Los Angeles Filmforum presents *Stacey Steers: Alchemical Collages*. Stacey Steers in person!

Full film lineup and notes at: https://www.lafilmforum.org/schedule/

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Weaving together archetype, allegory, and wonder, Stacey Steers’ films create a mythos all their own. Her heroines, lifted from early 20th-century silent films, ebb toward eternity, inky waves alight in their swell. Their collaged effigies move through narratives of personal recollection, environmental anxiety, and science fiction convention. Ruminative and unfixed, Steers’ worlds are steeped in implication, yet unclaimed by certainty. The material becomes mercurial as exploratory dreamscapes reimagine these appropriated images, loosening them from their original contexts and allowing new meanings to surface. Working through an intuitive, labor-intensive process, Steers prints, hand-processes, and photographs each frame on 35mm film, imbuing the work with a tactile, almost alchemical presence that bridges cinema’s past with an unsettled, speculative present. – Sam Gurry

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**Stacey Steers** is known for her process-driven, labor-intensive animated films composed of thousands of handmade works on paper. Her recent work employs images appropriated from early cinematic sources, from which she constructs original, lyrical narratives.

Steers’ films have screened widely at venues including the Sundance Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, New Directors New Films (New York), IFFR Rotterdam, Locarno IFF, MoMA and the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC). Recently she has expanded her work to include collaborative installations that join invented, three-dimensional production elements with film loops, creating a new context for experiencing her films. Stacey Steers is a recipient of major grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, Creative Capital and the American Film Institute. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She lives and works in Boulder, CO.

LA Filmforum: Stacey Steers – Alchemical Collages

2220 Arts + Archives

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family. With his rise through the organisation, however, comes the dangers of violence, double-crosses, drug addiction and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

GoodFellas

Nikolai (Viggo Mortensen), who is both ruthless and mysterious, has ties to one of the most dangerous crime families in London. He crosses paths with Anna (Naomi Watts), a midwife who has come across potentially damaging evidence against the family, which forces him to set in motion a plan of deceit, death and retribution.

Eastern Promises

Egyptian Theatre

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Season 2, Episode 10, “****Dispute Between Brothers,” Dir. Tina Rathborne, 47 Mins**

Cooper gets ready to leave Twin Peaks.

FORMAT: DCP

**Season 2, Episode 11, “****Masked Ball****,” Dir. Duwayne Dunham, 47 Mins**

Andrew Packard resurfaces.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

**TWIN PEAKS, 1990, Paramount, USA**

A crime drama mixed with healthy doses of the surreal, this series is about FBI Agent Dale Cooper, who travels to the small logging town of Twin Peaks to solve the murder of seemingly innocent high schooler Laura Palmer. Almost nothing is as it seems, however, and the show’s sometimes eerie visuals, oddball characters and wild dream sequences drive the point home.

“Dispute Between Brothers” and “Masked Ball” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 10 & 11

Los Feliz Theatre

The Crime of the Century / Her Bodyguard

New Beverly Cinema

We&#8217;re cranking up the Elmo 16CL projector for another round of obscure 16mm rarities, this time all from the late 1940s through the early 1960s with a slate of social engineering films designed to create model citizens and healthy adults. From strangers with candy to high school dropouts, to puberty&#8217;s pitfalls and civic responsibility, these largely forgotten gems are laughably out-of-date and teeming with an antiquated morality you can only find in yesteryear. Films include ***The Dangerous Stranger*** (1949) the stranger danger film that started it all from the king of the scare film Sid Davis, ***The Dropout** *(1962) for the ne&#8217;er-do-wells, ***Molly Grows Up*** (1953) menstrutainment at its finest, ***The Meaning of Adolescence*** (1953) to guide you through those awkward years, ***Responsibility*** (1953) from Herk Harvey &#8211; the director of *Carnival of Souls*, and the incredibly rare NFBC global responsibility primer ***Our Town is the World***  (1950s, Canada), plus more celluloid rarities and a surprise pre-show for the early birds! Everything screened on 16mm film.

Sweet 16mm: Mid-Century Social Guidance Classics

**Screenwriters**: George LaVoo,  Josefina Lopez

**Producers**: Effie Brown, George LaVoo

Vidiots is thrilled to welcome director **Patricia Cardoso** for a special screening of her essential East LA coming-of-age triumph*** Real Women Have Curves***.

A humorous and warmhearted look at a Chicano teenage girl coming of age in a boiling cauldron of cultural expectations, class constrictions, family duty, and her own personal aspirations. In Boyle Heights, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown family-owned textile factory. Winner of several Sundance Prizes, The Humanitas Award, and Independent Spirit Awards, this slice of relatable life is an influential and powerful classic of Latina and independent cinema.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Want more local coming-of-age films? We’ve got these gems from our own backyard!

*The Slums of Beverly Hills, Boyz in the Hood, Mi Vida Loca*

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

Real Women Have Curves

Vidiots

The Drama

Mr. Muggs Steps Out/Follow the Leader

Vista Theatre

Rocco and His Brothers in 4K

'Round Midnight in 4K

Scandal (Skyandaru) in 35mm

Academy Museum

**Screenwriter**: Elena Oxman

**Producer**: Marc Smolowitz,  Elena Oxman,  Asia Kate Dillon,  Allison Estrin, Henry Russell Bergstein

Featuring a conversation with writer/director **Elena Oxman** after the Wednesday screening.

Join us in the microcinema for Elena Oxman&#8217;s festival darling, the beautifully touching triumph *Outerlands* starring Asia Kate Dillon in a stirring performance. Cass juggles jobs as a nanny, restaurant server, and party drug dealer to make ends meet and pay for their tiny San Francisco apartment. After a one night stand with Kalli, a co-worker they have a crush on, Cass agrees to watch her 11-year-old daughter, Ari, while she goes out of town. But as days pass without word from Kalli, Cass and Ari form a bond that spirals Cass back to their own difficult childhood and the pain they’ve been running from. With beautiful cinematography and an exploration of a San Francisco seldom celebrated, this little charmer is a warm and wonderful treat.

Outerlands

**Screenwriter**: Gaspar Noé

**Producers**: Olivier Delbosc,  Vincent Maraval,  Marc Missonnier,  Pierre Buffin

Co-presented by Community Programming Partners **Synth History**

Nobody does a mind-f*&k like Gaspar Noé, and *Enter the Void* may be his most hallucinatory work in an ouvre of envelope-pushing and eye-popping spectacles. This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda. When Oscar is killed by police during a bust gone bad, his spirit journeys from the past &#8212; where he sees his parents before their deaths &#8212; to the present &#8212; where he witnesses his own autopsy &#8212; and then to the future, where he looks out for his sister from beyond the grave. Give yourself over to this experiential head-trip and leave the real world behind!

