Lightscape (Doug Aitken)

Lightscape, An Immersive Non-Linear Film by Doug Aitken. 65min. Not Rated. Presented as part of PAM CUT’s PLUS PLUS Festival, Lightscape – a new film-based installation by artist Doug Aitken and produced with the LA Phil and LA Master Chorale – considers our landscape of diversity, creating a vulnerable and humanistic portrait that chronicles the search to find one’s individuality in a world of continuous transformation. Lightscape takes immersive cinema to an extreme, and moves like a fast-paced fever dream through the modern world. It follows multiple characters in an Altman-esque structure, taking us on a journey that explores a landscape in the midst of our rapidly changing world—from the deep ecology of Death Valley’s deserts and dramatic mountainscapes to futuristic robotics factories and environments reinterpreted through the digital realm. The audio in Lightscape features Gustavo Dudamel, one of the world’s premiere conductors, who conducts original music for the film with the LA Philharmonic of iconic minimalist composers and artists such as Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Meredith Monk and original scores by Beck & LA LOM, and Doug Aitken. The diverse cast of Lightscape mirro

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