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07/26/2024

Tickets are flying and our theater is filling for tonight's double bill. Don't miss out!

Doors 8pm
The Growth Eternal 8:45
Salami Rose Joe Louis + Flanafi 9:45

Advance purchase on DICE recommended.

On the main stage in the 2220 theater.

07/26/2024

In one week, save your Wednesday night for a great double bill of multi-instrumentalists, improvisers and cosmic jazz. This July 31st show celebrates MAE.SUN’s 3rd album release, Vol. 3: Reverence (just out this month), featuring Hailey on vocals, saxophone, flute, and synth, joined by a full band.

Tix on DICE and at the door.

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MAE.SUN (aka Hailey Niswanger) is a multi-instrumentalist and composer whose genre bending sound has a transcendent effect on audiences. From Portland, Oregon, now based in LA, MAE.SUN pulls inspiration from introspective meditation, world travels, nature, and movement, bringing about an exciting mix of sounds that is hard to describe, but perhaps could be most closely connected to cosmic jazz.

Sheila Govindarajan is an LA-based artist whose music reflects the multiplicity and richness of the worlds and times she travels. Growing up in a traditional South Indian family, Sheila has developed a style that synthesizes her deep roots with the beats, breaks, and rhythms of her polysonic LA upbringing. Singing in multiple languages and even a language of her own she calls in the flow within lines of improvisation and respect to all the elements.

07/22/2024

Wednesday, July 24 at 7pm, please join us at the Poetic Research Bureau for a conversation between Norman Ohler and Ian Svenonius, launching Ohler’s latest book Tripped.

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In Tripped, Norman Ohler, author of the New York Times bestseller Blitzed, returns with a fresh, provocative examination of how N**i experiments into psychedelics influenced CIA research and secretly shaped America’s War on Drugs.

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NORMAN OHLER is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and journalist. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Blitzed, the non-fiction book The Bohemians about resistance against Hi**er in Berlin, as well as the novels Die Quotenmaschine (the world’s first hypertext novel), Mitte, Stadt des Goldes (translated into English as Ponte City), as well as the historical crime novel Die Gleichung des Lebens. He was cowriter of the script for Wim Wenders’s film Palermo Shooting. He lives in Berlin.

IAN F. SVENONIUS is the author of the underground best sellers Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ‘n’ Roll Group, The Psychic Soviet, and Censorship Now!! He was also the host of VBS.tv’s Soft Focus, where he interviewed Mark E. Smith, Genesis P. Orridge, Chan Marshall, Ian MacKaye, and others. As a musician he has created more than twenty albums and countless singles in various rock and roll combos (Escape-ism, Chain & the Gang, The Make-Up, The Nation of Ulysses, etc.). He lives in Los Angeles, CA. Against the Written Word is his latest work.

07/22/2024

It's late July and 2220 would like to demonstrate the fully charmed and inspirational power of this imagination station.

Life stars and love streams for everyone. Meet us in the moment.

07/18/2024

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this saturday night:

itasca opening for
matchess
as whitney johnson, haley fohr, claire rousay, jenny pulse

july 20, 2024

8pm / $20

This really is happening!

07/18/2024

One week from Friday, on July 26th, we're super excited to welcome two deliriously brilliant acts to the 2220 main stage: Salami Rose Joe Louis and The Growth Eternal.

This will be SRJL's first local set since Lindsay moved to LA, and she'll be joining up with Simon Martinez's Flanafi and a full band to perform their LP *sarah*, just released this spring.

ghalani of The Growth Eternal was most recently seen performing an experimental live rendition of John Coltrane's *A Love Supreme* at the PRS, and we're excited to hear what they bring to the theater next Friday night!

Tickets going fast. Pick some up in advance on DICE or our site (see 🔗 in our bio).

07/17/2024

Coming this Friday, opening the night's trilogy of mid-summer guitarish cloud and haze, it's LA artist and producer Harriet Brown. All deep cuts, wound up and down, Harriet Brown broadcasts foggy bedroom r&b from speakers and stages and as host of his show on NTS Radio, "All About Our Love".

