Don't Knock the Rock Festival

Still from "Ghost on the Highway"

Don't Knock the Rock Festival

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"Brings out luminaries it takes a hard-core fan to appreciate." Variety

A high-energy mix of film and music, the festival celebrates the rock ’n’ roll roots of Hollywood with classic and brand-new rock films that contain quintessential music performances and vintage footage of important artists in their prime, plus live shows by fresh musical talents who embody the spirit of rock innovation. Founded by filmmaker and MacArthur Fellow Allison Anders, DKTR is a fan-based festival that is entertaining, adventurous, insightful and always way ahead of expectations. See dontknocktherock.com for more information.

Screening and Live Performance

8:00 PM
Ghost on the Highway: A Portrait of Jeffrey Lee Pierce and The Gun Club
World Premiere

with
The Gun Club
With Kid Congo Powers, Ward Dotson, Terry Graham and Special Guest Vocalist

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Date/Time	G	ST	CA
Thu 6.29.06, 8:00 pm	$30	n/a	n/a

Date/Time

Thu 6.29.06, 8:00 pm

$30

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REDCAT NEWS

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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.