**About the score/soundtrack**:

*Enter the Void* is the 14th installment of Vidiots’ & Synth History’s *Iconic Scores* screening series, which highlights pioneering scores and soundtracks in electronic music!

The soundtrack for *Enter the Void *blends musique concrète, experimental, and electroacoustic styles. Noé would collaborate again with Thomas Bangalter (of legendary electronic duo Daft Punk), who also scored *Irréversible*. Bangalter was originally approached to create an original score for the film, however due to his involvement scoring *Tron: Legacy*, he&#8217;d take on the role of sound effects director instead, providing a library of ambient sounds and experimental samples which Noé then compiled.

One source of inspiration was &#8220;Revolution 9” by The Beatles, a collage of sounds that Noé described in The Quietus as a work &#8220;where you catch the beginning of a note, or of a melody and then it&#8217;s already somewhere else.&#8221; The film includes a recording from electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire (BBC Radiophonic Workshop) of Bach&#8217;s &#8220;Air on the G String”, *ANS *by Coil which utilizes the rare, photoelectric ANS synthesizer (if you came to our screening of *Solaris* you might remember that composer Eduard Artemyev also used this!), Throbbing Gristle’s &#8220;Hamburger Lady,” LFO’s “Freak”, nearly every part of electroacoustic musician Jean-Claude Éloy&#8217;s compositions *Shânti* and *Gaku-no-Michi, *Toshiya Tsunoda&#8217;s &#8220;Music for Baby&#8221;, Alvin Lucier&#8217;s &#8220;Music for Gamelan Instruments, Microphones, Amplifiers and Loudspeakers&#8221;, works by Denis Smalley, Lullatone, Zbigniew Karkowski, and Thomas Bangalter‘s own track &#8220;Désaccords,” originally composed for *Irréversible*.

A fitting collage of sounds for a visually stunning film that you definitely don’t want to miss on the big screen! We guarantee you&#8217;ll remember it forever.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more mind-melting cinema? You&#8217;ve come to the right place!

*Liquid Sky, Holy Motors, Telephone Book*

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

Enter the Void

Blues Busters/Feudin Fools

Best known for his avant-garde meta-documentary *Symbiopsychotaxiplasm*, William Greaves (1926–2014) was also the director of over 100 documentary films, the majority focused on African American history, politics, and culture.

NATIONTIME is the long-lost film that William Greaves made about the National Black Political Convention of 1972, when 10,000 black politicians, activists and artists went to Gary, Indiana, to forge a national unity platform in advance of the Republican and Democratic presidential conventions. The delegates included a wide array of political thinkers — Black Panther co-founder Bobby Seale, Pan-Africanist Amiri Baraka, PUSH founder Jesse Jackson, elected officials Ron Dellums, Charles Diggs, Walter Fauntroy, Richard Hatcher, Carl McCall, plus key women in the fight for racial equality -- Coretta Scott King, Betty Shabazz, Fannie Lou Hamer and Queen Mother Moore (who was arguing for reparations). Entertainers Harry Belafonte, Dick Gregory, Isaac Hayes and Richard Roundtree lent their star quality and entertained the crowds. Sidney Poitier & Harry Belafonte narrate the film.

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One of the most powerful films Greaves ever made, this is the director’s original 80-minute version that was never released. Found in a Pittsburgh warehouse in 2018, the 48-year-old negative was painstakingly restored by IndieCollect under the supervision of Louise Greaves, the director’s widow and filmmaking partner. (Kino Lorber)

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**dir. William Greaves, 1972***United States, digital projection*80 min‍

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## WEDNESDAY, 4/157:30 DOORS8:00 SCREENING

$10 general admission, $9 for members.

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*Whammy! is located in the REAR unit of 2514 Sunset Blvd, entrance access is via Rampart Blvd.*

NATIONTIME (1972)

WHAMMY!

The Servant in 4K

Yojimbo (Yojinbo) in 35mm

Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.

Phase IV

Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico&#8217;s military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as &#8220;the Bugs.&#8221;

Starship Troopers

Brain Dead Studios

Training Day / Narc

Reservoir Dogs

**Screenwriter**: Julia Ducournau

**Producers**: Éric Altmayer,  Nicolas Altmayer

Make room in your nightmares for Julia Ducournau&#8217;s brilliantly unsettling mix of body horror and familial trauma in the Cannes-winning director&#8217;s most human film to date with jaw-dropping visuals and a sinister tone of surreality and coming-of-age angst. Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm. As a mysterious virus spreads to pandemic proportions (with mind-blowing special effects), and a mysterious junky uncle comes to stay with them, Alpha must learn to navigate the nightmares of school, home, and health as her family&#8217;s ghosts haunt her present and future. Ducournau continues to prove herself to be one of world cinema&#8217;s most exciting voices &#8211; effortlessly elevating genre filmmaking to a transcendent experience &#8211; a slow burn through a dark dreamscape of plagues, puberty, and addiction.

Alpha

**Screenwriters**: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

**Producer**: Ethan Coen

The Dude abides in the Coen Brothers&#8217; quintessential Los Angeles stoner noir. Mistaken identity and a urine-covered rug drags aging hippie slacker The Dude (Jeff Bridges) into a surreal and menacing world of shady philanthropists, German nihilists, porn producers, bowling competitions, and a kidnapping plot that never was. Paying homage to Hollywood legends like Busby Berkeley and Robert Altman, the Coens bring us their best in a nod to the Los Angeles they love and a comedy nobody can deny.

**Picks from the Video Store**

The Coens have their own directors&#8217; shelf of masterpieces for you to take home, including these absolute bangers:

*The Hudsucker Proxy, Barton Fink, Burn Before Reading*

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

The Big Lebowski

**Screenwriters**: Stephen Chow,  Kan-Cheung Tsang,  Lee Lik-Chi,  Min Hun Fung

**Producer**: Kwok-fai Yeung

All his life, an ordinary young man (Stephen Chow) has been treated like dirt. Still, he&#8217;s never given up believing that all the world&#8217;s problems could be solved with a little kung fu. So he&#8217;s teaming up with a band of misfits &#8211; six friends who were kung fu masters in their youth &#8211; to form a soccer team that only he believes has a chance to win a $1 million grand prize. Together, they&#8217;re going to apply their hidden talents to a whole new game &#8212; and soccer will never be the same.