Come out, see HB, and Suzanne Kraft and somesurprises too.

July 19 Friday night, doors at 8.

07/15/2024

Coming this week to 2220: a trio of excellent concerts and a matinee screening program to celebrate the book release of Corpses, Fools, and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema.

See you this weekend!

07/13/2024

One week from tonight, a summer supergroup and five pointed star will burn bright in our muddled Angeleno firmament.

Catch this rising constellation: Matchess (Whitney Johnson), Haley Fohr (Circuit Des Yeux), Jenny Pulse and Claire Rousay, with Kayla Cohen (Itasca) opening.

What!

There's sound, and then there is...sound. Listen close.

Saturday, July 20th, doors at 8.

07/10/2024

This week marks the release of and are excited to announce a July 21 matinee program at guest-programmed by and to celebrate!

Gender Troublemakers: Trans Authorship, DIY, and Experimentation Through Film focuses on trans authorship and experimental film touchstones covered in their expansive book. The program, co-presented with , will feature Gardner and director Cary Cronenwett in person!

The 1990s saw the rise of film festivals, film spaces, and cultural production that intersected with third wave feminism, riot grrrl, and Gen X d.i.y. zine culture, offering alternative paths for trans and gender non-conforming visual artists. New Q***r Cinema became the major inflection point of this era but there were other heralded ‘gender troublemakers’ who set the tone for trans experimental filmmaking and cultural production whose DNA are still found in the works of Angelo Madsen Minax and others.

Tickets are now available on DICE — $15 general, $10 students/seniors, free for Filmforum members.

07/08/2024

This week at 2220: two iterations of Diag0nal Studio's ongoing collaborations in sound and movement, a deep cut from Agnieszka Holland's oeuvre, a night of experimental devotional music with Malini Sridharan and Chris Votek, plus a return of the SUMARR reading series, featuring a quartet of local writers.

Until soon!

07/06/2024

Sunday, July 7

Sara Ellen Fowler
Amina Cain
Rocket Caleshu

Doors: 5pm
Reading: 5:30pm

Presented by
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Please join the Poetic Research Bureau as we launch Two Signatures by Sara Ellen Fowler, winner of the 2023 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry from the University of Utah Press. Joining Fowler will be Amina Cain and Rocket Caleshu.

In Two Signatures, Sara Ellen Fowler initiates her readers into a synesthetic contract of close attention and deep feeling. From the wood floor of an art museum buckling with Lake Michigan moisture, to the mud-packed hooves of the horse of childhood, to an art student’s spit on a pane of mirrored glass, the poems’ images string together a necklace of exquisite longing. Pleasures and complexities of sensory experience lay the ground for a world where risk is rewarded and candor is sensual. The poet explores registers of desire and power, drawing upon her training as a visual artist to make a studio of language. Temperature and texture gain grammar as the poems reach toward awe via multivalent psychology, s*x, and sculptural interventions. These poems invite readers to explore the vulnerability and insistence that mark one’s devotion to any creative practice.

07/04/2024

Coming next week from :
A WOMAN ALONE (aka A LONELY WOMAN)
directed by Agnieszka Holland
1981, Poland, 92m, DCP

Wednesday, July 10

doors: 7:30
film: 8:00

Guest curated by programmer David Schwartz. Co-presented with the Polish Cultural Institute New York.

Although it was made during the optimistic period of the Polish Solidarity movement, Agnieszka Holland’s A WOMAN ALONE is an astonishingly dark film that fully rejects patriotic mythology and the cliches of romantic drama. Completely scorned by society, family, and co-workers, the single mother Irena, unforgettably portrayed by Maria Chwalibóg, asks “Who am I?,” quickly providing the answer “nobody.” Meanwhile, her miserable soon-to-be lover Jacek, who dreams of fleeing to the West, asks “What is so special about Poland? There is nothing to be found here.” The two then embark on what may be the grimmest s*x scene ever committed to film.

