The Ann Arbor Film Festival - North America's longest running independent and experimental film festival - comes to L.A. this Sunday, August 7. Hosted by Los Angeles Filmforum, The Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour - Digital Program A screens at the Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian Theater and features documentary, animation, independent and experimental films from the festival's 49th installment in March 2011. more ›

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Stephanie Rosenthal, exhibition curator and chief curator at the Hayward Gallery, London, discusses Allan Kaprow—Art as Life, a new show at the MOCA. The exhibit is opening today and runs until the end of June. more ›

Johnny Chang considers his occupation to be an "experimentalist." The 27-year-old Auckland, New Zealand native has been living in LA for 7 years now, currently making Echo Park his home. If experimentalist is a bit too abstract or general for you, Chang freelances as violinist. No, you generally won't see him playing Bach with the LA Chamber Orchestra or on a soundstage recording music for a film. Rather, that occupational title he gives himself... more ›