RESCHEDULED - NEW DATE
Virtual Q&A with Paolo Davanzo and Lisa Marr after the screening
Paolo Davanzo and Lisa Marr of Echo Park Film Center (Los Angeles) will be sharing selected films from EPFC Members Karissa Hahn and Andrew Kim and the film center’s recurring, international city symphony project: THE SOUND WE SEE. Each film in THE SOUND WE SEE project is a 24 minute city symphony made by participants in EPFC workshops that have taken place in cities around the world.
PROGRAM:
Open Window by Karissa Hahn - 2016 - 2 minutes
The Sound We See: The COVID Chronicles - 2020 - 29 minutes
Society of Motion by Andrew Kim - 2015 - 3 minutes
The Sound We See: A Bukhara City Symphony - 2021 - 26 Minutes
DETAILS:
Doors open at 7PM - Show at 7:30PM
Donations are encouraged at the door or at www.agxfilm.org
Masks / facial coverings are required
Seating is limited, first-come first-served.
THE SOUND WE SEE
Initially developed as part of Echo Park Film Center’s free youth filmmaking program in Los Angeles, The Sound We See uses analog filmmaking techniques and the “City Symphony” genre practiced in the 1920s by Walter Ruttmann and Dziga Vertov as starting points to explore communal creative process and contemporary environments.
Discovering and redefining techniques of past avant-garde urban documentarians, 37 teens with little or no prior filmmaking experience worked with 16mm cameras and black and white stock to create a stunning 24-hour cinematic journey with each hour of the day represented as one minute on film. The Sound We See: A Los Angeles City Symphony premiered with a bespoke live score performed by a talented ensemble of local musicians.
The project sparked a global “Slow Film” movement with youth and multi-generational communities in Vietnam, India, Canada, Europe, Mexico and Japan creating their own 16mm and Super 8 City Symphonies, not only shooting but processing (using both traditional and eco-friendly chemistry) and editing the film by hand, and presenting public exhibitions of the finished work in non-traditional venues. Each community pushes the process to new directions and discoveries; The Sound We See is an ongoing cinematic conversation on the relevance of handmade film in the 21st century.