The Tim and Neda Disney Experimental Media residency supports individual artists through grants to create original work in its space in the Hyperion Corridor that joins the Los Feliz, Silver Lake and Atwater neighborhoods in Los Angeles.
This is the full piece, At Home, by Ben Adair At Home explores ideas of memory, home and place through a lens particular to Southern California, Los A...
"When I was a girl, I imagined the United States being shiny and that there were blocks of ice, everywhere. I don't know why I thought that. Maybe bec...
"It wasn't like, 'Oh, the guy's here to do the foundation.' It was like, 'Our friend Leonard's coming to help us and we're going to make dinner for hi...
"There was a lot of laughter here but to say it was a happy place wouldn't capture the whole reality. There was singing and shouting and sadness, some...
"Do you see the tree that's clear of bark? And right next to it, the back of a glider? That's my glider! I thought, I'll just put it out there and som...
"There are two different kinds of people going over that hill—the people who slow down at the top and think that'll make it safer. But they're wrong. ...
"Nobody's gonna be like me and nobody's gonna keep everything clean like I want it to be kept clean. I've pretty much given up on that. But everybody ...
"After my son Dillion was hit by a car right off the bridge, I was like, 'It's really important that we conquer this fear and make this a place like i...
"I felt like I was asleep my whole life. And when I first moved here, I felt like I woke up. I didn't know anybody here and I found myself and I fell ...