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On Wednesday and Thursday, August 21 and 22, Facilities Management staff will be testing the fire alarm system beginning at 7 am. During this two-day testing, which will last most of the day, alarms may sound at various times throughout the CalArts’ campus.

Thank you in advance for your cooperation. If you have any questions, please contact the Facilities Management Office at ext. 7807.

https://calarts.edu/life-at-calarts/new-student-orientation/new-international-student-orientation

Course Advising Day

For courses that are not available through online signup, and for general mentoring and discussion with faculty, students are invited to attend Course Advising Day. This is where you will have the opportunity to sign up for any courses listed as Permission of Instructor. Course Advising Day will be held on Thursday, September 5. Students are assigned a morning or afternoon time by last name.

A-K,1:30 pm-4:30 pm
L-Z, 9 am-noon

The School of Film/Video Garage Sale will happen again this year on Thursday, September 5th from 10am to 3pm in E58. We will be featuring the usual unusual assortment of equipment. Of particular interest this year are sound recorders, iMacs, and Mac minis.

Course Advising Day

For courses that are not available through online signup, and for general mentoring and discussion with faculty, students are invited to attend Course Advising Day. This is where you will have the opportunity to sign up for any courses listed as Permission of Instructor. Course Advising Day will be held on Thursday, September 5. Students are assigned a morning or afternoon time by last name.

A-K,1:30 pm-4:30 pm
L-Z, 9 am-noon

Mandatory Technology and Facilities Updates Meeting for continuing Experimental Animation, Film Directing Program, and Program in Film and Video students on Friday, September 6th from 10am to 11:30am in A111 Mix Theater.

Open to all School of Film/Video new and continuing students and faculty and staff.
Join us for pizza and ice cream in BB3!

Mandatory Technology and Facilities Updates Meeting for continuing Character Animation students on Friday, September 6th from 1pm to 2pm in A111 Mix Theater.

https://calarts.edu/life-at-calarts/new-student-orientation

Add/drop period ends September 20.

For Film/Video students interested in gaining access to the Print & Media Lab, run by the School of Art, please see the message below from the School of Art about lab orientation schedules:

PRINT & MEDIA LAB
ORIENTATION SCHEDULE
- B100
All orientations begin at posted times, please no late entry.

To access the Print & Media Lab please attend one of these sessions:

16 SEPT - NOON
18 SEPT - NOON
23 SEPT - NOON

For Film/Video students interested in gaining access to the Print & Media Lab, run by the School of Art, please see the message below from the School of Art about lab orientation schedules:

PRINT & MEDIA LAB
ORIENTATION SCHEDULE
- B100
All orientations begin at posted times, please no late entry.

To access the Print & Media Lab please attend one of these sessions:

16 SEPT - NOON
18 SEPT - NOON
23 SEPT - NOON

Open to all Film/Video students.

Takashi Makino (b. 1978 ) is a Tokyo-based experimental filmmaker widely considered to be one of the most influential Japanese moving-image artists of his generation. After graduating from the cinema department at Nihon University College of Art, he spent time honing his skills in the London-based studio of the Quay Brothers before moving back to Japan. His unique working process usually involves capturing representational footage of humans, nature, and urban life in various formats and then transforming these images radically during the editing stage. Through a process of layering, superimposition, and other formal manipulations, these concrete images blend together into pulsating visual fields of organic abstraction in his finished works.

makinotakashi.net
@makino_film_art

Please join us for the CalArts Staff Art Show Reception & Performances this Thursday, September 19, 5–7pm.

Visual Work (9/16–9/20)
Galleries D300 & D301

Performances (9/19, 5–6pm)
L-Shaped Gallery

Refreshments will be served!

California Institute of the Arts Presents

The Welcoming Concert and the President’s Picnic
Thursday, September 19, 6:30-10:30pm
Clark’s Field

Music Performances by
Tru
Black Artist Collective
Queer Artists Collective
Skullmatter
Asian Student Alliance
Tripod Boom

Free Food
Food Trucks from 6:00-7:30pm

With support from the President’s Office,
Student Union, Student Activities, Student Experience

For Film/Video students interested in gaining access to the Print & Media Lab, run by the School of Art, please see the message below from the School of Art about lab orientation schedules:

PRINT & MEDIA LAB
ORIENTATION SCHEDULE
- B100
All orientations begin at posted times, please no late entry.

To access the Print & Media Lab please attend one of these sessions:

16 SEPT - NOON
18 SEPT - NOON
23 SEPT - NOON

Limited number of tickets available for students, faculty, and staff within the School of Film/Video. Stop by the School of Film/Video office to sign up.

For more information, visit www.redcat.org.

