The arts community came out to support artist TEMPT ONE, who was stricken with ALS and now uses his eyes to create art using a device called the EyeWriter. This inspiring story is told in the film “Getting Up: The Tempt One Story” which was screened at the event.
0S & 1S (pronounced ”Zeros and Ones”) is a visually audacious comedy about our obsession and over-reliance on the very screen you’re looking at now. Spinning the LA sounds of No Age, Ariel Pink, Wavves, Mika Miko, Abe Vigoda and more, Eugene Kotlyarenko’s savvy directorial debut makes its Los Angeles theatrical premiere September 20th at the Los Feliz 3, 9:40 PM.
Los Angeles artist Loren Kantor works in the medium of woodcut prints. One of his most popular series to date is the figures of classic cinema that you see above and below. Visit his website for many more.
Los Angeles, 1999. Officer Dave Brown (two-time Academy Award(R) nominee Woody Harrelson) is a Vietnam vet and a Rampart Precinct cop, dedicated to doing “the people’s dirty work” and asserting his own code of justice, often blurring the lines between right and wrong to maintain his action-hero state of mind. When he gets caught on tape beating a suspect, he finds himself in a personal and emotional downward spiral as the consequences of his past sins and his refusal to change his ways in light of a department-wide corruption scandal seal his fate. Brown internalizes his fear, anguish and paranoia as his world, complete with two ex-wives who are sisters, two daughters, an aging mentor dispensing bad advice, investigators galore, and a series of seemingly random women, starts making less and less sense. In the end, what is left is a human being stripped of all his pretense, machismo, chauvinism, arrogance, sexism, homophobia, racism, aggression, misanthropy; but is it enough to redeem him as a man?
RAMPART will open for a one week run in New York and Los Angeles on November 23rd.
Los Angeles based visual artist and film maker Jean-Pierre Caner has created this intriguing mashup of J.Dilla’s song “Anti-American Graffiti” and scenes from Charles Burnett’s classic 1977 film Killer of Sheep. An unedited clip of the film, shot on location in Watts in the mid 1970s, is included below.
A stop motion video of Mike Giant painting on Haight Street in 2011. Over the course of the video he talks about his career as a writer, from his initial inspiration to where he is today, 22 years later.
Lots going on this weekend, but for those craving a flick, here are the new movies.
What’s Your Number (trailer above)
50 / 50
Dream House
Courageous
Take Shelter
Tucker and Dave vs. Evil (trailer below)
