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Films and film-related events drawing on a variety of cultural perspectives from around the globe to expand definitions of the moving images in film, video and new media. The Jack H. Skirball Screening Series is curated by Steve Anker and Berenice Reynaud.


Past 05/06 Film/Video Events:
September 26, 2005
Jack H. Skirball Screening Series
REBECCA BARON: SURVEILLANCE AS SCIENCE
How Little We Know of Our Neighbors

The new documentary by award-winning Los Angeles filmmaker Rebecca Baron is an engrossing study of the Mass Observation movement in Britain. Founded in 1937, Mass Observation was an eccentric social science enterprise that used hidden cameras to record and scrutinize behavior in public spaces. | Click here

October 5, 2005
Jack H. Skirball Screening Series
PETER KUBELKA: METAPHORIC FILMS
Featuring Poetry and Truth

Making his first Los Angeles appearance in more than a decade, celebrated Austrian avant-garde filmmaker and theorist Peter Kubelka gives a spirited lecture on his "metaphoric" films and screens a selection of shorts. | Click here

October 6-8, 2005
NEW INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION

REDCAT holds a sweeping survey of animation from around the world curated by Myron Emery, Bérénice Reynaud and Maureen Selwood of the CalArts School of Film/Video. | Click here

October 8, 2005
Grand Avenue Festival

REDCAT and its neighbors along the downtown Los Angeles cultural corridor invite all of Southern California for a day of arts and family fun. | Click here

October 12-16, 2005
DJ Spooky: Rebirth of a Nation
Los Angeles premiere

In an audiovisual extravaganza he calls a "digital exorcism," mercurial mixmaster Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, turns the tables on a landmark American film. D.W. Griffith's 1915 silent classic Birth of a Nation. | Click here

October 19-23, 2005
BEBE MILLER COMPANY: LANDING/PLACE
West Coast premiere

Five exceptional dancers perform amid layers of projected images in this spellbinding new piece by Bebe Miller. | Click here

October 24, 2005
Jack H. Skirball Screening Series
MARGUERITE DURAS: INDIA SONG
Los Angeles premiere revival-new print

This legendary and long-unavailable work by novelist, playwright and film director Marguerite Duras is an audiovisual poem haunted by the intoxicating dream of decadent colonialism and impossible love. | Click here

November 14, 2005
Jack H. Skirball Screening Series
Pours Down Like Silver: Films by Phil Solomon
World premiere

Known for his beautifully lush and haunting experimental films, Phil Solomon returns to Los Angeles for the first time in 10 years to screen a selection of shorts. | Click here

November 22, 2005
SCREAM Goes to the Movies:
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Featuring Edison Studio | U.S. Premiere

The Rome-based music collective Edison Studio gives a live electro-acoustic performance to accompany a screening of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Robert Wiene's 1919 landmark of Expressionist cinema. | Click here

November 28, 2005
Jack H. Skirball Screening Series
FIRST-PERSON AFRICA:
AN EVENING WITH JEAN-MARIE TÉNO

"One hears the voice of Africa expressing itself in the first person and taking the risk of subjectivity, without using the excuse of poverty or relying on folklorism." | Click here

December 5, 2005
Jack H. Skirball Screening Series
Ellen Bruno: Stories Of Death And Survival

Noted for her unflinching documentation of social, economic and human rights issues in East Asia, Alpert Award-winning filmmaker Ellen Bruno screens two new films. | Click here

December 12, 2005
Jack H. Skirball Screening Series
Joseph Cornell: Film Constructions and Fantasies

This program of rarely seen works--many of which are screened for the first time in Los Angeles--includes recently-discovered collage films as well as pieces shot by Stan Brakhage, Rudy Burckhardt and Larry Jordan under Cornell's direction. | Click here

January 23, 2006
Jack H. Skirball Screening Series
Lotte Reiniger:
The Adventures of Prince Achmed

The first full-length animated feature in movie history, Lotte Reiniger's Die Abenteur des Prinzen Achmed is a dazzling and sensuous rendering of fables from The Arabian Nights: Tales From a Thousand and One Nights | Click here

January 24, 2006
Vicki Ray: Piano Plus Video
World premieres

An uncommon exploration of visual music with the virtuoso pianist and founding member of The California EAR Unit. | Click here

January 26-28, 2006
CEAIT Festival

The genre-bending annual fest from the CalArts Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology returns to REDCAT with a new international lineup of unabashedly experimental works in music, multimedia, installation and sound art. | Click here

January 30, 2006
Jack H. Skirball Screening Series
Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and Mohsen Abdolvahab:
Gilaneh

Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Iran's premier woman director, and long-time collaborator Mohsen Abdolvahab condemn the horrors of war in a new film that is as emotionally intense as it is timely. | Click here

February 2-4, 2006
Carl Hancock Rux: Asphalt

This kaleidoscopic portrait of a near-future, post-apocalyptic city and its distressed inhabitants is an electrifying stage adaptation of the Alpert Award winner's debut novel. | Click here

February 5, 2006
Dance Camera West:
Where Have All the Steps Gone?

