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Jan 10–Feb 9, 2014 MONTEREY PARK Location: East Los Angeles College Address: 1301 Avenida Cesar Chavez, Monterey Park, CA 91754 The corner of Avenida Cesar Chavez and Collegian Avenue, Jan 10–Feb 9, 2014 next to the Vincent Price Art Museum FRIDAYS | SATURDAYS | SUNDAYS Share your story, participate in filmmaking workshops, and see movies as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) brings OPENING NIGHT the Monterey Park Art+Film Lab to East Los Angeles College. FREE and open to the public, the Art+Film Lab is an interactive art FRIDAY, JANUARY 10 | 6–10 PM space that comes alive through your involvement. On select Friday and Saturday evenings, the recital hall of the Performing Presented by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and Fine Arts Center transforms into a free movie theater, in collaboration with East Los Angeles College (ELAC) and the showing Hollywood classics, independents, shorts, animations, East Los Angeles College Foundation Board and international films that will capture your imagination. Workshops Oral History Community Project Day at LACMA Mini Docs Contribute to a bank of stories On Sunday, April 6, 2014, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25 & about your community by LACMA is FREE! Simply tell FEBRUARY 8 |NOON–3 PM sharing a personal anecdote our Ticket Office that you’re Share how you see the world! Use your unique perspective to document things on camera or interviewing a from the Monterey Park you find interesting: it can be anything friend or family member. area, and we’ll give you free from your best friend to places near your house. Learn the nuances of Bring a thumb drive to take admission. Take part in family- capturing character, mood and detail. home a copy of your recording friendly art activities, explore and video portrait. the galleries through tours, Instant Film FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 24, 31, & and view a new video artwork SUNDAY, JANUARY 19 FEBRUARY 7 |3–5:30 PM by Nicole Miller that features NOON–3 PM Be the director, cinematographer, and SUNDAY, JANUARY 12, 26, & the Monterey Park–area FEBRUARY 9 |12:30–4 PM Experiment with a variety actor in this workshop on video and film- community. of low- and high-tech tools making. Learn editing techniques as you work under a shared creative vision. and materials to explore Your work will be screened inside the Lab for all to see! 5905 Wilshire Boulevard and create moving images. Los Angeles, California 90036 All equipment and tools lacma Lacma.org Composition are provided. Capacity hours SATURDAY, JANUARY 18 & With 120,000 objects dating from ancient times to Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays: 11 am–5 pm is limited; adult participation FEBRUARY 1 |NOON–3 PM the present, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Wednesdays: Closed (LACMA) is the largest art museum in the western Fridays: 11 am–8 pm is encouraged. All levels How do you create an expressive image United States. A museum of international stature Saturdays and Sundays: 10 am–7 pm on film? Learn professional techniques as well as a vital part of Southern California, LACMA welcomed. used to create compelling shots: everything shares its vast collections through exhibitions, public Contact programs, and research facilities that attract over from shot design to camera movement. General info: 323 857-6000 Note: Sign-up begins 30 minutes a million visitors annually. Tickets: 323 857-6010 before each workshop. The museum is located next to the La Brea TTY: 323 857-0098 Tar Pits. Metered and street parking is available, Membership: 323 857-6151 as are museum parking lots. [email protected] Photos © Museum Associates / LACMA, by Duncan Cheng MONTEREY PARK Art+Film Lab JAN 10–FEB 9, 2014 • FRIDAYS | SATURDAYS | SUNDAYS Friday, January 24 |7 pm SHORTS PROGRAM UP Friday, January 31 |7 pm 2009, 89 minutes, Rated PG Total time: 79 minutes Directed by Pete Docter with voices by Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai, and John Ratzenberger DAYBREAK EXPRESS In this delightful animated 3-D comedy adventure, 1953, five minutes, rated G 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen sets out to fulfill Directed by D. A. Pennebaker a lifelong dream of visiting the wilds of South America. Buoyed by thousands of balloons A vivid, kaleidoscopic, and kinetic trek tethered to his house, he lifts off, only to discover through former New York City El train FILMS an excitable, eight-year-old stowaway. The duo lines set to a Duke Ellington score. Watch a diverse selection of outdoor films—Hollywood embarks on a hero’s journey, triumphing over a predatory world of flightless birds, wild dogs, classics, independents, and international films that and a rogue explorer. OLIVIA’S PLACE are sure to capture your imagination. All screenings 1966, six minutes, rated G, 16mm Directed by Thom Andersen take place in the recital hall of the