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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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Patssi Valdez, East Los Angeles, 2001. | Photo: Jim McHugh.
Portraiture is a major part of Jim McHugh's body of work. Throughout his decades-long career, the photographer has captured well-known artists, celebrities and iconic landmarks.
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Along with managing one of the skate industries' top rated brands, pro skateboarder Ed Templeton is a prolific photographer and painter. The long-time Huntington Beach resident continues to look to his surrounding environment for inspiration.
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Photography duo JUCO, comprised of Julia Galdo and Cody Cloud, is best known for capturing images filled with bold patterns, vivid colors and bright light.
Rafael Diaz Grave, Pioneer Cemetery. Infrared Exposure. Mt. Whitney in background far right. Lome Pine, CA. 2013. | Photo: Osceola Refetoff.
Lone Pine, CA has a killer view. Writer/ photographer duo High & Dry muse upon its cemeteries, and the people who long to be buried in them.
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Dorothy Arzner was the only woman who worked regularly as a director in Hollywood during the 1920s through the 1940s. Her record of helming 20 films is still unbroken.
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In the film "Tangerine," which centers on the friendship of two transgender prostitutes, Los Angeles is a main character. Artbound recently caught up with director Sean Baker to reflect on the character of L.A., discovering his actors, and how to shoot...
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Quentin Dupieux appears to move back and forth between two worlds seamlessly. As a filmmaker, his projects embrace the absurd. As electronic music producer Mr. Oizo, he has consistently pushed the limits of dance floor beats.
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For Dr. Susumu "Sus" Ito, taking a photo was no small feat, especially as a soldier during World War II. His wartime photographs are the subject of a new exhibit at JANM in Little Tokyo.
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The KCET Cinema Series presented actor and filmmaker Walter Mirisch with the Lumière Award at a special screening of the classic 1960 western "The Magnificent Seven." After the screening host Pete Hammond spoke with Mirisch.
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A documentary film about reproductive justice, "No Mas Bebés" revisits the story of momentous lawsuit Madrigal vs. Quilligan, a case that involved the sterilization of Mexican immigrant women in the 1970s.
Excerpt from Nao Bustamante, "Soldadera" (2015), cinematic installation, 5 minute film, projected on a 16 x 9 foot screen, on loop.
The complex relationship between the Mexican Revolution and the camera is taken up by Nao Bustamante in the cinematic installation anchoring her exhibition "Soldadera." With the short film, the artist reimagines and (re)enacts the the missing sequence ...
Kenneth Anger, The single firework that appears in "Fireworks," 1947. | Photo: gif by jadams77, Photobucket.
Long live the spectacle. For the Fourth of July, Artbound profiles Southern California artists who like to blow stuff up.
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