I’ll be on a workshop panel as part of Ignite the Fuse!, a 3-day Fusion conference. Erm, I’ve never shot a film on a camera phone and being a stop-motion animator and former relief printmaker, I’m not sure I can share too well the pleasures of instant gratification media-making, but I’ve been invited to contribute, so I’ll be there. I can promise this: if you’ve ever wanted to make a film, video or animation in the arty vein, please come out. You’ll learn something.
Sunday, March 8, 11:00 - 12:30 pm
Village: LA Gay and Lesbian Center
1125 N. McCadden Place
Los Angeles, CA 90038
Instant Gratification Media Making
A panel of DIYers will explain how to make a short film using a camera phone, edit on a laptop and get it out in the world. They will share tricks of the trade, take questions and provide hands-on help.
Panelists: Rex Rude (MMA Creative Group), Jian Chen (QTpi Media), Pat Branch (Comic,
Screenwriter, Blogger on theDinah.com), Erica Cho (Filmmaker, Visual artist), Jay Esguerra
(Filmmaker), Irina Contreras (Media artist/Writer/Curator)
Ignite the Fuse - Conference:
• $5-$30 sliding scale
• 21 & under FREE
• Click here to register.
Are You Me (07 Mrs. Lee) will be screening at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood as part of Fusion: The Los Angeles LGBT People of Color Film Festival. I’m in the Underground program as usual!
Fusion Underground program
Saturday, March 7, 1 pm
The Egyptian Theatre
6712 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, 90028
To purchase $10 tickets, click here.
For those 21 and under, the program is free.
This Saturday, I’ll be speaking on a panel called Transnational Feminism at the College Art Association conference held in Los Angeles this year. Click here for more information about the Feminist Art Project panels.
9:00 AM–5:00 PM Feminist Art Project Special Sessions
Los Angeles Convention Center, Room 502A, Level 2
The Feminist Art Project (TFAP) will host a series of events for the Annual Conference. College Art Assocation is a founding program partner of TFAP. Started by Arlene Raven, Judy Chicago, and Susan Fisher Sterling, the Feminist Art Project is administered by Rutgers University’s Institute for Women and Art, under the auspices of the associate vice president for academic and public partnerships in the arts and humanities, and directed by Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin.
12:30-1:45 p.m.
Transnational Feminisms Lida Abdul, Artist, Afghanistan and Orange County; Sara Diamond, President, Ontario College of Art and Design; Maura Reilly, Independent Curator and Writer; Midori Yoshimoto, Art History, New Jersey City University; Erica Cho, Artist, Los Angeles; moderated by Yong Soon Min, Artist, UC Irvine and Connie Samaras, Artist, UC Irvine
Given the proliferation of difference–some that matter and much that is superfluous–that characterizes the contemporary globalized art field, our conversation will center on markers of difference in the intersections of class, race, age, sexuality, nationality and media that signal notable shifts in our understanding of female subjectivity. Moreover, we will consider how these shifting understandings are imbricated within issues of translation in the transnational cultural traffic.
A few months ago I made a short promo video called Hungry Girl Dinner as a media accompaniment to my dear friend, chef and restaurateur Diep Tran’s secret suppers. Last Sunday Evan Kleiman of KCRW’s Good Food interviewed Diep about them. Click below to listen… Diep comes on 45 minutes into the show.
20 Years Ago Today Video Screening. Free Event! Come check videos selected by the artist for this special screening. Artists and Co-curator Rita Gonzalez will be present for discussion following the screening. Descriptions below. Light refreshments.
Japanese American National Museum
Thursday, December 11, 2008
6:30pm - 8:00pm
Japanese American National Museum
369 East First Street, Los Angeles
Info:
213-625-0414
info@janm.org
Erica Cho
Are You Me? (Lucile), 2008
10:00 minutes
Lucile is the latest in her video series ‘Are You Me?- a videogram exchange between Erica Cho and artist Xana Kudrjavcev-DeMilner exploring the mysterious haze that separates all folk.
Jesse Lerner
Magnavoz, 2007
25:00 minutes
“Magnavoz” is an experimental adaptation of Xavier Icaza’s Estridentista essay on the future of post-revolutionary Mexico. Writing in 1926, Icaza fused poetry with polemics in an attempt to distinguish Mexico’s “true voice” amid the cacophony of those who would presume to speak for the nation. Lerner illustrates this vanguard text with archival images, reconstructions, and a complex mix of audio elements. Direct without being didactic, this film presents a lively picture of a nation and a people in flux.
Bruce Yonemoto
Sounds Like the Sound of Music, 2005
4:19 minutes
Sounds Like The Sound of Music draws from two distinct and seemingly unrelated Hollywood film classics, George Lucas’ Star Wars trilogy (specifically, the Reagan-era Return of the Jedi) and Robert Wise’s 1965 musical, The Sound of Music. Both films express Hollywood’s associations to political narratives of their times: The Sound of Music dramatized Post-War nostalgia for European ideals at the dawn of the Nazi regime; and Star Wars’ depiction of the “good vs. evil” ethos surrounding the final years of the Cold-War era. These relationships to war and cultural imperialism are of great interest to Yonemoto, especially when filtered through the Hollywood entertainment machine.
Five of my video works will be screening at the California Community Foundation and Getty Foundation exhibition opening Saturday, October 4 at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles (in Little Tokyo). I received a fellowship in 2002 for the experimental stop-motion animation piece on the Korean War, Our Cosmos Our Chaos. If you didn’t catch it the first time, here’s your chance to see a single-channel version of the animation installation. You’ll also see my 2008 video poems from the Are You Me? series. The exhibition is a celebration of 20 years of CCF’s and the Getty’s joint funding of LA artists.
Opening:
Saturday, October 4, 2008
7:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Location Japanese American National Museum
369 East First Street, Los Angeles, CA
(213) 625-0414
Shot and cut in one tremendous Sunday while my star actress, dear friend and talented chef Diep Tran prepared 26 Hungry Girl plates for a Good Girl Supper that evening, this video and the process represent what I love most about my and Diep’s friendship. After supper we hosted a surprise screening in a cozy bungalow living room to a delightful, tummies contented crowd.
Thank you so much to Xana Kudrjavcev-DeMilner for helping me with set decoration & snapping digi pics for ‘THE BOX’. Thank you to Diep for her patience, sweet & savory inspiration, and that impressive knack for finding perfectly cute old-fashioned props.
To learn more about Diep’s new dinette, visit her blog.
