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Lou Stoumen's New York will be on display at dnj Gallery in Santa Monica. The exhibition will feature some of Stoumen's most iconic images.
About Lou Stoumen
Louis C. Stoumen (American, 1917-1991), an accomplished writer, photographer and filmmaker, published 10 photography books and earned two Academy Awards for his film productions during a career that spanned more than four decades. He was well known for the deliberate use of text in his images to imply narrative and context and coined “Paper Movie” to describe his publications of photography and words. Stoumen taught at UCLA Film School for two decades before retiring to Sebastopol, Calif. MOPA received his archive in 1992 and established the Lou Stoumen Prize to award working photographers of outstanding merit.
Exhibition Location:
dnj Gallery
3015 Ocean Park Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Image Credit: Lou Stoumen, Sunset, Times Square, 1980, gelatin silver print. © Lou Stoumen Archive / Museum of Photographic Arts
Sat
14
Lou Stoumen's New York will be on display at dnj Gallery in Santa Monica. The exhibition will feature some of Stoumen's most iconic images.
About Lou Stoumen
Louis C. Stoumen (American, 1917-1991), an accomplished writer, photographer and filmmaker, published 10 photography books and earned two Academy Awards for his film productions during a career that spanned more than four decades. He was well known for the deliberate use of text in his images to imply narrative and context and coined “Paper Movie” to describe his publications of photography and words. Stoumen taught at UCLA Film School for two decades before retiring to Sebastopol, Calif. MOPA received his archive in 1992 and established the Lou Stoumen Prize to award working photographers of outstanding merit.
Exhibition Location:
dnj Gallery
3015 Ocean Park Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Image Credit: Lou Stoumen, Sunset, Times Square, 1980, gelatin silver print. © Lou Stoumen Archive / Museum of Photographic Arts
Sat
14
Lou Stoumen's New York will be on display at dnj Gallery in Santa Monica. The exhibition will feature some of Stoumen's most iconic images.
About Lou Stoumen
Louis C. Stoumen (American, 1917-1991), an accomplished writer, photographer and filmmaker, published 10 photography books and earned two Academy Awards for his film productions during a career that spanned more than four decades. He was well known for the deliberate use of text in his images to imply narrative and context and coined “Paper Movie” to describe his publications of photography and words. Stoumen taught at UCLA Film School for two decades before retiring to Sebastopol, Calif. MOPA received his archive in 1992 and established the Lou Stoumen Prize to award working photographers of outstanding merit.
Exhibition Location:
dnj Gallery
3015 Ocean Park Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Image Credit: Lou Stoumen, Sunset, Times Square, 1980, gelatin silver print. © Lou Stoumen Archive / Museum of Photographic Arts
Sat
14
Lou Stoumen's New York will be on display at dnj Gallery in Santa Monica. The exhibition will feature some of Stoumen's most iconic images.
About Lou Stoumen
Louis C. Stoumen (American, 1917-1991), an accomplished writer, photographer and filmmaker, published 10 photography books and earned two Academy Awards for his film productions during a career that spanned more than four decades. He was well known for the deliberate use of text in his images to imply narrative and context and coined “Paper Movie” to describe his publications of photography and words. Stoumen taught at UCLA Film School for two decades before retiring to Sebastopol, Calif. MOPA received his archive in 1992 and established the Lou Stoumen Prize to award working photographers of outstanding merit.
Exhibition Location:
dnj Gallery
3015 Ocean Park Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Image Credit: Lou Stoumen, Sunset, Times Square, 1980, gelatin silver print. © Lou Stoumen Archive / Museum of Photographic Arts
Sat
14
Lou Stoumen's New York will be on display at dnj Gallery in Santa Monica. The exhibition will feature some of Stoumen's most iconic images.
About Lou Stoumen
Louis C. Stoumen (American, 1917-1991), an accomplished writer, photographer and filmmaker, published 10 photography books and earned two Academy Awards for his film productions during a career that spanned more than four decades. He was well known for the deliberate use of text in his images to imply narrative and context and coined “Paper Movie” to describe his publications of photography and words. Stoumen taught at UCLA Film School for two decades before retiring to Sebastopol, Calif. MOPA received his archive in 1992 and established the Lou Stoumen Prize to award working photographers of outstanding merit.
