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Animation and Experimentation:
The 1970s [part 1]
Animation and Experimentation:
The 1970s [part 2]
Two Documentaries by
Hyun kyung Kim
O Scene of Unexampled Woe
You Are There
Down These Mean Streets
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CalArts @ MoMA
TOMORROWLAND: CalArts in Moving Pictures
The Museum of Modern Art, NYC
May 25 - August 13
39 Provocative Programs, Over 200 Filmmakers
L. City. 2002. Sandro Del Rosario. A noir photocollage becomes a slow tango of memory and oblivion. 8 min.
Two-Part Invention: A Portrait. 1979. Dane A. Davis. A composer’s domestic life as musique concrete, by an Academy Award-winning sound editor. 7 min.
9 in a Chimney 10 on a Bed. 2002. JJ Villard. Virtuoso animation about a girl making her way in a cruel and wondrous world. 4 min.
Departure. 2002. Danielle Ye. Manipulated found footage of trotting pigs, nude perambulators, and children used for target practice. 7 min.
Toilet Pig. 2002. Hyun kyung Kim. Korean farmers practice an old and surprising tradition of raising pigs. 7 min.
Flesh Flows. 1974. Adam Beckett. A riotous orgy of animated orifices and protuberances. 6 min.
Wormholes. 1993. Stephen Hillenburg. A fly’s-eye view of Relativityland by the creator of SpongeBob SquarePants. 7 min.
Removed. 1999. Naomi Uman. Using nail polish remover, bleach, and 1970s porn, Uman makes the female body into an obscure object of desire. 6 min.
The Orphans. 2006. Cy Kuckenbaker. The poignant and humorous story of two aging Lithuanian men who travel to Berlin to bury their childhood friend. 22 min.
Program 73 min.
Thursday, May 25, 7:00.
How to Read Macho Mouse. 1991. Rubén Ortiz Torres, Aaron Anish. A deconstruction of Speedy Gonzales, the Looney Tunes caricature of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata. 7 min.
Aletheia. 1992. Tran T. Kim-Trang. Aletheia, the Ancient Greek word for truth uncovered, becomes the opening gambit in Tran’s investigation of physical and metaphorical blindness. 16 min.
An Injury to One. 2002. Travis Wilkerson. On the notorious 1917 lynching of Wobbly organizer Frank Little; the collapse of the American labor movement; and the environmental destruction of Butte, Montana. 53 min.
Program 76 min.
Friday, May 26, 6:30; Wednesday, May 31, 8:00.
Meditations on Revolution, Part III: Soledad. 2001. Robert Fenz. Quotidian scenes of Mexico City, Chiapas, and New York City counterpointed with images from Mexico’s revolutionary past. 30 min.
Letter #2 Berlin ’89: A Travel Diary. 1990. Marco Puccioni. As the Berlin Wall falls, Puccioni contemplates a future for "ex-Catholics, ex-Communists, and bewildered consumers." 14 min.
On the Various Nature of Things. 1995. Deborah Stratman. Inspired by the Ancient Roman poet Lucretius and a nineteenth-century Scottish physicist and inventor, Stratman explores the hidden workings of the world. 25 min.
Removed. 1999. Naomi Uman. Using nail polish remover, bleach, and 1970s porn, Uman makes the female body into an obscure object of desire. 6 min.
Leche. 1999. Naomi Uman. Hardscrabble farm life in Mexico becomes sensuous through unique handprocessing techniques. 30 min.
Program 105 min.
Friday, May 26, 8:30; Sunday, June 25, 1:00.
CalArts Animation and Experimentation: The 1970s [part 1]
Kaleidoform. 1973. Howard Danielowitz. Biomorphism and Pop meet cute. 4 min.
The Divine Miracle. 1973. Daina Krumins. Catholic devotional postcards evoked through extraordinary optical effects. 6 min.
First Fig. 1974. Larry Cuba, Gary Imhoff. Pioneering computer graphics made at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. 6 min.
Luma Nocturna. 1974. Dennis Pies. An abstract voyage across time and space. 4 min.
The Arts Circus. 1974. Kathy Rose. A woman’s journey through a world of day-glo doodles. 5 min.
The Doodlers. 1975. Kathy Rose. Miss Nose’s scribbly students have a mischievous tea party. 5 min.
Traveller’s Palm. 1975. Joyce Borenstein. A tropical dream of silhouetted palm fronds, clay masks, and rippled water. 2 min.
Film Achers. 1976. Beth Block. A filmmaker refuses to grow up. 6 min.
The Funniest Thing I Know Is Mud Puddles. 1974. Howard Danielowitz. The mischievousness of childhood becomes an explosion of color. 3 min.
Program 41 min.
Saturday, May 27, 2:00; Monday, May 29, 3:30.
CalArts Animation and Experimentation: The 1970s [part 2]
Fame. 1976. Mark Kirkland. A director of The Simpsons interprets an iconic rock song. 4 min.
Animal Crackers. 1978. Mark Kirkland. A baby discovers a peaceable kingdom. 3 min.
Pass the Buck. 1978. Jorgen Klubien. A tale of greed and comeuppance by an animator who has worked with Disney, Pixar, and Laika. 2 min.
Phases. 1978. Henry Selick. A mythopoetic cave painting by the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas and the upcoming Coraline. 4 min.
Seepage. 1981. Henry Selick. Stepping into liquid through cel animation and stop-motion puppetry. 9 min.
