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LA - "Captured" Screening (07.09.09)

'Everything is Original' by CSK and Birgit Richter

I really enjoyed this short film made by two friends, director, Christian Svanes Kolding and photographer, Birgit Richter. CSK's film goes behind the scenes to give life to B's portraits of Los Angeles-based housecleaners. They both uncover the somewhat lonely occupation of others. I hope you enjoy the film too!

Brooklyn - "Journey to la Dolce Vita" (06.26.07 - 08.02.09)

NYC - "Arcangel, Pinard, Routson" (06.25.09 - 07.31.09)

Cory Arcangel, Guillaume Pinard, Jon Routson
Arcangel, Pinard, Routson
25 June through 31 July 2009

Team is pleased to present a three-person exhibition of new work by Cory Arcangel, Guillaume Pinard and Jon Routson. The exhibition will run from the 25th of June through the 31st of July 2009. Team Gallery is located at 83 Grand Street, between Wooster and Greene Streets, on the ground floor.

NYC - “Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry” Screening (06.24.09)

LA - "Translating Bodies Into Wormholes" (06.18.09)

Translating Bodies Into Wormholes (ripe with access points)
Thursday June 18 at 8pm
Free

Omar said:
"The basic idea would be to show 3 short cinematic experiments that a Berkeley installation designer and I have collaborated on and in between have a series of performances/group experiments that would bleed into and out them. The in-betweens would possibly range from a UC Irvine neuroscience professor/collaborator friend of mine leading group demonstrations of extended mind theory (that mind is not something trapped in one’s head…that when one uses one’s fingers to count that that is a basic example of one extending mind out of it’s typical bounds) to a sonic improv using streaming internet radio as an instrument to having a performance roboticist who is doing video design with me with the Wooster Group show off some of his gadgets. Part of the intention is to experiment with how different enzymes catalyze toward access points into cinema. experimenting with conceptual/perceptual phase transitions occurring between theory and sensation."

So we said:
   "OMG. When??"

Thursday, said Omar. Thursday June 18.
And that was that.

We don't know exactly what's going to happen, but we know you should definitely be there.

LA - Dance Iconoclasts at the Hammer Museum (06.13.09 - 06.14.09)

Dance Iconoclasts at the Hammer Museum
Saturday, June 13, and Sunday, June 14
At Hammer Museum’s Billy Wilder Theater in Westwood

    * Sat. at 7:00pm – Jerome Robbins documentary
    * Sun. at 2:00pm – 4 shorts commissioned from EMPAC
    * Sun. at 6:00pm – Two documentaries chronicling creative process

Grizzly Bear "Two Weeks"

Book Club: The Da Vinci Code

Book Club: The Da Vinci Code - watch more funny videos

Haha. Jordan directed a new Funny or Die flick about a bunch of dudes in a book club reviewing The Da Vinci Code. You're going to love it!

LA - “Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?” Screening (05.20.09)

We continue our month long series of free outdoor screenings at Space 15Twenty this Wednesday, May 20th, with “Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?”

The screenings are projected on the large outdoor screen located next to the Snack Bar. Seating is limited so arrive early to secure a chair, but if you get there late, no worries you can always sit on the floor or bring your own chair!

Creative Time TV: Ross Bleckner

Howard Silver's new series on Creative Time TV called Arts Into Production brings news from the "foremost musicians, designers, architects, artists, and other creative luminaries" to you. 

Ross Bleckner, who was appointed the first visual artist as Goodwill Ambassador to Uganda by the United Nations is their inaugural guest interview. Good luck watching this video without falling into a trance. Ross' manner is so calming!

Chicago - "Beneath the Underdogs: Mingus & Patch" Screening (05.15.09)

Chicago Film Archives presents

BENEATH THE UNDERDOGS: MINGUS & PARTCH

WHERE:  Chicago Cultural Center, Claudia Cassidy Theater, 78 E. Washington, Chicago IL
WHEN:  May 15, 2009
TIME:  7:00 p.m.
ADMISSION:  Free - Donations Welcome!

