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Presented by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Location: Lueders Park and Lueders Park Community Center (LACMA) in collaboration with the City of Compton Parks Address: 1500 East Rosecrans Avenue, Compton, 90221 and Recreation

Share your story, participate in filmmaking workshops, May 16–Jun 15, 2014 and see movies as the Los Angeles County Museum of SELECT Fridays | Saturdays | Sundays Art (LACMA) brings the Compton Art+Film Lab to Lueders Park. FREE and open to the public, the Art+Film Lab OPENING NIGHT program comes alive through your involvement. Friday, May 16 | 6–10 PM

Workshops Instant Film Oral History FREE Day Saturday: May 31 |Noon–3 PM Be the director, , and actor in Project at LACMA this workshop on video and filmmaking. Learn editing techniques as you work under a shared creative vision. Your work will be screened Contribute to a bank of stories On Sunday, August 17, 2014, inside the lab for all to see. about your community by LACMA is FREE. Simply tell Composition sharing a personal anecdote our Ticket Office that you’re on camera or interviewing a from the Compton area for Saturday: June 7 |Noon–3 pm How do you create an expressive image friend or family member. free admission. Take part in on film? Learn professional techniques used Bring a thumb drive to take family-friendly art activities, to create compelling shots: everything from shot design to camera movement. home a copy of your recording tour the galleries, and view a and video portrait. new video artwork by Nicole SOUND ART Drop-In Hours Miller that features the Sunday: June 8 |Noon–3 PM Sunday, May 18 & June 1, 15 | 12:30–5 pm Compton-area community. Use every day objects to create a spontaneous Note: Oral histories take place in the Lueders soundtrack in this family-friendly, drop-in activity. Park Community Center. Photos © 2014 Museum Associates / LACMA, by Duncan Cheng Uncover the acoustic and musical properties of household items, then collaborate with others Experiment with a variety to orchestrate a soundtrack. Objects from LACMA’s art collection will serve as a source of low- and high-tech tools of visual inspiration. 5905 Wilshire Boulevard and materials to explore Times: Noon, 12:45 pm, 1:30 pm, 2:15 pm. Los Angeles, California 90036 Note: For ages 5 and up. and create moving images. lacma Lacma.org All equipment and tools Mini Docs hours are provided. Capacity Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays: 11 am–5 pm Saturday: June 14 |Noon–3 pm With 120,000 objects dating from ancient times Wednesdays: Closed is limited; adult participation Share how you see the world! Use your unique to the present, the Los Angeles County Museum Fridays: 11 am–8 pm of Art (LACMA) is the largest art museum in the Saturdays and Sundays: 10 am–7 pm perspective to document things you find inter- is encouraged. All levels western United States. A museum of international esting: it can be anything from your best friend stature as well as a vital part of Southern California, Contact welcome. to places near your house. Learn the nuances LACMA shares its vast collections through exhi- General info: 323 857-6000 of capturing character, mood, and detail. bitions, public programs, and research facilities Tickets: 323 857-6010 Note: Sign-up begins 30 minutes before each that attract over a million visitors annually. TTY: 323 857-0098 workshop. All workshops take place in the Lueders Park Community Center. Compton Art+Film Lab May 16–Jun 15, 2014 SELECT Fridays | Saturdays | Sundays

