Holly Willis
Holly Willis teaches in USC's School of Cinematic Arts and writes about new media art. She is the author of "New Digital Cinema: Reinventing the Moving Image" and editor of "The New Ecology of Things" on pervasive computing.
This week's media arts scene features great work by women, including Allison Anders, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, and Zoe Beloff.
LA is rich with film festivals this week, with showcases dedicated to Chinese, Japanese, French and Indian films among the many events taking place.
Iconic international filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard and Werner Herzog are celebrated this week, while LA's own Betzy Bromberg presents a brand new film with a richly textured soundtrack.
Learn to shoot 3-D, discover the links between science and art, or expand your consciousness through mind-altering movies this week in LA's eclectic media scene.
This week's LA media art scene features a bevy of treasures from the past, with films from previous decades screening throughout the city.
The future and past collide this week in media art, with talk of predictions, politics and the poetics of cinema.
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.
Artists and curators mix film, video, live music, painting and performance this week in events that shake up expectations about watching movies.
This is a good week for learning about a media art, from a lecture on editing to a peek back at the history of independent cinema of the 90s...
Martha Colburn brings a collection of her short, dazzling animations to REDCAT on Monday night for a night of explosive imagery and sound that echoes the political avant-garde filmmaking of the past.
New work by LA artists such as Jennifer Steinkamp, James Benning and Thom Andersen make this a great week for media art.
Filmmaker Laura Kraning captures the Vineland Drive-In Movie Theater in her evocative portrait that's a tribute to the layering of realities that characterize Los Angeles as a whole.