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- A compilation of several short form documentary pieces about artists and arts practice in the 11 counties of Southern California.
- "Lonely Hearts Club" explores love and loss when three lives come together in Los Angeles. Jess (Remy Nozik) finds herself in Los Angeles on an overnight layover back home to Texas after a huge break-up with her boyfriend and decides to reach out to a childhood friend, Cam (Camille Guaty). Taking a break from driving, Cam convinces a friend to come along, Phyllis (Solomon Shiv). Over the course of a day, Jess discovers she's not the only one dealing with major issues.
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- KCET's Artbound examines art in Southern California. The premiere episode of Artbound features the pop art of Coachella Valley artists the Date Farmers, the world of Muslim American fashion, an exploration of the Morongo Desert's "jackrabbit" homesteads, the history of steel houses in Palm Springs, and a musical performance by Cut Chemist.
- This episode of "Artbound" features artwork inspired by the life and death of Kelly Thomas, an exhibition of origami influenced by scientific and mathematical techniques, a collaborative art project done by day laborers, Steve Roden's quixotic video art, Riverside's Tio's Tacos' folk art, and a musical performance by Lila Downs.
- In this episode of Artbound, we explore the different practices of various artists in and around the Southern California region. Some of the segments in this episode include; Future Perfect: The Midcentury Modern Paintings of Danny Heller Craft Happening: Tanya Aguiniga vs. the Beverly Hills Police Shari Elf: Maximum Creativity at Minimum Wage Guerrilla Gowns: Orange County's Ghostly Performance Art Notorious Possession: Occupying Foreclosed Homes With Art
- This episode begins at the Mission of San Luis Obispo with members of the San Luis Obispo orchestra performing mission period music arranged by historian and composer Craig Russell. Next, the show explores the work of photographer Mike Miller whose iconic photos of 1990s West Coast hip-hop became genre and generation defining. Heading to Riverside County, the third segment features a guided tour of the Twentynine Palms Marine Base, where artist Hillary Mushkin leads a group "draw-in" as part of her Incendiary traces project, which reflects on the militarized landscape of Southern California. The show then returns to Los Angeles to explore the work of Marjan K. Vayghan, whose traumatic experience during the Green Revolution in Iran has informed an arts practice of creating safe spaces. For the final segment, the show meets up with fashion designer Victor Wilde, whose process oriented pieces are creating a new bohemian aesthetic specific to downtown LA. The show closes with a musical performance by Carly Ritter.
- Episode Two begins in with artist Nery Gabriel Lemus who draws inspiration from his experiences as a social worker, creating art that comments on race, gender, and domestic abuse. Then in East Los Angeles, artist Shizu Saldamando's paintings explore a punk rock, Chicano/a subculture. Her work begins by photographing her subjects in their natural environments such as backyard parties in East LA, then she paints those works on various surfaces: tablecloths, wood, skin (as tattoos). Artbound then travels to the streets of Melrose to uncover the history of LA's street art culture that exploded in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Featuring the main players in the scene such as MEAR ONE, AXIS, DYTCH, LYNK, RAKKA of Dilated Peoples. Then the show heads South to discover the pasajes ("passages") of Tijuana, alleys housing small craft vendors and a burgeoning arts scene that is revitalizing the city. The last segment is a project by the Library Foundation based on Josh Kun's book "Songs in the Key of Los Angeles," where old sheet music housed in the LAPL's collection was mined for songs specific to the city. These songs were then given to several contemporary bands to interpret, arrange, and record. This installment features L.A. folk-country band I See Hawks in L.A., who also perform a live studio set.
- Episode three begins in Los Angeles where Alexandra Grant constructs a large-scale, site-specific work at 18th Street Arts Center based on an ongoing exchange with the iconic French author, poet, playwright and philosopher Hélène Cixous. Artbound then heads to Riverside, where the exhibit Geographies of Detention: From Guantánamo to the Golden Gulag offers a nuanced investigation into incarceration and its architectures. The exhibit features artists Sandow Birk, Alyse Emdur, and Richard Ross, each of whom explores different aspects of imprisonment. Returning to Los Angeles, Radio Sombra is a community based radio station housed at Espacio 1839 in Boyle Heights. The programming is created by the community and for the community. Featuring DJ sets of Heartbreak Radio by Elisa Sol Garcia, Discos Inmigrantes by David Gomez, and Chicano/Son by Marco Amador. Also featuring the Boyle Heights Caminarte, or art walk, hosted by Nico Avina. The episode closes with a live studio performance by East LA rock group Chicano Batman. They are the sound of local Latino music in the 21st century, comprised of Bardo Martínez (vocals/keyboard/guitar), Eduardo Arenas (bass), Gabriel Villa (percussion) and Carlos Arévalo (guitar).
- An hour-long documentary on the making-of Invisible Cities, an opera created for headphones performed in the public space of Los Angeles Union Station in the fall of 2013.
