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Artbound Season 8 Episodes
Season 8 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2016 - 2016
Episode 1
Charles Lummis: Reimagining the American West
Tue, May 10, 2016
"Charles Lummis: Reimagining the American West" chronicles the life and legacy of the Los Angeles icon who was known to many as a writer and editor of the Los Angeles Times, an avid collector and preservationist, an American Indian rights activist, and the founder of LA's first museum, the Southwest Museum of the American Indian. Lummis' genius and idiosyncratic personality captured the ethos of an era and a region. The documentary will give viewers an in-depth look at his fascinating life through the eyes of key historians and experts including William Deverell (Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West), William Estrada (Curator of California and American History and Chair of History Department for the Natural History Museum), Liza Posas (Head Librarian, Braun Research Library / Archivist, Autry Museum of the American West), and Lummis' granddaughter, Suzanne Lummis (Southern California poet/writer, arts organizer and educator).
Episode 2
Artesanos
Tue, May 17, 2016
The highly skilled labor of artisans migrating from Mexico and Latin America are the backbone of high-end design and retail in Los Angeles, producing some of the most exquisite furniture, textiles, and design goods. But they represent a creative force that seems invisible to the city. Artbound uncovers their stories and their role in making Los Angeles and Southern California the creative capital of the world.
Episode 3
Fallujah: Art, Healing, and PTSD
Tue, May 24, 2016
This documentary chronicles the journey of USMC Sergeant Christian Ellis was a machine gunner in Iraq, whose platoon was ambushed, leaving him with a broken back and only one of a few survivors. Ellis returned home to join millions of Americans who struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder. Ellis inspired the first opera about the Iraq war with a score composed by Tobin Stokes, a libretto by Iraqi-American Heather Raffo, and produced by the Long Beach Opera. Fallujah: Art, Healing, and PTSD also explores how the experience of war is transformed into a work of art.
Episode 4
MOCA: Beyond the Museum Walls
Tue, May 31, 201657 mins
Artbound explores the programming of the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, investigating new programming and curatorial approaches that are redefining what it means to be a 21st century museum. Featuring three new programs by The Underground Museum, Wolvesmouth, and Public Fiction.
Episode 5
Hopscotch: An Opera for the 21st Century
Tue, Jun 7, 201650 mins
Artbound explores the groundbreaking opera Hopscotch, which unfolded in cars zigzagging throughout Los Angeles, telling a single story of a disappearance across time. Audiences experienced the work in both the intimacy of a car, where artists and audiences shared a confined space, or in a larger central hub, where all the journeys were live streamed to create a dizzying panorama of life in Los Angeles.
Episode 6
Third L.A. With Architectural Critic Christopher Hawthorne
Tue, Jun 14, 2016
Architectural critic Christopher Hawthorne partners with Artbound to look at the future of Los Angeles by examining its architecture, urban planning, transportation and changing demographics, giving us a glimpse of Los Angeles as a model of urban renewal for the nation and the world.