Exhibition Location:
dnj Gallery
3015 Ocean Park Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Image Credit: Lou Stoumen, Sunset, Times Square, 1980, gelatin silver print. © Lou Stoumen Archive / Museum of Photographic Arts
Sat
14
Lou Stoumen's New York will be on display at dnj Gallery in Santa Monica. The exhibition will feature some of Stoumen's most iconic images.
About Lou Stoumen
Louis C. Stoumen (American, 1917-1991), an accomplished writer, photographer and filmmaker, published 10 photography books and earned two Academy Awards for his film productions during a career that spanned more than four decades. He was well known for the deliberate use of text in his images to imply narrative and context and coined “Paper Movie” to describe his publications of photography and words. Stoumen taught at UCLA Film School for two decades before retiring to Sebastopol, Calif. MOPA received his archive in 1992 and established the Lou Stoumen Prize to award working photographers of outstanding merit.
Exhibition Location:
dnj Gallery
3015 Ocean Park Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Image Credit: Lou Stoumen, Sunset, Times Square, 1980, gelatin silver print. © Lou Stoumen Archive / Museum of Photographic Arts
Sat
14
Lou Stoumen's New York will be on display at dnj Gallery in Santa Monica. The exhibition will feature some of Stoumen's most iconic images.
About Lou Stoumen
Louis C. Stoumen (American, 1917-1991), an accomplished writer, photographer and filmmaker, published 10 photography books and earned two Academy Awards for his film productions during a career that spanned more than four decades. He was well known for the deliberate use of text in his images to imply narrative and context and coined “Paper Movie” to describe his publications of photography and words. Stoumen taught at UCLA Film School for two decades before retiring to Sebastopol, Calif. MOPA received his archive in 1992 and established the Lou Stoumen Prize to award working photographers of outstanding merit.
Exhibition Location:
dnj Gallery
3015 Ocean Park Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Image Credit: Lou Stoumen, Sunset, Times Square, 1980, gelatin silver print. © Lou Stoumen Archive / Museum of Photographic Arts
Sat
14
Lou Stoumen's New York will be on display at dnj Gallery in Santa Monica. The exhibition will feature some of Stoumen's most iconic images.
About Lou Stoumen
Louis C. Stoumen (American, 1917-1991), an accomplished writer, photographer and filmmaker, published 10 photography books and earned two Academy Awards for his film productions during a career that spanned more than four decades. He was well known for the deliberate use of text in his images to imply narrative and context and coined “Paper Movie” to describe his publications of photography and words. Stoumen taught at UCLA Film School for two decades before retiring to Sebastopol, Calif. MOPA received his archive in 1992 and established the Lou Stoumen Prize to award working photographers of outstanding merit.
Exhibition Location:
dnj Gallery
3015 Ocean Park Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Image Credit: Lou Stoumen, Sunset, Times Square, 1980, gelatin silver print. © Lou Stoumen Archive / Museum of Photographic Arts
Sat
14
Lou Stoumen's New York will be on display at dnj Gallery in Santa Monica. The exhibition will feature some of Stoumen's most iconic images.
About Lou Stoumen
Louis C. Stoumen (American, 1917-1991), an accomplished writer, photographer and filmmaker, published 10 photography books and earned two Academy Awards for his film productions during a career that spanned more than four decades. He was well known for the deliberate use of text in his images to imply narrative and context and coined “Paper Movie” to describe his publications of photography and words. Stoumen taught at UCLA Film School for two decades before retiring to Sebastopol, Calif. MOPA received his archive in 1992 and established the Lou Stoumen Prize to award working photographers of outstanding merit.
Exhibition Location:
dnj Gallery
3015 Ocean Park Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Image Credit: Lou Stoumen, Sunset, Times Square, 1980, gelatin silver print. © Lou Stoumen Archive / Museum of Photographic Arts
Sat
14
Lou Stoumen's New York will be on display at dnj Gallery in Santa Monica. The exhibition will feature some of Stoumen's most iconic images.
About Lou Stoumen
Louis C. Stoumen (American, 1917-1991), an accomplished writer, photographer and filmmaker, published 10 photography books and earned two Academy Awards for his film productions during a career that spanned more than four decades. He was well known for the deliberate use of text in his images to imply narrative and context and coined “Paper Movie” to describe his publications of photography and words. Stoumen taught at UCLA Film School for two decades before retiring to Sebastopol, Calif. MOPA received his archive in 1992 and established the Lou Stoumen Prize to award working photographers of outstanding merit.