Papiers Animés. 1979. Paul Demeyer. A clever twist on the flipbook by the director of Rugrats in Paris: The Movie. 4 min.
The Muse. 1977. Paul Demeyer. Seeking inspiration, a man creates a tower of babble. 4 min.
Where Were You in 1862? 1979. Nancy Beiman. A horse opera by a supervising animator of Disney’s Hercules. 4 min.
Trapunto. 1979. William Groshelle. A trippy patchwork of tablecloth and curtain patterns. 5 min.
Program 40 min.
Saturday, May 27, 3:30; Monday, May 29, 2:00.
Two Documentaries by Hyun kyung Kim
Toilet Pig. 2002. Korean farmers practice an old and surprising tradition of raising pigs. 7 min.
What Are We Waiting For? 2005. On the sad fate of young brides who were separated from their husbands during the Korean War. Kim’s moving documentary follows one woman, now old and destitute, and another whose brief reunion with her husband was arranged by the North and South Korean governments and broadcast on television. In Korean, English subtitles. 111 min.
Saturday, May 27, 6:00; Sunday, June 25, 5:00.
O Scene of Unexampled Woe:
Three radically different though equally devastating examinations of violence toward women.
Chinatown. 1975. Jill Ciment. Ciment, a noted novelist, essays this experimental narrative about a Chinese woman who lures her rapist home so that she can murder him. 25 min.
a.k.a. Kathe. 2000. Minda Martin. A wrenching portrait of Mexican American Kathe Vargas, a drug-addicted prostitute murdered on the outskirts of Tuscon, Arizona, and the perilous fate of her sisters and son. Martin makes grievous and meaningful what would normally become fodder for tabloid journalism. 55 min.
Control. 1988. Jane Brill. A woman’s denial of sexual assault, rendered through stark images and haunting sounds. 9 min.
Program 89 min.
Saturday, May 27, 8:30; Sunday, May 28, 1:00.
You Are There:
Wise and witty film essays that shed light on forgotten moments of history.
They Were the First to Ride. 1996. Lyndon Barrois. An ingeniously animated chronicle of eleven African American jockeys who won the Kentucky Derby between 1875 and 1902. 9 min.
I Saw One. 1998. Peter Brinson. A deadpan account of a UFO encounter. 3 min.
Hub City. 1997. Bill Brown. A devastating tornado, the Lubbock Lights, and Buddy Holly. 15 min.
The Mark Twain Company. 1998. Adam Goldman. On Samuel L. Clemens’s posthumous career, an absurdist tale of mythmaking and greed. 30 min.
Was It Only a Dream? A Posthumous Work on Lunar Geography and Its Relationship to a Witchhunt. 1991. Susan Kornfeld. The obscure but fascinating story of astronomer Johannas Kepler and his mother, as told with puppets. 13 min.
Old Faithful. 2000. Carole Kim. A natural wonder becomes a mundane spectacle. 5 min.
Program 75 min.
Sunday, May 28, 3:00; Monday, May 29, 5:30.
Down These Mean Streets:
Punk and funk in fiction, animation, and documentary.
Picture Start, or Advanced Garbage Film. 1976. Robert Luttrell. A sensory overload. 7 min.
Ciao Bella or Fuck Me Dead. 1978. Betzy Bromberg. "Manic exhibitionism and sexual raunch" (J. Hoberman) in late 1970s New York. 13 min.
Raymond: Wounded Child. 1990. Betty Burkhart, Sue Kornfeld. An all-female melodrama about an abused choirboy who dreams he’s a torch singer. 28 min.
Son of Satan. 2004. JJ Villard. Charles Bukowski’s cruel story of youth, animated with raw energy. 12 min.
Dance Mania. 1997. Max Weintraub. Animated krump dancing and clowning. 3 min.
Untitled #2. 1998. Max Weintraub. Techno abstractions. 2 min.
Teletouch Drive. 1995. Rodney Evans. Death race in the fast lane, an experimental documentary by the director of Brother to Brother. 14 min.
Jon’s Day. 2002. Peter Ko. Hand-drawn animation about a restless skateboarder. 3 min.
Syphon Gun. 1995. K.C. Amos. Fiction film about a gasoline thief who wreaks havoc. 8 min.
Unbearable Being. 1996. Colin Barton. A combustible handpainted collage. 3 min.
Program 93 min.
Sunday, May 28, 5:00; Wednesday, May 31, 6:00.
The (Post) Studio Artists:
Jack Goldstein, Chris Langdon, David Salle, Mitchell Syrop, and Fred Worden
Works from the 1970s that, as CalArts alumnus Mike Kelley describes it, "attempt to reconcile mass media imagery with the political aims of conceptualism."
Jack Goldstein: Selected Color Films, 1974-76. Goldstein, a painter and filmmaker who inspired a generation of Los Angeles and New York artists, explores the pictorial, the theatrical, and the iconic in White Dove (1975), Shane (1975), Bone China (1976), and other films. 20 min.
Watch It Think It. 1977. Mitchell Syrop. A pseudo-commercial that breaks down the seductive codes of advertising. 1 min.
David Salle: Selected Films, 1973-74. Though known today as a painter and a filmmaker, Salle devoted himself at CalArts to performances, installations, photographs, and conceptual videos; his prodigious talent and fierce intellect were admired by professor John Baldessari, classmate Matt Mullican, and many others. 20 min.
Venusville. 1973. Chris Langdon, Fred Worden. The humorous and subtle deconstruction of a palm tree image. 7 min.
