Student’s project seeks to create game experience mimicking poetry

The sky is dark blue, mixed with bright pink – almost the color of a television tuned to a dead channel. The player walks around as giant heads burst from a neon landscape. There is no score. Currently untitled, this game is the longest of what fourth-year Design | Media Arts student Philip Scott calls […]

Web series trend ignites new possibilities for filmmakers, students

He was the oldest person at the YouTube Web series workshop by at least 30 years. He said he only understood one in four words used, and he said it was thrilling. Although UCLA alumnus Sam Ingraffia worked in the film and television industry for more than 35 years, the realm of Web series production […]

29th annual JazzReggae Festival brings high energy despite rain

The 29th annual JazzReggae Festival embodied more music genres than what its name entailed. From alternative to hip-hop music, JRF broadened its lineup in its new home, the Los Angeles Tennis Center. Daily Bruin A&E’s Salus Kim and Ruhee Patel explored the one-day, eco-friendly festival, which featured a vendors village, live art and musical performances. […]

Film and Television Archive holds annual Celebration of Iranian Cinema

Near Eastern languages and cultures lecturer Latifeh Hagigi uses the UCLA Film and Television Archive’s annual Celebration of Iranian Cinema as a way to connect with her home country, which, for political reasons, she has not returned to since 1978. “It has always been very attractive to me to go and be involved in (the […]

Student to lead concert of rocksteady, Middle Eastern, string groups

Tranquil strums of the ukulele, lively Middle Eastern riqq beats and jazzy piano textures all make up a palette of sounds quite familiar to fourth-year individual studies student Lindsey Kunisaki. Alongside musicians she met throughout her time as a UCLA undergraduate, Kunisaki will lead a three-part performance of Jamaican, Middle Eastern and contemporary jazz music […]

Wild Up ensemble to host concert, feature top student composition

Christopher Rountree said the experimental music ensemble, wild Up, took its name from an e.e. cummings poem. Rountree said the ensemble members made two lists of possibilities when deciding what to name their burgeoning group in 2010. He said one was filled with literal names, like Los Angeles New Music Ensemble, and the other was […]

‘Green Screens’ film festival aims to educate on environmental issues

Sports broadcaster and television host Angela Sun has traveled to Midway Atoll in the middle of the Pacific Ocean to see the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in person. Over a period of eight years, the UCLA alumna created the documentary “Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch” to separate fact from myth about the notorious […]