Alien Nation

Experimental filmmaker Craig Baldwin is down on corporatization and up with aliens, presenting a compilation of his work at the Blue Theater's Blue Screen series.

"...together with inventive voice-overs, filmed footage, and, often, abstract video-art segues...."

April 19, 2002 Screens Feature by Michael Chamy

Every Day of Your Life

Remembering Sims Ellison, and profiling the SIMS Foundation

"...was different. It looked so different in movies and videos; the camera could always turn away at precisely the..."

July 7, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Looks Back... and Forward

Documentary Film Pioneer D.A. Pennebaker

"...lend themselves to performance, and as a filmmaker that's something you look for...."

April 3, 1998 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Sxsw

"...attention they deserve, mostly because it captures the sonic weirdness and neo-Cream quirk of El Flaco's live show. (Katie..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Top 10 Festival Films of 2021 You Haven't Seen Yet

From retro horror to COVID survival, the best of the fests

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Jan. 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Leigh Whannell Gets an Upgrade

Insidious creator gets techno, and talks the Blumhouse model

"...have 10 people sat over your shoulder at the video village."..."

May 31, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

AMODA's Operandi

Just what, exactly, is the Austin Museum of Digital Art up to these days?

"...a small country. These are times when last century's video games are deconstructed and reconfigured to create psychedelic visions..."

Sept. 18, 2009 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Out of the Mouths of Children

The return of the Butthole Surfers – don't call it a reunion!

"...beating in 2001, when the band's eighth studio LP, Weird Revolution, failed to live up to its name. Then..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Postmarks

World affairs and more Critical Mass mess missives

"...U.S. indifference for her plight -- however, there is something missing in her assessment of the situation. Today the..."

Nov. 9, 2001 Column

Guys Like Me

Was America Really Made for Dick Price?

"...Austin's Dick Price, has a jingly, upbeat melody, like something you might hear at a carnival. Perhaps because his..."

April 6, 2001 Music Feature by Clay Smith

I Am Hiphop

One of the hiphop elders delivers a sermon.

"...and through the Temple, KRS-One campaigns that "Rap is something you live, Hiphop is something you do." The Teacher's..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Do-It-Yourself Girl Revolution

For the last two years Miranda July's work in fanzines, performance art, music, and movies have allowed her to support herself off her art. "No day job" - how many performance artists can say that?

"...told, exposing the work of other girls through her video chain letter, "Big Miss Moviola," and exposing her own..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Screens Feature by Ada Calhoun

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...(count 'em) screenwriters, still couldn't avoid the time-worn music video sequence of our heroine trying on clothes. The actors..."

Sept. 8, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...(count 'em) screenwriters, still couldn't avoid the time-worn music video sequence of our heroine trying on clothes. The actors..."

Sept. 1, 1995 News Feature

How Austin Transformed Danny Brown

The Detroit wild card on getting his shit together (and finding H-E-B)

"...long before Brown apologized, tweeting: “That’s why alcohol is something I need to be done with cause it makes..."

March 29, 2024 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Cha'keeta B Goes From Running Track to Running Tracks

Multifaceted rapper/entrepreneur looks to take names

"...hair/T-shirt combo coupled with black Adidas track pants into something worthy of a drip check. By many accounts, the..."

Sept. 16, 2022 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

Your Field Guide to the 101 Essential Acts at SXSW

Scroll eternal through the best and buzziest artists at the fest

"...File Under: Avant AF, Instrumental Wonder Cassandra Jenkins..."

March 11, 2022 Music Feature by The Chronicle Music Staff

Fantastic Fest Interview: Chris Atkins Investigates Who Killed the KLF?

How to make a documentary when no one wants to talk about it

"...after a self-imposed and prophesied 23 year hiatus - something that Atkins was able to include in the film...."

Oct. 6, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Watts Up: Reggie!

Hair explosion at busy Downtown theatre this weekend

"...I guess I would've been in second grade or something like that. Third grade? And I think it was..."

May 21, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Sports Games Stocking Stuffers

A last-minute list for last-minute shoppers

"...For the last several months the majority of my video-game-playing time has been spent with the two big football..."

Dec. 22, 2011 Sports Post by Mark Fagan

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...It came across the APD radio, heard in the video that is in evidence. I feel this is an..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Column

Life of the Party

"...to be different. And any time you get into something like this, you have to keep your spirits positive..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Music Feature by Andy Langer

The Big Bang

The Fragmentation of Austin's Underground

"...October of 1991, the motley bunch of punks and weirdos that made up nascent bands like Stumpwater, Lather, Chaindrive,..."

July 11, 1997 Music Feature by Greg Beets

The Basement Tapes

The Netherworld of Iconoclastic Music

"...because I was usually the control freak. I get something stuck in my head that I want to do,..."

March 28, 1997 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Great Expectations

Assessing Austin's Class of '96

"...was "Pepper" merely a novelty hit -- just another Weird Al Yankovic send-up waiting to happen? Radio research seems..."

Dec. 27, 1996 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Audio, Audio

Books on Tape

"...reluctant to praise or condemn them too much. There's something suspicious about anything which inspires ambivalence...."

Aug. 23, 1996 Books Feature by Michael Bertin

Have Austin's Magicians Vanished for Good?

With the coronavirus shutdown, it's now you see 'em, now you don't

"...still working from home, this pandemic's probably costing you something. So entertainment is just not a necessity. Well, it..."

April 17, 2020 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Luv Doc: A Real-Life Swipe Right

There is a difference between being likable and having a neurotic need to be liked

"...making eye contact, engaging in polite conversation, laughing when something is funny, etc. Apparently, most everyone else goes so..."

April 5, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

Top 10 Festival Films You Haven't Seen Yet

From charming zombies to pompous actors, 10 films to seek in 2019

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Jan. 11, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Searching For Clues Online

Aneesh Chaganty and Sev Ohanian talk about their online thriller

"...is that Google was asking film schools to make videos to prove that they were a viable filmmaking tool..."

Aug. 30, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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