BENEATH THE UNDERDOGS: MINGUS & PARTCH provides a glimpse into the lives, homes, and working methods of two brilliant and eccentric musicians: Charles Mingus and Harry Partch.  Odd, marginalized, and totally out there – both Mingus and Partch were radical (and often misunderstood) artists whose adaptation of an alternative lifestyle is inseparable from their groundbreaking music.  These two rarely screened 16mm portraits showcase each artist in a period of transition – Mingus on the eve of his eviction from his Great Jones Street loft in 1966 and Partch in his cramped home-studio in Chicago.

LA - "Freaky Friday" Screening (05.10.09)

Screening: Freaky Friday

A mother and daughter find their personalities switched and have to live each other's lives on one strange Friday.  (1977, 95 min., Dir. Gary Nelson)

ALL HAMMER PUBLIC PROGRAMS ARE FREE. Seating is on a first come, first served basis. Hammer members receive priority seating, subject to availability. Reservations not accepted, RSVPs not required.

LA - Mike Mills "Graphics Films" Event (04.23.09)

Mike Mills Launches New Retrospective Monograph - 'Graphics Films'
Thursday, April 23, 7:30pm - Free

Family - 436 N Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, 90036
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323 782 9221

NYC - "Max Bill: The Master's Vision" Screening (04.08.09)

DOCUMENTARY SCREENING: WED APRIL 8, 7:00pm
MAX BILL: THE MASTER'S VISION
With a presentation by director Erich Schmid

Erich Schmid's film moves between the dynamic fields of art, aesthetics and politics. Max Bill (1908-1994) was arguably the most important Swiss artist of the 20th century and the most famous student to come out of the legendary Bauhaus in Dessau. He was an ardent anti-fascist and his avant-garde work as an artist, sculptor, architect and typographer showed a life-long sense of social responsibility and an environmental awareness. Today, his views have become eerily topical.

(Presented in association with the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York)

Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street
10012 New York, NY
Tel. 212.431.5795
Fax 212.431.5755

LA - "Abraham Obama" Event (04.05.09)

Free Preview @ Royal/T
Ron English's "Abraham Obama" Preview and DVD release party
Sunday April 5th @ Royal/T
8910 Washington Blvd, Culver City 

6:00-7:30pm Happy Hour
7:30pm Film Begins
9:00pm Q+A with director Kevin Chapados

Please RSVP to contact@dailydujour.com

LA - "The Lost Boys" + "Twilight" Screening (04.05.09)

Double Feature: THE LOST BOYS and TWILIGHT

8pm Sunday April 5th
Free, but reservations required as forest seating is limited.

Please join us for a double feature of films selected by Sara Newey and Christy McCaffrey. Viewers are encouraged to bring a cushion and/or blanket to sit on.

RSVP below! limited to 30 attendees.

RSVP -> http://theforestscreening.eventbrite.com

LA - "TOKYO" Screening Ticket Giveaway!

Win a pair of tickets to a run-of-engagement screening of Tokyo in Los Angeles (winner can redeem tickets from Nuart's "guest list" or "will call" the whole week), anytime between Friday, March 20th and Thursday, March 26th! Please leave a comment about Tokyo and we'll randomly select a winner by March 19th, 11:00 p.m. PST!

Tokyo!

A Film by Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, and Bong Joon-ho

Three of World Cinema's Great Visionaries Each Direct a Segment of this Surreal Triptych Film

NYC: March 6, 2009, LA: March 20, 2009 and Nationwide Through April

"Watchmen: Justice is Coming"

March 5, 2009 - 10:13 p.m. - Santa Monica, CA

As seen above, Sean challenging Silvio to a fight on Watchmen: Justice is Coming for the iPhone and iTouch. Let the trash talk begin! Launched in conjunction with the world premier of the film, Watchmen the MMO is available for 99 cents for a limited time only. Download today!

RELATED: Watchmen: Justice is Coming iPhone MMO

Watchmen: Justice is Coming iPhone MMO

Silvio's secret project has finally been announced! His studio, Last Legion Games created Watchmen: Justice is Coming, a multiplayer online adventure fighting game developed exclusively for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Inspired by the Watchmen film, pretty soon players will be able to chat and battle other players while wandering 1970s New York City.

The game is still under Apple's thumb (waiting for approval) and will be available at the iTunes App Store in March 2009. Check watchmanjusticeiscoming.com for more deets! Please spread the word. I'm not sure anyone knows about this IP yet and I'd really like to give the film and its accompanying game a little press!

UPDATE: The game is now available at the Apple Apps Store!