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LA WEEKLY LA GO | F - , | | F WWW.LAWEEKLY.COM COURTESY OF THE ARTIST LA2/22 fri ART/FILM and bassist Billy Cox, Hendrix was still playing P E RFO RMAN C E ART “menacing” by NPR, which Darcy likely takes such early hits as “Stone Free” and “Fire” mixed as a compliment, and “worthy of obsession” by The Post-Colonial Diaspora with newer, forward-looking explorations like Inside the Mind of an Animal urston Moore, which it’s certain she does, From among the vast and stylistically diverse “Roomful of Mirrors” and “Freedom” — all “Animals are as void of conscience as predatory this book promises an edgy romp like the nest, universe of black cinema, conceptual artist of it just 11 weeks before his death under very lenders, as persistent as addicts, as ritualis- ercest and most fearlessly played game of Truth Charles Gaines chooses a selection of seven suspicious circumstances in London. Art tic as priests,” Amy Raasch writes about her or Dare ever. Wacko, 4633 Hollywood Blvd., Los shorts and features that speak specically and eatre, 2025 E. Fourth St., Long Beach; Fri., one-woman multimedia piece e Animal Feliz; Sat., Feb. 23, 7-10 p.m.; free. (323) 666- directly to the intersections of colonialism, po- Feb. 22, 9:15 p.m.; $12. (562) 438-5435, artthe- Monologues. e actor/performance artist 7667, facebook.com/events/1956861507955866. litical history and public performance. For two atrelongbeach.org. Also at Laemmle’s NoHo 7, looks at human behavior from the perspective SHANA NYS DAMBROT nights and a day, Hauser & Wirth screens the 5240 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood; and of various wild and captive creatures — and vice lms in a free-with-RSVP series at its downtown Laemmle’s Glendale, 207 N. Maryland Ave., versa — through a series of surreal vignettes DAN C E gallery. Friday’s screening of Edgar Arceneaux’s Glendale; Tue., Feb. 26, 7:30 p.m.; $15. (310) that initially seem cute and daly amusing masterpiece of Ben Vereen–inspired censor- 478-3836, laemmle.com. FALLING JAMES before segueing into heavier, more emotion- Watch This Fish Dance ship critique is followed by a conversation with ally resonant and surprising territory. Among Ebb & Flow: Culver City 2019 moves consid- Gaines and Arceneaux. Other lms in the series other things, “Grith Park’s resident mountain eration of climate change and its environmental further demonstrate, as Gaines says, “the role sat 2/23 lion condes what it’s like to live famous and impacts to the great outdoors, namely, the Bald- of culture and politics in intensifying human FILM alone in Hollywood” and “a scientist installs a win Hills Scenic Overlook. Last year’s inaugural drama,” including works by Rachid Boucha- microchip in the throat of a bird and plays it one-day event with visual arts, music, tech and reb, Bill Gunn & Ishmael Reed, Ousamane Credits Will Roll like a piano,” Raasch explains about her work, dance from Heidi Duckler Dance eater was Sembène, Cauleen Smith and Ja’Tovia Gary. With a history of sold-out conferences in Paris which invokes themes of love, submission and so successful that this year the festival extends Hauser & Wirth, 901 E. ird St., downtown; and Tokyo, Motion Plus Design nally arrives dominance, race and faith alongside references to two days of activities.