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FREE TRIP TO EGYPT Q&A with Filmmaker Opening Night at the Monica Film Center

May 24, 2019 by Lamb Laemmle Leave a Comment

FREE TRIP TO EGYPT director Ingrid Serban and Tarek Mounib will participate in a Q&A moderated by John Raatz following the 7:10 pm show on Friday, 6/7.

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AVENGEMENT Filmmakers will Participate in a Q&A on Opening Night at the Monica Film Center.

May 22, 2019 by Lamb Laemmle Leave a Comment

AVENGEMENT Q&A with director Jesse V Johnson, Jonathan Hall (cinematographer), Matt Lorentz (editor), and Sean Murray (composer) following the 9:55 pm show on Friday, 5/24.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeJF1lUD6ms

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LAEMMLE LIVE presents Dyad in Santa Monica June 2

May 19, 2019 by Lamb Laemmle Leave a Comment

LAEMMLE LIVE presents Dyad in Santa Monica June 2LAEMMLE LIVE proudly presents Dyad, an innovative violin and bassoon duo on a quest to explore uncharted territory. After meeting at Juilliard, Niv Ashkenazi and Leah Kohn were inspired to create a new kind of chamber music. Unwilling to let a lack of repertoire stand in their way, they thrive on reimagining classic works as well as premiering new pieces. Through engaging, personal performances, they create connections between audience, performers, and music. Sunday’s performance will include pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, Gernot Wolfgang, and Niccolo Paganini. Since their first performance in May 2015, they have given concerts for the Wednesdays@Noon series at the Encinitas Library, the Classical Music Series at the Peninsula Center Library, the Cultural Arts Society of La Verne, Newport Beach’s Sunday Musicales, and other performances in Southern California, in venues ranging from the Skirball Center to art galleries and private homes. Dyad has collaborated with Lineage Dance and TranscenDanceGroup on performances which relate stories through dance, music, and other mediums. They have also appeared as guest artists and speakers at exclusive business networking events sharing their music and passion for innovation with a wider community. Dyad has given several world premieres of works written for and commissioned by them. In May 2017, they gave several performances in New Jersey, including at the Axelrod PerformingArts Center and the Kessler Foundation.

Sharing their music with audiences outside a traditional concert setting is a vital part of Dyad’s mission. They perform as an ensemble for Street Symphony, an organization founded by former Los Angeles Philharmonic member Vijay Gupta, which brings inclusive concerts to people experiencing incarceration and homelessness.

This is a Free Event
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Sunday, June 2, 2019
Monica Film Center
1332 2nd Street
Santa Monica
11am – 12 pm

 

 

Leave a Comment Filed Under: Ahrya Fine Arts, Around Town, Laemmle Live, Music Hall 3, News, Royal, Santa Monica

ART IN THE ARTHOUSE presents: THE LOCAL SEEN in Santa Monica June 5

May 15, 2019 by Lamb Laemmle Leave a Comment

ART IN THE ARTHOUSE presents: THE LOCAL SEEN in Santa Monica June 5

Laemmle’s Art in the Arthouse presents The Local Seen, featuring the compelling works of three Santa Monica artists, Paula Goldman, Gwen Samuels, and Michal Story. Please join us for our opening reception Wednesday, June 5 at the Monica Film Center. Check out our bonus show, Paula Goldman’s Monuments, upstairs in our Mezzanine. Meet Paula, Gwen and Michal and enjoy the wine, cheese, and conversation Art in the Arthouse is known for. A portion of the sales benefits the Laemmle Foundation and its support of humanitarian and environmental causes in Los Angeles.

About the Exhibit
Artists often see things differently than others, and have a way of revealing new vistas of places that we think we know well. In The Local Seen, three artists—each of whom employs photography in distinctive ways—share their singular visions of Santa Monica’s local landscape.

Paula Goldman collected trash on Santa Monica State Beach between lifeguard towers 1 and 2 and composed the detritus into still lifes. Her intriguing photographs hint at the diverse lives and activities of beachgoers, and also evoke concerns for the environment. Gwen Samuels takes pictures of iconic Santa Monica landmarks and common flora and transforms them into patterns for sculptural dresses and panels, while Michal Story reworks her images of nearby buildings into portrayals of fantastical structures that are at once familiar and surprising. Together, these works offer an unusual, insiders’ take on our local scene—a far cry from stereotypical postcard-perfect shots of the coast or the pier—insights that come from living and working here everyday.

Paula Goldman’s Monuments is a separate show featured on our Mezzanine. Photographer Paula has long been interested in collecting and the role of photography in memorializing artifacts. In Monuments she plays with scale, juxtaposition, and modes of presentation to challenge commonly held ideas about the things she photographs, and to create new interpretations. Small porcelain figurines fill the frame taking on seemingly grand proportions, a “portrait” of a plucked head of lettuce brings new meaning to the term “headshot,” and everyday objects like plastic cups are photographed reverentially. The size of these images—20” x 24”—is a reference to the Polaroid 20×24 camera, Goldman’s personal monument to the vanished medium.

–Stacey Ravel Abarbanel, Curator

Artist Reception
RSVP HERE
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
7:00-8:30 PM
Monica Film Center
1332 Second Street
Santa Monica
Refreshments Served

ART IN THE ARTHOUSE presents: THE LOCAL SEEN in Santa Monica June 5

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ALL CREATURES HERE BELOW Q&A with Cast & Crew Opening Night at the Monica Film Center.

May 14, 2019 by Lamb Laemmle Leave a Comment

ALL CREATURES HERE BELOW actor David Dastmalchian, director Collin Schiffli and producer Nacho Arenas will participate in a Q&A moderated by Ashley Crossan (host of Entertainment Tonight) following the 7:00 pm show on Friday, 5/17.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AqbsEzVfnk

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A VIOLENT SEPARATION Q&A with Filmmakers at the Monica Film Center.

May 9, 2019 by Lamb Laemmle 2 Comments

A VIOLENT SEPARATION directors Kevin and Michael Goetz and writer Michael Arkof will participate in a Q&A following the 4:10 pm show on Saturday, 5/18.

 

https://youtu.be/sqk5qV17x7U

2 Comments Filed Under: Filmmaker in Person, Films, News, Q&A's, Santa Monica

WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE Q&A with Filmmakers Opening Night at the Monica Film Center.

May 9, 2019 by Lamb Laemmle 1 Comment

WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE producers, Jared Ian Goldman (Ingrid Goes West, The Skeleton Twins), Robert Mitas (Flatliners) and screenwriter Mark Kruger will participate in a Q&A after the 7:20 pm show on Friday, 5/17.

 

https://youtu.be/NQg-nUoMCBo

1 Comment Filed Under: Filmmaker in Person, Films, Q&A's, Santa Monica

CHARLIE SAYS Q&A’s with Screenwriter Guinevere Turner Opening Weekend at the NoHo and the Monica Film Center.

May 7, 2019 by Lamb Laemmle 4 Comments

CHARLIE SAYS screenwriter Guinevere Turner will participate in a Q&A on Friday, 5/10 at NoHo, and on Saturday, 5/11 at the Monica following the 7:30 pm shows.

 

https://youtu.be/KPSKkxTQFEU

4 Comments Filed Under: Featured Films, Filmmaker in Person, NoHo 7, Q&A's, Santa Monica

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