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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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Sketch of Laguna Peak Tracking Station, 2016. Watercolor and ink on paper | Hillary Mushkin
As part of the "Incendiary Traces" project, Hillary Mushkin took artists to Pt. Mugu to do some surveiling and drawing of their own.
Thermal, CA fire
After a large-scale fire burned through a palm tree grove in Thermal, CA, all of the palms were assumed dead. But one pastor and his congregation prayed for a miracle.
Image courtesy of Elefante Collective
Utilizing photography, and self-made zines as their primary method of distribution, this ensemble of artists are bringing to "light the beauty, struggle and dignity of" the Latinx community.
Ahree Lee, "Permutation" still
Ahree Lee explores the paradox of similarity and difference, demonstrating that even in a world that seems increasingly fragmented culturally, racially and economically, we are more similar than we realize.
Saul Bass in 1985. | Tony Barnard/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
Graphic designer Saul Bass knew how to hook audiences into a film. He worked on three films for Alfred Hitchcock, which went on to become some of the director's best-known and most-loved projects.
NW Corner of E. 5th Street & Spring Street
Downtown Los Angeles is a complex place where people from all walks of life cross paths and sometimes collide. The spaces featured in this photo essay highlight areas where people have died after interactions with the police.
Hitchcock riding to work from his Bel Air home in 1961
"The Master of Suspense" called L.A. home for 41 years. Why did his films never reveal his adopted city?
New Hampshire Avenue near 3rd Street
Just underneath the surface of Koreatown/Westlake lies a history of corruption and police involved violence that includes the infamous LAPD Rampart division scandal as well as several other questionable shootings of unarmed residents.
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Many people move through the city immersed in their daily routines, often oblivious to the events that have taken place on the very streets they traverse. This project documents places where violent acts involving law enforcement have occurred in L.A.
Love, Omid Sariri Ajili, digital photograph, 2012. Courtesy of the artist.
In Los Angeles, a pair of exhibitions tied to Iranian heritage showcase artists who live and work all over the world.
"Shirley MacLaine, actress of Paramount Pictures, soon to be seen in the movie The Trouble With Harry." (featured)
The beloved, award-winning actress will be the recipient of the Lumière Award, which honors actors for their distinguished careers.
The Laguna Canyon Project by artists Mark Chamberlain and Jerry Burchfield | Photo: Courtesy of BC Space (featured)
In 1980, an environmental art project inspired residents to take charge of their own destiny and prevent the construction of a 3,200 unit housing community in Laguna Canyon, California.
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