Now, You Can Do Anything. 1973. Langdon, Worden. Trolling Malibu Beach for surfers and babes. 5 min.
Throbs. 1972. Worden. Layered images of the spectacular and the disastrous. 6 min.
Program 60 min.
Saturday, June 3, 8:00 (introduced by Salle, Worden); Friday, June 23, 6:00.
School of Pixar:
A remarkable number of artists who made their name at Pixar first showed glimmerings of genius while studying at CalArts. Even then, budding Pixar animators combined wit and visual flair with an astounding gift for storytelling. This program features rarely screened CalArts student films by a veritable who’s who of Pixar talent: Mark Andrews, Max Brace, Ken Bruce, Brenda Chapman, Pete Docter, Ralph Eggleston, Daniel Holland, Karen Kiser, John Lasseter, Matt Majers, Bobby Podesta, Joe Ranft, Jim Reardon, Andrew Stanton, Doug Sweetland, Mark Walsh, and Mike Wu. A complete list of film titles will be available on MoMA’s Website.
Program 45 min., plus one five-minute intermission.
Wednesday, June 7, 6:30; Saturday, June 24, 2:00.
Angelus Novus:
On the angel of history and the storm of progress.
At Home. 1998. Maria Vasilkovsky. A flight over Moscow, rendered through charcoal drawings and sepia-toned collage. 7 min.
(Re)Collection. 2004. Arshia Haq. The archives of memory: an entomologist’s classification of insects, a printer’s nostalgia for his dying Urdu language, and an immigrant’s collection of childhood photographs. 20 min.
Impressions from Rustaveli. 2001. Nana Tchitchoua. Interpretation of a romantic poem by an eleventh-century Georgian monk. 14 min.
Barren Boughs. 1998. Anouck Iyer. Animated Swedish folktale about forest spirits. 3 min.
Fur and Feathers. 2000. Maria Vasilkovsky. A surrealist Slavic tango between a bird-man and a dog-woman, animated with watercolor on glass. 5 min.
110/220. 1997. Juris Poskus. A flaneur’s impression of capitalist Los Angeles and communist Moscow becomes a critique of modern urbanism. 50 min. Program 99 min.
Saturday, June 17, 2:00; Wednesday, June 21, 8:30.
Skewered:
Tales of the absurd, the grotesque, and the whacked-out.
Chestnuts Icelolly. 2004. JJ Villard. R. Crumb meets Diane Arbus and Van Gogh in this rawly animated tale about an ugly little boy. 7 min.
NY Shuffle. 1983. James Mangold. The director of Walk the Line and Heavy interprets a song by Graham Parker and the Rumor. 5 min.
Pete and Joe Die. 1984. James Mangold. A Reagan-era reunion of two high-school buddies has apocalyptic consequences. 15 min.
Going Nowhere Fast. 1980. Steve Holland. Creatures march in quickstep in this animated film by the director of Better Off Dead. 3 min.
My Eleven-Year-Old Birthday Party. 1981. Steve Holland. A sister performs wicked acts of subterfuge. 15 min.
Swine Cowboy. 1993. Will Guy. A demented cowboy tale. 1 min.
Rick and Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World. 2000. Q. Allan Brocka. An outrageous sitcom, told with Playmobile figures, about America’s favorite boy-toys. 8 min.
Clown Town. 2005. Michael Park. If Tod Browning directed Meet the Parents…. 18 min.
The Pickle Jar. 2001. Benjamin Goldman. A grocery bagger’s hot date is interrupted by a chatty stinkbug. 7 min.
Meatclown. 1998. Brooke Keesling. Stop-motion send-up of a certain fast-food clown. 2 min.
Boobie Girl. 2001. Brooke Keesling. A flat-chested girl regrets what she wished for. 5 min.
Program 86 min.
Saturday, June 17, 4:00; Sunday, June 18, 5:00.
The (Post) Studio Artists:
An Evening with John Miller, Matt Mullican, James Welling and Christopher Williams
Little-known student work by four artists who studied under John Baldessari, Wolfgang Stoerchle, Morgan Fisher, and Michael Asher in the renowned 1970s Post-Studio Art program at CalArts. These conceptual and structuralist experiments with Portapack video and 8mm film remain as fresh and relevant today as when they first were made. All share what Robert Smithson called "a calculated aimlessness," and all are event-oriented investigations of language, semiotics, narrative, and the nature of still life, landscape, and figure-ground relationships in motion pictures. Miller, Mullican, Welling, and Williams, who have gone on to significant careers in photography, sculpture, video, painting, and performance, make a rare appearance together to present their early moving-image work.
Saturday, June 17, 7:30. T2
CalArts Animation and Experimentation: The 1980s [part 1]
Commuter. 1981. Michael Patterson. This take on rush hour in the naked city foreshadows Patterson’s legendary music video for a-ha, Take on Me. 5 min.
Criminal Tango. 1985. Solweig von Kleist. Neon-drenched noir. 5 min.
Moon, Breath, Beat. 1980. Lisze Bechtold. The moon exhales dreamy feline figures. 3 min.
Jerome. 1981. Anthony DeRosa. By a supervising animator of Pocahontas and The Lion King. 2 min.
Playing Blocks. 1981. Barbara Wdowski DeRosa. Lovely pencil animation. 2 min.
Portal. 1984. Dan Ackerman. Award-winning abstract computer animation. 5 min.