Open to all Film/Video students.

In her fantastical installations comprising videos, paintings, and sculptures Trulee Hall celebrates spectacle and artifice. Recalling campy supernatural and horror films, Infestation (2019) features a fluorescent serpentine creature writhing its way out of a drain, in and out of windows and fire escapes like a parasite infesting its host. Hall’s companion videos depicting otherworldly and mundane characters invading the backlot alternate between clay animation, CGI, and live-action, shifting realities in a hypnotic,
mind-bending moving collage. The exaggerated portrayals of archetypal and fantastical characters point to codified social and gender roles, exposing various degrees of artificiality inherent in media production and the fundamental disconnections at the heart of the modern human experience.

Trulee Hall (b. 1976, Atlanta, GA) lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work has been included in recent group exhibitions including Pussy, King of the Pirates, Maccarone Gallery (2018), BOO, Michael Benevento Los Angeles (2018); and On the Verge of an Image: Considering Marjorie Keller, organized by Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) at the Gamble House, Pasadena, CA (2016) In addition, her videos have been featured in numerous film screening programs including REDCAT—Roy and Edna Cal Arts Theater (2017), the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2007). Her work will be featured in a solo exhibition at Maccarone Gallery, Los Angeles, in January 2019. Hall received her BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 1999 and her MFA from CalArts in 2006.

@truleehall

Dear fellow CalArtians,

I am pleased to invite the campus community to the first meeting of the CalArts Assembly, the main forum for all constituents of the Institute (current Faculty, Staff, and Students) to gather together and share, discuss, research, and analyze issues of import affecting all of CalArts.

Following on the work that we did together on organizing and establishing this new and unique system of shared governance last academic year, I hope you will now join me at our inaugural meeting and continue the robust conversation about issues that affect all of us on campus.

The CalArts Assembly will be held in the Main Gallery on Thursday, Sept. 26 from 4 pm – 6 pm.

See you there!

Sincerely,
Ravi S. Rajan

Wednesday 2pm-5pm
Reception on Thursday, September 26th at 7pm

Wednesday 2pm-5pm
Reception on Thursday, September 26th at 7pm

Limited number of tickets available for students, faculty, and staff within the School of Film/Video. Stop by the School of Film/Video office to sign up.

For more information, visit www.redcat.org.

Limited number of tickets available for students, faculty, and staff within the School of Film/Video. Stop by the School of Film/Video office to sign up.

For more information, visit www.redcat.org.

Description:Limited number of tickets available for students, faculty, and staff within the School of Film/Video. Stop by the School of Film/Video office to sign up.

For more information, visit www.redcat.org.

Limited number of tickets available for students, faculty, and staff within the School of Film/Video. Stop by the School of Film/Video office to sign up.

For more information, visit www.redcat.org.

Limited number of tickets available for students, faculty, and staff within the School of Film/Video. Stop by the School of Film/Video office to sign up.

For more information, visit www.redcat.org.

Limited number of tickets available for students, faculty, and staff within the School of Film/Video. Stop by the School of Film/Video office to sign up.

For more information, visit www.redcat.org.

At a Later and Future Time, a talk by Lin + Lam

Artist team ‘Lin + Lam’ will discuss their collaborative work of the past two decades, addressing topics of national identity and historical memory, war and exile, sites of residual trauma, immigration and migration, propaganda, fake news, false forgiveness, and the psychoanalytic concept of Nachträglichkeit, après-coup, or afterwardsness.

Limited number of tickets available for students, faculty, and staff within the School of Film/Video. Stop by the School of Film/Video office to sign up.

For more information, visit www.redcat.org.

Limited number of tickets available for students, faculty, and staff within the School of Film/Video. Stop by the School of Film/Video office to sign up.

For more information, visit www.redcat.org.

Limited number of tickets available for students, faculty, and staff within the School of Film/Video. Stop by the School of Film/Video office to sign up.

For more information, visit www.redcat.org.

The Creative Leave Colloquium is open to the Institute as an opportunity to celebrate the accomplishments of your faculty colleagues who've recently returned from Creative Leave. Join us for a glimpse into the creative endeavors of the faculty as they share highlights of the work they did while on Leave.

The first of two Fall 2019 colloquia will be held on Thursday, Oct. 17 from 4:30-6:00 pm in the Faculty Center. Presentations will be shared by Lecia Dole Recio (School of Art, Program in Art), Fran Krause (School of Film/Video, Program in Character Animation), Charlotte Lipman (School of Film/Video, Program in Film and Video), Louise Sandhaus (School of Art, Program in Graphic Design), and Miroslav Tadic (School of Music, Program in InstrumentalArts: Guitar).

