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ForYourArt Recommendations November 20 - November 26

By ForYourArt | November 20, 2008

Each week, ForYourArt highlights select cultural offerings throughout the week ahead to help you Plan ForYourArt. Be sure to also check out This Week in Art, an overview of cultural news and happenings in the Los Angeles Area.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20
Sack of Bones
Peres Projects, 6–9pm
Group show featuring Dash Snow, Bruce LaBruce and Kaari Upson, amongst others

Jeremy Strick Art Talk
MOCA, 6:30pm
In conjunction with the exhibition Louise Bourgeois, MOCA Director and Bourgeois scholar Jeremy Strick discusses the artist’s work

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21
Stephanie Smith: Lighten Up!
SCI-Arc, 1pm
Faculty talk with Stephanie Smith, Founder of Ecoshack, Los Angeles

9 Scripts from a Nation at War
REDCAT, 6–9pm
Multi-channel video installation that responds to the conditions and questions surrounding war

Groupshow Without André Butzer
1711 N. Spring Street, 90012, 8pm til late
Music, performances and opening reception for group show featuring Liz Craft, Skylar Haskard, Eddie Ruscha and many others

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22
Trunk Show
A+R, 11–7pm
Featuring the work of ceramicist Maria White Mebane

Robert Longo nights bright days
Margo Leavin Gallery, 4–6pm
New work by Longo featuring large-scale, charcoal renderings

Anthology
Otero Plassart, 6–8pm
A group exhibition that takes its name from Alejandro Jodrowsky’s Antología Pánica. El Pánico was a movement created during a time of crisis in the 1960’s, which sought to reinvent scandal as the main weapon of the avant-garde - horror and spectacle were used to spur an audience into a state of anxiety and revolt

Darren Almond Nail to Nail
David Patton Gallery, 6–9pm
The first solo exhibition in California by British artist Darren Almond references movement, time and work

Endless Summer
Glendale College Art Gallery, 6–9pm
Part of the 2008 California Biennial, this exhibition features art, fashion and design questioning the given stereotypes of Southern California

Mark Flood Entertainment Weakly
Peres Projects, 6–9pm
Inaugural exhibition at Peres Projects new space in Culver City

Los Angeles Art Association: Aurora
Gallery 825, 6–9pm
Celebrate with the Los Angeles Art Association’s annual holiday art sale, featuring artwork by emerging L.A. artists plus Art-in-the-box with gift boxes and buy 5, get 1 free deals

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Rhizomatic Transmission
Los Angeles Valley College, Art Building Room 103, 8pm
Artist and writer Doug Harvey projects his new selection of found moldy slides in conjunction with his exhibition Untidy: The Worlds of Doug Harvey

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Trinie Dalton at Skylight Books Tonight

By mike | November 20, 2008

Check Out Trinie Dalton tonight at Skylight when zine culture meets art culture in a hilarious mutual admiration society… I have no idea what that means but Trinie’s books are really funny and often collaborative efforts with some really cool artists and writers as is the case with MYTHTYM Check it out!

Trinie Dalton has long made popular zines on variety of subjects. She brings together artists, musicians, critics, novelists and cartoonists in one gorgeous stew. MYTHTYM compiles the best work from her previous zines on Werewolves, mythical beings, and the natural world. But best of all, this volume includes an entirely new, 100-page body of work on the theme of mirrors.

Contributors include: Aurel Schmidt Folkert De Jong Takeshi Murata Jim Drain Andrew Leland Aura Rosenberg Sue De Beer Leif Goldberg Matt Greene Francine Spiegel Derek McCormack Jesse Bransford Shamim Momin Amy Gerstler assume vivid astro focus David Altmejd Sammy Harkham Rachel Kushner Marnie Weber Bjorn Copeland Paper Rad

Time: Thursday, November 20, 2008 7:30 p.m.
Location: Skylight Books
1818 N. Vermont Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90027

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The Feitelson Arts Fellowship

By mike | November 19, 2008

Great opportunity for up and coming artists. This is fellowship geared toward younger artists (post 99 graduates) and includes a $5000 prize and an exhibition at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery “in conjunction with the C.O.L.A. mid-career artists’ exhibition in May 14 – July 12, 2009″

Download the application here.

