[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":63},["ShallowReactive",2],{"events-listing-detail-the-computer-laser-videos-of-raphael-montañez-ortiz-05-30-26":3},{"event":4,"associatedSeries":40,"eventSeries":36,"pastEvents":61,"upcomingEvents":62,"exhibition":36},{"id":5,"uri":6,"sectionHandle":7,"title":8,"eventLocation":9,"image":13,"to":6,"slug":25,"libcalId":26,"publicUrl":27,"startDateWithTime":28,"endDateWithTime":29,"eventType":30,"eventDescription":34,"associatedLocations":35,"requiresRegistration":36,"libcalRegistrationOpened":36,"libcalRegistrationClosed":36,"libcalPhysicalSeats":36,"libcalPhysicalSeatsTaken":36,"libcalOnlineSeats":36,"libcalOnlineSeatsTaken":36,"libcalWaitlist":36,"onlineProvider":36,"onlineJoinURL":36,"eventTags":37,"presenter":38,"moreInformation":36,"eventOwner":39,"locations":35},"10159526","visit/events-exhibitions/the-computer-laser-videos-of-raphael-montañez-ortiz-05-30-26","event","The Computer-Laser-Videos of Raphael Montañez Ortiz",[10],{"title":11,"to":12},"Billy Wilder Theater","https://cinema.ucla.edu/billy-wilder-theater",[14],{"image":15},[16],{"id":17,"src":18,"height":19,"width":20,"srcset":21,"alt":22,"focalPoint":23},"10161927","https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_fullscreen/Its_Coming_Up_1_300.jpg",1727,2560,"https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_375xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Its_Coming_Up_1_300.jpg 375w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_960xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Its_Coming_Up_1_300.jpg 960w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_1280xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Its_Coming_Up_1_300.jpg 1280w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_1920xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Its_Coming_Up_1_300.jpg 1920w, https://static.library.ucla.edu/craftassetsprod/images/_2560xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/Its_Coming_Up_1_300.jpg 2560w","close up of man's face with mouth open wide",[24,24],0.5,"the-computer-laser-videos-of-raphael-montañez-ortiz-05-30-26","16741761","https://calendar.library.ucla.edu/event/16741761","2026-05-30T22:55","2026-05-30T23:25",[31],{"id":32,"title":33},"156366","Screening","\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https://cinema.ucla.edu/events/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Visit the UCLA Film & Television Archive website\u003C/a> to learn more about upcoming screenings and events.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Free admission. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event.\u003C/strong>\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">In his piece \u003Cem>Destructivism: A Manifesto\u003C/em> (1962), artist and filmmaker Raphael Montañez Ortiz states: “The art that utilizes the destructive processes will purge, for as it gives death, so it will give to life.” A key figure in the Destruction in Art movement of the 1960s, Ortiz is best known for his object-based work and performance art, most notably his piano destruction concerts. However, his expansive oeuvre of time-based media art also merits revisiting. Ortiz experimented with film starting in the late 1950s, creating found-footage films that deconstruct/reconstruct conventional Hollywood, newsreel and instructional films as a means of combating the xenophobia, classism and repression manifested within them.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">Decades later, Ortiz revisited this practice of partition and random reassembly; 1984 to 1997 was a fruitful period resulting in over 50 works Ortiz termed “computer-laser-videos.” The rise of consumer video formats and new technologies brought renewed opportunities for deconstruction — this time, in a realm that merged analog and digital. These videos were made by using films on laserdiscs (mainly titles from the 1930s to 1940s), selecting segments ranging from one to 10 seconds, editing and distorting clips via computer, and using joysticks to move footage back and forth at various speeds. Once it was finalized, Ortiz would transfer the footage to 3/4 in. videotape. This practice resulted in a new visual landscape of disjointed movement that was further heightened by the use of a wave-form generator to alter sound, creating a cacophony of words, music and disembodied noises. In expanding the length of these clips, Ortiz dissects and scrutinizes the whiteness, hegemony and gendered behaviors presented on-screen, reconstructing them as satire, performativity and artifice.