JEAN-PIERRE AND LUC DARDENNE IN LOS ANGELES
Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne are in town to present their new film TORI AND LOKITA and to introduce and discuss the opening selections in the American Cinematheque’s complete retrospective BROTHERS WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: THE CINEMA OF JEAN-PIERRE AND
JENNIFER WEST — MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY AT MOCA
Celebrating Jennifer West’s recently published MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles presents an evening reading with the artist, joined by the book’s editors and contributors Andy Campbell, Chelsea Weathers, and Norman Klein. In addition, performances by
THE LONELY FEW — WORLD PREMIERE
Somewhere in Kentucky, Lila (Lauren Patten) stocks grocery shelves by day and gigs at Paul’s Joint by night with her band The Lonely Few, working the lyrical longing, soaring vocal armature, and punk abandon of a young Melissa Etheridge meets
PAUL P. — AMOR ET MORS
Marking an indirect transition from desire to sketched and painterly form, the beaux-arts ideations of comely ephebes and lost cities by Paul P. find their source in the imagined lives of others—whether interwar characters out of Evelyn Waugh dreaming of
PATRICIA MAZUY — SATURN BOWLING
Inheritance is destiny in SATURN BOWLING, Mazuy’s pitch-black noir and a feature highlight of this year’s Locarno Film Festival in Los Angeles. Centered around the denizens of an underground bowling alley—a legacy that passes from patriarch to son, from son
CAULEEN SMITH — PERFORMANCE AND FILMS AT THE HAMMER
The Hammer Museum and UCLA Film & Television Archive present CAULEEN SMITH — IN SPACE, IN TIME, a series of artist screenings kicked off by a performance of Black Utopia LP. Among Smith’s short films, the programs include screenings of
TRAJAL HARRELL — SISTER OR HE BURIED THE BODY
Informed by the theory and practice of ballroom vogueing and mid-twentieth-century Butoh dance, Trajal Harrell presents his recent 30-minute work SISTER OR HE BURIED THE BODY—a “speculative remapping of the history of contemporary dance and its composition, weaving the links
HERVÉ GUIBERT AND DAVID WOJNAROWICZ — FOR AN EARLY DEATH
Analogs of a kind in the themes of their various practices and their fated heydays in the years following “gay liberation” but falling short of the advent of protease inhibitors, Hervé Guibert and David Wojnarowicz both cast long shadows of
ATLANTA RALLY AND FESTIVAL AGAINST COP CITY
In Atlanta, join Defend the Atlanta Forest, Rising Tide North America, the Climate Justice Alliance, and thousands of activists from March 4 through 11 for a series of rallies, actions, protests, community events, teach-ins, and a music festival—part of the
L.A. DANCE PROJECT — JAMAR ROBERTS WORLD PREMIERE
This month, L.A. Dance Project and Jamar Roberts—the Resident Choreographer of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater from 2019 to 2022, and a dancer with the Ailey company for nearly two decades—present the world premiere of LINEAGE, a new work by