🎬 Sidewalk Cinema
A Popup Film Night in Westwood
🗓 Sunday, June 1
🕓 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM (come & go style)
📍Screenings on Westwood sidewalk locations
We’re turning Westwood’s into an open-air film playground.
Short films. Living-room energy on a city corners.
This is about creative storytelling in public space and claiming Westwood as the new heart of creative culture.
Bring a chair. Bring a friend. Bring your imagination.
See you at the Broxton Brewery.
Film 1-
父の死の道筋を辿って | In the Path of the Father’s Death
A meditative short film by artist and researcher Curtis James Tamm, whose work examines the relationship between sound, ritual, and emergency.
Set in Japan, the film follows a young bell maker, capturing the intimate, ancestral process of forging bells while tracing a quiet journey through loss, craft, and inherited memory.
Tamm is currently pursuing a PhD in Media Arts + Practice at USC, where his research centers on bell making and the metaphysical dimensions of sound.
His broader body of work includes a commission from the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo and a grant from LACMA’s Art and Technology Lab, exploring how animals sense catastrophe through non-human perception. He has held artist residencies across Japan, Iceland, Mexico, and the U.S., and is now launching an architecture and sound design studio
Film 2-
The Transformers: The Movie | A Space Opera of Death, Destiny, and Rebirth
A mythic animated feature shaped by writer and story editor Flint Dille, whose work redefined the emotional boundaries of 1980s children’s storytelling.
Released in 1986, the film follows the heroic Autobots as they face extinction from both their ancient rivals, the Decepticons, and a new cosmic threat: Unicron, a planet-sized entity bent on devouring Cybertron. In a bold and controversial move, the film kills off Optimus Prime, reshapes Megatron into Galvatron, and sets the stage for a new generation of leadership, identity, and transformation.
Flint Dille, a screenwriter and narrative architect descended from the lineage behind Buck Rogers, served as a key creative force behind the film’s darker tone and serialized ambition. With a background in literature and film, Dille helped steer The Transformers from episodic battles to mythic stakes—introducing themes of sacrifice, rebirth, and legacy that stunned audiences and ignited a cultural moment.
Dille’s broader body of work spans television, film, and games—including G.I. Joe, Inhumanoids, and story design for titles like The Chronicles of Riddick. His approach to storytelling blends commercial sensibility with deep mythological resonance, often turning genre projects into emotional rites of passage for their audiences.
Today, The Transformers: The Movie endures as a cult classic. What began as a mandate to refresh a toyline became, through Dille’s vision, a coming-of-age story for an entire generation.