Hammer celebrates life of Harry Smith

An experimental filmmaker, ethnomusicologist, artist and avid collector of Ukrainian Easter eggs, Harry Smith was a 20th century American Renaissance man. Tonight, Patti Smith and friends will celebrate this eccentric bohemian’s life, as well as the release of the book “Harry Smith: The Avant-Garde in the American Vernacular” with the “Smith on Smith” event at the UCLA Hammer Museum.

UCLA alum Sacha Gervasi’s documentary nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentaries award

At the first sign of light after a night lost in a Romanian forest, director and UCLA alumnus Sacha Gervasi discovered his crew’s van had stopped 10 feet short of a sheer drop.