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# Video Artists Subvert and Pay Homage to the Hollywood Musical Genre
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/video-in-site-lace-musical/
- Published: 2019-02-20T17:27:16.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:54:19.000Z
- Description: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions kicks off a series of screenings of video art and experimental cinema that will travel around the city.
- Author: Matt Stromberg
- Tags: Art, Events, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Paul Pescador, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:34 (2019, 2020, part 1)

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Michael Webster, Still from “Kitty 54” (2015) (image courtesy the artist)

Organized by artists Maura Brewer + Paul Pescador, [*Video In Site*](https://welcometolace.org/event/video-in-site/?ref=hyperallergic.com) is a series of screenings that reflect the way film and video are presented, digested, cut-up, and reformed across a wide spectrum of media, from the cell phone to the lap top, the mainstream movie theater to the art house. Beginning next Wednesday [at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions](https://welcometolace.org/event/video-in-site/?ref=hyperallergic.com) (LACE), the program will then move to other venues around the city: 18th Street Art Center, Echo Park Film Center, Queens, and Veggie Cloud. Each screening will feature video art and experimental film loosely based around a specific cinematic genre, including the western, the road trip, science fiction, soap opera, and horror.

Next week’s screening is focused on the Hollywood musical and contains a range of works that pay homage to or subvert the classic tropes of song and dance. Featured films include Mike Kelley’s “Day is Done” (2005-6), a campy series of vignettes based on found photographs of high school musicals, Judy Fiskin’s “Diary of a Midlife Crisis” (1997), a video diary in the form of comedic single-shot scenes, and Michael Webster’s “Kitty 54” (2015), a CGI cat containing kaleidoscopic scenes of disco’s heyday. The program is rounded out by contributions from Seth Bogart, Max Grau, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Josh Mannis, and Alison O’Daniel.

**When:** Wednesday, February 27, 7–9pm  
**Where:** Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) (6522 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, Los Angeles)

*More info at* [*LACE*](https://welcometolace.org/event/video-in-site/?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*