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Cinema students embrace the tactile, the aleatoric and the absurd via an array of photochemical and digital interventions. Filmmakers: David Anderson, Casey Conor, Iana Chugunova, Maura Cotter, John Emerson, Diana Garcia Arambula, Deborah Garfinkle, Erik Grow, Eva Khemelinskaya, Elizabeth Lopez, Nicole McGuire, Joey Nelson, Max Oginz, Carolina Pistone, Lucia Pistone, Michael Ramos, Joshua Rodriguez, Brandt Saint-Aubin, Feliks Tiaka, Juan Urrea and Maya Wise.

KEVIN B. LEE on HARUN FAROCKI + KONRAD STEINER on GUY DEBORD
Keeping with our commitment to critical cinema, here’s a program that extols not only the modern “film essay”, but also the emerging genres of  “video essay” and “desktop documentary”. Kevin B. Lee—creator of 360 video essays (most famously Transformers:The Pre-Make) and first-ever Goethe Artist-in-Residence at Berlin’s new Farocki Inst.— sends in rare HarunFarocki material. Kevin’s digital mastery re-invents the keyboard/interface as a new creative palette for art-criticism, that opens up media in a “real-time graphic” way. CO-BILLED is local kultur hero Konrad Steiner, who generously took on the task of producing thee best English-dub of cine-essayist GuyDebord’s infamous In Girum… (the entire title’s a French palindrome for We Spin Around the Night Consumed by the Fire), with Dore Bowen (also in person) reading from Ken Knabb’s translation. Not seen in SF for over 12 years, this was the Situationist firebrand’s last and arguably best before suiciding, crystallizing his critique of the Commodity/Spectacle.

California College of the Arts 2019 Motion Graphics Film Festival is a screening of short animated films from CCA’s Advance Studio: Motion Graphics course taught by Erik Carter. Themes explored in this works include artificial intelligence, astrology, BTS, cheese tarts, Chengdu, dance, micro-expressions, microbes, narcissism, oranges, Taeyeon, typography, visualized music, Wong Kar-wai, virtual rappers and the very subject of motion graphics.

Come see the culmination of a semester’s worth of graphic exploration into the world of motion!

Films by Diya Chen, Stephanie Chou, Marcus Fei, Kei Fu, Momo Gao, Lu Jia, Fiona Jin, Jono Jun, Winnie Kuo, Annie Lee, Kevin Lee, Jane Lu, Kaito Miyake, Daniella Nebel, Alice Wang, and Steven Wu.