Here’s what I believe to be a complete list of film programming I’ve done, in reverse chronological order. I’ll try to keep it updated!
March 30, 2020 – ongoing
Remains to be Streamed
via Instagram live stream
113 editions as of 1/10/2025
December 18, 2025
Happy Holidays from George Kuchar
Lightstruck
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
November 13, 2025
Bill Viola’s I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like
(co-curated w/ Zena Grey)
Lightstruck
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
October 23, 2025
Decodings: A Queer Film Tribute to Carl Bogner
Lightstruck
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
October 9, 2025
Sabin Bălașa: The Eternal Dream
(co-curated w/ Zena Grey)
Lightstruck
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
September 4, 2025
Larry Clark’s Passing Through (1977) on 16mm
(co-curated w/ Zena Grey)
Lightstruck
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
August 23, 2025
Nobuhiro Aihara: Third Eye Animation
(co-curated w/ Zena Grey)
Lightstruck
Mini Mart City Park
Seattle, WA
June & July, 2025
A 3-program Tribute to Gene Youngblood’s book Expanded Cinema
(co-curated w/ Zena Grey)
Pgm 1 (June 5, 2025): Synaesthetic Cinema & The Myth of Entertainment
Pgm 2 (June 26, 2025): Cosmic Consciousness & Cybernetic Cinema
Pgm 3 (July 10, 2025): Television & Intermedia
Lightstruck
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
May 15, 2025
16mm BRAIN FOOD
(co-curated w/ Zena Grey)
Lightstruck
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
April 17, 2025
TALES OF THE DUMPSTER KID
by Ula Stöckl & Edgar Reitz
(co-curated w/ Zena Grey)
Lightstruck
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
March 6, 2025
Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s SALAAM CINEMA (new restoration)
(co-curated w/ Zena Grey)
Lightstruck
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
January 30, 2025
Phil Solomon: To a Song Dissolved in the Dawn
Available Space
Ted Mann Theater
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Los Angeles, CA
January 30, 2025
The Confessions of Curt McDowell
Xcèntric
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB)
Barcelona, Spain
January 24, 2025
GOOD-BY KEIICHI TANAAMI: Animation From the Pop Subconscious
(co-curated w/ Zena Grey)
Lightstruck
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
January 7, 2025
Feelings Not Ruined by Words: The Animations of Karen Yasinsky
(Karen Yasinsky in person)
Whammy! Analog Media
Los Angeles, CA
December 12, 2024
Bogdan Dziworski: Sensational Truths
(co-curated w/ Zena Grey)
Lightstruck
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
November 25, 2024
The Divine Visions of Ishu Patel
Available Space
Ted Mann Theater
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Los Angeles, CA
November 7, 14, 21, 2024
Betzy Bromberg Retrospective
(co-curated w/ Zena Grey)
Lightstruck
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
October 17, 2024
The 3-D 16mm Phantasmagoria of Zoe Beloff
(co-curated w/ Zena Grey)
Lightstruck
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
October 10, 2024
Glide of Transparency by Betzy Bromberg
Available Space
Ted Mann Theater
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Los Angeles, CA
September 12, 2024
Ximena Cuevas: Melodramas y Pasiones
(co-curated w/ Zena Grey)
Lightstruck
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
August 23, 2024
Los Angeles Site-Seeing
Available Space
Ted Mann Theater
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Los Angeles, CA
August 22, 2024
About Some Meaningless Events
(co-curated with Zena Grey and Mounir Souss)
Lightstruck
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
July 25, 2024
Roy Cohn/Jack Smith
Lightstruck
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
June 23, 2024
Alee Peoples: Something Pretending To Be Something Else
Los Angeles Filmforum
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
April 18, 2024
Hungarian Animation: Legends & Dreams
Lightstruck
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
March 30, 2024
Takashi Ito: Animating Spirits
Available Space
Ted Mann Theater
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Los Angeles, CA
March 14, 2024
Cheryl Dunye: Shorts From the ‘90s
Lightstruck
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
February 22, 2024
