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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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Marsia Alexander-Clarke is interested in developing silent video pieces similar to notated musical compositions with the use of small fragments of recorded video material.
The SEE CHANGE installation, located at LAX, contains four hours of video art. Watch a clip from the airport exhibit to see how some of the 17 artists participating, ask: can you distinguish reality from illusion?
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Although often described as monochromatic in regards to the ethnic makeup of the community, there are diverse groups of people who are finding ways to foster meaningful cross-cultural experiences in San Luis Obispo.
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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art's Karen Sinsheimer curates a big summer show called "Portrayal/Betrayal" comprised of portraits by photographers operating at the top of their games.
A San Luis Obispo County resident for 20 years, Cambria-based photographer Arthur Tress is best known for the strikingly surreal works he created in the 1970s and '80s. But the glimpses of Bay Area life he captured during a stay in 1964 -- recently une...
Photographer and Tijuana native Yvvone Venegas captures the tension between the authentic and the artificial that exists in places whose primary function is to entertain, mesmerize, and titillate - places like Disneyland, Las Vegas, and Tijuana.
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Romanian artist Alexandra Croitoru's work seeks to expose and challenge sociological, geo-political and gender power structures in present-day Romania.
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Many writers, musicians, and artists visited the home of Charles Lummis, often sitting for a portrait in front of his camera.
The director of "Re-Animator" -- the film and the musical -- finds inspiration in the strange and obscure worlds of Los Angeles.
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Tyler Cassity makes a living off of the macabre
Julius Shulman, the famed architectural photographer, shares many photos and stories about Palm Springs with Huell Howser.
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The film "El Field." presents a "portrait in motion" of the desert croplands that privileges the visual experience of the landscape and the poetic dimensions of labor and migration.
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