Slow Writing Los Angeles Launch

Slow Writing Book Launch

For the Los Angeles launch of Slow Writing, filmmaker Thom Andersen will be in discussion with author and poet Tosh Berman. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing.

Thom Andersen has lived in Los Angeles for most of his life, and his knowledge of and enthusiasm for the city has deeply informed his work, not least his widely praised study of its representation in movies, Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003). His other films include Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1974), Red Hollywood (1996, made with Noël Burch), Get Out of the Car (2010) and The Thoughts That Once We Had (2015). Andersen has contributed to journals such as Film Comment, Artforum, Sight and Sound and Cinema Scope, and has taught at the California Institute of the Arts since 1987. Slow Writing: Thom Andersen on Cinema is the first collection of his essays. 

Tosh Berman is a writer and poet. His two books are Sparks-Tastic (Rare Bird) and a book of poems, The Plum in Mr. Blum’s Pudding (Penny-Ante Editions). He is also the publisher and editor of his press, TamTam Books, which published the works of Boris Vian, Serge Gainsbourg, Guy Debord, Jacques Mesrine, Ron Mael & Russell Mael (Sparks) Gilles Verlant, and Lun*na Menoh. 

With thanks to David Gonzalez and Skylight Books.