The Tribeca Film Festival started Wednesday and runs through May 2. One of the films being screened is Dustin Thompson’s (Film/Video MFA 09) experimental film The Travelogues (2009, 49 mins.)….
Continue reading »John King’s Dice Thrown at CalArts this Weekend
John King’s Dice Thrown begins its two-day run at CalArts tomorrow (April 23-24). Based on the visual poem “Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard” by Stéphane Mallarmé, the…
Continue reading »Artist and Alumna Allison Schulnik Talks Hobo Clowns and Grizzly Bear
[nggallery id=48] In an earlier post, 24700 discovered that a CalArts alumna Allison Schulnik (BFA Film/Video 00) created a short film and music video Forest (2009) for the band Grizzly…
Continue reading »Artist Martin Kersels’s Latest Video for the Whitney Biennial
We found this video (posted above) on the Whitney Biennial website. It features artist and CalArts faculty member Martin Kersels recreating “seminal moments of performance art” on a miniature model…
Continue reading »Filmmaker Amie Siegel Discusses DDR/DDR at the Bijou Tonight
Fresh off a plane from New York and her program last night at MoMA, filmmaker Amie Siegel screens and discusses her film essay DDR/DDR (2008, 135 mins.) tonight at CalArts’…
Continue reading »Director Henry Selick at CalArts Last Week to Talk Animation
Writer-director-producer and CalArts alum Henry Selick (Film/Video MFA 77) returned to campus on Thursday morning for a visiting artist lecture before a crowd of rapt animation staff, faculty and students…
Continue reading »Actors Showcase: Highlighting Talent from CalArts’ School of Theater
On Monday (April 19), 31 graduating MFA and BFA students from CalArts’ School of Theater will hit the boards of the Falcon Theater in Burbank for the school’s annual Actors…
Continue reading »Emergence of a ‘2-Headed Beast’ at CalArts
While the Wild Beast–CalArts’ new music pavilion–doesn’t make its official public debut until next month’s dedication, 22 of the Institute’s graduate composers are warming up the venue with an ambitious…
Continue reading »Suzan-Lori Parks’ In the Blood at CalArts this Weekend
In the Blood, which first premiered in 1999, is playwright Suzan-Lori Parks’ first take on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. The play follows Hester, La Negrita, an illiterate mother of…
Continue reading »Filmmaker Cauleen Smith in Residence at CalArts this Week
Cauleen Smith is a San Diego-based filmmaker, screenwriter and video installation artist best known for her experimental works that examine themes of black female identity. She’s an artist-in-residence at CalArts…
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