**LA FILMFORUM presents COLLISION CENTER: MOVIES BY MIKE STOLTZ**

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Artist, filmmaker, curator, educator, musician, all-around sound and image maker **Mike Stoltz** has been an integral presence in the Los Angeles film community and the international experimental film landscape for over a decade now. His cinematic explorations are deeply engaging, thrilling, sometimes cacophonously energetic experiences that truly give us radical and fresh ideas about representation, space, and the very nature of seeing and hearing. But much more than mere audiovisual experiments, Stoltz’s films challenge our relationship to urban and domestic landscapes, politicizing them on a formal and material level, underscoring and heightening our empathetic response and conceptual consciousness. Themes of humanity, incarceration, liberation, and the latent embedded complexity of our inhabited landscapes mix thoughtfully in a brew that also employs the fundamental intensities of film and cinema to create a visceral connection to his subject matter.

Mike Stoltz is currently on leave from Los Angeles, but we're thrilled to welcome him back to town for this special solo screening, comprising the majority of his cinematic works, almost all showing in their original 16mm. Come celebrate his presence and his work with us in an eye- and ear-popping feast of radical abstraction/figuration, optical fragmentation, and some of the richest and gnarliest audiovisual collisions around.

Program and notes by Mark Toscano. Please note that this program contains flicker.

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Full program available at:

https://www.lafilmforum.org/schedule/summer-fall-2023/an-evening-with-mike-stoltz/

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Masks are highly recommended at Filmforum shows - N95 or KN95 are available at the door.

This is an 18+ event

Presented by LA Filmforum

No Covid-19 entry requirements

LA Filmforum: Mike Stoltz – Collision Center

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