Students camping outside Pauley Pavilion for tickets to the men’s basketball game against Arizona were ushered in the building at 5 a.m. Saturday morning for a taping of ESPN College GameDay. More »
Images on paper strips blur into moving sequences as DESMA Professor Erkki Huhtamo spins a zoetrope from 1870 and peeks through the slits on the side of the metal wheel. This device is only one of thousands that make up Professor Huhtamo’s collection of antique optical viewing devices. From myriopticons to magic lanterns, Professor Huhtamo’s collection tells the story of media culture and preserves the history of the moving image.
Students camping outside Pauley Pavilion for tickets to the men’s basketball game against Arizona were ushered in the building at 5 a.m. Saturday morning for a taping of ESPN College GameDay. More »
Pen in hand, behind a mic, UCLA Subway employee Darnell Polidore, known in his career as “Focal, and his brother Chris, known as “Dutch,” moved from Florida to Los Angeles to pursue a music career. More »
In a department of fewer than 20 colleagues, the Moving Image Archive Studies Department fosters close community ties in preparation for their graduate students’ future careers of restoring and preserving aging film reels. More »
Dressed in brightly colored onesies and last minute DIY creations, participants of Dance Marathon took full advantage of the various themed shifts that took place over 26 hours. More »
Jumping on brightly lit quadrants, students participate on the first ever human powered dance floor at Dance Marathon. UCLA’s Ecology, Economy, Equity club teamed up with the Pediatric AIDS Coalition to bring the event the kinetic dance floor. More »
Ambassadors from Camp Kindle, a camp for young people affected with HIV and AIDS, were invited to Dance Marathon to speak on behalf of the Project Kindle Foundation. More »