From 45 to 33
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Automata and The Velaslavasay Panorama Present:
From 45 to 33
Lewis Klahr’s Films About Childhood
with
A Special Conversation between Film Scholar Tom Gunning and Filmmaker Lewis Klahr
Saturday, November 7, 2009
8 o’clock pm
-at-
THE VELASLAVASAY PANORAMA
1122 WEST 24TH STREET
Los Angeles, California 90007
(213) 746-2166
Tickets $10 {$8 VPES Members, Students, Seniors}
A rare Los Angeles screening of Lewis Klahr’s early films, including the series PICTURE BOOKS FOR ADULTS {1983-85, 45 minutes}, and his epic cutout masterpiece THE PHARAOH’S BELT {1994, 43 minutes}.
Lewis Klahr
Called the “reigning proponent of cut and paste” by critic J. Hoberman of the Village Voice, master collagist Lewis Klahr has been making films since 1977. A Guggenhein Fellow whose work has screened at several Whitney Biennials, he is known for his uniquely idiosyncratic experimental films and cutout animations, which have been screened extensively at museums and festivals throughout the United States and Europe.
His epic cutout animation “The Pharaoh’s Belt,” which will be screened here, received a rare special citation for experimental work from the National Society of Film Critics.
Tom Gunning
Tom Gunning is the Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor in the Department on Cinema and Media at the University of Chicago. He is the author of D.W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film and The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity, along with numerous articles on early film, avant garde film, and cinema and modernity. He is currently a visiting Scholar in Residence at the Getty Research Institute.
Tags: American Narrative > Cinema And Modernity > Cutout Animation > D W Griffith > Early Films > Experimental Films > Film Scholar > Fritz Lang > Garde Film > Getty Research Institute > Guggenhein > J Hoberman > Lewis Klahr > Narrative Film > National Society Of Film Critics > Special Citation > Tom Gunning > Village Voice > Visiting Scholar > Voice Master
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