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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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Thom Andersen's wonderful film essay, Los Angeles Plays Itself, about the portrayal of Los Angeles in movies, screens this Sunday night...
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Sharon Lockhart's exquisite new film continues her attention to time and the unfolding of events within the frame.
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LA animator Justin Hilden offers a terrific analysis of the color of "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"...
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Avant-garde cinema icon Ken Jacobs returns to Los Angeles to present one of his psychedelic 3-D projection events, as well as a spate of new film projects.
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The Fall season of REDCAT's film and video screenings continue to celebrate a broad range of personal visions and explorations of the medium with a great line-up of projects.
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The groundbreaking early work of avant-garde filmmaker Yvonne Rainer will be presented this week by Filmforum, in the first of an eight-part retrospective.
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LA avant-garde filmmaker Chick Strand passed away over the weekend, but she leaves the world with an extraordinary body of work.
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L.A. artist Jennifer West does some unusual things to film stock: Gritty skateboard wheels meet the delicate, glossy surface of 35mm film emulsion.
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The Academy Film Archive will present new restorations of experimental films made by Los Angeles artists in a special two-night series titled "Restoring the Los Angeles Avant-Garde."
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Charlie White's film and photographs, on view until May 31 at the Hammer Museum, capture American girlhood in all its strangeness.
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LA filmmaker William E. Jones brings new experimental films to REDCAT this week, with several mash-ups and a dual-screen projection piece.
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The girl always screaming. Someone always DOA.
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