The Flux Screening Series at The Hammer presents innovative short films, music videos, feature films, filmmaker retrospectives and the most interesting visual work from around the globe.

I honestly wondered how many people we might lose to the rain on Tuesday night. This being London, that was not a problem we had.

When I arrived at last Tuesday’s unveiling, the room was already packed, the canvas was tightly wrapped in a blanket, and the screen was blank…

We’ve come into possession of a half dozen rolls of unseemly and debaucherous photos that were apparently shot in the forest during Friday night’s celebration that Flux and Amautalab threw for Amauta’s film, The Blindness of the Woods.

After braving the human waves on Omotesando Avenue in both directions, surrounded by massive groups of people demonstrating their allegiance to Ireland by their “shocking green” hair-dos and other related fashion attributes like shamrock-shaped facial stickers and beer googles (pictured), I decide to escape to another part of Tokyo…

Thank you to the hundreds and hundreds of you who came out to the first ever Flux Screening at the Hammer Museum…

“I didn’t think I was going to like this show,” artist Bill Viola told me at Thursday night’s opening reception for California Video, the Getty Center’s major exhibition celebrating California artists’ important role in video art which opens today.

Björk was there. When I tell people where I went last night, that’s the first thing they ask me: “Was Björk there?” The next question is, “What was she wearing?” Nobody asks about the buffalo.

I can’t recall the last time Spike Jonze and his entire creative team–Vince Landay (producer), Lance Acord (cinematographer), KK Barrett (production designer) and Eric Zumbrunnen (editor)–got together for a public two hour talk. But tonight it happened.