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2220 Arts + Archives is a community cultural center dedicated to adventurous and innovative arts.

01/28/2025

Sunday brings an Experimentations double feature to featuring filmmakers in person!

First at 3pm: Unstable Ground: Science, Extraction, and Belief in Riar Rizaldi's Monisme.

The screening will be followed by a panel with Riar Rizaldi, Fern Silva, and Jasmine Nadua Trice.

Next at 7pm: Resisting Western Science’s Colonial Mandate: Fern Silva's Rock Bottom Riser (preceded by The Fourfold by Alisi Telengut)

With a free dinner provided between screenings!

Part of the Getty Foundation initiative PST Art: Art & Science Collide

01/27/2025

This Wednesday night, 2220 friend Mingjia Chen returns, with innovative chamber ensemble NOW, who will perform new work by and other composers.

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NOW plays mingjia
& Other works

Wed Jan 29 8pm

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NOW Ensemble is a dynamic group of performers and composers dedicated to making new chamber music for the 21st century. With a unique instrumentation of flute, clarinet, electric guitar, double bass, and piano, the ensemble brings a fresh sound and a new perspective to the classical tradition, infused with the musical influences that reflect the diverse backgrounds of its members. NOW Ensemble has brought some of the most exciting composers of their generation to national and international recognition. NOW has performed at Lincoln Center, The Kitchen NYC, The Stone, and many other festivals and venues.

Mingjia Chen – vocalist, composer, songwriter, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist –has been lauded for her ability to “synthesize multiple influences into a unique, modern style” (The Whole Note), and whose compositions “communicate an opera’s worth of feelings and emotions, firing all of our senses together at once” (Dominionated). She released her new album, star, star, via New Amsterdam Records. star, star is a collection of kaleidoscopic, through-composed, and emotionally charged songs written by Mingjia for herself and the Tortoise Orchestra, a Toronto-based 13-piece chamber ensemble that marries courageous songwriting with curious, colorful orchestration, and improvisation.

01/27/2025

This week, volcanism from Wed to Sun.

01/23/2025

Tonight!

Lineup and schedule:

8pm doors
8:30 Lu Coy
9:15 Joanna Mattrey
10pm DAYS

See you soon!

01/22/2025

Tonight at - RSVPs running low!

Tung-Hui Hu: At the Ends of Exhaustion, A Door
2025 Theorist in Residence Public Talk

Wednesday, January 22
Doors: 7pm
Event: 7:30pm

Free.

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What happens when exhaustion becomes more than a symptom, but a social condition? Join us for this year’s Theorist in Residence talk with Tung-Hui Hu, as he explores the politics of exhaustion through the strange intimacy of sleep streamers, contemporary art, and a portion of his own lyrical essay on isolation. In “At the Ends of Exhaustion, A Door,” Hu maps how disconnection, fatigue, and infrastructural breakdowns are folded into everyday life—and how, at the outer edges of burnout, the possibility of a door might appear.

Bringing together theory, poetics, and digital culture, Hu’s work challenges us to rethink what it means to experience inertia and endurance in an age defined by relentless connection and disconnection. Expect a talk that defies boundaries by merging academic critique with speculative openings and lyrical deviations.

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Tung-Hui Hu is the author of five books, including Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection (2022) and A Prehistory of the Cloud (2015). His current project, A History of the World in 7 Datasets, continues his exploration of digital infrastructures. A Rome Prize and NEA fellow, he is an associate professor at the University of Michigan, teaching in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program and the Digital Studies Institute.

01/22/2025

Coming this Sunday (1/26) to - join us for Experimentations: This Bit of That India featuring a conversation with curator Shai Heredia.

The history of experimental film in India is tied to the history of India’s quest for modernity and is particularly visible in the experimental films on science and technology produced by the Films Division of India during the cultural revolution of the late 60s and early 70s. This program will showcase a selection of these avant-garde state supported films that reflect the radical values, perspectives and ideas that shaped the vision of Indian democracy.

Part of the Getty Foundation initiative PST Art: Art & Science Collide!

This Bit of That India
Sun, Jan 26, 7:30 PM
Doors at 7pm

Tix on DICE and at the door.

01/20/2025

Announcing from !

On Valentine’s Day, we present a new restoration of Jean-Luc Godard’s dazzling and provocative 2001 feature, a lush blend of film and video that remains among the most emblematic films of the early 21st century.

