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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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Exene's Hootenanny: Godmother of Punk
7:11
Exclusive video with punk goddess Exene Cervenka, lead singer/songwriter of X.
4:03
Steel construction is the once and future champion of residential construction in the desert. Artbound explores how the iconic pre-fabricated modular houses of architects Wexler & Harrison have come to define the architectural heritage of Palm Springs.
Tio's Tacos: Riverside's Folk Art Wonderland
7:18
At his restaurant, Tio's Tacos, Martin Sanchez takes recycling to great creative heights.
What the Pageant of the Masters Reveals About Orange County
7:26
There are few OC traditions as long running as the Pageant of the Masters.
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The Orange County Pinball League, with members ranging in age from 18 to 60, convenes monthly to share in their zeal for those marvelous hybrids of sound and spectacle: pinball machines.
Photo by Lisa Anne Auerbach.
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In downtown L.A., communion, of the hot tub variety, happens in an egg. A steam egg. Artist Michael Parker offers his home-studio as a steam bath for friends, and friends-of-friends-of-friends.
A Conversation on Transnational Identity
4:17
Artists Michelle Dizon and Gina Osterloh had concurrent residencies in Los Angeles.
The Legacy Crates
6:59
Marjan K. Vayghan's "Legacy Crates," a series of transformed art shipping crates.
4:26
Thank You for Coming is a restaurant that is also an artist residency space that encompasses the worlds of sustainable farming, cooperative living, community-based activism, fine art, and design.
Double Naught Spy Car
3:57
Artbound caught up with guitarist Paul Lacques to chat about the band's SoCal sound and the culture that inspired it.
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Artist Nery Gabriel Lemus gracefully exposes the subtle racial tensions between Latino and African American cultures in his work.
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Marjan K. Vayghan's "Legacy Crates," a series of transformed art shipping crates, symbolizes her journey from Iran, the land of her ancestry, and her transcultural life and identity in the U.S.
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