Sunday December 9 at 7:00 pm
Los Angeles Filmforum presents:
The Documentaries of Jessica Yu
Jessica Yu is one of the leading documentary filmmakers working in America today. On the opening weekend of her new documentary Protagonist, Filmforum is delighted to look back at Yu’s earlier award-winning documentary work.
Tonight’s screenings: Sour Death Balls (1993, 5 min., 16mm) Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O’Brien (1996, 35 min., 16mm) In the Realms of the Unreal (2004, 81 min., 35mm)
Sunday December 2 at 7:00 pm
Los Angeles Filmforum presents:
Films by Robert Nelson – A Retrospective part 1
NEW LOCATION FOR TONIGHT:
Echo Park Film Center
1200 Alvarado Street (at Sunset, northeast corner)
Born and raised in San Francisco, Robert Nelson is an artist by background, having trained as a painter before unexpectedly becoming a filmmaker in the mid-1960s. By 1967, his short films, characterized by their free-spirited humor, unexpected twists, and inspired setups, were among the most circulated of the American underground. Following up on an EPFC Nelson program in July 2006, this evening will feature two of Nelson’s legendary classics, Oh Dem Watermelons (1965) (with music by Steve Reich) and Nelson’s counterculture epic The Great Blondino (1967), made with artist William T. Wiley. Rounding out the program will be Hot Leatherette (1967), the rarely seen Deep Westurn (1974), and Nelson’s first released film, Plastic Haircut (1963), made in collaboration with Wiley, as well as SF Mime Troupe founder R.G. Davis, artist Robert Hudson, and Steve Reich.
Tonight’s screenings:
OH DEM WATERMELONS (1965, color, sound, 11m)
PLASTIC HAIRCUT (1963, b/w, sound, 15m)
HOT LEATHERETTE (1967, b/w, sound, 5m)
DEEP WESTURN (1974, color, sound, 5m)
THE GREAT BLONDINO (1967, color, sound, 43m)
Sunday November 18 at 7:00 pm
Los Angeles Filmforum presents: Trumpetistically, Clora Bryant and more Jazz Films
In association with the Getty Research Institute’s Côte à Côte: Art and Jazz in France and California, at which Clora Bryant will be appearing. We’re delighted to host this portrait of the musician Clora Bryant, an essential player in the jazz scene of Los Angeles. We will have other short jazz films of California or French musicians as well, titles to be announced. Zeinabu Irene Davis’s new film Trumpetistically, Clora Bryant portrays the life and work of “trumpetiste” Clora Bryant, a largely unrecognized force in the Los Angeles and Central Avenue jazz scenes. Complete program description here
NEW TIME AND LOCATION FOR TONIGHT:
8:00PM at Echo Park Film Center
1200 Alvarado Street (at Sunset, northeast corner)
Los Angeles CA 90026
Material Excess (2002-03, DVD, color, sound, 73 min)
Gregg Biermann in person!
Material Excess is a large-scale animated movie, which borrows its structure from Dante’s The Diving Comedy. The animation is for the most part created in a digital process related to the hand-made film tradition. In a photo-editing program, scans of various objects are placed on a digital image strip without regard for individual frames. These images are translated into video sequences and the result is an exploding jumble of images. By its very nature, the animation cannot directly illustrate the various bits of narration that appear in the soundtrack. The two things simply happen simultaneously. Full program description here