Exhibition Location:
dnj Gallery
3015 Ocean Park Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Image Credit: Lou Stoumen, Sunset, Times Square, 1980, gelatin silver print. © Lou Stoumen Archive / Museum of Photographic Arts
Sat
14
Lou Stoumen's New York will be on display at dnj Gallery in Santa Monica. The exhibition will feature some of Stoumen's most iconic images.
About Lou Stoumen
Louis C. Stoumen (American, 1917-1991), an accomplished writer, photographer and filmmaker, published 10 photography books and earned two Academy Awards for his film productions during a career that spanned more than four decades. He was well known for the deliberate use of text in his images to imply narrative and context and coined “Paper Movie” to describe his publications of photography and words. Stoumen taught at UCLA Film School for two decades before retiring to Sebastopol, Calif. MOPA received his archive in 1992 and established the Lou Stoumen Prize to award working photographers of outstanding merit.
Exhibition Location:
dnj Gallery
3015 Ocean Park Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Image Credit: Lou Stoumen, Sunset, Times Square, 1980, gelatin silver print. © Lou Stoumen Archive / Museum of Photographic Arts
Sat
14
Lou Stoumen's New York will be on display at dnj Gallery in Santa Monica. The exhibition will feature some of Stoumen's most iconic images.
About Lou Stoumen
Louis C. Stoumen (American, 1917-1991), an accomplished writer, photographer and filmmaker, published 10 photography books and earned two Academy Awards for his film productions during a career that spanned more than four decades. He was well known for the deliberate use of text in his images to imply narrative and context and coined “Paper Movie” to describe his publications of photography and words. Stoumen taught at UCLA Film School for two decades before retiring to Sebastopol, Calif. MOPA received his archive in 1992 and established the Lou Stoumen Prize to award working photographers of outstanding merit.
Exhibition Location:
dnj Gallery
3015 Ocean Park Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Image Credit: Lou Stoumen, Sunset, Times Square, 1980, gelatin silver print. © Lou Stoumen Archive / Museum of Photographic Arts
Sat
14
Lou Stoumen's New York will be on display at dnj Gallery in Santa Monica. The exhibition will feature some of Stoumen's most iconic images.
About Lou Stoumen
Louis C. Stoumen (American, 1917-1991), an accomplished writer, photographer and filmmaker, published 10 photography books and earned two Academy Awards for his film productions during a career that spanned more than four decades. He was well known for the deliberate use of text in his images to imply narrative and context and coined “Paper Movie” to describe his publications of photography and words. Stoumen taught at UCLA Film School for two decades before retiring to Sebastopol, Calif. MOPA received his archive in 1992 and established the Lou Stoumen Prize to award working photographers of outstanding merit.
Exhibition Location:
dnj Gallery
3015 Ocean Park Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Image Credit: Lou Stoumen, Sunset, Times Square, 1980, gelatin silver print. © Lou Stoumen Archive / Museum of Photographic Arts
Sat
14
Lou Stoumen's New York will be on display at dnj Gallery in Santa Monica. The exhibition will feature some of Stoumen's most iconic images.
About Lou Stoumen
Louis C. Stoumen (American, 1917-1991), an accomplished writer, photographer and filmmaker, published 10 photography books and earned two Academy Awards for his film productions during a career that spanned more than four decades. He was well known for the deliberate use of text in his images to imply narrative and context and coined “Paper Movie” to describe his publications of photography and words. Stoumen taught at UCLA Film School for two decades before retiring to Sebastopol, Calif. MOPA received his archive in 1992 and established the Lou Stoumen Prize to award working photographers of outstanding merit.
Exhibition Location:
dnj Gallery
3015 Ocean Park Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Image Credit: Lou Stoumen, Sunset, Times Square, 1980, gelatin silver print. © Lou Stoumen Archive / Museum of Photographic Arts
Sat
14
Lou Stoumen's New York will be on display at dnj Gallery in Santa Monica. The exhibition will feature some of Stoumen's most iconic images.