Monkey Biz. 1981. Dan Jeup. A humorous pencil test by a Pixar and Disney animator. 1 min.
Rex. 1982. Dan Jeup. A favorite film of legendary Disney animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston. 2 min.
Animus. 1982. Gary Schwartz. Ingenious reworking of Edison and Muybridge films through animation and xerography. 6 min.
December the 24th. 1982. Gary Conrad. A wicked Christmas story by the director of Nickelodeon’s Fairly OddParents and Dora the Explorer. 3 min.
Toby. 1984. Gary Conrad, Leon Joosen, Chris Sanders. A masterful film by future Disney animators including Sanders, the writer-director of Lilo and Stitch, about a badly drawn boy. 10 min.
Program approx. 50 min.
Sunday, June 18, 1:00; Monday, June 19, 6:00.
CalArts Animation and Experimentation: The 1980s [part 2]
Beethoven Machinery. 1989. David Brody. An elegant visualization of a Beethoven string quartet. 3 min.
The Sum of Them. 1983. Christine Panushka. Whimsical animated portraits of women unfold against a poetic exchange of word and sound. 5 min.
River Lethe. 1984. Amy Kravitz. Water in its myriad abstract forms. 7 min.
Sylvia. 1985. Ann Telnaes. A homemaker is roused from her humdrum life by a Pulitzer Prize–winning editorial cartoonist. 2 min.
Contrapunctus. 1986. Lauren Companeitz. Punk 1980s abstract animation. 3 min.
Voices. 1985. Joanna Priestley. A warm and endearing confessional about modern-day neuroses. 4 min.
Power Spot. 1986. Michael Scroggins. Hard-edged and aqueous computer abstraction by a protégé of Nam June Paik. Music by John Hassell. 8 min.
Liveline. 1983. Ellen Woodbury. A panther’s stealthy movements, by a supervising animator of The Lion King and Hercules. 2 min.
Recurrents. 1987. John Adamczyk. A computer-based study of the Mandelbrot Set becomes a swirling explosion of color. 6 min.
3-Fold. 1989. Stephen Mead. A cartoon character negotiates an Escher–like landscape. 6 min.
Buzz Box (Re-Mix). 1985/2006. David Daniels. The creator of Peter Gabriel’s Big Time music video updates his "insanimated" critique of American politics and culture. 9 min.
Program approx. 50 min.
Sunday, June 18, 3:00; Monday, June 19, 7:30.
Diesel Mama. 1973. James Hart and Peter Beckman. A profile of a sassy and tough woman truck driver. Sound by Lydia Benglis. 7 min.
Forevermore: Biography of a Leach Lord. 1989. Eric Saks. An extraordinary admixture of sobering realism and fanciful invention, Saks’s indictment of toxic waste dumping, corporate greed, and America’s disposable consumer culture is described as a "remarkable, neglected" faux documentary by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum. 83 min.
Friday, June 23, 8:00; Wednesday, June 28, 6:00.
Departure. 2002. Danielle Ye. Manipulated found footage of totting pigs, nude perambulators, and children used for target practice. 7 min.
Travis Hallington. 2004. Jabari Hall-Smith. Pop-culture stereotypes become a painful life lesson for an African American boy. 4 min.
Massillon. 1991. William Jones. "Massillon is that rarity that eluded the queer new wave, a homo road movie in which gay icons are nowhere to be seen. Massillon uses the quiet landscapes of the American Midwest to look at a history disfigured by myths of the family, patriotism, and religion" (Lawrence Chua, Artforum). 70 min.
Program 81 min.
Saturday, June 24, 4:00; Sunday, June 25, 3:00.
Tony Oursler: Pioneering Videos
A pioneer of media art, Oursler began experimenting with Portapack video while studying at CalArts in the late 1970s. Darkly comical and polymorphously perverse, his student works combine performance, puppetry, constructed sets, found-object grotesqueries, fifties melodrama, and seventies conceptualism to recall the shadowy painted worlds of Gaspar Robertson’s eighteenth-century phantasmagorias, George Meliès’s trick films, and German Expressionism. Presented are Life of Phillis (1979), a psychosexual soap opera Oursler performed episodically in the CalArts lunchroom, and never-before-seen student works.
Program 100 min.
Thursday, June 22, 7:00; Saturday, June 24, 7:00.
Screening times for July and August subject to change. Go to MoMA.org for latest information.
Powwow. 2002. Kristen Pepe. A Native American ritual is transformed into a gorgeous spectacle of color, rhythm, and abstraction. 7 min
Marshallah, Marshallah, Look How Pretty Our Bride Is! 2002. Dorian Ahmeti. An Albanian wedding in all its bacchanalian revelry. 7 min.
Best in the West. 2006. Maryam Kashani. A humorous and poignant documentary chronicling the fast times of Kashani’s father and his male buddies as they emigrated from Iran as teenagers in the 1960s, immersed themselves in San Francisco counterculture, and eventually found success as entrepreneurs. The filmmaker interweaves interviews, images of a pre-revolutionary Iran and an oil-hungry America, and a heady soundtrack of soul and R+B. 70 min.
Program 84 min.
Monday, July 24, 6:15; Saturday, July 29, 2:00.
Seven Lucky Charms. 1992.Lisa Mann. . "Husbands kill their wives because of bruised egos; wives generally kill their husbands because of bruised bodies" (Mann); an experimental documentary about domestic violence. 16 min.
