1980 marks the year of Rika Ohara’s arrival in the U.S. from her native Japan. At eighteen, she left the place that had been her home to pursue what would become a prolific career in the arts, unfolding and taking shape in all kinds of graceful, messy, and unexpected ways.
Our third episode, on artist Rika Ohara, is currently in the editing room. Oliver and I are collaborating on this edit, which at the moment looks great! Meanwhile, Oliver is working on a new LA-Artist trailer that includes our first four episodes (only two of which have been released). The group of artists that comprise the LA-Artist Documentary Project’s first four episodes are: Lucas Aardvark, Sarah Sitkin, Rika Ohara, and Heriberto F. Luna.
Friends PLEASE HELP! This movie poster has been designed for the LA-Artist project. We’re going to post it around LA (coffee shops etc) and sending it to film festivals. Does it communicate?
For the text we are in between:
“DOCUMENTING ARTISTIC DIVERSITY IN LOS ANGELES”
and
“AN ONLINE DOCUMENTATION OF ART IN LOS ANGELES”
Your feedback is greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Oliver
Last Friday, Oliver and I sat down with the artist of an upcoming episode, Rika Ohara, a filmmaker whose most recent work The Heart of No Place sparked a conversation among us about the meaning of “home”, “in-between” spaces, celebrity, assumption, technology, personal history, migration, movement, and food.
Having decided to leave no rock unturned, LA-Artist has launched a new campaign to further document art in and around Los Angeles. Inspired by Frank Warren’s Post Secret campaign, we have decided to expand the film series to include a project we call ArtCards. Our team of dedicated volunteers has been strategically placing ArtCards all [...]
Yes. Finally. What you have all been waiting for: LA Artist is scheduled to release episode two of its documentary film project on Friday the 2nd of October 2009. Sarah Sitkin, the featured artist/photographer, has a style and demeanor that electrifies the screen. She is creatively liberated and I hope that this sense of freedom [...]
LA Aritst has started to post still images from the project’s rushes. If you visit LA Artist on Flickr you can can view a still image introduction to the upcoming episode.
Last week, as you may already know, Oliver Shipley filmed photographer Sarah Sitkin at her downtown studio on 38th and Main St. After reviewing the [...]
The LA Artist series is living up to its mantra, artistic diversity is most defiantly being documented. Last night I visited a small but bold studio on Main and 38th in Downtown Los Angeles. The home/studio is rented by Sarah Sitkin, a photographer living and working in The City of Angels.
What interested me about Sarah [...]
LA Artist is soon to be graced with the production expertise of Sofia Rose Smith. Sofia, a writer and theorist, holds her BA in Feminist Studies and Literature. She has recently returned from a life on the gritty streets of Madrid to the gorgeous smoggy L.A. sunsets that are home to her family’s Chicano heritage.
Her [...]
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