Schedule of Events

Schedule of Events:

<<March 2010

[April 2010]

Come watch beautiful images dance upon a screen in your own neighborhood! Shows begin promptly @ 8PM and are $5 (unless otherwise noted). EPFC is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Sell your TV and come to the cinema.

ECHO PARK FILM CENTER THANKS THE ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS
AND SCIENCES FOR THEIR GENEROUS SUPPORT OF THE EPFC THURSDAY NIGHT MICROCINEMA SERIES. http://www.oscars.org

Saturday, May 1 – HOLLYSHORTS SHOWCASE – 7:30 PM
HollyShorts is an organization devoted to showcasing the best and brightest short films from around the globe, advancing the careers of filmmakers through screenings, networking events, and various panel and forums. The HollyShorts Film Festival showcases the top short films produced that are 30-minutes or less. $10 admission for this event. Refreshments provided. FILMMAKERS IN ATTENDANCE!
More info: www.hollyshorts.com

Tuesday, May 4 – CINEMA SPEAKEASY PRESENTS FILMS BY YOUTH INSIDE – 7:45 PM
Cinemea Speakeasy is proud to present a showcase of short films to benefit FYI. Films by Youth Inside (FYI) is an ongoing program that provides educational and creative options to incarcerated youth. Program participants learn the basics of screenwriting and filmmaking from film industry professionals and create short films expressive of their own life experiences. The filmmaking process helps participants gain perspective on their lives and their actions, while imparting valuable work and life skills. Just as important, the films themselves provide a variety of audiences insight into the cultural and societal currents that may give rise to youth violence. Come support FYI and meet Alex Munoz, who will be on hand to explain the process behind the films. More info: http://cinemaspeakeasy.com/ http://www.fyifilms.org/

Thursday, May 6 – DE LUCE 1: VEGETARE – BENEFIT FOR SFAI FACULTY UNION LEGAL FUND – 8 PM
The San Francisco Art Institute has had a long tradition of fostering the development of artists working with film and video in uniquely personal ways, and who have gone on to become successful artists, educators and curators. For many who have gone through the program, Janis Crystal Lipzin has been a strong mentor and role model. As an interdisciplinary artist committed to filmmaking, she has created a body of work that utilizes alternative photochemical processes, installation and performance to explore personal, political and environmental issues. This program features her newest work, a handmade Super-8/digital hybrid entitled De Luce 1: Vegetare, alongside a decade’s worth of work by alumni including Alexis Bravos, Brian Traylor, Chris Kennedy, Christina Battle, Elizabeth DiGiovanni, Jeremy Menzies, John Palmer, Kai-Ting Chuang, Karen Johannesen, Rick Bahto, Tsen-Chu Hsu, and Vanessa O’Neill. Proceeds from tonight’s program will be donated to the SFAI Faculty Union’s legal fund as they continue their struggle against the unjust layoffs of nine tenured faculty members, including Janis Crystal Lipzin. FILMMAKERS BRIAN TRAYLOR, ELIZABETH DiGIOVANNI, JOHN PALMER AND RICK BAHTO IN ATTENDANCE! For more information visit: http://rickbahto.wordpress.com

Friday, May 7 – AUTARKY! FRONTIER ANIMATION FROM CALARTS – 8 PM
This showcase features work from Experimental Animators enrolled at Calarts. All work was conceived and completed within one year or less, and ranges across all types of animation, from character to abstract/visual music. The show will be followed by musical performances and snacks. Please join us for a night of frontier animation! FILMMAKERS IN ATTENDANCE!

Saturday, May 8 – SENIORS DIGITAL DROP IN CLASS – 2 – 4 PM
EPFC invites neighborhood seniors to join us for our FREE Introduction to Digital Filmmaking Drop-In Classes. Learn how to use digital cameras and basic computer editing software to make your own movie in a relaxed and informal setting. All materials and equipment are provided by EPFC. No previous filmmaking experience necessary.