A film that makes WANDA look like a screwball comedy, A WOMAN ALONE is exhilarating for its razor-sharp social critique, its intense psychological realism, an underlying worldview laced with honesty and black humor, and a series of shocking plot turns that spirals towards tragedy. The film was prescient; shortly after it was made, martial law was imposed in Poland, and the movie, which was made for television, was banned. It was not released until 1987, by which time Holland was in exile, making films in Germany and France. Ahead of its time, A WOMAN ALONE stands as one of Holland’s most uncompromising achievements, and is a perfect companion to her new film, GREEN BORDER, which raises many difficult questions about her home country. -David Schwartz

“So ferocious it makes her other films seem operettas by comparison, A LONELY WOMAN is set on the eve of martial law—a stunning evocation of ignorance, superstition, poverty and disorder that attacks virtually every institution in communist Poland while suggesting a stratum of society impervious to reform.” - J. Hoberman

“It is not a happy experience, but I would not know all that movies can and should do without it.” -Amy Taubin, Screen Slate

07/03/2024

Tonight, Wednesday, July 3
Doors: 7pm
Reading: 7:30pm
In the 2220 Archives

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ZEFYR LISOWSKI
JOHANNA HEDVA
MURIEL LEUNG
SLOANE HOLZER

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Join to celebrate Zefyr Lisowski’s debut poetry collection, GIRL WORK, out from Noemi Books, with readings from Johanna Hedva, Muriel Leung, Sloane Holzer and Zefyr Lisowski.

GIRL WORK, a book-length meditation on s*xual violence and feminized labor, centers hybrid-form and prose poems exploring haunting, labor, s*xual trauma, and the assertion of a gender- nonconforming self in our current political moment. Written in injunctions to the self, to past assailants, and to friends, GIRL WORK challenges canonical representations of pain as punitive, redemptive, or separable from the environmental conditions it springs from. Throughout GIRL WORK, a self is restored from the detritus of memory—flashes of s*xual violence, pop cultural touchstones like the movie The Ring, the music of Ke$ha, the sudden death of a father, the paintings of Henry Darger, and more. Winner of the 2022 Book Award from Noemi Press.

07/01/2024

Join ’s Los Angeles “Pod” to watch and discuss The Flaherty Seminar’s 69th program, programmed by May Adadol Ingawanij & Julian Ross. A free final screening from the seminar presented in collaboration with the Poetic Research Bureau. In keeping with Flaherty’s ethos, all films will be a surprise to the viewers. Screenings will be followed by a moderated discussion.

July 2nd, Flaherty Seminar: TO COMMUNE : Final Night: Los Angeles Satellite Screening

Section from seminar: Program 14
7:30 Doors / Free
at 2220 Arts + Archives

Flaherty’s mission is to bring Socratic dialogue to the moving image, fostering collective inquiry, exchange, and introspection. Propelled by a desire to upend entrenched norms and unequal power dynamics, we champion new models of nonfiction filmmaking, curating, and theorizing. We cultivate an ever-expanding community of filmmakers, scholars, curators, and cinephiles around a shared belief in the transformative, world-building power of independent non-fiction cinema.

From the Flaherty HQ: “This year’s gatherings are informal – a means to share the brilliant work of our 2024 programmers and artists accompanied by the Seminar’s longstanding tradition of deep discussion. We are excited for people to gather, watch, debate, make connections, and share.”

07/01/2024

July arrives at 2220! We'll take a pause to cool off for a couple days around the summer holiday, but the rest of the week remains plenty full, with two book launches, two screening events and a much anticipated Saturday concert with Horse Lords and Sun Araw!

06/29/2024

Tonight❗️ performs a unique set with and at Saturday, June 29th. Experience the band deconstructing and reimagining their own music with two masterful improvisers - a show unlike any other on their tour.

and Zachary James Watkins (solo) open our show.

Tickets at the door and on DICE - 🔗 in bio

Co-presented by and .

