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Film Programs
A variety of film programs are offered by the Education department to support the museum’s mission. Programs include films that complement the museum’s current exhibitions, collaborations with other cultural institutions, special advanced screenings, and outreach screenings for schools. MoPA's film programs provide an opportunity for visitors to learn and experience the various genres of film in our state of the art Joan & Irwin Jacobs Theater.
For more information please contact 619.238.7559 x307 or email films@mopa.org
Click here to learn more about free film screenings for Title I Schools
MoPA/Italian American Arts and Culture Assoc. Collaborations
Cinema Sud A complete schedule of screenings is available at www.sandiegoitalianfilmfestival.com For the latest program listing, email SDItFF@gmail.com |
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BEHIND THE LENS: A Documentary Film Series
November 7, 14, and 21, 2008
Joan & Irwin Jacobs Theater
7:00pm
Free to MoPA members, $6 students, $8 general admission
MoPA presents a documentary film series in conjunction with the exhibitions, Nancy Newhall: A Literacy of Images and Picturing the Process: Landscapes through Time and Space. This series consists of three different films on a photography master, a photography innovator, and a quirky locale that has become an exotic photography subject.
Now age 90, Charis Wilson recounts her years with Weston with great humor, candor, and some regret. Combining insight from leading scholars, rare archival images, and convincingly authentic reenactments, Eloquent Nude presents a remarkable true story of love and loss, travel and adventure, and an intimate look at the making of Modern photography.
Click here for a full interview with Director Ian McClusky.
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November 14, 2008 Manufactured Landscapes Directed by Jennifer Baichwal, 2006, 90 min. MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is a feature length documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Burtynsky makes large-scale photographs of ‘manufactured landscapes’ – quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, dams. He photographs civilization’s materials and debris, but in a way people describe as “stunning” or “beautiful,” and so raises all kinds of questions about ethics and aesthetics without trying to easily answer them. |
The film follows Burtynsky to China as he travels the country photographing the evidence and effects of that country’s massive industrial revolution. Sites such as the Three Gorges Dam, which is bigger by 50% than any other dam in the world and displaced over a million people, factory floors over a kilometer long, and the breathtaking scale of Shanghai’s urban renewal are subjects for his lens and the motion picture camera.
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November 21, 2008 Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea Directed by Chris Metzler & Jeff Springer, 2004, 73 min. Fabulously offbeat and refreshingly upbeat, this lovable film gets friendly with the natives of the Salton Sea, an inland ocean of massive fish kills, rotting resorts, and 120 degree nights located just minutes from urban Southern California. This award-winning film from directors Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer details the rise and fall of the Salton Sea, from its heyday as the "California Riviera" where boaters and Beach Boys mingled in paradise to its present state as a decaying, forgotten ecological disaster. |
From wonderland to wasteland, the film captures a place far more interesting than the shopping malls and parking lots of suburban America, a wacky world where a beer-swilling Hungarian Revolutionary, a geriatric nudist, and a religious zealot building a monument to God all find solace and community.
Crisply and hilariously narrated by oddball auteur John Waters, and featuring music by desert lounge rockers Friends of Dean Martinez, Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea melds high camp with stark realism, offering both a sobering message about the consequences of tampering with nature and a heart-warming tale of individualism. The filmmaker, Chris Metzler, will be in attendance for Q & A after the screening.
For more information please contact 619.238.7559 x307 or email publicprograms@mopa.org
POP Thursdays
(Photography off the Prado)
MoPA’s nighttime series blends photography and film with drinks and music into a party like no other.
Bullitt (1968) Kick cupid to the curb. Take a break from the romance and hit the streets of San Francisco for the greatest car chase of all time. Catch Bullitt, starring cool guy Steve McQueen, from a seat in MoPA's theater or watch from the bar as it is projected on the walls. Grab a drink. Take in the art. Snap a portrait in one of MoPA’s antique photo booths. Get creative and lounge in the galleries with Dr.Sketchy's! Want to avoid the lines? |
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Featuring Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School, San Diego's premier cabaret life drawing group! Dames! Drinks! Drawing! |
Not a MoPA member? Call (619) 238-7559 x202 or join online
Link in to the POP Thursdays website for more info and pics!
Check out the MoPA MySpace Page for POP Photos and More!
Support for POP Thursdays is generously provided by: VeeV, CityBeat, George's Camera, Karl Strauss, Dr. Sketchy's and Jazz 99.3
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December Nights |
During December Nights, the Museum of Photographic Arts will be presenting free public screenings in the beautiful Joan and Irwin Jacobs Theater. The screenings will consist of various animated shorts directed toward families seeking a moment away from the crowded Prado and enjoy some uplifting short film for children of all ages.
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James and the Giant Peach, Disney Pictures The tale of a young boy who embarks on a magical odyssey in a giant peach comes to life in this 1996 animated version of the book by author, Roald Dahl, known for such literary contributions as The Witches, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, and many more. |
For more information please contact 619.238.7559 x307 or email publicprograms@mopa.org