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Film and Media Arts

From moving pictures to an established industry, film and media have the power to capture our most powerful stories. Learn more about how it has evolved and helped tell diverse stories.

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Going through the tunnel (1898)
The train tunnel in this 1898 film is now where Interstate 10 turns into Pacific Coast Highway.
South Spring Street, Los Angeles, Cal. (1897)
On Dec. 31, 1897, a photographer for the Edison Manufacturing Company captured a lively downtown scene on Spring Street.
"The Carey Treatment" statting James Coburn
"The Carey Treatment" stars James Coburn as a pathologist who is drawn into a deep source of corruption at the local hospital when he tries to clear a colleague of a murder charge.
Mackenzie, Irish, German, Dutch, Scottish and English, Oat Face, 2016. Portrait from Jaydee Dizon's Our Home Grains series. (cropped)
Photographer Jaydee Dizon takes the portraits of women from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds, their faces sprinkled with a grain (or other staple food) that is part of their cultural identity.
"A Man Called Ove" movie
Record-breaking box office Swedish film "A Man Called Ove" screened at the fall KCET Cinema Series last week. The movie follows a grouchy man who strikes up an unexpected friendship with his new neighbors.
Eddie Murphy and Britt Robertson in "Mr. Church"
Eddie Murphy plays a cook who comes into the lives of a young girl and her terminally ill mother and forms an incredible bond with them.
Eddie Murphy in "Mr. Church"
The film is directed by Bruce Beresford, who also directed Academy Award-winner "Driving Miss Daisy." Beresford will join KCET Cinema Series host Pete Hammond for a Q&A session.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt in "Snowden"
"Snowden" producers Eric Kopeloff and Rob Wilson visited the KCET Cinema Series to chat about Oliver Stone's biopic on the famed NSA whistleblower.
Lily Rabe in "Miss Stevens."
The feature directorial debut for Julia Hart, "Miss Stevens" is the story of a teacher whose life intertwines with those of her students on a trip to a drama competition.
John Krasinski and Anna Kendrick in "The Hollars."
Acclaimed comedy-drama "The Hollars" stars and was directed by John Krasinski. The ensemble cast also features Margo Martindale, Richard Jenkins and Sharlto Copley as a family who must come together under trying circumstances.
"The Sea of Trees" featuring Matthew McConaughey and Ken Watanabe
The drama stars Matthew McConaughey as a professor who ends up inside Japan's notorious Sea of Trees, also known as Suicide Forest, where he meets an enigmatic stranger played by Ken Watanabe.
Tourists at Badwater Basin, Death Valley, CA (featured image)
The landscape of Badwater Basin, the most popular tourist attraction in Death Valley National Park, is always changing. Artist collective High & Dry report from the edge of this earth dip, and attempt to capture the immensity before them.
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