Occupy West Hollywood! Come join us for a screening of Ken Ehrlich’s new documentary video La Huelga. Hosted by Martín Plot, with James Wiltgen as respondent. La Huelga is an experimental documentary video that examines a student strike at the largest public University in Mexico (UNAM) in 1999–2000, by juxtaposing participant interviews with a lyrical portrait of the campus architecture.
Ken Ehrlich (film) is an artist and writer whose work focuses on the material, social, and formal dimensions of the built environment. He currently teaches in the School of Critical Studies at CalArts and in the Department of Art at the University of California, Riverside. James Wiltgen earned his PhD from the University of California Los Angeles, where he wrote his dissertation on the development of television in Brazil. He teaches in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts, where he is working on a project linking post-structuralism to the Cold War, and beyond. Admission is free. Parking available in the 5-story West Hollywood Park/Library Parking Garage. For more information please visit http://aestheticsandpolitics.calarts.edu/lecture-series/whap TTY for the deaf and hard of hearing at (323) 848-6496.
