Skip to main content
Donate

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.

Fine Cut 2019 mosaic
Support Provided By
The Grand Grotesquerie of Gabe Bartalos
"Abhorrence and Obsession" celebrates the surreal and fantastical worlds of special effects artist Gabe Bartalos.
filipino_5.jpg
The Re/Collecting Project: Filipino Love Stories
The Re/Collecting Project aims to share the cultural history of the Filipino community emanating from different perspectives and nontraditional formats.
Getting Lost in the Arid Expanse with Diane Best
In her paintings and photographs, artist Diane Best illustrates timeless desert panoramic landscapes of the Mojave.
Double-Indemnity-4.jpg
Noiring L.A.: Double Indemnity, Black Dahlia, and the Fears of Postwar America
Noir made L.A. the city intellectuals loved to hate, yet perversely for European intellects, notably those hailing from France and Britain, this only deepened the fascination.
San Bernardino Art + Film Lab: A Travelogue from the LACMA9 Outpost
LACMA9 Art + Film Lab recounts the projects' five-week residence in Perris Hill Park, and the stories of community that unfolded.
Eso Won Books
Photographing Leimert Park: Eso Won Books
We walked in with the sole intention of introducing ourselves, instead we found ourselves enveloped by the shop's stories and images
Geographies of Detention
Geographies of Detention, Inside and from Afar
The California Museum of Photography's exhibition, "Geographies of Detention: From Guantánamo to the Golden Gulag," merges art and activism, exposing the realities of U.S. prison systems through visual form.
PPG.jpg
One Hundred Mules: Tracing L.A. Aqueduct with Lauren Bon
Lone Pine film historian Christopher Langley discusses working with Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio on the project AgH20.
Delmar Watson (back to camera) looks out over downtown Los Angeles. Courtesy of the Watson Family Photographic Archive.
The Watson Family's L.A.: A Century of Photography in the City of Angels
A famous family of child actors became a family of news photographers, creating an indispensable visual record of 20th-century Los Angeles.
Photographing Leimert Park: A Community Responds To Injustice
Students photograph the community's reaction to the Zimmerman verdict and explore how historically Leimert Park has offered a space for activists and artist to express themselves.
Redlands Art+Film Lab: A Travelogue From the LACMA9 Film Outpost
LACMA's mobile educational initiative, the LACMA9 Art + Film Lab, reports on their first city run in Redlands.
Lewa1
Photographing Leimert Park: Some Change is Needed
Can you love a neighborhood and still see the rough edges? Student producer Lewa can and she helps us see it too with her photographs of Leimert Plaza Park.
Show more
Active loading indicator