Cinemauto + Second Home Hollywood
Present Collected Muse
Curated by Cinemauto Founder + Creative Director, Jackie Gonzalez
Join us for a celebration honoring the inspiring womxn filmmakers, artists, interdisciplinary dancers, music composers, poets, culinary artists, as well as social conscious entrepreneurs and founders.
This screening experience includes pop-up micro galleries synthesizing artists from an array of mediums; visual arts, music, poetry, film, experiences merging wellness, sound healing, edible ephemeral installations merging food, art, and design, mezcal and natural wine tastings. 🍷🍹
Feature Film
"Highway One"
Directed by
Jaclyn Bethany
In rural California, Anna is hosting a New Year's Eve party. Nina, a long-gone friend from high school unexpectedly shows up, bringing out the feelings of Maria. Over the course of the evening, Maria struggles with her feelings and facing the partygoers: a gaggle of eccentric millennials. Featuring a cast of international rising talent, Highway One is a dreamy and nostalgic dive into youth, love, and humanity.
Curated Short Films
"Patois"
Directed by Andre Muir + Danielle Alston
Patois is a film that speaks on the importance of identity and self-worth through the coming of age story of a young first generation American girl Khenya, as she navigates being raised in a household with rules and tendencies that reflect the traditions of her parent’s home country, while also trying to find herself and fit in at a typical American school.
Patois takes the American immigrant experience, merges it with issues of body image, and combines them both with the experience of getting older and finding one’s self. At the heart of this story is this idea of inclusivity, while our hero deals with fears and anxiety of being different, she doesn’t realize outside of some innocent teasing, that she is really the one projecting her own hate for herself. It’s not until she is able to accept herself, accept what makes her different, and cherish these differences, that she is really able to allow herself to be accepted by others.
Immersive Short Film Installation
A collection of Maegan Houang's Short Form work
An immersive art-film installation featuring Maegan Houang's short-form work explores how the treatment of our fragile natural world reflects our society’s increasing lack of humanity, particularly with regard to women.
MICRO-GALLERY POD ART PROGRAM
Areli Arellano
Textile Artist
"List of Women Artists Pulled from my Instagram on 3/11/2022" by textile artist Areli Arellano features banners that cover the room from floor to ceiling.
Inspired by Ciclia Fajardo-Hill's essay "The Invisibility of Latin American Women Artists," the installation comments on the systematic exclusion and minimization of women in the industry. The work displays the names of 24 artists pulled from Areli's personal Instagram following. Viewers are invited to enter into the enclosed space and encouraged to spend time looking into the work of each artist.
MICRO-GALLERY POD ART PROGRAM
Starla Frequency
Sound Healing Experience
Awaken the Divine Feminine- A Sound Healing Experience
Allow yourself to be taken on a magical sonic journey, guiding you to connect with the energy of the divine feminine. During this 15 minute experience, we will focus on opening up the powerful creative force of your sacral chakra and tuning into the wisdom of your intuition. You'll be led through a guided meditation and immersed in healing frequencies from 432hz crystal bowls, sacred gong, drums, and other instruments to leave you feeling refreshed, renewed, and deeply divine.
MICRO-GALLERY POD ART PROGRAM
Climate Action Lab
Community Organization
Join us for 🍹 and conversation! Grab your favorite drink and learn more about how anyone can be an environmentalist (yes, you can begin taking climate action with your phone). Visit the booth to learn more about how you can begin making an impact in L.A. today.
artist
Areli Arellano is a Los Angeles-based artist working in a variety of mediums with an emphasis on textile work. Inspired by Latine culture, Areli's work covers topics such as religion, race, and gender. Exploring the juxtaposition between hard concepts and soft materials, she creates pieces with faux fur and other plush fabrics. The bright colors and textures draw viewers in, while the messages behind her work offer a place for reflection once they are fully captivated. Areli wants to create safe spaces for people of color, specifically women of color. She creates work that reminds POC of home while simultaneously challenging those in positions of privilege and power.
FILMMAKER
Jaclyn Bethany is an actress and Emmy award-winning filmmaker. Called "fast-rising" and "one to watch" by Variety Magazine, she is a recent graduate of the American Film Institute Conservatory with an M.F.A. in Directing.
Highway One, which premiered at the Santa Barbara Film Festival last year and has played festivals worldwide, is her second feature film.
Writer + director
Zélia Devooght is a writer + director mainly focusing on documentaries. Archival footage, the traces, and alteration of the memory, as well as the analog film as a medium, are themes she likes to work and experiment on. She’s currently developing a feature documentary on the Reunion Island, based on super 8 family archives.
Heidi Duckler Dance
Heidi Duckler is the artistic director and founder of Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre. Since its inception in 1985, she has choreographed more than 100 original dance works at unique sites in Hong Kong, New York, Miami, Las Vegas, Portland, Seattle, Montreal, Atlanta, and throughout southern California including Los Angeles City Hall, Lincoln Heights Jail, the Los Angeles River, the Herald Examiner Building, the former Ambassador Hotel and the Los Angeles Police Academy.
She earned a BS in dance from the University of Oregon and an MA in choreography from UCLA.
COMPOSER
Jeanne-Peri Foucault is a pianist and composer who grew up playing classical piano and majored in Film Studies. Following her masters, she turned back to music and is currently enrolled AT UCLA EXTENSION in a Film Scoring program.
She’s always on the lookout for inspiring ideas to collaborate on.
sound healer
Starla Frequency is a sound healer, intuitive empath, filmmaker, and keeper of ceremonies. Through sound baths, Starla connected with ancestors from her matriarchal Italian lineage and received what she calls “Il Regalo”; a gift for using her hands to shift energy, which led her to this incarnation as a sound healer. Starla loves creating sacred rituals, which elevates life to the extraordinary.