LOCKER: January 2021

Alex Bag makes the Internet look like a bunch of posers. Before the proliferation of Web 2.0’s self-affected user-generated content, Bag’s production began data-mining digital footprints before we had ever taken a step. Self-effacing, self-inflicted, and self-indulgent, Bag plays back for us evidence of what we’ve said, where we’ve been, what we’ve been thinking, and, primarily, what we’ve seen.

Bag’s Harriet Craig (1998), looks backward and forward. Replaying Joan Crawford’s Harriet, the scheming and controlling ultra-homemaker, Bag’s re-versioning prefigures, in black and white televisual melodrama, the pathetic and the aspirational of social media domestic life.

John Marshall High School is a comprehensive public high school that provides high-quality, creative and rigorous instruction for students in a diverse community.

LOCKER is located at John Marshall High School. MAGIC RECTANGLES is available via digital platforms. A screening will be held Thursday, February 4, from 6:00 – 6:40pm. Following the screening, work may be viewed via links at www.justlocker.com.

Screening link, 2-4-21, 6pm

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/74723306356?pwd=RDFNL3RSOXBCTVljK1VnNDVWNzJFQT09

John Marshall High School

3939 Tracy St., Los Angeles, 90027

Contact:

Mark Roeder

mroeder74@gmail.com

Monday, January 18, 2021

LOCKER announces MAGIC RECTANGLES: La Jetée

ATTENTION:

LOCKER: MAGIC RECTANGLES

La Jetée

January 21 – 29, 2021

Screening Thursday, January 21, 6pm

LOCKER announces MAGIC RECTANGLES: Screenings via video conferencing platforms and video available online for limited runs.

MAGIC RECTANGLES is pleased to present Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962), virtually at John Marshall High School.

Video link:

Dead Link

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6tqu35yozmb1dtf/La_Jetee_English.mp4?dl=0

A boy and his parents have come to the main pier at Orly, the Paris airport, to watch the planes take off. A man, haunted by an image from his childhood, is also on the pier at Orly. It’s the Sunday before the start of World War III.

Right now, let us imagine the cinema-time of the film as a veil over the immediate-time we live through today. Has a reckoning come about too late? What happens next? Call upon the past and the future to save the present.

John Marshall High School is a comprehensive public high school that provides high-quality, creative and rigorous instruction for students in a diverse community.

LOCKER is located at John Marshall High School. MAGIC RECTANGLES is available via digital platforms. A screening will be held Thursday, January 21, from 6:00 – 6:40pm. The English language narrated version of the film will be screened. Both English and French versions will be available following the screening via links at www.justlocker.com.

Screening link, 1-21-21, 6pm

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/79696683396?pwd=cTRTcks3cmNPYlJKN0Fjd05FMENXUT09

John Marshall High School

3939 Tracy St., Los Angeles, 90027

Contact:

Mark Roeder

mroeder74@gmail.com