06/26/2024

We've been knotting our fingers and foottapping under the table for months waiting for this one, and it's almost here: after almost a decade galloping the steppes, Horse Lords returns to LA!

If you've recently enjoyed the Bill Orcutt Quartet or Wild Up's Julius Eastman and Arthur Russell projects in the 2220 theater, this definitely is right up your Escher-ian alleyways. These electric horsemen extend multiple index fingers to the cerebral toggle that governs pattern production and displacement, and they wiggle it waggishly.

Baltimore-birthed, but often transcontinental of late, it's hard to know when the quartet will make it out west again, so this is not a show to be missed. We're already approaching capacity, so get your tickets soon.

Opening the night is one of our favorite iterations of Sun Araw, with Mitchell Brown joining Cameron Stallones, dueting to engineer countless cat's cradles and make them yowl and miaow.

Saturday, July 6: Horse Lords and Sun Araw Duo!

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06/25/2024

Please join us July 12 for the LA album release show of the beautiful “Tombeaux” by at ! A very epic record, produced by

Poster with art by

great cellist and composer will be playing a set as well.

Julia Hokter will be playing piano and singing backing vox for who will also be joined by this amazing ensemble of strings and winds:
on violin
on oboe
Emma McCartney on flute
Brian Walsh on clarinet
Jonathan Stehney on bassoon

Link to tickets in bio.

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06/24/2024

This week on Beverly Blvd: two wild, collaborative performances bookend a quartet of Pride Month book launches and screenings, including visits real (Bruce) and virtual (Reno) from Bruce LaBruce and Reno Dakota!

A sizzler s*xtet perfect for summer camping...at 2220!

06/23/2024

Tonight! presents a program of eight films by Alee Peoples: Something Pretending To Be Something Else.

In person: Alee Peoples! ( )

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Celebrate the weirdly transformative power of analog film as we attempt to elevate the mystical ordinary and conjure the ineffable through the work of the one and only Alee Peoples. Although her wide-ranging art practice spans numerous mediums, Los Angeles-based Peoples’ filmmaking perhaps crystallizes her various interests and esoteric notions the most vividly. Working predominantly in 16mm, Peoples’ films are full of mystery, confusion, surprise, and revelation, weaving an uncanny emotional collage from deceptively simple or seemingly offhand materials that blur the lines between the wilfully formal and the radically informal.

Filled with gloriously strange and surprising humanity (and humans), Peoples’ films almost play out like conceptual rebuses, employing a deeply familiar yet totally unpredictable language of social, ritual, and quotidian observation. On the surface, her work is funny, unexpected, seductive, and unabashedly and engagingly odd, but the cumulative effect of each film as it unfolds is to materialize a revelatory present tense embodying complex social, political, and philosophical inquiries.

Program and note by Mark Toscano.

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Alee Peoples maintains a varied artistic practice that involves screen-printing, sewing, sculpture and film. Currently living in Los Angeles, she has taught youth classes at Echo Park Film Center and shown her sculpture and film work at GAIT, elephant and Insert Press. Peoples has shown her films at numerous festivals including Edinburgh, Images (Toronto) and New York Film Festival, and at museums and spaces including SFMoMA, Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Pompidou Center, Dirt Palace (Providence) and The Nightingale (Chicago). Started in 2022, Arroyo Seco Cine Club is a thematically

Sunday June 23, 2024, 7:30pm.

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Image details from:
The Root That Ate Roger Williams (2011)
Them Oracles (2012)
Hey Sweet Pea (2023)

06/22/2024

Reno Dakota has said he wasn’t really aware that he was making a feature film when he shot his now-classic docuportrait, American Fabulous (1992). His only aim at the time was to capture the personality of his friend Jeffrey Strouth.

The film’s release to a gush of nationwide critical praise generated a faithful, if scattered, cult following and has even spawned an off-off Broadway play based on it in 2002. Dakota, an Ohio native, has lived in New York since 1982. He is the subject of The Magnetic Fields’ song that bears his name.