About Lou Stoumen
Louis C. Stoumen (American, 1917-1991), an accomplished writer, photographer and filmmaker, published 10 photography books and earned two Academy Awards for his film productions during a career that spanned more than four decades. He was well known for the deliberate use of text in his images to imply narrative and context and coined “Paper Movie” to describe his publications of photography and words. Stoumen taught at UCLA Film School for two decades before retiring to Sebastopol, Calif. MOPA received his archive in 1992 and established the Lou Stoumen Prize to award working photographers of outstanding merit.
Exhibition Location:
dnj Gallery
3015 Ocean Park Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Image Credit: Lou Stoumen, Sunset, Times Square, 1980, gelatin silver print. © Lou Stoumen Archive / Museum of Photographic Arts
Sat
14
Lou Stoumen's New York will be on display at dnj Gallery in Santa Monica. The exhibition will feature some of Stoumen's most iconic images.
About Lou Stoumen
Louis C. Stoumen (American, 1917-1991), an accomplished writer, photographer and filmmaker, published 10 photography books and earned two Academy Awards for his film productions during a career that spanned more than four decades. He was well known for the deliberate use of text in his images to imply narrative and context and coined “Paper Movie” to describe his publications of photography and words. Stoumen taught at UCLA Film School for two decades before retiring to Sebastopol, Calif. MOPA received his archive in 1992 and established the Lou Stoumen Prize to award working photographers of outstanding merit.
Exhibition Location:
dnj Gallery
3015 Ocean Park Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Image Credit: Lou Stoumen, Sunset, Times Square, 1980, gelatin silver print. © Lou Stoumen Archive / Museum of Photographic Arts
Tue
15
The San Diego Italian Film Festival Presents: Euforia
Directed by Valeria Golino | 120 minutes
Acclaimed leading actors Riccardo Scamarcio and Valerio Mastandrea play Matteo and Ettore, two adult brothers living drastically different lives, in actor-director Valeria Golino’s quietly wrenching new drama. When Ettore, a public-school teacher and father of modest means, is diagnosed with a serious illness, he goes to stay with cosmopolitan Matteo in his sprawling Roman bachelor pad, and Matteo takes charge of overseeing his brother’s medical care. Between appointments with doctors and visits from Ettore’s wife and his lover, the brothers reckon with long-unresolved tensions and resentments, and face the implications of Ettore’s failing health, against the backdrop of the sunny Roman cityscape. Premiered at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival as “Un Certain Regard.”
Attendees will also enjoy a screening of the short film Postcard (7 minutes) by Giulio Guerrieri.
Sat
14
Lou Stoumen's New York will be on display at dnj Gallery in Santa Monica. The exhibition will feature some of Stoumen's most iconic images.
About Lou Stoumen
Louis C. Stoumen (American, 1917-1991), an accomplished writer, photographer and filmmaker, published 10 photography books and earned two Academy Awards for his film productions during a career that spanned more than four decades. He was well known for the deliberate use of text in his images to imply narrative and context and coined “Paper Movie” to describe his publications of photography and words. Stoumen taught at UCLA Film School for two decades before retiring to Sebastopol, Calif. MOPA received his archive in 1992 and established the Lou Stoumen Prize to award working photographers of outstanding merit.
Exhibition Location:
dnj Gallery
3015 Ocean Park Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Image Credit: Lou Stoumen, Sunset, Times Square, 1980, gelatin silver print. © Lou Stoumen Archive / Museum of Photographic Arts
Wed
16
The San Diego Italian Film Festival Presents: Comandante
Directed by Francesco Maisto | 72 minutes
Francesco Maisto, the director of this film’s father, was a supervising judge in Milan’s San Vittore prison during the Seventies, the years marked by political terrorism in Italy. Felice was a mechanic and has always called himself a Communist, an activist of the far-left movement LottaContinua. What is the link between two characters so distant and different?Humanity is the common thread of this intimate and personal documentary. Its deep meaning is the research carried by the young director: his need and urge to question himself incessantly about two key figures of his childhood, on the meaning of friendship, and the image a son has of his own father.
Attendees will also enjoy the screening of the film short Butterflies in Berlin (30 minutes) by Monica Manganelli. The short is one of the twenty finalists of our new Short Film Competition.
Sat
14
Lou Stoumen's New York will be on display at dnj Gallery in Santa Monica. The exhibition will feature some of Stoumen's most iconic images.
