Organized by Los Angeles Filmforum as part of the massive, multi-institution collaboration Pacific Standard Time, the ambitiously comprehensive screening series Alternative Projections — spanning seven months and multiple venues around the city — begins on Oct. 9 with a show titled "Dream States: The Avant-Garde of the 1940s and 1950s" at the Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian. Whether one is coming to the rich history of L.A.'s experimental film community for the first time, picking up a one-stop refresher survey or filling in specific blind spots of certain rarely seen works, one could likely do no better than this first program of films by Maya Deren, Kenneth Anger, Man Ray, Curtis Harrington and others, including Salvador Dali's sequence... More >>>