In this US premiere, Brazilian director Christiane Jatahy brilliantly merges live performance and filmmaking in what she describes as a "mirror game between theater and cinema." Her wildly acclaimed take on Anton Chekov's Three Sisters imagines the siblings hosting a house party in modern day Brazil--and the piece is seen by two audiences simultaneously, with each group experiencing it twice (in two very different ways.)
The musical worldview of the composer and pianist Courtney Bryan is both deeply rooted and sweepingly expansive. She draws upon an array of traditional and experimental traditions: gospel, jazz, spirituals, and more.
Artist/filmmaker Sharon Lockhart returns to REDCAT with two films shot in Poland. Podwórka (31 min, 2009) is an exploration of the real and imaginary playgrounds children inhabit in the courtyards of Łódz.
As a conjurer of imaginary, semi-abstract worlds that are uncannily rooted in our physical reality, Belgian artist Anouk de Clercq has forged a unique cinematic language that explores the unstable outer boundaries of human vision.
Nazlı Dinçel’s handcrafted 16mm films are visceral encounters with bodily existence from her perspective as a woman who emigrated from Turkey while still in her teens.
A pioneer in critiquing while reworking the tradition of “social documentary,” Allan Sekula (1951–2013), CalArts faculty from 1985 until his death, left a compelling legacy of films, photographs and publications.
John Kelly once referred to himself as an “aesthetic octopus” – he cannot be easily categorized, and critics have wildly praised him as a choreographer, theater artist, writer, vocalist, filmmaker, dancer, visual artist and more (winning 2 Obies, 2 Bessies, an Alpert Award in the Arts and an NEA “Masterpiece Award” along the way).
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.
The New Original Works Festival is a three-week interdisciplinary program offering a variety of short works and some longer projects in their Los Angeles premieres.
