The Secret Films of Girls

Investigates the formal and imaginative connections between the cinematic medium and the most private journeys and dreams of women.

Festival Opening !

60 Artists videos, CD-ROMs and web sites. 7-11pm at a dozen Chinatown venues and numerous outdoor walls, in galleries, bars, internet cafes, etc on Chung King Rd. & Central Plaza topped by great djs, music, dancing at Firecracker 10pm -2 am

Modify--Speculative Technology (Videos)

Presents works that speculates about near future technology. On the surface, these works present humor, fantasy or corporate slickness, but lead the viewer to dark questions about the goals and results of these technological speculations.

The Wounded City: Urban Violence and the Cityscape

What makes the urban cityscape vibrant and interesting also make it the site of potential violence. The clash of genders, races and nationalities that contribute to the city's diversity can, at anytime, erupt into violence.

Have You Ever Tried it This Way?

Inspirational tapes for student audiences. Wow how did they do that? I wish I could do it that way! Hey Iíve done that before! I could do it better! All of the films in this show entitled Have You Ever Tried it This Way?, evoke reactions like these.

True/Lies: Invented Identities and Infiltrations

A collection of videos by makers that cross and re-cross the line between fact and fiction. Through these prevaricators and provocateurs our willing suspension of disbelief is rewarded with collusion in some fantastic geographies, and an often disturbing dose of reality.

Creature Comforts:

Three Case Studies In the New Road-Based Durational Videos Plus One Short Film. Enjoy new work that makes particular use of the time aspect of time based media in the most comfortable of settings.

Involuntary Narratives

Whether it is the artist's compulsion or the audience's, in their varying ways, each piece has an element that pushes it without choice toward a narrative.

Crazy for You

This program offers a selection of works in which artists explore both serious and funny aspects of the fabrication, fragmentation and multiplication of personal identity and space.

Conceptuesque

Also known as A Celebration of the Very Serious, Totally Goofy, Great Big Little Idea, this program offers a series of projects that hearken back to the more idiosyncratic, goofball spirit found in much of early conceptual art, performance and experimental film and video.

Mom, Dad, I Have Something to Tell You

This selection of film and video joins a roller-coaster of happily twisted kids discovering their own bodies, their emotions and their parents' secrets; from the painful and explicit, to the cute, playful and joyous. This program is not suitable for children.

The Poetics of Bandwidth In Two Parts

The first part of the program, subtitled Fast and Lite, includes works that embrace the lo-fi aesthetic brought about by the internet's low bandwith demands. The second part, Hot and Heavy, includes works that eschew compression and subscribe to formal experimental filmaking principles of sensory immersion.

See Ya at the Movies

Each piece is about an appropriated Hollywood film.

For Animal Lovers Only

A collection of animal films/videos that showcase the adorable, funny, wacky, and serious sides of being a pet or just a wild animal at heart.

Latin American FREEWAVES

One of the most substantial Latin American video surveys ever assembled, the nine programs, commissioned especially for the 2002 LA Freewaves Festival, represent the syncretism and dynamic exchanges of artists and activists hailing from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Venezuela.

AudioVisuals: A Remix of Music & Karaoke Videos

AudioVisuals celebrates the magic created by the entertaining to profound union of music and visual images. It may materialize in the form of a karaoke sing-along, a rhythmic chant for social change, or as a cacophony of guitar licks, joyfully blaring an escape from monotony.

c-level Memefest

"All Your Meme are Belong to Us!" The world's first Internet memefest will collect and reflect on the wonderous world of Internet memes with six hours of short screenings and lectures by internet meme experts, artists and fans.

PANEL: If The Arts Were on TV, How Would They Look/Sound? Do?

Tom Leeser, Patti Podesta, Lynn Spigel Laurence Andries,

PANEL: Can Equal TV Representation Be Demanded As A Next Civil Right?

Vince Cheung, Chon Noriega, Garth Trinidad, Lisa Nakamura,
moderator Erin Aubry Kaplan,

MODIFY--Speculative Technology (Digital Works)
Presents works that speculates about near future technology. On the surface, these works present humor, fantasy or corporate slickness, but lead the viewer to dark questions about the goals and results of these technological speculations.

NAVIGATE The works present the users with strategic, experimental choices in interface design, from passive to aggressive, from humorous to poetic, and from inscrutable to intuitive.

LA-IMC TV, Los Angeles Independent Media Center Screening and Discussion

A node of the globalization movement screens for discussion their newly launched public access TV show: LA-IMC TV. The show, produced here and by some of the more than 90 autonomous IMCs worldwide, features clips, interviews and reports on the increasing corporate domination of the world-and the resistance. Also included will be videos on the underrepresented events of the day.

Screenings at Echo Park Film Center

Experimental, eclectic shorts, and non-narrative films

Cypress Hill: AMPLIFIED

Serving as an open-ended laboratory for artists working in video and new media, Mario's Furniture presents a night of audio and video art, as a culmination of experimentation by artists who have worked considering the space's geographical location, physical configuration, available video and sound equipment.

