Tickets

Doors @ 5:30pm

Screening @ 6pm

With an introduction by East of Borneo’s Editor-in-Chief Thomas Lawson

East of Borneo is pleased to present a screening of Thom Andersen’s landmark essay film, Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003). East of Borneo’s Editor-in-Chief Thomas Lawson will present a short introduction to the film. Watch the trailer here. 

ABOUT THE FILM: 

“Andersen maps the city through spliced clips of movies that cast Los Angeles as a different city, turning a critical eye toward the assertion that Los Angeles, with hardly any history, is nothing more than a Hollywood set … The cliché goes that the culture of Los Angeles is its culturelessness, in contrast to New York, with its dignified sophistication.” —Gracie Hadland, East of Borneo

“Thom Andersen argues in his documentary Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) that Hollywood is the pervasive source of mistruths about Los Angeles. Hollywood habitually maligns its home, making of Los Angeles a city that is salacious, trivial, corrupt, and disposable.” —Sasha Archibald, East of Borneo

ABOUT EAST OF BORNEO:

East of Borneo is a collaborative reexamination of West Coast art and its history. We publish new essays and interviews alongside a multimedia archive of images, videos, texts, and sounds added by our community. East of Borneo Books sees the extension of our mission into print, calling attention to the best writing on the visual culture of Los Angeles. We also present exhibitions, talks, screenings, and workshops, and we republish material that is out of print or hard to find through our Second Life series: www.eastofborneo.org