Perhaps best known for his live, unpredictable performances, John Bock blurs artistic convention, constructing a boundless world all his own. The artist often employs uncanny costumes, assemblages, and props that both reference and examine a range of social, political, philosophical, and aesthetic interests | Click here

California Company Town, the much-anticipated essay film by Lee Anne Schmitt, casts a probing, clear-eyed gaze at the landscape of California towns abandoned by the industries that created them — onetime boom-towns now haunted by the twilight of the American promise | Click here

Two of California’s most notorious underground filmmakers unleash a pair of deliriously subversive visions of Los Angeles culture — past and present — as poverty-row sci-fi thrillers | Click here

In her first feature-length film, comic strip artist-turned-filmmaker Nina Paley juxtaposes multiple narrative and visual styles to create a highly entertaining and affecting vision of the Ramayana — the ancient Sanskrit epic and essential fixture of the Hindu canon | Click here

With each presidential election since 1984, Antoni Muntadas and Marshall Reese have compiled a new edition of Political Advertisement, a historical survey of television campaign spots from 1952 to the present | Click here

This rare, benefit screening of Fred Wiseman’s landmark documentary film Hospital (1969, 85 min., 16mm) reveals the daily activities of a large urban hospital with an emphasis on its emergency ward and outpatient clinics. The cases depicted illustrate how medical expertise, availability of resources, organizational considerations and the nature of communication among the staff and patients affect the delivery of appropriate healthcare | Click here

Robert Breer, one of America's foremost filmmakers for more than 50 years, pays a rare visit to Los Angeles to attend a multi-venue celebration of his work | Click here

A towering figure of American avant-garde cinema since the mid-1940s, Kenneth Anger has posited himself at the junction of pop culture, queer underground, occultism and rock music | Click here

This multi-screen installation offers Los Angeles audiences their first view of videos from Caribbean Pirates, the McCarthy studio’s sprawling survey of the pirate figure in American popular culture | Click here

New York artists Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder present their sublime and meditative double 16mm projection performance, Untitled, recently featured at Anthology Film Archives in New York | Click here

Austrian avant-garde filmmaker Martin Arnold has been known internationally for his scintillating explorations of the hidden and repressed side of Hollywood cinema-what he regards as "a cinema of exclusion, reduction and denial | Click here

Showing theatrical versions of her two most recent multimedia works, legendary video and performance artist Joan Jonas offers a deeply lyrical reading of two literary sources: the epic poetry of Dante Alighieri and the poetic cultural commentary of turn-of-the-century German historian and theorist Aby Warburg | Click here

Documentarian Brigitte Cornand first met Louise Bourgeois in 1994 and over the next dozen years made a trilogy of intimate videos about the iconic artist, now 97, through an idiosyncratic form of collaboration between filmmaker and subject. Chère Louise is the first installment of the trilogy. | Click here

9 Scripts from a Nation at War is a multi-channel video installation that responds to the conditions and questions that have arisen during the military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. It examines the ways in which war determines and "scripts" certain roles such as "citizen," "veteran," "detainee" and "correspondent" and the capacity of individuals to fulfill or resist these. | Click here

Archivist, curator and filmmaker Bruce Posner is on hand to attend to a collection of preserved vintage films and beautifully restored prints--all in 35mm. Its crown jewel is a digital restoration of Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler's Manhatta (1920, 12 min.). | Click here

This selection of Leandro Katz's most beloved work centers on the award-winning El día que me quieras (The Day You'll Love Me), a poignant deconstruction of the iconic 1967 photograph of the dead Che Guevara within overlapping layers of political, historical and aesthetic discourse. | Click here

Long revered among the all-time great jazz bassists, Charlie Haden has gone on to make essential contributions to a wide spectrum of genres: avant-garde, small ensemble, big band, world music, folk and gospel. This new documentary from award-winning Swiss-born filmmaker Reto Caduff offers an absorbing chronicle of Haden's life and work. | Click here

Now in its fourth year, this audience favorite raises the curtain on a world of wonder sure to delight film lovers of all ages. The festival looks to all corners of the world for its new collection of inspiring stories, exhilarating adventures and pure cinematic joy. Three weekend programs include visionary animation, rip-roaring live action, and rarely shown classic films. | Click here

The Chicago-based filmmaker and artist has garnered much acclaim for her luscious camerawork and compelling themes; her original explorations of inner city Chicago, Chinese Turkestan, rural Iceland and American suburbia; and her "fascinating formalism" (Bright Lights Film Journal). | Click here

Influential maestro of found footage Bruce Conner (1933-2008) was often described as the father of MTV-style editing. His reply: "Don't blame me!" At once voluptuous and razor-edged, Conner's compact cinematic bombs are an inspired mix of heartfelt meditation and tragicomic political satire. | Click here

Takahiko Iimura is one of the most celebrated experimental filmmakers of our time. His work explores a wide range of subjects and sources, from poetic cinema with Dadaist and Surrealist influences and Absurdist filmic play in the '60s through more formal and conceptual inquiries in the '70s and later years. | Click here

Robert Todd's lyrical shorts, shot in 16mm, demonstrate a masterful command of the medium, the strong influence of painting, musical forms and poetry, and an openness to chance. The award-winning Boston experimentalist says that this selection of his latest work "offers a series of celebratory explorations, and, in some cases, transformations, of varied components of my life." | Click here

Dubbed "the queen of independent animation" by Bill Plympton, Joanna Priestley unveils her new short Missed Aches, a humorous rant about the need for proofreading. This can't-miss program for animation buffs also includes a series of gems representing the full range of her artistry. | Click here

New York artist Zoe Beloff's unique and mesmerizing films are philosophical toys--objects with which to think. Her work has especially focused on "phantoms," on images that are "not there," and on a precinematic version of the virtual-created by means of a stereoscopic Bolex camera that produces spectral 3-D images. | Click here

The art of live film narration reached its peak with the benshi, a performer who voiced silent films from the stage. Reviving this tradition with a contemporary twist, the "neo-benshi" mutes the soundtrack in scenes from feature films or TV shows and uses in-synch commentary, ventriloquism or music to reinscribe the source material with new meanings. | Click here

The School of Film/Video presents a juried selection of new live-action works by students in the Program in Film and Video and the Film Directing Program. | Click here

This presentation features the work of teenage photographers, animators and video artists in CalArts CAP programs with Inner-City Arts, the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, the Santa Clarita Valley Boys and Girls Club, Self-Help Graphics & Art, and Bell High School. | Click here

Brilliant experimental provocateur William E. Jones delves into his collection of embezzled French soundtracks (Isidore Isou, Godard) and vintage gay pornography to present a heady mash up of his ever-growing body of work. | Click here

Cheryl Dunye's "saucy, daring, insidiously smart debut" (The Boston Phoenix) stands as the first-ever theatrical feature directed by an African American lesbian. The Watermelon Woman tells the story of Cheryl, played engagingly by Dunye herself, who develops a fascination with 1930s actress Fae Richards--a fictional character confined to playing "Mammy" roles in movies by a Dorothy Azner-type director. | Click here

Focusing on the intersection of cinematography and choreography, this annual festival offers a selection of some of the most compelling dance for camera and dance media works from around the world. The Dance Camera West Festival returns to REDCAT with all-new programs of experimental shorts as part of its monthlong celebration of dance film at venues across Los Angeles. | Click here