Anthony Onah’s latest feature film started out in a UCLA classroom. After moving to Los Angeles and enrolling in UCLA’s graduate production/directing program, alumnus Anthony Onah teamed up with fellow alumnus and producer Justin Begnaud to create the feature film “The Price.” The film revolves around the struggles of Seyi, a Nigerian-American man, who must […]
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Video: Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrors, The Broad
The Daily Bruin took a look at the sold-out special exhibition at downtown Los Angeles’ The Broad: Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrors. The exhibit features six rooms of art Kusama made throughout her life, with a concentration on exploring visuals through dots.
Album review: ‘reputation’
Taylor Swift’s “reputation” is more than just an album – it’s a story, and not the one listeners might expect. In what may be her most deliberate album yet, Swift interweaves two stories: her fall from grace in the public eye and a complex, difficult love story. Each individual track serves as a piece of […]
Album review: ‘Phases’
Angel Olsen’s “Phases” sends listeners through cycles of love and longing set against hypnotizing guitar chords. At first listen, the album sounds like a random mix of songs without any rhyme or reason. The minimal instrumental backgrounds on some tracks and vocals that stray outside of Olsen’s signature emotion-heavy singing disorient the listener temporarily. However, […]
‘Black is Beautiful’ photo exhibit captures UCLA’s black community
The “Black is Beautiful” exhibit in Kerckhoff Art Gallery featured portraits of black students taken by seven black photographers in an effort to showcase the beauty of the black community at UCLA, according to the event’s Facebook page. Graciela Barada, a third-year gender studies and African American studies student, helped put on the exhibit as […]
Second Take: “Crazy Rich Asians” casting raises questions on Asian identity, representation
“Crazy Rich Asians” is one of the few recent Hollywood films about Asians that doesn’t feature Matt Damon or Scarlett Johansson as the lead. Jokes aside, it is incredibly rare to see an American-studio produced, ensemble film about Asians that doesn’t feature a white actor – a feat that hasn’t happened since the 1993 film, […]
UCLA alumnus portrays US-Mexico border through contemporary art
This post was updated Nov. 9 at 11:29 a.m. Daniel Schwarz compressed the entire 1,954 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border into two parallel accordion photo books. One book starts at the Pacific end of the border while the other starts at the Mexican Gulf end of the border. “For me, the interest is really using […]