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The Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble, a groundbreaking new music ensemble led by classical and film composer Jack Curtis Dubowsky, performs live musical soundtracks to experimental films including underground classics by John and James Whitney, and new works by Jeffery Cravath, Phil Maxwell (UK), Hazuan Hashim (UK), Ben Coopersmith (NYC), and Samara Halperin.

The Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble combines acoustic instruments, electronic hardware, audiovisuals, composed material and structured improvisation. The Ensemble, founded by classical and film composer Dubowsky, treats analog synth as a rare and unpredictable performance instrument. Our music,†abstract, calm, spacious, free form, transcendental, contemporary, electroacoustic mystical psychedelia, is performed and recorded live with no overdubs or sequencing.

Join us for a sneak preview of the upcoming Wholphin No 9 on Saturday, July 11th at ATA. The screening will include Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega’s riveting, Academy Award-nominated documentary, La Corona, about a beauty pageant in a Columbian women’s prison, this year’s Cannes Jury Award winner, Julius Avery’s Jerrycan, a stunning French animation about a man who is hit by a meteorite and knocked 91 centimeters off axis, a haunting narrative short about the danger that lies in the Flemish countryside, a brand new, original short by Caveh Zahedi, and much more.

This evening’s screening of 14 shorts features experimental, narrative, and documentary films and videos that use the city of Los Angeles in overtly narrative or thematic roles, thereby allowing the city to serve not only as the setting, but as a protagonist as well. Charles Doran, the program’s curator, presents the LA premiere of his Westsider; Patrick Robins debuts Hair Cowboy, a documentary about a homeless hairdresser; and Echo Park film students Ava Hess and Valentina Martin offer up a music video and experimental “film poem,” respectively.