Flux Festival Launches in Los Angeles, Celebrating Emerging Filmmakers and Artists

Flux Festival, a new event celebrating creativity across film, art, and emerging technology, will take place in Los Angeles November 20-23, 2024. The festival captures an unparalleled snapshot of the global creative zeitgeist, presented through a thoughtfully curated program of screenings, talks, sensory exhibits, hands-on workshops, and performances. View the full schedule and register here: flux.net

Flux Festival, which occurs across four days at venues in LA, will center around a day-long showcase at the stunning new Audrey Irmas Pavilion in Koreatown on Saturday, November 23. The event will feature bold innovations in moving image and sound, with presentations, performances and film. The evening will close with a party featuring a live AV set by Nosaj Thing which follows an opening AV performance by artists Kevin Peter He and Jake Oleson.

Flux Festival is an off-shoot of the Flux screening series held quarterly at the Hammer Museum at UCLA in Westwood, CA, and will kick off with a special screening on November 20 to celebrate 15 seasons of Flux, with surprise guests and an afterparty in the Hammer Museum courtyard. Workshops exploring new storytelling forms, screenings, and a gallery showcase will take place on November 21-22 at the School of Cinematic Arts on the USC campus.

Filmmakers, performers, and artists at Flux Festival will include: Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Carlos López Estrada; multidisciplinary sci-fi artist Lucy McRae; creator of the Cyberfeminism Index, Mindy Seu; conceptual filmmaker Paul Trillo; singer and performance artist Poppy; British visual artist and performer Shantell Martin, and genre-defying filmmaker and artist Rashaad Newsome, and many more. A complete list of filmmakers, performers and presentations is available online.

The inaugural Flux Festival is presented in collaboration with AIMS (AI for Media & Storytelling), a collaboration between the School of Cinematic Arts and the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC.

For more information and to purchase tickets for Flux Festival, visit: flux.net

About Flux Festival
Flux Festival is curated by Meg and Jonathan Wells, directors of Flux, an LA-based creative studio, along with Holly Willis, co-director of AIMS, a research studio at USC exploring AI and storytelling.

About Flux
Flux, led by curators Meg and Jonathan Wells, has championed and nurtured emerging talent in the realms of film, visual art, and music including Daniels, Hiro Murai, Kilo Kish, and Carlos Lopez Estrada through exhibitions, immersive film events, and curated film and art programming. Their celebrated museum exhibition Spectacle: The Music Video toured five museums globally. Jonathan was the founder of ResFest, a seminal international digital film festival that spotlighted Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham, and more before their careers hit the mainstream.

About AIMS
AIMS is a collaboration between USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism co-founded by Mike Ananny and Holly Willis to study the changing nature of storytelling in the context of artificial intelligence. AIMS hosts working groups, conversations, and events, and curates the Signal + Noise gallery showcasing creative and critical response to AI.