- In this episode, Artbound focuses on the Optics Division of the Metabolic Studio. The Optics Division is on a quest for the perfect indexical image, an image not just of the valley but made from the valley. The team has been working on all aspects of production including the camera(s), the film stock, the developers and fixatives, all sourced from the dry lake bed. Bon and The Optics Division's tools include the "Liminal Camera," a portable camera and darkroom housed in a shipping container. The team can produce large black and white images matching the size of the container itself in a few hours. The special explores other tools that have been developed by the Optics Division including the "Silo Camera" located in a one hundred foot silo on the edge of the Owens Dry Lake Bed and Mine Camera. The rig is being used to see the mine shaft, unused for nearly 100 years, that provided the silver for the pioneering film industry.
- This episode of Artbound, Songs in the Key of L.A. is a multi-platform collaboration between the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Public Library, and USC professor Josh Kun that brings to life the Library's extraordinary Southern California Sheet Music Collection. Five L.A. artists were invited to pick some sheet music, study it, and then interpret it in any style of their choosing. The finished products are now available for free download from the website of the Los Angeles Public Library, and Artbound produced short documentaries on the process.
- This episode of Artbound features the fun lovin' music from East L.A. band Chicano Batman.
- In this episode Artbound provides an exclusive look at the avant-garde opera, "Invisible Cities." Then, Artbound explores Ted Meyer's "Scarred for Life" art project, which has helped individuals accept and even embrace their scars. In East L.A., Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre's mobile "Duck Truck" brings site-specific performances to the East LA Civic Center for a unique performance. At Bootsy Bellows, a nightclub on Sunset Blvd in West Hollywood, Jeff Speetjens performs with a variety of marionettes from the stage to the dance floor. Photographer Candacy Taylor followed her interest in the social dynamics of traditional female work roles to Twentynine Palms and never looked back. Salons and diners are her subjects of choice. Then travel into the aural world of Alison O' Daniel. Using a collaborative, cross-platform process, artist Alison O'Daniel makes her strange, fascinating, and lyrical work in interdependent video, sculpture, and sound. Also featuring a live studio performance by the indie folk band Run River North.
- This episode of Artbound features Paul Turounet, a photographer whose site-specific photographic portraits explore the various migrant peoples found traveling along the U.S.-Mexico Border. Next we go to on a visit to the Watts Towers to catch up on how scientists and community activists are seeking to preserve the Towers against the elements. Artbound reflects on Gary Baseman's mid-career retrospective "The Door is Always Open", which examines a long and varied career while focusing on his family and the Fairfax district of Los Angeles. Then, Artbound the travels to the High Desert where visual artist Diane Best personifies the creative spirit found throughout the Joshua Tree region. Also, featuring a live studio performance by indie band Best Coast.
- In this episode, Artbound heads to San Bernardino to explore the tubular sandbagging construction techniques of the California Institute of Earth Architecture, whose handmade structures are redefining sustainable housing. In Boyle Heights, the group Public Matters' Market Makeover project is addressing the "grocery gap" in "food deserts," areas that have limited access to quality, healthy food. In Riverside, Hiromi Takizawa's Ultraviolet installation observes the role of light in architectural and environmental spaces. In Lincoln Heights, three Mexican American DJs form Metralleta de Oro, a group specializing in Sonidero, an extremely rhythmic sub-genre of the Mexican, Central and South American cumbia. In East Los Angeles, visual artist Jaime "Germs" Zacarias takes inspiration from religious iconography, lucha libre, and the city of Los Angeles to create his signature tentacle-filled works. The episode also features an in-studio performance by goth-indie rocker Chelsea Wolfe.
- 2012–TV EpisodeEcho Park institute Machine Project invited and filmed more than 20 artists to create performances that respond to notable architectural sites throughout Los Angeles.
- We visit groups east of Los Angeles to see their various forms of art in practice.
- A special episode of Artbound featuring content from MOCA TV.
- Artbound travels with Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio as they perform "One Hundred Mules Walking the Los Angeles Aqueduct," a commemorative artist action to reconnect Los Angeles to its water supply by walking the entire 240-mile route of the Los Angeles Aqueduct with a team of 100 hundred mules. The action marked the 100-year anniversary of the completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, which started bringing water from the Owens Valley to Los Angeles on Nov. 5, 1913.
- A special episode of Artbound in collaboration with MOCATv.
- To celebrate KCET's 50th anniversary, we aired a special "throwback" episode showcasing the original arts program, Earthworks.
- A culmination of various arts practices found in Southern California.
- An exciting assortment of segments chronicling the Arts in the Southern Californian region.
- Artbound digs into the KCET vaults to uncover a gem from the early 1970s. Iconoclast writer and poet Charles Bukowski reads from his work to a live audience. Also featuring candid behind the scenes footage.
- An intriguing assortment of various artistic practices in the Southern Californian region.
- Artbound visits the American desert to view the artistic practices that exist there.