Saturday, May 8 – ECHO PARK TIME BANK – 5 PM
The Echo Park Time Bank free workshop, member potluck and screening of, The Money Fix a film by Alan Rosenblith. Free workshop on time banking will be from 5-5:30PM. Member potluck from 5:30-7:30PM Money Fix screening begins at 6:30PM Money is at the intersection of nearly every aspect of modern life. Most of us take the monetary system for granted, but it has a profound and largely misunderstood influence on our lives. THE MONEY FIX is a feature-length documentary exploring our society’s relationship with the almighty dollar. More info: http://www.themoneyfix.org/

Sunday, May 9 – ROGER BEEBE’S FILMS FOR ONE TO EIGHT PROJECTORS – 8 PM
Renowned experimental filmmaker Roger Beebe, whose films have shown around the globe from Sundance to the Museum of Modern Art and from McMurdo Station in Antarctica to the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square makes a rare stop in Los Angeles to present a program of his recent mutli-projector films. Beebe explores the possibilities of using multiple projectors—running as many as 8 projectors simultaneously—not for a free-form VJ-type experience, but for the creation of discrete works of“expanded cinema.” The show builds from the relatively straightforward two-projector films “The Strip Mall Trilogy” and “TB TX DANCE” to the more elaborate three-projector meditation on Las Vegas, “Money Changes Everything,” and on finally to the eight-projector meditation on the mysteries of space “Last Light of a Dying Star.” These films are simultaneously performance films (as they can only be screened with Beebe actually running the projectors—and running from projector to projector), technological demonstrations (with a parade of different modes of image making and presentation—16mm and super 8mm film alongside video and digital formats), and significant aesthetic works in their own right. FILMMAKER ROGER BEEBE IN ATTENDANCE! EVENT IS AT THE NEW EPFC ANALOG ANNEX… CALL OR EMAIL FOR DIRECTIONS!

Tuesday, May 11 – CINEMA SPEAKEASY PRESENTS ART BY CHANCE – 7:45 PM
ART BY CHANCE is a brand new Ultra Short Film Festival, and will take place in May and June 2010 in more than 20 countries and over 100 cities worldwide. The 2010 edition has set out to explore how the perception of time is unique to every individual and how time can influence the narrative of city life, one of modern man’s greatest challenges. Films touching the untouchable theme of time in their own time, from countries as diverse as Poland, India, Latvia, Thailand, and our own back yard. More info: http://www.cinemaspeakeasy
http://www.artbychance.org/ Bring: Your happy self and a noisemaking machine. We will be creating our own soundtrack to these silent short films.

Thursday, May 13 – IN CELEBRATION OF NOWHERE: NEW WORK BY EVAN MEANEY – 8PM
This program will feature individual works from The Ceibas Cycle (2007 - present), a series of experimental videos constructed through a glitching process, wherein their codes have been rewritten and their codecs, forced into crisis. This work sings a celebration for the digitally dead, while asking us to rethink how useful a ghost might be. Following this will be the 2010 film Centralia, a piececoncerned with the archive of documents and generational trauma surrounding a Pennsylvania town that has been on fire since 1962. FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE!

Saturday, May 15 – GL1TCH WORKSHOP WITH VISITING ARTIST EVAN MEANEY 1 – 4PM
Visiting artist Evan Meaney will teach a practical exploration of how to ruin media files with a purpose. Out of the digital destruction will rise artwork which walks the line between viable and busted, between alive and dead. We will encode, decode, hack, break and bend, proving that digital media (video, sound and still) is not tamperproof. We will address a brief history of the glitch aesthetic in modern culture, politics of interrupted representation and the practical means of hex editing on a mac system, code-bending workflows, and open source glitch procedures. Lets break a near-perfect system. And celebrate an imperfect one. All equipment and materials provided by EPFC. Class is limited to 6, call or email to reserve your spot. $50/$40 EPFC members.

Sunday, May 16 – INTRO TO FINAL CUT PRO – 1 – 5PM
Calling all interested adults (ages 20+) looking to learn the beauty and grace of digital editing! All equipment and materials provided by EPFC. Class limited to 6 students; tuition is $60/$50 members.

Thursday, May 20 – PXL THIS 19 – 8PM
Join Gerry Fialka and a posse of small format fanatics for PXL This 19! “PXL THIS, featuring films made with the Fisher-Price PXL 2000 toy camcorder, is one of the longest running film festivals in the entertainment capital of the world. Celebrating "cinema povera" moving image art, it evokes Marcel Duchamp's axiom "Poor tools require better skills." Pixelators from across the globe hoick up inventive approaches to the unassuming throw-away of consumer culture. These low-tech hi-jinx films come through loud and clear by reframing a new cinema language. "If movies offer an escape from everyday life, Pixelvision is the Houdini of the film world." - SF Weekly FESTIVAL FOUNDER AND FILMMAKER GERRY FIALKA IN ATTENDANCE! More info: http://pxlthis.ning.com/