Everyone Their Grain of Sand. 2004. Beth Bird. The defiant citizens of Maclovio Rojas, Tijuana, rise up against the Mexican government as they face eviction to make way for corporate development. Bird’s powerful and compassionate documentary follows this dramatic conflict over three years. 87 min.
Program 103 min.
Monday, July 24, 8:15; Saturday, July 29, 4:00.
CalArts Animation and Experimentation: The 1990s [part 1]
13. 1990. Alexander Sokoloff. A mystical journey, by a character animator on Harry Potter and Stuart Little. 5 min.
Filter Gallery. 1991. Eric Darnell. The director of Dreamworks’ Madagascar and Antz experiments with tactility in this beautiful celluloid collage. 4 min.
Faith & Patience. 1991. Sheila M. Sofian. Rotoscoped animation about a four-year-old girl and her newborn sister. 6 min.
Space Girl. 1991. Mike Cachuela. The perils of a superheroine, by an artist who has worked with Brad Bird, John Lasseter, and Henry Selick. 4 min.
Getaway. 1990. San Wei Chan. The Los Angeles freeway abstracted to resemble John Marin and Kandinsky watercolors. 5 min.
Wormholes. 1993. Stephen Hillenburg. A fly’s eye view of Relativityland, by the creator of SpongeBob SquarePants. 7 min.
The Green Beret. 1991. Stephen Hillenburg. An overzealous Girl Scout gives a very hard sell. 4 min.
Whoopass Stew! 1992. Craig McCracken. The rarely seen forerunner to The Powerpuff Girls. 4 min.
Casting Call. 1992. Dominic Carola. A former Disney animator, now the founder of Project Firefly, tells the prescient story of a downsized handdrawn character. 4 min,
Are We There Yet? 1992. Charles Keagle. Two skiers get stuck on a chair lift with hilarious results. 2 min.
Plenty. 1993. Clare Crespo. A sword swallower encounters a mermaid, carousel animals, and a beheaded chicken. 6 min.
Flamingo Splendor. 1991. Steven M. Belfer. By the director of two Looney Tunes films. 2 min.
Moving On. 1993. Steven M. Belfer. A mosquito-like "xylomorph" and his temperamental racecar. 6 min.
Program 60 min.
Wednesday, July 26, 6:15; Sunday, July 30, 1:00.
CalArts Animation and Experimentation: The 1990s [part 2]
Small Fry. 1993. Stevie Wermers. A hilarious short by a longtime Disney storyboard artist. 2 min.
Solace. 1994. Valerie Swanson. Hypnotic images of the tactile world. 3 min.
Flying Circus: An Imagined Memoir. 1994. Maureen Selwood, Stephen Hillenburg, Isabel Herguera, and others. Dazzling animation styles evoke a childhood experience of joy and solitude. 11 min.
The Janitor. 1994. Vanessa Schwartz. God’s handyman cleans up messes of biblical proportions. 4 min.
Stark Film. 1997. Eric Patrick. An experimental road movie exploring various states of decay. 6 min.
Charivari. 1995. Doug Vitarelli. Tumbling acrobats become a kaleidoscope of abstract forms. 4 min.
Between the Lines. 1998. Jamie Maxfield. An animated sketchbook. 3 min.
The Wind. 1998. Fred Baxter. The wind doesn’t blow…it sucks. 2 min.
Organ Cranker. 1998. Jon Foulk. Shackled "shlomos" dance themselves to death. 6 min.
Like Liz and Beth. 1999. Abigail Goldsmith. You can’t keep a good cheerleader down. 4 min.
Out of This World. 1995. Holly du Rivage. An intergalactic voyage. 5 min.
Greener. 1993. Mark Osborne. A mixed-animation fable by the director of Dreamworks’ forthcoming Kung Fu Panda. 11 min.
Program 64 min.
Wednesday, July 26, 8:00; Sunday, July 30, 3:00.
Love and Other Difficulties:
The Correct Use of Oranges. 2004. Mari Okada. When she stops trying to please her demanding boyfriend, a young woman experiences jouissance for the first time. 17 min.
Split. 2000. Ya-Nan Chou. Stop-motion fabric animation tells of love torn asunder. 2 min.
Girls Talk. 1990. Ann Faison. A young woman—the artist Andrea Bowers—rambles on about life and love in Los Angeles while the soundtrack offers an altogether different narrative. 5 min.
Home Movie. 1973. Jan Oxenberg. A pioneering lesbian film in which the artist, now a major television writer, uses family movies and wry humor to describe her experience of coming out. 12 min.
Family. 2004. George Wiechelns. A family romance, told with dolls and constructed sets, becomes a creepy roundelay of punishment and reconciliation. 3min.
Nightingale. 2002. Lee Anne Schmitt. A faux documentary about the end of an affair. 15 min.
I Love You. 2002. Haruko Tanaka. A woman delights in her friends’ professions of love. 2 min.
Pussies and Faggots Unite. 2001. Mike Ott. A manifesto against the brutalities of suburban high school life. 6 min.
Twitterpated. 2002. Tuni Chatterji. A joyous medley of songs about unrequited love. 25 min.
Program 87 min.
Thursday, July 27, 6:00; Monday, July 31, 8:00.
Domestic "Bliss":
Turning their barbed wit both inwards and outwards, these pioneering video artists reflect on women’s private and public lives.
Dressing Up. 1973. Susan Mogul. On mother-daughter relationships, and clothes that make the woman. 7 min.
Tissue Existence. 1986. Lee Skaife. A textured assemblage of suburban life. 7 min.