Nobuhiro Aihara: Third Eye Animation (two programs)
(co-curated w/ Zena Grey)
Lightstruck
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
February 17, 2024
Welcome to the West Coast Underground
Available Space
Ted Mann Theater
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Los Angeles, CA
January 19, 2024
There is Something on Your Mind: Restored Los Angeles Artists’ Films from the Academy Film Archive
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB)
Barcelona, Spain
January 16, 2024
Abstraction Absolue: Cinq Artistes Américains
Light Cone
Paris, France
December 14, 2023
Haile Gerima’s Wilmington 10 – U.S.A. 10,000
Lightstruck
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
December 10, 2023
Hayoun Kwon: Virtually Real
Los Angeles Filmforum
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
November 17, 2023
Maureen Selwood: Animating the Interior
Available Space
Ted Mann Theater
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Los Angeles, CA
November 16, 2023
Radical Liberation: Estonian Animation
Lightstruck
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
October 23, 2023
Early & Late Brakhage: Academy Restorations
Available Space
Ted Mann Theater
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Los Angeles, CA
October 3 & 5, 2023
The Astonishing Frame: 16mm Restorations from the Academy Film Archive
Image Forum Festival
Tokyo, Japan
September 24, 2023
Collision Center: Movies by Mike Stoltz
Los Angeles Filmforum
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
September 22, 2023
The Tawdry Visions of George & Mike Kuchar
Available Space
Ted Mann Theater
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Los Angeles, CA
September 14, 2023
Alchemy of the Alphabet: Zorns Lemma / Sink or Swim
Lightstruck
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
August 25, 2023
16mm West Coast Psych
Lightstruck
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
June 3, 2023
Made in Hollywood
(w/ Bruce Yonemoto & Patricia Arquette in person)
Available Space
Ted Mann Theater
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Los Angeles, CA
April 20, 2023
Amy Halpern: Unowned Luxuries
(co-curated with David Lebrun)
Available Space
Ted Mann Theater
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Los Angeles, CA
April 16, 2023
Amy Halpern: Falling Lessons
(co-curated with David Lebrun)
Billy Wilder Theater
UCLA Film & TV Archive
Los Angeles, CA
April 2, 2023
Amy Halpern: Plausible Light Sources
(co-curated with David Lebrun)
Los Angeles Filmforum
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
March 30, 2023
Amy Halpern: Falling Lessons &
Amy Halpern: Unowned Luxuries
(co-curated with David Lebrun)
Light Field Film Festival
San Francisco, CA
February 24, 2023
Radical Archaeologies: Films by Greta Snider
(Greta Snider in person)
Wexner Center for the Arts
Columbus, OH
February 10-11, 2023
3 programs of films by Amy Halpern (co-curated w/ David Lebrun):
Unowned Luxuries
Falling Lessons
Plausible Light Sources
Museum of the Moving Image
NY, NY
February 6, 2023
Thom Andersen: Work on Film
(co-curated with Hyesung Ii)
(Thom Andersen in person)
Available Space
Ted Mann Theater
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Los Angeles, CA
January 19, 2023
Mike Henderson: The Blues and the Abstract Truth
(Mike Henderson in person)
Available Space
Ted Mann Theater
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Los Angeles, CA
January 8, 2023
HAND MADE: Recent Films by Dicky Bahto
(Dicky Bahto + Tashi Wada in person)
Los Angeles Filmforum
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
December 16, 2022
Radical Archaeologies: Films by Greta Snider
(Greta Snider in person)
Ted Mann Theater
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Los Angeles, CA
December 11, 2022
Curt McDowell x2:
Peed Into The Wind
&
True, Blue, & Very Taboo
(Melinda McDowell in person)
Los Angeles Filmforum
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
December 9, 2022
The Confessions of Curt McDowell
(Melinda McDowell in person)
Ted Mann Theater
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Los Angeles, CA
December 3, 2022
Animation by Numbers #1
Whammy! Analog Media
Los Angeles, CA
November 19, 2022
Barbara Hammer: Touchy-Feely
(co-curated with KJ Relth-Miller)
Whammy! Analog Media
Los Angeles, CA
October 24, 2022
Sally Cruikshank & Vince Collins: Cartoons for Convoluted Craniums!
