Cutting Edges: Notes About Bruce Conner at the Marciano Art Foundation

The launch of art fair week in L.A. included too much rain, analog interventions and dancing icons

A handful of people sit in the darkened hall. We’re in the center, surrounded by large-scale monitors. A Movie, an experimental film collage by Bruce Conner from 1958, bombards the space with found footage grabbed from newsreels, soft-core films, B-movies or outtakes that even the projector in a 1950s theater would miss, edited into meditations about ma…