Steve Anderson’s Reality Frictions + Marlon Fuentes’s Bontoc Eulogy

Los Angeles Filmforum will hold the screening and discussion of Steve F. Andersen’s latest essay feature film, Reality Frictions (2024), which explores the intersection of fact and fiction on the screens of Hollywood, highlighting moments when images, people or events from the real world intrude on the cinematic one.

Richly illustrated with clips from more than 100 movies and TV shows, Reality Frictions is an entertaining, but also serious, investigation of media’s role in revealing truth and making history.

One of the films referenced in Anderson’s work is Marlon Fuentes’ Bontoc Eulogy (1995), a unique fusion of rare archival images, a film that investigates memory and the spectacle of the “Other” in turn-of-the-century America. Thus, the screening of Reality Frictions and Q&A with Steve F. Anderson will be followed by Bontoc Eulogy.

This event has been programmed by Los Angeles Filmforum Executive and Artistic Director Adam Hyman, and Archive Programming Coordinator, Nicole Ucedo.

More information: https://www.lafilmforum.org/schedule/fall-2025/filmforum-50-program-3-steve-andersons-reality-frictions-with-marlon-fuentess-bontoc-eulogy/