Natalie Cristiani: Nicola Costantino - La Artefacta. Courtesy of the artist.
Film at REDCAT
unveils its Fall Season 2015
Dear Friends, Colleagues, Filmmakers:
Thank you again for your support for and interest in "Film at REDCAT." As we are entering our 13th season, we are happy to share our Fall 2015 lineup. The Jack H. Skirball Series, also known as "Film at REDCAT," runs on Monday evenings in the Roy And Edna Disney/ CalArts Theater housed in the Frank Gehry-designed center in the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
The series is curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud and builds on REDCAT's foundation of encouraging experimentation as it foregrounds novel forms of cinematic discourse, with a special emphasis, this season, on the relationship between cinema and contemporary art (Margaret Honda on September 28, Nicola Costantino/Natalie Cristiani on November 30; Mike Kelley on December 14) and multiple avatars of the filmic avant-garde, from a reworking of the archival film (Rick Prelinger on November 16) and the essay film (Soon-Mi Yoo on November 23), to a deconstruction of the narrative form (Roberta Friedman/Grahame Weinbren on October 26; Ben Rivers on December 7) and the voices of the new LA-based generation (Rick Bahto and Alee Peoples on November 2).
Keeping up the contemporary tradition of its parent institution, the California Institute of the Arts, the Film/Video series includes artists from Italy, Argentina, South Korea, Japan and the UK, as well as from New York, the Bay Area and Los Angeles. In addition, we are proud to announce already two programs that will jump-start the Winter/Spring 2016 season: Billy Woodberry and Julia Heyward/Perry Hoberman.
REDCAT also presents a wide range of Gallery exhibits and presentations and conversations, in addition to the music, theater, dance and multi-media events from some of the most influent artistic voices in contemporary arts. (Info at redcat.org)
Always committed to offering audiences the opportunity to experience new innovative world class voices in the arts, REDCAT continues to ensure that regular ticket prices remain affordable and offers member, student, and community discount programs and that all events in the Gallery events remain free of charge.
Individual tickets, for ticketed events, can be purchased online at www.redcat.org.
Group discounts are available by contacting the box office at 213-237-2800, or in person at 631 West Second Street, 90012, on the SW corner of the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex (corner of West Second Street and Hope.)
Warm Regards from the team of Film at REDCAT
Steve Anker, Co-Curator
Bérénice Reynaud, Co-Curator
Andrew Kim, Curatorial Assistant
Vivian Chen, Head Projectionist
Evelyn Emile, Projectionist
Mon Sept 28 |8:30 pm|
Jack H. Skirball Series
$11 [members $8]
Margaret Honda: Color Correction
World Premiere
http://www.redcat.org/event/margaret-honda-color-correction
Artist Margaret Honda's first feature-length film, Color Correction is a commitment to celluloid cinema and a brilliantly conceived experience of projected light. The film was made using only the timing tapes that corrected the color for a Hollywood feature, the identity of which Honda does not know. Devoid of images and deeply meditative, Color Correction offers a timely insistence on the indispensable nature of this great medium. Her debut film, the cameraless 70mm Spectrum Reverse Spectrum (2014), was a standout at the Berlin, Toronto and London festivals, and was described by Olaf Möller in Film Comment as "an experience of film at its purest and most rarified." Honda's most recent one-person exhibition, "Sculptures," was at Triangle France in Marseille (2015); her next one-person exhibition will take place at Künstlerhaus Bremen in 2016.
2015, 101 min., 35mm, silent
In person: Margaret Honda
Mon October 26 |8:30 pm|
Jack H. Skirball Series
$11 [members $8]
Roberta Friedman
and Grahame Weinbren
http://www.redcat.org/event/roberta-friedman-and-grahame-weinbren
Calling attention to the recent digital and hybrid media work of longtime collaborators Roberta Friedman and Grahame Weinbren, this program features the latest iteration of the multi-generational, Gertrude Stein-inspired opus Straight from Bertha (1976/2010/2014, 40 min.) - with the new segments shot in the "ruins" of New York's Millennium Film Workshop. Having met at CalArts in the '70s, Friedman and Weinbren explored mathematical structures, film as music, movie syntax and avant-garde narratives with a singular wit in their early films before turning to multimedia and interactive video installation, of which The Erl King (1983-86, Whitney Biennial 1987) was a groundbreaking example. Friedman and Weinbren-the senior editor of Millennium Film Journal-have continued to collaborate while also working individually.