Thurs, May 27 – VOICES OF LATIN AMERICA: THE OTHER CONQUEST/LA OTRA CONQUISTA – 8 PM
Join us for a special evening celebrating the poetry and power of independent Latin American cinema with a screening of “The Other Conquest,” a 2000 Mexican feature film written and directed by Salvador Carrasco. This beautifully visual film tells the story of the Spanish conquest of Mexico from the perspective of the indigenous Aztec people, using original locations such as the pyramid of Tenayuca in Mexico City and the archaeological site of Xochicalco to bring authenticity and history to the filmmaking process. By sharing a vision that seeks to include underrepresented voices on film, "The Other Conquest" is a testament to Latino culture and identity, as well as the art and persistence of independent cinema throughout the world. FILMMAKER SALVADOR CARRASCO AND ACTOR DAMIAN DELGADO IN ATTENDANCE!

Friday, May 28 – EXPERIMENTAL ACQUISITIONS: AN ANIMATION CELEBRATION – 8 PM
A screening that combines the final projects from the students of EPFC's Adult Animation Workshop, with a program of animated shorts from some Los Angeles animators including Michael Mouris, Christine Adolph, Jeff Kwong, Al Herrmann, Telefantasy Studios, and more! Curated by Nancy Jean Tucker. FREE!

Saturday, May 29 – WESTERN NOIR & MORE: MUSIC BY FUNERAL CLUB & TIPPY CANOE – 8 PM
Come on down for a shimmering night of music and images from Funeral Club (Bakersfield), Tippy Canoe (Oakland) and The Here & Now (Echo Park). More info: http://www.funeralclub.blogspot.com/ http://www.tippycanoe.net/

MAKE A MOVIE IN 2010…IT’S FUN AND EASY AT EPFC!
WE HAVE CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY…
GO TO WWW.ECHOPARKFILMCENTER.ORG FOR MORE INFO!

AND DON’T FORGET THE EPFC FACEBOOK PAGE FOR ALL THE LATEST…
http://www.facebook.com/echoparkfilmcenter
BECOME A FAN TODAY!

COMING SOON… THE 2010 FILMMOBILE SUMMER SCREENING SERIES!

Come watch beautiful images dance upon a screen in your own neighborhood! Shows begin promptly @ 8PM and are $5 (unless otherwise noted). EPFC is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Sell your TV and come to the cinema.

ECHO PARK FILM CENTER THANKS THE ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS
AND SCIENCES FOR THEIR GENEROUS SUPPORT OF THE EPFC THURSDAY NIGHT MICROCINEMA SERIES. http://www.oscars.org

Saturday, May 1 – HOLLYSHORTS SHOWCASE – 7:30 PM
HollyShorts is an organization devoted to showcasing the best and brightest short films from around the globe, advancing the careers of filmmakers through screenings, networking events, and various panel and forums. The HollyShorts Film Festival showcases the top short films produced that are 30-minutes or less. $10 admission for this event. Refreshments provided. FILMMAKERS IN ATTENDANCE!
More info: www.hollyshorts.com

Tuesday, May 4 – CINEMA SPEAKEASY PRESENTS FILMS BY YOUTH INSIDE – 7:45 PM
Cinemea Speakeasy is proud to present a showcase of short films to benefit FYI. Films by Youth Inside (FYI) is an ongoing program that provides educational and creative options to incarcerated youth. Program participants learn the basics of screenwriting and filmmaking from film industry professionals and create short films expressive of their own life experiences. The filmmaking process helps participants gain perspective on their lives and their actions, while imparting valuable work and life skills. Just as important, the films themselves provide a variety of audiences insight into the cultural and societal currents that may give rise to youth violence. Come support FYI and meet Alex Munoz, who will be on hand to explain the process behind the films. More info: http://cinemaspeakeasy.com/ http://www.fyifilms.org/

