In October 2014, Light Cone introduced artist residencies dedicated to the video-based post-production of films that fall within the realm of experimental cinema, with the aim of supporting approximately 10 projects per year.
Screening Sunday, 11/21/21 at 4 PM PST, Los Angeles Filmforum presents the third of three programs of "Underground movies," curated by Jenny Perlin and Leo Goldsmith. “Underground Movies” charts a unique aesthetic terrain through which to explore larger questions of humanity's material and psychological relation to the planet’s substructure—as a space to be reshaped and exploited, but also as one in which to imagine ourselves anew.
Ben Russell (1976) is an American artist, filmmaker and curator whose work lies at the intersection of ethnography and psychedelia. His films and installations are in direct conversation with the history of the documentary image, providing a time-based inquiry into trance phenomena. Russell was an exhibiting artist at documenta 14 (2017) and his work has been presented at the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern, the Museum of Modern Art Chicago, the Venice Film Festival and the Berlinale, among others.
Dates:
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 (All day) to Thursday, November 18, 2021 (All day)
Join us on Sat 27th November for a special online edition of the Moving Image Salon with featured artist Lindsay Seers, who will discuss her moving image, installation and VR works.
On November 18th, the spectral body of Rocío Molina, elevated by the powerful voice of El Niño de Elche, will vibrate in the space of the Sala Gaudí at La Pedrera by way of 16mm analogue images manipulated live by Adriana Vila Guevara herself.
In the form of a filmic performance blending light and sound in a poetic way, the proposal follows the metamorphosis of an erased and damaged woman, who progressively heals and mutates.