About Lou Stoumen
Louis C. Stoumen (American, 1917-1991), an accomplished writer, photographer and filmmaker, published 10 photography books and earned two Academy Awards for his film productions during a career that spanned more than four decades. He was well known for the deliberate use of text in his images to imply narrative and context and coined “Paper Movie” to describe his publications of photography and words. Stoumen taught at UCLA Film School for two decades before retiring to Sebastopol, Calif. MOPA received his archive in 1992 and established the Lou Stoumen Prize to award working photographers of outstanding merit.
Exhibition Location:
dnj Gallery
3015 Ocean Park Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Image Credit: Lou Stoumen, Sunset, Times Square, 1980, gelatin silver print. © Lou Stoumen Archive / Museum of Photographic Arts
Thu
17
The San Diego Italian Film Festival Presents: L'amore Molesto and Ferrante Fever
L'amore Molesto
Directed by Mario Martone | 104 minutes
What happened to Amalia? Who was with her the night she died? Her daughter Delia is saddened by the news, yet she is not surprised.She considers her mother to be a disgrace even before she hears of the sordid circumstances of her death. Delia travels home to Naples for the funeral and tries to piece together her mother’s recent life. By doing so, she starts to confront her childhood memories that shaped their family history. Based on the first novel by Elena Ferrante.
Ferrante Fever
Directed by Giacomo Durzi | 90 minutes
With over 5 million copies of her “Neapolitan Novels” sold and publication rights in 50 countries, Elena Ferrante is a global literary sensation. A journey between New York City’s cultural hub and Ferrante’s native Italy explores how an anonymous, translated author’s visceral tales of love and friendship gained such an enthusiastic following. Ann Goldstein, Sarah McNally, Jonathan Franzen, Roberto Saviano and others weigh in on the Ferrante “mania” and what makes her work—and her mysterious persona—so uniquely captivating.
Both screenings will feature an introduction and Q&A with Loredana Di Martino, Ph.D., Professor, University of San Diego and Artistic Director Antonio Iannotta, Ph.D.
Sat
14
Lou Stoumen's New York will be on display at dnj Gallery in Santa Monica. The exhibition will feature some of Stoumen's most iconic images.
About Lou Stoumen
Louis C. Stoumen (American, 1917-1991), an accomplished writer, photographer and filmmaker, published 10 photography books and earned two Academy Awards for his film productions during a career that spanned more than four decades. He was well known for the deliberate use of text in his images to imply narrative and context and coined “Paper Movie” to describe his publications of photography and words. Stoumen taught at UCLA Film School for two decades before retiring to Sebastopol, Calif. MOPA received his archive in 1992 and established the Lou Stoumen Prize to award working photographers of outstanding merit.
Exhibition Location:
dnj Gallery
3015 Ocean Park Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Image Credit: Lou Stoumen, Sunset, Times Square, 1980, gelatin silver print. © Lou Stoumen Archive / Museum of Photographic Arts
Fri
18
The San Diego Italian Film Festival Presents: Dogman
Directed by Matteo Garrone | 120 minutes
In a seaside village on the outskirts of a nItalian city, where the only law seems to be survival of the fittest, Marcello is a slight, mild-mannered man who divides his days between working at his modest dog grooming salon, caring for his daughter Alida, and being coercedinto the petty criminal schemes of the local bully Simoncino, an ex-boxer who terrorizes the neighborhood. When Simoncino’s abuse finally brings Marcello to a breaking point, he decides to stand up for his own dignity through an act of vengeance, with terrible consequences. Inspired by the real-life case of Er Canaro (“the dog keeper”), a pet groomer and drug addict, the movie is an exceptional mix of cruel realism and dark fairy tale. Marcello Fonte’s performance, his first in a leading role, earned him the award for best actor at Cannes.
Attendees will also enjoy a screening of the short film Cyclamen (9 minutes) by Davide Canali. The short is one of the twenty finalists of our new Short Film Competition.
Sat
14
Lou Stoumen's New York will be on display at dnj Gallery in Santa Monica. The exhibition will feature some of Stoumen's most iconic images.
About Lou Stoumen
Louis C. Stoumen (American, 1917-1991), an accomplished writer, photographer and filmmaker, published 10 photography books and earned two Academy Awards for his film productions during a career that spanned more than four decades. He was well known for the deliberate use of text in his images to imply narrative and context and coined “Paper Movie” to describe his publications of photography and words. Stoumen taught at UCLA Film School for two decades before retiring to Sebastopol, Calif. MOPA received his archive in 1992 and established the Lou Stoumen Prize to award working photographers of outstanding merit.