(Sally Cruikshank in person)
Available Space
Ted Mann Theater
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Los Angeles, CA
October 13, 2022
Remains to be Seen #7: Elixir
Whammy! Analog Media
Los Angeles, CA
October 1, 2022
Golden States: 16mm California Psychedelia
Anita
Astoria, OR
September 15, 2022
Derek Jarman: Super 8 Revelations
(James Mackay in person)
Available Space
Ted Mann Theater
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Los Angeles, CA
August 21, 2022
Time Mechanicals: 16mm Cityscapes by Jim Jennings
Los Angeles Filmforum
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
August 4, 2022
Animation From Another World: Chronopolis and shorts by Piotr Kamler
Available Space
Ted Mann Theater
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Los Angeles, CA
July 14, 2022
An Evening with Christopher Harris: New Restorations
(Christopher Harris in person)
Available Space
Ted Mann Theater
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Los Angeles, CA
June 29, 2022
Images of the World and the Inscription of War
(Jay Cassidy in person)
Available Space
Ted Mann Theater
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Los Angeles, CA
June 26, 2022
Actual/Virtual Realities: Harun Farocki’s Parallel I-IV & Related Visions
Los Angeles Filmforum
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
June 2-4, 2022
(three programs:)
-Radical Archaeologies: Films by Greta Snider (w/ Greta Snider in person) (June 3)
-Ecstasy: Inside (June 2 & 4)
-Ecstasy: Outside (June 2 & 4)
International Short Film Festival Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
May 22, 2022
Biogenesis: 16mm Films on the Origins of Weird Life
(Courtney Hoskins, Cherlyn Liu, and Andrew Kim in person)
Los Angeles Filmforum
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
May 12, 2022
Remains to be Seen #6: Throbs
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
May 2, 2022
Latent Image: Three Films on Space, Time, and Change
(Tacita Dean, Margaret Honda, & Daïchi Saïto in person)
Available Space
David Geffen Theater
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Los Angeles, CA
April 14, 2022
Strain Andromeda The
(Anne McGuire in person)
Available Space
Ted Mann Theater
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Los Angeles, CA
February 27, 2022
SPACE EXPLORATION with JOHANN LURF
Los Angeles Filmforum
2220 Arts + Archives
Los Angeles, CA
February 24, 2022
★ by Johann Lurf
(Johann Lurf in person)
Available Space
Ted Mann Theater
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Los Angeles, CA
January 28, 2022
Worldbuilding in Experimental Animation
(Janie Geiser, Jeron Braxton, Sky David, Ezra Claytan Daniels, and Buki Bodunrin in person)
Available Space
Ted Mann Theater
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Los Angeles, CA
December 6, 2021
Barbara Hammer: History Lessons
(co-curated with K.J. Relth-Miller)
(Florrie Burke in person)
Available Space
Ted Mann Theater
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Los Angeles, CA
November 20, 2021
Cats, Cut-Outs, and Crab Legs:: 35mm Experimental Animation from the Academy Film Archive
Sight Unseen @ the Parkway Theater
Baltimore, MD
February 20, 2020
Remains to be Seen #5: Sink or Swim
Echo Park Film Center
Los Angeles, CA
January 30, 2020
Remains to be Seen #4: Journey, Swiftly Passing
Echo Park Film Center
Los Angeles, CA
January 9, 2020
Unauthored Gestures: Anonymity and the Authorless in Artists’ Film and Video
Illustrated talk + screening
Veggie Cloud
Los Angeles, CA
December 5, 2019
Remains to be Seen #3: You the Better
Echo Park Film Center
Los Angeles, CA
November 23, 2019
Remains to be Seen #2.5: No-Zone
Echo Park Film Center
Los Angeles, CA
October 20, 2019
A Song Dissolved in the Dawn: Films by Phil Solomon
Los Angeles Filmforum
Echo Park Film Center
Los Angeles, CA
October 13, 2019
Remains to be Seen #2: The Stars are Beautiful
Echo Park Film Center
Los Angeles, CA
September 26, 2019
Remains to be Seen #1: Gently Down the Stream
Echo Park Film Center
Los Angeles, CA
September 20, 2019
Penelope Spheeris: Short Films and Beyond [not my title]
WUTI Goes Idyllwild/Women Under the Influence
Rustic Theatre
Idyllwild, CA
September 19, 2019
Makino Takashi: Memento Stella
Los Angeles Filmforum
Museum of Contemporary Art
Los Angeles, CA
July 19-21, 27-28
Barbara Hammer, Superdyke (co-curated w/ KJ Relth)
(seven retrospective programs)
Museum of the Moving Image
NY, NY
June 2019
Window Lights for Wanderers
[S8] Festival
A Coruña, Spain
June 2019
Suzan Pitt retrospective
Animafest Zagreb
Zagreb, Croatia
May 25, 2019
Local History: A Robert Todd Tribute
(5-hour memorial marathon screening)
Echo Park Film Center
Los Angeles, CA
May 23 & 24, 2019
Barbara Hammer: Mediated Sensuality & Declarations of Identity (co-curated w/ KJ Relth)
The Block Museum
Evanston, IL
May 12, 2019
Two programs:
Everyday Ecstasy: A Restoration Tribute to Barbara Hammer
and
Golden State Freeway: Restored California Psychedelia from the Academy Film Archive
Norsk filminstitutt
Oslo, Norway
May 8, 2019
Secrets of the Invisible World Disclosed
Baltic Analog Lab
Riga, Latvia
May 1-6, 2019
The Language of Attraction: Trailers between Advertising and the Avant-garde (co-curated with Cassie Blake)
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival
Oberhausen, Germany
Curated four film programs, and co-curated (with Cassie Blake) a children’s program and opening night selection for the Theme section of the festival. Overall curatorship, organization, writing, etc. for the Theme with Cassie Blake.
