Lamplit Love Letters from Literary Lands

Wither is all this tending?
I would I were far to the eastward.
And yet I shall never again
Meet with my kinsman.
Iyaiya-yaya!

 

Sunday, August 5, 2018
Forever Yours, Nancy
 

12:00 P.M. - 6:00 P.M.
16mm Screenings between 3:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.

Advance reservations are not necessary for this event.
Suggested Donation: $4 Students/Seniors / $6 General Admission

John Cannizzaro of Smokehouse Films joins the Velaslavasay Panorama in a closing celebration of our lobby exhibit Nancy Columbia & The Arctic Beyond with a series of 16mm Polar-related films from the Smokehouse Films Archive.

     

 

On Sunday, August 5th, 2018 from Noon 'til 6:00 P.M., the Velaslavasay Panorama will be open to the public giving visitors a last chance to explore our lobby exhibit on the life and ephemera of Nancy Columbia, Queen-Of-The-Paystreak. To make way for a new lobby exhibit related to Shengjing Panorama, we bid adieu to materials from the archives of Russell Potter and Kenn Harper that have been on view since 2014.

Nancy Columbia, the "Most Beautiful Eskimo that Ever Lived!" was born at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and named the Queen of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Esquimaux Village in 1909. Columbia was also the first Inuit to write and star in a film in 1911, entitled The Way of the Eskimo. The exhibit features stereoviews, photographs and ephemera from several World's Fairs, highlighting the success and persistence of "Esquimaux Villages" and Arctic obsession in the 19th to 20th centuries.

Intermittently from 3:00 P.M. to 5:00 P.M., John Cannizzaro will present 16mm educational and artistic films and animations on the Arctic and Antarctic terrain, including interpretations of Inupiat folktales filmed on location in Alaska as well as an animated short, Owl and the Raven, which recalls an Inuit legend. Film selections also include the documentary series of "Tuktu" stories from 1968, which was created for educational purposes. This presentation features a mixture of live & pre-recorded sound along with readings of Inuit poetry and Arctic memoirs by Kathryn Bucher.

This event is part of Maiden LA 2018, an inclusive and expansive county-wide survey of art happenings in August 2018. Forever Yours, Nancy is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs.

 

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Saturday, August 25, 2018
Simon & The Sacred Cenote: 16mm Selections from the Archive of The American Egypt

Doors: 7:30 P.M. / Screening begins 8:00 P.M.
Tickets: $15 General Admission / $13 VPES Members
 

Jesse Lerner returns to the Velaslavasay Panorama to present a collection of 16mm films from The American Egypt.

     

 

Our feature film is Simon of the Desert (1965), the last film Luis Buñuel made while exiled in Mexico. Other 16mm films include a 1950s homemade travelogue through Mexico made by Mr. Smith, the operator of a sugar plant in Denver, a 1960s military educational film on the expedition of the Sacred Cenote (a well of treasure in the Yucatan) and a behind-the-scenes trailer for Kings of the Sun, the 1963 film about a Mayan kingdom starring Yul Brynner, George Chakiris and Shirley Anne Field.

As usual, the Velaslavasay Gardens & Grounds will be open for an evening soirée replete with refreshments and a Touristic Photo Booth. The Nova Tuskhut will also feature a multimedia enrichment experience exploring the films and themes curated over the course of the "Voyage to the Land of Speaking Blood" series.

Simon of the Desert is presented in partnership with the Luis Buñuel Film Institute. This edition of the "Voyage to the Land of Speaking Blood" series is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs and by the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.

 

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