Add On. 1973. Ilene Segalove. The artist spoofs the material comforts of her sister’s suburban home. 6 min.
The Mom Tapes. 1974-75. Ilene Segalove. Groundbreaking videos that parody the pleasures and terrors of a Beverly Hills adolescence. 20 min.
Learn Where the Meat Comes From. 1976. Suzanne Lacy. A classic feminist video revealing the streak of Buñuelian savagery underlying television cooking shows. 14 min.
Birds Dogs & Elephants. 1993. Meredith DeCotiis Szypula. The artist evokes a haunted childhood with her handcranked Russian Krasnogors camera. 12 min.
Empty House. 1999. Gina Kim. As Kim meditates on the confines of her home and her body, interior and exterior space blur in unsettling ways. 24 min.
Program 90 min.
Thursday, July 27, 8:00; Saturday, August 5, 8:30.
Home(sick):
Timeline. 2003. Francisco Romero. The life of the artist’s immigrant father unfolds at a dizzying speed. 1 min.
Home(Sick). 1997. Stephan Pascher. On the vexing question of belonging in America. 13 min.
Cereus & Whatnot. 2005. Carolyn Kaylor. Combining silent movie melodrama and amateur science, the artist reflects a rare night-blooming plant, the death of a pet, and the decisive cinematic moment. 37 min.
Lovechild. 1984. Kathe Burkhart. The saga, brutal and dramatic, of a West Virginia girl born out of wedlock. 5 min.
Annie. 1993. Christine Ferriter. The artist uses magnetic iron filings, paint on glass, and paper cutouts to depict her great aunt, a Polish immigrant girl who suffered from crippling arthritis. 8 min.
The Ojai Valley. 2000. Elizabeth Hesik. "The Ojai Valley documents Hesik’s attempt to find a lost mother and understand, perhaps, an even more lost father. "…It definitely hit home with me" (James Benning). 32 min.
Program 96 min.
Friday, July 28, 6:00; Monday, July 31, 6:00.
Optic Antics:
David Wilson, Adam Beckett, and Other Visual Effects Masters
David Wilson will be introducing the August 5 screening of Optic Antics
Masterworks of optical printing by David Wilson, the founder of The Museum of Jurassic Technology, as well as the remarkably gifted visual effects creators of Star Wars, Spider Man, The Lord of the Rings, and other Hollywood blockbusters. Artists represented include David Berry, Robert Blalack, Chris Casady, Loring Doyle, Dorne Huebler, Donna Tracy, and Adam Beckett, a major rediscovery.
Program 100 min.
Friday, July 28, 8:00; Saturday, August 5, 6:15.
Fables and Myths:
The Erl King. 2002. Ben Zelkowicz. The Goethe-Schubert lieder evoked as a German Expressionist woodcut. 5 min.
Earth Dance. 1984. Stevan K. Wahl. Lovely pencil animation of a lithe flower, by an artist who has worked on Disney and Rugrats films. 4 min.
Quangle Wangle. 2000. Michael Nock. Animation based on Edward Lear’s nonsensical poem. 12 min.
The Way Up to Heaven. 1972. Jim Aubrey, Michael Mann, Jonathan Seay. Roald Dahl’s wicked story about what happens to people who are late, starring Beatrice Manley. 15 min.
The Shark’s Fin, or How Man and Woman Came to Live on Land. 1995. William Lebeda. An animated folk tale by the creative director of Picture Mill, an award-winning visual effects company. 5 min.
Al Tudi Tahak (Long Long Ago). 1999. Tod Polson. A creation myth of the Northwest coast people is animated with ordinary housepaint. 10 min.
The Dancing Bulrushes. 1984. Joanna Priestley, Steve Subotnick. A Ojibwa Native American tale about the coyote, or trickster, animated by moving sand on backlit Plexiglas. 4 min.
Old Night. 2003. Molly M. Mann. An abandoned mansion holds memories of a past love in this dreamlike experimental animation. 4 min.
Dreamstealer. 1974. Eric Durst. Fantastical figments of a man’s imagination, by an Academy Award-nominated visual effects supervisor. 4 min.
Don’t Ask. 1970. Michael Pressman. A man is plunged into a surreal landscape in this absurdist comedy by a noted Hollywood and television director. 22 min.
Program 85 min.
Saturday, July 29, 6:00; Wednesday, August 2, 6:00.
The (Post) Studio Artists:
James Casebere, Ken Feingold, Sharon Greytak,
Roberta Friedman and Grahame Weinbren
A Film 1979 Casebebere. 1979. James Casebere. A "personal, poetic, post-structuralist narrative" (Casebere) created in super-8 from projected slides of toy-like objects. 7 min.
Art Gestures. 1973-74. Ken Feingold. The artist stages a series of predetermined actions involving time, gravity, chance, and memory. 20 min.
With Photos. 1975. Ken Feingold. A forensic study of the photographic image. 6 min.
Bertha’s Children. 1976. Roberta Friedman, Grahame Weinbren. "Everything being alike everything simply everything is different simply different naturally simply different" (Gertrude Stein). 8 min.
Sleeping. 1981. Sharon Greytak. Subtle film techniques breathe life into a still photograph of the artist’s grandmother. 7 min.
Some Pleasure on the Level of the Source. 1982. Sharon Greytak. Isolated details—a clapboard house, a red rectangle, a girl jumping rope—suggest a narrative. 13 min.
