Holly Willis
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Holly Willis teaches in USC's School of Cinematic Arts and writes about new media art. She is the author of "New Digital Cinema: Reinventing the Moving Image" and editor of "The New Ecology of Things" on pervasive computing.
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Several of Los Angeles' greatest visual innovators -- Sharon Lockhart, Thom Andersen, and Natalie Bookchin -- present their work this week, demonstrating our city's incredible diversity in cinematic exploration.
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Abigail Child brings her brilliant experimental films and video to REDCAT, showing how words and images merge to create a new poetics.
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The future still looks to the past for inspiration - this week Abigail Child recalls early cinematic techniques for contemporary visual exploration and the Academy recalls the early days of projection...
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The best of cinema history is on view this week, with the work of avant-garde icon Maya Deren, the remarkable eight-hour documentary Shoah, and the 24-hour collage film "The Clock" by Christian Marclay.
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REDCAT will screen Daniel Eisenberg's extraordinary visual essay exploring objects, how they're made and what they mean as the nexus between the maker and the consumer.
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Radical, experimental and avidly political filmmakers are featured on the screens of L.A. theaters this week, from Jon Jost to Rose Lowder, Dziga Vertov to Kurt Kren.
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Animation figures prominently this week in LA's media art scene, with a festival, feature film, and more...
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Los Angeles offers a rich subject for artistic inquiry, evidenced this week by several permutations of the city in film, video, drawing, urban planning and provocative discussion.
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This week's media art scene includes one of the most radical films in the history of cinema, experiments with magic and moving images, and a 24-hour tribute to an LA icon.
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M.G. Lord argues that the stunning Elizabeth Taylor used her beauty to surreptitiously grapple with key issues for women, making her an accidental feminist.
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Many of L.A.'s great media artists have work screening or on view this week in shows across the city, from historic highlights to brand new efforts.
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Sex, singing and Soviet filmmaking figure prominently in this week's media art scene.
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REDCAT will showcase a collection of iconic music videos from the '80s, each an experiment with a different technique designed to push the boundaries of art video, in a show titled "Music + Image."
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Posted Media Arts Preview: An Outside Perspective of L.A., 'Making Chinatown' and More
in SoCal FocusL.A. media art reimagines the past this week with several events designed to rethink earlier films and genres, and it looks to the future with large-scale multimedia projects filled with bombast and intrigue. -
Projects this week recall and remake the past, from John Cage to Lou Reed.
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Artist Brody Condon returns to Machine Project this Thursday night to present "Future Gestalt," a new performance described as a '70s group encounter session set in the far future.
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L.A. continues to be both the site and subject for innumerable artworks across the city, from a large-scale performance and public art festival to screenings featuring films about L.A., by L.A. filmmakers.
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Bill Mohr's new book on poetry in Los Angeles is a rich, exuberant and pleasurable history of nearly 50 years of extraordinary writing.
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One of this week's highlights in art is the opening of what LACMA director Michael Govan dubs "a portrait of LA," namely to Chris Burden's exhilarating freeway sculpture, "Metropolis II."
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Wim Wenders uses 3-D cinematography in groundbreaking ways to render the exquisite artistry of German choreographer Pina Bausch in his new film, "Pina," opening January 13, 2012.
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LA-based artist Erin Cosgrove has created an eerie and disturbing book trailer for Ben Marcus' new novel, The Flame Alphabet.
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This week's media art scene is political, conceptual, beautiful and provocative, a perfect way to start a new year.
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Gift-giving is easy this year, thanks to a spate of terrific, recently published books suited to several different reading predilections. Here are four to consider...
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Don't miss the one-week run of "Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel" at the Nuart Theater.
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The photographer known as Weegee created a series of lurid and surreal images of L.A. between 1947 and 1952, many of which are currently on view at MOCA, and collected in a book.
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Over his career Saul Bass would revolutionize the art of movie title design, reinvent the ways in which advertising campaigns were conceived and carried out, and basically change the foundations of visual communication in American popular culture.
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This week's media art scene includes exciting new work from artist Kara Walker, a new feature film by brilliant filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, and a new book on the great designer Saul Bass.
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One of the highlights this weekend in media arts is the Filmforum screening of work by underground artists and Topanga Canyon bohemians...
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As technologies proliferate, a 40-year-old debate about the use of computers in the classroom resurfaces. Eugene Schwartz recently offered a compelling argument for avoiding technology in the classroom almost entirely.
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With Michael Snow's rigorous structural film, Wavelength, and Haile Gerima's politicized Sankofa leading the way, this week's LA media arts scene offers examples of iconic filmmaking from the past.
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Several of Los Angeles' greatest visual innovators -- Sharon Lockhart, Thom Andersen, and Natalie Bookchin -- present their work this week, demonstrating our city's incredible diversity in cinematic exploration.
-
Abigail Child brings her brilliant experimental films and video to REDCAT, showing how words and images merge to create a new poetics.
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The future still looks to the past for inspiration - this week Abigail Child recalls early cinematic techniques for contemporary visual exploration and the Academy recalls the early days of projection...
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The best of cinema history is on view this week, with the work of avant-garde icon Maya Deren, the remarkable eight-hour documentary Shoah, and the 24-hour collage film "The Clock" by Christian Marclay.
-
REDCAT will screen Daniel Eisenberg's extraordinary visual essay exploring objects, how they're made and what they mean as the nexus between the maker and the consumer.
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Radical, experimental and avidly political filmmakers are featured on the screens of L.A. theaters this week, from Jon Jost to Rose Lowder, Dziga Vertov to Kurt Kren.
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Animation figures prominently this week in LA's media art scene, with a festival, feature film, and more...
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Los Angeles offers a rich subject for artistic inquiry, evidenced this week by several permutations of the city in film, video, drawing, urban planning and provocative discussion.
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This week's media art scene includes one of the most radical films in the history of cinema, experiments with magic and moving images, and a 24-hour tribute to an LA icon.
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M.G. Lord argues that the stunning Elizabeth Taylor used her beauty to surreptitiously grapple with key issues for women, making her an accidental feminist.