In person: Roberta Friedman and Grahame Weinbren
"
Straight From Bertha
is straight from the heart... The film mourns ancestors and celebrates a family, and at the same time, mourns and celebrates a film institution and its era. This is a wonderful, unusual accomplishment, but the film then deepens the mourning and the celebration to include the entire institution of film itself a wonderful, unusual accomplishment." - Ron Green
Mon Nov 2 |8:30 pm|
Jack H. Skirball Series
$11 [members $8]
Rick Bahto & Alee Peoples
Small-Gauge L.A
http://www.redcat.org/event/rick-bahto-alee-peoples-small-gauge-la
Rick Bahto and Alee Peoples are exemplary figures in the loose-knit L.A. creative community committed to realizing personal vision through the hands-on intimacy of small-gauge film, DIY media and live performance. Bahto, a San Francisco transplant, plays with multiple layers of printing, rephotography and projection to explore the tension between the incidental and the controlled, while Peoples, an Oklahoma City native, uses Super 8 and 16mm film as platforms for whimsical storytelling with a nod to history. Bahto's section of the program includes Accretions, for multiple slide projectors, and Compositions; Peoples is presenting the L.A. premiere of Non-Stop Beautiful Ladies, a street film starring decaying signage, car radios and human ad spinners.
In person: Rick Bahto and Alee Peoples
"Mysterious and lush explorations of the visual world...Rick Bahto's Super 8mm films play like formalist, haiku-like postcards to distant friends."
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Steve Polta, San Francisco Cinematheque
"Peoples goes in for fast motion walks, toppled camera angles, and multiple musical inputs. Here these distortions register less as subjective impressions than as passwords to access the city beneath the city..." - Max Goldberg
Mon Nov 16 |8:30 pm|
Jack H. Skirball Series
$11 [members $8]
Rick Prelinger
Lost Landscapes
of Los Angeles
Having given eye-opening "urban history" presentations in San Francisco, Oakland and Detroit, Rick Prelinger now draws on his vast archive to offer a cultural history of greater Los Angeles in pictures. The archivist, writer, filmmaker and UC Santa Cruz professor combines excerpts from long-dated "ephemeral" sources - yesteryear's home movies, newsreels, educational, industrial and amateur films, even studio "process plates" - into a richly detailed socio-topographical study of L.A.'s bygone cityscapes, and in the process casts the contemporary terrain in a new light. Viewers, meanwhile, are invited to supply the soundtrack, with their own commentaries, questions and discussions. Founded in 1983, the Prelinger Archive is among the largest repositories of its kind in the world.
In person: Rick Prelinger
"Rick Prelinger is an archivist rockstar." - Motherboard
Mon Nov 23 |8:30 pm|
Jack H. Skirball Series
$11 [members $8]
Soon-Mi Yoo
Songs from the North
Los Angeles Premiere
http://www.redcat.org/event/soon-mi-yoo-songs-north
Honored as the Best First Feature in both Locarno and DocLisboa, Songs From the North is an original and intimate look at the enigma of North Korea. Bypassing and decoding the country's jingoistic propaganda, as well as derisive satire from the West, Soon-Mi Yoo interweaves footage from three visits to North Korea with songs, spectacle, popular cinema and archival footage. Songs From The North strives to understand, on their own terms, the psychology and popular imagery of the North Korean people and the political ideology of absolute love. Born in South Korea, Yoo teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and has shown her essay films at major international film festivals.
