Local Band Montopolis Scores a Multimedia Ode to the Texas Coast

Galveston (and you) will be blown away by this production

"...one of those multimedia deals: a curated collection of archival photos, recent (and breathtaking) video footage, finely scripted live..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Faster Than Sound: The Fable Trilogy, Briscoe Center's "Greatest Hits," and Beerland Sold

Rare local reissues from Jazzman Records, the Briscoe Center’s Music Collections presents its “Greatest Hits,” and – has Beerland been sold?

"...The individually numbered LPs include a booklet insert with archival cuttings and funny, anecdote-filled interviews. Short first heard 47..."

May 31, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Legislative Bill Would Hide How the Sausage Is Made

HB 4181 would add new exemptions for legislative records from open records requests

"...of Government Archives and Records Administrators, and the Regional Archival Associations Consortium...."

May 17, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

ATX Film News: What Kat Candler Did Next

Fear the Walking Dead returns, The Son sets, and more

"...discussion in the Texas Legislature about the Texas Moving Image Industry Incentive Program could affect that decision, and that..."

May 10, 2019 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

Empty Metal Rewrites the Rules of Filmmaking

Cine Las Americas film blends entertainment and the avant-garde

"...police shootings are depicted through crude computer models, while archival footage provides voiceovers of disgraced officers justifying their fatal..."

May 3, 2019 Screens Feature by Matthew Monagle

The Complicated Legacy of America's First Celebrity Fashion Designer in Halston

Gold, glimmer, greed

"...And then there was the image that Tcheng – and, he contends, most others –..."

April 12, 2019 Screens Feature by Beth Sullivan

Zach Theatre's Notes From the Field

This production of Anna Deavere Smith's provocative docudrama calls out America's criminal justice system

"...escapist fare. And verbatim plays, culled from interviews and archival material, serve to recognize dysfunctional forces at work, inform..."

March 15, 2019 Arts Review by Bob Abelman

One in a Crowd

Barton Springs history needs your crowdfunding help

"...rough cut but need finishing funds to pay for archival footage licenses and a score by Austin musical icon..."

Feb. 22, 2019 Screens Column by Savannah J Salazar

Vietnam Memories

Ricardo Ainslie's new documentary The Mark of War airs Sunday

"...Texans, including local artist Gordon Fowler) with (sometimes harrowing) archival footage of the war, selected to help illustrate the..."

Oct. 26, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

Portrait of Fashion Icon André Leon Talley

Filmmaker Kate Novack on her new doc, The Gospel According to André

"...undress the legendary Vogue editor of his sensationalized public image. "André always appears in these larger-than-life, over-the-top, scene-stealing roles,..."

June 1, 2018 Screens Feature by Beth Sullivan

Object Collection’s It's All True

This opera culled from Fugazi concert detritus was an endurance test for both audience and performers

"...nailing a freneticism that fed the rambling rage. The archival flotsam was presented onstage in an anxious, occasionally approaching..."

May 25, 2018 Arts Review by Melany Jean

“Elizabeth Chiles: Weave” at grayDUCK Gallery

Chiles explores the ever-changing nature of light, time, and life through transcendant prints of light’s little dance through flora

"...in a tightly focused, yet somehow transcendent, series of archival pigment prints...."

May 4, 2018 Arts Review by Melany Jean

"Juntos/Together" Ties Austin's Activist Past and Present

Shedding light on action & initiatives by local minority communities

"...two years, he has been posting on Instagram historic images of the Austin that came before the social-media generation..."

March 28, 2018 Arts Post by Acacia Coronado

SXSW Panel Recap: Elvis Presley: The Searcher

The King of Rock & Roll’s filmic dreamscape

"...in their last interviews. None interrupt the stream of archival footage, their voices providing narration. Priscilla remarked that this..."

March 15, 2018 SXSW Post by Tim Stegall

99 Austin Acts at SXSW Music

Support the home team!

