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While Westwood attracts many mainstream Hollywood films, an entirely different genre of film, abstract cinema, is being brought to the UCLA campus. These abstract films can be experienced Thursday ...

At a time when most people equated animation with Mickey Mouse, Oskar Fischinger's abstract films were taking animation in a new, challenging direction. His short "visual music" films are credited ...

Luis Recoder’s name is often miswritten as “Recorder,” but the real spelling is the more auspicious of the two: his abstract films and performance pieces aim at a reinscription of the relationship ...

The first films aimed at dogs and cats stressed out by the loud bangs on bonfire night have been produced. Starring Doctor Who and Broadchurch actor David Tennant the calming videos are pretty surreal ...

Based in Los Angeles, Devon is a screenwriter and producer in the independent film industry, bringing a cinephiles persepective. He works in creative development, writing script coverages and pitch ...

Mary Ellen Bute, still from “Tarantella” (1940) (image courtesy Center for Visual Music) This Sunday, the Cinefamily and the Center for Visual Music are presenting a selection of her films in Seeing ...