JENNIFER WEST
Topanga Beach Houses Imminent Domain Rewind Film
2010
16mm film print transferred to DVD
2 minutes, 47 seconds
Topanga Beach Houses Imminent Domain Rewind Film (16mm film print rubbed with aloe vera gel, smeared with sexwax surfboard wax, butter, grass, hole punched - still photos of the Topanga Beach community in the 1960's and 70's before the houses were bulldozed and burned with the Imminent Domain Law - movie stills from "Muscle Beach" and "Cosmic Children" - found photographs from the Int'l Surfing Magazine (Jim Fitzpatrick), Malibu Times (Gary Graham), Marlies Armand, Jeff Ort, Woody Stuart and John Clemmens)
Topanga Beach Filmstrip 2 , 2010