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D300 Gallery: John Wu MFA 1 PHOTO/MEDIA 

D301 Gallery: Charmaine Bee MFA 1 ART 

L-Shape Gallery: Sichong Xie MFA 1 PHOTO/MEDIA 

Main Gallery: Character Animation Department Exhibition

A402 Gallery: Hannah Lee MFA 1 ART 

Lime Gallery: Jordan Rosenfeld MFA 1 ART 

Mint Gallery: Maya Beaudry MFA 1 ART  

REDCAT: Billy Woodberry introduces the US premiere of his long-awaited new film And When I Die I Won’t Stay Dead, a feature-length documentary about jazz-inspired beat poet Bob Kaufman, sometimes called the “American Rimbaud." Woodberry’s landmark 1984 film Bless Their Little Hearts was honored with a jury award at the Berlin International Film Festival and was selected for preservation by the National Film Registry. The program begins with Marseille après la guerre, a short montage crafted from images found in a longshoremen’s union hall.

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REDCAT: Holt's Piano/Percussion Project places the pianist amid an array of percussion instruments, calling for acrobatic feats of multi-instrumentalism. Over 20 composers have contributed new works to this project, of which several will be presented this evening, including a new work by Sean Friar (World Premiere-Piano Spheres commission) composed for the project.

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REDCAT: “A minuet staged as grand opera.”—J. Hoberman

“A constant reinvention of the filmic space.”—Cahiers du cinéma

“A landmark in the history of the European art film.”—Harvard Film Archive

When he died in April 2015 at the age of 106, revered Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira left behind one of the most extraordinary oeuvres in the history of art cinema: 31 features and more than 30 documentaries and shorts—most of which were completed after he had turned 70. Amor de Perdição, the epic work that introduced his unique style of mise-en-scène to the international film community, is an enduring masterpiece. Adapting the eponymous 1862 novel by Camilo Castelo Branco, de Oliveira focused on the author’s elegantly constructed, sonorous text rather than a naturalistic staging of the doomed affair between 18th-century aristocrats Teresa and Simão. The result is a mesmerizing synthesis of literary, theatrical and cinematic traditions, as de Oliveira overlays a haunting off-screen voice atop the sumptuous visuals captured by his deliberative moving camera. 

Portugal, 1978, 265 min., 16mm

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D300 Gallery: Matt Kim BFA 4 ART

D301 Gallery: John Olivo BFA 4 ART

L-Shape Gallery: Samuel Choi BFA 4 ART

Main Gallery: CLOSED

A402 Gallery: Leah Schietekat BFA 4 ART

Lime Gallery: Amanda Vincelli MFA 1 PHOTO/MEDIA 

Mint Gallery: Hagar Cygler MFA 1 PHOTO/MEDIA 

REDCAT: “Lewis Klahr’s beautiful compilation… refashions pop culture in a heroic key.”—Manohla Dargis, “The Best Movies of 2015,” —The New York Times

 “Klahr’s films generate a blend of melancholy and desire from this interplay of grasping and losing, remembering and forgetting.”—Tom Gunning

 “What is extraordinary is the vigor with which Klahr invests the [collage] form.”—Artforum

West Coast premiere

Fresh off its world premiere at The Museum of Modern Art, Sixty Six (2002–15, 90 min.) is the latest entry in master collagist Lewis Klahr’s Prolix Satori digital series. It also stands as the crowning achievement of the CalArts faculty member’s prodigious work in collage film, dating back to 1977. Using material from his own vast archive, Klahr, “the reigning proponent of cut-and-paste,” according to J. Hoberman, combines classic Greek mythology with 1960s Pop and “Daylight Noir” in a series of elliptical tales—uncanny superimpositions in which comic-book heroes and foto-roman characters populate a vision of midcentury Los Angeles cut out from the pages of period magazines. 

2002–15, 60 min.

In person: Lewis Klahr

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REDCAT: Opening reception: Sat, Jan 23, 6–9pm

Anthony Graves and Carla Herrera-Prats, working collaboratively as Camel Collective, premiere their multi-channel video installation Something Other Than What You Are. Shot in REDCAT’s theater, the work depicts fictional lighting technicians, designers, and a professor grappling with the realities of the precariousness of freelance labor, collaborative power dynamics, and technological obsolescence. In addition to the video installation, the exhibition includes a series of drawings, props and additional moving-image vignettes. Theater itself is a subject, while the camera investigates the physiological cause-effect dynamics of light and stage. The narrative takes place outside of live theater performance, in the form of soliloquies and conversations between the production and technical crew. The piece depicts the production of visibility and invisibility in a “creative field.” It is about watching a figure move in and out of obscurity, watching moods pass, and aspirations ebb and flow.

REDCAT: “You can feel this distance dissolve when what’s before you is a kind of frenzy of recombination, of translation, of an artist diving all the way into his or her material, certain there is a secret in the noise and speed… certain that the artist can find the secret and make it into a story anyone can understand.” -- Greil Marcus, from ‘No Money Down: Pop Art, Pop Music, Pop Culture’ [2002]

REDCAT and The Broad present Callings Out of Context

Series: Callings Out of Context

Featuring some of today’s most exciting and transgressive musicians, Callings Out of Context is an aural complement to the Broad collection’s holdings of Pop Art. The series features hybrid-minded contemporary musical artists that engage, point to and tell stories about the modern market they are simultaneously a part of, while opening our ears to new perspectives on genre, repetition and mass production. Each program will pair artists from divergent corners of the marketplace, from the heart of indie-rock to the fringes of hip-hop and electronic music to the experimentalism of the avant-garde. The series title was inspired by the Arthur Russell song Calling Out of Context. Guest Curator is Ted Hearne. 

Ratking + Gabriel Garzón-Montano

Call it 'no wave' rap. Call it 'no school' hip hop. The New York–based trioRatking are raw, philosophical and utterly reactive. Piecing together detritus from the scorched earth of New York's musio-social landscape—where bloated, self-satisfied hip hop bumps elbows with the nihilist refrain of dead end punk; where delicate, perfumed beauty sits directly beside rancid, mangled poverty—Ratking's music revels in subversive bricolage and bold recombination. Known for their “rabble-rousing gusto and a reputation for wild live shows” (Pitchfork), MC’s Wiki and Hak act not only as mischievous tour guides but as dual ends of our own conscious: one sharp-witted, vulnerable and seemingly anti-social; the other feral and poetic. Sporting Life weaves a teeming Big Apple backdrop littered with referential gems, intelligent hooks and sheer immediacy.

Opening the evening is singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Gabriel Garzón-Montano, who exemplifies hybridity in his music. His songs infuse a soul/R&B sensibility with gauzy and impressionistic arrangements betraying a classical austerity. Fresh from a collaboration with Lenny Kravitz and featured on Drake's latest album, Garzón-Montano is a colorful and authentic musical voice. Tickets are $20 and will be available beginning Thursday, Dec. 17 at 1 p.m.

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D300 Gallery: Jessica Smith BFA 4 ART

D301 Gallery: Brooks Krichmar BFA 4 ART 

L-Shape Gallery: Ingrid Espitia MFA 1 ART

Main Gallery:  Olga Cosme BFA 4 PHOTO/MEDIA

A402 Gallery: Video Appropriation Practicum Workshop Exhibition

Lime Gallery: Mariner Padwa MFA 1 ART

Mint Gallery: Angelica Monreal BFA 4 ART