March 25, 2019
Anouk de Clercq: Future Images (ADC in person)
REDCAT Theater
Los Angeles, CA
February 17, 2019
Malcolm Le Grice, Here and Now (MLG in person)
Los Angeles Filmforum
Los Angeles, CA
February 11, 2019
Malcolm Le Grice: Before and After Cinema (MLG in person)
REDCAT Theater
Los Angeles, CA
February 8, 2019
I Can’t Keep Up with Martha Colburn! (MC in person)
Los Angeles Filmforum @ Echo Park Film Center
Los Angeles, CA
February 2, 2019
Beyond the Binary: A Selection of Shorts from the Radical Digital
part of:
Open Source: Sahba Sizdhakhani, Wizard Apprentice, film screenings by Mark Toscano
The Wulf @ Coaxial Arts
Los Angeles, CA
November 9, 10, 17, December 8, 15, 2018; January 17, 2019
Barbara Hammer, Superdyke (co-curated with KJ Relth)
Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum
Now-Instant Image Hall (1/17 program only)
Los Angeles, CA
October 19, 2018
Karen Yasinsky: Perpetual Motion (co-curated with Karen Yasinsky)
Los Angeles Filmforum
Echo Park Film Center
Los Angeles, CA
July 21, 2018
Primary Stimulus: Film Materiality in the American Avant-Garde
Restored films from the Academy Film Archive
ACC Cinematheque
Gwangju, South Korea
July 12-19, 2018
2 programs:
-Eyewash: Robert Breer (7/15/2018)
-Calculated Movements: American Experimental Animation (7/18/2018)
EXiS
Seoul, South Korea
May 30-June 1, 2018
3 programs:
-Amnesia, Euphoria, & Ecstasy: Films by Chick Strand
-Cats, Birds, & Asparagus: Restored Independent Animation
-West Coast Psych: Visionary Cinema from the Pacific Coast
Vienna Shorts / Austrian Filmmuseum
Vienna, Austria
May 28, 2018
2 programs:
-Amnesia, Euphoria, & Ecstasy: Films by Chick Strand
-Cats, Birds, & Asparagus: Restored Independent Animation
Slovenian Cinematheque
Ljubljana, Slovenia
May 24, 2018
Three States of Cinema: Portraiture, Still Life, and Landscape
(as part of Tacita Dean’s three exhibitions in London)
National Portrait Gallery
London, UK
April 15, 2018
Stan Brakhage: Life, Death, and the Elements (New Restorations from the Academy Film Archive)
Los Angeles Filmforum (@ Echo Park Film Center)
Los Angeles, CA
April 1, 2018
The Films of Mike Henderson
Courtisane Festival
Ghent, Belgium
February 12, 2018
Daïchi Saïto: Material Traces (co-curated with Daïchi Saïto)
REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
November 28-December 3, 2017
Chick Strand (two programs)
The Ecstasy of Experience
&
Survival and Desire
Experimenta India, Bangalore, India
October 21, 2017
Past Imperfect
&
Print Generation
Film in the Present Tense symposium (Labor Berlin)
Berlin, Germany
September 30, 2017
Pacific Coast Highway: Restored California Psychedelia
“From Vault to Screen” series
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
September 30, 2017
Key Frames and Inbetweens: Restored Experimental Animation in 35mm
“From Vault to Screen” series
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
September 9, 2017
A Les Blank Sampler: Restorations from the Academy Film Archive
“From Vault to Screen” series
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
September 9, 2017
The Secret Cinema and The Savage Eye
“From Vault to Screen” series
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
April 10, 2017
Internal Systems: Films by Brakhage/Kren/Lowder/Rekveld/Sonoda
Los Angeles Filmforum @ Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
April 2017
Gunvor Nelson: Frame Line
(Hasenherz program)
Diagonale Festival, Graz, Austria
March 26, 2017
Is it About a Bicycle? : Humour, Media, and the Mechanics of the Avant-Garde
Plastik Festival, Dublin, Ireland
March 13, 2017
Joost Rekveld: Light Matters
REDCAT Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
March 12, 2017
Joost Rekveld: The Materiality of Signals
Los Angeles Filmforum, Los Angeles, CA
February 25, 2017
Films by Robert Russett
Sonic Acts Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
November 15, 2016
The Inscription of Experience
program accompanying EYE’s exhibition CELLULOID
EYE Film Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
October 21-22, 2016
A Million More Lights: The Short Films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
4 programs comprising the filmmaker’s complete short works
Los Angeles Filmforum @ Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum
Los Angeles, CA
October 19, 2016
Apichatpong Weerasethakul & The American Avant-Garde
(screening and discussion w/ A.W.)
