Imagine if there was never any music blasting from the Bruin Plaza stage or that Schoenberg Hall no longer had an orchestra to fill its acoustic clad walls. Read more...
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Aitan will perform as the headliner for tonight’s Student Leader Advocates of Music concert, which will take place in Kerckhoff Grand Salon. The concert will promote SLAM!’s mission to bring music to schools. (courtesy of Lisa Roy)
Shower. Knife. Scream. Knife. Drain. It wasn't conventional filmmaking in 1960, but it became the recipe for one of the most iconic film scenes in history. But while it was that infamous sequence from "Psycho" that made audiences afraid in their own bathrooms, it's still being used as a valuable teaching tool for film students and aficionados the world over. It's scenes like this that will be on display Wednesday night at the Egyptian Theatre, as film consultant Thomas Ethan Harris hosts "In the Cut: Employing the Art of Editing." This is one in a series of "visual communication seminars," as Harris refers to them, that offer a communal atmosphere to talk about key elements in the filmmaking process. Read more...
When most people go to Westwood Village, they do not expect to see processions of masked figures in colorful gowns. Read more...
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Italian artist Luigi Ontani will be presenting his new site-specific piece, “AmenHammerAmeno,” at the Hammer Wednesday at 5 p.m. Pictured here is his performance “Map Marathon,” at the Serpentine Gallery last year. (courtesy of Mark Blower)
The Black Keys, Kings of Leon and other bands worked wild crowds at the weekend music festival Read more...
Disembodied voices scream from the pitch-black stage, accompanied by loud sounds of struggling and fighting. Read more...
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From left, Lynn Freedman as “Janis,” Jose Zazueta as “Erik” and Toussaint Jeanlouis as “Panama” in a scene from “Massacre (Sing To Your Children).”
It's funny what being an English student does to your reading habits. You're here because you love books, but you never have time to read "“ you're too busy analyzing literature, which is a different thing entirely. Read more...
When Professor Tom Denove first presented the idea of basing an entire film festival off of a children's toy, no one believed him. Read more...
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UCLA alumna Nolwen Cifuentes uses a Barbie Video Girl doll to film her submission to the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television-hosted Barbie Film Festival. Cifuentes’ film is a parody of an episode of the television show “The Twilight Zone.” The Barbie Video Girl features an embedded video camera located in the doll’s chest which presented student filmmakers with a new twist to the filmmaking process.
