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FILM PROGRAM
Shattered
Charles Annenberg Weingarten: 1992, 6 minutes
Bristol Brawl
Ernest Savage: 2005, 8 minutes
Ties On A Fence: Women in Downtown LA Speak Out
Corina Gamma: 2004, 56 minutes
The filmmakers will be in attendance to introduce and discuss their work.
ABOUT THE FILMAKERS
Corina Gamma lives and works in Los Angeles using video and photography as the current medium for her art. The geographical, political and social landscapes of Southern California are often her source of inspiration. Her video series from 1995 to 2000 examined the concept of home and vast suburbanization of Southern California. She has previously collaborated on documentaries of political interest with other video artists in Los Angeles. Since 1998, Corina Gamma has been an artist in residence at the Downtown Women's Center, a shelter for homeless women, working on art projects with the women once a week. During that time she collaborated with Rochelle Botello, artist in residence and social worker, and women from the downtown Los Angeles area on a video/photography project. In addition to that project and from the years of collecting interviews and conversations evolved this documentary. Ties on a Fence: Women in Downtown Los Angeles Speak Out is a compendium of conversations and interviews with women who are currently residing in the downtown Los Angeles Skid Row. The women who participated in this film are either homeless, at the periphery of it, or in a transitional situation. They tell their stories, struggle and their experiences of poverty as they are trying to navigate through the various bureaucracies of government programs. Many of them are trying to overcome personal dilemmas, either resolving past experiences or escaping them altogether.
Ernest Savage is a local community activist and filmmaker. Bristol Brawl examines issues of gentrification, real estate development and low-cost housing in downtown Los Angeles.
Charles Annenberg Weingarten is a filmmaker whose works stem from the
observations of documentary film into the lyricism of fairtytales. Furthermore, he weaves into his work the consciousness that comes from growing up in a family in which philanthropy is the common denominator. His work is thereby infused with imperatives to feel ones way into better solutions of the crisis surrounding us. His films are, however, always personal, never didactic. Shattered is a student work, done by Charles while a graduate student at USC Film school.
Certainly, it is in response to the homeless people he so often encountered downtown--but it is also about trust--and the leap of faith necessary to build it.
ABOUT THE MUSICIANS
The Taiko Center of Los Angeles was founded by director, Rev. Tom Kurai to preserve the art Japanese taiko drumming. Taiko is powerfully visual and combines discipline of martial arts and contemporary music. The Taiko Center has performed at UCLA Royce Hall, Japan America Theatre and the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre.
ABOUT THE NOT A CORNFIELD ART PROJECT Growing in the historic center of Los Angeles, the Not Cornfield project transforms an industrial brownfield site into a cornfield for one agricultural cycle. Now the Los Angeles Historic State Park, the site popularly known as 'The Cornfield' had remained derelict for more than a decade. The project serves as a potent metaphor that provides a focus for reflection and action in a city unclear about the location of its energetic and historic center.
ABOUT LAUREN BON, NOT A CORNFIELD ARTIST
Not a Cornfield artist, Lauren Bon resides in Los Angeles and holds a Masters of Architecture degree from MIT and a BA from Princeton. Ms. Bon is a trustee of the Annenberg Foundation and President of Not A Cornfield, LLC. Her recent urban, public and land art projects in the U.S., Hong Kong, Belfast and Northern Ireland, as well as her role as a trustee, make her uniquely poised to build the capacity of the Foundation in the area of site based philanthropy, serving communities through education, civic, health, artistic initiatives and programs. Not a Cornfield art project is being developed through a grant by Annenberg Foundation.
ABOUT THE CURATORS
Echo Park Film Center is a volunteer-run, non-profit media arts center committed to providing equal and affordable access to film and video education and resources for all members of our diverse and vibrant community via a community microcinema space, free and nominal cost media arts education programs, a comprehensive film equipment and service department, and a touring film festival showcasing local established and student filmmakers.
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