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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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This week: A historical photo exhibit, the world of quilting, frog "wranglers" and more!
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From filmmaking with pinhole cameras to a history of dust, this week's media arts events celebrate the odd and unusual.
Pat Oneill
Spring is definitely here, and media art is moving to the streets this week with trans-feminist political resistance, interactive outdoor 3-D projections, and films about art in the streets.
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LA is rich with film festivals this week, with showcases dedicated to Chinese, Japanese, French and Indian films among the many events taking place.
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This week's line-up of films and videos around town includes a dazzling array of experimental work from the past, from two Catherine Deneuve masterpieces, and the rarely screened avant-garde masterpiece Hart of London.
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Artists and curators mix film, video, live music, painting and performance this week in events that shake up expectations about watching movies.
Agnieszka Brzezanska
The Getty presents a rare chance to see new video art from China, Art Center speculates on our ambiguous reality, and CSULA lights up the night sky with projections of video art by LA artists...
Sixth Street bridge steel arches from the west side of the viaduct in January 2012 I Photo by Ed Fuentes
From films like Grease to Transformer, Hollywood has long been fascinated by a vision of the channelized Los Angeles River as a landscape of decay and abandonment.
After several days of rain, the sun finally broke out today, but the air has the distinct tang of fall. We went to the KCET.org Southern California Flickr Pool for images of Los Angeles in rain. If you have any you'd like to share, please add them to t...
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This week's media art events are interested in the location of art...
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Finnish filmmakers Pia Tikka and Mauri Kaipainen are in Los Angeles this fall, exploring new forms of cinematic expression using neuroscience, sensors and films produced through audience emotions.
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Brett Van Ort has photographed, at some personal peril, mines and minefields from a recent Balkan war. The resulting images are indelible examples of the incongruously beautiful landscapes of death.
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