Note: January 30’s program is cancelled in honor of the national strike. We encourage people to participate in this strike and to support organizations like CHIRLA, who are doing front-line work in our communities. See below for revision of this weekend’s program.

A three two-night survey of moving image and performance works by Dicky made in the last 5 years.

$15 for both nights – No one turned away for lack of funds

“His varied and complex engagement with moving image and photographic media is steeped in a deeply felt humanity and empathy, manifesting through his inspired photographic eye and frequently direct interaction with and appreciation of the material vitality of film and cinema. His films achieve heightened emotional states of great intimacy and poetry, often channeling the uniquely aleatory qualities of film to carry a sensuality and spirituality hovering in the space between loving depiction and vaporous abstraction.” (Mark Toscano)

Friday, January 30th Saturday, January 31 at 8:30 pm – short films of Dicky Bahto

This programs features recent short films by Dicky Bahto, none of which have previously screened in Los Angeles, including his most recently completed film, a portrait of the Argentine-French artist Cesar Cofone, two recent music videos for Grouper and Tashi Wada, and an excerpt from his three-hour long collaborative work Music for a Bellowing Room with composer Sarah Davachi. Plus maybe a special surprise or two!

program:

• A portrait of Cesar Cofone (2025) 20.5 minutes, Super 8 to HD, color & b/w, music by Marco Baldini
• Close Cloak (2025) 9 minutes, Super 8 to HD, b/w, music by Grouper
• Grand Trine (2024) 6.5 minutes, Super 8 to HD, b/w & color, music by Tashi Wada
• Music for a Bellowing Room (2023) (excerpt) 28 minutes, Super 8 to HD, b/w & color, music by Sarah Davachi

Saturday, January 31 Sunday, Feb 1 at 2:30 pm – Dicky Bahto’s Hivernale

The Los Angeles premiere of Dicky Bahto’s new hour-long film Hivernale, accompanied by composer Sarah Davachi’s work Double Reeds. 

program:
Hivernale (2025) 60 minutes, Super 8 and 35mm to HD, color & b/w, music by Sarah Davachi

Rescheduled date TBA Sunday, February 1 at 2:30 pm – Dicky Bahto, Corey Fogel, Tashi Wada

An afternoon of performance work for still and moving images and sounds by Dicky Bahto, Corey Fogel, and Tashi Wada. The performance will be approximately one hour and change, and may or may not include several different works that overlap or transition from one to another and back again with or without warning.

Dicky Bahto has exhibited work utilizing still and motion picture photography, sound, and performance at a variety of museums, galleries, microcinemas, film festivals, conferences, alternative spaces, and scenic locations spanning the Northern Hemisphere, from the Museum of Modern Art in New York to a series of nooks, crannies, and underbrush along and under Sunset Boulevard. He has works in the permanent collections of The Getty Museum and the Huntington Library, Museum, and Gardens. He frequently collaborates with musicians, both as a performer and as a visual artist, including Sarah Davachi, Liz Harris, Julia Holter, and Tashi Wada, as well as with his lover, Patrick Londen, and their cats Simone and Katoosh.

Bottom image: Hivernale,