Thursday, May 6 – DE LUCE 1: VEGETARE – BENEFIT FOR SFAI FACULTY UNION LEGAL FUND – 8 PM
The San Francisco Art Institute has had a long tradition of fostering the development of artists working with film and video in uniquely personal ways, and who have gone on to become successful artists, educators and curators. For many who have gone through the program, Janis Crystal Lipzin has been a strong mentor and role model. As an interdisciplinary artist committed to filmmaking, she has created a body of work that utilizes alternative photochemical processes, installation and performance to explore personal, political and environmental issues. This program features her newest work, a handmade Super-8/digital hybrid entitled De Luce 1: Vegetare, alongside a decade’s worth of work by alumni including Alexis Bravos, Brian Traylor, Chris Kennedy, Christina Battle, Elizabeth DiGiovanni, Jeremy Menzies, John Palmer, Kai-Ting Chuang, Karen Johannesen, Rick Bahto, Tsen-Chu Hsu, and Vanessa O’Neill. Proceeds from tonight’s program will be donated to the SFAI Faculty Union’s legal fund as they continue their struggle against the unjust layoffs of nine tenured faculty members, including Janis Crystal Lipzin. FILMMAKERS BRIAN TRAYLOR, ELIZABETH DiGIOVANNI, JOHN PALMER AND RICK BAHTO IN ATTENDANCE! For more information visit: http://rickbahto.wordpress.com

Friday, May 7 – AUTARKY! FRONTIER ANIMATION FROM CALARTS – 8 PM
This showcase features work from Experimental Animators enrolled at Calarts. All work was conceived and completed within one year or less, and ranges across all types of animation, from character to abstract/visual music. The show will be followed by musical performances and snacks. Please join us for a night of frontier animation! FILMMAKERS IN ATTENDANCE!

Saturday, May 8 – SENIORS DIGITAL DROP IN CLASS – 2 – 4 PM
EPFC invites neighborhood seniors to join us for our FREE Introduction to Digital Filmmaking Drop-In Classes. Learn how to use digital cameras and basic computer editing software to make your own movie in a relaxed and informal setting. All materials and equipment are provided by EPFC. No previous filmmaking experience necessary.

Saturday, May 8 – ECHO PARK TIME BANK – 5 PM
The Echo Park Time Bank free workshop, member potluck and screening of, The Money Fix a film by Alan Rosenblith. Free workshop on time banking will be from 5-5:30PM. Member potluck from 5:30-7:30PM Money Fix screening begins at 6:30PM Money is at the intersection of nearly every aspect of modern life. Most of us take the monetary system for granted, but it has a profound and largely misunderstood influence on our lives. THE MONEY FIX is a feature-length documentary exploring our society’s relationship with the almighty dollar. More info: http://www.themoneyfix.org/

Sunday, May 9 – ROGER BEEBE’S FILMS FOR ONE TO EIGHT PROJECTORS – 8 PM
Renowned experimental filmmaker Roger Beebe, whose films have shown around the globe from Sundance to the Museum of Modern Art and from McMurdo Station in Antarctica to the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square makes a rare stop in Los Angeles to present a program of his recent mutli-projector films. Beebe explores the possibilities of using multiple projectors—running as many as 8 projectors simultaneously—not for a free-form VJ-type experience, but for the creation of discrete works of“expanded cinema.” The show builds from the relatively straightforward two-projector films “The Strip Mall Trilogy” and “TB TX DANCE” to the more elaborate three-projector meditation on Las Vegas, “Money Changes Everything,” and on finally to the eight-projector meditation on the mysteries of space “Last Light of a Dying Star.” These films are simultaneously performance films (as they can only be screened with Beebe actually running the projectors—and running from projector to projector), technological demonstrations (with a parade of different modes of image making and presentation—16mm and super 8mm film alongside video and digital formats), and significant aesthetic works in their own right. FILMMAKER ROGER BEEBE IN ATTENDANCE! EVENT IS AT THE NEW EPFC ANALOG ANNEX… CALL OR EMAIL FOR DIRECTIONS!

Tuesday, May 11 – CINEMA SPEAKEASY PRESENTS ART BY CHANCE – 7:45 PM
ART BY CHANCE is a brand new Ultra Short Film Festival, and will take place in May and June 2010 in more than 20 countries and over 100 cities worldwide. The 2010 edition has set out to explore how the perception of time is unique to every individual and how time can influence the narrative of city life, one of modern man’s greatest challenges. Films touching the untouchable theme of time in their own time, from countries as diverse as Poland, India, Latvia, Thailand, and our own back yard. More info: http://www.cinemaspeakeasy
http://www.artbychance.org/ Bring: Your happy self and a noisemaking machine. We will be creating our own soundtrack to these silent short films.

