moving images
are still images
SATURDAY JULY 29 2023
HEAVY MANNERS LIBRARY
HEAVY MANNERS LIBRARY
1200 N Alvarado St, Los Angeles, CA 90026
Photo courtesy of Heavy Manners Library.
We are honored to host moving images are still images at Heavy Manners Library in Echo Park.
Founded in 2021 by Matthew James-Wilson, Heavy Manners is an eastside hub for LA’s creative community. Heavy Manners functions as a lending library and bookstore, working to increase accessibility to overlooked and hard-to-find media. The space also regularly hosts screenings, workshops, and performances.
We’re particularly excited to present at Heavy Manners as it’s located in the former site of Machine Project, the intrepid community arts organization active from 2003-2018. Also, the projector at Heavy Manners once lived next door at the Echo Park Film Center, the beautiful microcinema that closed last year after twenty years of programming.
Joshua Beckman’s capsized Sea Nymph installed at Machine Project in 2010. Photo courtesy of Machine Project.
Echo Park Film Center in 2015. Photo courtesy of the LA Times.
The building itself at 1200 N Alvarado Street, according to LA County records, was constructed in 1932 and re-outfitted in 1972. Below is a photo taken in 1998 from the top of Reservoir St. looking southeast over Alvarado St. and Sunset Blvd. The Heavy Manners building is out of frame on the right.
Photo by Gary Leonard (1998), courtesy of the LAPL.
Heavy Manners Library sits on the lands of the Tongva (Gabrieleno) and Chumash peoples.
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