American Fabulous screens at one week from today as a Saturday Matinee - 6/29 at 1pm - and will feature a remote discussion with director Reno Dakota!

presents

(First image from the excellent flyer for the premiere at the Roxie.)

06/21/2024

Next up at 2220, it's a celebration of Wild Up's latest, Julius Eastman Vol. 4: The Holy Presence. Friday night will include solo performance by Seth Parker Woods, a deep listening session of tracks from the new album and conversation on Eastman's work and legacy.

Reposting from , here is an excerpt, featuring vocals by Davóne Tines (). 🙌📀✨

Eastman Vol 4 includes:

Andrew McIntosh, viola ()
Mona Tian, viola ()
Linnea Powell, viola ()
Diana Wade, viola ()
Derek Stein, cello ()
Hillary Smith, cello ()
Christopher Ahn, cello ()
Niall Taro Ferguson, cello ()
Seth Parker Woods, cello ()
Stephen Pfeifer, bass ()
Marlon Martinez, bass ()

Davóne Tines, voice ()
richard valitutto, piano ()
Seth Parker Woods, cello ()

Christopher Rountree, conductor / artistic director ()

Produced, recorded, and mixed by Lewis Pesacov () with additional production by Christopher Rountree
Engineered by Lewis Pesacov and Clint Welander ()

06/20/2024

This Sunday at 5pm, the Poetic Research Bureau presents a reading by three writers from the Bay Area: Lorraine Lupo, Theadora Walsh, and Aaron Simon.

Free in the 2220 Archives!

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Lorraine Lupo is the author of The Unwanted Sounds (Cuneiform Press), The Greatest Outdoors (Breather Editions), By Way Of (Green Zone), and co-creator of Dust Exchange (Slacks Books) and the video series GUY – A Fast Paced Sad Story (watch here: https://bit.ly/2LJJRQI), both collaborations with the artist and architect Max Jacobson. She edits the Periodic Postcard series, and as Slack Books she occasionally publishes chapbooks. As Poet-In-Residence at the Creative Growth Art Center, she edited their first collections of poetry, The Poem Is Telling Me I Remember and Dear Volcano.

Theadora Walsh is a writer who makes essays, journalism, poetry, and moving texts with an interest in considering the tension between the physicality of language and its documentation. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Gulf Coast, SFMOMA’s Open Space, Apogee, Vol 1 Brooklyn, and Unbag. Criticism has appeared in Artforum, KQED arts, Art Papers, BOMB, Electronic Book Review, and Afterimage, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Brown University where her thesis won the 2019 Francis-Mason Harris ‘26 Prize for book length manuscript. Recently, she ran a curatorial project in San Francisco called In Concert.

Aaron Simon is the author of Rain Check Poems (BlazeVOX [books], 2015), On My Way (Breather Editions, 2018), and Sister City (Slacks Books, 2023)—as well as the chapbooks Carrier (Insurance Editions 2006), Periodical Days (Green Zone Editions, 2007), and Senses Himself (Green Zone Editions, 2014). His work has appeared in Shiny, Sal Mimeo, Insurance, Harriet the Blog, NoWhere, and Blazing Stadium, among others. Aaron studied poetry and philosophy at New School University in NYC and currently resides in Oakland, CA, with his wife and daughter.

06/20/2024

Be forewarned. This is coming.

Next Saturday, June 29th - comes to the stage at in a unique performance where and will join the band to reinterpret and reimagine SUMAC’s music.

A rare chance to experience the band’s mastery of deconstruction & improvisation in a live setting, with giants Patrick Shiroishi and Zachary James Watkins bringing their own prolific talents to the pummeling sound.

Also playing: White Boy Scream, Zachary James Watkins (solo).

Presented by and .

Tickets on sale NOW via DICE - 🔗 in bio.

06/20/2024

One week from tonight, join us to celebrate the launch of Little Joe, a new anthology compiled by editor Sam Ashby that brings together the cult periodical’s elusive texts and proposes a new, alternative cinematic canon drawn from the fringes of taste and style.

