Beautiful Losers Short Films in Los Angeles Dec. 5th

This coming Saturday December 5th will be a screening of Beautiful Loser's Shorts at Cinefamily. Short film by Harmony Korine, Mike Mills, Chris Johanson, Geoff McFetridge, Clare E. Rojas, Stephen Powers, Spike Jones, Tobin Yelland, Jo Jackson, Thomas Campbell, and Cheryl Dunn.

Cinefamily Silent Movie Theater: Built in 1942 by John and Dorothy Hampton, The Silent Movie Theatre ran for decades as the only fully functioning silent movie theatre in the country. It has been fully restored to its original, vintage 1940s art deco design, along with a brand new screen and sound system, to help a new generation enjoy the pleasures of cinema in a beautiful theater.

I won't be able to attend, but I am sure it will be a fantastic night of films and some even better people/artists.

Perfect Sunday short film - The Discipline of D.E.

William Burroughs - Do Easy

Film By Gus Van Sant

D.E. is a way of doing. It is a way of doing everything you do. DE simply means doing whatever you do in the easiest most relaxed way you can manage which is also the quickest and most efficient way, as you will find as you advance in D.E."

Dali & Disney?

Disney and Dali - Destino from Jayme Johnson on Vimeo.

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I really never thought I would post something Disney but here it goes...This is “Destino” a short film collaboration between Walt Disney and Salvador Dali. Originally started in 1946, the project was either halted because of financial reasons or because of the content being too extreme. Finally in 2003 (57 years later), a team of Disney animators finished what Dali started and the film made its way around some film festivals. Check out one of the most unique animation collaborations ever made.

Jeu d'échecs avec Marcel Duchamp (1963)

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This film records an in-depth interview with Duchamp which took place five years before his death, at the time of his first ever one-man show (at the Pasadena Art Museum). It records for posterity Duchamp talking about his life, his ideas on art, why he chose to continue living in America after fleeing France in 1915, and why he virtually abandoned his work as an artist in 1923. An engaging dialogue takes place between Duchamp and film-maker Jean-Marie Drot as they go around the Pasadena show, with the artist commenting on the exhibits and using them to explain the various stages of the development of his work. This is punctuated by the games of chess, which were for Duchamp a passion and a metaphor for the mental discipline he applied to his art. In this film we gain a rare glimpse of him talking with humour and insight about his ideas, and living up to the myth of the artist-philosopher that has grown up around him.

Jeu d'échecs avec Marcel Duchamp was filmed late 1963 in Pasadena and New York for the Radio Télévision Franaise (RTF); first broadcast on 8 June 1964 and then shown at the International Festival of Artistic Films and Films of Art (Bergamo, 19 September 1964). The English version was presented in a television broadcast in September 1964 in the 'Art and Man' Series.

Dark Bubbles

Interactive Music videos are nice. This latest piece is produced by LA-based collective Radical Friend. Although the actual interactivity is a bit limited, this is a video with a great look and feel and awesome visuals.

www.darkbubbles.com

Eyes of Science

A Film about the Scientific Optical Instrument