Los Angeles Filmforum and REDCAT presentDaïchi Saïto: Material TracesMonday, February 12, 2017, 8:30 pm At REDCAT, 631 W. 2nd Street, Los Angeles CA 90012In person: Daïchi SaïtoFilmforum welcomes filmmaker Daïchi Saïto from Montreal in the second of two programs. Over the past fifteen years, Montreal-based film artist Daïchi Saïto has created a singular body of analog film work in which the rigor of his conceptualization and execution is matched only by the intense beauty and power of his images. Manipulating his film material by hand via chemistry and optics, Saïto's work gives material dimension to otherwise elusive notions of ephemerality, confusion, subjectivity, and memory. REDCAT is honored to partner with Los Angeles Filmforum, through support of the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, to bring Daïchi Saïto to Los Angeles for his first retrospective program. The evening will feature films in Super 8, 35mm, and 16mm double-projection, encapsulating a body of work and an evening of filmmaking that promises to astonish. - Mark Toscano"The films of Saïto explore the relation between the corporeal phenomena of vision and the material nature of the medium, fusing a formal investigation of frame and juxtaposition with sensual and poetic expressions." - Lumen Journal Daïchi Saïto’s visit made possible by a generous grant from the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts.Funded in part by the Ostrovsky Family Fund. Curated by Mark Toscano, Daïchi Saïto, Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud, as part of the Jack H. Skirball Series.There will be a separate screening featuring films from the Double Negative filmmaking collective in Montreal at Filmforum on Sunday February 11, at 7:30 pm. See www.lafilmforum.org for more details.INFO: https://www.redcat.org/event/da-chi-sa-material-traces or the REDCAT box office 213-237-2800.Tickets: $12 general; $9 REDCAT Members & Students; $6 Filmforum Members, Cal Arts students/Faculty/Staff. Tickets available in advance at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/986187 or at the door.