Symposium: "This is the City: Preserving Moving Images of Los Angeles"

“This Is the City: Preserving Moving Images of Los Angeles” is a two-day symposium that will explore portrayals of Los Angeles in rare films, newsreels, home movies, and television programs. The symposium will convene leading curators, archivists, and academics, who will discuss how these visual documents represent Los Angeles and its diverse communities. Participants will also consider how to best preserve this legacy. On opening night CSRC director Chon A. Noriega will introduce artist and ASCO cofounder Harry Gamboa Jr., who will present the keynote address, “Forever/Never on a Smoggy Day.” For more information, visit: https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2015/this-is-the-city-symposium-1.

This symposium is open to the public, with a special $15 pass granting access to all discussions and screenings on both Friday, November 13, and Saturday, November 14. Passes can be purchased online, or at the Billy Wilder Theater box office beginning at 6:30 p.m. on November 13, and throughout the symposium.

The event is sponsored by UCLA Moving Image Archive Studies, the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television, and the UCLA Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media.