Tone Glow is excited to announce “Simple Fascinations,” a 22-film retrospective highlighting the works of the late Amy Halpern (1953-2022). Throughout her decades-long career, the Los Angeles-based filmmaker created beguiling works filled with lyrical images. While she made one feature-length film with Falling Lessons (1992), the majority of her works are brief, seductive vignettes. Tone Glow will present 22 of these short films, which grapple with light, color, materiality, texture, and the sublime. In an interview with Sense of Cinema, she noted that one of her only works with dialogue, Cigarette Burn (1978), was not meant to be about the words themselves. The ostensible simplicity of her films always belied their depth. These works—19 of which will be shown on 16mm—have been structured in two separate programs, carefully sequenced to help audiences better understand their exacting craft.

$12 - Tickets can be purchased here or at the door. A single ticket is good for both programs.

Program 1 at 1:30PM:

1. Plausible Light Source (1976, 1 min, color, silent)
2. Cuticle Torture (1981, 2 mins, b/w, silent)
3. Self-Portrait As a City (1977, 5 mins, color, silent) 
4. Newt Leaders (2020, 4.5 mins, color, silent)
5. Newt Pauses (2016, 7.5 mins, color, silent)
6. 4 Fingers, 5 Toes (2022, 11 mins, color, silent)  7. My Dear Evaporant, (2022, 5.5 mins, color, silent)
8. Ginko Yellow (2022, 5 mins, color, silent)
9. Pouring Grain (2008, 2.5 mins, color, silent)
10. Slow Fireworks (2019, 2 mins, color, silent)

TRT = 46 mins

Program 2 at 3:00PM:

1. Filament (The Hands) (1975, 7 mins, b/w, silent)
2. Unowned Luxuries #3 (2020, 2 mins, color, silent)
3. Pythoness (1979, 2 mins, b&w, silent)
4. #27 (2019, 3 mins, color, silent)
5. Study for Cigarette Burn (1976, 2 mins, color, silent)
6. Cigarette Burn (1978, 7.5 mins, b&w, sound)
7. My Mink (Unowned Luxuries #2) (2020, 5 mins, color, silent)
8. Emit a Beam, See a Light (2022, 3.5 mins, color, sound)
9. Access to the View (2000, 2 mins, color, sound)
10. Hula (2022, 6 mins, color, sound)
11. Cheshire Smile (2012, 5 mins, color, sound)
12. Injury on a Theme (2012, 7 mins, color, sound)

TRT = 52 mins