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Media Arts Preview, November 5, 2010

By Holly Willis
November 5, 2010
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This week in Southern California Media Arts, the old and the new collide as old films are projected on antique projectors while across town, artists present generative, sensor-enhanced live cinema performances.

Friday, November 5
NoiseFold, co-founded by Cory Metcalf and David Stout, unites animation and generative electronic sound to create live cinema events that take full advantage of both the technical and conceptual forms of new media. This particular performance, titled Scream Festival: NoiseFold, includes nFold 1.0, ALCHIMIA and Neu_Blooms, to create what REDCAT describes as "a powerful synaesthetic experience where noise, music and image interact on a symphonic scale." At REDCAT at 8:30 p.m.Saturday, November 6
AFI Fest (November 4 - 11) presents a delightful pair of black-and-white beauties Saturday night, bringing together David Lynch's wonderful portrait of unctuous sexuality in the 1977 midnight film Eraserhead with Billy Wilder's scintillating Sunset Boulevard from 1950. Lynch himself selected the films in his role as Guest Artistic Director, and chose several others, including Ingmar Bergman's Hour of the Wolf, Stanley Kubrick's Lolita, Jacques Tati's Mon Oncle and Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window.

In an unfortunate proliferation of choices, Saturday night will also feature Blank City, a documentary about New York's No Wave cinema from the 1970s with filmmakers such as Lizzie Borden, and Free Radicals, a portrait of 20th century avant-garde filmmakers, including Len Lye and Peter Kubelka. See the festival website for locations and times.

Sunday, November 7
Michael Scroggins, a faculty member in the CalArts School of Film/Video who also directs the Computer Animation Labs, has experimented for many years with "absolute animation performance." He also studies gesture capture, VR and liquid projection techniques, which is to say that he's exploring the boundaries of his artform. For this show, titled Michael Scroggins: What Are You Looking At? at Filmforum at 7:30 p.m. at the Egyptian Theater, he will show a series of short films spanning 40 years, including his 1970 piece What Are You Looking At? and his 2010 continuous take high definition study of liquid light projections. Tickets here.

Monday, November 8
Ever wonder how movies were projected 100 years ago? Come see a selection of films from 1910 presented on a hand-cranked "motion picture machine" restored and operated by Joe Rinaudo with live music by Michael Mortilla. The show, presented by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and titled A Century Ago: The Films of 1910,includes DW Griffith's The House With Closed Shutters, and a film titled Aviation at Los Angeles, and more. Monday, November 8, 7:30 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood

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