Documentarian Brigitte Cornand first met Louise Bourgeois in 1994 and over the next dozen years made a trilogy of intimate videos about the iconic artist, now 97, through an idiosyncratic form of collaboration between filmmaker and subject. | Click here

Archivist, curator and filmmaker Bruce Posner is on hand to attend to a collection of preserved vintage films and beautifully restored prints-all in 35mm. Its crown jewel is a digital restoration of Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler's Manhatta (1920, 12 min.), | Click here

Known for staggering technical skill, expressive dramatic structures and radiant arrangements, the Canadian axeman and composer leads a large electric guitar ensemble in the American debut of the thundering suite 20 Quarter Inch Jacks. | Click here

The German composer has been long celebrated for the impassioned eloquence and rare lyrical beauty of his music. More recently, von Schweinitz has turned to a profound exploration of microtonal phenomena in a body of work whose newest opus is this evening's sublime Plainsound Glissando Modulation | Click here

Delivered with off-the-wall humor and terrific musical aplomb, this raucous farce from the internationally renowned Mexico City company reaches back to a florid chapter of European cultural history: the era of the castrati-superstars of 18th-century opera whose heavenly prepubescent voices won swooning adoration across the continent's highest courts | Click here

January
Jan 12: Brigitte Cornand: Chère Louise
Jan 19: Manhatta and Other Restored Treasures
Jan 23: Tim Brady
Jan 24: Wolfgang von Schweinitz
Jan 28-Feb 1: Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes: Monsters and Prodigies: The History of the Castrati
Jan 31-Mar 29: Atelier Bow-Wow: Small Case Study House

February
Feb 4: Reynold Levy: Yours for the Asking
Feb 5: An Evening of New Fiction with John Haskell, Eileen Myles and Darcey Steinke
Feb 6-7: CEAIT Festival featuring Yasunao Tone and Marina Rosenfeld
Feb 9: Leandro Katz: The Day You'll Love Me
Feb 10: Hans Haacke
Feb 11: Does Los Angeles Need a Downtown?
Feb 12: Charlie Haden: Rambling Boy
Feb 14: Penderecki String Quartet
Feb 17-18: Awaji Puppet Theater Company
Feb 19: The Necks
Feb 20: CalArts New Century Players Contemporary Dutch
Feb 21-Mar 8: REDCAT International Children's Film Festival
Feb 23: Deborah Stratman: America's Haunted Spirits
Feb 27-28: Jérôme Bel: Pichet Klunchun and myself

March
Mar 2: Bruce Conner's Explosive Cinema: A Tribute, Part 2
Mar 8: Black Clock: Year Five
Mar 9: Takahiko Iimura: On Time in Film
Mar 21: The California E.A.R. Unit: Young Americans
Mar 22-23: Studio: Winter 2009
Mar 27-28: Cryptonights
Mar 29: CAP Teen Music Concert
Mar 30: Robert Todd's Cinema of Discovery

April
Apr 1: Be the Change
Apr 4-5: Gamelan Burat Wangi
Apr 8-12: Caden Manson/Big Art Group: SOS
Apr 10-June 14: Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Modern and Contemporary Art in the Arab World: A project by Walid Raad
Apr 15-17: Dance by Neil Greenberg: Really Queer Dance with Harps
Apr 19: An Evening of New Nonfiction with Wayne Koestenbaum, Sarah Thornton and David L. Ulin
Apr 20: Joanna Priestley: Fighting Gravity
Apr 22-26: Marc Bamuthi Joseph/The Living Word Project: the break/s: a mixtape for stage
Apr 27: Zoe Beloff: Conjuring Specters
Apr 29: The Cinema Cabaret: live film narration
Apr 30-May 2: CalArts Film/Video Showcase

May
May 3: CAP Teen Photography, Animation and Video Exhibition
May 4: William E. Jones: Le Grand Mash Up
May 8-9: CalArts Spring Dance
May 9: CalArts Writers Showcase
May 11: Cheryl Dunye: The Watermelon Woman
May 12: Bach's Circle
May 14: Samuel Weber
May 17-18: Studio: Spring 2009
May 22-23: CAP/Plaza de la Raza Youth Theater: behind the barbed wire
May 29-30: Partch DARK/Partch light

June
June 5-6: Dance Camera West
June 25-Aug 23: Olga Koumoundouros: Demand Management
June 25-27: Yvonne Rainer: RoS Indexical and Spiraling Down

November 22-January 18, 20088
9 Scripts from a Nation at War

Opening reception: Friday, November 21, 6:00 - 9:00 pm

9 Scripts from a Nation at War is a multi-channel video installation that responds to the conditions and questions that have arisen during the military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. It examines the ways in which war determines and "scripts" certain roles such as "citizen," "veteran," "detainee" and "correspondent" and the capacity of individuals to fulfill or resist these. Drawing on the artists' extensive research, the work presents material sourced from people involved in or responding to the war | Read more

Gallery Hours: 12-6 pm or intermission
Closed Mondays
Always free