IN PRAISE OF LOVE (Éloge de l’amour)
directed by Jean-Luc Godard
2001, France/Switzerland, 97m, DCP

West Coast premiere of a new 4K restoration courtesy of The Film Desk

Friday, February 14

doors/bar: 7:30
film: 8:00

“Among Godard’s greatest achievements, the magisterial IN PRAISE OF LOVE also ranks as one of the best movies of the 2000s—the best, proclaims The New Yorker’s Richard Brody. The film comprises two parts cleaved by strikingly different, stunningly beautiful visual schemes. In the first, set in Paris and filmed in velvety 35mm black-and-white, artist Edgar (Bruno Putzulu) prepares a project on the nature of love, which reunites him with a former flame (Cécile Camp). The second, shot on the Brittany coast in hyper-saturated digital video, is set two years prior and has Edgar visiting an elderly couple who fought in the French Resistance and are now optioning their life story to “Spielberg, Inc.” An elegy to love and art; a mournful reflection on memory, history, and morality; an anti-American, anti-Hollywood screed; a dazzling display of the expressive possibilities of film and video—this is Godard at his richest, most rewarding, and most inspired.” -The Cinematheque, Vancouver

“[The best film of the 2000s.] Lives up to the promise of its title: one of the most unusual, tremulous, and understated of love stories, as well as the story of love itself; a depiction of history in the present tense, as well as a virtual thesis on the filming of history; a work of art, as well as the story of the work at the origin of art; Godard’s third first film, thus something of a rebirth of cinema.” -Richard Brody, The New Yorker

“Tactile yet elusive—its tragic grandeur is as graspable as running water and as shifty as smoke … Poetry is really the only word for it.” J. Hoberman, The Village Voice

Special thanks to Jake Perlin (The Film Desk).

01/20/2025

Coming next to 2220: film programs from Lightstruck and LA Filmforum, featuring work from Japan and India, experimental sets for voice and strings, a reading/lecture from Tung-Hui Hu, and a shaabi dance party for the diaspora w/ bangers from Cairo, Beirut and Damascus.

Come together LA – we'll see you soon.

01/19/2025

This Thursday, Jan 23, 2220 hosts a night of experimental performance, strings and songcraft, featuring a trio of innovative artists from LA and NYC: Lu Coy, Joanna Mattrey and DAYS, the duo of Ethan Philbrick and Ned Riseley.

Doors at 8pm. Tix on DICE (via link in our bio).

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Lu Coy (they/them) is a q***r mixed media artist and musician of Mexican and Ashkenazi Jewish heritage based in Los Angeles, California. Known for their mastery of woodwinds, elegant use of electronics, and agile vocals, Coy embraces modern technologies and compositional techniques, while mining inspiration from ancient texts, stories, and musical traditions. They have been featured prominently in various contemporary theatrical and operatic works across the country, and their newest composition “Becoming the Moon,” was recently commissioned and premiered by the Getty Research Institute.

Joanna Mattrey is a violist and composer working in free improvisation and new music. She uses extended techniques, modern compositional approaches, and electronic alterations to challenge the conventions of the viola. Joanna creates an embodied performance practice centered on ceremony and ritual. Recent solo works include, 'Soulcaster' (Notice Recordings), ‘Dirge’ (Dear Life Recs 2021), 'Veiled’ (Relative Pitch Records, 2020). Mattrey has had residencies with Roulette, Watermill, ISSUE Project Room, Banff, 14th Street Y, Wild Project, and MoMa PS1's ALLGOLD. Mattrey has performed with icons Tyshawn Sorey, Henry Threadgill, Miya Masaoka, Marc Ribot, H Sinno, John Zorn, Billy Martin, Elliott Sharp, the International Contemporary Ensemble, Crash Ensemble, and Irish National Opera. Recent press and album reviews by The Wire, The Chicago Reader, Bandcamp Daily, Noise Not Music, and more. 'Joanna Mattrey is becoming a force of nature' (Foxydigitals)

DAYS is Ethan Philbrick and Ned Riseley, a band, a theatrical project, and a couple that lives in an apartment in Brooklyn. They bring cello and voice together to create mystical songs and uncanny theater. Their latest EP, "Do I," was produced by Kyp Malone.

01/14/2025

3 portraits of child evangelist and celebrity faith healer Marjoe Gortner, the subject of tonight's 1972 documentary by Howard Smith and Sarah Kernocha, presented by .

