Kate Dollenmayer, Found Her, 2013, live video feed and ice augur. Art © Kate Dollenmayer Courtesy of: the artist and Echo Park Film Center © Kate Dollenmayer. All rights reserved
Nora Sweeney, Fausto and Emilio (film still), 2014, 16mm, 14 minutes, projected image. Art © Nora Sweeney Courtesy of: the artist and Echo Park Film Center © Nora Sweeney. All rights reserved
Tuni Chatterji, Okul Nodi (Endless River) (film still), 2012, 16mm film and DV video, 52 minutes. Art © Tuni Chatterji. Courtesy of: the artist and Echo Park Film Center © Tuni Chatterji. All rights reserved
Caitlin Díaz, Quien bien ama nunca olvida / Those who love well never forget (film still), 2018, 16mm film and acrylic, transferred to digital, 9 minutes, projected image. Art © Caitlin Díaz. Courtesy of: the artist and Echo Park Film Center © Caitlin Díaz. All rights reserved
Echo Park Film Center
Fund: $36,000
Echo Park Film Center (EPFC)—a media arts organization committed to providing underserved communities with equal access to film and video recourses through screenings, residencies, and educational programs—will present The Newsreel Project, which invites filmmakers to create new analog films about transformative communities around California, exploring notions of place, identity, and inclusion. This project was inspired by the 1960s experimental “newsreels” of Canyon Cinema co-founder Bruce Baillie, who created lyrical, non-didactic cinematic portraits of spaces and people working to make the world a better place. Artists will shoot their projects on 16mm EPFC equipment, assisted by an EPFC Co-op member, and use the Center’s new LA AIRport—a mobile cinema/artist residency/film lab in a customized trailer—for various aspects of production. Project artists Arshia Haq, Caitlin Díaz, Kate Dollenmayer, Nora Sweeney, Tuni Chatterji, and Walter Vargas will be paired with young artists from the EPFC’s youth filmmaking program, who will gain hands-on experience working with an established filmmaker. Community-based presentations of the films will run from July 2020 through December 2020 at various sites via the LA AIRport. In keeping with the tradition of newsreels, the works will also be screened before regularly scheduled programs shown on-site at the Center for the duration of the project. Additionally, two 16mm copies of each work will be made, one for the artists and one for the EPFC film archive.
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