Bijou Theatre, CalArts, Valencia, CA
October 14, 2016
Curt McDowell retrospective, 2 programs:
-Stinky Wieners & Dreamy Beavers
-Peeing into the Wind
London Film Festival, London, UK
October 6-11, 2016
5 programs:
-Chick Strand program #1: Survival & Desire
-Chick Strand program #2: Amnesia, Euphoria, & Ecstasy
-Company Town: Artist’s Films in Los Angeles, 1969-83
-Alchemy in the Golden State: California Dreaming, 1967-1978+2012
-Robert Nelson’s Suite California
L’age d’or Festival, Brussels, Belgium
October 5, 2016
L’humour est la politesse du désespoir: Films 1970-1983 et 2012-2016
(Cinema Different opening night)
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
October 4, 2016
Notre Dame (des Anges)
part of Light Cone’s “Scratch” series
Studio des Ursulines, Paris, France
September 18, 2016
Mike Hoolboom: Incident Reports
Los Angeles Filmforum, Los Angeles, CA
September 12, 2016
My Own Private Idaho + shorts
w/ Gus Van Sant & Udo Kier in person
Samuel Goldwyn Theater, AMPAS, Los Angeles, CA
August 25, 2016
Plastic Realities: Films by Suzan Pitt and Pat O’Neill
Linwood Dunn Theatre, AMPAS, Los Angeles, CA
July 16, 2016
Primary Stimulus: A Robert Russett Memorial Retrospective
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
June 22, 2016
Gus Van Sant: Court Métrages (2 programs)
Cinémathèque Française, Paris, France
May 15, 2016
The Death Film
Los Angeles Filmforum, Los Angeles, CA
May 12, 2016
Tacita Dean: Presences/Absences
(Tacita Dean in person)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
May 8, 2016
The Birth Film
Los Angeles Filmforum, Los Angeles, CA
April 25, 2016
Textures of Life: Film and the Art of Tacita Dean
(co-curated with Steve Anker)
Redcat Theater, Los Angeles, CA
March 31, 2016
Down Hear: The Films of Mike Henderson
Conversations at the Edge @ Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL
March 17, 2016
Films by Curt McDowell
single retrospective screening (co-curated with David Dinnell)
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
March 9-13, 2016
3 programs:
-Other Planes of There: Unbelievable Animations Restored by the Academy Film Archive
-Space is the Place: Restored Psychedelia from the Academy Film Archive
-The Short Films of Penelope Spheeris
Tampere Film Festival, Tampere, Finland
March 1, 2016
Experimental Treasures from the Academy Film Archive [not my title]
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
January 31, 2016
Collage Dada Jukebox: The Animations of Run Wrake
Los Angeles Filmforum, Los Angeles, CA
January 30, 2016
Penelope Spheeris: UCLA Short Films and Beyond
(Penelope Spheeris in person)
Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
November 9, 2015
An Evening with Chris Langdon
Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY
October 15, 2015
Abstract Video: The Moving Image in Contemporary Art
(co-curated with Gabrielle Jennings)
Los Angeles Filmforum @ LACE, Los Angeles, CA
September 27, 2015
Theme/Variation/Transubstantiation:
Phantasmagorical restorations from the Academy Film Archive
25 FPS Film Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
August 27 & 29, 2015
Apparitions in the City of Angels (2 programs)
(co-curated with Becca Keating)
The Mini Microcinema, Cincinnati, OH
May 2015
Bright Objects in the Dark
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
April 2015
A David Rimmer Retrospective (3 programs)
presented by Double Negative
Cinematheque Quebecoise, Montreal, Canada
April 3, 2015
Just Another Notion: Short Films by Mike Henderson
(w/ Mike Henderson in person)
Indiana University Cinema, Bloomington, IN
February 1, 2015
Joe Gibbons: Confessions of a Sociopath
Los Angeles Filmforum, Los Angeles, CA
January 8, 2015
Avatar and Aether: Visionary Women and the Cinematic Occult
(Betzy Bromberg & Amy Halpern in person)
Los Angeles Filmforum @ MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
December 18, 2014
Mike Henderson: The Blues and the Abstract Truth
Cinema Project (with Mississippi Records)
Hollywood Theater, Portland, OR
December 14, 2014
We Are The Spirit Guides And We Are Watching You: Videos by Duke and Battersby
(co-curated with Becca Keating)
Los Angeles Filmforum, Los Angeles, CA
October 18, 2014
Meditations From Our Lady of the Angels:
Restorations of the Los Angeles Avant-Garde from the Academy Film Archive
London Film Festival, London, UK
October 4, 2014
16mm Films by Shellie Fleming / Will Hindle / Zack Stiglicz
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
July 10, 2014
Mike Kelley & Paul McCarthy
(with Paul McCarthy in person)
Los Angeles Filmforum @ MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
June 29, 2014
Mike Kelley: Psychosexual Pantomime, or: Character Development in the Emotional Homunculus
(with Bruce Yonemoto in person)
Los Angeles Filmforum, Los Angeles, CA
June 12, 2014
Not About Art: A sampler of short films by Al Razutis-Visual Alchemy
(with Al Razutis in person)
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
June 4, 2014
The Films of Mike Henderson
Haines Gallery @ The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
June 1, 2014
George Kuchar’s Weather Diary 1
Los Angeles Filmforum, Los Angeles, CA
April 9 & 10, 2014
Mississippi Records Presents:
The Visionary and The Vision (2 programs)
Hollywood Theater, Portland, OR
April 1, 2014
EXTREMELY CINEMATIC!