The evening will feature readings by Hedi El Kholti, Samara Halperin, William E. Jones, Jonesy, Adam Keleman, Ryan Linkof, Bradford Nordeen, and Sylvan Oswald.

Copies of the book will be for sale.

Wednesday, June 25, 7:30pm
Free in the 2220 Archives, presented by the PRB.

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The cult magazine Little Joe, published as a limited-edition zine from 2010 to 2021, challenged the mainstream narrative of film history with a rebellious, q***r perspective. Rather than reviewing new releases, it explored forgotten and overlooked films and celebrated a diverse spectrum of cinema – from obscure art films to p**n to Hollywood classics – as worthy of critical debate. Stubbornly print-only, Little Joe was notoriously hard to find, privileging word-of-mouth distribution akin to the films it championed.

This volume features essays, in-depth conversations, short stories and archival discoveries from a host of q***r and allied writers, artists, filmmakers, and academics, including John Waters, Sarah Schulman, Douglas Crimp, William E. Jones, Erika Balsom, Jeremy Atherton Lin, John Greyson, Elizabeth Purchell, Liz Rosenfeld, Peter Strickland, Ira Sachs, Terence Davies, Shu Lea Cheang, Kevin Killian, Wayne Koestenbaum, Abdellah Taïa, Marlene McCarty, John Cameron Mitchell, Rosa von Praunheim, Stuart Comer, Ed Halter, Jenni Olson, A.L. Steiner, A.K. Burns, Desiree Akhavan, and Andrew Haigh.

06/18/2024

NEXT WEEK!! will be in Los Ange to screen his first two films at , THURS June 27th is NO SKIN OFF MY ASS with dj + FRI June 28 his Warhol parody SUPER 8 1/2 w/ Q&A by + dj

The restoration screenings come courtesy of and will be followed by the launch of Bruce’s new photo book THE REVOLUTION IS MY BOYFRIEND by sold by !

It’s a full, summer to-do, so get your tickets now!!

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06/17/2024

This week, five events Thursday through Sunday, including film programs featuring work from Theo Montoya and Alee Peoples, a Julius Eastman LP release concert with Wild Up and Seth Parker Woods, more sound + movement collaboration from Diag0nal Studio, and a PRB reading w/ three Bay Area writers.

See you soon.

06/15/2024

Next up from ! ANHELL69 directed by Theo Montoya. 2023, 75m, Colombia/Romania/France/Germany, DCP

Followed by a prerecorded conversation with director Theo Montoya. Presented with .art.film

Thursday, June 20

doors: 7:30
film: 8:00

This arresting, supremely confident debut feature from Colombian filmmaker Theo Montoya is a vividly conceived and dreamlike docufiction – at once a blissful evocation of q***r nightlife in Medellín, and a deeply felt elegy for q***r lives lost in an era of austerity and violence. A young filmmaker (Montoya) tells the story of his past while recalling the pre-production of his first film, a B-movie wherein Colombia’s ghosts (whose presence recalls the spectral figures in UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES) walk among the living. Yet amid real-life interviews with teenagers and twentysomethings, the filmmaker must reckon with ghosts both real and imagined, as Colombia’s new lost generation finds community and transcendence in the club. A self-described “trans film” and a triumph of personal filmmaking, ANHELL69 is an act of documentary as pure cinema.

In Spanish with English subtitles. A Sentient.Art.Film release.

Winner: Venice Film Festival (Critic’s Week), Jury Special Mention

Official Selection: True/False, SXSW, OutFest 2023

Special thanks to Keisha Knight and Tony Nguyen (Sentient.Art.Film).