Opening-Night Film Uncertainty Principle Friday, June 13 |8:30 pm Friday, May 16 |8 pm 2012, 18 minutes, not rated Directed by Kelly Sun Kim LACMA9 SHORTS PROGRAM II Run time: 73 minutes FILMS A hybrid of staged performances and undirected 1988, 121 minutes, rated R shots, Uncertainty Principle is an experimental Directed by Spike Lee; with Laurence narrative that traverses a labyrinth of individual Watch a diverse selection Fishburne, , and group unconscious. The film’s lush score, DAYBREAK EXPRESS of films—Hollywood classics, and -Martin by composers Ivan Camares, Heather Lockie, 1953, five minutes, rated G and Bulbs, equals its visual musings. Directed by D. A. Pennebaker An all-star cast play out the tensions and infighting independents, shorts, and among the Greeks, wannabes, revolutionaries, and A vivid, kaleidoscopic, and kinetic trek through international films—that are jocks at Mission College, a fictionalized historically former New York City El train lines set to a Duke black university. In this classic American musical Where Ya At Ellington score. sure to capture your imagina- comedy, severe scenes of 1980s racial politics are 2013, 31 minutes, not rated tion. All screenings take place interspersed with Spike Lee’s trademark musical Directed by Kwesi Johnson sequences. On the day of his meeting with a powerful record OLIVIA’S PLACE on the lawn of Lueders Park. Note: Includes strong language and sexual situations. executive, Konold, a naïve rapper, develops a chance 1966, six minutes, rated G friendship with Paul, a wide-eyed visitor from Kenya. Directed by Thom Andersen The two explore Los Angeles together and discover An intimate portrait of the patrons, workers, and common ground in music. objects inside Olivia’s Place, a long-defunct Santa Friday, May 23 |8:30 pm Note: Includes strong language Monica diner. Aware that the diner would soon LACMA9 Shorts Program I be gone, Andersen captured its essence in this May series of moments as a tribute. Run time: 87 minutes Wonder Hospital A collection of short animations, narratives, essay 2010, 12 minutes, not rated Directed by Beomsik Shimbe Shim THE SOUND WE SEE: films, and experimental works by Los Angeles– A LOS ANGELES CITY SYMPHONY based filmmakers Baited by the “after” images seen on plastic- 16 2010, 28 minutes, not rated surgery ads, a girl journeys through the wards Created by the Echo Park Film Center Origin of a surreal “wonder hospital” that promises to change her perception of physical beauty. A collaboration between the Los Angeles City Opening Night 2011, three minutes, not rated Symphony and the Echo Park Film Center, this Directed by Jessica Poon short film is the masterwork of youth who spent 6–10 pm In this hand-drawn animation, a mommy water over 14 weeks capturing the dynamic sights droplet sends off her child into the world with some Friday, May 30 |8:30 pm and sounds of their neighborhoods. Open House | 6–8 pm parting advice: “The river you don’t know is full Live Music | 7 pm of adventure, but also danger.” My Brother’s Wedding Film Screening | 8 pm 1983, 115 minutes, PG-13 THE RED BALLOON Directed by Charles Burnett; 1956, 34 minutes, rated G Fireworks with Everett Silas, Jessie Holmes, Compton Art+Film lab debuts Directed by Albert Lamorisse 2012, 11 minutes, not rated and Gaye Shannon-Burnett with a special opening party! French, with English subtitles Directed by Victor Hugo Duran Set in 1980s South Los Angeles, a passive, Find out more about the Art+Film Filmed in Paris’s Ménilmontant neighborhood, this 30-year-old son of a dry-cleaning business faces a It’s the Fourth of July in South Los Angeles. newly restored fantasy featurette remains one of Lab’s free programs, enjoy live moral dilemma: does he side with loyalties toward A teenage boy and his younger brother join forces the most beloved children’s films of all time. Follow his best friend, recently released from prison, or his music by Mexico 68 Afrobeat to win over the affection of a group of girls. What a young boy’s fable-like adventures with a voiceless bourgeois lawyer brother? The second feature film Orchestra, and see a special will they risk revealing in the fireworks’ sparkle? balloon as they become nearly inseparable on the of director Charles Burnett, this tender, tragicomic Note: Includes strong language streets of Paris. screening of the film School portrait examines notions of upward mobility and Daze by Spike Lee. working-class poverty. Everybody’s Nuts 2009, 12 minutes, not rated Directed by Fabian Euresti Friday, June 6 |8:30 pm French, with English subtitles Be Kind, Rewind Filmed in Kern County, California, filmmaker 2008, 101 minutes, rated PG-13 Euresti narrates his family’s story of toil and labor Directed by Michel Gondry; with while working on the land. A series of beautifully Mos Def, , Jack Black, lonely agricultural landscapes reveal the connection for more information and Melonie Diaz between commerce, oil, and groundwater. lacma.org/artfilmlab When video-store clerk Mike finds out his bumbling friend has accidentally demagnetized all the tapes, they set out to reshoot zero-dollar remakes of the Take part in the top rentals, including Boyz in the Hood and The Lion King. When the duo gets busted by the FBI event as it happens! for copyright infringement, loyal customers come #artfilmlab to the rescue in this zany, comedy. @LACMA @enLACMA

The Compton Art+Film Lab is supported by a grant from The James Irvine Foundation.