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[eye-of-sara]

So glad to be here at the Echo Park Film Center in Los Angeles with my As if the color was looking at you

[irisfieldhouse]

We are excited to have Iris Film Collective member AMANDA THOMSON featured in this month’s edition of FILM FRIENDS, presented by Echo Park Film Centre. The series brings together established and emerging filmmakers together online for informal discussions on everything analog cinema.

Season Two’s theme is SIMPLE MACHINES.

The Zoom is on JULY 9th at 10AM PST, and Amanda will be discussing pinhole cinema and contact printing in a Bolex.

Free event! All Welcome! More info and sign up at

www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/events/film-friends-series-continues-july-9-with-amanda-thomson/

Amanda also has some prints for sale in the SOLIDARITY PRINT SALE, a photography fundraiser with proceeds donated to Ukrainian organizations working on the ground in Ukraine including Voices of Children, Come Back Alive, and Vostok SOS. The sale goes live Friday July 8th and runs until July 17th. All prints will be 12X18” open edition, unsigned and sold at $125 CAD to remain inclusive to all.

www.solidarityprintsale.com

[irisfilmcollective]

We are excited to have Iris Film Collective member AMANDA THOMSON featured in this month’s edition of FILM FRIENDS, presented by Echo Park Film Centre. The series brings together established and emerging filmmakers together online for informal discussions on everything analog cinema.

Season Two’s theme is SIMPLE MACHINES.

The Zoom is on JULY 9th at 10AM PST, and Amanda will be discussing pinhole cinema and contact printing in a Bolex.

Free event! All Welcome! More info and sign up at

www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/events/film-friends-series-continues-july-9-with-amanda-thomson/

Amanda also has some prints for sale in the SOLIDARITY PRINT SALE, a photography fundraiser with proceeds donated to Ukrainian organizations working on the ground in Ukraine including Voices of Children, Come Back Alive, and Vostok SOS. The sale goes live Friday July 8th and runs until July 17th. All prints will be 12X18” open edition, unsigned and sold at $125 CAD to remain inclusive to all.

www.solidarityprintsale.com

[mariamagnusson]

The film RITUAL will be screened outdoors  June 11th at Elysian Park in Los Angeles at 8.30 PM

“The Use of Technology as Ritual and Resistance”, Ritual is a collaboration with Vague Research Studios; Kajsa G Eriksson and Lena Berglin and Maria Magnusson. The film explores energy greed as a social phenomenon, ritual as an artistic method, and has been filmed in eleven places in Sweden: Burseryd, Kinnekulle, Sandviken, Hofors, Grängesberg, Njakafjäll, Meselefors, Kallak, Ligga, Messaure, and Jokkmokk. In the selected localities, there exists a historical connection to the extraction of raw materials needed to produce energy. This history is relevant today as we transition to green energy and to the use of renewable raw source materials. The artists have specifically chosen to highlight how urban lifestyles are dependent on the natural environment and people in sparsely populated communities in Sweden.”

[irisfieldhouse]

Iris Film Collective member ALEX MACKENZIE has been invited by ECHO PARK FILM CENTER to kick off their second season of FILM FRIENDS, a monthly series that brings established and emerging filmmakers together online for informal discussions on everything analog cinema. Season 2 features image-makers from around the world in conversation on the theme SIMPLE MACHINES! Zoom in on Saturday, September 11 at 10am Pacific Time as we chat with the guru of the hand-cranked projector, Alex MacKenzie. Free event! All welcome! Sing up here: tinyurl.com/filmfriends2 Support for Film Friends is provided by the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. Alex MacKenzie is a Vancouver-based media artist working primarily with 16mm analog film equipment and hand processed imagery. He creates works of expanded cinema, light projection installation, and projector performance which he presents at festivals, underground spaces and galleries worldwide. Years back he ran the Edison Electric Gallery of Moving Images, Blinding Light!! Cinema, and the Vancouver Underground Film Festival. He is a founding member of the Iris Film Collective, currently in residence at the Burrard View Fieldhouse in Vancouver.

[irisfilmcollective]

Iris Film Collective member ALEX MACKENZIE has been invited by ECHO PARK FILM CENTER to kick off their second season of FILM FRIENDS, a monthly series that brings established and emerging filmmakers together online for informal discussions on everything analog cinema.

Season 2 features image-makers from around the world in conversation on the theme SIMPLE MACHINES!

Zoom in on Saturday, September 11 at 10am Pacific Time as we chat with the guru of the hand-cranked projector, Alex MacKenzie.

Free event! All welcome! Sing up here: tinyurl.com/filmfriends2

Support for Film Friends is provided by the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts.

Alex MacKenzie is a Vancouver-based media artist working primarily with 16mm analog film equipment and hand processed imagery. He creates works of expanded cinema, light projection installation, and projector performance which he presents at festivals, underground spaces and galleries worldwide. Years back he ran the Edison Electric Gallery of Moving Images, Blinding Light!! Cinema, and the Vancouver Underground Film Festival. He is a founding member of the Iris Film Collective, currently in residence at the Burrard View Fieldhouse in Vancouver.

[mariamagnusson]

Revisit takes it starting point from some photographs I took in Griffith Park in Los Angeles 2004. After 13 years I return to the park trying to find my way back to the same locations.

Revisit was done during my residency at Echo Park Filmcenter in 2017, a stay that was supported by IASPIS: The Swedish Arts Grant Committee’s International Program for Visual and Applied Artists. The film was shown and a part of Filmcicle – a combined bike ride/activism with Paolo Davanzo and Lisa Marr from EPFC. We took a bike ride from Alvarado Street to Hollywood Blvd and when we arrived, riding around on bike with a movie projector showing REVISIT while biking on Hollywood Blvd and outside The Egyptian Theatre and it’s surroundings. After the ride we went to see Robert Schallers films on L.A. Filmforum. Now distributed by  FILMFORM - The Art Film & Video Archive. 

[mariamagnusson]

A super 8 short film ”Patterns of Light and Shadow”: commissioned by Echo Park Film Center with support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts, 2017, Sound DJ Bruce Leenus. 

Now on MOVIMCAT / The Moving Image Catalog. A platform for artists’ moving image. Curated by Stefano Miraglia & guests.  https://movimcat.eu/