Performing and An intimate portrait of the patrons, workers, Fine Arts Center. Friday, February 7 |7 pm and objects inside Olivia’s Place, a long- THE HORSE defunct Santa Monica diner. Aware the diner would soon be gone, Andersen captured its 1973, 14 minutes, rated PG-13 essence in this series of moments, as tribute. Directed by Charles Burnett A lyrical coming-of-age tale about a boy tending to a dying horse. KRISTALLNACHT JAN 1979, six minutes, not rated, 16mm THE THREE BURIALS Directed by Chick Strand Opening-Night Film A haunting black-and-white film dedicated Friday, January 10 |8 pm OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA to the memory of Anne Frank. The abstract, 2005, 121 minutes, rated R shimmering water hints at images of the 10 SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN Directed by and starring Tommy Lee film’s namesake catastrophe. 2012, 86 minutes, rated PG-13 Jones; screenplay by Guillermo Directed by Malik Bendjelloul; Arriaga; with Dwight Yoakam, Barry with Rodriguez, Stephen ‘Sugar’ Pepper, and Julio César Cedillo THE SOUND WE SEE: Opening Night Segerman, and Dennis Coffey Inspired by true events, Tommy Lee Jones’s A LOS ANGELES CITY SYMPHONY In this entrancing documentary, Swedish directorial debut weaves a fractured tale 6–10 pm 2010, 28 minutes, not rated filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul investigates what of murder, injustice, and redemption at the Created by the Echo Park Film Center Open House | 6–8 pm became of the enigmatic Mexican American Texas-Mexico border. When innocent ranch Live Music | 7 pm singer-songwriter Rodriguez, known for his song- hand (and illegal immigrant) Melquiades Shot on Super 8 black-and-white film, this is a cinematic exploration of Los Angeles’s many Film Screening | 8 pm sensation “Sugarman.” While his first album Estrada is gunned down by border patrol, achieved only minimal popularity in the United Estrada’s best friend Pete Perkins turns to environments and landscapes. A 2010 States, it reached profound acclaim in 1970s vigilantism. Seeking a proper burial, Perkins collaboration between the Los Angeles City Monterey Park Art+Film lab apartheid South Africa. By then, however, kidnaps the patrolman and, with corpse in tow, Symphony and the Echo Park Film Center debuts with a special opening Rodriguez had completely faded from the journeys to Estrada’s hometown of Jiménez, (a local nonprofit), the short film is the public eye. Bendjelloul enlists the assistance Mexico. A deft story of honor, loyalty, and masterwork of youth who spent over 14 weeks party! Get an inside peek into of Rodriguez’s unremitting fans to help him forgiveness, Three Burials touches on contemp- capturing the dynamic sights and sounds of their the Art+Film Lab, enjoy live solve this almost unbelievable mystery. orary issues felt on both sides of the border. neighborhoods. The film opens with the young music by Buyepongo, and see filmmakers’ proclamation “This is my city!” and is over in the blink of an eye. a special screening of the film Searching for Sugarman Friday, January 17 |7 pm Saturday, February 8 |7 pm by Malik Bendjelloul. RED BALLOON LITTLE FUGITIVE TO LIVE 1956, 34 minutes, rated G 1953, 80 minutes, not rated 1994, 125 minutes, not rated Directed by Albert Lamorisse Directed by Ray Ashley, Morris Directed by Zhang Yimou; with French, with English subtitles Engel, and Ruth Orkin; with Richie Gong Li, Ge You, and Ben Niu Filmed in Paris’s Ménilmontant neighborhood, FOR MORE INFORMATION Andrusco, Richard Brewster, and Mandarin, with English subtitles this newly restored fantasy featurette remains Will Lee LACMA.ORG/ARTFILMLAB “All I ask is a quiet life together.” These are one of the most beloved children’s films of all In this classic indie film, seven-year-old Brook- lines spoken by wife Jiazhen, who, with her time. Follow a young boy’s fable-like adventures lynite Joey Norton flees the scene of a prank, husband Fugui, survive the sweep of history with a voiceless balloon as they become nearly convinced he accidentally killed his older brother. in the decades before and during the Cultural inseparable on the streets of Paris. Taking the train to Coney Island, Joey becomes Revolution. Embodying both hero and heroine, TAKE PART IN THE enchanted by arcades, pony rides, and the the couple adapt to ever-changing political EVENT AS IT HAPPENS! beach, temporarily forgetting his fugitive status. realities and reversals of fortune, all while A beautiful document to childhood fear and holding down a family. Told with wit and #artfilmlab curiosity, Little Fugitive was filmed primarily tenderness, this epic melodrama features @LACMA with a concealed, strapped-on camera by a powerhouse cast and is directed by one @enLACMA cinematographer Errol Morris. of China’s greatest living directors. lacma | lacma.org/artfilmlab The Monterey Park Art+Film Lab is supported by a grant from The James Irvine Foundation..
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