Film passes for Cinematexas are $25 ($20 students) and available at I Luv Video, 33 Degrees, Waterloo Records, and the lobby in Communications Building A on the UT campus. Music passes are $25 at 33 Degrees Records (302-5233 to charge) and Waterloo Records (cash only). Individual tickets for film are $5 ($3, students) and for music, $12 (Moore) and $10 (CCMC, Vandermark). For more information, call 471-6497 or http://www.cinematexas.org.
Wednesday, Sep 22:
AUSTIN CINEMAKER CO-OP KICKOFF
(7pm, Austin Museum of Art — Laguna Gloria)
Thursday, Sep 23:
INTERNATIONAL FINALIST PROGRAMS:
INTERNATIONAL 5: “Endangered pieces” (3:30pm, Alamo Drafthouse)
CINEMATEXAS JURY SCREENING
Shorts by Jay Rosenblatt, Cauleen Smith, Lee Daniel, David Barker, Jim Mendiola, and Gonzalo Gonzalez. Presented by filmmakers. (5:45pm, Alamo Drafthouse)
INTERNATIONAL 1: “First Love” (6pm, Texas Union)
INTERNATIONAL 3: “Home Is a Vagabond Camera” (7:45pm, Alamo Drafthouse)
Miranda July’s Love Diamond (8pm, AMOA — Laguna Gloria)
INTERNATIONAL SEMIFINALIST COMPETITION:
SEMI-FINALIST 1: In Private (8pm, Texas Union)
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS STUDENT COMPETITION:
UT 1: “Lovers” (10pm, Texas Union)
UT 3: “Relatives”(10pm, Alamo Drafthouse)
The Queer Show (midnight, Alamo Drafthouse)
Friday, Sep 24:
SEMIFINALIST 4: “Nomad 1” (1pm, Dobie)
INTERNATIONAL 2: “Screwball Drama” (3pm, Dobie)
Contemporary Russian Avant-Garde (CRAG) 1: NEW RUSSIAN EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS (3:15pm, Texas Union)
UT 2: “Friends” (5:15pm, Texas Union)
Organic Satire: Mike Leigh Shorts
The Short and Curlies, A Sense of History, The Five Minute Films (5:30pm, Dobie)
THE FRAME IS EYELIDS: MICHAEL SNOW’S CINEMA
Introduced by filmmaker. $7 ($5 students, AFS)
So Is This, 1982, 43 min, silent
Seated Figures, 1988, 42 min (7:15pm, Dobie)
SEMIFINALIST 2: “Subvert!” (7:30pm, Texas Union)
INTERNATIONAL 4: Doesn’t fit (9:30pm, Dobie)
UT 4: “McCollege Tour” (9:30pm, Texas Union)
Evening with Guillermo del Toro
Introduced by the filmmaker.
Doña Lupe, Cronos (9:30pm, Alamo Drafthouse)
THURSTON MOORE, JIM O’ROURKE, IKUE MORI IN CONCERT (9:30pm, Ceremony Hall)
FRIDAY AFTERPARTY
Featuring 10 Austin DJs mixing live. Free.
(11pm, Bombay Room/Clay Pit)
UT & INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION:
1: Sex: Dangerous? OK? Experts Debate
(midnight, Alamo Drafthouse)
Saturday, Sep 25:
UT 3: “Relatives” (11:30am, Dobie)
CRAG 2: NEW RUSSIAN ANIMATIONS
Shar Studios, Ivan Maximov, and Leonid Tishkov
(1:30pm, Texas Union)
INTERNATIONAL 5: “Endangered pieces”
(1:30pm, Dobie)
INTERNATIONAL 3: “Home Is a Vagabond Camera” (2:15pm, Dobie)
UT 2: “Friends” (3:30pm, Texas Union)
ESSENTIAL AVANT-GARDE OF THE 1960S
New York Eye and Ear Control by Michael Snow (filmmaker in attendance) and more. (3:45pm, Dobie)
INTERNATIONAL 2: “Screwball Drama” (5:30pm, Dobie)
SEMIFINALIST 3: “Them” (5:45pm, Texas Union)
UT Film Faculty Screening (7:45pm, Dobie)
IF 1: “First Love” (8pm, Texas Union)
CCMC in Concert (8pm, Central Presbyterian Church)
CONDUIT DIGITAL SCREENING
Local digi-fest Conduit presents a selection of cutting-edge works from around the country. (10:15pm, Texas Union)
SEMIFINALIST 5: “Girl” (10:15pm, Dobie)
UT & INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION:
2: “Good Pain” (midnight, Alamo Drafthouse)
Sunday, Sep 26:
THE FRAME IS EYELIDS: MICHAEL SNOW’S CINEMA
Rameau’s Nephew by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen, 4.5 hrs
(noon, Alamo Drafthouse)
SEMIFINALIST 6: “Nomad 2” (noon, Dobie)
CRAG 3: New Russian Animations
New Russian Experimental Videos
(12:45pm, Texas Union)
INTERNATIONAL 3: “Home Is a Vagabond Camera” (2:15pm, Dobie)
UT 4: McCollege Tour (3:30pm, Texas Union)
ORGANIC SATIRE: MIKE LEIGH SHORTS
(4:30pm, Dobie)
SEMIFINALIST 7: “Animated Animus”
(4:45pm, Alamo Drafthouse)
UT 1: Lovers (5:30pm, Texas Union)
KEN VANDERMARK WITH THE AALY TRIO
Free jazz at its best. Golden Arm Trio opens.
(6pm, Ceremony Hall)
INTERNATIONAL 4: “Doesn’t fit” (6:15pm, Dobie)
Closing Party (9pm, Club DeVille)
This article appears in September 17 • 1999.