“The Feitelson Arts Fellowship award is granted to an individual who works in the following media: painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking, installation and/or new genre. Artists must live and
work in Southern California. The 2009 Feitelson Fellowship is $5,000 and the winner will be awarded a solo exhibition in the Project Room of the Los Angeles Art Municipal Gallery in conjunction with the C.O.L.A. mid-career artists’ exhibition in May 14 – July 12, 2009. Artists who have been
awarded a Bachelor of Fine Arts or a Bachelor of Arts degree in art prior to June 1999 are not eligible. Applicants are not eligible if they have had solo museum exhibitions or had works purchased by a museum. The selection panel’s decision will be final. Department of Cultural Affairs Employees are not eligible.”

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ForYourArt Recommendations November 13 - November 19

By ForYourArt | November 13, 2008

Each week, ForYourArt highlights select cultural offerings throughout the week ahead to help you Plan ForYourArt. Be sure to also check out This Week in Art, an overview of cultural news and happenings in the Los Angeles Area.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13
Paper, Scissors, Rock! Auction and Party (PDF Invite)
Smashbox, 7–10pm
A music inspired photography auction to benefit Costa Verde International School, the first green school in Mexico

Downtown Art Walk
Downtown Los Angeles, 12–9pm
A self-guided tour that showcases many galleries, museums and non-profits in Downtown Los Angeles inlcuding Bert Green Fine Art and Phyllis Stein Art

Warhol: 15min/24fps, Un-figuring the Body and Maya Schindler: Present Progressive
University Art Museum CSULB, 6–8pm
Opening for three concurrent exhibitions

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 14 – SUNDAY NOVEMBER 16
Los Angeles Asian & Tribal Art Show
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Times Vary (Friday Night Preview)
Celebrate and enjoy tribal art at the weekend long fair, Saturday 11–7pm and Sunday 12–5pm. Friday night’s preview from 6–9pm benefits the Fowler Museum Textile Council

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15
Ruben Ortiz Torres & Julio Cesar Morales
LAXART, 7–9pm
LAXART’s opening this Saturday features two of the California Biennial’s artists, Rubén Ortiz Torres and Julio Cesar Morales. Torres and Morales share the gallery space with Torres’ High ‘n’ Lo mechanical, hydraulics sculpture and Julio Cesar Morales’ Interrupted Passage

Oaxaca Community Day
Fowler Museum, 1–4pm
Enjoy a performance by local youth ensemble Danza de la Pluma, refreshments and tours of La tina grita in English and Spanish as the Fowler celebrates Oaxacan culture

Machine Project at LACMA
LACMA, 12pm–10pm
Machine Project will orchestrate ten hours of performances, workshops and special events

Ed Templeton Map of the Inner War & Matt Leines The Great Gates of Zenith
Roberts & Tilton, 7–9:30pm (Booksigning 6–7pm)
Exhibition featuring over 250 new works including painting, sculpture, photography and works on paper by Ed Templeton and all new works on paper by Matt Leines

Group Exhibiton & Masahiko Kuwahara Dream Days
Richard Heller Gallery, 5–7pm
Richard Heller Gallery presents their second solo show by Masahiko Kuwahara as well as a group show featuring 5 influential Japanese artists

In the Paths of Righteousness Curatorial Talk
California Museum of Photography, 2–4pm
Join curator Colin Westerback for a talk about the exhibition as well as a booksigning for RIGHT: Portraits from the Evangelical Ivy League by Jona Frank which features many images included in the exhibition

