Sunday December 4, 2022, 1:00 pm
At 2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 W. Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90057
In person: Filmmakers James Leong Holston and Mara Ramirez, with curator Sam Gurry
Tickets: $12 general, $8 students/seniors, free for Filmforum members

Masks are still required at Filmforum shows - N95 or KN95.

Smears, Tears, and Thumbprints: Queer Coming of Age

On their website, the filmmaking duo of Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy – who work together under the moniker OJOBOCA – describe themselves as practitioners of ‘Orrorism’. Their description of a “simulated method of inner and outer transformation” can only go so far in conveying the irresistible effect of their wry and often confoundingly labyrinthine creations.

Joyce Wieland (1931–1998) became a pioneer of Canadian experimental film by creating a body of work that perfectly expressed her unconventional and radically personal approach as an artist. When she started off as a painter in the 1950s, she earned her living at an advertising and commercial film studio in Toronto where she became familiar with the medium as would later be mirrored in her own films: like her long-time husband Michael Snow, she studied cinematic perception by focusing on objects from a familiar and inanimate world.