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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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Will Adler.
A duo of artists, the Adler Brothers hustle to make ends meet in the underground, but also hang increasingly often in the upper echelons of international fine art.
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From beefcakes in bikini bottoms to skater bros flipping tricks in empty pools, masculinity is revealed in 20th century photographs.
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Classically trained musician moonlights by night as a stealthy photographer of street art.
Mirror World
Abigail Child brings her brilliant experimental films and video to REDCAT, showing how words and images merge to create a new poetics.
Lisa Mann
Animation figures prominently this week in LA's media art scene, with a festival, feature film, and more...
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The 1968 East Los Angeles walkouts displayed the largest mobilization of Chicano youth leaders in Los Angeles history.
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Los Angeles offers a rich subject for artistic inquiry, evidenced this week by several permutations of the city in film, video, drawing, urban planning and provocative discussion.
Magdalena Fernandez
This week's media art scene includes one of the most radical films in the history of cinema, experiments with magic and moving images, and a 24-hour tribute to an LA icon.
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Those bright green bike lanes meant to increase safety for cyclists on downtown's Spring Street are a bright red flag for the film industry, which uses it as "Any City, USA."
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A new gallery exhibit showcases selections from Los Angeles Public Library's collection of rarely seen Ansel Adams photos.
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Many of L.A.'s great media artists have work screening or on view this week in shows across the city, from historic highlights to brand new efforts.
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Meet Vanessa Libertad Garcia. She makes films, writes poetry and short stories. Recently she's been mining the sordid and beautiful fast life she shared with other 20-somethings right around the time of Barack Obama's election.
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