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.

March 30

Ross Lipman: Urban Ruins, Found Moments

Known as one of the world’s leading restorationists of experimental and independent cinema, Ross Lipman is also an accomplished filmmaker, writer and performer whose oeuvre has taken on urban decay as a marker of modern consciousness. He visits REDCAT with a program of his own lyrical and speculative works. In person: Ross Lipman.

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April 5

Light Echoes Dark: The Films of Julie Murray

Irish-born, New York-based filmmaker Julie Murray combines found and original footage to conjure strange and paradoxical universes resonant with ambiguous meanings. Mystery and menace lurk equally amid the eloquence of her visual rhymes and word associations. This program features Conscious (1993, 10 min.), Orchard (2004, 9 min.), If You Stand With Your Back to the Slowing of the Speed of Light in Water (1997, 18 min.), I Began to Wish (2003, 5 min.), and Murray's latest work, ELEMENTs (2008, 7 min.). In person: Julie Murray.

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April 19

Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break with Exit

In her new series on the state of American labor, artist and filmmaker Sharon Lockhart turns her meditative gaze to workers at the Bath Iron Works shipyard in Maine. Lunch Break (2008, 80 min., HD) features one long, sensuous, uninterrupted tracking shot through a factory corridor where workers linger while on their lunch break. Lunch Break is followed by the companion film Exit (2008, 41 min., HD), in which Lockhart reverses the gaze, with a fixed camera and a nod to Lumière. In person: Sharon Lockhart.

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April 26

Jennifer Reeves: When It Was Blue

This double-projector film performance by New York artist Jennifer Reeves pays rapturous homage to the endangered beauty of our blue planet. Reeves hand-paints frames and optically prints other images to create impressionistic textures. Composed in four parts to represent the four seasons and cardinal directions, When It Was Blue traverses the globe and its diverse ecosystems. In person: Jennifer Reeves and Skúli Sverrisson, who performs his music score live.

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May 3

Gregorio Rocha: The Lost Reels of Pancho Villa

The award-winning documentary Los rollos perdidos de Pancho Villa (Mexico/Canada/USA, 2003, 49 min., b/w and color) recounts Gregorio Rocha's painstaking intercontinental search for one of film history's most intriguing lost works: Raoul Walsh's The Life of General Villa, a quasi-factual 1914 biography commissioned by the Mexican revolutionary strongman (in which Villa allowed cameramen to follow him into actual combat). Also screening in the program is La venganza de Pancho Villa (Mexico/USA, 1930-34, 50 min., b/w). In person: Gregorio Rocha.

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May 6 - May 8

CalArts Film/Video Showcase

The School of Film/Video presents a juried selection of new live-action works by filmmakers in the Program in Film and Video and the Film Directing Program.

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May 10

Starting to Go Bad: Recent Narratives by Pat O’Neill

Pat O'Neill, one of Los Angeles' most eminent independent filmmakers, makes his REDCAT debut with three new videos, I Open the Window (2009, 18 min.), I Put Out My Hands (2009, 10 min.) and Starting to Go Bad (2009, 30 min.), as well as a striking 35mm film entitled Horizontal Boundaries (2008, 23 min.). Best known for his densely layered, virtuosic abstract films that create magical, evocatively incongruous visual landscapes, O'Neill now carries these and other concerns into the terrain of digital video.

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May 15

CAP Teen Animation, Photography, Puppetry and Video Screening

This screening showcases new projects by teenage filmmakers, animators, puppet artists and photographers from across Los Angeles County. All work was produced in CAP programs with Central Los Angeles High School #9 (the city’s new arts high school), Inner-City Arts, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Plaza de la Raza, the Santa Clarita Valley Boys and Girls Club, and Self-Help Graphics.

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May 16

Ring Festival LA: Considering Wagner

As part of Ring Festival LA, this night of contemporary music and film unfolds in four acts that touch on different aspects of the Richard Wagner's life, work and place in history: his musical and theatrical innovations, his über-expressionist concept of art, his preoccupation with Norse-Germanic mythology, his outsize personality, specific passages in his operas, and--not least--some of the ways in which creative practice has developed since his time.

