Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival: Los Angeles Plays Itself/Bunker Hill
LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF
(dir Thom Andersen, USA, 2003, 169 min)
Andersen celebrates his city’s evolving neighborhoods and complex multicultural population in this masterful essay with some 200 excerpts from movies set in the City of Angels. Visually exploring the intricate links between Hollywood and Los Angeles, Andersen, a professor at California Institute for the Arts, extracts the city’s rich, eccentric urban history from its Tinseltown context.
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BUNKER HILL- 1956 (dir Kent MacKenzie, USA, 1956, 18 min)
While a student at USC, Mackenzie made this short film documenting the vibrant low-income neighborhood of Bunker Hill before it was bulldozed in one of the most notorious urban redevelopment schemes in L.A. history. Introduction by Catherine Portuges, Film Studies and Comparative Literature/LLC, UMass Amherst.
