Flux Festival Launches in LA, Celebrating Emerging Filmmakers
The festival kicks off with a 15-year anniversary Flux screening series at the Hammer Museum
Flux Festival, a new event celebrating creativity across film, art, and emerging technology, will take place in Los Angeles November 20-23, 2024. The festival captures an unparalleled snapshot of the global creative zeitgeist, presented through a thoughtfully curated program of screenings, talks, sensory exhibits, hands-on workshops, and performances. View the full schedule and register here: flux.net
Flux Festival, which occurs across four days at venues in LA, will center around a day-long showcase at the stunning new Audrey Irmas Pavilion in Koreatown on Saturday, November 23. The event will feature bold innovations in moving image and sound, with presentations, performances and film. The evening will close with a party featuring a live AV set by Nosaj Thing which follows an opening AV performance by artists Kevin Peter He and Jake Oleson.
Flux Festival is an off-shoot of the Flux screening series held quarterly at the Hammer Museum at UCLA in Westwood, CA, and will kick off with a special screening on November 20 to celebrate 15 seasons of Flux, with surprise guests and an afterparty in the Hammer Museum courtyard. Workshops exploring new storytelling forms, screenings, and a gallery showcase will take place on November 21-22 at the School of Cinematic Arts on the USC campus.
Filmmakers, performers, and artists at Flux Festival will include: Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Carlos López Estrada; multidisciplinary sci-fi artist Lucy McRae; creator of the Cyberfeminism Index, Mindy Seu; conceptual filmmaker Paul Trillo; singer and performance artist Poppy; British visual artist and performer Shantell Martin, and genre-defying filmmaker and artist Rashaad Newsome, and many more. A complete list of filmmakers, performers and presentations is available online.
The inaugural Flux Festival is presented in collaboration with AIMS (AI for Media & Storytelling), a collaboration between the School of Cinematic Arts and the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC.
For more information and to purchase tickets for Flux Festival, visit: flux.net