Restorations of the Los Angeles Avant-Garde
Union Theatre, UW Milwaukee, WI
March 16, 2014
To Its Logical Conclusion: Films on Decay, Debris, and Demolition
(Films by Jason Byrne, Vanessa Renwick, and Laska Jimsen)
Los Angeles Filmforum, Los Angeles, CA
January 31, 2014
Bursting at the Seams: Restored Avant-Garde Films [not my title]
UW Madison Cinematheque, Madison, WI
November 21, 2013
Cosmic Abstractions from Courtney Hoskins & Fred Worden
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
November 16, 2013
A Warhol SLEEPover
Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
October 17, 2013
Al Neil / A Portrait and other shorts
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
October 7, 2013
Views From the Avant-Garde: Stan Brakhage
New York Film Festival, NY, NY
(co-curated with Mark McElhatten)
August 10, 2013
Rolls: 1971 by Robert Huot
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
August 8, 2013
Robert Nelson Tribute: Program #5:
David King, The Moblèd Queen, and the Oak of the Golden Dream
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
August 3, 2013
Psychedelic Visions and Expanded Consciousness
Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
August 2, 2013
Les Blank Tribute
w/ Harrod and Beau Blank
Museum of the Moving Image, Queens NY
August 1, 2013
The Blues Accordin’ to Les Blank
w/ Harrod Blank
BAMcinematek, Brooklyn, NY
July 30, 2013
An Academy Salute to Les Blank
w/ Harrod Blank
Academy Theater, Lighthouse International, NY, NY
July 20, 2013
Stan Brakhage: The Pittsburgh Documents
discussion following with Werner Herzog
Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
June 20, 2013
Robert Nelson Tribute: Program #4:
Boat Game and Entertainments
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
May 1 & 4, 2013
Spend It All (and shorts)
San Francisco International Film Festival
March 20, 2013
Psychedelic Visions and Expanded Consciousness
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
January 20 & 21, 2013
The Art of Vision: Honoring Stan Brakhage (2 programs)
(co-curated with Steve Anker)
Redcat Theater, Los Angeles, CA
December 6, 2012
Films by Stan Brakhage Restored by the Academy Film Archive
Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA
November 26, 2012
Out of the Past: Print Generation & other shorts
James Bridges Theater, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
October 20, 2012
Movies & TV by Mark Toscano & Lori Felker
(co-curated with Lori Felker)
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
October 6, 2012
Robert Nelson Tribute: Program #3
Sex, War, and Watermelons
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
September 28, 2012
AMPAS Film-to-Film Festival:
Experimental Animation program
Linwood Dunn Theater, Los Angeles, CA
September 20 & 22, 2012
Conversations at the Edge:
Robert Nelson: Special Warning
Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL
September 15, 2012
Nelson+ Nelson
&
After Robert Nelson
Avant festival, Karlstad, Sweden
August 9, 2012
Robert Nelson Tribute: Program #2
Seven from Sixty-Seven
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
June 16, 2012
Avant-garde in the archive?!
Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin, Germany
June 14, 2012
Robert Nelson Tribute: Program #1
Suite California Stops & Passes
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
June 2, 2012
J.J. Murphy’s Print Generation & Stan Brakhage’s Passage Through: A Ritual
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
May 12, 2012
Movies & TV by Mark Toscano & Lori Felker
(co-curated with Lori Felker)
The Nightingale, Chicago, IL
May 11, 2012
Now, You Can Do Anything: The Films of Chris Langdon
University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Chicago, IL
April 27-29, 2012
Hairy Handmade Objects: Films by Robert Nelson (4 programs)
Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
March 28, 2012
Films by Robert Nelson
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
March 13, 2012
Outer Space: Physical Graffitis and Geographies
The Cinema Project, Portland, OR
March 12, 2012
Inner Space: Psychedelic Visions and Expanded Consciousness
The Cinema Project, Portland, OR
February 23, 2012
Charismatic Megafauna & other films by Vanessa Renwick
Los Angeles Filmforum & The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles, CA
October 21, 2011
Studies and Observation No. 2:
Transubstantiation: Rituals, Transformations, and Appropriations
(co-curated with Marcy Saude)
Ann Arbor, MI
October 20, 2011
Space Exploration:
Ann Arbor Film Festival 50th: Restrospective Screening #2
Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI
October, 2011
Mechanical Reproductions &
Surface Tensions:
2 x Toscano: 2 Film Programs Curated by Mark Toscano
Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal, QC, Canada
August 23, 2011
The Intimacy of Intervention: An Evening with Ken Jacobs
Cinefamily, Los Angeles, CA
February 20, 2011
Fred Worden: Illusions and Altercations
Los Angeles Filmforum, Los Angeles, CA
February 17, 2011
Six More Weeks of Winter
FLEXfest, Gainesville, FL
January, 2011
Rear View Mirror &
Fragments of Seeing:
Recovering the Los Angeles Avant-Garde: Restorations from the Academy Film Archive
International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands
January 23, 2011
The Cross Revolves at Sunset:
Recent Restorations of Experimental Film from the Academy Film Archive
American Museum of the Moving Image, New York, New York
December 15, 2010
Gibbs Chapman: An Examination
(co-curated with the filmmaker)
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
August 28, 2010
The Cross Revolves at Sunset:
Recent Restorations of Experimental Film from the Academy Film Archive
Billy Wilder Theater
UCLA Film & Television Archive, Los Angeles, CA
June 27, 2010
Richard Myers: Deathstyles
Los Angeles Filmforum, Los Angeles, CA
June 26, 2010
Two Dream Films by Richard Myers
Velaslavasay Panorama, Los Angeles, CA
June 20, 2010
The Sound Cinema of Stan Brakhage
Los Angeles Filmforum, Los Angeles, CA
June 6, 2010
By Brakhage: A 16mm Film Screening
Los Angeles Filmforum, Los Angeles, CA
February 12, 2010
Things Are Always Going Wrong:
New Restorations of Los Angeles Experimental Films (1960s – 1970s)
UW Madison Cinematheque, Madison, WI
January 25, 2010
Now, You Can Do Anything: The Films of Chris Langdon
Redcat Theater, Los Angeles, CA
October 29, 2009
Restoring the Los Angeles Avant-Garde: Films From the ‘60s & ‘70s
UC Irvine, Irvine, CA
October 22, 2009
Restoring the Los Angeles Avant-Garde: Films From the ‘60s & ‘70s
Cinematheque 108, University of Southern California
August 17, 2009
Infinite Animation: The Work of Adam Beckett
Co-produced and curated an elaborate and extensive tribute to the legendary animator and visual effects artist, who died in a fire in 1979. The evening included 16mm films, early test footage from his work on Star Wars, two panels of friends and colleagues, and an opening 3-projector 16mm film loop show.
August 13, 2009
Calculations 2: Pioneers of Computer Animation
Echo Park Film Center
Co-curated (with Stephanie Sapienza, Amy Beste, and Jodie Mack) this evening of pioneering computer animation, with films ranging from 1967-1988.
May 27 & 29, 2009
Thom Andersen & Morgan Fisher
&
Things are Always Going Wrong: New Restorations of Los Angeles Experimental Films
Billy Wilder Theater
UCLA Film & Television Archive, Los Angeles, CA
April 26, 2009
Treasures from the American Film Archives IV
Los Angeles Filmforum, Los Angeles, CA
April 1, 2009
Restoring and Rediscovering the Los Angeles Avant-Garde
San Francisco Cinematheque
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
February 6, 2009
Celluloid & Sound All Around
The Velaslavasay Panorama
Los Angeles, CA
Organized a multi-faceted evening of work by various artists. Kate Dollenmayer presented an interactive installation version of her Walking Experiment, as well as a video projection of same with live musical accompaniment by Ross Karre. Jodie Mack presented her 16mm animation, some as standalone works, some accompanied by live music from Corey Fogel. Mark Toscano also showed one of his own recently completed films.
November 13, 2008
Experimental Films For Archivists (screening)
Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference
Savannah, GA
Curated and presented a 90-minute screening of short experimental films chosen with the curious film archivist in mind.
November 10, 2008
Out of the Past: Muscle Beach & The Savage Eye
Billy Wilder Theater
UCLA Film & Television Archive, Los Angeles, CA
July 11, 2008
A talk/screening of films by Stan Brakhage
CSULB University Art Museum
Long Beach, CA
Discussed the technical side of both Stan Brakhage’s filmmaking methods, as well as the preservation approaches to archiving his work.
June 15, 2008
A Tribute to Creative Film Society
Los Angeles Filmforum
Los Angeles, CA
Curated and presented a program of short abstract and animated films from the former collection of Creative Film Society, an important distributor of independent cinema.
May 18, 2008
Blues and Funk: Films by Mike Henderson and Robert Nelson
Cinema Borealis
Chicago, IL
Curated and presented a program of films by these two Bay Area artists.
March 22-23, 2008
Robert Nelson and Friends
Anthology Film Archives
New York, NY
Curated and presented three programs that featured works by Robert Nelson, Mike Henderson, William T. Wiley, and William Allan (with Bruce Nauman).