Longtime BBC executive producer Bob Lockyer has helped create some of the most innovative dance made for television, and put the BBC at the forefront of dance film.| Click here

February 6, 2006
Jack H. Skirball Screening Series
Britta SjÖgren: In This Short Life

Shot with non-professional actors (including the filmmaker herself) in the intimate black-and-white palette of older home movies, In This Short Life works the blurry margin between documentary and fiction. | Click here

February 17, 2006
SELECTIONS FROM THE BANGKOK EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL 4: BANGKOK DEMOCRAZY

Presented by Project 304; The Office of Contemporary Art & Culture Ministry of Culture, Thailand; Giant Robot; and REDCAT | Click here

February 22, 2006
Barry Scrader: Soundworld

A multimedia celebration of the electro-acoustic composer's sublime music on the occasion of his 60th birthday, this retrospective includes the world premiere of Fallen Sparrow, a solo work performed by violinist Mark Menzies. | Click here

February 24-26, 2006
Crossings: Borders and Memory in the Americas

L'Ange, the legendary opus by French filmmaker and artist Patrick Bokanowski, offers new adventures in perception in its depiction of the climbing of a giant stairway | Click here

February 27, 2006
Jack H. Skirball Screening Series
PATRICK AND MICHÈLE BOKANOWSKI:
ANGEL'S FLIGHT

Leading intellectuals, artists and social scientists from Latin America and the United States come together for a conference on film and social criticism across the Americas. | Click here

March 13, 2006
Jack H. Skirball Screening Series
Jem Cohen: Chain

In this provocative mix of documentary and fiction, the Alpert Award-winning filmmaker lays out beautifully composed images shot throughout the United States, Europe and Australia. | Click here

April 3, 2006
Jack H. Skirball Screening Series
Barbara Hammer: Lover Other

In her latest work, prolific filmmaker, archivist and commentator Barbara Hammer examines an intriguing chapter in lesbian cultural history. | Click here

April 17, 2006
Jack H. Skirball Screening Series
Allan Sekula: The Lottery of the Sea

Iconoclast photographer and documentarian Allan Sekula unfolds a series of variations shot in the Netherlands, Spain, Greece, Japan and other maritime countries around two of his major obsessions: globalization and the sea. | Click here

May 1, 2006
Jack H. Skirball Screening Series
The Devotional Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky

In these intimate and deeply affecting works, veteran avant-garde artist Nathaniel Dorsky utilizes light and color to create films that are silent, non-narrative and forged by seamless editing of astonishing precision. | Click here

May 4-6, 2006
School of Film/Video Showcase

Screenings of works by students in CalArts School of Film/Video featuring Film Directing long form (May 4), Film Directing short form (May 5), and the Film/Video Program (May 6). | Click here

May 7, 2006
CAP Animation, Video and Photography

Original animation, video and photography made by students taking part in the Community Arts Partnership's arts education programs at partner sites. | Click here

May 8, 2006
Liu Jiayin: Oxhide

The multiple prize-winning feature Niupi (Oxhide) is an extraordinary tour de force by 23-year-old Liu Jiayin, who shot it in CinemaScope in the 50 square meters of her family apartment--playing her own role while her parents played theirs. | Click here

May 19 & 21, 2006
Charles Phoenix: Retro Disneyland Slide Show

With amazing vintage color slides, Charles Phoenix creates the ultimate "E Ticket" to the early days of the granddaddy of all theme parks. | Click here

May 22, 2006
Sharon Lockhart: Pine Flat

Artist and filmmaker Sharon Lockhart has crafted an exquisite, meditative portrait of youth in the small rural village of Pine Flat in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. | Click here

May 30, 2006
Partch Dances

Returning to REDCAT for the third consecutive season, the ensemble Partch continues its ongoing multimedia survey of the chamber music of the maverick American composer Harry Partch. | Click here

June 2-3, 2006
Dance Camera West Festival

Focusing on the intersection of cinematography and choreography, the festival showcases the most innovative examples of dance for camera and dance media from around the world. | Click here

June 3, 2006
CAP/SONY PICTURES MEDIA ARTS SCREENING

Middle school students in the Community Arts Partnership/Sony Pictures Media Arts Program screen a compilation of animation and video works made at partnering sites across Los Angeles County. | Click here

June 21, 2006
Blum and Poe presents a special screening of
Sharon Lockhart: Pine Flat

Artist and filmmaker Sharon Lockhart has crafted an exquisite, meditative portrait of youth in the small rural village of Pine Flat in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. | Click here

June 24-29, 2006
REDCAT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL

REDCAT invites film lovers of all ages to discover a world of cinematic surprises. We're filling our state-of-the-art theater in the Walt Disney Concert Hall with an exciting summer showcase of the best animated and live-action films for children. Join us for a whirlwind tour of fifteen countries-without missing a bedtime. | Click here

June 29-July 3, 2006
Don't Knock the Rock Festival

A high-energy mix of film and music, the festival celebrates the rock 'n' roll roots of Hollywood with classic and brand-new rock films that contain quintessential music performances and vintage footage of important artists in their prime. | Click here

July 5, 2006
Still Radical: Feminist Videos From The '70s

As women artists searched for a new language with which to fully express their ideas, video appeared as a new tool, without any formal or aesthetic restrictions. | Click here