OTHER CINEMA October 5, 2024 ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110 more information
showing HOLLYWOOD, an episode from a longer work in progress based in the Oceano Dunes. I will also be discussing my new book Oceano (for seven generations) and signing copies!
In 1923, twenty-one enormous plaster sphinxes lining a path to a 30-foot-high façade of the Pharaoh’s temple were built in the Oceano Dunes for the filming of Cecil B. DeMille’s Ten Commandments, a seminal early Hollywood blockbuster. After filming, DeMille dug a trench and buried the whole set in the sand dunes, where it remained for almost 100 years until recent excavations. Hollywood uses found footage from the media and YouTube to tell this remarkable media story.
Artist Talk and Book Signing with Lana Z Caplan June 21st, 2024 – 6:30pm – 8pm more information Griffin Museum of Photography 67 Shore Road, Winchester, Ma 01890
BEHIND THE LENS: DOCUMENTS FOR THE 21st CENTURY RI Center for Photographic Arts Exhibition: February 15th – March 15th, 2024 Opening Reception: February 15th 5:00- 8:00pm
A large selection of images from Oceano (for seven generations) will be part of the annual exhibition series Behind the Lens. Curated by RI Center for Photographic Arts director David DeMelim, this series started in 2018 as a celebration of Women’s History month. Read more from the curator and about the work in the show.
Lana Z Caplan will be giving a talk in the gallery and signing copies of her new book Oceano (for seven generations) on February 17th, 2pmEST. The talk will be available on Zoom – Register here
Zoom panel with the artists – March 7, 7pm EST. Register here
Oceano is portrait of the Oceano Dunes, a telling of their many stories: ATV riders and their RV village, the Chumash of the past and present, the Dunites (artists, poets, astrologers, mystics and hermits living in the dunes primarily in the 1920’s-40’s), the recently unearthed plaster sphinx from Cecil B. DeMille’s 1923 Ten Commandments movie set, and a reimaging of Edward Weston’s modernist dune photographs.
Contributing essays by yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini Northern Chumash Tribal Chair Mona Olivas Tucker with her son Matthew Goldman, and by Hanna Rose Shell, Associate Professor of Critical and Curatorial studies, and Director of the Stan Brakhage Center for Media Arts in Boulder, Colorado.
Theme for this 12th edition of the festival is “Le Climat”
The climate demands our attention, indeed makes us worry, but it would be arrogant to imagine that we are the first to entertain such concerns, which were already clearly present with our forebears.
Weather and climate are two sides of the same coin. Meteorology refers to the daily experience of events such as wind, rain, and heat, whereas the climate considers the weather over much longer durations. The French language uses the same word, le temps, to designate both the weather and the passage of time. From this perspective, deep time, historical time, is inherent in the very notion of climate.https://www.festivaldelhistoiredelart.fr/
13th ANNUAL ALCHEMY FILM AND MOVING IMAGE FESTIVAL
13th Annual Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival Hawick, Scottish Boarders 27 – 30 April 2023
A Thousand Sighs UK Premiere
Program: TAKE ARMS AGAINST A SEA From ocean to moon, six films wrestle with nothing less than life, death and birth and self-expression 10.00am, Friday 28 April https://alchemyfilmandarts.org.uk/festival/
HODO + SCOTT + WATTS TOWERS + OC presents the first of a dual-citizenship double-header locus-focused on the Southwest of the continent, with a compelling cadre of makers from Mexico as well as an audio-visual feast of provocative shorts from the North. Greg Berger‘s outrageous Joe T Hodo project demonstrates how a SF expat activist has managed to construct a potent satirical character on the margins of contemporary Mexican politics, Charles Fairbanks/Saul Kak‘s Echoes of the Volcano surveys the Oaxacan soundscape, and the PostcommodityCollective bisects the border wall with beautiful balloons! Whereas the psycho-politics of the LA area, layered in time and grounded on Simon Rodia‘s landmark sculpture hand-wrought in Watts, is echoed in Noah Purifoy‘s junk-art-park in the desert of Joshua Tree and reverberates through the mesmerizing Cali-fire reveries of San Luis Obispo‘s Lana Z Caplan. PLUS the legendary Matt Wolf/Guadalupe Rosales coverage of Latinx resistance to neighborhood gentrification in Boyle Heights, Georg Koszulinski‘s rhapsodic on-the-road collage-essay Continental Drifts, and Jake Scott‘s transformative farewell-to-Frisco hybrid performance.
