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Transfigurations: Reanimating the Past (2018–2024)

The ceiling of a cathedral.
November 24, 2024 - 7:00 pm
In-person: 
Q&A with filmmaker David Lebrun.


Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event.

Special thanks to our community partner: Los Angeles Filmforum.


David Lebrun’s latest project is a large-scale, multi-year work-in-progress to create a transformative encounter between the present and the past through an immersive experience with change itself. Beginning with high-resolution images of artifacts, art objects and architectural details from different eras and photographed at various sites around the world, including museums, churches and temples, Lebrun animates the changes in their forms across millennia. The results are an awe-inspiring tour of human ingenuity, imagination, belief and craft as it expressed itself from the Paleolithic period through the Middle Ages, and from Mesoamerica to Europe, the Middle East and Indian Asia. 

45 Handaxes, Lower to Middle Paleolithic (600,000 to 40,000 BP)

U.S., 2020

DCP, color, 7 min. Director: David Lebrun.

137 Coins, Greece via Rome to Gaul (4th to 1st C. BCE)

U.S., 2020

DCP, color, 7 min. Director: David Lebrun.

Cycladic and Anatolian Figurines (3300–2000 BCE)

U.S., 2021

DCP, color, 7 min. Director: David Lebrun.

91 Spouted Vessels, Iran (3200 BCE–224 CE)

U.S., 2021

DCP, color, 9 min. Director: David Lebrun.

65 Churches and Cathedrals / Early Romanesque to Late Gothic/France (1050-1500 CE)

U.S., 2021

DCP, color, 18 min. Director: David Lebrun.

American Gods Triptych (2000 BCE–1521 CE)

U.S., 2024

DCP, color, 10 min. Director: David Lebrun.

The Hoysalesvara Temple / Karnataka, India (circa 1250 CE)

U.S., 2012

DCP, color, 9 min. Director: David Lebrun.

Total running time: 67 min.