There will be time for Q&A + a reception to follow. No RSVP required.

Open to all Film/Video students.

Born in 1985, Chai Mi currently lives and works in Beijing and Los Angeles. Adhering to the constant questioning of the self and the external environment, her artistic practice connects moving images, images, paintings, installations, theaters and other fields. Her works have been shown at many art museums, cultural organizations, film festivals and music festivals nationally and internationally. Her experimental theater project have been presented in cities in France, Malaysia, South Korea, the United States, and China. And her animated shorts were screened and exhibited in more than 30 international animation festivals and film festivals.

chaimiart.com

Born in 1985, Chai Mi currently lives and works in Beijing and Los Angeles. Adhering to the constant questioning of the self and the external environment, her artistic practice connects moving images, images, paintings, installations, theaters, and other fields. Her works have been shown at many art museums, cultural organizations, film festivals and music festivals nationally and internationally. Her experimental theater project has been presented in cities in France, Malaysia, South Korea, the United States, and China. And her animated shorts were screened and exhibited in more than 30 international animation festivals and film festivals.

On the evening of the CalArts Halloween Party, Friday, Nov. 1, there will be NO ACCESS to the Main Building from 7 pm on Friday to 5 am on Saturday, Nov. 2. The last key will be checked out on Friday at 5 pm. We realize this is an inconvenience, but it's a necessary step to ensure the safety of our students, staff, and faculty, and to protect the Institut

If you have any questions, please contact Mark Farley at mfarley@calarts.edu or call ext. 7700. On behalf of the entire Campus Safety team, thank you in advance for your understanding and cooperation.

Limited number of tickets available for students, faculty, and staff within the School of Film/Video. Stop by the School of Film/Video office to sign up.

For more information, visit www.redcat.org.

Payment period begins and tuition statements are available online

Tuesday, November 5, 2019 • 7:00 PM • Bijou Theater

On March 9, 1916 Pancho Villa raided the border town of Columbus, New Mexico. Every year a procession on horseback makes its way north through the Chihuahua desert in a ceremony of commemoration; a ceremony that for a day will open the border between Mexico and the United States.

Screening will be followed by a QandA with the filmmaker.

Bio
Cathy Lee CRANE has been charting a speculative history on film since 1994. She received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013 for her lyrical re-combinations of archival and staged material. Her body of work enjoyed its first survey in 2015 as part of the American Original Now series at the National Gallery of Art. Crane’s award-winning films (which include the experimental biographies Pasolini’s Last Words and Unoccupied Zone: The Impossible Life of Simone Weil) have screened at Viennale, San Francisco International Film Festival, Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Cinematheque Francais, BFI, and Arsenal/Berlin and are distributed by Canyon Cinema, Lightcone, and Films Media Group. Her first feature-length fictional hybrid The Manhattan Front (2018) premiered at SFIndie Fest in 2018 with a profile in Filmmaker Magazine. In 2020 she will release Crossing Columbus, a feature-length documentary about the border town of Columbus, New Mexico which was supported by the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency and the El Paso Cultural Foundation. Her engagement with the history of the US/Mexico border will continue as 2020 Residency Fellow at the Harun Farocki Institut in Berlin, where she will prepare an installation of Drawing the Line, a film series presented at the 2019 Poetics and Politics Documentary Research Symposium at UC Santa Cruz. Crane is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Photography at Ithaca College.

What the critics have said about Cathy Lee Crane:

“The best experiences are often unanticipated, and definitely unhyped. In our age of marketing bloat, with everybody and their corporation trying to brand themselves indelibly upon humanity’s collective brain, it is rare to experience art without expectations. Crane's gorgeously photographed film poems made me realize anew the beauty of black-and-white deep-focus photography.” – V.Vale, RE/Search

“Lush, meditative films that eschew stylistic and narrative convention.” – Huisman, TimeOut New York

“Cathy Lee Crane is one the most interesting filmmakers in the tradition of the avant-garde working in the United States today. Her films succeed in developing within a feminist perspective a very personal poetics.” – Noel Burch, Paris

On view 11/11/19 - 12/13/19

Opening reception 11/12/19 at 6pm

Located in the sublevel between E58 and E59

Open to all Film/Video students.

