Summer 2016
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X: The Unheard Music
X: The Unheard Music, with punk shorts!
Date: Jun 22, 2016 8:00PM
Location: Union Station, North PatioThe first in our summer film series in collaboration with LA Metro, presenting X: The Unheard Music (1986) for free at Union Station, outdoors!
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SUD (South) by Chantal Akerman
Chantal Akerman’s Sud (South)
Date: Jun 26, 2016 7:30PM
Location: Spielber Theatre at the EgyptianRescheduled from April. Part of CHANTAL AKERMAN: CONTRE L’OUBLI/AGAINST OBLIVION, Chantal Akerman’s Sud (South) is a searing examination of the hate crime killing of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper, Texas.
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Cases and Reels for Color Correction, 2015
Spectrum Reverse Spectrum & Color Correction: Two Films by Margaret Honda
Date: Jul 6, 2016 7:30PM
Location: Hammer Museum, Billy Wilder TheatreTwo cameraless films by Margaret Honda, premiering as part of Made in L.A. 2016!
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News from Home, by Chantal Akerman
Chantal Akerman's News from Home
Date: Jul 10, 2016 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianWe conclude CHANTAL AKERMAN: CONTRE L’OUBLI/AGAINST OBLIVION with the sublime NEWS FROM HOME.
Introduction by Berenice Reynaud
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Paradise Springs, by Brigid McCaffrey
Geography of the Body of the World
Date: Jul 14, 2016 7:00PM
Location: MOCA Grand Avenue, Ahmanson TheatreFour films that use the poetic as a means to investigate the real: Bruce Baillie’s Mass for the Dakota Sioux (1964); Sky Hopinka’s Jáaji Approximately (2015); and two by Brigid McCaffrey, who will be present for conversation after the films.
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Machine Gun or Typewriter? by Travis Wilkerson
Machine Gun or Typewriter, by Travis Wilkerson
Date: Jul 17, 2016 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianFilmforum is delighted to host Travis Wilkerson again with the city’s premiere of his latest feature film. Machine Gun or Typewriter? In the tradition of An Injury to One, Wilkerson mixes genres in his unique exploration of places, economic systems, and injustice.
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Dog Island, by Shehrezad Maher
Where You Thought You Were
Date: Jul 24, 2016 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianLos Angeles Premieres! Ben Russell in person! The screening highlights four superb recent works, made around the world, that stretch our normal notions of documentary and fiction, while finding ways to make apparent some of the many ways that place and landscape are conceived.
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Pasing Through, by Larry Clark
Passing Through
Date: Jul 27, 2016 8:00PM
Location: Union Station, North PatioPassing Through, by Larry Clark, has achieved canonical status as one of the few great jazz films, and it is also one of the great Los Angeles films. Come to this free screening, where it will be preceded by Ulysses Jenkins's "Notions of Freedom."
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Tony Conrad
A Tribute to Tony Conrad
Date: Jul 31, 2016 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianA Pioneer in avant-garde music, film and numerous other media, Tony Conrad, who passed away earlier this year, indelibly altered the course of contemporary art and thought. For this tribute, Filmforum will screen some film and video works (including "The Flicker") and host several speakers.
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Ruins
Ruins
Date: Aug 2, 2016 7:30PM
Location: Billy Wilder Theatre at the UCLA Hammer MuseumJesse Lerner’s Ruins mixes real and fabricated archival footage to document the restoration of artifacts and monuments from Mexico’s precolonial era. After the screening, Jesse Lerner and Gala Porras-Kim will discuss how the value of particular objects shapes the interpretation of culture.
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Cases and Reels for Color Correction, by Margaret Honda (2015)
Spectrum Reverse Spectrum & Color Correction: Two Films by Margaret Honda
Date: Aug 7, 2016 2:00PM
Location: Hammer Museum, Billy Wilder TheatreTwo cameraless films by Margaret Honda, premiering as part of Made in L.A. 2016!
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Speculation Nation
Speculation Nation
Date: Aug 7, 2016 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianIn this impressionistic documentary film, Sabine Gruffat and Bill Brown travel across Spain to explore the consequences of the housing crisis.