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">These four selected works are Ortiz’s final computer-laser-videos, marking a significant point in his career as an interdisciplinary artist and pioneer of the Destructivism movement.\u003Cem>—Yesenia Perez\u003C/em>\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">Screening 1 of 4\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Ch3 class=\"title\">That's Too Much\u003C/h3>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Year: \u003C/strong>1996\u003Cbr />\n\u003Cstrong>Country: \u003C/strong>U.S.\u003Cbr />\n\u003Cstrong>Language: \u003C/strong>Swedish with English subtitles\u003Cbr />\n\u003Cstrong>Runtime: \u003C/strong>6 min.\u003Cbr />\nDigital. B&W.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">DCP.\u003Cstrong> Director:\u003C/strong> Raphael Montañez Ortiz. \u003Cstrong>Source:\u003C/strong> \u003Cem>Dollar \u003C/em>(1938), directed by Gustaf Molander.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003Cem>Preservation funding provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Digitally preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center from the director’s Betacam master. Laboratory services by The MediaPreserve. Special thanks to Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Chon Noriega.\u003C/em>\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">Screening 2 of 4\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Ch3 class=\"title\">Ring Ring Ragtime\u003C/h3>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Year: \u003C/strong>1996\u003Cbr />\n\u003Cstrong>Country: \u003C/strong>U.S.\u003Cbr />\n\u003Cstrong>Language: \u003C/strong>Italian with English subtitles\u003Cbr />\n\u003Cstrong>Runtime: \u003C/strong>12 min.\u003Cbr />\nDigital. B&W and color.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">DCP. \u003Cstrong>Director:\u003C/strong> Raphael Montañez Ortiz. \u003Cstrong>Sources:\u003C/strong> unidentified Italian film, undated footage from the Olympics.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003Cem>Preservation funding provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Digitally preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center from the director’s Betacam master. Laboratory services by The MediaPreserve. Special thanks to Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Chon Noriega.\u003C/em>\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">Screening 3 of 4\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Ch3 class=\"title\">Busy Bodies\u003C/h3>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Year: \u003C/strong>1997\u003Cbr />\n\u003Cstrong>Country: \u003C/strong>U.S.\u003Cbr />\n\u003Cstrong>Runtime: \u003C/strong>9 min.\u003Cbr />\nDigital. B&W and color.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"block-screening-detail ftva block\">\n\u003Cdiv class=\"rich-text ftva text\">\n\u003Cdiv class=\"parsed-content\">\n\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">DCP. \u003Cstrong>Director:\u003C/strong> Raphael Montañez Ortiz. \u003Cstrong>Sources:\u003C/strong> \u003Cem>A Night at the Opera\u003C/em> (1935), directed by Sam Wood; \u003Cem>Gone With the Wind\u003C/em> (1939), directed by Victor Fleming.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003Cem>Preservation funding provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Digitally preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center from the director’s Betacam SP master. Laboratory services by The MediaPreserve. Special thanks to Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Chon Noriega.\u003C/em>\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">Screening 4 of 4\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Ch3 class=\"title\">It's Coming Up\u003C/h3>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Year: \u003C/strong>1997\u003Cbr />\n\u003Cstrong>Country: \u003C/strong>U.S.\u003Cbr />\n\u003Cstrong>Runtime: \u003C/strong>5 min.\u003Cbr />\nDigital. B&W and color.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"block-screening-detail ftva block\">\n\u003Cdiv class=\"rich-text ftva text\">\n\u003Cdiv class=\"parsed-content\">\n\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">DCP. \u003Cstrong>Director:\u003C/strong> Raphael Montañez Ortiz. \u003Cstrong>Sources:\u003C/strong> unidentified exercise video, c. 1930s; \u003Cem>The Bride of Frankenstein \u003C/em>(1935), directed by James Whale; unidentified footage of a volcano eruption.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003Cem>Preservation funding provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 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