Trailer for her recent feature Dissolution. ***March 1 update: Listen to Menkes discuss the Cinema as Sorcery retrospective and her work on KCRW’s The Treatment podcast. Anthology Film Archives in New…
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French Films Featured at The Tournées Festival on Friday Afternoons at CalArts
The Film Today class and screening series welcomes The Tournées Festival back to CalArts this semester. Sponsored by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, the festival brings contemporary French…
Continue reading »Photos from 2012 Character Animation Gallery Show at CalArts
[nggallery id=236] The annual student-curated, CalArts Character Animation winter show is currently on view in the Main Gallery. The images, characters, models and artwork—crafted by BFA students from the School…
Continue reading »John Cage’s 100th Birthday Celebration at REDCAT Feb. 15-16
[nggallery id=”234″] There’s been a number of performances of avant-garde pioneer John Cage’s music lately for a reason: 2012 marks the composer’s 100th birthday (Sept. 5, to be precise). As…
Continue reading »Steve Erickson Discusses These Dreams of You at the LA Central Library’s ALOUD Series
Earlier this month Europa Editions published Steve Erickson’s ninth novel, These Dreams of You, which takes readers on a journey across two continents, following the Nordhoc family as they search…
Continue reading »Short Films by Brigid McCaffrey and Thorbjorg Jonsdottir Screen at CalArts
This week’s Structuring Strategies film series features short works by Los Angeles-based alumnae filmmakers Brigid McCaffrey (Film/Video MFA 10) and CalArts faculty member Thorbjorg Jonsdottir (Film/Video MFA 09) tonight (Feb….
Continue reading »Two Minutes of John Cage’s Song Books
Last weekend, while much of America was at home watching the Super Bowl, a number of students, faculty and alumni from The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts, took…
Continue reading »Acclaimed Dutch Composer Thomas Ankersmit Performs on CalArts’ Serge Synthesizer at REDCAT
Tonight and tomorrow, the 2012 CEAIT Festival CalArts Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology), hits the REDCAT stage and features vintage electronics used in conjunction with the latest…
Continue reading »The Collective Presents the I Have a Dream Project at CalArts
On Aug. 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and addressed the tens of thousands of people gathered along the Washington Mall,…
Continue reading »CalArts Dancers Present Student Choice / MFA 1 Dance Concert This Week
Tonight and tomorrow night (Feb. 9 and 10), students from The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts present the Student Choice / MFA-1 Dance Concert at the Sharon…
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