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June 2 - June 3

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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June 4

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 4 - June 5

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

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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Past REDCAT Film/Video Events

March 7

REDCAT International Children's Film Festival 2010: Day Five

Now in its fifth year, this audience favorite offers a treasure trove of cinematic delights for filmgoers of all ages. Two weekend programs bring wondrous animation, exhilarating live action, rarely shown classics, and highlights from Cinemagic Belfast. The festival also includes a very special Nickelodeon Family Fun Day.

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March 6

REDCAT International Children's Film Festival 2010: Day Four

Now in its fifth year, this audience favorite offers a treasure trove of cinematic delights for filmgoers of all ages. Two weekend programs bring wondrous animation, exhilarating live action, rarely shown classics, and highlights from Cinemagic Belfast. The festival also includes a very special Nickelodeon Family Fun Day.

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March 1

Don Levy: Herostratus

Though Australian-born Don Levy taught and inspired generations of filmmakers and artists, his own underground masterpiece Herostratus remained largely out of public view. Now, more than 40 years after the psychedelic shock Levy delivered to a British film industry steeped in kitchen-sink realism. In this coruscating work, Michael Gothard astonishes as the eponymous young poet who hires a PR firm to turn his planned suicide into a media spectacle.

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March 1

REDCAT International Children's Film Festival 2010: Day Three

HIGHLIGHTS FROM CINEMAGIC, BELFAST 

On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, Northern Ireland's award-winning Cinemagic International Film & Television Festival for Young People hosts four feature-length live action films—each one a festival favorite.

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February 28

REDCAT International Children's Film Festival: Day Two

NICKELODEON FAMILY FUN DAY

Nickelodeon programming showcases the most watched and loved of children's programs, and at this year's Nick Family Fun Day, attendees will have the opportunity to meet the costumed characters of Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. favorites--SpongeBob, Patrick, Dora and Diego--and receive giveaways.


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February 27

REDCAT International Children's Film Festival 2010: Day One

Now in its fifth year, this audience favorite offers a treasure trove of cinematic delights for filmgoers of all ages. Two weekend programs bring wondrous animation, exhilarating live action, rarely shown classics, and highlights from Cinemagic Belfast. The festival also includes a very special Nickelodeon Family Fun Day.

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January 29 - January 30

Steve Horowitz and the Code Ensemble

The 14-member Code Ensemble delivers an exciting and imaginative contemporary rethink of David Shire’s classic crime-jazz score for the 1974 N.Y.C. subway caper movie The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, accompanied by a projection of a provocative film by Jane Brill. Also: Horowitz's ensemble also mashes up musical tropes from science fiction films in Invasion from the Chicken Planet.

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January 25

Now, You Can Do Anything: The Films of Chris Langdon

The exuberant, irreverent and surprising films of Chris Langdon make a welcome return to the screen after many years out of circulation. A student of Pat O’Neill, Robert Nelson and John Baldessari, Langdon was incredibly prolific, producing a large body of work in painting, sculpture, film, photography and graphics.The filmmaker is attending in person.

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January 11

James Benning: Ruhr

James Benning, one of the most fascinating figures in American independent cinema, makes his eagerly awaited entrance into the digital realm with absolutely stunning effect. Ruhr—which is also the first film Benning has shot entirely outside the United States—is a meditation on the notion of terra incognita. In person: James Benning.

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December 14

Native Visions: Two Documentaries on Indigenous Mexican Culture

The program features Yolanda Cruz’s Reencuentros: 2501 Migrantes, documenting the creation of artist Alejandro Santiago’s monumental installation of 2501 life-size sculptures representing those who left the Oaxacan town of Teococuilco, and Dante Cerano’s Día dos, an irreverent take on the second day of a P’urhepecha wedding ceremony.

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