Conversation with 2008 FOCAFellowship Winners
MOCA, 3–5pm
MOCA Associate Curator Bennett Simpson moderates a conversation with FOCAFellowship award winners Dorit Cypis, Martin Kersels and Julio Cesar Morales. The $10,000 grants are awarded by the Fellows of Contemporary Art to three mid-career artists in recognition of their contributions to California art

The City after the Economy
SCI-Arc, 2–4pm
First in a series of planned symposiums that aim to broaden the discussion on urban development. It will address questions such as, what is the status of urban growth and redevelopment in light of the current economy and what effects will the re-regulation of financial markets have on real estate, development, urban culture planning and architecture

Seven Days in the Art World Reception and Booksigning
MOCA PDC, 3pm
Conversation, booksigning and reception with author Sarah Thornton

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16
P.S. ARTS presents Express Yourself 2008
Barker Hanger at Santa Monica Airport, 11am – 3pm
Part creativity fair, part fund-raiser will all proceeds benefitting P.S. ARTS, the privately funded, non-profit organization that is in it’s 17th year of restoring arts in public schools

MONDAY, November 17
From Burlesque to Couture: The Ultimate Show and Tell!
Bing Theater, LACMA, 7:30pm
Host Liz Goldwyn and special guest Dita Von Teese will take the audience into a world of burlesque including a discussion, cocktail reception and performance by neo-burlesque performer Ava Garter. Sponsored by LACMA’s Costume Council

Lynda Barry & Matt Groening Hammer Conversations
Hammer Museum, 7pm

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ForYourArt Recommendations November 6 - November 12

By ForYourArt | November 6, 2008

Each week, ForYourArt highlights select cultural offerings throughout the week ahead to help you Plan ForYourArt. Be sure to also check out This Week in Art, an overview of cultural news and happenings in the Los Angeles Area.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6
Michael Govan in Conversation with Chris Burden
LACMA, Bing Theater, 7pm
LACMA Director Michael Govan and artist Chris Burden discuss Burden’s installation Urban Light

Rachel Whiteread
Gagosian Gallery, 6–8pm

Engagement Party: Finishing School Presents Little Pharma Drug Run
MOCA, 7–10pm

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 7 – SUNDAY NOVEMBER 9
High Desert Test Sites
A three day even in Pioneertown, Joshua Tree and 29 Palms as part of the California Biennial 2008. Featuring live performances, installations and an Art Swap Meet

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7
Paper 24 Hour Department Store
8873 Sunset Blvd, 6pm
From 6pm Friday to 6pm Saturday join Paper Magazine for their 24 hour store designed my Johnston Marklee and featuring Royal/T, Confederacy, Undefeated, The Smell, Teenage Teardrops, Opening Ceremony and many more. Also featuring 24 bands in 24 hours

Greg Walsh: Backgrounds for Art - Creating Coherent Context
SCI-Arc, 1pm
Faulty Talk

Darren Waterston: Aurora
Michael Kohn Gallery, 6-8pm
An exhibition of paintings that explore the sublime

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 8 and SUNDAY NOVEMBER 9
Silver Lake Art Crawl
11am–9pm
Features over 25 galleries and 100 artists, with a kickoff party at Gold Bear Academy on Saturday and a closing reception at Living Room on Sunday

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 8
SCI-Arc Main Event
Farmers & Merchants Bank, 7–11pm
MAIN EVENT 7 benefits the Alumni Association Scholarship Fund and the SCI-Arc Scholarship Endowment, which help talented architecture students in need achieve their dream of a SCI-Arc education

Dave Muller Dance Party
Armory Center for the Arts, 8:30pm–2am
Dance the night away as Dave Muller DJ’s amidst his current music themed exhibition

George Stoll sacred and profane & Chris Wilder Falls the Night
Kim Light/Lightbox, 6–8pm

Watts House Project
Volunteers needed to help with Edgar Arceneaux’s artist reurbanization project adjacent to the Watts Towers, 10am–6pm
email: info@wattshouseproject.org

