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Mindful Awareness Meditation

Thursdays, 12:30–1 PM PDT

Mindful Awareness Meditation will be ONLINE ONLY on May 1, May 8, & May 15. Free weekly drop-in sessions are open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.

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Flux, Spring 2024

The Flux screening series brings the creative community together to celebrate outstanding short films and music videos from around the globe.

Wed Feb 21 7:30 PM

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I’m No Longer Here

A Cumbia beat fuels this beautifully choreographed feature by director Fernando Frías de la Parra, which ultimately is a melancholic take on emigration.

Fri Feb 23 7:30 PM

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Preserving Historic Color Videotape: Mr. Television (a.k.a. Milton Berle) and Friends

Join us for the world premiere screening of the preservation of the earliest known entertainment program to survive on color videotape.

Sat Feb 24 7:30 PM

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Screenings Kids Music & Performance

Family Flicks: A Dog’s Courage

A ragtag pack of dogs journey to find a place where they can be free in this beautiful South Korean animated feature.

Sun Feb 25 11:00 AM

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Between Remembered and Forgotten: Haunted Women, Distorted Memory

This screening, curated by students from the Association of Moving Image Archivists, explores film representations of haunted women as emblems of memory work.

Sun Feb 25 7:00 PM

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Grandma Has a Video Camera / Sócrates

The UCLA Film & Television Archive welcomes The Brazilian Filmmakers Collective in conversation with their films over two nights of programs that include short and feature length documentary and narrative work.

Fri Mar 1 7:30 PM

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The Pink Cloud + shorts

The UCLA Film & Television Archive welcomes The Brazilian Filmmakers Collective in conversation with their films over two nights of programs that include short and feature length documentary and narrative work.

Sat Mar 2 7:30 PM

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Kes / The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

15-year-old Billy Casper cannot seem to fit in or connect with much in his hometown in Northern England. That is until he forms a bond with a wild kestrel, providing him with an escape from the malaise of his daily life.

Sun Mar 3 7:00 PM

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Grizzly Man / Gates of Heaven

Grizzly Man tells the story of the life and death of self-proclaimed bear protector, Timothy Treadwell — a man who spent over a decade in Alaska living among the grizzly bears before being tragically killed by one.

Sat Mar 9 7:30 PM

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Bell Book and Candle / The Cassandra Cat

The UCLA Film and Television Archive presents a screening of two films featuring supernatural cats.

Fri Mar 15 7:30 PM