Film & Media Arts

Film & Media Arts

For video artists and underground filmmakers, the shadow of Southern California’s outsized film industry provides the perfect environment to experiment. Kenneth Anger’s visual anarchy and Paul McCarthy’s grotesqueries tested audiences’ patience, earned critical acclaim, and urged viewers to contemplate the nature of art itself. Video, as a medium, toys with expectations of the audience. It appropriates the format of surveillance films and amateur home footage, revealing the intimacy and paranoia of watching and being watched. The media arts is a slice of life or a exploration of dreams, codifying the human experience into moving images.

Los Angeles + Film/Media Arts

Sidewalk Stories: The Photography of William Reagh

by Lynell George

January 11, 2013 1:00 AM

Since arriving in L.A. in the 1930s, William Reagh captured a sense of the city's humanity during its most vigorous years of growth and urban renewal.

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Imperial + Film/Media Arts

Dispatches From the Border Reporters: The Story of Sergio Haro, 'Zeta Weekly' and the Documentary Film 'Reportero'

by Marco Vera

January 7, 2013 1:00 AM

Sergio Haro, veteran photojournalist and editor of "Semanario Zeta" is the subject of the documentary film "Reportero."

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San Bernardino + Film/Media Arts

Waitress Anthropologist Candacy Taylor Goes Beyond 'the Counter'

by Ted Quinn

January 4, 2013 1:00 AM

San Francisco photojournalist Candacy Taylor followed her interest in the social dynamics of traditional female work roles to Twentynine Palms and never looked back. Salons and diners are her subjects of choice.

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Counties

Artbound 2012: Best of Film and Media Arts

by Artbound

December 26, 2012 1:00 AM

We selected the best 2012 articles and videos from the category: Film and Media Arts.

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San Luis Obispo + Film/Media Arts

Surfing's First Filmmaker: Preserving the Legacy of Bud Browne

by Sarah Linn

December 3, 2012 1:00 AM

The legacies of two surfing icons -- big-wave surfer Buzzy Trent and pioneering surf filmmaker Bud Browne -- live on in the form of the Bud Browne Film Archives.

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Orange + Film/Media Arts

Siempre es Hoy: Capturing the Latin Alternative Moment

by Lilledeshan Bose

November 5, 2012 1:00 AM

Twenty years ago, musician Emilio Morales started La Banda Elástica as a fanzine. It featured huge Latin alternative acts at a time when no other American publication did.

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Los Angeles + Film/Media Arts

David LaChapelle's Seismic Shift

by Shana Nys Dambrot

October 31, 2012 1:00 AM

Photographer David LaChapelle takes on the world of high-stakes museum collections in his newest mammoth work -- a singular vision of destruction that pits nature against culture. Guess who wins.

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Los Angeles

Falling In Love With A Story: Christiane Kubrick on the Legacy of Stanley Kubrick

by Drew Tewksbury

October 30, 2012 5:09 PM

LACMA and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences debut the first U.S. retrospective of Kubrick's work on November 1. Artbound caught up with Christiane Harlan, Kubrick's wife of over four decades.

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Los Angeles + Film/Media Arts

Jan Harlan: The Man Behind Stanley Kubrick

by Drew Tewksbury

October 26, 2012 3:15 PM

LACMA and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences debut the first U.S. retrospective of Kubrick's work on November 1. Artbound caught up with Jan Harlan, Kubrick's producer of all his films after "Barry Lyndon" (1975) to talk about the work of the legendary director.

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Riverside + Film/Media Arts

Representing Revolt: Images of the Mexican Revolution

by Tyler Stallings

October 24, 2012 1:00 AM

Mexico at the Hour of Combat: Sabino Osuna's Photographs of the Mexican Revolution is an exhibition on view at UC Riverside's California Museum of Photography from November 3, 2012 to January 5, 2013.

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