Film-In-Residence: The Gold Diggers

You can see me but never touch me. I can speak to you but never hear you. What am I?

Saturday, February 11, 2023 - 4:00pm
Saturday, February 18, 2023 - 4:00pm
Saturday, February 25, 2023 - 4:00pm

 

Film-in-Residence is a series of casual matinee film viewings, accompanied by a self-guided tour of the exhibits at the Velaslavasay Panorama.

 

The Gold Diggers (1983)
By Sally Potter

Saturdays at 4:00pm
February 11, 18, 25, 2023
Tickets $10 General / $5 VPES

The Gold Diggers is a black and white oracular film that opens with the riddle: “I am born in a beam of light. I move continuously, but I am still…what am I?” Traveling broad expanses, from a crude solitary Arctic hut to a sleek technological business center, Celeste (Colette Laffont) is concerned with redressing the balance and solving the riddles of film, including why Ruby (Julie Christie) has been kept in the dark for so long. A collision of money, history, subversion and beauty in the realms of fantasy and film, The Gold Diggers is a cinematic work of art.

Sally Potter’s (Orlando, The Tango Lesson) first feature-length film, The Gold Diggers was structured to reflect its own premise and featured an all-female crew that shared the same pay scale, including renown cinematographer Babette Mangolte (Jeanne Dielman, News From Home), composer Lindsay Cooper (Feminist Improvising Group) and writer/art director Rose English (Ornamental Happiness, Tantamount Esperance).

Doors open: 3:30pm

Tour the exhibits: 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Film: 4:00pm - 5:30pm

 

All attendees will be gifted a limited-edition commemorative postcard created specifically for this edition of Film-In-Residence

 

 

 

The Gold Diggers (1983)

B&W Digital Projection

Run time: 1 hour 29 minutes

 

Accompanying the screenings

You Are Born In A Beam Of Light

An immersive audio installation in the Nova Tuskhut

 

 

This event and exhibition are sponsored in part by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture, California Arts Council, a state agency, the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the Velaslavasay Panorama Enthusiast Society.