Shaolin Soccer

**Screenwriter**: Jon Moritsugu

**Producers**: Jacques Paisner

Are you ready to get skullf*&ed Vidiots?!? Lose your mind over the newest film from the living legends of DIY punk rock cinema &#8211; Jon Moritsugu and Amy Davis. Is it a movie? Is it a hallucination? You decide as satire and deconstruction collide in the high art scene with an eyeball-scorching onslaught of mind-blowing narrative madness and honey-laced pathos. *Fuck Art* with us in the microcinema as we delve into Shitsville USA and a contest between the world&#8217;s greatest art stars that includes video store drug trips, poisonous art displays, and artistic malaise to the hilt. As unhinged and insane as anything you&#8217;ve seen in the last decade, this one-of-a-kind specimen of strange is a cinematic acid trip to the max!

Numbskull Revolution

Torchy Gets Her Man/Torchy Blane in Chinatown

Batman Begins

The Wind Rises

A Man for All Seasons in 4K

The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru) in 35mm

After a global war, the seaside kingdom known as the Valley of the Wind remains one of the last strongholds on Earth untouched by a poisonous jungle and the powerful insects that guard it. Led by the courageous Princess Nausicaä, the people of the Valley engage in an epic struggle to restore the bond between humanity and Earth.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Doug is an awkward Florida drug addict. Divorced and alone, he shares custody of his young daughter with his ex. Doug&#8217;s reeling from losing his job at a local strip club, where he takes care of the fish in the aquarium. Things are beyond bleak &#8211; so Doug zips his boat out into the Gulf to end the pain of his reality. But at his lowest point, he discovers an injured Mermaid creature clinging to life. For Doug, it&#8217;s a sign from the Universe &#8211; so he brings her home, gives her shelter in his tub and begins to nurse her back to health. He even names her Destiny. As their rapport blossoms, word of his secret gets out and he is forced to protect his new friend by any means necessary.

Stick around after for a Q&A with director Tyler Cornack!

Mermaid

Tuesday–Friday, Sunday 10am–6:30pmSaturday 10am–9pmMonday Closed

Sounds of LA: Woven Verses: Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat in Concert

Getty Center

The only film written, directed, produced by and starring Eddie Murphy, this film, set in 1930s Harlem, imagines a world of Black nightlife, entrepreneurship and survival amid gangsters and corrupt cops.

Robert Townsend pens a soulful love letter to Black popular music in this film loosely inspired by Motown-era vocal groups. Following a fictional quintet from 1960s chart success through industry exploitation, infighting and addiction, the film delivers a clear-eyed critique of a business that profits from Black genius while denying Black ownership. Featuring a pop-history–rich script by Townsend and Keenen Ivory Wayans and a pitch-perfect ensemble performance, this story bridges generations of Black artistry and cinema as it beautifully reveals the spiritual power of brotherhood and Black music.—*guest programmer Artel Great*

Director: Robert Townsend. Screenwriters: Robert Townsend, Keenen Ivory Wayans. With: Robert Townsend, Michael Wright, Leon Robinson, Harry J. Lennix, Tico Wells, John Canada Terrell, Harold Nicholas, Diahann Carroll.

Harmony and Hustle: The Five Heartbeats

Hammer Museum

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

The Ogatas are an upper-class postwar Japanese family in which everyone has become trapped in a passionless marriage. The parents, Shingo and Yasuko, coexist without even pretending to love one another. Their daughter, Fusako, was married off against her will, and has since become estranged from her husband. Meanwhile, the marriage between the son, Shuichi, and his wife, Kikuko, begins to disintegrate. Instead of returning home, Shuichi opts to spend most of his evenings downing alcohol and, it is soon confirmed, seeing another woman. Shingo sets out in an effort to mend his son’s marriage, in an effort to save the happiness of his rueful daughter-in-law.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

35mm print courtesy of The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles Series co-presented by The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles and The Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities ‘Mikio Naruse: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

SOUND OF THE MOUNTAIN

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Shadow of the Vampire

Join us for the closing reception of In Every Flower The Face Of God, an exhibition of new mixed media work by Brian Merriam

In Every Flower the Face of God - Closing Reception & Zine Release

Philosophical Research Society

For the first time since its creation in 1979, *For Whose Entertainment *by renowned filmmaker, artist, and educator Ben Caldwell has its first public screening.

The film is a critique of Black comedians and their work, in which Caldwell asks who Black comedians are trying to appeal to and entertain most: Black audiences or white audiences? Through the use of appropriated footage and collage, the filmmaker deconstructs Blackness in entertainment in the 1960s and 1970s. *For Whose Entertainment* brings together important figures in Black film and scholarship, including documentary filmmaker St. Clair Bourne and cinema scholar Teshome Gabriel, to discuss issues around Black representation in film and television. Caldwell’s film oeuvre and life’s work is built around psychic healing for Black people, a self-mandate formed after serving as a soldier in the Vietnam War.

There will be a post-screening conversation with Ben Caldwell, film programmer Jheanelle Brown, and scholar and multimedia/film producer Robeson Taj Frazier.

For Whose Entertainment

REDCAT

**Screenwriters**: Dean DeBlois, Christopher Sanders

**Producer**: Clark Spencer

*Ohana means family. *Bring your little loved ones, and your fluffy adopted alien experiment to this tropical charmer. When Lilo adopts what she thinks is a puppy, she comes to discover she&#8217;s really welcomed a chaotic experiment from another planet. Created to create chaos in cities throughout the world, Stitch learns about family and friendship in a Hawaiian paradise. Hop on your surfboard, crank up the Elvis tunes, and catch a wave to this perennial delight.

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

Lilo & Stitch

**Screenwriter**: Daniel Mainwaring

**Producer**: Walter Wanger

The pod people are coming! The pod people are coming! Watch out for the alien invasion of this science fiction classic! In Santa Mira, California, Dr. Miles Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) is baffled when all his patients come to him with the same complaint: their loved ones seem to have been replaced by emotionless impostors. Despite others&#8217; dismissive denials, Dr. Bennell, his former girlfriend Becky (Dana Wynter) and his friend Jack (King Donovan) soon discover that the patients&#8217; suspicions are true: an alien species of human duplicates, grown from plant-like pods, is taking over the small town.

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

**Screenwriter**: Jie Du

**Producers**: Lili Chen,  Jie Du,  Kazuo Fukui

With a special introduction from **Carson Lund** (writer/director of *Eephus*)!

A haunting tale of youthful love and loss set along the dramatic Japan seaside, a mysterious ring found inside a fish connects two couples across time, place and the lines between the living and the dead.

In a quiet small town in rural Japan, Aoki, a cook, and Sugamoto, a pet shop worker, find comfort in their daily routine, sharing lunch together in the park. Their peaceful lives as young lovers shift when Sugamoto discovers a ring inside a fish and gifts it to Mochida in an awkward proposition.

