Women are still so woefully underrepresented in films and television shows that—at the current rate—it would take nearly 700 years(!) to achieve parity. That was just one of the jaw-dropping…
Continue reading »Category: Film/Video
Taking A Stand: Faculty Nina Menkes V-Day Film Supports End to Violence Against Women
STRIKE AND RISE/Video for V-Day, by Nina Menkes from Nina Menkes on Vimeo. On Feb. 18, CalArts School of Film/Video faculty member Nina Menkes‘ short film, Strike and Rise, will…
Continue reading »FoCA Salon Welcomes Directors Mark Andrews and Brad Bird
[nggallery id=339] Directors and CalArts alumni Brad Bird (Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol) and Mark Andrews (Brave) were the featured speakers at the most recent FoCA (Friends of CalArts) salon, held…
Continue reading »Alexander Mackendrick: Remembering a Pioneering Director and Founding Dean of CalArts School of Film/Video
[nggallery id=336] – by Michael Rogers/Special to 24700 CalArts alumni, faculty, current students and film history buffs filled the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) on the evening of Feb….
Continue reading »Single Wing Turquoise Bird Liquid Light Show Installation Opens in Oregon
Opening today (Feb. 8) through April 28, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene, Ore., presents, Invisible Writing, a 47-minute installation drawn from improvised live visual performances by the pioneering…
Continue reading »2013 Annie Awards: CalArts Alumni Earn Honors in Animation
On Feb. 2, CalArts’ alumnus Rich Moore won top honors at the 40th Annual Annie Awards for Directing an Animated Feature Production for Wreck-It Ralph. The film, from Walt Disney…
Continue reading »Dance on Camera Fest Screens CalArtian Multimedia Work Tonight at Lincoln Center
The Next Step Is (Trailer) from Victoria Sendra on Vimeo. Tonight (Feb. 5) at 5:30 pm, The Next Step Is—a new collaborative piece by several CalArts alumni—screens at the Dance On…
Continue reading »Involution/Involución: Video Works Presented at Tandem Screenings in Mexico, CalArts
On Tuesday (Feb. 5) at 7 pm in CalArts’ Bijou Theater, the School of Film/Video Structuring Strategies class and screening series presents the program, Involution, featuring several videos by Mexican and…
Continue reading »Animation ‘Ambassador’ Maureen Furniss Embarks on Thailand Tour
Character and Experimental Animation faculty member Maureen Furniss is traveling throughout Thailand this week as an “animation ambassador” on behalf of the U.S. Embassy Bangkok’s Speakers Program. She’s been lecturing…
Continue reading »CalArts, REDCAT Celebrate Alexander Mackendrick’s Centennial
A clip from the 1986 documentary, Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away, directed by Dermot McQuarrie for Scottish television. Alexander Mackendrick, director of The Man in the White Suit (1951)…
Continue reading »