A screening series

Feat. Dir. Cat Solen, Dir. Georgia Tribuiani,
Dir. Kimberly Stuckwisch, Dir. Skarlett Redd,
Dir. Ariel Fisher & Dir. Cameron Combe

Rustic Theatre
Saturday 21st, September
9.00 – 10.00 PM

The Flux Screening Series showcases the most innovative short films, music videos and experimental work from around the world. Created in partnership with the Hammer Museum and now it its 12th year, the program brings together the creative community with surprise guests and wildly inventive filmmaker presentations. Flux has been hailed by everyone from the Los Angeles Times to KCET, who called it “the place to find the best in contemporary moving imagery.”

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FLUX

Flux is a global creative collective led by curators Jonathan Wells and Meg Grey Wells. Flux creates and curates unique film and art experiences including exhibitions, festivals, screenings and immersive installations around the world. Widely recognized as champions of emerging filmmakers, Flux created the Flux Screening Series at the Hammer Museum and the groundbreaking museum exhibition Spectacle: The Music Video, which explored music video as an important and influential art form in contemporary culture.

C PRINZ 

C Prinz is an LA-based music video and commercial Director/Choreographer. Her films have premiered through SXSW, Channel 4, Dazed, Vimeo Staff Pick, Vogue, i-D, Stereogum, Outfest, and Dance Camera West. Her movement-driven filmmaking challenges narrative form using the body as a storytelling vehicle to create surreal and beautifully strange worlds. 

CAMERON COMBE

Cameron is a native Angeleno who works as an audio engineer at Technicolor and on too many independent projects, making him a jack of all the filmmaking trades.

MAR DEL CORRAL

Mar del Corral was born in the Caribbean sea and raised in Spain. She graduated at the London Metropolitan University with a degree in Fine Arts, specialised in Video & Performance combining her studies in the art field with her career as an actress, where she participated in films like Everybody Knows by the Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi. She started making experimental videos for galleries – what she considers her passion as well. Now, she makes films.

MATILDA FINN

Matilda Finn is a unique storyteller, with a distinctive voice and surreal aesthetic. Her synesthetic experience of music is evident in dreamlike pieces she produces. Widely acclaimed for her videos, having won best new director at the UK MVAs in 2017, Matilda Finn is what talent looks like just before it goes huge. We can’t wait to see her apply her imagination to a wealth of projects across all fields.

KIM GEHRIG

Kim Gehrig is a director. Australian-born, London-based. She brings a refreshing combination of honesty and wit to her work. She has made her name in commercials and music videos winning awards including Cannes Lions, D&AD pencils, BTAA arrows and a UKMVA music video award. Her background includes studying at Central St Martins and working at Mother. 

ARIEL FISHER

Ariel Fisher is an LA-based director and photographer. Her background in art and comedy have managed to blend together in a style that has been described as, “I don’t get it.” Her work has been featured on platforms like; NYLON, Kaltblut, I-D, Pitchfork, and Complex, and screened at SXSW. Ariel believes that when you have a point of view and don’t forget to eat breakfast, your chances of changing the world are pretty high.

MIYA FOLLICK 

Miya Folick is a Los Angeles-based recording artist and performer. Her debut album Premonitions was released on Interscope/Terrible Records October 26th, 2018. Pitchfork called Miya, “a successor to the likes of Lorde and Florence Welch”, saying of the album, “From calling out abusers to offering up her own self-examination, Folick’s music feels urgent in its advocacy of resilience.”

NINA HOLMGREN

Nina Holmgren is a Danish director, who started off her career as a one-woman-army. One day she picked up a camera and began filming. She has spent a lot of time in the documentary and art world. Her curiosity of stories and human-beings is hard to miss in her films. She loves to find the beauty in what the rest of us might find appalling. She makes us wonder why we never realized that human-scales are amazingly aesthetic. 

LISA LABRACIO

In 1994, Lisa decided to become an animator. She was 10 years old. Since 2003, Lisa has been crafting hand-drawn and stop motion animation for independent films, documentaries, television, and beyond. Today, Lisa works as an Animation Director for TED-Ed, while also working as a freelance director and animator. She is especially passionate about animation as an educational tool and has taught animation workshops in several countries to populations in homeless shelters, refugee camps, as well as in traditional classroom settings.

SAVANAH LEAF

Savanah Leaf is a director, photographer, writer and creative. She is currently based between London and New York. Savanah started her film career after becoming injured playing professional volleyball. She competed in the London 2012 Olympics for Team GB and received numerous awards in her sport including NCAA Woman of the Year Finalist. Savanah uses the lessons she learned from playing on a team in professional sport to influence how she works in film.

RENEE MAO

Renee Mao is an Australian director based in NYC whose work is rooted in powerful, narrative-driven visual storytelling. Before moving to New York to attend NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts she spent several years living in Beijing, to which she credits the beginnings of her creative pursuits and distinctive visual style. Her most recent short film, The Last Line, premiered at the 2018 Austin Film Festival.

SKARLETT REDD

Skarlett Redd has used her ethnic ambiguity to slay the commercial industry and finance her independent comedy shorts. This month, she received The Groundlings’ Diversity Scholarship and was featured in a national Cricket Wireless commercial. Catch her final season of ‘Gal Pals,’ an LGBTQ web series, on YouTube this winter.

ANNA SAMO

Anna Samo was born in 1980 in Moscow, Russia. She wanted to become a clown, or a household manager. She became an animator. Anna works as a freelancer in Berlin and New York. Her films have shown and awarded at acclaimed film festivals around the world such as Berlinale, Annecy, Stuttgart, Zagreb, Encounters FF, Cork FF, Aspen Shortsfest etc.

CAT SOLEN

Cat has directed an extensive amount of award-winning commercial work and groundbreaking music videos. Like her collaborators Michel and Olivier Gondry, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Sia, Cat approaches her work with a specifically individual and visionary style. The Shivering Truth, currently in its second season, which she co-created and directed with Vernon Chatman premiered on Adult Swim after having its pilot premiere at Sundance. Her series The Devil in the Details is set up at FX with Dan Harmon producing. 

KIMBERLY STUCKWISCH

Kimberly Stuckwisch is an award-winning film, commercial, music video, theatre producer and director. Her works have been showcased at SXSW, the Hammer Museum, Cannes, Camerimage, The Public Theatre, among others. Kimberly built a career as a vocal supporter of bold creative ideas, with her work often bringing awareness to timely social issues and breaking conventional expectations. Recently, Kimberly joined forces with long-time collaborator director Carlos Lopez Estrada to found their own production company Little Ugly.

GEORGIA TRIBUIANI 

Georgia Tribuiani is an Italian director working in advertising and fashion, between Los Angeles, Paris and Milan. Her background in fine arts and interest in visual effects led Georgia to direct commercials for major brands including Toyota, Nationwide, Honda, Oreo, Target, Samsung, Google, and Apple. Most recently she directed a fashion film for Hermés inspired by the theme of the Hermés collection called ‘The Endless Road.’

QUINN WILSON

Quinn Wilson is a creative and film director. Having studied at Minneapolis College of Art and Design, her design background heavily influences her work filmic projects. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles as a creative director for artist Lizzo. Her music videos have been featured on the likes of Vogue, Pitchfork, Fader and Dazed Digital.