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Artbound Shorts

Emmy® award-winning arts and culture series "Artbound" takes viewers on a journey through Southern California's creative landscape. Get an inside look at the stories that bring to light the region’s rich cultural legacy and diversity with these short films.

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A contemporary arts festival at LAX explores the visual dynamics of air travel.
Alan Nakagawa's "Conical Sound"
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Alan Nakagawa's "Conical Sound" offers a transportive listening experience.
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Almost 70 percent of artists represented by commercial galleries in New York and L.A. are men. Micol Hebron illustrates this imbalanced male-to-female ratio in the collaborative art project, Gallery Tally.
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The L.A. Library's Shades of L.A. photo archive contains more than 10,000 photographs drawn from family albums from communities across Greater Los Angeles.
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Artbound plays Money Making Workshop (2012), a "get-your-hands-dirty re-imagining of Monopoly", created by renowned game artist Eddo Stern.
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"Odyssey Odyssey" is a performance adapted from a segment in Homer's "The Odyssey," that takes place in a Honda Odyssey driving the freeways of Los Angeles.
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Visual artist Jaime "Germs" Zacarias takes inspiration from religious iconography, lucha libre, and the city of Los Angeles to create his signature tentacle-filled works.
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In conjunction with artist Kamau Patton's helicopter performance art, Machine Project compiles a history of the tallest buildings throughout the history of Los Angeles.
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3:09
At the Korean Friendship Bell in San Pedro artist Carmina Escobar led "Massagem Sonora," a performance exploring the personal geography of the body.
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4:28
Artist Cliff Hengst embarked from The Beverly Hilton to perform "It's Not Right But It's OK," perhaps the first ever historic autobiographical semi-fictionalized disembodied drag double decker bus tour.
Gary Baseman, "The Door Is Always Open," 2012, Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 18 inches
13:50
Gary Baseman creates a parallel universe of stylized landscapes populated by gently feral creatures and doe-eyed maidens.
Triumphs Over Trauma: The Scar Prints of Ted Meyer
7:19
Los Angeles artist Ted Meyer is scarred, but you wouldn't know it from talking to him.
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