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Pencil This In: Flying Lotus, Video Game Pop Art, a Señor Chips Art Show and the Platform Animation Fest
iam8bit gallery opens a new show tonight featuring the work of Señor Chips. (Image: Courtesy of the gallery and the artist)
Friday...oh how we've missed you! Here's what we found going on around LA tonight: Flying Lotus is in concert, pop art inspired by old-school video games and Mexican folk art, a silent horror-comedy with live musical accompaniment, Chinese filmmaker Li Yu and an animation festival. Read on for all the details.MUSIC
LA’s own experimental musician/producer Flying Lotus (Steven Ellison) plays a gig at Club Nokia tonight. It’s part of a tour to support his new album Until The Quiet Comes. Tickets: $30.
ART*
Gallery1988 (Venice) opens its 2nd Annual Old School Video Game Art Show—aka Level 2—;with a reception tonight from 7-10 pm. The exhibition features work from nearly 75 artists, who were inspired by old school video games.
MORE ART
The iam8bit gallery hosts opening receptions tonight from 7-11 pm for two art show currently on view. Fast Cars, Bad Broads, Rugged Men showcases the work of illustrator and designer Evanimal, and Hecho en el Norte is a solo exhibition by Señor Chips—a “pop culture-themed Mexican folk art made by a Gringo.”
SILENT FILM
The UCLA Film & Television Archive hosts Li Yu, one of China’s top female directors for the premiere screening of her latest film Double Xposure (2012) tonight at 7:30 pm. The film is a “stylish and fast-paced psychological thriller with a clincher of an ending...” There’s a free reception beginning at 6 pm in the courtyard adjacent to the theater. Free screening.
ANIMATION
Calling all animation fans:The Platform International Animation Festival comes to REDCAT (and Los Angeles) for the first time this weekend (Oct. 26-28). The festival offers 11 screenings, including highlights from the Annecy International Animation Festival, rare screenings of shorts by Ladislas Starewitch, the surrealistic stop motion pioneer, and retrospectives of work from CalArts animators and by video artist PES. Tickets: $5-$15.
FILM
Tonight at 8 pm, Boston Court presents a screening of the 1924 comedy-horror silent film, The Cat and the Canary, with live score by bassist Tom Peters. The film was one of the first of Universal Pictures’ horror movies. In the film, relatives of an eccentric millionaire meet in his scary mansion on the 20th anniversary of his death for the reading of his will.
THEATER
Director Dámaso Rodriguez and a sparkly cast enliven G.B. Shaw’s musty old satirical diatribe against the medical profession, The Doctor’s Dilemma, in a new production from the indispensable theater company A Noise Within. Playing through November 25 in repertory with Shakespeare’s “Cymbeline”.
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