XV XYZ - Humor in the Game Room

Image from the Archive of American Humor & Good Feeling, 2015

XV XYZ!  Comedy in the Game Room
Saturday, July 11th, 2015
8pm
Tickets $20 {Includes Complimentary Delights & Party Favors}
Advanced Tickets can be purchased online here

For All Ye Who ComiCan't!

Please join us in celebration of the Velaslavasay Panorama's 15th year as an organization for the advancement of the Panoramic medium, and other unusual visual phenomena, with games and amusements throughout the gardens and grounds. Our Host, the comedian Ian Abramson, will lead an introduction in the exploration of experimental comedy with fellow researchers and esteemed Los Angeles comedians Ron Lynch and Megan Koester. Guests will then be invited to play rare Japanese video games in the theatre, pool in the garden, board games, card games, and drawing games throughout! XYZ Chef Jaime Yamashita will provide complimentary delights for gaming longevity and may the best player win.

Ian Abramson is a comedian and part-time attorney, famous for losing the case against Jiminy Yorshire who was charged with both "Bombing" and "Killing (it)." Abramson's comic experiment 7 Minutes in Purgatory, was recently touted on radio's The Frame.  Megan Koester is a writer and otherwise known as the Inoffensive Comedian. She has published well informed and unrivaled articles of authoritative fact and comment, such as Friday Night in Universal CityWalk. Ron Lynch is a comedian and the lasting host of The Tomorrow Show. He played Mr. Lynch on the hit television show Home Movies and played himself on the iconic animated series Dr. Katz.

This evening is brought to you by The XYZ Club, which was founded in the Greater Los Angeles region of California to "promote the advancement of science, mathematics, history and craft, and to provide a forum for enthusiasts to meet and exchange knowledge in a sociable setting." In the Spring, the decree was extended to include... "Furthermore, to prolong the lifeline of The Velaslavasay Panorama, whose presence is tested by the firm grasp of economics and history."
 

 

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Coming Soon to The Velaslavsay Panorama...

 

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Mush! To The Movies!
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen
Saturday, July 18th, 2015
8pm
Tickets $10
{ Free for VPES & LA Filmforum members with
advanced RSVP to event@panoramaonview.org }
Advanced tickets can be purchased here.
***Los Angeles Premiere!***
 

 

The Journals of Knud Rasmussen chronicles the effects of European influence on Inuit life in the Arctic after the arrival of anthropologist Knud Rasmussen in 1922. The film is Directed by Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn, who won the Caméra d'Or at Cannes for their previous film Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner. This film is the first modern feature in our review of Polar cinema in the Mush! To The Movies! series. 

The Journals of Knud Rasmussen will be accompanied by two short films:
 

Break by Kate Lain
2015; Paper, ink, gelatin, to digital; 2:15 loop 
***Kate Lain in Attendance!***

 

"Homemade gelatin is a fragile material, and I had recently begun using it in my printmaking.  I was fascinated by the ways the gelatin block was impacted by the making of each print and suspected that if I made enough successive prints, I would be left with some sort of beautiful record of something completely falling apart.  I ended up making 136 prints from a single block.  I scanned the set of prints, each a unique record of a particular moment in the process of disintegration.  The scans are what you see here.  The scans have come alive, the prints sit quietly in a box, the gelatin is gone.  The sounds are recordings of ice breaking apart.  I made this in a broader context of global warming, melting of the polar ice caps, great personal unrest and change, and the deterioration of the health of a few people close to me." Kate Lain

 

In the Best of All Possible Worlds
By Steve Rowell
USA & Norway, 2011, 6 min, digital projection 
***Steve Rowell in Attendance!***
 

A short video from a larger research project "The Cold Coast Archive", in collaboration with artists Signe Lidén and Annesofie Norn. Both this video and the collaborative project use the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (SGSV) as a starting point for investigations into and extrapolations from the broader meaning of a remote landscape of contingency and preparedness.
 

All Screenings at
The Velaslavasay Panorama
1122 W. 24th St.
Los Angeles, California, 90007
event@panoramaonview.org
www.panoramaonview.org
(213) 746-2166