Evento

Resistance Isnt Futile: Films on the Occasion of a Presidential Inauguration

Sunday, January 22, 2017, 7:30pm
Los Angeles Filmforum presents
Resistance Isnt Futile: Films on the Occasion of a Presidential Inauguration
At the Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Resistance takes many forms, riotous and quiet, political and economic, through education and through engagement. In our program this week, we look at some forms of resistance by people and groups and filmmakers, by seeing some of the ways that films have found dynamic ways and unheralded people to face dark times and make better futures. Well also take a look at a few of the issues of the day, to remember the troubles of the past that people have resisted, and how some of them have never left us. Featuring films by Straub-Huillet, Kelly Gallagher, Kevin Jerome Everson, Penelope Spheeris, Robert Fenz, Danny Lyon, and more. Curated by Adam Hyman

Tickets: $10 general; $6 for students/seniors; free for Filmforum members. Available in advance from Brown Paper Tickets or at the door.

Screening includes:

En rachâchant by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub
1982, France, b&w, 8 min.
Text by Marguerite Duras: Ah! Ernesto! (1971)
Image by Henri Alekan and Louis Cochet

Black Panther
1969, 14 min.

Key to the Cities by Kevin Jerome Everson
2008, 16mm, 1:45, black and white
Pearl Pistols, by Kelly Gallagher
2014, video, 3 min.

National Rehabilitation Center, by Penelope Spheeris
1969, 16mm screened from digital, 14 min
Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

El Mojado, [The Wetback] by Danny Lyon
1974, New Mexico, color, 14 minutes
English and Spanish with subtitles,
Produced by J.J. Meeker.
A portrait of a hard-working undocumented laborer from Mexico.

Crossings, by Robert Fenz
2006-07, 16mm, 10 min.
In Crossings (200607), made for the 2008 Whitney Biennial, Fenz switches to color film to convey more sensate information about the United StatesMexico border wall.

Bradley Manning Had Secrets, by Adam Butcher
2012, color, 5:30

James Baldwin #1-#5 by Marco Braunschweiler
2014, HD video, 4:11

Portrait #2: Trojan, by Vanessa Renwick
2006, 5 minutes, 35mm to SD video
score: Sam Coomes; cinematography: Eric Edwards; edit: Vanessa Renwick