Fowler Museum at UCLA presents Mur Murs by Agnes Varda film screening on January 6th, 2012 6:00 PM – 7:20 PM.
Agnès Varda’s love letter to Los Angeles’ ephemeral, idiosyncratic, and startling street murals captures the good, the bad, and the sublime in the realm of our public canvases, and features interludes in which the artists speak for themselves, including the performance “The Death of Fashion,” by Asco. Their backdrop is their skull mural painted on the façade of Self-Help Graphics, and Gronk and Willie Herrón dress as teardrops, Patssi Valdez as a candy in a wrapper, and Harry Gamboa in whiteface makeup and a tarpaper hat, in what would be their last performance together.
Mur Murs (1981, 16 mm film transferred to DVD, 80 minutes, color)
Fowler Museum at UCLA North Campus Los Angeles, CA 90095