Festival de Iconos Minimalistas
WITH MUSIC: Minimalist Cinema — Minimalist Sound
Mini Film Festival at Now Instant
A cinematic celebration of minimalist music and transcendent moving image
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Sat Apr 17, 2027 12pm
WITH MUSIC: Minimalist Cinema — Minimalist Sound
LA Phil Insight partners with Now Instant to present a full day of companion film screenings that build on the programming of LA Phil's Minimalist Icons festival. Moving beyond the concert hall and into the cinema, this exploration traces how the composers who are being celebrated on stage shaped, and were shaped by, a parallel history of minimalist cinema.
For a movement built on reduction and repetition, minimalism has proven remarkably expansive. What began in the 1960s as a rejection of excess in the visual art of Donald Judd and Sol LeWitt or in the looping phase patterns of Reich and Riley soon found its way into moving images, where filmmakers arrived at the same instincts independently: fixed cameras held in sustained meditation, stories told through accumulation rather than events, and image systems as exacting as any score.
The Mini-Minimalism Film Festival activates Now Instant, a magical micro-cinema tucked within Chinatown, through a durational screening featuring intimate documentary portraits of minimalist composers, feature films built around their scores, and landmark works where cinema discovered its own minimal grammar. Alongside these offerings, the Center for Visual Music will curate a special block of films highlighting the work of visual music pioneers who utilized custom-built instruments to create their abstract visions exploring image-as-rhythm long before genres were coined to identify such aesthetics. Alongside these offerings, the Center for Visual Music will also feature select works by contemporary artists influenced by the pioneers. The program closes with a live performance pairing minimal music with real-time video synthesis, bringing sound and image together in the same room. Presented alongside the LA Phil's concert programming, this is an invitation to experience minimalism moving fluidly between mediums.
LA Phil Insight cuenta con el generoso apoyo de Linda y David Shaheen.
Now Instant
939 Chung King Rd Los Angeles, California 90012
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