“With ANHELL69, Montoya has constructed an indelible, at times shattering portrait of a collection of lovers and fighters who have embraced hedonistic nihilism, just in order to find a place to exist.” -Michael Sicinski, In Review Online

“Part documentary, part celebration of outsider lives, and part remembrance, it’s a defiantly hybrid piece that’s cunning, challenging…[and] seemingly conceived to play out on the border between life and death itself.” -Jonathan Holland, Screen International

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This Wednesday May 15th! OCRILIM aka Mick Barr SOLO ELECTRIC GUITAR TRANCE SHRED! Live 2220 Arts + Archives with Judith Berkson and Wax People ✨Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/q7f582be40e5?dice_id=q7f582be40e5✨ Ocrilim is Mick Barr from Krallice, Orthrelm, Octis, Crom-Tech, Oldest, Black Sabbath Cover Band Rehearsal, BarrSheaDahl, I don’t hear nothing but the blues, Mossenek, Encenathrakh, Hathenter, Shred Earthship, etc. Composer-performer, Judith Berkson’s music is inspired by classical and folk vocal traditions, Franz Schubert, microtonality, and underground movements in noise and electronic music. Her music has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and on NPR. She has collaborated with the Kronos Quartet, City Opera, Laurie Anderson and has worked with new music ensembles including Mivos Quartet, Wet Ink, Yarn/Wire, Experiments in Opera, and the Boston Microtonal Society. She has recorded for ECM Records, has written two operas and several multimedia works. Her latest opera Partial Memories was a microtonal opera about forgotten female artists Janet Sobel and Mary Gartside featured at the NODO Festival in Ostrava in 2022. She is currently based in Los Angeles and New York. Wax People is an unorthodox instrumental math metal band from Los Angeles consisting of bass clarinet, electric guitar, electric bass and drums.

Sunday at 8pm: An evening with Daniel Corral's Polytope Electronic Quartet and Squash & Biscuit. A multimedia microtonal performance performed entirely in darkness – a mesmerizing dance of silhouettes of fingers over colorful glowing MIDI buttons. Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/2U8pkCyBVxb

Wednesday night, the US premiere of Sirens! Video by Berlin-based media artist Ryoichi Kurokawa, sound by Greek composer Novi_sad. Opening set by LA-based guitarist/improviser Peter Kolovos. Tickets at: https://2220arts.org/events

Tonight, doors at 7pm! Song Fang's The Calming, produced by Jia Zhangke. Teas in the lobby, tickets in the bio.

This Thursday and Friday do not just bring two nights with Rhodri Davies, but two nights with the incredible cellist Kirin Mcelwain as well. @kirinmcelwain Here she is playing Yu-Hui Chang. Thanks to @theblackeditions for sponsoring the concerts, and to Vicki Ray and Meara O'Reilly from joining the programs as well. Should be some transcendent sound.

2022 Eyeworks Trailer is up! A taste of what wil be in the screenings this year. Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation is this Saturday at @2220arts ! Programs at 3pm, 5:30pm and 8:30pm. @eyeworksfestival

45 secs of Barry Doupé, whose far-out imagination will be fully on display as the featured animator in this Saturday's Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation. Grab a full day pass and explore three programs of wild illustration, animation and design. Tickets at the link in our bio.

TOMORROW, October 8th! pehrspace x @bammbammpresents : @rachikanayar Record Release at @2220arts . Featuring: @nailah.hunter & @ninak3ith Please join us in celebrating Rachika Nayar's upcoming sophomore LP “Heaven Come Crashing” via @nnatapes Nina Keith will be opening the evening for us & we are very excited to have her! Nina Keith is a composer and multi-instrumentalist from Philadelphia. Her music features textured piano and vocal arrangements laced with cello, flute, synthesizers, and found sounds. Rooted in contemporary classical music her work ebbs and flows with a unique human quality informed by compelling narratives. Set in the woods, hospitals, and churches of Northeast Philadelphia, Nina Keith's debut MARANASATI 19111 delves deeply into the memory networks of childhood. Inspired by her experience in EMDR therapy she explores a personal history marked by community tragedy and paranormal incidents and seeks to create a more equanimous, reverent relationship with death and the unknown. 8p Doors 8:30p Nina Keith 9:15p Nailah Hunter 10p Rachika Nayar 21+ $17 ($15+$2 DICE fees) parking is available across the street behind the church vaccination cards or negative tests will be checked at the door along with ID, masking requirements will be followed as per la county guidelines We hope to see you there DICE Link in bio. Reposted from @pehrspace

Tonight, 20+ artists & DJs, all for the love of the 'lab. 23 years strong. Doors at 5pm.