Meanwhile, in a distant seaside village, innkeeper Mochida takes over an old small hotel, where the memory of Rin, a guest of the inn, lingers in eerie silence. When Sugamoto visits the inn, the past and present begin to dissolve into one another. Mochida, sensing an ominous pattern, follows her movements, unraveling a delicate tale where love, loss, and unseen forces intertwine. As the past seeps into the present, the boundaries between memory and reality blur, leaving behind a lingering question—was it love that endured, or something else entirely?

The Height of the Coconut Trees

**Screenwriters**: David Newman,  Robert Benton,  Robert Towne

**Producer**: Warren Beatty

The film had helped bring down the Hayes Code, Arthur Penn&#8217;s iconic crime classic was an incendiary piece of cinema in the late 1960s and remains one of the defining films of the genre thanks in part to legendary style and performances from Faye Dunaway, Warren Beatty, and Gene Hackman. In the 1930s, bored European-American waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with a European-American ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks. Too violent for the censors in Hollywood but nevertheless an international sensation that garnered 10 Oscar nominations, *Bonnie and Clyde* helped prove that the American public was ready to do away with an antiquated morality and embrace sex and violence on the big screen once again! Bring your partner in crime for one killer night of cinema!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Faye Dunaway is such an icon, take home some of her best unsung work tonight!

*The Eyes of Laura Mars, Puzzle of a Downfall Child, Network, Barfly*

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

Bonnie and Clyde

**Screenwriters**: Allen DeBevoise,  Charles Parker,  Gerald Scaife

**Producers**: Allen DeBevoise,  David Zito

You have been challenged to a dance off! Dust off your 80s fits, because Vidiots is ready to hit the streets with Turbo, Ozone, and all the flyest breakdancing moves of 1984 in this quintessential 80s cult classic! Kelly has had it with the stuffy world of professional dance, but she can&#8217;t give up her passion. When she meets two street dancers who&#8217;ve got the freshest pops, locks, and head spins on the West Coast, all three team up, share moves and get ready to take the dance-off by storm!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home all the Hip Hop cult classics of the 1980s!

*Wild Style, Beat Street, Rappin&#8217;, Delivery Boys*

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

Breakin’

Libeled Lady

Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk

Los Angeles Filmforum and Dirty Looks present *Filmforum 50, program 11: Flaming Creatures: The Films of Jack Smith.*

Five films, all screening in 16mm, TRT 72 min. Mature subject matter (ages 18+ only).

Full program notes and lineup at: https://www.lafilmforum.org/schedule/

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This screening is dedicated to Agosto Machado (????-2026), “a lady never tells.”

Appearing in the films are luminaries Jack Smith, Mario Montez, Francis Francine, Judith Malina, Tony Oursler and Tiny Tim. Flaming Creatures was produced for $300\*.\*

*Jack Smith (1932–1989) was a New York-based filmmaker, photographer, and actor known for his pioneering influence in experimental filmmaking and performance art. Smith moved to New York City in 1953, where he attended film classes at the City College of New York, finding employment as a photographer. He studied dance with Ruth St. Denis, direction with Lee Strasberg, and worked as an actor and assistant with Ken Jacobs before shooting his first film, Scotch Tape, in 1959. His best-known film, Flaming Creatures (1963), was confiscated by the New York Police Department and banned throughout the United States due to nudity and charges of obscenity. Smith never again created a finished artwork. His next film, Normal Love (1963), was often re-spliced as it ran, repeatedly reedited, and regularly awarded new titles such as Normal Fantasy, Exotic Landlordism of Crab Lagoon, and The Great Pasty Triumph. From the late 1960s into the 1980s, Smith focused on theater and performance, and combined live happenings with screenings of films and slideshows. Throughout his life, Smith pioneered a radical artistic practice that challenged the economic conditions of late capitalism, fixed definitions of gender and sexuality, and the production and dissemination of art itself. Smith’s influence pervades experimental filmmaking and performance art in the US to this day, and is present in the works of Andy Warhol, John Waters, Laurie Anderson, and Cindy Sherman, among countless others. In 1998, The Institute for Contemporary Art/P.S.1 Museum mounted Jack Smith: Flaming Creature: His Amazing Life and Times, a retrospective of his work that traveled to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Berkeley, California; and Berlin, Germany*

Filmforum 50: Flaming Creatures – The Films of Jack Smith

Ordinary People in 35mm

Janie Geiser’s Time, a substance

We’re proud to present a program of films by the Quay Brothers, featuring *IN ABSENTIA*, *THE COMB*, and *STREET OF CROCODILES*, alongside Christopher Nolan&#8217;s QUAY (2015).

Working between literature, music, and dream logic, the Quays build dense, tactile worlds out of dust, thread, and shadow. Their films feel unearthed rather than made, intimate and uncanny in equal measure.

Presented in 35mm!

The Quay Brothers

A figure known as &#8220;The Assassin&#8221; descends from the heavens into a nightmarish pit full of monsters, titans, and cruelty.

Mad God

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS might be Japanese filmmaker Mikio Naruse’s finest hour—a delicate, devastating study of a woman, Keiko (played heartbreakingly by Hideko Takamine), who works as a bar hostess in Tokyo’s very modern postwar Ginza district, who entertains businessmen after work. Sly, resourceful, but trapped, Keiko comes to embody the conflicts and struggles of a woman trying to establish her independence in a male-dominated society.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS

*Harlem Nights* marks the only film written, directed, produced by and starring Eddie Murphy. Set in 1930s Harlem, the film imagines a world of Black nightlife, entrepreneurship and survival amid gangsters and corrupt cops. Anchored by a jazzy score blending big band and Duke Ellington standards, the film unites three generations of Black comedy — Redd Foxx, Richard Pryor and Murphy — alongside an overflowing ensemble cast. Often misunderstood on release, *Harlem Nights* stands as a bold assertion of authorship and creative control, envisioning Black autonomy over space, style and destiny.—*guest programmer Artel Great*

Director/Screenwriter: Eddie Murphy. With: Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Jasmine Guy, Della Reese.

The Last Laugh: Harlem Nights and the Legacy of Comedy as Resistance

High Society  / Pride of the Blue Grass

The LA Premiere of a rare voyage into trippy Soviet sci-fi animation—feat. a beloved classic & two mindbending shorts by Vladimir Tarasov!

THE MYSTERY OF THE THIRD PLANET (1981) + Tarasov's THE RETURN & THE PASS

Bring your gently loved clothes and household items and leave with something new to you! Enjoy free plant-based food and authentic Palestinian coffee while you shop :)

Suggested donation: $10+ (NOTAFLOF)

Supporting 16 verified families in Gaza.

Bring pieces to swap, small household items (nothing too heavy or large), accessories, books, art, or just yourself!