In person: Soon-Mi Yoo
"While for some Yoo's film will evoke Andrei Ujica's
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
in its deft use of found footage, the mystery and sensuality of Chris Marker, or the hybridic meanderings of author W.G. Sebald, Songs from the North is uniquely, powerfully personal as it unpacks this Korean-born, US-based filmmaker's intricate and conflicted feelings about her former neighbor to the north." - Andréa Picard
Mon Nov 30 |8:30 pm|
Jack H. Skirball Series
$11 [members $8]
Nicola Costantino - La Artefacta
Directed by Natalie Cristiani
Los Angeles Premiere
http://www.redcat.org/event/nicola-costantino-la-artefacta-directed-natalie-cristiani
Using her own image/body, the texture of organic material, and almost sacred icons (such as images of Eva Perón), Nicola Costantino is one of Argentina's most provocative and fascinating artists. For Nicola Costantino - La Artefacta, she uses imagery of her persona at work: slaughtering cattle in a backless evening gown and white shoes (an allusion to a famous Argentine novel), or molding a double of herself during her pregnancy. Together with director/co-writer and über-editor Natalie Cristiani, she creates an unusual portrait of an artist and a woman. Eschewing explanation and psychologization, the film, rooted in a form of Argentine baroque, addresses the country's troubled history while articulating issues pertaining to self (re)presentation, performance and artistic originality. (2015, 75 min)
In person: Nicola Costantino
"A gorgeously crafted exploration of the oeuvre and inner workings of one of Argentina's most thought-provoking artists. More than a film about an artist, this is an expressive, painterly and beautifully cinematic look into the inner musings of an enigmatic and intellectual creative soul. The only voice heard is that of the artist whose poetic, thought-provoking narration becomes a work of art in itself"
- POV Magazine
Mon Dec 7 |8:30 pm|
Jack H. Skirball Series
$11 [members $8]
Ben Rivers: Recent Films
http://www.redcat.org/event/ben-rivers-film-portraits
Critics and juries worldwide praise London-based Ben Rivers as one of the most compelling independent filmmakers of this generation. In a program of new works, his landscapes and portraits convey subjects with an evocative vividness that distinguishes them from all familiar genres. Often following and filming people who have separated themselves from society, the raw film footage provides a starting point for oblique narratives imagining alternative existences in marginal worlds. Rivers is the recipient of the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize, 68th Venice Film Festival; the Artangel Open 2013; the inaugural Robert Gardner Film Award; the Baloise Art Prize, Art Basel; Artangel Open 2013; and two Tiger Awards from International Film Festival Rotterdam.
In person: Ben Rivers
Ben Rivers' cinema has emerged in recent years as one of the most constantly evolving, mysterious, elemental, and resonant bodies of work by any active filmmaker
." - Robert Koehler - Cinemascope
Mon Dec 14 |8:30 pm|
Jack H. Skirball Series
$11 [members $8]
Mike Kelley
Single Channel Videos
http://www.redcat.org/event/mike-kelley-single-channel-videos
When Mike Kelley passed away in 2012, he left the legacy of a body of deeply innovative work mining American popular culture and both modernist and alternative traditions. This screening features a selection of Kelley's videos, from the sassy/melancholy Superman Recites Selections from 'The Bell Jar' and Other Works by Sylvia Plath (1999) to the threatening histrionics of Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1 (Domestic Scene) (2000), as well as collaborative pieces, such as his minimalist exploration of sado-masochistic relationships in 100 Reasons (1991) - among others.
Special thanks to the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts and Electronic Arts Intermix.
"One of the most influential artists of the past quarter century and a pungent commentator on American class, popular culture and youthful rebellion."
- The New York Times
Mike Kelley:
Superman Recites Selections from 'The Bell Jar' and Other Works by Sylvia Plath
Copyright
Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts and Electronic Arts Intermix
COMING IN 2016
January 11
Billy Woodberry
Billy Woodberry introduces the US premiere of his long-awaited new film And When I Die I Won't Stay Dead, a feature-length documentary about jazz-inspired beat poet Bob Kaufman, sometimes called the "black American Rimbaud." Woodberry's landmark 1984 film Bless Their Little Hearts was honored with a jury award at the Berlin International Film Festival and was selected for preservation by the National Film Registry. The program begins with Marseille après la guerre, a short montage crafted from images found in a longshoremen's union hall.
January 18
Julia Heyward and Perry Hoberman
29 SpaceTime
is a work of Live Cinema with interactive panoramic visuals, sound, music and performance by Julia Heyward and Perry Hoberman. Through the telescope of collective myth and the microscope of personal revelations 29 SpaceTime looks at aspects of surveillance, mind control, and the contradiction in the human desire to be "watched over" while practicing free will. All this is witnessed against the backdrop of the spectacle of war rehearsed daily in 29 Palms, California. Julia Heyward is a multidisciplinary artist combining language, music, and visuals in the forms of live performance and interactive new media. Perry Hoberman is a media, installation and performance artist working with high and low technology and everything in between.
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