in the United States for five years, a victim of the embargo on post-revolutionary Cuba. Memories of Underdevelopment imaginatively transposes Edmundo Desnoes’ eponymous stream-of-consciousness novel into a modernist cinematic space.

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October 25

Revelations of the Everyday: Films and Videos by Vincent Grenier

Vincent Grenier, a native of Québec City, Canada, has lived in New York City and Ithaca, New York, since the 1970s and over the past four decades has produced one of the most significant bodies of experimental films and videos of his generation.

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November 1

Spectacles of Light: Films and Videos by Peter Rose

Since 1968, Peter Rose has made more than 30 films, tapes, performances, and installations. Many early works raise intriguing questions about the nature of time, space, light, and perception, and draw upon his background in mathematics. His subsequent interest in language as subject, and video as a medium, has generated a substantial body of work that plays with the feel and form of sense, concrete texts, political satire, oddball performance, and a kind of intellectual comedy.

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November 22

Thom Andersen: Out of the Car and into the Music of the Streets

These three sad, funny, beautiful works take you through Los Angeles, 2009, and Munich, 1967/1968.

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Past REDCAT Film/Video Events

August 17, 2010

Laureana Toledo: The Limit

Disguised as a thirty minute fan documentary, Mexico-city based artist Laureana Toledo's The Limit investigates how information and pop culture are digested, how colonialism is still activating our fantasies and expectations, and how the secondary role of women around rock bands is funnily reversed. 

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July 9 - July 18, 2010

OUTFEST Film Festival

REDCAT hosts screenings for this year's Outfest Film Festival, the nation's leading LGBT film festival. For two weeks, Outfest 2010 features 143 films and videos from 25 countries in 6 different venues across Los Angeles dedicated to nurturing, showcasing and protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) images.

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July 12, 2010

Screening of Mike Kelley and Michael Smith's A Voyage of Growth and Discovery

In conjunction with Mike Kelley and Michael Smith's exhibition A Voyage of Growth and Discovery, REDCAT hosts the premiere of the hour-and-a-half hour long, single channel film version of A Voyage of Growth and Discovery which like the installation mirrors the existential journey of Baby IKKI over several days at a festival of “radical self-expression,” famous for its presentations of large-scale displays of fire, held in the remote Black Rock Desert of Nevada. 

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June 17 - June 27, 2010

Film Independent's Los Angeles Film Festival

REDCAT hosts select screenings and discussions for this year's Los Angeles Film Festival. For the past sixteen years, the two-week festival has offered to Los Angeles audiences the world's best independent features, shorts, and music videos from around the world.

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June 13 - June 14, 2010

Studio: Summer 2010

The ongoing series for new works and works-in-progress offers adventurous audiences the opportunity to experience original, ambitiously offbeat performances by an interdisciplinary mix of experimental Los Angeles artists. This edition of Studio features work by F-Stop Serenade, Juan Diego Ramirez, Arianne Hoffmann, Catch Me Bird, Dino Dinco and the Los Angeles Electric 8.

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June 7, 2010

Merce Cunningham Dance Company and guest artist Mikhail Baryshnikov

The Cunningham Dance Foundation and REDCAT present an historic evening of dance and film with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and guest artist Mikhail Baryshnikov. 

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June 4 - June 5, 2010

Dance Camera West

Focusing on the intersection of choreography and cinematography, the annual Dance Camera West festival offers a rich selection of some of the most thrilling dance for camera and dance media works made around the world today. The festival returns to REDCAT with all-new programs of experimental shorts as part of its monthlong celebration of dance film at venues across Los Angeles.

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June 5, 2010

CAP/Sony Pictures Media Arts Program Screening

Middle and high school students in the CAP/Sony Pictures Media Arts Program present a slate of animation and new media works.

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June 4, 2010

CAP/ArtsCOOL Program Screening

Students from 5 continuation high schools throughout Los Angeles present new short videos and animations made in the CAP/ArtsCOOL Program’s digital media classes. The program is a collaboration between cap and the Los Angeles Unified School District.

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June 2 - June 3, 2010

Partch: Even Wild Horses

Outfitted with an amazing array of custom-built microtonal instruments, the ensemble directed by John Schneider continues its ongoing survey of the profound music of Harry Partch. The group's performances at REDCAT this year include Partch's Even Wild Horses--Dance Music for an Absent Drama and Cloud Chamber, his friend and fellow maverick Lou Harrison's Canticle #3, the West Coast debut of Anne LeBaron's Southern Ephemera, and Madeline Tourtelot's Rotate the Body in All Its Planes.

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