A kaleidoscopic meditation upon the city in motion, Los Angeles Is Endless Like a Scroll explores the infinite cities of L.A., from the incidental backdrop city found in early Hollywood productions, music videos, and classic skateboarding tapes to the virtual city of social media and video sharing sites. Between the two, we capture multiple extant cities by passing through at multiple speeds—by car, by bike, on foot. A remixing of the 1951 radio play adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s “The Pedestrian” forms the sonic backbone for our travels.
Visuals recorded, collected, and mixed by SpAN with Roundhouse Platform
Sound design by Sara Suarez
Public Programming is a summer-long experimental film series with monthly screenings featuring selections from contemporary practitioners and samples of film, radio, and literary material from the public domain — some reused, some reprogrammed.
Initiated by Noémie Despland-Lichtert & Brendan Sullivan Shea (Roundhouse), Public Programming is dedicated to supporting conversations between contemporary architects, artists, and archivists. The series aims to investigate changes in the commons of the urban and cultural sphere and facilitate public engagement with works of critical and creative archival research. The screenings in the summer of 2019 respond to a shared theme, City Similes.
