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Sunday, September 17, 12 pm Vista Theater TRT: 120 min
Before There Was A Hollywood…
HISTORY OF CINEMA IN SILVER LAKE
Slide lecture by Mark Wannamaker, 30 min.
THE FALL OF BABYLON
Dir: D.W. Griffith, 1916, USA, 35mm-Silent,
B&W, 90 min.
Did you known that Tom Mix, Mack Sennett, D.W. Griffith and
Walt Disney all built studios in Silver Lake? In this fascinating
program, film historian Mark Wanamaker traces the roots of cinema
in the Silver Lake area in a lecture that includes rare slides from
his private collection of local landmarks. Following will be a screening
of THE FALL OF BABYLON, the 90-minute version of D.W. Griffith’s
Silent Era epic Intolerance, which was filmed in Silver Lake.
Sunday, September 17, 2 pm Spaceland TRT:
75 min. (with book signing plus party)
Chicano Politics, Punk and Rock ‘N’ Roll 1970—2000:
LAND OF A THOUSAND DANCES
Video lecture by David Reyes and Tom Waldman, 45 min.
MAS ALLA DE LOS GRITOS/BEYOND THE SCREAMS
Dir: Martin Sorrendeguy, 2000, USA, video,
30 min.
A hybrid of music sounds indigenous
to L.A.’s Mexican-American subculture, Chicano Rock developed
parallel to mainstream rock ‘n’ roll in the 1950s. Throu
gh the decades, the music has changed with the times while cultivating
its roots. David Reyes and Tom Waldman, co-authors of Land of
a Thousand Dances: Chicano Rock and Roll from Southern California,
will screen rare performance footage of bands seminal to the music’s
development, including Cannibal & the Headhunters, The Midnighters,
El Chicano & Los Illegals. In the video short, MAS ALLA DE LOS
GRITOS, a burgeoning new Chicano Punk scene is at once in reaction
to and at one with Chicano Rock.
WILD PARTY TO FOLLOW: FEATURING LIVE PERFORMANCES AT SPACELAND El
Chicano, The Slow Riders, Los Illegals and Blues Experiment.
Saturday, Sept. 16, 12 pm Los Feliz Cinema 3 TRT:
105 min.
Dreams 1900-2000:
FILM & THE UNCONSCIOUS
MIND
Film/video lecture by Professor Lynn Gamwell (West Coast premiere)
From the earliest days of cinema, filmmakers embraced Sigmund Freud’s
theory that dreams are the doorways to the unconscious mind. Noted
cultural historian Lynn Gamwell, author of Dreams 1900-2000:
Science, Art and the Unconscious Mind, discusses the impact
of dream mythology on the development of cinema. Dream sequences
selected from motion pictures from throughout the 20th century are
screened. BOOK SIGNING TO FOLLOW: at Skylight Bookstore.
Sunday, September 17, 12 pm Los Feliz Cinema 3 TRT: 116
minutes
Kenneth Anger Retrospective:
THE GODFATHER OF AVANT-GARDE CINEMA
(Rarely-screened masterworks and a US Premiere)
This showcase of rarely screened masterworks includes SLFF
honoree Kenneth Anger's first success FIREWORKS (1947, 15
min.); PUCE MOMENT (1949, 6.5 min.), a lyrical poem on Hollywood
glamour; SCORPIO RISING (1964, 29 min.), credited for paving
the way for mainstream homoeroticism in films like Midnight Cowboy;
LUCIFER RISING (1973, 30 min.), with Marianne Faithfull and
the music of Bobby Beausoleil; and the United States premiere of
Anger's new videofilm DON'T SMOKE THAT CIGARETTE (1999, 35
min.), an affecting and ironic anti-smoking collage. BOOK SIGNING:
at Skylight Books to follow, with fellow SLFF Spirit of Silver Lake
honoree, Mary Woronov.
Saturday, September 16, 7:30 pm Los Feliz Cinema 3 TRT:
94 min.
L.A. Beats:
NIGHT TIDE
Dir:
Curtis Harrington, 1963, USA, 35mm-B&W, 84 min.
ALEPH
Dir: Wallace Berman, 1958, USA, 16mm,
10 min.
Los Angeles was a nexus for the Beats, America’s
first post-war counter-culture. Experience the scene that inspired
the alternative way of living Silver Lakers have come to embrace.
Two original L.A. Beat films are screened together for the first
time: Harrington’s supercool feature, starring Dennis Hopper
and Linda Lawson, and Berman’s experimental short. SPECIAL
GUESTS: Harrington, Lawson and Berman’s son, Tosh, will be
present for discussion.