"...Mon. 12, Sidewinder Outside, 7:45pm Spurred by the archival Recordings LP, Steve Marsh has reactivated his seminal Eighties..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

Between Two Worlds

Redefining identity in Your Way Back to Me

"...said). The final material – observational shots, interviews, and archival home videos – chronicles the aftermath of profound loss..."

Jan. 12, 2018 Screens Feature by Beth Sullivan

Seen / Soon: Jan. 5

Austin gets to see how Buddhist high holy days are celebrated in Tibet and Qinghai, and how African-Americans and Latinos once stood together in an era of social change

"...co-curators Alan Garcia & Rachel E. Winston draw on archival materials and period photographs to show not only the..."

Jan. 5, 2018 Arts Column

Broadcasts Vol. 25

"...Disc 2 offers a powerhouse archival roster digging beyond hits. Ed Sheeran opens with "Lego..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Music Review by Doug Freeman

Is Austin's Growing Dance Music Scene in Need of Its Own HQ?

We talk to a dozen members of ATX’s electronic music community

"...(Austin Boogie Crew), good-time sure shots (the Get Down), archival 45s (Old Style DJs), cumbia bangers (Peligrosa), and more..."

Nov. 10, 2017 Music Feature by Dan Gentile

Austin Asian American Film Festival Announces Full Lineup

The four-day festival drops 11 feature films and even more shorts

"...of provocation, Alipato is garish and electric in its imagery and unbound by any real sense of propriety –..."

Oct. 31, 2017 Screens Post by Reanna Zuniga

Eddie Stout Is a One-Man Historical Blues Society

On the eve of his Eastside Kings Festival the Dialtone Records founder remains doggedly preservationist

"...into the business end, at least in the long-range archival process, should be called into question...."

Sept. 8, 2017 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Louis Black Takes Richard Linklater Doc to PBS

dream is destiny airs on American Masters

"...perspective: "I'm an acolyte," Black jokes. In addition to archival footage and intimate interviews with Linklater, the movie also..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Screens Feature by Sean L. Malin

Alison Macor Tells the Tale of Austin’s Greatest Rewrite Man

New book delves into the career of Top Gun script doctor Warren Skaaren

"...it does fuse affectionate biographical anecdotes like Broyles' with archival research in an effort to combat Skaaren's somewhat egregious..."

June 2, 2017 Screens Feature by Sean L. Malin

The Austin Film Society Unveils Its New Home for Cinema

Two-screen theatre will showcase the best of new and classic arthouse cinema

"...larger room, fitted with a 35mm projector, will host archival and restoration programming. Meanwhile the third room, the main..."

May 26, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Peter O'Toole Archives Land at HRC

Peter O'Toole archives acquired by UT's Harry Ransom Center

"...The Ransom Center’s archival collections also include the works of Stella Adler, Robert..."

April 22, 2017 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Readily Apparent Media on Their Basketball Doc

Local production house goes for the fast break

"...2-D graphics "to help keep it fun" in between archival footage and never-before-seen interviews...."

April 14, 2017 Screens Feature by Sean L. Malin

SXSW Music Interview: Mick Fleetwood

Fleetwood Mac co-founder reflects on 50 years since the band first got together

"...years inside an amazing book of photographs, memorabilia, and archival material with text, Love That Burns: A Chronicle of..."

March 17, 2017 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

SXSW Film Review: The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin

Biographical doc tamely depicts a vigorous life

"...a quick hand, ably balancing a massive array of archival and new footage without losing the arc of Maupin’s..."

March 13, 2017 SXSW Post by Sean L. Malin

Public Notice: What Is the Sound of One Shoe Falling?

City releases CodeNEXT draft to mild reaction ... so far

"...teaching strategies, and resources. Texas Archive of the Moving Image will give a presentation at 11am titled "Lights, Camera,..."

Feb. 3, 2017 News Column by Nick Barbaro

“I saw the world” at Pump Project

Imperialism and identity compete in Betelhem Makonnen’s solo show about a 19th century Ethiopian prince

"...Makonnen's multimedia work exposes both sides of this narrative. Images of Alemayehu as he was received in British court..."

Dec. 23, 2016 Arts Review by Caitlin Greenwood

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