“Fresh Guacamole” another wonderful food film from PES

7 Mar 2012

PES makes smart and funny stop-motion animated films. His 2008 film Western Spaghetti, a mouth-watering cooking lesson with non-food ingredients is a Flux favorite. Today PES revisits the kitchen with his latest lesson, a “how to” in making guacamole with household objects. Yum!

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Spectacle: The Music Video

2 Mar 2012

Flux is proud to debut Spectacle: The Music Video, our big museum exhibition that looks at the music video as an art form of our time.
March 3-September 3, 2012
Spectacle: The Music Video
Contemporary Arts Center
Cincinnati
Hours: 10 am – 9 pm (FREE after 5 pm) on Monday; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday - Friday; 11 a.m. […]

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About Last Night… Art in the Streets closing

8 Aug 2011

All photos by Joe FerrucciThe indoor outdoor celebration happened at the doors of the Levi’s Film Workshop at MOCA

Name: Wrap Party
Date: Sunday August 7th, 2011
Location: Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles
Who was there: Jason Reitman, Craig Stecyk, Neck Face, MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch, Robbie Conal, Ty Evans, Alex Stapleton, Estevan Oriol, Aaron Rose, Chaz Bojorquez, […]

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World Premiere of N.A.S.A. The Spirit of Apollo

1 Aug 2011

Since we began the Flux Screening Series at the Hammer Museum in 2008 we’ve been hosting music video premieres for each track of the N.A.S.A. - The Spirit of the Apollo, a collaborative music/art/film project.
Now we are proud to World Premiere the finished film that includes interviews and performances with a wide array of […]

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Doug Pray’s 7 Basic Rules about Making Documentary Films

15 Jun 2011

As part of the Secrets of the Doc panel I hosted at the Levi’s Film Workshop at MOCA, I had the pleasure of interviewing acclaimed filmmakers Doug Pray (Scratch, Infamy, Art & Copy), Ondi Timoner (DIG!, We Live in Public) and Michael Rapaport (Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest). I […]

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About Last Night… An Evening with Michel Gondry

31 Jan 2011

All photos by Tiffany RoseMichel describes his new projects and his love of the fan made trailer that mashes up his film Science of Sleep with Inception

Name: Flux Artist Series
Date: Sunday January 30, 2011
Location: Soho House West Hollywood
Who was there: Moby, Miwa Matreyek, Adrian Grenier, Becky Stark, Dean DeBlois, Brett Simon, Keith Schofield, Cat […]

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Minimalist Music Video Posters

1 Sep 2010

Federico Mancosu’s poster for Anton Corbijn’s Depeche Mode video Enjoy the Silence
Some of the more interesting feature films are made by directors who got their start in music videos (Anton Corbijn’s new feature film The American opens today and Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go follows a couple weeks later). Italian graphic designer Federico Mancosu […]

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OK Go and the power of Google AdWords

20 Aug 2010

I suspect on the internet the band OK Go is now synonymous with treadmills, cause Google is dishing out treadmill ads on their videos that don’t feature treadmills.

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Pimps and Prostitutes, the Terminal Bar revisited

21 Jun 2010

Stefan Nadelman left us hanging back in 2002. His 23 minute short film Terminal Bar (3 min excerpt) which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and picked up awards at many other international festivals ended with a “To Be Continued.”
I had the distinct pleasure of programming the world premiere of Terminal Bar at RESFEST, […]

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Sage Vaughn’s 10 Self-Help Books You Could Do Without

3 Jun 2010

Just a few of the Self Help books Sage Vaughn rescued from thrift stores.
When celebrated painter Sage Vaughn was invited to participate in the Video-themed Scion Installation tour, he came up with a concept completely different from the art he is known for.

In this exclusive video interview Vaughn discusses the inspiration for the project and […]

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