MARJOE was a national sensation upon its release, leading it to win an Oscar for best documentary. The son of professional evangelists, Gortner was performing marriage ceremonies at the age of 4, continuing on a lucrative tour of the Southern tent-revival circuit well into his twenties before giving up the business in 1971. Smith and Kernochan follow Gortner on his farewell tour as he sends women into convulsions and performs “miracles,” interspersing footage of his mass therapy sessions with strikingly candid interviews that reveal him to be a master manipulator. Predicting the evangelical mass movement by decades, Marjoe is a portrait of American showmanship and hucksterism at its finest.

Official Selection: Cannes Film Festival, 1972

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MARJOE (1972)
Doors 7:30pm
Film 8:00pm

Selected and introduced by Liz Brown.

01/12/2025

2220 resumes its regular programming this Tuesday night with Mezzanine's presentation of MARJOE (1972). This week also features visits from Berlin-based pop experimentalist Mary Ocher and two events with one of Latin America's lost exciting younger filmmakers, Eduardo Williams.

While we anticipate a handful of additional postponements in the coming weeks, we also hope we can provide a sense of continuance, ongoingness and recovery by providing a comfortable, secure space for regular community gathering and being among people.

2220 has been fortunate to have water and electricity throughout the past week, and the air quality on Beverly Blvd is back in the green zone. Come share and commune – it'd be good to see you.

01/10/2025

Pehrspace and the performers of tonight’s show have mutually decided it is best to postpone, so that our energies can be refocused on relief efforts. We love LA & want everyone to be safe.

Take care, we’ll announce the new date when available.

Ticket holders should shortly be receiving notices of refunds via DICE.

01/09/2025

Resharing this list of resources to our community. It's been helpfully compiled by for those impacted by wildfires in the LA area. Find updates at tiny.cc/malan-fire.

01/09/2025

Shortly after our last post yesterday, the Sunset Fire broke out, and Mark and Zena of Lightstruck were up all night dealing with evacuation preparations. Luckily that specific fire was extinguished, but we are going to postpone tonight's event for two weeks. See their message below:

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"Hi all - we are postponing the Keiichi Tanaami show to Friday, January 24. If you have a ticket, Dice will give you the option to just move it to the new date, or cancel/refund.

"Even though we considered that a public event (in a safe area) could be a welcome gathering experience now, we don’t quite feel ready enough to leave home, and imagine many of you feel the same (we live just below the Sunset fire evac zone, so last night was deeply uncertain and stressful). Thank you for understanding and we’re beyond words about the state of things right now. Sending love to you all-"

DICE should honor any refund request without question. If there are any issues, write to events@2220arts.org and we'll m...

01/08/2025

DICE should honor any refund request without question. If there are any issues, write to [email protected] and we'll make sure it gets done.

It's not a straightforward call to keep the venue open this weekend, but much as the city is providing safe spaces to shelter evacuees, it seems more right than not to provide a space of community and congregation for people who need to be with other people at this moment, as long as the venue and neighborhood remain safe and distant from the fires.

01/08/2025

with - This Sunday, 1/12 brings a double header of Experimentations programs from to with Images of Broken Light: Indexicality in Astronomy II at 3pm and Natural History in Experimental and Artist Animation at 7pm.

The 3pm show will be followed by a panel with Jane de Almeida, Lilly Husbands, Eames Demetrios, and Brian Jacobson in person, and filmmakers Derek Jenkins, Anna Sigrithur, and Joel Penner joining virtually. The 7pm show will be introduced by curator Lilly Husbands.

We will provide a free dinner between screenings.

Part of the Getty Foundation initiative PST Art: Art & Science Collide!

01/07/2025

sez hello to the West Coast and Happy 2025 bunnies!

*Sometimes I hear music when there is no music.
It's a buzzing, or a hum, or a rattling sound, which is combined by the threads of imagination into something contineous, but i'm often unaware I am imagining it. daydreaming melodies.*

Mary begins her West Coast tour next week, starting in Los Angeles on Thursday, Jan 16 at . It's been a long time since she's visited – don't miss it!

Ingenious local circuitbender and filmmaker opens the night!

Tix on DICE and at the door.

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01/06/2025

Tickets are running low for Tuesday night's double bill from ...

Penn F---ing Station + Everyday Echo Street: A Summer Diary

Two vérité nonfiction shorts that sharply and humorously depict the social and civic lives of neighborhoods in New York and Los Angeles.

With filmmakers Claire Read and Susan Mogul in person for a Q&A

Tuesday
doors: 7:30
film: 8:00

Full program notes at:
https://www.mezzaninefilm.com/event-details/claire-reads-penn-f-ing-station-2024-susan-moguls-everyday-echo-street-1993

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