Please leave at home: underwear, bras, baby clothes, heavy/sharp items, dirty/stained clothing.

Masks required- this is a covid-conscious event.

Donations accepted until 4pm day of swap!

2-5pm

L.A. Swap for Gaza

Night of Solidarity for Iran: April 26th

Live Music (A Meditation for Peace)

& Educational Panel


Houman Pourmehdi, master musician 

Assal Rad & Pouya Alimagham, renowned historians 

DJ Rose Knows, extraordinaire


Scribble 5541 York Blvd Los Angeles 90042

7PM Doors, 7:30PM Show. FREE



Night of Solidarity For Iran

Scribble

**Screenwriters**: Michael Burton,  Matt McManus

**Producers**: Robert Wald,  Dmitri Villard

A super fun intergalactic adventure for kiddos of all ages, this 1980s Disney live action fantasy classic will bring your imagination to the stars. 12-year-old David is accidentally knocked out in the forest near his home, but when he awakens eight years have passed. His family is overjoyed to have him back, but is just as perplexed as he is that he hasn&#8217;t aged. When a NASA scientist discovers a UFO nearby, David gets the chance to unravel the mystery and recover the life he lost. Full of top-notch special effects, a touching story, and an extra helping of nostalgia, you&#8217;ll want an extra ticket for this fantastic flight!

**Picks from the Video Store**

Looking for more family-friendly science fiction? Take a trip with these fantastic adventures!

*Batteries Not Included, The Explorers, Short Circuit* (I+II)

**Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

Flight of the Navigator

Join us in the microcinema for a local piece of musical history. This homegrown concert film directed by **Charlie Weinmann** documents the August 20, 2025 performance by guitarist/bandleader **Jeff Parker** and his **ETA IVtet** (with drummer **Jay Bellerose**, bassist **Anna Butterss**, and saxophonist **Josh Johnson**) at Highland Park, Los Angeles venue **Lodge Room**, which yielded the band&#8217;s forthcoming album ***Happy Today*** (to be released by **International Anthem** and **Nonesuch Records** on May 15, 2026).
*Happy Today* is the ETA IVtet’s first recording made outside of the now-shuttered, widely-beloved Highland Park, Los Angeles micro-club ETA. Part laboratory, part low-stakes proving ground, ETA was where the band’s collective sound coalesced over the course of a storied seven-year Monday night residency that yielded two critically-acclaimed records — 2022’s *Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy* and 2024’s *The Way Out of Easy* — the latter of which debuted #1 on the *Billboard* Contemporary Jazz Charts, and was called &#8220;a testament to the power of live jazz&#8221; by *The Guardian*.

With *Happy Today*, the ETA IVtet&#8217;s sound — honed in such an intimate setting — is scaled up for a much larger audience and space at Lodge Room. But the essential formula of the music remains the same, and has the same hypnotic, deeply-tuned listening effect. The almost alchemical musical communication between Parker, Bellerose, Butterss, and Johnson creates a feeling of connection not only between the band but also between the band and their audience – an ongoing trust exercise that invites listeners to become part of the exchange, and experience the joy of deep listening.

A shadow-laden, almost noirish capture of the band in its full sprawling glory, Weinmann’s *Happy Today* film makes the joyful experience of Parker&#8217;s now-legendary, ever-elusive ETA IVtet – a band who only ever played at a single small Los Angeles venue for the first seven years of their existence, and have only played a few shows since that venue closed at the end of 2023 – viewable and widely-accessible for the first time.

Jeff Parker – ETA IVtet – Happy Today

**Screenwriters**: Mohamed Abu Youssef, Abdel Hay Adib

**Producer**: Gabriel Talhami

A phenomenal melodrama, Hitchcockian thriller, and biting commentary on Egypt&#8217;s path to progress, Youssef Chahine&#8217;s *Cairo Station* remains one of the greatest films in Egyptian history. Qinawi (played by director Youssef Chahine), a physically challenged newspaper salesman obsesses over Hanuma, an attractive young woman who sells illegal spirits in the train station. In love with Abu Siri &#8211; a porter at the station attempting to unionize his fellow workers &#8211;  Hanuma teases Qinawi with the possibilities of love. His obsession turning to blood lust, the film dives to a thrilling conclusion. Banned in Egypt for over 20 years, this examination of the country as a whole through the microcosm of a train station shocked the Arab world with its forward-thought.

**Picks from the Video Store**

Take home more masterpieces from the great Youssef Chahine on DVD tonight!

*Alexandria&#8230;Why?, An Egyptian Story, Alexandria Again and Forever*

**Accessibility Options**: Open Captions, Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

Cairo Station

Our quarterly VHS vendor fair returns, Sunday, Jan. 25th!

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## VENDORS:

TBA

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## FOOD:

Cliq Claq Pizza

Spinboy Coffee

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## TATTOOS:

Lowkey Los Angeles

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## SUNDAY, 4/26Noon to 4pFree admission!

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Our VHS SWAP happens every 3 months, on the last Sunday of the month.

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See you there!

APRIL VHS SWAP!

Marathon Man in 4K

Dodes’ka-den in 35mm

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

From visionary director Harmony Korine comes a bold new vision of the seasonal American ritual known as “spring break”—the bacchanalia of bikinis, beach parties and beer bongs that draws hordes of college students to the Florida coast and elsewhere each year.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: A24

COUNTRY: USA

Cinematic Void Presents SPRING BREAKERS

The Ape Man / Voodoo Man / Bela Lugosi Meets A Brooklyn Gorilla

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Season 2, Episode 12, “The Black Widow****,” Dir. Caleb Deschanel, 46 Mins**

Audrey has photos that may save Cooper.

FORMAT: DCP

**Season 2, Episode 13, “Checkmate****,” Dir. ****Todd Holland****, 46 Mins**

Andy and Dick search Little Nicky’s files.

FORMAT: DCP

**Season 2, Episode 14, “Double Play****,” Dir. ****Uli Edel****, 46 Mins**

The rivalry between Cooper and Earle is revealed.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

**TWIN PEAKS, 1990, Paramount, USA**

A crime drama mixed with healthy doses of the surreal, this series is about FBI Agent Dale Cooper, who travels to the small logging town of Twin Peaks to solve the murder of seemingly innocent high schooler Laura Palmer. Almost nothing is as it seems, however, and the show’s sometimes eerie visuals, oddball characters and wild dream sequences drive the point home.