Thursday, May 13 – IN CELEBRATION OF NOWHERE: NEW WORK BY EVAN MEANEY – 8PM
This program will feature individual works from The Ceibas Cycle (2007 - present), a series of experimental videos constructed through a glitching process, wherein their codes have been rewritten and their codecs, forced into crisis. This work sings a celebration for the digitally dead, while asking us to rethink how useful a ghost might be. Following this will be the 2010 film Centralia, a piececoncerned with the archive of documents and generational trauma surrounding a Pennsylvania town that has been on fire since 1962. FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE!

Saturday, May 15 – GL1TCH WORKSHOP WITH VISITING ARTIST EVAN MEANEY 1 – 4PM
Visiting artist Evan Meaney will teach a practical exploration of how to ruin media files with a purpose. Out of the digital destruction will rise artwork which walks the line between viable and busted, between alive and dead. We will encode, decode, hack, break and bend, proving that digital media (video, sound and still) is not tamperproof. We will address a brief history of the glitch aesthetic in modern culture, politics of interrupted representation and the practical means of hex editing on a mac system, code-bending workflows, and open source glitch procedures. Lets break a near-perfect system. And celebrate an imperfect one. All equipment and materials provided by EPFC. Class is limited to 6, call or email to reserve your spot. $50/$40 EPFC members.

Sunday, May 16 – INTRO TO FINAL CUT PRO – 1 – 5PM
Calling all interested adults (ages 20+) looking to learn the beauty and grace of digital editing! All equipment and materials provided by EPFC. Class limited to 6 students; tuition is $60/$50 members.

Thursday, May 20 – PXL THIS 19 – 8PM
Join Gerry Fialka and a posse of small format fanatics for PXL This 19! “PXL THIS, featuring films made with the Fisher-Price PXL 2000 toy camcorder, is one of the longest running film festivals in the entertainment capital of the world. Celebrating "cinema povera" moving image art, it evokes Marcel Duchamp's axiom "Poor tools require better skills." Pixelators from across the globe hoick up inventive approaches to the unassuming throw-away of consumer culture. These low-tech hi-jinx films come through loud and clear by reframing a new cinema language. "If movies offer an escape from everyday life, Pixelvision is the Houdini of the film world." - SF Weekly FESTIVAL FOUNDER AND FILMMAKER GERRY FIALKA IN ATTENDANCE! More info: http://pxlthis.ning.com/

Thurs, May 27 – VOICES OF LATIN AMERICA: THE OTHER CONQUEST/LA OTRA CONQUISTA – 8 PM
Join us for a special evening celebrating the poetry and power of independent Latin American cinema with a screening of “The Other Conquest,” a 2000 Mexican feature film written and directed by Salvador Carrasco. This beautifully visual film tells the story of the Spanish conquest of Mexico from the perspective of the indigenous Aztec people, using original locations such as the pyramid of Tenayuca in Mexico City and the archaeological site of Xochicalco to bring authenticity and history to the filmmaking process. By sharing a vision that seeks to include underrepresented voices on film, "The Other Conquest" is a testament to Latino culture and identity, as well as the art and persistence of independent cinema throughout the world. FILMMAKER SALVADOR CARRASCO AND ACTOR DAMIAN DELGADO IN ATTENDANCE!

Friday, May 28 – EXPERIMENTAL ACQUISITIONS: AN ANIMATION CELEBRATION – 8 PM
A screening that combines the final projects from the students of EPFC's Adult Animation Workshop, with a program of animated shorts from some Los Angeles animators including Michael Mouris, Christine Adolph, Jeff Kwong, Al Herrmann, Telefantasy Studios, and more! Curated by Nancy Jean Tucker. FREE!

Saturday, May 29 – WESTERN NOIR & MORE: MUSIC BY FUNERAL CLUB & TIPPY CANOE – 8 PM
Come on down for a shimmering night of music and images from Funeral Club (Bakersfield), Tippy Canoe (Oakland) and The Here & Now (Echo Park). More info: http://www.funeralclub.blogspot.com/ http://www.tippycanoe.net/

MAKE A MOVIE IN 2010…IT’S FUN AND EASY AT EPFC!
WE HAVE CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY…
GO TO WWW.ECHOPARKFILMCENTER.ORG FOR MORE INFO!

AND DON’T FORGET THE EPFC FACEBOOK PAGE FOR ALL THE LATEST…
http://www.facebook.com/echoparkfilmcenter
BECOME A FAN TODAY!

COMING SOON… THE 2010 FILMMOBILE SUMMER SCREENING SERIES!