"Unrequited Love" concludes with Davinci on the Horizon
Film-In-Residence: Unrequited Love
Concludes tomorrow
Saturday July 16, 2022
3:30 PM
( tour the Velaslasvasay Panorama & the special exhibit
Phones From The "Unrequited Love" Era )
4:00 PM
( watch Unrequited Love )
A film by Chris Petit
Based on the memoir/novel Unrequited Love: On Stakling and Being Stalked by Gregory Dart, Unrequited Love by Chris Petit is a cinematic essay on stalking in the early 21st century and how technology facilitates obsession and the obliteration of privacy with the help of surveillance, filmmaking and literature in the modern city.
Phones from the "Unrequited Love" Era
A lobby exhibit
An exhibit of cell phone technology from the early 21st century with models on loan from the Tech Museum at Dragon Manor. Specimens include the Nokia Surge, Palm Centro, and T-Mobile Sidekick LH Tony Hawk Edition.
Every Saturday: June 25th - July 16th, 2022
Doors 3:30 PM / Show at 4:00 PM
Tickets: $10 General / $5 VPES Members
Samsung SGH A737 - 2007
A "slider," the A737 came in four colors: orange, red blue and lime. As an early 3G network phone, it offered cellular video streaming of select shows such as "Desperate Housewives" and news clips. The year 2007 was the height of the cell phone novel phenomenon in Japan, where writers text or upload segments of a story, line by line, to social networking sites like Mahou no Island (Magic Island) or Textnovel.com. During this time, Jakucho Setouchi, a Japanese Buddhist nun activist and translator of the ten-volume 11th century text "The Tale of Genji," was writing the cell phone novel she later released called "Tomorrow's Rainbow," a love story.
This event and exhibition is sponsored in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency,
and by the Velaslavasay Panorama Enthusiast Society.
~~~~ ON THE HORIZON ~~~~
DAVINCI'S FILMS OF HOLLYWOOD
Saturday August 6, 2022
Q&A with Pa'Sacio Davinci and Second Film
For the past 25 years Pa,Sacio Davinci has made films with actors and significant individuals from the South LA neighborhood, weaving Hollywood tropes with hallucinogenic dream-like visuals that expand beyond generic conceptions of everyday filmmaking.This screening will be paired with a garden reception.