Exhibition Location:
dnj Gallery
3015 Ocean Park Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Image Credit: Lou Stoumen, Sunset, Times Square, 1980, gelatin silver print. © Lou Stoumen Archive / Museum of Photographic Arts
Sat
14
Lou Stoumen's New York will be on display at dnj Gallery in Santa Monica. The exhibition will feature some of Stoumen's most iconic images.
About Lou Stoumen
Louis C. Stoumen (American, 1917-1991), an accomplished writer, photographer and filmmaker, published 10 photography books and earned two Academy Awards for his film productions during a career that spanned more than four decades. He was well known for the deliberate use of text in his images to imply narrative and context and coined “Paper Movie” to describe his publications of photography and words. Stoumen taught at UCLA Film School for two decades before retiring to Sebastopol, Calif. MOPA received his archive in 1992 and established the Lou Stoumen Prize to award working photographers of outstanding merit.
Exhibition Location:
dnj Gallery
3015 Ocean Park Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Image Credit: Lou Stoumen, Sunset, Times Square, 1980, gelatin silver print. © Lou Stoumen Archive / Museum of Photographic Arts
Sun
20
The San Diego Italian Film Festival Presents: Benedetta Follia
Directed by Carlo Verdone | 110 minutes
Guglielmo is the owner of a religious items shop who has just been dumped by his wife, Lidia. Depressed and unable to enjoy anything else in life, he gets his life turned upside down by his new employee, the cheery suburban girl Luna who overwhelms him with her energy and care free lifestyle. When she convinces him to sign up on a dating app to forget aboutLidia, Guglielmo will embark on an incredible series of absurd dates and hilarious situations!
Attendees will also enjoy a screening of the short film Scent of the Stars (12 minutes) by Francesco Felli. The short is one of the twenty finalists of our new Short Film Competition.
Sat
14
Lou Stoumen's New York will be on display at dnj Gallery in Santa Monica. The exhibition will feature some of Stoumen's most iconic images.
About Lou Stoumen
Louis C. Stoumen (American, 1917-1991), an accomplished writer, photographer and filmmaker, published 10 photography books and earned two Academy Awards for his film productions during a career that spanned more than four decades. He was well known for the deliberate use of text in his images to imply narrative and context and coined “Paper Movie” to describe his publications of photography and words. Stoumen taught at UCLA Film School for two decades before retiring to Sebastopol, Calif. MOPA received his archive in 1992 and established the Lou Stoumen Prize to award working photographers of outstanding merit.
Exhibition Location:
dnj Gallery
3015 Ocean Park Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Image Credit: Lou Stoumen, Sunset, Times Square, 1980, gelatin silver print. © Lou Stoumen Archive / Museum of Photographic Arts
Mon
21
The San Diego Italian Film Festival Presents: Napoli Velata
Directed by Ferzan Özpetek | 113 minutes
In this moody, baroque thriller from Turkish-Italian director Ferzan Ozpetek, Adriana, a medical examiner, meets a younger man, Andrea, during a party at her eccentric aunt’s garish apartment. They hit it off immediately, though their romance, a night of intense passion, is curtailed when Andrea later stands her up. While inspecting a corpse at work, Adriana notices a distinctive tattoo that reminds her of Andrea’s—at least as she remembers it. So begins a gripping metaphysical murder mystery, in which Naples plays a pivotal role of an additional storyteller, becoming a shadowy, mysterious labyrinth of desire and memory.
Attendees will also enjoy a screening of the short film The Same Name (7 minutes) by Giuseppe Alessio Nuzzo. The short is one of the twenty finalists of our new Short Film Competition.
Sat
14
Lou Stoumen's New York will be on display at dnj Gallery in Santa Monica. The exhibition will feature some of Stoumen's most iconic images.
About Lou Stoumen
Louis C. Stoumen (American, 1917-1991), an accomplished writer, photographer and filmmaker, published 10 photography books and earned two Academy Awards for his film productions during a career that spanned more than four decades. He was well known for the deliberate use of text in his images to imply narrative and context and coined “Paper Movie” to describe his publications of photography and words. Stoumen taught at UCLA Film School for two decades before retiring to Sebastopol, Calif. MOPA received his archive in 1992 and established the Lou Stoumen Prize to award working photographers of outstanding merit.
