Wednesday June 21, 2023 at 8 PM
Doors at 7:30 pm

AUTOMATA presents Elemental Findings - Highlights from the Revolutions per Minute Festival

The Revolutions per Minute festival (RPM Festival) is an artist-run festival that celebrates the importance of short-form poetic, personal, experimental works in various styles such as essay films, avant-garde, animation, documentaries, audiovisual performances and installations. This program selected works from the past five years, showcasing artists who have contributed multiple pieces throughout different festival editions. 

Program: 

1. YA YI - IT IS NOT SPRING, UNTIL ALL FLOWERS BLOSSOM by Curry Tian (2020, 6, sound, Color, Digital) 

2. Amusement Ride by Tomonari Nishikawa (2019, 6, Color, Sound, 16mm to Digital) 

3. Another horizon by Stephanie Barber (2020, 9, Color, Sound, 16mm to Digital)

4. A Perfect Storm by Karel Doing (2022, 3, Color, Sound, 35mm to Digital)

5. Summer Light For Tula by Silvia Turchin (2021, 9:24, Color, Sound, 16mm to Digital)

6. Fragile by Sasha Waters (2022, 8, Color, Sound, 16mm to Digital) 

7. Move by Douglas Urbank (2021, 4:35, B/W, Sound, 16mm to Digital)

8. SAYOR by Kathryn Ramey (2022, 10, Color, Sound,  16mm to Digital)

9. Laomedeia by Youjin Moon (2019, 11:04, Color, Sound, Digital)

For more details: https://www.automatala.org/threshold-to-threshold-elemental-findings

Elemental Findings - Highlights from the Revolutions per Minute Festival is curated by Wenhua Shi, who will be present at the screening to introduce the program.

This program is organized by Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu, the curator of Automata's Threshold to Threshold film series.

This program is supported, in part, by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and Los Angeles County Arts and Culture.