Expanding Cinema

An interview with premier avant-garde filmmaker and musician Michael Snow.

"...No artist could be more perfect to inaugurate "Expanding Cinema" -- the Austin Film Society's avant-garde film and video..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Screens Feature by Athina Rachel Tsangari

Experimental Response Cinema’s Scott Stark Bids Farewell to Austin

Our interview with the filmmaker and programmer

"...filmmaker Robert Bresson's seminal 1975 book, Notes on the Cinematographer, but it's his binary delineation of cinema that has..."

Feb. 1, 2019 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Experimental Response Cinema Rises to the Surface

Avant-gardians of Austin’s underground films

"...When the Experimental Response Cinema collective held its first screenings in 2012, the curators..."

Aug. 19, 2016 Screens Feature by Sean L. Malin

Avant-Garde Austin

Experimental Response Cinema announces its spring lineup

"...Experimental Response Cinema, an Austin collective of avant-garde film and video artists,..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Screens Feature by Joey Keeton

The Fame is Eyelids: Michael Snow's Cinema

"...Directed by: Michael Snow. Michael Snow's Cinema is a Cinematexas Film Festival program presented in association..."

Sept. 23, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Cinema of Possibilities

Low budget or big, the energy and imagination of the grind-house circuit is reborn in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's tribute

"...know, is a celebration of a certain kind of cinematic fare and the theatres that showed it. Robert Rodriguez..."

April 6, 2007 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Structuralist, Collagist and Surrealist Film: The Poetics of Avant-Garde Cinema

"...includes a selection of rarely screened works of experimental cinema. The program includes “Aviary” (1955) and “A Legend for..."

July 12, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Pope of Avant Garde

Remembering William S. Burroughs

"...up for a brief audience with the pope of avant garde. Each one had a little something prepared to..."

Aug. 15, 1997 Books Feature

Structuralist, Collagist, and Surrealist Film: The Poetics of Avant-Garde Cinema

July 13, 2001 Screens Feature

Maverick Outsider

Avant-garde artist Willie Varela discusses politics, the nature of personal work, a career on the fringes, and what it's like to be a Chicano filmmaker.

"...Willie Varela is a renegade avant-garde filmmaker from El Paso, a Chicano visionary artist, a..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Screens Feature by Athina Rachel Tsangari

The Radical Context

The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center's Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1893-1941

"...is this period that is the subject of Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1893-1941, a 10-part film series..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Screens Feature by Rachel Proctor May

No Failure to Communicate

Caroline Koebel grew up without TV. She's been pursuing flickering images ever since.

"...create. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the avant-garde, which almost by definition seeks to mash up various..."

April 23, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Charting America

Filmmaker James Benning typifies the avant-garde tradition and will be on hand to present his film, Los, as part of the Austin Film Society's series, "Expanding Cinema: Fifty Years of Avant-Garde Cinema."

"...fitting that Benning -- a longtime student of the avant-garde tradition and now one of its masters -- will..."

July 13, 2001 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

Double Nickelodeons on the Dime

Plenty of opportunities to catch some classic films

"...Now chew on this, if you will. The AFS Cinema reopens this weekend with double the screens and programming..."

May 26, 2017 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Art and the Arduousness

Daniel Kliewer's hypnotic moving paintings

"...Experimental? Avant-garde? Yes to both, but Kliewer's ecstatically vibrant moving paintings..."

Nov. 25, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Feed an Artist, Nourish the World

Austin School of Film underground and avant-garde shorts

"...True, the man behind the eye-opening avant-garde masterpieces Un chien andalou and L'age d'or failed to..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Made You Look

Austin Film Society hosts impressionist Jean-Gabriel Périot

"...And that's what French avant-garde filmmaker Jean-Gabriel Périot does with archival footage in his..."

April 16, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story

You could call it Seabiscuit Jr., but this horsey heartwarmer does something surprising in spite of its underdog sports-movie formula and shameless emotional manipulation: It manages to be an enjoyable movie about and for girls.

"...not – I repeat, is not – challenging or avant-garde cinema; Gatins (in his directorial debut) is the scribe..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Man With a Movie To Score

Justin Sherburn sounds off on an avant-garde, Soviet silent

"...With a Movie Camera is a cornerstone of Russian avant-garde cinema, a plot-free documentary-of-sorts about the developing relationship between..."

July 6, 2012 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

The Great Beauty

An Italian writer and bon vivant reflects on his life in this walkabout with Felliniesque touches.

"...Italian film by one of the modern masters of cinema, Paolo Sorrentino. Heretofore Sorrentino has been best-known on these..."

Feb. 14, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Limey

"...and self-driven directors currently at work in the American cinema. Above all, Soderbergh is a master of narrative economy,..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Image Book

Godard's final experiment is more thesis and installation than film

"...be his final theatrical release, the Swiss-French master of cinema has abandoned the last shreds of narrative found in..."

March 8, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Rubber

Rubber is a movie about a sentient, telekinetic, and homicidal tire on a rampage.

"...sense. It's also a horror film, a critique of cinema past and present, an absurdist satire of traditional film..."

April 1, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Film Society That Brought Indie and Arthouse to Austin Returns

AFS hosts a series of the movies that inspired Cinema 40

"...Before Austin Film Society, before CinemaTexas, there was Cinema 40. The film society, created by..."

Nov. 22, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Empty Metal Rewrites the Rules of Filmmaking

Cine Las Americas film blends entertainment and the avant-garde

"...it operates at the intersection of entertainment and the avant-garde, presenting audiences with a compelling story – three struggling..."

May 3, 2019 Screens Feature by Matthew Monagle

Losing It at the Movies

AFS Programming Director Chale Nafus on a life in film

"...Chinese martial arts films, recent Hindi cinema, Islamic humanism, contemporary Portuguese cinema, post-colonial Sub-Saharan African cinema:..."

July 24, 2015 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Film on the Fringe

The Blue Theater's new experimental film and video series Blue Screen looks to redefine the parameters of 'independent' cinema.

"...and local filmmaker Kyle Henry calls a "psychotronic, underground, avant-garde, freakshow, culture-jammer kind of thing."..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Who's Your Dada?

An evening of avant-garde/experimental cinema at ASoF

"...of Film's Friendly But Starving IV: An Evening of Avant Garde & Experimental Film. You want weird? You got..."

May 13, 2011 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Lost World, Found Footage

AFS' Avant Cinema celebrates the radical art of Bruce Conner

"...least heard of, outliers from the visual art world, avant-gardists who have more in common with Mark Rothko or..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Dreamy Visions at the Austin Arthouse Film Festival

Celebrate the avant-garde at AFS Cinema

"...the festival, which holds its second celebration of arthouse cinema on Oct. 21 at AFS Cinema, is a curated..."

Oct. 18, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

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