Friday, Feb. 25, 8:00 p.m. at ECHO PARK FILM CENTER 1200 N. Alvarado, Los Angeles

Personal Ethnographies is an assembly of up-close depictions of friends and colleagues, both homemade and collected. Many of the subjects happen to be figures from the world of independent cinema, including portraits of or by Wendy and Shirley Clarke, Andy Lampert, Jonas Mekas, Sid Laverents, and the cast of Killer of Sheep. Also peppered in are informal glimpses and rare documents of LA's cultural landscape, including the subCacophony Society, Nora Keyes, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Listing Ship, and Monotrona.

Filmforum's Adam Hyman will join the night's festivities in presenting his own recent portraits of the LA film scene in glorious Kodachrome. The evening will then morph into a music party with live performances by the illustrious Laura Steenberge and the Here and Now (aka the Echo Park Film Center's own Paolo Davanzo and Lisa Marr)!

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