Red Night
By Beck+Col
Sunday, February 25, 2024, 2–5 pm
Philosophical Research Society
3910 Los Feliz Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027
Limited free parking available on site
Free admission – RSVP to rsvp@welcometolace.org
Join LACE and artists Beck+Col for the Los Angeles premiere of their experimental feature-length film Red Night. Following the screening, LACE’s Curator/Director of Programs Selene Preciado speaks with Beck+Col to learn more about the making of the film and their collaborations. Light refreshments are provided.
About Red Night
Enter the colorful world of a queer chosen family of five monsters. These siblings are inseparable, always supporting each other and just trying to make it through each day. Upon monster Ash’s return home, what was supposed to be a joyous reunion turns red with the arrival of an evil being that was unleashed during Ash’s time away. This being is fixated on isolating and killing each of the monsters one by one. Ash is determined to protect their family, fighting back against the relentless foe.
Red Night highlights the helplessness of individualism through the narrative of a slasher film. In typical slasher fashion, victims are pursued and killed when they are on their own, but when the characters are together they are able to counter the seemingly indestructible killer. The film draws on the cinematic traditions of Dario Argento’s Giallo films, specifically Deep Red and Suspiria. The tone is classic 70s/80s horror through and through.
The power of community and coming together is manifested in an exhibition within the film. Beck+Col invited ten artists to make works that adorn the walls of the monsters’ home. The invited artists all foster a sense of community within their own practices through education, collaboration and supporting other artists. Red Night features work by Alicia Piller, Amia Yokoyama, Ching Ching Cheng, Hea-Mi Kim, Jenny Eom, Minga Opazo, Ofelia Marquez, Sapira Cheuk, Tanya Brodsky and Vanessa Holyoak.
Filmed over seven days in a suburban home in Santa Clarita, California with a small crew of five and a cast of six.
About the Artists
Beck+Col are a Los Angeles based artist duo who have been working exclusively in collaboration since 2014.
Beck+Col have performed at numerous venues including the Hammer Museum, REDCAT, and JOAN Los Angeles. They have had multiple solo exhibitions at Human Resources and their work has been exhibited worldwide including the Royal College of Music in Sweden, Colección AMALITA in Buenos Aires and at Biquini WAX EPS in Mexico City.
In Spring of 2020, Beck+Col were the artists in residence for the San Diego International Airport Performing Arts Residency and represented LACE at the Art Los Angeles Contemporary fair. Cohosts of ART TALK Talk talk, created while Beck+Col were in residency at UNLV in 2021. They were one of LAPP’s Research and Development artists in Residence in 2022. In 2023, they had solo shows at Woodbury University, The Art Room and Angels Gate Cultural Center.
Their first feature length film Red Night was screened at Festival de Sci-Fi Terror y Fantasía in Bogotá, Colombia, Another Hole In the Head Festival in San Francisco, CA, and Bizzarroland Festival in Orlando, FL, and will have its Los Angeles Premiere with LACE in 2024. Beck received an MFA from CalArts in 2019 and Collin received an MFA from CSULA in 2014.
