I’ve curated recent Los Angeles film and video works for Stichting Raspoetin in Amsterdam June 23, and will be there to introduce the program.
Some Unseen Lights: New LA Film + Video
This two-part program brings together a sampling of new film and video from Los Angeles artists working in and around the expanded edges of moving image forms. Topics and approaches include the psychedelic potential of plant-life representations; contemporary explorations of the dual nature of film material as physical object and medium; a grappling with the recent occupation of Los Angeles City Hall that finds commitment to politics and aesthetics coexisting on the raw fringes of documentary practice; new video work from a longtime master of layered optical imagery; a miniature evocation of Southern California as space-age landscape; parallels between the control of workers and images; the geopolitical implications of planetary theory; fire and song; poppies; and a video about fruit.
In the second part of the program, degradation and deterioration of image and sound develops into an increasingly abstracted treatment of memory and fragmented narrative.
Featuring works by Sean Batton and Kelsey Brain, Daniel Brantley and Cameron Stallones, Akina Cox, Helga Fassonaki, Corey Fogel, Andrew Kim, Pat O’Neill, Mike Stolz, Mark Toscano, John Warren, and Travis Wilkerson.
Stichting Raspoetin
NEW ADDRESS Fritz Dietrich Kahlenbergstraat 114/116, Amsterdam
Last stop Tram line 26, 6 minute walk
23 June 19:30
FREE!
An in-progress version of the first in the Alternative Strategies series, Handmade Home, will screen at Anthology Film Archives in a memorial screening series of Robert Nelson’s work. Alternative Strategies #1: Handmade Home is a brief documentary about the house built by Nelson and William T. Wiley in the forests of Mendocino County, California.
View the program here.
Spring screenings
Sangre de Cristo will be screening at the upcoming Ann Arbor Film Festival, as well as Experiments in Cinema in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Details soon…
Sangre de Cristo at Rotterdam
Sangre de Cristo will be screening at the Interntional Film Festival Rotterdam taking place January 25- February 5. Here is the schedule.
This Kind of Town will screen at De Anza College in Cupertino, CA on December 2 as part of a program curated by Charles Chadwick.
Class Pyramid
I participated in a performance by Robby Herbst at Occupy LA that created human pyramids visualizing the capitalist system (based on this IWW poster).
Sangre de Cristo will be screening as part of Torino Film Festival’s Festa Mobile: Paesaggio Con Figure section. Check out the schedule here.