January 20, 21, 2008
Robert Nelson: A Retrospective (parts 3 & 4)
LA Filmforum / Redcat
Los Angeles, CA
Curated and co-presented two programs of films by Robert Nelson, concluding a four-part series.
December 2 and 16, 2007
Robert Nelson: A Retrospective (parts 1 & 2)
Los Angeles Filmforum at Echo Park Film Center
Los Angeles, CA
Curated and presented two programs of films by Robert Nelson, beginning a four-part series.
August 10, 2007
International Preservation: Films of Stan Brakhage
UCLA Film & Television Archive, Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum
Los Angeles, CA
Curated and presented an illustrated talk about the preservation of the films of Stan Brakhage, which included a slideshow, several film projections, and a demonstration of some of Brakhage’s hands-on filmmaking techniques.
July 25-28, 2007
Avant Garde Cinema in the United States – Academy Film Archive
Expresión en Corto film festival
Guanajuato, Mexico
Curated and presented four programs of West Coast experimental cinema, comprising a mixed show of Los Angeles-based work, and a program each of films by Pat O’Neill, Robert Nelson, and Chick Strand.
April 24, 2007
Frame by Frame: Avant-Garde Film Preservation
Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley, CA
Curated and presented a program of restored experimental films, with a particular focus on Los Angeles-based artists.
April 5, 2007
Stan-Brakhage-Restaurierungen
Kino-Arsenal, Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek
Berlin, Germany
August 3, 2006
Films by Robert Nelson
Echo Park Film Center
Los Angeles, CA
Curated and presented a program of films by Robert Nelson.
May 11-12, 2006
Robert Nelson Retrospective
(co-curated w/ Robert Nelson)
Austrian Filmmuseum
Vienna, Austria
Co-curated and organized a four-program version of the Oberhausen retrospective of films by Robert Nelson, introducing all four programs and performing a Q & A afterwards with the filmmaker.
May 5, 6, 8, 9, 2006
Robert Nelson Retrospective
(co-curated w/ Robert Nelson)
52nd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Oberhausen, Germany
Co-curated and organized a five-program retrospective of the films of independent filmmaker Robert Nelson. Produced an essay for the catalogue discussing the effort to preserve the films (“Robert Nelson: The Archivist’s Enemy”), and introduced and hosted the Q & A for one of the public screenings.
November 1, 2005
The Academy and the Avant-Garde: Recent Artists’ Film Preservation from the Academy Film Archive, Los Angeles
London Film Festival
London, England
Invited to curate a mixed program of restored experimental films from the Academy Film Archive. Also introduced and followed the show with a Q & A.
November 1, 2005
Preserving Artists’ Moving Images
London Film Festival
London, England
Participated in a 90-minute panel discussion on preserving experimental films.
July 14-16, 2005
Robert Nelson Retrospective
Anthology Film Archives
New York, NY
Curated and presented four programs of films by Robert Nelson.
April 2005
Film Today (class)
California Institute of the Arts
Valencia, CA
Curated a mixed program of preserved and restored 16mm experimental short films for a class at Cal Arts.
April 30, 2005
Buried Treasures: Film Archives in Focus
Harvard Film Archive
Cambridge, MA
Curated and presented a program of restored experimental films from the Academy Film Archive.
November 4, 2004
Conversations at the Edge
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Gene Siskel Film Center
Chicago, IL
Curated a mixed program of preserved and restored 16mm experimental short films as part of ‘Conversations at the Edge’, a series co-presented by the Film Center and the Department of Film, Video, and New Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
September 18-20, 2004
Robert Nelson Retrospective
Other Cinema
San Francisco, CA
Co-curated (with the filmmaker) three evenings of films by Robert Nelson.
April 14, 2004
Ere Erera Baleibu Izik Subua Aruaren
American Cinematheque @ Egyptian Theater
Los Angeles, CA
January 30, 2003
Experimental Film Program
George Eastman House
Rochester, NY
Curated a program of American experimental film for the Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House.
January 19, 2003
[untitled program]
Echo Park Film Center
Los Angeles, CA
This was my first public program in Los Angeles, but I don’t have a record of what I screened. I know for sure it included Asparagus, and a film each by Charlotte Pryce (probably X or Thin Breath Quivering) and Ross Lipman, but I’m not sure what else. Maybe Kurt Kren.
July 3, 2002
[untitled program]
308 east 9th street #208
Los Angeles, CA
This was an informal program presented in an LA loft, and featured films by Bill Brown, David Lebrun, Martha Colburn, George Kuchar, Martin Arnold, Peter Tscherkassky, James Otis, Patrick Bokanowski, and Line Describing a Cone by Anthony McCall.
June 6, 2002
(Mostly) New 35mm Films from Canyon Cinema
San Francisco Cinematheque
San Francisco, CA
Curated and introduced a program of 35mm experimental films.
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