“The Black Widow,” “Checkmate” and “Double Play” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 12, 13 & 14

**Screenwriter**: Jacques Demy

**Producers**: Mag Bodard,  Gilbert de Goldschmidt

Jacques Demy followed up *The Umbrellas of Cherbourg* with another musical about missed connections and second chances, this one a more effervescent confection. Twins Delphine and Solange, a dance instructor and a music teacher (played by real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac), long for big-city life; when a fair comes through their quiet port town, so does the possibility of escape. With its jazzy Michel Legrand score, pastel paradise of costumes, and divine supporting cast (George Chakiris, Grover Dale, Danielle Darrieux, Michel Piccoli, and Gene Kelly), *The Young Girls of Rochefort* is a tribute to Hollywood optimism from sixties French cinema’s preeminent dreamer.

**Picks from the Video Store******

Take home more Catherine Deneuve tonight on Blu-Ray and DVD!

*La Chamade, Donkey Skin, Un Flic***

**Accessibility Options**: Open Captions, Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.

The Young Girls of Rochefort

Up In Smoke/In The Money

Acropolis Cinema presents *The Slow Business of Going*, directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2001.

Part of "Worlds Apart: The Films of Athina Rachel Tsangari," a complete retrospective of the Greek director's films presented by Acropolis Cinema and MUBI and running from April 17 - May 9 at 2220 Arts + Archives, Vidiots, and the Los Feliz 3.

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William Gibson meets Samuel Beckett in Tsangari’s feature directorial debut, an exhilarating, shape-shifting work set mostly in the indeterminate spaces of hotel rooms and aboard a barge in Texas, as Global Nomad Project representative Petra Going (Lizzie Curry Martinez) travels the world, generating and transmitting memories back to the Experience Data Agency. Audaciously stylized and charming in its singular brand of lo-fi sci-fi, *The Slow Business of Going* radically changes forms (and, frequently, formats) with each strange situation Petra finds herself in. The result is a fast and funny ode to life without a home base and a stimulating exploration of human consciousness between the real and the virtual. (Film at Lincoln Center)

TRT: 101 min

In person: Athina Rachel Tsangari

Acropolis Cinema: The Slow Business of Going (Tsangari, 2001)

La La Land in 35mm

Eddy Furlong is a naughty boy, getting involved with some serious dickheads. Muscly big bro Ed Norton gets out of jail and says no way to his racist past. Regret, tragedy and reckoning in this late &#8217;90s classic.

American History X

Make Me a Star / Don’t Gamble with Strangers

**Screenwriter**: Jacques Demy

**Producers**: Mag Bodard,  Gilbert de Goldschmidt

Jacques Demy followed up *The Umbrellas of Cherbourg* with another musical about missed connections and second chances, this one a more effervescent confection. Twins Delphine and Solange, a dance instructor and a music teacher (played by real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac), long for big-city life; when a fair comes through their quiet port town, so does the possibility of escape. With its jazzy Michel Legrand score, pastel paradise of costumes, and divine supporting cast (George Chakiris, Grover Dale, Danielle Darrieux, Michel Piccoli, and Gene Kelly), *The Young Girls of Rochefort* is a tribute to Hollywood optimism from sixties French cinema’s preeminent dreamer.

Let's Go Navy/Here Come the Marines

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant portrait of a quartet of aging geishas contemplating their troubles with men and money.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan

LATE CHRYSANTHEMUMS

Aero Theatre

Join us for an evening of chess and community at Heavy Manners Library. Play against friends and strangers, with all skill levels welcome. Free donuts will also be provided!

Echo Park Chess Club at Heavy Manners Library (4/30)

Heavy Manners Library

Lassie's Great Adventure/The Green Hornet

Join host Katja Bartholmess for an open writing studio at Heavy Manners Library from 1-3! No frills, no prompts, just write!

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Manuscripts, Screenplays, Articles … whatever you’re working on, let’s do it in each other’s company!

Afternoon Writing Session**

1:00pm to 3:00pm

Drop in and stay a while!

Writing Gets Lonely: Open Writing Studio (5/1)

Parajanov’s iconic masterwork—an intimate, near-wordless portrait of Armenian cultural memory, rendered in pure visual poetry.

Sergei Parajanov’s THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES (1969)

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three in 35mm

High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku) in 35mm

Tootsie in 35mm

The Hireling in 35mm

Sanjuro in 35mm

Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back with Billy Dee Williams

May 3 · 6pm–10pm at Brain Dead Studios.

50/50 Comedy is a one-night international short film festival dedicated to platforming and connecting the next generation of comedic talent.

Past editions have brought together filmmakers and industry guests from CAA, UTA, WME, 3 Arts and more.

Purchase of ticket will include entrance to the festival + meal & concessions are included.

Our last Comedy Festival honored Kyle Mooney with the first ever 50/50 Achievement Award.

Parking is limited and Uber/Lyft is recommended.

50/50 Comedy

Lightstruck is elated to present two full evenings of rarely screened animated shorts from one of the most significant centers of experimental animation production and creativity in the history of the medium: Poland. Spanning the early 1960s to the late 1980s, these two programs (March 26 and April 16) will showcase an incredibly eclectic selection focusing on little-known masterworks and deep-cut revelations, all screening in recent restorations.

Poland has an extraordinary animation history marked by radical experimentation in technique and texture, investigating dark and complex themes inspired by social critique and surrealist visions alike. Spanning stop motion, cutout, cel, paint on glass, and hand-drawn approaches, these programs extend to include exceptional techniques such as Zbig Rybczyński’s hyper-complex optical printing, Piotr Dumała’s exquisite renderings on plaster slabs, and Julian Antonisz’s unhinged cameraless animation produced on ingenious, visionary devices of his own making. A morbid and uneasy humor often punctuates these works, which pulse with rich, emotional, and dramatic narratives and themes matched only by the exceptional imagination and talents of their authors.

We selected the films for these programs with an emphasis on shorts not generally available on home media, and spanning a particularly diverse array of styles, aesthetics, techniques, and sensibilities. Widely celebrated artists like Rybczyński, Antonisz, Ryszard Czekała, and Jerzy Kucia will be represented by lesser known (but magnificent) offerings, while deeply memorable obscurities from Jacek Kasprzycki, Zofia Oraczewska, Ryszard Antoniszczak, and Ewa Bibańska will further illuminate Poland’s incredible spectrum of animation genius.

Programs by Zena Grey and Mark Toscano. Notes by Mark Toscano. Films courtesy of Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych (+ thanks to Stanisław Bardadin) and Filmoteka Narodowa – Instytut Audiowizualny (+ thanks to Adrian Smykowski and Julia Bachman).

Polish Animation #2: Chance & Transition (1975-89)

501(c)3 arts organization in DTLA dedicated to experimental video, sound & performance art.

