Benefit Screening of Hospital for Artist Tucker Stilley

Benefit for Los Angeles artist Tucker Stilley.
Rarely-Screened Fred Wiseman film headlines at the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, Walt Disney Concert Hall

A benefit for artist Tucker Stilley who suffers from ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis aka Lou Gehrig's Disease) will be held at REDCAT, in the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater. HOSPITAL, (1969, 85min., 16mm), the landmark documentary film by Fred Wiseman, will screen at, October 23 at 8:00 pm, to benefit the Los Angeles media artist who is a long-time friend of Fred Wiseman. When Mr. Wiseman learned of Mr. Stilley's battle with ALS, he offered to screen one of his rarely projected titles as a benefit for Tucker and his family. ALS is a neurodegenerative disease that has no known cure.

Tucker Stilley’s newest media works will be projected in the lounge and lobby before and after the screening in the theater, including Gyre, a 10-part projected video meditation on the great pacific garbage patch; Time-Weaves, a sloppy bouquet of consumer stand-alone slide-show LCD screens; and Paint-Ons, inspired by Le Mystère Picasso directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, Stilley paints directly into a video stream creating an animated record of all his gestures. Due to paralysis, a result of the disease, all the sound and video was composed using only a reflective bindi-dot on Tucker's forehead to control a complex system of computer technology, largely of his own design.
All proceeds from the event will go to support Mr. Stilley.

Ticket price includes the screening and reception to follow with food by Justin Cropper, executive chef of TRAXX Restaurant, in beautiful Union Station in downtown Los Angeles, and Wine from the Benziger family Winery in Glenn Ellen, CA.

For information on the art of Tucker Stilley and the PERMANENT RECORD,
visit www.tuckerstilley.com