Friday, January 30 at 7:30 pm marks the next instillation of Expanding the Frameseries in the Walker Cinema with Jia Zhang-ke’s 24 City - a story whose jumping off point is the closing of a state-owned munitions factory, then plunges into the lives of the affected people through a series of interviews as the factory is replaced with the luxury housing complex also named 24 City. Imagine a cross…

It’s always a pleasure to welcome someone new to the blogfold. Emily Hanson just joined the team as an intern in Film/Video, and has kindly offered her time and expertise in our humble little blogosphere.

Thursday, January 15 at 7:30pm in the Walker Cinema (and it’s FREE!) we are kicking off our third annual Expanding the Frame series with a performance/screening by New York artist Bruce McClure. Bruce’s work blurs the lines of film presentation, live music, and performance and isn’t bound by any of the structures that could be potentially imposed by any of the individual elements. Every one of his…

Ross Lipman of the UCLA Film and Television Archive has become one of the foremost and experienced experts in the realm of Independent Cinema. He’s restored and preserved some landmark works of independent cinema including The Times of Harvey Milk, some of Kenneth Anger‘s most prominent titles, and the incredible Killer of Sheep. I would argue that he is doing some of the most important and…

There’s an astonishing moment early in Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke’s new nonfiction film 24 City–the highlight of the Walker’s latest “Expanding the Frame” series–where the imminent demolition of a 50-year-old factory is celebrated in a formal ceremony as auguring a “new and glorious chapter” for Chengdu City. Presiding over the pomp and circumstance of “progress”–a swanky new apartment complex, of…