Inspired by the Client / Dealer relationship from Bernard Marie-Koltès’ play In the Solitude of The Cotton Fields, The WANT is a contemporary opera—with music by Ethan Braun and lighting design by Shahryar Nashat—that fuses vocal expression with a rich physicality.
Juan Pablo González’s Caballerango (Horse Wrangler) (2018, 62 min, Digital, Spanish / English subtitles) is an intimate portrait of rural Mexican life amidst the deepening presence of tragedy and loss.
Taking its name from the late Agnès Varda film and inspired by that film’s vitality and diversity, “Mur Murs” is a new one-day film series presenting contemporary artists’ cinema in Los Angeles.
In his prolific career, unfolding since the early 1970s, legendary filmmaker and artist James Benning has matched a passionate wanderlust to an exacting formal rigor, mapping out multivalent landscapes.
When painter Angela Ricci Lucchi and architect Yervant Gianikian met in 1974, this triggered one of the most exciting collaborations in the history of cinema, spanning 44 years, as the pair became internationally known for their sensual, poetic, and critical work on “found footage.”
The 2019 Angel City Jazz festival arrives at REDCAT with a double bill: critically acclaimed Anna Webber’s Simple Trio and Jenny Scheinman & Allison Miller’s Parlour Game. The festival continues with another double bill: Katisse + Diatom Ribbons.
The Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry, in partnership with the CalArts MFA Creative Writing Program, presents acclaimed Suquamish poet Cedar Sigo.
The Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, called “tightly-curated… essential viewing every year” by Cine-File Chicago, will return to REDCAT for its fourth year.
The Gallery at REDCAT presents Adelita Husni Bey: CHIRON, an exhibition that includes the West Coast premiere of Husni Bey’s most recent film and installation Chiron (2019), commissioned and premiered by the New Museum in January 2019.
REDCAT, CalArts' downtown center for contemporary arts, announces adventurous international and LA performances featured in the Fall of 2019 beginning on September 12, 2019.
In the gallery, Adelita Husni Bey explores healing and activism in her site-specific exhibition of works in CHIRON, where she probes questions about the global immigration crisis, the complexity of collectivity, and the human and social consequences of imperialist ventures. In the theater, acclaimed Dominican-born and Florida-raised Ligia Lewis, who came to REDCAT as part of the PST Festival in 2018, engages gothic imagery to consider entanglements of nature, the feminine, and blackness. The writings of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz are mined by Polish director Natalia Korczakowska in a searing work about protecting our individuality from the soulless social machine of Western civilization. Los Angeles-based Dorian Wood, accompanied by an exquisite string quartet, gives a riveting personal tribute to the legendary Chavela Vargas.
Music highlights include Peter Vermeesch and FLAT EARTH SOCIETY celebrating its 20-year jubilee and the 100th anniversary of Ernst Lubitsch’s landmark 1919 film The Oyster Princess (Die Austernprinzessin); and the Los Angeles premiere of a new opera by Hunter Hunt Hendrix performed with Ulrich Krieger's Sonic Boom and the "black metal" band Liturgy.
Film at REDCAT features premieres of films by James Benning, Alexandra Cuestra, Juan Pablo González, Sylvia Schedelbauer and the special series Mur Murs inspired by Agnès Varda. The Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry presents acclaimed Suquamish poet Cedar Sigo.
