Echo park Film Center

6-8pm Direct Animation Workshop

8-10pm Screening

Please join us Saturday, July 23, 2011 from 6-10pm at Golden Age for a film-making workshop and screening from the Echo Park Film Center’s Filmmobile, an eco-friendly cinema and film school on wheels. Artists Lisa Marr and Paolo Davanzo from the Echo Park Film Center have been organizing a Filmmobile tour (June 26 – July 31) exhibiting a series of free outdoor screenings and conducting free film workshops with various organizations along the way. Other venues along the tour include the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN), the Maysles Institute (Harlem, NY) and the Lynden Sculpture Garden (Milwaukee, WI). This is an all ages event. 

Workshop 6-8pm 
Learn to how make motion pictures without a camera. Participate in a camera-less animated short by drawing directly on film in a group setting. All materials will be provided and the finished work will be screened with live musical accompaniment at the end of the session. 

Cinema Program 8-10pm 
Marr and Davanzo will project onto the Filmmobile’s portable screen, showing an array of work that has either been created at the Echo Park Film Center or memorable work that has been curated over the years. All work will be short format experimental or documentary pieces consistent with the Echo Park Film Center’s program. Participating filmmakers include Anabel Curry, Duncan Martinez,Jason Harris, John Cannizzaro, Joel Fox, Cosmo Segurson, Lucie Stamfestova, Randall Rickert, Ashley Ruiz, Miles Crist, Walter Vargas, David Pfluger, Naomi Uman, Paolo Davanzo, Dagie Brundert, Billy Childish and Joe Hilsenrad.

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The Echo Park Film Center is a non-profit media arts organization committed to providing equal and affordable community access to film/video resources via five channels: a neighborhood microcinema, free and nominal cost education programs, a comprehensive film equipment and service retail department, a green-energy mobile cinema & film school, and a touring film festival showcasing local established and emerging filmmakers. 

The Echo Park Film Center Filmmobile takes Echo Park Film Center programs on the road to better serve their community and facilitate exchanges with communities beyond the boundaries of Echo Park. Working in conjunction with local innovators in mobile media and clean energy technology, they transformed a 1997 Bluebird into the EPFC Filmmobile: a full-service, eco-friendly screening and educational facility on wheels. Filmmobile programs focus on free film screenings in non-traditional venues (parking lots, vacant lots, parks, etc.) for the general public and free filmmaking workshops for media-marginalized populations, specifically at-risk youth, girls and young women, recent immigrants, the homeless, seniors, people of color and low-income earners. These programs provide a fertile meeting space for skills building and the exchange and validation of ideas, knowledge, and experiences, empowering individuals to share their unique stories with the world. Running on waste-vegetable oil, the bus itself serves as a model of sustainability while simultaneously regenerating the long and noble tradition of itinerant cinema.