The Memorial Art Gallery will host a screening of Heaven is A Traffic Jam on the 405 (Frank Stiefel, U.S. 2016, 40 min.) and OC87 Recovery Diaries: Selected Short Films.

Brilliant artist Mindy Alper is represented by one of LA's top galleries, and her body of raw, emotional work reveals a lifetime of extreme depression and anxiety. Through electroshock therapy, multiple commitments to mental institutions and a 10-year period without speech, her only consistent means of communicating has been to channel her hyper self-awareness into drawings and sculpture of powerful psychological clarity. Through an examination of her work, interviews, reenactments, the building of an eight and a half foot papier-mâché bust of her beloved psychiatrist, we learn how she has emerged from a life of darkness and isolation to a life that includes love, trust and laughter.

[source: Reel Mind Theatre and Film Series website, 2018-Apr-30]