Exhibition Location:
dnj Gallery
3015 Ocean Park Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Image Credit: Lou Stoumen, Sunset, Times Square, 1980, gelatin silver print. © Lou Stoumen Archive / Museum of Photographic Arts
Tue
22
The San Diego Italian Film Festival Presents: Come un Gatto in Tangenziale
Directed by Riccardo Milani | 99 minutes
Giovanni and Monica are the most diverse people on earth. He is an intellectual who envisions social integration and lives in the historic center of Rome, while she is a former cashier of a supermarket dealing every day with the problematic and multicultural environment of her suburban neighborhood. They would never have met if their twelve-year-old kids did not get together. Now they both have a common goal: the relationship between their kids, which has the life expectation of a cat on a highway, must come to an end! But something between them starts to change…
Attendees will also enjoy a screening of the short film The Looney Boxer (20 minutes) by Paolo Strippoli.
Sat
14
Lou Stoumen's New York will be on display at dnj Gallery in Santa Monica. The exhibition will feature some of Stoumen's most iconic images.
About Lou Stoumen
Louis C. Stoumen (American, 1917-1991), an accomplished writer, photographer and filmmaker, published 10 photography books and earned two Academy Awards for his film productions during a career that spanned more than four decades. He was well known for the deliberate use of text in his images to imply narrative and context and coined “Paper Movie” to describe his publications of photography and words. Stoumen taught at UCLA Film School for two decades before retiring to Sebastopol, Calif. MOPA received his archive in 1992 and established the Lou Stoumen Prize to award working photographers of outstanding merit.
Exhibition Location:
dnj Gallery
3015 Ocean Park Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Image Credit: Lou Stoumen, Sunset, Times Square, 1980, gelatin silver print. © Lou Stoumen Archive / Museum of Photographic Arts
Wed
23
The San Diego Italian Film Festival Presents: Notti Magiche
Directed by Paolo Virzì | 125 minutes
The latest movie from Paolo Virzì is a sparkling comedy disguised as a murder mystery and bittersweet film industry satire set in the early 1990s, the tail end of Italian cinema’s golden age, when neorealism and commedia all’italiana gave way to a culture of excess, greed, and artistic stagnation. When a famous film producer is found dead in the Tiber river, suspicion falls on three young screenwriters who, when they are hauled in for questioning, recount their wild adventures navigating Rome’s declining film industry. Riveted with winking references to Italian cinema legends, with a melancholy eye on the past and an exhausted one on the present, Magical Nights is Virzì’s loving yet irreverent glance back to the so-called good old days.
Attendees will also enjoy a screening of Vale la Pena (15 minutes) by Lorenzo Marinelli. The short is one of the twenty finalists of our new Short Film Competition.
Sat
14
Lou Stoumen's New York will be on display at dnj Gallery in Santa Monica. The exhibition will feature some of Stoumen's most iconic images.
About Lou Stoumen
Louis C. Stoumen (American, 1917-1991), an accomplished writer, photographer and filmmaker, published 10 photography books and earned two Academy Awards for his film productions during a career that spanned more than four decades. He was well known for the deliberate use of text in his images to imply narrative and context and coined “Paper Movie” to describe his publications of photography and words. Stoumen taught at UCLA Film School for two decades before retiring to Sebastopol, Calif. MOPA received his archive in 1992 and established the Lou Stoumen Prize to award working photographers of outstanding merit.
Exhibition Location:
dnj Gallery
3015 Ocean Park Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Image Credit: Lou Stoumen, Sunset, Times Square, 1980, gelatin silver print. © Lou Stoumen Archive / Museum of Photographic Arts
Thu
24
The San Diego Italian Film Festival Presents: A Casa Tutti Bene
Directed by Gabriele Muccino | 108 minutes
An unexpected storm strands a family, gathered together to celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary of two elderly parents, Pietro and Alba, on the small island of Ischia in Southern Italy. The numerous relatives are forced to live together under the same roof for two days and two nights with no way out. The lives of the siblings, cousins, nieces and nephews become ineluctably intertwined, lingering between a past which rehashes old and unforgotten disputes, a present which rekindles unresolved conflicts, and a future which appears to be uncertain for everyone. The island morphs into a labyrinth of passion and everyone must reckon with their own personal, sentimental, family, or professional circumstances.