Saturday, September 16, 4:30 pm Glaxa Studios trt: 120 min.
The Light & Pony Show:
ANIMAL CHARM/EMERSON BALLA
Live performance, film and audio-video mixing
from the recently relocated Chicago artists collective Animal Charm
and the Los Angeles based artist Emerson Balla. Film critic Holly
Willis writes: "Animal Charm’s work finds and celebrates with
unerring eyes and ears the most insidious inflections of our culture,
and then offer them back in these sublime media riffs and sound/image
collages." Emerson Balla’s performances incorporate organic
materials and reclaimed lost imagery, conjuring a haunting lullaby
to the history of the projected image. Animal Charm invites the
audience to bring VHS video and audio cassette material to add to
their live mix.
Sunday, September 17, 10 am Los Feliz Cinema 3 TRT:
75 min. (plus reception)
Modernist Architecture – The Silver Lake
Connection:
L’ARCHITECTURE D’AUJOURD’HUI
Dir:Pierre Chenal, 1931, FR, 16mm, 10 min.
THE CITY
Dir: Ralph Steiner & Willard Van Dyke, 1939, USA, 16mm, 32 min.
HOUSE AFTER 5 YEARS OF LIVING
Dir: Charles and Ray Eames, 1955, USA,
16mm, 11 min.
(Co-Presented by the Committee to Save Silver Lake’s Reservoirs)
The Silver Lake area is home to more outstanding examples
of Modernist architecture than any community in the world. Attracted
to the area’s topography, pioneers Rudolph Schindler and Richard
Neutra and their disciples built homes from the 1920-1960s that
continue to rank among the world’s most forward-looking designs.
In this lecture/film program, architects/professors Olivier Touraine
+ Deborah Richmond introduce and place into local context three
classic docs about the Modernist aesthetic. SPECIAL BONUS: Reception
to follow at the Neutra-designed VDL House.
Sunday, September 17, 4:30 pm Glaxa Studios TRT: 90
min.
Rising Stars:
LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT SHORTS
(Curated by Susan Boyle, Co-Presented by Roosevelt High School)
If you were given the chance to make a film while in high school, what
would it be? See what the next generation of filmmakers have to
say about love, sex, violence, heroism, and death. FREE PROGRAM!
Grant High School
under the direction of Alex Sakobian:
California Ryan 6 min.
For The Laughs 6 mins.
Harvard/Westlake High School under the direction of Cheri Gaulke:
Music Video 3 min.
Women in Ads 1 min.
Priceless 1 min.
Attitude About Sex 2 min.
Pacoima Middle School under the direction of James Gleason:
Down and Up Again 3 min.
Esperanza 3 min.
Revenge of the Giga Pets
11 min.
Roosevelt High School under the direction of Susan Boyle:
Suicide 1 min.
Lesbian Moms 1:30
Mommy 1:30
Untitled 2 min.
A Thorn of Every Eye 1:35 min.
Nightmare 1:15 min.
Van Nuys High School under the direction of Pam Cohen:
Beaners, A Day in the Life
of/Budweiser Advertisments/Abuse 15 mins.
Saturday, September 16, 1:30 pm at Del Monte Park TRT: 120 min.
6th Annual ‘Music Box’ Steps Day:
THE MUSIC BOX
Dir: Hal Roach, USA, 1932, 35mm, 30 min. (Co-presented by
the Silver Lake Improvement Assoc.)
This family event commemorates the site of Laurel
& Hardy’s 1932 Oscar-winning short, The Music Box.
The film is screened in the Silver Lake park across from where the
famed comedic duo attempted to defy gravity, with much levity, by
hoisting a piano up the steep outdoor series of steps. Bring the
kids. Laurel & Hardy lookalikes entertain. FREE PROGRAM!
BOOK SIGNINGS:
SPECIAL PROGRAMS
THE FOLLOWING ARE ALL FREE in-store events at Skylight Books
Sunday, September 16, 2:00 pm
KENNETH ANGER & MARY WORONOV
Hear aloud, straight from the authors’ mouths, the new
Mary Woronov novel Snake and Kenneth Anger’s infamous
Hollywood Babylon I and II.
Saturday, September 16, 2 pm
LYNN GAMWELL
Professor Lynn Gamwell, author of Dreams 1900-2000: Science, Art and
the Unconscious Mind, answers questions and sign books, following
her 12pm film & lecture.
Saturday, September 16, 7:30 pm
WHIT STILLMAN
Writer-director Whit Stillman has won accolades for his films
including Metropolitan and Barcelona. Join Stillman
for a discussion of his first novel, based on The Last Days of
Disco.
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