Shadow Kitchen returns to Coaxial Arts with Animation Spring Mix: a super bloom of eight animated short films made by Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artists. These works demonstrate the visually diverse nature of animation made by filmmakers with tactile backgrounds in painting, illustration and sculpture. Whether the films are non-fiction, observational, or revealing the surreal and emotional world behind the veil of everyday experience, they are painstakingly created frame by frame. These are unique and tender films blending hand-drawn, painted, printed, digital and collaged storytelling forms. 
Select artists will be in attendance for Q&A. 

The Program:
Creatures of Chaos by Asavari Kumar
Busy Bodies by Kate Renshaw-Lewis
En La Esquina by Patricia luna
Evacuations by Lilli Carré
Stand Alone by Soyeon Kim
Umbilical by Danski Tang
Up Close by Sam Gurry
Deluge by Meejin Hong

Shadow Kitchen presents: Animation Spring Mix

Coaxial

The lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a party in 1932 in a country house in England as they investigate a murder involving one of them.

Gosford Park


Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy – who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy’s chatty butler must suss out the culprit before the body count rises.

Clue

Gardena Cinema is the oldest and only vintage single-screen stand-alone movie cinema in Southwest Los Angeles.

Monthly short film festival. Watch and vote. Audience award to the best short film each month. Annual championship in DECEMBER.

MOVIE SCREENERS CLUB (Thu. 4/16) 7:30pm

Gardena Cinema

Echo Park Chess Club at Heavy Manners Library (4/16)

The Mystery of the 13th Guest / The Living Ghost / The Face of Marble

Join us for a screening of the exhilarating documentary about the legendary GRAMMY-winning musician - Billy Preston followed by a Q&A!

BILLY PRESTON: THAT’S THE WAY GOD PLANNED IT Screening  & Q&A

Men of San Quentin/The Miracle Kid

### **ABOUT THE FILM:**

The legendary midnight movie sensation that firmly embedded samurai mythology within American pop culture consciousness, this English-dubbed reedit of the first two films in the classic Japanese *chanbara* series LONE WOLF AND CUB is a giddily entertaining, mesmerisingly gory classic of East-meets-West grindhouse mayhem. Following the murder of his wife at the hands of an evil shogun, an avenging ronin (Tomisaburo Wakayama) roams the countryside with his young son—and the boy’s sword-shooting baby carriage—in tow, dispatching ninja assassins with steely resolve in operatically stylized flurries of hallucinatory violence. With its pulsing synth soundtrack and delirious action set pieces—kinetically edited whirlwinds of flashing blades, spurting blood, and severed limbs—SHOGUN ASSASSIN proved an instant cult favorite that has bubbled its way up from the underground to the mainstream thanks to its influence on artists ranging from the Wu-Tang Clan to Quentin Tarantino.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Japan/USA

Co-presented by 36 Cinema Special thanks to Harry Guerro for the print ‘Cinematic Void’

Cinematic Void Presents SHOGUN ASSASSIN

Get ready for a night of pure, unfiltered absurdity as Netflix Is a Joke Fest presents a special screening of the original The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!—the film that redefined the spoof comedy genre and cemented Lt. Frank Drebin as an all-time cult hero.

Get ready for a night of pure, unfiltered absurdity as Netflix Is a Joke Fest presents a special screening of the original The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!—the film that redefined the spoof comedy genre and cemented Lt. Frank Drebin as an all-time cult hero.


The Naked Gun: From The Files of Police Squad!

### **ABOUT THE EPISODES:**

**Season 2, Episode 15, “Slaves and Masters,” Dir. Diane Keaton, 46 Mins**

Earle sends a “message” to Cooper.

FORMAT: DCP

**Season 2, Episode 16, “The Condemned Woman,” Dir. Lesli Linka Glatter, 47 Mins**

Albert reveals that it was Josie who shot Cooper.

FORMAT: DCP

### **ABOUT THE SERIES:**

**TWIN PEAKS, 1990, Paramount, USA**

A crime drama mixed with healthy doses of the surreal, this series is about FBI Agent Dale Cooper, who travels to the small logging town of Twin Peaks to solve the murder of seemingly innocent high schooler Laura Palmer. Almost nothing is as it seems, however, and the show’s sometimes eerie visuals, oddball characters and wild dream sequences drive the point home.

“Slaves and Masters” and “The Condemned Woman” ‘TWIN PEAKS: The Complete Series’

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 15 & 16

Seven in 4K

Join drawings curator Stephanie Schrader and Getty's sustainability director Camille Kirk for a behind-the-scenes experience in the private study room of Getty's drawings collection. Look closely and hear about works that depict nature and flowers in celebration of Mother Earth and Mother's Day. 

A Bouquet of Drawings

Join us for a screening of *Of Color and Ink*, a documentary about the remarkable journey of artist Chang Dai-chien (1899–1983), China’s foremost painter of the 20th century. Director Weimin Zhang documents her 12-year journey to unravel the mysteries and controversies surrounding Chang’s decades of exile in South America, Europe, and the United States. In the 1940s, Chang spent a formative period in Dunhuang, studying and copying the ancient Mogao Cave murals— [the subject of a 2016 Getty Research Institute exhibition][1]—which inspired renewed public interest in the murals and refined Chang’s techniques. *Of Color and Ink* offers an illuminating, revelatory, and entertaining exploration of one of the most influential giants of 20th-century art.

The film will be followed by a conversation with director and producer Weimin Zhang, writer Carl Nagin, director of the Chang Dai-chien Research Center Yudan Zhang, and USC professor Meiling Cheng.

After the screening, join us for a reception sponsored by the Getty Research Institute Council.

DIRECTED, PRODUCED and EDITED BY: Weimin Zhang. 102 minutes, 2024. Chinese with English subtitles.

This program is part of the [Art on Screen][2] series, which celebrates moving-image media and its intersection with art and art histories.

誠邀您參加紀錄片《萬里千尋》（Of Color and Ink）的放映及研討會。本片講述了從東方走向西方的藝術家張大千（1899–1983）的非凡人生歷程。作為20世紀中國最重要的畫家之一，張大千曾被譽為「五百年來第一人」 以及「東方的畢加索」。

導演張偉民歷時十二年，影片深入挖掘大量珍貴的歷史活動影像與文獻資料，真實呈現張大千鮮為人知的海外藝術生涯， 極具文獻價值。20世紀40年代，張大千曾在敦煌度過一段重要時期，潛心研究並臨摹莫高窟壁畫——這一主題亦成為2016年蓋蒂研究所展覽的焦點——不僅重新激發了世人對敦煌壁畫的關注，也進一步錘鍊並昇華了他的藝術技法。

透過創新的影像語言與視覺風格，《萬里千尋》通過對歷史影像的深入挖掘與分析，以及大量實地調研與紀錄拍攝，生動刻畫了一位東方藝術家對中國傳統文化理念的堅守與傳播，使當代觀眾得以感受這位具有全球影響力的藝術家的心路歷程。

放映結束後，將舉行映後對談。出席嘉賓包括導演兼製片人張偉民、作家 Carl Nagin、四川博物院張大千研究中心主任張玉丹，以及主持人——南加州大學戲劇批評研究教授鄭美玲。

The conversation will be available on the [Getty Research Institute YouTube channel][3] following the event.

