PLEASE NOTE: The previously scheduled event by Paul McCarthy and Damon McCarthy must be postponed. We hope to reschedule this event for Fall, 2008

March 17, 2008

Jack H. Skirball Screening Series
Paul McCarthy and Damon McCarthy:
Video Projections from Caribbean Pirates
World theatrical premiere | 2001-5

"Crazed, inventive, obscene and often very funny… played out in weird costumes and with rumbustious, clownish fervour." The Guardian

This special screening offers Los Angeles audiences the first theatrical presentation of videos from Caribbean Pirates, the McCarthy studio’s sprawling simulacrum of “Pirattitude” across American popular culture. As first shown in 2005 at Munich’s Haus der Kunst, the manic, typically bawdy work collaged multichannel video projections with large-scale sculptures, props, and film sets -- including a full-scale pirate frigate and a 1970s-era houseboat. Different incarnations of this scabrous examination of the pirate figure as a symbol of invasion, plunder and depravity have since been presented at several other major European venues to vast critical and popular acclaim.

In person: Paul McCarthy, Damon McCarthy

The Jack H. Skirball Screening Series is curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud For student and CalArts alumni, faculty and staff discounts,
please call the REDCAT box office at 213-237-2800.