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PHOTOVILLE – IN PLAIN SITE

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In Plain Site

A Photography Festival for a Climate Positive Future

In Plain Site is not just a festival—it’s a visual journey into our future. This free, three-week outdoor exhibition held this spring transforms the Alameda Point shoreline into an open-air gallery, showcasing stunning collections from both international and local photographers. Through powerful imagery, the event illuminates the pathways to a more climate-positive world.

The festival kicks off with a dynamic opening celebration featuring artist talks, hands-on workshops, guided photo walks, interactive crafts, and activities for all ages. In Plain Site is a call to action—an invitation to explore the urgent realities of sea-level rise and climate change through the lens of photography.

Organized by Radium Presents and West End Arts District, in partnership with Photoville, this unique and impactful celebration transforms public space into a platform for inspiration, education, and change.

Including work from Oceano – for seven generations as part of the Harvey Milk Photo Center Exhibition.

FRAGILE EARTH

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Fragile Earth: Capturing the Beauty, Vulnerability and Resilience of our planet

The Bunker SLO
810 Orcutt Rd, San Luis Obispo

opens April 4, 2025

Group show including images from Oceano.
Work selected by the SLO Climate Coalition and The Bunker SLO.
Fragile Earth

IN CONVERSATION/BOOK SIGNING EVENT

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HARVEY MILK PHOTO CENTER
IN-CONVERSATION with LANA Z CAPLAN and RON BEINNER
Followed by a BOOK SIGNING
February 22, 2025, 2pm

Join Lana Z Caplan and Ron Beinner for what will surely be an engaging discussion about the themes and making of Oceano – for seven generations!

Long-time former photo editor for Vanity Fair, Ron Beinner is a photography editor, producer and consultant with over 30 years of experience in the editorial world. While producing environmental portraits on location for Vanity Fair Magazine for over two decades, Beinner collaborated with editors, writers, photographers and art directors to create dozens of covers, portraits and portfolios on location from Anchorage to Timbuktu. Beinner now lives in Hollywood and works on visual projects for tech companies in Silicon Valley.

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PDF of OCEANO

HARVEY MILK PHOTO CENTER

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HARVEY MILK PHOTO CENTER

OCEANO – for seven generations

A solo exhibition of photography and videos from Oceano (for seven generations)
January 25 – March 1, 2025

Opening Reception and book signing – January 25, 2-5pm
Lana Z Caplan in conversation with Ron Beinner, followed by a book signing – February 22, 2-3:30pm

Harvey Milk Photo Center
50 Scott Street, San Francisco, CA 94117

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DELUGE CONTEMPORARY ART

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Summoned

Lana Z Caplan | Gloria Chung | Abinadi Meza | Mike Rollo

December 14, 2024 to January 11, 2025
Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria BC

A program of artist films that convoke elemental spirits and the power of nature in a time of human-made catastrophe—a command for light against impending darkness. Viewable online and in the Deluge transom window nightly from dusk to midnight.

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OTHER CINEMA – PSYCHO-GEO : US

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PSYCHO-GEO : US

OTHER CINEMA
October 5, 2024
ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110
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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.

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BEHIND THE LENS: DOCUMENTS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

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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, 2pm EST. The talk will be available on Zoom – Register here

Zoom panel with the artists – March 7, 7pm EST. Register here

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OCEANO (for seven generations)

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OCEANO (for seven generations)
a monograph by Lana Z Caplan

published by Kehrer Verlag
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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.

More about this project

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FESTIVAL DE L’HISTOIRE DE L’ART

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FESTIVAL DE L’HISTOIRE DE L’ART

June 2, 18h30
Cinéma Ermitage, Belgium

programmed by Damien Truchot
En collaboration avec le Collectif Jeune Cinéma
Stefano Miraglia (Collectif Jeune Cinéma)

Patches of Snow in July & Les Bêtes du sud sauvage
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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/

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OTHER CINEMA

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still from A Jurist for Nothing

PSYCHO-GEO2: CALEXICO

OTHER CINEMA, SF
April 23, 2022

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 Postcommodity Collective 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.

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FISURA

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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

Including A Jurist for Nothing

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UVP: EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART

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Light Work’s Urban Video Project presents

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.

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FISURA

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FISURA
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL

Mexico City, Winter 2020-21

Including Autopoiesis
Streaming online and showing in cultural venues across Mexico City

Online: Friday, January 15, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. (CDMX time)

Program: Hologram Film projection # 7 / Program: Hologram
Stream: Facebook live
Filmmakers Program: Hologram
1. Federica Foglia-04/19/1968 (Italy)
2. Philippos Kappa – C wraps 9 (Greece)
3. Juana Robles – And a porcelain cat (Ireland)
4. Federica Leaf – Toad, Leaf, Grass, Rock (Italy)
5. Ildefonso Mercadillo – UP (Mexico)
6. Johannes Binotto – Prohibited Reproduction (Suiza)
7. ISABEL PEREZ OF THE THUMBER, JOSE CRUZIO – [SELF] INSERTIONS (Portugal)
8. Antonio Arango Vazquez – Untitled, Subtitled (Mexico)
9. Lana Z Caplan – Autopoiesis (USA)
10. Maxim Tatarintsev / +- (Russia)


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CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL

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CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL

November 9-22, 2020

Including Autopoiesis – Saturday November 14 at 9pm
Shorts Program 5 – Virtual Screening
live Q&A after screening

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.

https://cuff.org/
@chicagoundergroundfilmfest

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CUTLOG NOVEMBER VIDEO SHOWCASE

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CutLog Moving Image Artists Screening

Online program curated from Scotland

November 2 – 23, 2020

‘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

https://vimeo.com/showcase/7719243

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