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There’s no ‘there’, there: L.A. films L.A.


Big City Forum presents a film screening curated by Saskia Wilson-Brown, Founder and co-director of Cinema Speakeasy. The evening will feature short films that examine what Los Angeles means to those that inhabit it, in a program and discussion about our public urban identity. We will be screening pieces that capture the complexity and reality of living in our de-centralized, mythologized city.


L.A. is a constantly shifting metropolis, often seemingly constructed for mass consumption by fantastical and fevered minds – with nary a glance at the rich complexity roiling beneath its shimmering skin. From gritty downtown cop dramas to technicolor Hollywood fantasies, it has been omnipresent in American celluloid, but rarely truly captured in all its complexity. It is, in short, the most filmed yet least understood megalopolis in modern American history.

Filmmakers will be on hand for a post-screening discussion about their sense of place, moderated by Saskia Wilson-Brown and Big City Forum.

Wed, Nov. 16th

Goethe Institut LA

7 – 9 pm



And now for something even more awesome: ‘Los Angeles: A Love Poem‘, by Dylan King (featuring a poem by Sandra Beasley)

Click on the links below to check out some of the sites I mentioned in the talk:

• Indiegogo.com
• Camille Manybead’s campaign on IndieGoGo
• Vodo.net
• Workbook Project

This was made in support of Reboot‘s National Day of Unplugging: 24 hours of turning off the old laptop, starting at sundown, Friday, March 19. That’s today.

In any case, Nova and Michael took this instrinct a step further with their Moon Theatre- allowing us shadow puppet amateurs to create elegiacal, complex, movable shadows on the moon (or at least the closest simulacrum a projector and a round bounce screen can supply).

In this video, Michael and Nova discuss their Moon Shadow Theatre, collaboration and the technology behind the shadow puppets at the Bing Innovation Lounge at TEDActive in Palm Springs.

Footage was shot by Brooklyn’s mssng peces, Sarah Shewey (pinkcloudevents.com) with shaky backup flip-cam footage by Saskia Wilson-Brown.

Check out more of Evan’s work at seeper.com. The sphere was a collaboration between Seeper and Pufferfish. I’ll be uploading more videos from TEDActive, all week.

Check out more about James Patten and the Audiopad, as well as other projects, at http://www.pattenstudio.com/. I’ll be uploading more videos from TEDActive, all week.