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 9
Oranges and Sardines: Conversations on Abstract Painting with Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl and Christopher Wool
Hammer Museum
Exhibition Opens

Malibu Public Beaches Safari
11am–2:30pm
For beachgoers tired of the same old spots, this “safari”, led by the Los Angeles Urban Rangers, helps guests find and enjoy the public use areas of Malibu’s beaches. This event is free but space is limited so email info@laurbanrangers.org to sign up in advance

Lisa Gabrielle Mark Art Talk
MOCA PDC, 3pm
Lisa Gabrielle Mark, MOCA director of publications and exhibition co-curator, discusses “To Illustrate and Multiply: An Open Book”

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 11
Death and Resurrection of the Post-Hysterical Female
West Los Angeles College Art Gallery, FA100 in the Fine Arts Complex, 6–9pm
Group show featuring Amy Caterina, Jennifer Chen, Autumn Harrison, Wendy Heldmann and Lauren Lavitt

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 12
Is It Time to Ban Billboards?
AIA Los Angeles, 7–9pm
The AIA/LA Urban Design Committee presents this panel discussion
RSVP to will@aialosangeles.org

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Eastside Spotlight Tonight and Tomorrow

By mike | November 6, 2008

For this new exhibition Sumi Ink Club, the Los Angeles based drawing collective present three-dimensional plywood constructions covered in their signature black sumi ink drawings.

In the spirit of Sumi Ink Club’s commitment to a collaborative process, the topsy-turvy, detailed, collaborative drawings that cover the constructions were created at meetings held during the weeks leading up to the event. Their motto, “all ages, all humans, all styles†is embodied in their distinctive style, which through a simple format, allows for almost universal participation. In each of its permutations Sumi Ink Club uses group drawings as a means to open and fortify social interactions. Collaborative drawing sessions will be held at siteLA throughout the duration of the exhibition

Friday, November 7th, from 7p.m. to midnight,

Check out the inaugural exhibition of Synchronicity Gallery”Polymathic Persons”Music, film, and the visual arts. Artists include: Mark Mothersbaugh, Sumi Ink Club, Hisham Bharoocha, Matthew Thurber, PFFR, Amy Lockhart, Shobo Shobo, Susumu Mukai, Brian Bamps, Justin McInteer, Floppy Ghost Arm, and Daniel Johnston. Special events involving the artists will take place throughout the month, including screenings of their video work and live performances.

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ForYourArt Recommendations October 30 - November 5

By ForYourArt | October 30, 2008

Each week, ForYourArt highlights select cultural offerings throughout the week ahead to help you Plan ForYourArt. Be sure to also check out This Week in Art, an overview of cultural news and happenings in the Los Angeles Area.

SAVE THE DATE
High Desert Test Sites California Biennial 2008
November 7–9, 2008

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30
East of the 5, South of the 10
Cottage Home, 8pm
Performance of the myth of Persephone, retold for 21st-century Los Angeles by Margaret Weatherford, dramatized by Robyn Palmer and Fred Thompson. Also featuring music by the Chapin Sisters and paintings by Mary Weatherford

The RED & the BLUE, Art and Politics
Weingart Art Gallery at Occidental College, 6–9pm
Group show featuring Kim Aberles, Shepard Fairey, Wendy Heldmann, the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest and Richard Serra

The Best of Fall 2008 Benefittng Hollywood Arts
The Spider Club inside Avalon Hollywood, 7pm
Every year thousands of young people end up on the streets of Los Angeles- some have run-away, others have aged out of foster care with no where to go. Hollywood Arts offers 15 arts-based classes a week, at no cost, to young people in need, helping to break the cylce of poverty through education.
Join Los Angeles’ top style makers for a night of fun and philanthropy as they host a private cocktail party and silent auction featuring the Best of Fall 2008

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31
Halloween in Hades
Hammer Museum, 7pm
Celebrate Halloween at the Hammer with performance groups Discount Cruise to Hell, Hecuba and We Are the World, as well as a costume contest and special spooky screening

