PAST EVENT

Last Light

Premiere: Last Light

Free with RSVP

PAST EVENT

Last Light

Premiere: Last Light

Free with RSVP

Details

Tuesday

July 21, 2020

6–8pm

Hammer Museum

10899 Wilshire Blvd

Los Angeles, CA

Livestream by the Hammer Museum

#clockshopLA

Description

Please join us for a livestream premiere of Carmen Argote’s Last Light co-presented with the Hammer Museum. 

Shot during the first wave of the pandemic, the artist Carmen Argote’s first film, Last Light, is a meditation on walking and memory in Los Angeles. Argote describes her walking habit as synonymous with thinking, a way of taking in and digesting the conditions of her environment. Through walking, the artist “deconstructs and reconstructs my ideas, thoughts, and self.” Combining video and still images of an evacuated city with an intimate voice-over, the narrator reflects on feelings of vulnerability and betrayal, and draws on childhood memories to make sense of a city transformed. Over the course of the piece, day moves to night as the artist traces a path from demolition and sickness to envisioning a different world. (dir. Carmen Argote, 2020, color, 12 min.)

The screening is followed by a Q&A with Carmen Argote and Hammer associate curator Erin Christovale.

See a preview of Last Light and learn more about Carmen Argote’s project with Clockshop here

Support for this project is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the Pasadena Art Alliance, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Still by Gina Clyne