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DESCRIPTION:In the course of media art in Los Angeles\, the late 1960s and 
 1970s brought a rise in the possibilities of media access for minority gro
 ups that generally did not have access to the tools of cinema or control o
 f how they were presented in mass media. Much of this critical work came o
 ut of the EthnoCommunications program at UCLA\, formed in 1968\, which wor
 ked to bring in African American\, Asian American\, Chicano\, and Native A
 merican students. The remarkable work of the African American students is 
 the focus of the L.A. Rebellion series at the UCLA Film &amp\; Television 
 Archive\, also part of Pacific Standard Time. This program highlights the 
 documentary-focused early years of Visual Communications (VC)\, an organiz
 ation created by a group of visionary Asian American filmmakers\, educator
 s\, and activists from the EthnoCommunications program.&nbsp\;\n\nVC&rsquo
 \;s founders &mdash\; Duane Kubo\, Robert Nakamura\, Alan Ohashi\, and Edd
 ie Wong &mdash\; incorporated the organization in 1970 on the heels of a g
 roundbreaking photographic exhibition about Japanese American internment a
 ssembled by Nakamura and Ohashi entitled "America's Concentration Camps." 
 (The modular exhibit\, popularly referred to as "The Cubes Exhibit\," is c
 urrently on display at the Japanese American National Museum as part of th
 eir show &ldquo\;Drawing the Line: Japanese American Art\, Design &amp\; A
 ctivism in Post-War Los Angeles.&rdquo\;) The foursome envisioned Visual C
 ommunications as a filmmakers' collective that sought to re-represent the 
 history and culture of Asian Pacific Americans\, use media for social chan
 ge\, and train future generations of Asian Pacific American filmmakers. Th
 e first such organization in the United States\, VC continues to engage in
  community-based filmmaking through training\, education and filmmaker sup
 port initiatives\, public screening and exhibitions programs including the
  annual Los Angeles Asian-Pacific Film Festival\, and film/video preservat
 ion activities. VC is also home to one of the largest repositories of phot
 ographic and moving image archives on the Asian Pacific experience in Amer
 ica. http://www.vconline.org/\n\nIn person: Robert Nakamura\, Eddie Wong\,
  Duane Kubo\, and Alan Kondo!&nbsp\;\n\n$10 general\, $6 students/seniors\
 , free for Filmforum\, Visual Communications \, and Japanese American Nati
 onal Museum members.&nbsp\;<a href="https://www.brownpapertickets.com/even
 t/211609">Tickets can be purchased here.</a>\n\nFor more information\, vis
 it&nbsp\;<a href="http://www.lafilmforum.org/">www.lafilmforum.org</a>&nbs
 p\;or&nbsp\;<a href="http://alternativeprojections.com/">alternativeprojec
 tions.com</a>\n<a href="http://www.downtownindependent.com/page/directions
 -2">Click here for parking info</a>. Downtown Independent Theater: 213.617
 .1033.\n\n<em>Co-presented by the Japanese American National Museum.</em>\
 n\nIn conjunction with the exhibition&nbsp\;<a href="http://www.janm.org/e
 xhibits/drawingtheline/">Drawing the Line: Japanese American Art\, Design 
 &amp\; Activism in Post-War Los Angeles</a>
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SUMMARY:FILM SCREENING: Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los A
 ngeles\, 1945-1980: Visual Communications
URL:/en/events/2011/12/04/film-screening-alternative-projections-experimen/
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