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Thursday, June 14th @ 8:00pm
ROBERT NELSON TRIBUTE SCREENING #1
To celebrate the passing of the inimitable Robert Nelson (1930–2012), Mark Toscano and Echo Park Film Center will be presenting multiple programs of Bob’s work, beginning with two Nelson films which have not been seen together in decades, despite that being Bob’s original intention. The Suite California films were originally intended as a much longer, multi-part travelog throughout California. Bob completed two parts, covering Southern California and the Bay Area, and the results are formally inventive and highly affecting, functioning as travelogs that ultimately trace the vast and unpredictable area between a rich personal reading of a place and the place itself. Although both works feature Bob’s characteristic brilliant humor throughout, they are also deeply reflective and rich with unexpected, revelatory insight about his own experience of his home state. SUITE CALIFORNIA STOPS & PASSES PART 1: TIJUANA TO HOLLYWOOD VIA DEATH VALLEY (1976, b/w & color, sound, 46min.) SUITE CALIFORNIA STOPS & PASSES PART 2: SAN FRANCISCO TO THE SIERRA NEVADAS & BACK AGAIN (1978, b/w & color, sound, 48min.)
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