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,..."

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

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 Cinema Stakes a Claim on Austin's Art Map

ERCATX moving image showcase debuts Dec. 14 at Tiny Park

"...The Experimental Response Cinema (ERCATX) was launched last February with the..."

Dec. 12, 2012 Screens Post by Alejandro Puyana

Experimental/Experiential

Film at Fusebox Festival

"...under the stars to among them: The avant-garde outpost Experimental Response Cinema will co-sponsor a screening on April 30..."

April 27, 2012 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Avant-Garde Austin

Experimental Response Cinema announces its spring lineup

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

Jan. 24, 2014 Screens Feature by Joey Keeton

The Visions of Stan Brakhage

Experimental Response Cinema presents three nights of his work

"...can be hard to know where to begin. With experimental pioneer Stan Brakhage, whose work stretched from experiential documentaries..."

Feb. 10, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Five Movies to See in Austin This Week

Your weekly film guide for Jan. 18 through Jan. 25

"...the hubbub, so should you need to embrace some cinema culture this week, we’re here to help...."

Jan. 19, 2018 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

New Media Art & Sound Summit Weirds Out!

Experimental orgy amplifies the fringe

"...Brian Eno once said experimental music is “research music. You’re glad someone’s done it,..."

June 9, 2015 Music Post by Waylon Cunningham

AFS Asks You to Love Film

Special cinematic treat for Valentine's Day week

"...but this week the Austin Film Society and AFS Cinema want you to yell that devotion from the rooftops..."

Feb. 9, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Society Announces 2016 Grants

Program gives much-needed funds to Texas filmmakers

"...could potentially bring about world peace. Scott Stark, of Experimental Response Cinema, received a $2,500 production boost for his..."

Aug. 29, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Come Into Focus

Semester's final Focus Group screening features Jonas Mekas

"...by filmmaker Robert Gardner that focused, in part, on experimental film...."

May 3, 2013 Screens Feature by Matthew Irwin

CineMarfa Announces 2015 Lineup

Sci-fi in an out-of-this-world setting

"...trip from Austin to Marfa, but the lineup of CineMarfa 2015 ventures even farther: There’s a nifty space theme..."

March 25, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Film Flam

Roundup of upcoming Austin film events

"...More upcoming screenings of note include Experimental Response Cinema's presentation of Chantal Akerman's feminist, arthouse classic..."

Feb. 20, 2015 Screens Column

Ones to Watch

A new year, a new batch of filmmakers

"...In 1995, Athina Rachel Tsangari founded the Cinematexas International Short Film Festival, opening the door for UT..."

Jan. 8, 2016 Screens Feature by Sean L. Malin

Film Flam

The news goes on … Forever

"...Room on Saturday, Oct. 19, brought to you by Experimental Response Cinema, Texas Archive of the Movie Image, and,..."

Oct. 9, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

What a Cut-Up

Kelly Sears collages the uncanny

"...feature about atomic bomb tests and their relationship to experimental cinema that I've developed, but there are so many..."

May 18, 2012 Screens Feature by Sarah Smith

Made You Look

Austin Film Society hosts impressionist Jean-Gabriel Périot

"...with a Mark Street shorts program. The back-to-back Avant Cinema evening is co-sponsored by the Austin Film Society and..."

April 16, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Faster Than Sound: Sanctifying Saliyah

The electronic producer focuses inward on a striking sophomore EP

"...As emerging electronic experimentalist Saliyah, Austin's Tommy Jammer wants to rebrand the word..."

Dec. 4, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Sensory Overload

The Hyperreal Film Club summer series at the Museum of Human Achievement

"...see psychotropic Lithuanian art films paired with live abstract experimental performance...."

June 23, 2017 Screens Feature by Sean L. Malin

A Filmmaker Remembered

A memorial to the German filmmaker Harun Farocki screens tonight

"...The German experimental filmmaker Harun Farocki died last week and the folks..."

Aug. 6, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Charged Up

The 10th Fusebox Festival gets off to an electric start with 'Mozart Requiem Undead'

"...violinist with Bang on a Can; DJ Spooky, the experimental hip-hop musician and multimedia artist; Adrian Quesada of Grupo..."

April 11, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Citizen Science

The enlightenment of Jeanne Liotta

"...the talkies, so much was lost, and what would cinema have developed into otherwise?'"..."

Feb. 17, 2012 Screens Feature by Sarah Smith

Free Rangin' Excitement

Announcing the lineup for Fusebox Festival's 10th edition

"...Pauli), Arthur Simone (doing stand-up with a real robot), Experimental Response Cinema, and that Physical Plant play by Steve..."

Jan. 30, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

When There's Motion, but No Pictures

Guest Artistic Director Ed Halter adjusts Cinematexas' experimental aim

"...one of the most enthusiastic supporters of alternative and experimental film in America. Perhaps most famous as a contributor..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Frisk

"...Lyons, Alexis Arquette, Raoul O'Connell and Jaie Laplante. This experimental film portrait of sadism, sexual compulsion, and murder based..."

July 12, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Before There Was TikTok There Was Negativland

Pioneering culture jammers come to AFS Cinema this Sunday

"...the first time in 2022, the group's once definitionally experimental methods probably seem pretty commonplace, which is just how..."

July 22, 2022 Screens Feature by Julian Towers

Film at Wit's End

An Interview With Stan Brakhage

"...Stan Brakhage, the de facto Godfather of American experimental cinema, is the most influential filmmaker you've never heard..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Screens Feature by Jerry Johnson

Pushing Virtual Boundaries at the Austin Arthouse Film Festival

Celebration of experimentation does some experimenting of its own

"...in-person festival? Do more, and sooner. That was the response from the Austin Arthouse Film Festival, the local celebration..."

Dec. 25, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Desk Set

Its inaugural class – equipped with cameras, computers, and expert instruction – wades into a sea of possibility

"...has the action. And they all have the nascent cinematic chops of filmmakers far beyond their years ... which..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Bohemian Rhapsody

'Moulin Rouge' Director Baz Luhrmann Loves Love

"...set out to make what I call "audience participation cinema." During each screening, the audience applauded to the numbers..."

June 1, 2001 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

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