event Cinematheque: Things Are Always Going Wrong
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Fri Feb 12
7:30 pm
Cinematheque: Things Are Always Going Wrong at Vilas Hall
The 35-minute program Things Are Always Going Wrong gathers about a dozen experimental shorts made in L.A. in the '60s and '70s that the Academy Film Archive has restored. The selections not only reveal the region's wealth of avant-garde filmmakers, but also a fragmented portrait of Southern California itself: Gary Beydler's 1974 short "Pasadena Freeway Stills" manipulates a series of still photographs of the freeway into a slowing and speeding moving image, and "By The Sea," a 1963 piece by Pat O'Neill and Robert Abel, combines beach footage with experimental editing.
Vilas Hall 821 University Ave., Madison, WI
The 35-minute program Things Are Always Going Wrong gathers about a dozen experimental shorts made in L.A. in the '60s and '70s that the Academy Film Archive has restored. The selections not only reveal the region's wealth of avant-garde filmmakers, but also a fragmented portrait of Southern California itself: Gary Beydler's 1974 short "Pasadena Freeway Stills" manipulates a series of still photographs of the freeway into a slowing and speeding moving image, and "By The Sea," a 1963 piece by Pat O'Neill and Robert Abel, combines beach footage with experimental editing.
Updated 02/02/2010