FISURA, INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM & VIDEO
Program 12: Drift April 22, 2022 Municipal Cineteca of Durango, Mexico Mexico City May 29 – June 29 – Streaming on Mexican Institute of Cinematography’s FILMINLATINO
No Emoji for Ennui: Lana Z Caplan, Ross Meckfessel, Alison Nguyen, Matt Whitman
January 27 – March 26, 2022 Thursday – Saturday, dusk – 11pm Everson Museum of Art Plaza 401 Harrison Street
Plaza Projection Schedule Jan. 27-Feb 5: Lana Z Caplan, Autopoiesis Feb. 10-19: Ross Meckfessel, Estuary Feb 24-March 5: Alison Nguyen, My Favorite Software Is Being Here March 10-19: Matt Whitman, CAN’T ANSWER YOU ANYMORE (ON FACES) & HOW MUCH LONGER March 24-26: combined loop
In-person Screening Thursday | February 24 | 6:30 p.m.
Screening + Q&A Thursday, March 10 | 6:30 p.m. EST Streaming Online
About the Program
No Emoji for Ennui is a group show featuring the work of Lana Z Caplan, Ross Meckfessel, Alison Nguyen, and Matt Whitman that explores the difficult-to-define emotional tenor of our time—one that often leaves us overstimulated and underwhelmed at the same time it demands endless positivity. The seductive surface of the touchscreen shatters and the polygon meshes underlying our shared social reality peek out from under the digital skin.
What does it feel like to be a person in a world in which our sense of self has been thoroughly disoriented by technological entanglement and co-opted by neoliberal capital?
By turns unsettling, contemplative, humorous, and filled with existential dread, the resulting show is a collective selfie of who and what we are now.
A Jurist for Nothing has been selected to participate in the MuVi International Award of the 67th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, which will be screening from 1 to 4 May 2021.
Now approaching its twenty-seventh year, CUFF is officially the LONGEST RUNNING UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL IN THE WORLD. The fest is an internationally recognized program that screens documentary, experimental, avant-garde and cult cinema, and showcases films that explore new approaches to established practices.
‘Collected Dispersal’ Rosemary Taylor | ‘Patches of Snow in July’ Lana Z Caplan | ‘ Residual Minority’ Mieke Vanmechele | ‘Boy and the Sea’ Sarahjane Swan & Roger Simian | ‘Ruru’ Denise Batchelor | ‘ Emotion Over Raisin’ Ruth Waters | ‘Frozen’ Adonia Bouchehri | ‘The Hearing of the Eye’ Alessia Cecchet | ‘River Ghosts’ Jonathan Johnson | ‘Passage’ Richard Ashrowan
Area Code Drive In Digital Showcase Friday August 14, 8:30-10pm Salem State’s O’Keefe Sports Complex
Including Lana Z Caplan’s film play and repeat.
Juried by Leonie Bradbury and presented in partnership with LuminArtz, works in the Video and Digital-Art section of the fair will be screened for drive-in viewing events.
About Unequal States Stories of the continued struggle against oppression through movements, resistance, and solidarity are often documented and presented in many forms as acts of resistance themselves. In these stories, the notion of “inequality” draws together different worlds, cultures, and dimensions/scales (micro/macro). From animations to documentaries, these films shed light on the pervasiveness of this inequality on all fronts by exploring social, scientific, and political perspectives in our fight against racism, injustice, and inequality.