Born into a centurial ancestral paper-crafting family in Sinjhuang, Xu Zhan’s works are full of bizarre, absurd grotesque image expansion, intent to discuss the society and contemporary survival experience. Zhang Xu Zhan specializes in hand-drawn animation, puppet animation, digital image, with the combination of experimental film and cinema, multi-channel video installation. He also exhibited various puppets and hand-drawings aside his expanded cinema work. His works have been collected by the Taiwan Museum of Arts.

www.mores-zhan.com
@zhangxu_zhan

Wednesday, November 13 • 4:00 PM • Bijou Theater

Indian filmmaker, artist and musician Natasha Mendonca (CalArts PFV MFA ’10)and singer actor and composer Suman Sridhar make up the performance duo The Black Mamba. They will perform Olamidutal/The Land of the Breasted Woman, an immersive live video and sound performance. The project documents and traces the historical and contemporary practices of ritual mourning in South India. The performance of lament, a South Indian oral form of ritual mourning is performed on the anniversary of the funeral of Nangeli – a fierce female character from the 18th century history of Kerala, India, who sacrificed her life in protest of the Breast Tax Law enforcing lower caste women to pay a tax in order to cover their bodies in public. This multi-disciplinary project combines ethnomusicology, cinema, poetry, gender studies and post-colonial studies. The cultural and historical specificity of this work is related to contemporary experiences of oppression.

Deadline for Late Withdrawal (‘W’ on transcript)

Limited number of tickets available for students, faculty, and staff within the School of Film/Video. Stop by the School of Film/Video office to sign up.

For more information, visit www.redcat.org.

Korean Independent Animated Films and Makers
Special Lecture and Screening
November 21rst 9:00AM-12:00PM , Bijou Theater

Curated and presented by Chaerin Im
Posters by Jung Min Cha, Jihee Nam
Catalogue by Yoo Jung Hong

Screening Animated films of:

이규리 Gyuri Cloe Lee
김정현 Jung Hyun Kim
이나윤 Grace-Nayoon Rhee
장나리 Jang Nari
김승희 Seunghee Kim
정다희 Jeong Dahee
정유미 Yumi Joung
권하윤 Hayoun Kwan
김연정 Kim Yeon Jeong

Event held as part of Maureen Furniss's 'Seminar in Animation History' class

The lecture's main focus is to introduce/talk about 9 Korean independent animation filmmakers who have strong color and talents. The class will screen their work and discuss how their films, career and backgrounds are connected to Independent animation scene, society, culture, history and issues in Korea

The lecture will additionally introduce important independent animation platforms, such as KIAFA(한국독립애니메이션협회), Ani-seed(씨앗), Indie-Anifest(인디애니페스트), SEOUL&ANIMATOR(서울엔애니메이터) etc.

'Archiving Time ' (2019, 63min, 數電影的人) is a documentary showcasing the fascinating experience of collectors and restoration personnel racing against time. Self produced by Taiwan Film Institute (TFI, 國家電影中心), a foundation set up by the government to preserve Taiwan's film heritage, the film unveils the mystery of the preservation and collection tasks of the TFI archive. Filmed over two years, 'Archiving Time' takes the audience through how films are acquired, preserved and restored at our vaults and restoration lab. In addition to documenting the everyday life of those who work at the archive, it also reflects upon the ruthlessness of time and age.

Limited number of tickets available for students, faculty, and staff within the School of Film/Video. Stop by the School of Film/Video office to sign up.

For more information, visit www.redcat.org.

Limited number of tickets available for students, faculty, and staff within the School of Film/Video. Stop by the School of Film/Video office to sign up.

For more information, visit www.redcat.org.

Limited number of tickets available for students, faculty, and staff within the School of Film/Video. Stop by the School of Film/Video office to sign up.

For more information, visit www.redcat.org.

Join us in C113 for an exhibition of animation & video works produced by this semester's LOOP LOOP class.

Reception on Thursday, December 12th, 7:30–11 PM
+ multimedia performance 'Walk Your Dog & Smell the Flowers' at 9 PM

Limited number of tickets available for students, faculty, and staff within the School of Film/Video. Stop by the School of Film/Video office to sign up.

For more information, visit www.redcat.org.

Tuition payment deadline without a $200 late fee

https://calarts.edu/life-at-calarts/new-student-orientation

Add/drop period for winter session ends January 17.
Add/drop period for spring semester ends February 7.

Character Animation Faculty Ruah Edelstein and Masha Vasilkovsky in Person

Limited number of tickets available for students, faculty, and staff within the School of Film/Video. Send in a request here: https://2pop.calarts.edu/redcat

For more information, visit www.redcat.org.

Open to the Institute!

Limited number of tickets available for students, faculty, and staff within the School of Film/Video. Send in a request here: https://2pop.calarts.edu/redcat

For more information, visit www.redcat.org.

Open to the Institute!

RSVP to Joieestrellahorwitz@alum.calarts.edu

This workshop will begin with an investigation into the intertwining histories of experimental film (rooted in the materiality of celluloid) and video art (rooted primarily in sculpture) and their intersection in today’s contemporary hybrid nonfiction cinematic/art practice.