Visit the Getty Research Institute's [Exhibitions and Events page][4] for more free programs.


  [1]: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/cave_temples_dunhuang/index.html
  [2]: https://www.getty.edu/whats-on/art-on-screen/
  [3]: https://www.youtube.com/c/gettyresearch
  [4]: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/

Screening: *Of Color and Ink*

Join us to celebrate the opening of a new art exhibition featuring the experimental and esoteric work of Harry Smith!

Brain Drawings: The Art of Harry Smith - Gallery Exhibition Opening

Red Beard (Akahige) in 35mm

Commune with the birds and the bees, the flowers and the trees, in a living work of art created by Robert Irwin.  Experience the wonder of the spring garden through the eyes of an artist in this 45-minute tour led by Getty Horticulturist Jackie Flor. 

National Public Gardens Day

Ponyo

Join us for a special Earth Day celebration featuring ecological artist and herbalist Paige Emery, which will include a talk and brunch inspired by historical cookbooks from the Getty Library collection.

While visitors enjoy select recipes, Paige will be joined in conversation with Melissa Goldstein—founder and editor of *Mother Tongue* magazine—to explore rituals of remembering the earth. Together, they will reflect on how art, healing practices, and ecological thought can reconnect us to ancestral memory and inspire more just and embodied futures. 

Following the talk, Emery will perform a sound piece in the Getty Central Garden, weaving together the healing arts and critical ecology, ecopoetics and socio-environmental practice, inviting us to imagine deeper relationships with the natural world.

This event is part of the Getty Research Institute’s [*Tastemakers*][1] series, featuring communal gatherings inspired by cookbooks from the Getty Library. 

Visit the Getty Research Institute's [Exhibitions and Events page][2] for more free programs.


  [1]: https://www.getty.edu/whats-on/tastemakers/
  [2]: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/

Tastemakers: Earth Mother with Paige Emery

Intro to Leatherworking

While making a small accessories pouch, learn the basics of working with leather. This will cover different types of leather, terms and tools for working with chrome tanned pieces. This is a hands class on with sharp tools and Sharpies and is intended for beginners 14 years and older. Leave the class with a new appreciation for leather and take home a small finished pouch and a pattern to make more if you fall in love with the craft!

For more work by C&J Goods visit...

[http://www.candjgoods.com](http://www.candjgoods.com/)

Intro to Leatherworking w/ C & J Goods (5/9)

Alexandre Estrela: *RedSkyFalls *is an installation that responds in real time to Earth’s internal rumblings – an artificial ecosystem with pre-digital sensibility. In *RedSkyFalls*, the mountainous landscape of a computer desktop serves as a habitat for aquatic plants and small luminous organisms with an animal intuition, the *Réplicas*, nestled inside the grooves of aluminium plates. Alexandre Estrela: *RedSkyFalls *is on view at the Portugal Pavilion of the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia from **May 9 to November 22**, and is curated by Ana Baliza and Ricardo Nicolau.

Built from a calibrated mix of animal parts drawn from a dark cauldron, each *Réplica* borrows its vital pulse from the beat of a heart in a fly’s leg, the wave of a fish larva’s tail, and the quiver of a rat’s whisker. This patchwork of movement engraves onto the metal plate a linear fossil, a path where light generates a figure that continuously fulfills its hollow-graphic fate.

From **May 9-July 5,** REDCAT hosts a reproduction of one of the *Réplicas* of *RedSkyFalls*. In Los Angeles, as in Venice, the piece reacts to live seismic activity worldwide. Other *Réplicas* will be installed in San Francisco, California (CCA Wattis Institute); Lima, Peru (Museo de Arte de Lima, MALI); and Lisbon, Portugal (Galeria Zé dos Bois). The piece is installed in highly seismic geographies, where it responds to tectonic events with higher synchronicity, building an extended relational infrastructure. 

[More about *RedSkyFalls*](http://www.redskyfalls.com) by Alexandre Estrela at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.

RedSkyFalls (Réplica): 61st La Biennale di Venezia – Portuguese Pavilion

Terms of Endearment in 35mm

### **ABOUT THE FILMS:**

**FLOWING, 1956, Dir. Mikio Naruse, 116 Mins, Janus Films, Japan**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Three super-stars lead a great cast: head-of-the-geisha-house Isuzu Yamada looks on the bright side, while daughter Hideko Takamine works that sewing machine. But quietly observing maid Kinuyo Tanaka is the only one who actually realizes the inevitable end of their world in a harsh post-war Tokyo.

FORMAT: 35mm

**MOTHER, 1952, Dir. Mikio Naruse, 98 Mins, Janus Films, Japan**

*In Japanese with English subtitles.*

Based on a children’s essay adapted by famed Japanese screenwriter Yoko Mizuki in her first work for Naruse, Mother stars the legendary actress-director Kinuyo Tanaka as a beleaguered working class matron, whose self-sacrificing efforts to maintain her family during Tokyo’s postwar reconstruction make her a paragon of maternal virtue in the eyes of her teenage daughter Toshiko (Kyoko Kagawa). Toshiko idealizes her mother and the value system she embodies, a naive perspective that pleasantly lifts what in fact unfurls as a bitterly sad, episodic tale of slow-burn economic emmiseration. Anticipating the films of Hou Hsiao-hsien in its ironically sentimental vision of Confucian dissolution, Naruse’s film is a melodramatic tearjerker for the ages.

FORMAT: 35mm

Mother’s Day Screening 35mm prints courtesy of The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles Series co-presented by The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles and The Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities ‘Mikio Naruse: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

Tuesday, 4/14

2220 Arts + Archives

LA Filmforum: Stacey Steers – Alchemical Collages

7:30 PM

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Egyptian Theatre

GoodFellas

7:00 PM

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Eastern Promises

10:15 PM

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Los Feliz Theatre

TWIN PEAKS: Season 2, Ep. 10 & 11

7:00 PM

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New Beverly Cinema

The Crime of the Century

Her Bodyguard

7:30 PM

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Vidiots

Sweet 16mm: Mid-Century Social Guidance Classics

7:00 PM

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Real Women Have Curves

7:30 PM

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Vista Theatre

The Drama

12:00 PM, 3:45 PM, 7:15 PM

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Mr. Muggs Steps Out/Follow the Leader

2:00 PM

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Tuesday, 4/14