Faculty Talk: Peter Zellner Between Jobs
SCI-Arc, 1pm

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
Tijuana California Biennial 2008 Events
Tijuana, B.C. Mexico, 4:30pm – 10pm
Located at the juncture between Mexico and the United States, at one of the most trafficked border crossings in the world, the city of Tijuana is recognized as an important laboratory for the exploration of contemporary art practices, architecture, urbanism, and popular culture. CB08 crosses this international border and partners with Estación Tijuana, Lui Velazquez, and EL CUBO, the new museum addition to Centro Cultural de Tijuana (CECUT), three venues critical to the city’s cultural infrastructure to stage a series of binational exchanges and collaborations

When It’s A Photograph
Bolsky Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, 6–8pm
Exhibition examining contemporary photography’s fascination with altered states of the traditional photograph. Curated by Soo Kim, Artist and Otis Interim Program Director of Photography and featuring works by Doug Aitken, John Bock, Wolfgang Tillmans and James Welling

LACMA Muse Costume Ball
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 8:15pm–12am
Celebrating Halloween in style with Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008, the fifth annual bash includes live music, costume contests, complimentary appetizers, and open bars featuring Pernod Absinthe cocktails
For more information and tickets, visit the Costume Ball page or call 323.857.6010

Tom Wesselmann
Honor Fraser, 6–8pm

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
Sunday Salon Series
OCMA, 2pm
Art and Activism Panel with Andrea Bowers, Sam Durant, Enrique Morones, Marcos Ramirez ERRE and Reverend Alexia Salvatierra

SATURDAY & SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1 & 2
The Brewery Fall 2008 Artwalk
Brewery Arts Colony, 11am–6pm
Twice annual open studio weekend at the worlds largest art colony

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“Mister Jalopy and the Maker Philosophy” @ College of the Canyons

By Spencer Cross | October 29, 2008

Los Angeles’s Mister Jalopy, “founder of the Maker Art movement,” opens a gallery show this weekend at Santa Clarita’s College of the Canyons:

Work on display will include the World’s Largest iPod, the Compact Childhood Museum and the Urban Guerilla Movie House. More information at Dinosaurs and Robots.

“Mister Jalopy and the Maker Philosophy”
November 1st-November 15th

Opening Reception Saturday, November 1st
1:00pm-3:00pm, artist talk at 2:00pm

College of the Canyons Art Gallery
26455 Rockwell Canyon Road
Santa Clarita, CA 91355

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ForYourArt Recommendations October 23 - October 29

By ForYourArt | October 23, 2008

Each week, ForYourArt highlights select cultural offerings throughout the week ahead to help you Plan ForYourArt. Be sure to also check out This Week in Art, an overview of cultural news and happenings in the Los Angeles Area.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 23
Wolfgang Tillmans half page
Regen Projects and Regen Projects II, 6–8pm
New video and photography from German artist Wolfgang Tillmans

Art Talk with Susanne Kippenberger
MOCA Grand Avenue, Ahmanson Auditorium, 6:30pm
In conjunction with Villa Aurora, MOCA presents a special evening with Susanne Kippenberger, Berlin-based writer and author of Kippenberger. Der Künstler und seine Familien (Kippenberger: the Artist and His Family), an acclaimed 2007 biography of Martin Kippenberger, her brother

Young Literati’s 2nd Annual Toast: An evening to benefit the Los Angeles Public Library
Track 16, 7–11pm

“Sip cocktails and sample small plates at this party amidst the work of artist Robbie Conal, who will be present at the event. Throughout the evening, celebrity actors, authors and musicians will read from their favorite authors.” Tickets $150, RSVP to 213.228.7500

Vlatka Horvat reception and artist talk
Outpost for Contemporary Art, 7–8:30pm
During her residency at Outpost, Vlatka Horvat will lay the groundwork for a public art project, using the residency as a research period to familiarize herself with Los Angeles, and explore ways in which to intervene within the city

