We are thrilled to welcome filmmaker Adam Piron, November 7-8, to the Center for Ethnographic Media Arts as part of our Visiting Artist Series. 

Join us on Thursday, November 7th for a screening of three of his short films. 
 

Yaangna Plays Itself (2022)
An ode to the memories of El Aliso, the sycamore tree that once stood at the center of Yaangna, the Indigenous Gabrieleno village that Los Angeles grew out from. All elements sourced in the film are from the original site and the nearby Los Angeles River.

 Dau:añcut // Moving Along Image (2023)
The likeness of a relative of the filmmaker surfaces as a tattoo on the arm of a Ukrainian soldier. A U.S. Army post in Oklahoma, built to fight Kiowa and Apache, is rededicated to aid in the fight against Putin’s own Western expansion. In Dau:añcut (Moving Along Image), Adam Piron explores the contradictions of colonialism and anti-settler solidarity across time and geography and in the muddled spaces of TikTok, where representations of Indigenous peoples are caught up in the ongoing and increasingly rapid circulation of images.

Black Glass (2024)
Before his legendary proto-cinematic studies in motion, photographer Eadweard Muybridge was commissioned to document the United States Army’s war against the Modoc tribe in Northern California in a series of stereographs, many of them staged. Alternately unnerving, meditative, and explosive, Adam Piron’s Black Glass examines the entangled histories of visual technology and the genocide and expropriation of Indigenous populations by white settlers through a violent collision of image and sound.

Adam Piron in-person with a Q&A to follow the film. 

November 7th, 2024
Doors at 6:30pm, films begins at 7:00pm 
Runtime 31 min.

USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex 
Room, SCI 106
900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007

FREE ADMISSION. OPEN TO ALL USC STUDENTS, FACULTY, STAFF, ALUMNI, AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

To secure a spot, please RSVP to CEMA@usc.edu. 

This event is co-sponsored by USC Center for Ethnographic Media Arts and USC School of Cinematic Arts.