Czechoslovakian Woman. 1982. Sharon Greytak. "Greytak demonstrates how words and images allow or withhold their significance" (Barbara Kruger, Artforum). 10 min.
Program 80 min.
Saturday, July 29, 8:15; Thursday, August 10, 8:00.
In Dreams Begin Responsibility:
Two-Part Invention: A Portrait. 1979. Dane A. Davis. A composer’s domestic life as musique concrete, by an Academy Award-winning sound editor. 7 min.
Not Fade Away. 2004. Kate Brown. The play of light over the course of a year. 8 min.
Wanda. 1990. Ruth Hayes. A story of feline and feminine desire, combining animation and live-action. 4 min.
Holiday. 2004. Marcel Sawicki. A young Polish man experiences love and loss as he awaits conscription during the Gulf War. 28 min.
The Dream Is Still a Dream. 2004. Kate Dollenmayer. A sensuous experimental film. 16 min.
Nakamoto. 2004. Janel Bauer. Cherry blossoms recall the artist’s grandmother. 3 min.
2 or 3 Things My Stepfather Taught Me. 1994. Michael Wheeler. A lighthearted drama about familial tensions, shown in New Directors/New Films. 37 min.
Program 103 min.
Sunday, July 30, 5:00; Wednesday, August 2, 8:00.
On the Road with Ed Harris, and Other Highway Encounters:
Hub City Heroes. 1989. Robert Le Roy. The artist returns home to discover the grim fate of his childhood friends. 15 min.
Nightrider. 1975. Ron Horwitz. Acting student Ed Harris shows remarkable screen presence in this tense drama about a dangerous joyride. 20 min.
Trona. 2004. David Fenster. "[Blending] a canny sense of Keaton and Antonioni….Trona marks a striking debut," writes Robert Koehler in Variety about Fenster’s strange and affecting hybrid—part road movie, part absurdist comedy—about a world-weary businessman who mysteriously lands in the California deseri and decides to remake his life as a junkyard owner. 63 min.
Program 98 min.
Thursday, August 3, 6:00; Monday, August 7, 6:00.
We Report, You Decide:
Posing as intrepid journalists, these artists make light of tabloid news programs and the fetishizing of celebrity.
Animal Appetites. 1991. Michael Thomas Cho. In 1989, Cambodian immigrants were put on trial in California for eating a dog, sparking a culture war and racial stereotyping that were at once absurd and unsettling. 19 min.
Waiting for Monica. 1998. David Reed. A doltish television reporter attempts to cover the Monica Lewinsky scandal. 10 min.
Videotape Kills Family of Four! 1993. Alex Slade. A humorous deconstruction of the tabloid news. 4 min.
The Target Shoots First. 1999. Christopher Wilcha. Armed with impish wit, Wilcha becomes a company suit at Columbia House, America’s largest mail-order music club, to report on its sick-soul corporate culture. 70 min.
Program 103 min.
Thursday, August 3, 8:15; Monday, August 7, 8:15.
Let My People Go. 1992. Ming-Yuen S. Ma, Tran T. Kim-Trang. On media representations of the L.A. riots, AIDS activism, and pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing. 5 min.
Custody. 2005. Tariq Tapa. A circular, modern noir about a single mother and her lost daughter, told in still photographs. 10 min.
Three-Five People. 2001. Lin Li. A heartbreaking portrait of heroin-addicted, HIV-positive homeless youth in China. The director documented these forgotten children with a hidden camera, only to have her life threatened by the police and the underworld. 85 min.
Program 100 min.
Friday, August 4, 5:45; Saturday, August 5, 2:00.
The (Post) Studio Artists:
John Baldessari, Ericka Beckman, David Cabrera, and Susan Davis
We Imitate; We Break Up. 1978. Ericka Beckman. In her "deadpan sexual psychodrama"—a conceptual super-8 musical—"a set of life-sized marionette legs teach Ericka how to do the shing-a-ling, play soccer, then chase her all over the lot when she runs away with the ‘loot’" (J. Hoberman, The Village Voice). 30 min.
Will You Please Read Me That Text Again OK Listen Closely. 1982. David Cabrera. A man and a woman engage in a bit of semiotic foreplay. 7 min.
The Stalin Tape. 1974. Susan Davis. An imagined conversation with an old flame. 2 min.
The Blank Tape. 1975. Susan Davis. An imageless video piece evoking a woman’s dramatic encounter with a stranger. 3 min.
Script. 1974. John Baldessari. Baldessari’s students pair off to interpret ten scenes from Hollywood films in this riveting deconstruction of classical narrative, montage, performance, and mise-en-scène. 50 min.
Program 90 min.
Friday, August 4, 8:00; Friday, August 11, 8:15.
A History of Valencia in 7 Homes. 1991. Rick Minnich. A deadpan travelogue of Minnich’s home town, also the site of the CalArts campus and a location for Woody Allen’s Sleeper. 8 min.
Part Chicago. 1998. Mike Jarmon. A quick-trigger journey from downtown Chicago to the artist’s apartment rooftop. Silent. 10 min.
Progress. 2003. Andrew Garza. A neorealist feature brilliantly straddling the line between fiction and documentary, Progress recalls Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep in its affectionate portrait of a Mexican-American busboy who aspires to become a writer. 87 min.
Program 105 min.
Saturday, August 5, 4:00; Sunday, August 6, 5:00.
An Insignificant Moment. 1999. Edgar Arceneaux. A video triptych depicting three characters whose lives momentously converge. 16 min.