Holy Sh*t: Scatology and Longing in the Art of James Ensor
LACMA, Bing Theater, 7pm
Kevin Salatino, curator of the prints and drawings department, examines Ensor’s most outrageous scatological images in their historical and cultural context

FRIDAY OCTOBER 24
Chora Prints 2008: New Political Posters From TJ2LA
Under Spring, 7–10pm
Chora, Self-Help Graphics and Casa Del Tunel: Art Center team up with two-dozen artists to produce posters about what they consider to be the key North American political issues of the day

Friedrich Kunath EMOH
Blum & Poe, 6–8pm
Painting, sculpture and photography are featured in Kunath’s third solo exhibition at the gallery

SATURDAY OCTOBER 25
Dee-Dee Does Utopia Reception and Booksigning
MOCA (at the Pacific Design Center), 3–5pm
RSVP required artcatalogues@moca.org
Artist Deborah Lawrence will discuss her new book with featured essayist and Los Angeles art critic Peter Frank

Louise Bourgeois Member’s Opening
MOCA Grand Avenue, 7–11pm
MOCA members receive free admission for two. Tickets for two additional guests can be purchased at the door for $25 each. Not a member? Call 213.621.1794, visit any MOCA Box Office, or log on to moca.org/members to become a MOCA member today

Bob Zoell: I Wish I Was Happy
WAL-ART, 7–10pm
Retrospective of aluminum parking sign serigraphs by Los Angeles-based artist

Naomi Harris: America Swings
M+B, 7–9pm
Color photographs documenting the artist’s five year exploration of the American “swingers” community

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26
Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913–2008
LACMA
The first major exhibition to bring together the magazine archive of rare vintage prints along with its contemporary photographs opens today

2008 California Biennial
Orange County Museum of Art
Opens today with special events including a talk with guest curator Lauri Firstenberg, meet and greet with the artists and live performances

Pretty Things
LACMA, 1pm
Filmmaker Liz Goldwyn introduces her documentary which examine the demise of burlesque in America

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29
3 from 33 1/3
Hammer Museum, 7pm
Join Hayden Child, Kim Cooper and Scott Plagenhoef, three authors of “33 1/3″, a series of books about rock and pop albums, for special readings and multimedia presentations

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ForYourArt Recommendations October 16 - October 22

By ForYourArt | October 16, 2008

Each week, ForYourArt highlights select cultural offerings throughout the week ahead to help you Plan ForYourArt. Be sure to also check out This Week in Art, an overview of cultural news and happenings in the Los Angeles Area.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17
The Architectural Work of William Krisel, AIA
SPF: a Gallery at MODAA, 7–10pm
Exhibition featuring drawings, photographs and floorplans from William Krisel, one of the most prolific mid-century modern architects alive
RSVP required: info@modaagallery.com or 310-558-0902

Slow and Steady Wins the Race
Ooga Booga, 7–10pm
Special installation by New York designer Mary Ping

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18
Andrew George Light Leaks
Gallery Brown, 6–10pm
An exhibition of 16 large-scale photographs that capture ephemeral illuminations of color and light

Truth or Dare
Gallery 825, 6–9pm
Group show looking at the state of photography and photo-based art in 2008 curated by Craig Krull

Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini
L.A. Opera, 7:30pm
Join the opening celebration for the 8th annual Italian Language Week, a week-long festival of events showcasing Italian art, design, architecture, music, cinema literature and more. Download a complete programs of events at here

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19
KUSAMA: princess of polka dots
Royal/t, 2–5pm
Fundraiser for the documentary feature film about the avant-garde artist: Yayoi Kusama. Event will include tea & cookies, a screening of the trailer and a silent auction of objects including 60s photos of Kusama

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21
An Evening with Michel Gondry
Hammer Museum, 7pm
Filmmaker Michel Gondry discusses his own technical and conceptual process and his new book, “You’ll Like This Film Because You’re In It: The Be Kind Rewind Protocol”

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