Attendees will also enjoy a screening of the short film The Place of Happiness (15 minutes) by Aliosha Massine. The short is one of the twenty finalists of our new Short Film Competition.
Sat
14
Lou Stoumen's New York will be on display at dnj Gallery in Santa Monica. The exhibition will feature some of Stoumen's most iconic images.
About Lou Stoumen
Louis C. Stoumen (American, 1917-1991), an accomplished writer, photographer and filmmaker, published 10 photography books and earned two Academy Awards for his film productions during a career that spanned more than four decades. He was well known for the deliberate use of text in his images to imply narrative and context and coined “Paper Movie” to describe his publications of photography and words. Stoumen taught at UCLA Film School for two decades before retiring to Sebastopol, Calif. MOPA received his archive in 1992 and established the Lou Stoumen Prize to award working photographers of outstanding merit.
Exhibition Location:
dnj Gallery
3015 Ocean Park Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Image Credit: Lou Stoumen, Sunset, Times Square, 1980, gelatin silver print. © Lou Stoumen Archive / Museum of Photographic Arts
Fri
25
The San Diego Italian Film Festival Presents: Selfie
Directed by Agostino Ferrente | 76 minutes
Several years after an unarmed teenager was shot by police in the Traiano neighborhood of Naples, filmmaker Agostino Ferrente traveled to the gang-ravaged neighborhood to make a documentary about the lives of its young people—for whom the prospect of being swept up in Camorra activity perpetually looms. The film’s central subjects are Alessandro and Pietro, 16-year-old best friends whom Ferrente recruited to film themselves using smartphones in “selfie” mode as they go about their daily lives. The result is at once lyrical and raw, a deceptively offhand, richly moving chronicle of adolescent friendship in a social microcosm shaped by economic precarity, conflicting moralities, and the improbable persistence of hope.
Attendees will also enjoy a screening of two short films: Shine (15 minutes) by Rhett Bradbury and Beauty (25 minutes) by Nicola Abbatangelo. These shorts are two of the twenty finalists of our new Short Film Competition.
Fri
25
The San Diego Italian Film Festival Presents: L'uomo che Comprò La Luna
Directed by Paolo Zucca | 103 minutes
A Sardinian fisherman has promised the moon to the woman he loves. And Sardinian men always keep their promises! Two government agents discover that an anonymous Sardinian resident has laid claim to Earth’s natural satellite. Immediately, word spreads through diplomatic channels in a series of grave phone calls. Deciding that this lunatic must be found, Italy tracks down a Special Forces agent named Kevin Pirelli who is secretly a Sardinian native, hiding behind a fake Milanese name and dyed blond hair. To complete his mission, he is trained to blend into society by Badore, a grizzled, hilariously deadpan taskmaster, who instills stereotypical provincial attitudes in the sweet, agreeable Pirelli, such as intense stubbornness and irascibility. Once on the island, a freshly bearded Pirelli finally discovers the moon-owner and the poignant reason behind his otherworldly investment, leading to a loony, fantastically visualized confrontation between government forces and the moon itself. In the end, Zucca’s film is more about riffing on stereotypes of his home island than on sci-fi, adding an emotional dimension to balance the slapstick silliness of this terrific comedy.
Sat
14
Lou Stoumen's New York will be on display at dnj Gallery in Santa Monica. The exhibition will feature some of Stoumen's most iconic images.
About Lou Stoumen
Louis C. Stoumen (American, 1917-1991), an accomplished writer, photographer and filmmaker, published 10 photography books and earned two Academy Awards for his film productions during a career that spanned more than four decades. He was well known for the deliberate use of text in his images to imply narrative and context and coined “Paper Movie” to describe his publications of photography and words. Stoumen taught at UCLA Film School for two decades before retiring to Sebastopol, Calif. MOPA received his archive in 1992 and established the Lou Stoumen Prize to award working photographers of outstanding merit.
Exhibition Location:
dnj Gallery
3015 Ocean Park Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Image Credit: Lou Stoumen, Sunset, Times Square, 1980, gelatin silver print. © Lou Stoumen Archive / Museum of Photographic Arts
