Doug Cummings

Coinciding with the Paris Photo L.A. show at the Paramount Pictures lot, which will highlight works by filmmakers such as Chris Marker (La Jetée) and Bruce Conner (Breakaway), LACMA will feature two documentaries on April 26 and 27 about renowned imagists. Multiple Visions, The Crazy Machine (2012) is an evocative......

Watching a projected image might seem archaic today, but for centuries it was a sensational act of perception. Magic lanterns — initially candlelit, 16th-century machines built like stoves, which could throw pictures from movable slides onto walls — enthralled audiences for 400 years. "It was a very important form of......

Even in an age of DVD proliferation and Internet dialogue, many major filmmakers — especially those hailing from the developing world — remain neglected. Since the 1950s, Nelson Pereira dos Santos has been a model for independent filmmaking in Brazil, where he both predated and later participated in its celebrated......

Within the pantheon of idiosyncratic American film artists, Stanley Kubrick (1928-99) was — and in many ways still is — unusually successful at capturing the public's attention. LACMA is launching the North American debut of an eight-month-long exhibition about the filmmaker, originally curated by Frankfurt's Deutsches Filmmuseum, featuring hundreds of......

Animal fables, mesmerizing artistry and a blend of ancient and modern aesthetics infuse Chinese animated short films screening Monday at REDCAT, a highlight of the citywide China Onscreen Biennial exhibition of rare mainland productions. Digitally restored by the China Film Archive, these classic shorts offer a glimpse into the history......