I’M WITH PULP, ARE YOU?
“I was always a hoarder. One of my teenage best friends used to accuse me of buying records so that I could look through the holes. I was also an obsessive fan, attracted to the scraps of ephemera that had
READING KEVIN KILLIAN — SELECTED AMAZON REVIEWS LAUNCH
Dodie Bellamy, Semiotext(e), 2220 Arts + Archives, Small Press Traffic, and Giorno Poetry Systems have organized a series of events in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City launching Kevin Killian’s highly anticipated collection SELECTED AMAZON REVIEWS.
PABLO LARRAÍN — MARIA
MARIA finds the soprano Maria Callas in the last week of her life, stalking her grand Paris apartment, dressed to the nines, humoring her butler and housemaid, hoarding and abusing Mandrax. Haunted by her final public performance three years prior, she
PST ART: ART & SCIENCE COLLIDE — GALLERIES AND ALTERNATIVE SPACES
PST ART: ART & SCIENCE COLLIDE—a Getty initiative and landmark regional event that explores the intersections of art and science, past and present—is bringing excitement to the art community and visitors from around the world.
CHRISTINE ANGOT — A FAMILY
In one of the most poignant scenes from her debut documentary A FAMILY, writer Christine Angot looks at a black and white photograph of herself as a teenager. “I remember this photo, this moment in my life. I wasn’t in
EMILIA PÉREZ
EMILIA PÉREZ is a sui generis achievement, an uncanny blend of crime thriller and full-blown musical that rarely devolves into camp. The song and dance numbers appear as integral parts of a whole rather than mere sketches. Performing original compositions
THE AMERICAN FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL — THE BALCONETTES
With their original story THE BALCONETTES—a blend of farce, gender-politics, and full blown gore—filmmakers Noémie Merlant and Céline Sciamma have conjured the perfect comedic horror confection for a Halloween night screening at The American French Film Festival (TAFFF).
AFI FEST 2024 — SECOND CHANCE
Writer-director Subhadra Mahajan presents her feature debut SECOND CHANCE—starring Dheera Johnson—on the closing day of AFI Fest 2024. Both will be on hand for a post-screening conversation.
AFI FEST 2024 — SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT
Johan Grimonprez’s remarkable new film SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT is a vividly expressionistic overview of the early years of African autonomy and the birth of international Black Power. Interpolating texts, photographs, audiovisual clips, and performances by jazz giants, this
AFI FEST 2024 — THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG
Shot in secret and made under extreme duress—its creator hit with the announcement of a prison and flogging sentence during its very production—THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG has, in a sense, escaped the shackles of its context and is
