Friday, November 8, 2024 1pm to 4pm
About this Event
900 West 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90089
https://dornsife.usc.edu/cema/ #Visiting Artist WorkshopIn this workshop, Adam Piron will screen and discuss current works-in-progress including:
ndn time - A work-in-progress screening of fragments of Adam Piron's feature film looking at a material history of cinema in California and its connections to campaigns of settler colonial genocide against Native American communities, while weaving in contemporary perspectives by Indigenous artists from those communities reflecting on what it means to engage in filmic practices. This will focus on the opening vignette that looks at a history of Eadweard Muybridge's involvement in the US Army's campaign against the Modoc Tribe of Northern California and the history of the Cerro Gordo Mine in the Owens Valley as it relates to a history of resource extraction to manufacture early film stock. (40 mins.)
The Power & the Freedom - Former San Francisco police officer John "Scottie" Ferguson (James Stewart) has developed acrophobia and must follow a woman (Kim Novak) who may be possessed by a ghost from the past in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. Widely considered his crowning achievement, the film has long been canonized as cinema’s essential image of San Francisco. In its sundry dissections, much of the focus centers on its portrayal of obsession while few have dug deep into its foregrounding of California’s dark legacy of the Mission Era. Based on Adam Piron's live reading and visual essay, this work-in-progress offers a reading of Vertigo from a uniquely Indigenous vantage point and interprets Hitchcock’s masterpiece as a statement on the ongoing costs of a colonialism, specific to California, and the psychological violence that continues to ripple from its blast point. (60 mins.)
November 8th, 2024
1:00pm - 4:00pm
USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex
Room, SCA 110
900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007
We have limited space available for this workshop. Please write to us as soon as possible to secure your spot. To RSVP, email cema@usc.edu with your name and institutional affiliation.
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