EventSeptember 2 - 3, 2013
Organizers of the 70th Venice Film Festival, which opens on Aug. 28 and runs through Sept. 7, recently announced the festival’s 54 official film selections. Among more familiar directors’ names—such as Alfonso…
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In July The New York Times’ Robert Ito and Jeremy Egner named the five young rising animators to watch. Among them—who not only have shows on major TV networks but also Oscar…
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ReleaseAugust 6, 2013
On Aug. 6, Cinedigm Entertainment released the global graffiti documentary Bomb It 2, by award-winning filmmaker, author and CalArts faculty Jon Reiss, to video on demand. “Going where no graffiti doc has…
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EventAugust 14 - 26, 2013
Edinburgh Festival Fringe is in full swing and the CalArtian productions we reported on in a previous post, Mask, Goose and Whispering in the Dark, are receiving their share of critical praise….
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EventAugust 3 - September 1, 2013
The Speakeasy Society, aka Julianne Just (Theater MFA 12), Genevieve Gearhart (Theater MFA 13) and Matthew Bamberg-Johnson (Theater MFA 13), recently premiered their latest immersive theatrical production KITCHEN/SUGAR/BULLET/BLANK (KSBB) at a bungalow style house…
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There’s high art, and then there’s art that involves a 23-foot steel wheel. CalArts Center for New Performance (CNP), the School of Theater’s professional producing arm, teams up with The…
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The Princess Grace Foundation-USA recently announced the 2013 winners of its Princess Grace Awards and two students from the School of Film/Video are among the award winners. Thalia Fry (Film/Video…
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Photographer, writer, filmmaker, theorist, critic and CalArts Art Faculty Allan Sekula passed away Aug. 10 in Calif. He was 62. Thomas Lawson, Dean of the School of Art, writes of…
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EventAugust 12 - 17, 2013
Last week, the L.A. experimental music festival Dog Star Orchestra returned for its ninth year. The series of concerts created by composer and CalArts faculty Michael Pisaro, brings together the…
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The Sundance Institute’s new Next Weekend micro-festival is a traveling extension of the Park City, Utah-based festival’s Next section, which typically screens adventurous films with bold approaches to storytelling. The first…
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