Happy Mother’s Day to all the great women who have been there for us every step of the way! None of us are here without a Mama. And to my fellow moms who are so beautifully balancing their work with raising our next generation, it’s the greatest most important job on earth. Bless you! 💕💕💕💕💕 Even despite the post-fire diaspora, we don’t miss a Mother’s Day… Being together with our moms yesterday was sooo much fun, first at the home of my brother @davidtimoner and “sister-wife” @kellypushywhite - and then venturing to see my son @juki_timoner who is waiting tables as a fresh young college grad (and playing in bands before going for his MFA - I’m so proud of his work ethic!) I sprinkled in a few memories of my Juki as a boy too, how I loved raising him ♥️
Calling your Inner Beasts out to play! This is our 2nd Saturday Procession here in downtown Joshua Tree with paper mache animal heads created by the great @joealvarezart (and the puppets too.) So happy to share the role of GOAT with my dear friend @rachelreidwilke and to run into some of our closest friends who welcomed us into this fantastic artist community a year ago, when we spontaneously moved here post-fire… and these are all the great candidates we are inspired to support after spending time with them today before the festivities. We are confident they will help protect our basic rights and freedoms. Thanks to @kkellyyoga for bringing us together to protect our democracy at this precarious juncture.
Happy Mother’s Day & Don’t Forget to Vote before June 2nd!!! The Primary is Crucial! #artqueenvortex #localdemocracy
This is why regional festivals rock.
Such fun being the Honored Guest Filmmaker in Cascadia: Giving my Masterclass - especially sharing many clips from my career all at once and inspiring bright young filmmakers - screening LAST FLIGHT HOME, All The Walls Came Down, and DIG! with passionate audiences / adventuring this beautiful place with my beloved - on bikes, bridges and even boats - making new friends and reuniting with old…
What a gorgeous weekend!
Just back from a whirlwind 88th Birthday Tour! Happy birthday to all of our living parents, who turned 88 within three days of each other - Charlotte Doctor 4/16/38, Ron Doctor 4/18/38, and celebrating Lisa Timoner TODAY, 4/19/38. It was so much fun to see our families in a nonstop celebration of our adorable, inspiring elders (and happy almost birthday to my brother @davidtimoner who turns 52 on April 21st!) Morgan and I feel we might have been pre-destined when our moms were born with our egg forms back in April 1938. We survived WWII and so much more, to finally find each other in 2019:) Here’s a smattering of birthday cheer for our beloved Aries clan. 🎂♥️
“America’s sense of superiority and entitlement has only grown... It’s like the fall of Rome” - Shepard Fairey
This surely hits. One of those moments at the High Desert Art Fair where the whole room swells in agreement.
Last weekend, in conversation with Mark Mothersbaugh, Shepard went deep on power, fear, and the invisible mechanics of persuasion that have created fertile ground for the rise of the right, and can be used through art to combat hate. How easy it is to move people without them realizing it, and how uncomfortable it becomes the second you ask them to actually think for themselves.
We talked about fear as a tool, about division, and how often we end up getting in our own way instead of uniting despite our differences to move things forward for the greater good.
Art that challenges people will always ruffle feathers… but maybe that’s exactly what it’s supposed to do.
One Week from Tonight! Altadena’s 1st-Ever Screening Event of the hit Oscar-Shortlisted film, “All The Walls Came Down” is on April 15th, at 6:30PM - located at the Collaboratory @ 540 W Woodbury Road!
We will all be there for a post—screening discussion & reception about surviving the fire and what’s next for Altadena, we hope you will join, link in bio!
Here’s a taste of the Original Song by @chantalkrev and @iammorgandoctor and Music Video by director @onditimoner , presented by @therealjohncreilly at The @dawestheband Bros. Concert for Altadena!
“Some filmmakers document the world. Ondi changes how we see it.”
— Claudia Puig
I am touched by these words and look forward to being the Honored Filmmaker at the Cascadia International Women’s Film Festival where several of my films will be screening with Q&As following and I will also present a Masterclass:
May 1st
LAST FLIGHT HOME — 3:30pm — The Pickford Film Center
AN EVENING WITH ONDI TIMONER
at the The Mount Baker Theater MainStage
7PM — “How to Make a Great Documentary (in my opinion)” Masterclass with Ondi Timoner
followed by a screening of
“All the Walls Came Down”
9PM — Meet & Greet Reception with Ondi Timoner
May 2nd
LATE NIGHT FEATURE FILM: “DIG!”
The Pickford Film Center
TIX are available now, link in Bio!
Please join us on April 15th from 6:30-8:30pm for the first official Altadena Screening of the Academy Award-Shortlisted film “All The Walls Came Down” (38 min.)
Followed by a reception and conversation with Director Ondi Timoner, My Tribe Rise founder Heavenly Hughes among other special guests, this event will take place at the The Collaboratory on 540 W Woodbury Road, Altadena, CA 91001.
An incredible wealth of resources and information will be provided by our affiliated partners, including Support + Feed, Interloper FIlms, Vortex Immersion, My Tribe Rise, Los Angeles Climate Week, Community3.0x and Altadena Rising!
Preregistration at the link in bio is encouraged, All proveeds will support ongoing fire relief efforts - We hope to see you at the movies!
What a weekend, full of magical alignment love and inspiration from Patricia’s birthday to Morgan’s today with Bombay Beach Biennale adventure / Last Flight Home screening, the serendipitous & fabulous High Desert Art Fair (highlight was a great talk with @obeygiant which I will release clips from this week, meeting founder @candice_lawler and the amazing @jesshundley and reuniting with @viviengoldmanforreal after 20 years!!) and @markmothersbaugh at Pappy’s, an impromptu party at ours, and soothing hot springs / Delicia with dear friends to top it off!! Grateful for this place and the people in it.
“Ondi’s house burnt down with everything in it, and she filmed it… You have to see the film… it’s about the disaster of Altadena, and how the whole community comes back much closer than ever before… its stunning, you lost film material thats irreplaceable… so what do you do? You make the next film as soon as possible!” - the legendary Werner Herzog on ALL THE WALLS CAME DOWN during a Q&A between him and Ondi for his film “Burden of Dreams.”
Please join us @vidiots cinema house, “A Night for Altadena” this Tuesday March 10th from 6-7:30pm starting with a free screening of our Oscar-Shortlisted short “All The Walls Came Down” followed by a conversation with director/producer @onditimoner , @mytriberise founder @heavenlyhughes , @msjoychen of @eatonfiresurvivorsnetwork , survivor/film subject @rand.vance.14 , with words from film subject/block captain @davidtimoner , and Lynn Fang of @soilwise.earth and all of you!
Tickets in bio or PLS RSVP @ [email protected]
Thank you Werner for your kind words and for recognizing our town and film! Sign our petition to stop the foreclosures & force SCE to pay the victims of this fire before it’s too late - link in our bio!
| FREE SCREENING | Vidiots welcomes longtime supporter + filmmaker Ondi Timoner for a special free screening of her short documentary, ALL THE WALLS CAME DOWN, about the impact and aftermath of the Eaton Fire.
Featuring a post-screening conversation with Ondi Timoner as well as Heavenly Hughes, Co-Founder and Executive Director of My TRIBE Rise, Joy Chen, Executive Director of Eaton Fire Survivors Network, and Randy Vance, film subject and life-long Altadenean.
Join us on Tuesday, March 10 @ 6:00pm. Get your 🎟️🎟️🎟️ in our 🔗🔝