A message from @theblackeditions: We're thrilled to present the Los Angeles debut of acclaimed Korean multi-instrumentalist and composer PARK JIHA - 박지하 - @jihasound Friday, October 7th @2220arts w/ @jessikakenney @eyvindkang ✨ Park Jiha has emerged as a key artist in the last several years starting with the release of her acclaimed first album, Communion and it's follow up, Philos she has brilliantly combined traditional Korean instrumentation with modern composition, minimalism, electronics and improvisation. For this evening, she will be performing music from her latest album - The Gleam - A gorgeous meditation on the intersection of music and light. The Gleam is a completely solo work, composed and played by Park Jiha on the piri, a type of oboe, the saenghwang (mouth organ), the hammered dulcimer known as the yanggeum, and glockenspiel. There’s a stark clarity to the sound, yet it’s never spare or empty. There’s a searching warmth to what she does. It’s minimal without being minimalist, occasionally presenting itself with the formality of traditional Korean music that is her background. At other times her playing is an improvisation that spirals free into the sky. It all comes together into a beautiful whole and it always flows with a natural rhythm. Like everything, it breathes.

A little trailer from Lívia Nestrovski's latest project, a cabaret collaboration with Henrique Eisenmann released this summer. Lívia performs this Friday night with her partner, guitairst-composer Fred Ferreira, and Ivo Senra and Lucio Vieira. Rare chance to hear one of the most acclaimed voices on the Brazilian contemporary scene in an intimate setting in the the 2220 lounge!

This Sunday @2220arts ! Sarah Lipstate @lipstate aka ⚡️NOVELLER ⚡️- with JG THIRLWELL performing Silver Mantis! Tix available in the bio.

Thursday night, the LA premiere of Riotsville, USA. Director in person! + + + Riotsville, USA (2022) Sierra Pettengill September 22, 2022 🚪 7:00 pm 🎥 7:30 2220 Arts + Archives Los Angeles, CA presented by Rotations and Magnolia Pictures tickets now on sale at 2220arts.org 🌀 ••• “What are we looking at?” “How do you situate Riotsville within the legacy of 1968, reconciling living memory and mythology? How do you situate it within the life of the communities most affected by the state violence the performances at Riotsville are illustrating, and within the activism organizing to oppose it? And crucially, how do you situate it within a nation founded on white supremacism, determined to launch a war against its Black citizens, on a loop for hundreds of years? These questions informed the form and shape of the film; a mapping of structural forces that could not seem more urgent in 2022 …” —Sierra Pettengill • rotations-la.net •

Next up, Wednesday night, Hail the New Puritan, presented by Martine Syms!

Coming, two weeks from Saturday, dublab's 23rd anniversary party! 💥LINEUP ANNOUNCEMENT💥 5 stages, 41 artists!!! 🤯🥵🔊 dublab only does it big!!!! Allll night long we are going at it October 1st to celebrate our 23(!!!) birthday as a station!! 🎂 Reposted from @dublab : First up at @2220arts with sets from @dopolous, @simonallenbrian, @barbarelle_s, @endlesstuning, @cfcfmusic, @clairerousay, @cryogeyser, Devin Daniels Trio Exposition, @dustin_clarence_h_wong, @gemmacastro__, @josephineontheinternet, @green_house1976, @deejayhoseh, @juliussmack, @moniquea1, @quranshaheed, @sharadalatika, @skakraba, @wadood_____, @wyldeflower, & @payraymond!!! 💦 Link in bio for tickets, you'll never see a lineup this insane again (or at least until we turn 24! 😘)

Tonight, the LA debut of The Cathedral! Director Ricky D'Ambrose in person, and in conversation with Happer's Comet director Tyler Taormina after the film. Doors at 7:30. Presented by @acropoliscinema