A section of the lecture will be devoted to creative writing as a means to develop a critical discourse between the poetics of individual experience, representation of truth, the concept of point of view, the objective/subjective paradox, and the dynamic forces of context.

Limited number of tickets available for students, faculty, and staff within the School of Film/Video. Send in a request here: https://2pop.calarts.edu/redcat

For more information, visit www.redcat.org.

Limited number of tickets available for students, faculty, and staff within the School of Film/Video. Send in a request here: https://2pop.calarts.edu/redcat

For more information, visit www.redcat.org.

Limited number of tickets available for students, faculty, and staff within the School of Film/Video. Send in a request here: https://2pop.calarts.edu/redcat

For more information, visit www.redcat.org.

Thursday, March 5, 2020 • 7:00 PM • A404 (Black & White Gallery)

Want to support local artists? Are you a fan of free food & drinks? Ever wondered what it’s like to be a miniature person in a giant garden?

Join us for all this and more at the annual Experimental Animation Garden Fair! Taking place in the Black & White Gallery, we'll have artists selling their wares, performing, and screening animations throughout the night. We hope to see you there!

Limited number of tickets available for students, faculty, and staff within the School of Film/Video. Send in a request here: https://2pop.calarts.edu/redcat

For more information, visit www.redcat.org.

Open to the Institute!

Limited number of tickets available for students, faculty, and staff within the School of Film/Video. Send in a request here: https://2pop.calarts.edu/redcat

For more information, visit www.redcat.org.

Priority registration period ends May 1

Limited number of tickets available for students, faculty, and staff within the School of Film/Video. Send in a request here: https://2pop.calarts.edu/redcat

For more information, visit www.redcat.org.

Deadline for Late Withdrawal (‘W’ on transcript)

Late registration period ends May 15.

Open to all Film/Video students!

California Institute of the Arts invites you to the first-ever Virtual Graduation Ceremony on Friday, May 15, 2020, at 6 pm PDT.

Deadline for Course Withdrawals ('W' on transcript)

Open to all Film/Video students

For MFA-3 students in the Program in Film and Video.
Check your email for details.

The Herb Alpert Award in the Arts 2019 Film/Video recipient
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz in residence at CalArts

THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
THE SCHOOL OF FILM/VIDEO ARE PROUD TO WELCOME
Artist Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Thursday July 16 at 5:00 PM

As we were very sad to have to cancel Beatriz Santiago Muñoz’s residency at CalArts this spring, we are delighted and honored that she accepted our invitation for a couple of special summer sessions in July and August.

Check your CalArts email for full details and Zoom link.

Science of the Word, Part I

Curated by: Jheanelle Brown

July 28, 2020 at 2:00pm PST

Post-screening conversation with Stella Rae Binion, Jésus Hilario-Reyes, and Leah Solomon

Inspired by Jamaican cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter’s Science of the Word, the proposition that the study of the word should condition the study of nature, this program presents films and videos from emerging filmmakers and artists who bridge language and the sonic to contend with both terrestrial and cosmic rupture. The filmmakers and artists presented embody their moving image works with other disciplines, namely poetry and performance, in pursuit of a grounded examination of self.

*Please note: all films/videos contain onscreen text and intertitles, but not captions.

**Check email for full details and Zoom link**

Open to all Film/Video students!

Please join us for a very special conversation and presentation by core FDP faculty member, Lee Anne Schmitt, who will be sharing selections of short work including William's Lake (2018) and The Farnsworth Score (made in collaboration with musician Rob Mazurek), as well as a new short work, as of yet untitled. She will also share thoughts on her process and footage from works in progress, including parts of Evidence, the last in a series of feature length documentaries about political thought in the USA and, so that i may come back, an experimental portrait of trauma and narrative that revolves around the case of Mary Bell who, at age 10, was convicted of murdering two smaller boys from her council flats.

Lee Anne is an artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles interested in political thought, personal experience and the land. Much of her work involves 16mm filmmaking placed in landscape, objects and the traces of political systems left upon them.

Her projects have addressed American exceptionalism, the logic of utility and labor, gestures of kindness and refusal, racial violence, cowboyism, trauma and narrative and the efficacy of solitude.

Lee Anne has exhibited widely at venues that include MoMA NY, the Getty Museum, RedCat Theater, Northwest Film Society, Centre Pompidou and festivals such as Viennale, CPH/DOX, Oberhausen, Rotterdam, BAFICI and FID Marseilles. Schmitt is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and grants from Creative Capital and the Graham Foundation.

Fall add/drop period ends September 25.