Chapbook of the Non-Eminent. 1993. Elizabeth Wiatr. A brilliant critique of gentrification in downtown Los Angeles employing phrenology, cartography, documentary footage, and staged dialogue to explore issues of racism, poverty, and nostalgia. 20 min.
The Ballad of Ion Lupescu, or 222 Minutes to Live. 1994-95. Pieter Schoolwerth, Miguel Abreu. Set construction by Dave Muller. A Romanian track star defects from his homeland, and a bizarre manhunt ensues: a genre-bending video combining extreme sports, game show entertainment, political propaganda, and metaphysical mystery. 50 min.
Program 86 min.
Friday, August 11, 6:15; Sunday, August 13, 2:30.
CalArts: The Young Turks [part 1]
Experimental fiction, nonfiction, and animation by the newest wave of CalArts students.
Better Life. 2000. Atsuko Kubota. A hyperreal animated film combining watercolor and 3D computer graphics in the manner of Waking Life. 12 min.
The Hesher. 2006. Scott Cummings. The creepy rituals of a guy who doesn’t get out much. 5 min.
Night Sweats. 2000. Dave Lebow. Giacometti-like scribblings evoke an endless night of insomnia. 7 min.
Blackberries. 2005. Nicolas Panoutsopoulos. A seemingly innocuous incident threatens to drive apart the parents of a young Mexican-American boy. 17 min.
SHE_Running the City. 2005. Ji Hyun Song. The grid patterns of downtown Chicago are altered by fog and wind. 3 min.
Chair. 2000. Hiroshi Mori. A man defies gravity and death in this 2D animation by a previs artist for Open Season and Star Wars: Episode III. 3 min.
The Red Memory (Grégoire Argentique). 2005. Bertrand Piocelle. A noir thriller rendered in the stark red-and-black palette of a French graphic novel. 7 min.
Capsulation. 2005. Eric Spector. The textures of Los Angeles, pixellated and overlaid with Gerhard Richter-like color grids. 2 min.
Taking It on the Chin. 2001. Jung-A Yoo. Whimsical animation about a born loser who strikes back. 4 min.
Grit. 2001. Mike Enright. Gritty handprocessed film about streetwise boxers in Philadelphia. 10 min.
The Orphans. 2006. Cy Kuckenbaker. The poignant and humorous story of two aging Lithuanian men who travel to Berlin to bury their childhood friend. 22 min.
Program 92 min.
Sunday, August 6, 1:00; Saturday, August 12, 6:00.
CalArts: The Young Turks [part 2]
Just. 2002. Joon Soo Ha. The American flag as Warholian silkscreen—or smoke screen. 5 min.
Outline for a Video—Model of a Town. 2003. Erika Vogt. A fictitious cinematic landscape of cities along New Jersey’s Passaic River. 15 min.
The Animals Will Leave Us First. 2004. Norma Toraya. An apocalyptic cutout of wallpaper, postcards, and random kitsch. 3 min.
Imprint. 2003. Karolina Sobecka. A hand reaches out to grasp a frenetically shifting landscape. 1 min.
Nightlightshake. 2002. Maile Colbert. The atmospheric visualization of a poem by Ian Colbert. 7 min.
Mammoth Cave. 2005. Stephanie Hutin. The tale of a mining town where witches live in igloos furnished with Frigidaires….2 min.
Thought City. 2000. Stefan Gruber. Animated commuters trudge through a concrete jungle. 4 min.
Feline Faux Pas. 2005. Courtland Lomax. UPA-inspired animation about a lonely gentleman and his neurotic cat. 7 min.
Farce Sensationelle! 2004. Laida Lertxundi. A personal take on the camera apparatus. 2 min.
Latent Sorrow. 2005. Shon Kim. Abstraction and figuration coalesce in this animated paean to Van Gogh and Jackson Pollack. 3 min.
Passages. 2005. Hyun-Min Lee. A delicate animated collage recalling the children’s book illustrations of Bruno Munari and Leo Leonni. 2 min.
Kitties. 2001. Jennifer Medlin. An unflinching portrait of the artist’s suburban family. 38 min.
Program 89 min.
Sunday, August 6, 3:00; Saturday, August 12, 8:00.
Travesty and Pastiche:
A motley assortment of melodramas, from noir to high camp, featuring an early performance by Paul Reubens.
The Velvet Tigress. 2001. Jen Sachs. Animated documentary about the sensationalized "Trunk Murders" trial of 1931. 11 min.
Bit Parts. 2005. Julie Orser. Everyday objects take on melodramatic significance in this subtle sendup of Hollywood clichés. 3 min.
L. City. 2002. Sandro Del Rosario. A noir photocollage becomes a slow tango of memory and oblivion. 8 min.
Mermaids. 1972. Helen Whelchel. With Paul Rubenfeld (aka Paul Reubens), Max Roberts, and poet-translator Paul Roche. Drop in for a moment of eternity with a couple of louche mermaids….10 min.
Starring Rosa Furr. 2000. Lara Martin. Murder, mayhem and melodrama in the Jazz Age—an homage to silent cinema that places gay and African-American themes front and center. 40 min.
Three Examples of Myself as a Queen. 1994. Anna Biller. A Maria Montez-Jack Smith inspired burlesque about a world-weary queen bee and her slavish consort of male suitors. 26 min.
Program 98 min.
Thursday, August 10, 6:00; Saturday, August 12, 3:00.
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