Holly Willis

At their best, remix artworks produce uncanny connections out of the most unlikely combinations. Such is the case with the trio of sound-image mashups created by Los Angeles avant-garde filmmaker William E. Jones and curated by CalArts professor Thom Andersen. In Film Montages (for Peter Roehr) (2006), Jones pays tribute......

The first time I met Chick Strand it was for a lunch date in the hills of Tujunga near her home. She took me to a Mexican restaurant, ordered several rounds of margaritas, flirted outrageously with the waiters and generally had a merry time recounting the early days of avant-garde......

On the occasion of their 100th birthdays, experimental animators Mary Ellen Bute and Claire Parker will be honored with programs showcasing their extraordinary work. Parker worked in collaboration with Russian-born animator Alexandre Alexeieff, often using a large, elaborate pinboard mechanism that allowed the pair to create incredibly nuanced portraits of......

In the late 1980s, Fisher-Price introduced the PXL 2000, a toy video camera that records onto regular audio cassettes and produces a grainy, chunky black-and-white image. Marketed to kids, the camera was quickly adopted by artists, and now, nearly 20 years later, it’s still being used avidly by all kinds......

What’s it like to be a woman in contemporary Afghanistan? In her gripping documentary View From a Grain of Sand, Los Angeles–based filmmaker Meena Nanji answers this question through the specific experiences of three women: Shapiray, who fled the Taliban and, at the time of filming, was living in the......

When you enter Telic Arts Exchange over the next six weeks, you’ll be entering a video game. The black box of the gallery space has been transformed into Mario’s Furniture, a game world created by Los Angeles–based artists S.E. Barnet and Hillary Mushkin and inspired by the Super Mario Bros......

Stretching up to see over an edge, leaning sideways to peer around a corner, teetering backward as we tumble downhill: Dutch artist Aernout Mik’s three-panel video projection puts you right in the picture, with the fluid movement of a first-person camera gliding through the world. The setting is the eerily......

The California Institute of the Arts is, how shall we say, atypical in its educational approach. Students don’t receive traditional grades, for example; they can enroll in a dozen courses at a time; and sometimes they wander in and out of classrooms at will. And they work incredibly hard. Go......