Interstate Super 8 - A Journey Along the Road Map of Remembrance

Associated with the intimate landmarks in family life, home videos, shot on Super 8 film, are often regarded as amateur works of art. Using the home movie as a means of navigation, this program takes the viewer on a journey into memories of both the mind and heart.

AMANDLA! -A Revolution in 4 Parts Harmony

Director: Lee Hirsch, 2001, 98 minutes In South Africa, music was a major source of inspiration and hope in the struggle against apartheid. A joyous celebration of the indomitable human spirit is charted through the music of struggle. Enjoy a screening in the park with live music by Project Blowed. KAOS Network in collaboration with Pan African Film Festival and L.A. Freewaves.

Sound + Fury + Action: An Evening of Activist and Labor Actions

In a special program presented in conjunction with L.A. Freewaves, Visual Communications will offer a series of works spotlighting working peoples' struggles, and the issues that serve as a catalyst for progressive organizing. As part of the evening, Visual Communications will preview excerpts of its ongoing Asian Pacific American Labor Project, which is slated for a 2003 premeire.

FESTIVAL FINALE @ Vermont Music Café:

Get Up, Stand Up - Two must-see documentaries about activism and protest.
See Ya at the Movies - Selections about appropriated Hollywood films.
Interview - Conducted with ex-CIA man, Philip Agee.
Creature Comforts: New Road-Based Durational Videos Plus One Short Film.
Step Up to the Mic - Experimental film/video that uses the format of video karaoke

Queer Youth Nation, Reach LA

Selected by 17 year old Ana Lopez, a Chicana lesbian, the program covers a variety of different issues that queer youth face everyday. Not only does the show aim to motivate teens to speak out for a better queer future, but it hopes to make them knowledgeable of the real queer world out there.

Films by Lynne Sachs

Film Forum presents two films by Lynne Sachs: Investigation of a Flame and Which Way is East. With Lynne Sachs in person.

A Not So Quiet Roar Screening and Youth Panel Discussion

From skating, to "spanging", to garage bands to hip hop, these young video makers venture out of their immediate world to introduce us, with both earnestness and humor, to people and places neither we nor they had met before.

How do works produced for youth or by youth differ? If youth could produce and program their own TV, what would it look like?

An Evening with Joseph Cornell By ARCHIVE

In December of 2001, Anne Walsh and Chris Kubick conducted 5 séances at the Whitney Museum of American Art, in an attempt to contact the spirit of the artist Joseph Cornell. During "An Evening with Joseph Cornell", they present the results....

NAVIGATE

The works present the users with strategic, experimental choices in interface design, from passive to aggressive, from humorous to poetic, and from inscrutable to intuitive.

A Life in the Movies: Boyle Heights on the Screen

Panel Discussion and Presentation - In a city not often recognized for its neighborhoods, Boyle Heights has had a particular draw on filmmakers that demands its representation. With its rich multi-ethnic history, Los Angeles's first suburb has inspired the production of a number of films.

Neither There Nor Here- in conjunction with Art & Film in the Age of Anxiety Selections from the 2002 Whitney Biennial

A panel discussion on the shifting definitions of film and art within the gallery. Participants: Jeremy Blake (artist), Morgan Fisher (filmmaker and artist), Chrissie Iles (curator and moderator), Peter Wollen (Professor of Film Studies, UCLA), and Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson (Phyllis Wattis MATRIX Curator, UC Berkeley).

All You Can Eat

(An evening of artist-made karaoke videos, food and drink) Wooo doggiee! Bring the family for generous helpin's of home-style food, fun and video karaoke with all the fixin's! It's melt in your mouth TV dining that's guaranteed to please! Don't forget to redeem your coupon at the door for a genuine c-level souvenir bib!

FREECUENCIA FEST 2002
A non-competitive festival that showcases past and contemporary experimental cinema and video by artists from Latin America who may share a cultural, linguistic, ethnic or any other variation of a post-colonial or neo-liberal outcome, as a result of migration, exile, or diasporas.

PERFORMANCES
by Mr. Tamale and Ultra Red, Trabajo y dias (Social Factory No. 3) Mr. Tamale, a digital collective that uses image and sound samples.

New Arab Video

UCLA Film and Television Archive Screening and Discussion
These videos come from the Middle East, North Africa, the Holy Land, the Arab world and blur the genre distinctions between documentary, diary, reportage and fiction in an attempt to find an appropriate form for the issues addressed: place, home, identity, violence, marginality, religion, politics, beauty, gender.

Body Projections presents new video installations by Denise Marika. Dealing with themes of power, vulnerability, and privacy, Marika uses her own body to bring private rituals and gestures into public spaces.

Opening reception 3-5pm @ Pomona College Museum of Art
Nov. 3 - Dec. 15, 2002