- The Season 6 premiere of Artbound features lowrider culture, eclectic Mojave desert communities, realist paintings of commercial architecture, retro-inspired linocut signs, and the music of Nick Waterhouse.
- This episode of Artbound, "Borderlands," explores arts along the U.S.-Mexico border.
- This episode of Artbound, "Steel Modern," explores the architectural past and present in Southern California.
- What happens when collecting becomes more than just a hobby? A new series of short documentaries profiles five L.A. as Subject collectors who have obsessively focused on a narrow slice of Southern California history.
- Beauty Culture investigates our obsession with beauty and the influence of photographic representations on female body image. Film subjects hail from diverse points on the beauty landscape. Fashion photographers, child pageant stars, bodybuilders, teenagers, and intellectuals engage in a provocative dialogue that addresses the persistent 'beauty contest' of daily life.
- The world's fresh water crisis is examined by National Geographic photographers in a visually arresting study of our dwindling water supply. Presented from environmental, social, political and cultural perspectives across the globe.
- A group of "extreme" photographers recount their adventures creating stunning images in some of the most remote and exotic locations on Earth, including Africa and Antarctica. The film explores the extreme nature of their photography, from the physical extremes of hostile environments to the extreme passion they share for preserving the natural world. Originally produced in 4K resolution to immerse viewers in breathtaking imagery while offering a perspective that only the photographers can deliver.
- "Digital Darkroom" explores the intersection of art and technology by examining the work of master artists who harness today's digital tools to alter reality. They push creative and technological boundaries to share their imaginations with the world, redefining photography along the way. The film includes interviews and behind-the-scenes footage of American and European fine art photographers discussing their craft, their objectives and image-making in the 21st century.
- "Artbound" explores art created amidst social upheaval, including the life and work of Noah Purifoy whose practice was radically transformed by the Watts Riots; the emergence of Chicano printmaking in response to the Chicano Moratorium; Andrea Bower and Noe Gaytan whose work engages with the contemporary struggle for raising the minimum wage and unionization of adjuncts in higher education; and Michael Maltzan's design of the Star Apartments which addresses the issue of homelessness in Downtown Los Angeles.
- "Charles Lummis: Reimagining the American West" chronicles the life and legacy of the Los Angeles icon who was known to many as a writer and editor of the Los Angeles Times, an avid collector and preservationist, an American Indian rights activist, and the founder of LA's first museum, the Southwest Museum of the American Indian. Lummis' genius and idiosyncratic personality captured the ethos of an era and a region. The documentary will give viewers an in-depth look at his fascinating life through the eyes of key historians and experts including William Deverell (Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West), William Estrada (Curator of California and American History and Chair of History Department for the Natural History Museum), Liza Posas (Head Librarian, Braun Research Library / Archivist, Autry Museum of the American West), and Lummis' granddaughter, Suzanne Lummis (Southern California poet/writer, arts organizer and educator).
- The highly skilled labor of artisans migrating from Mexico and Latin America are the backbone of high-end design and retail in Los Angeles, producing some of the most exquisite furniture, textiles, and design goods. But they represent a creative force that seems invisible to the city. Artbound uncovers their stories and their role in making Los Angeles and Southern California the creative capital of the world.
- A documentary chronicling the process of the Long Beach Opera to make an opera about a Iraqi war veteran's return home and struggle with PTSD.
- Artbound explores the programming of the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, investigating new programming and curatorial approaches that are redefining what it means to be a 21st century museum. Featuring three new programs by The Underground Museum, Wolvesmouth, and Public Fiction.
- Artbound explores the groundbreaking opera Hopscotch, which unfolded in cars zigzagging throughout Los Angeles, telling a single story of a disappearance across time. Audiences experienced the work in both the intimacy of a car, where artists and audiences shared a confined space, or in a larger central hub, where all the journeys were live streamed to create a dizzying panorama of life in Los Angeles.
- 2012–TV EpisodeArchitectural critic Christopher Hawthorne partners with Artbound to look at the future of Los Angeles by examining its architecture, urban planning, transportation and changing demographics, giving us a glimpse of Los Angeles as a model of urban renewal for the nation and the world.
- A look into the world of African American modern artists.
- 2012–TV EpisodeOriginal video art revealed by MOCA artistic contemporaries.
- A one hour documentary special exploring the vibrant network of creativity in the California economy and featuring stories about aerospace design, clothing manufacturing, fine arts museums, digital media, arts education, and the role of creative placemaking in the economic health and growth of communities.
- An Artbound episode about Desert X, a group of public art exhibits in the California desert environment.
- An Artbound episode about prominent artist Doug Aitken and his immersive piece entitled, "Underwater Pavilions."
- An Artbound episode exploring the immersive and historical performance of "Variedades: Olvera Street."
- An Artbound episode about La Raza, the bilingual newspaper/magazine that became a platform for activists during the Chicano Movement.