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As the Austin film, music, and gaming scenes become a "cluster," civic leaders are looking for industrial-strength creativity

In 2001, actor and activist Woody Harrelson rang friend and filmmaker Ron Mann up and invited him to tag along on an environmental whistle-stop trip in a hemp-fueled bus -- "The Organic Living Tour." Two years later, Mann's digital video-shot doc Go Further is all but in the can.

Austinites make good as Nicholls finalists, Cinemaker presents local animation superstar Eric Patrick on optical printing, and Concordia gets its screen scream on Friday.

Fiction Shorts

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Most loves fade over time, and the romance of a hundred-plus years of filmmaking seems to be losing its luster as well. At least, that's what the new High Definition video vanguard, led by George Lucas and Robert Rodriguez, is saying. Is video the future of film?

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Noise ordinance debate blows over -- for now -- while Internet radio crisis threatens, and SIMS crisis subsides.

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SXSW Interactive Conference photos and panel reviews

The digital age has ushered a new era in visual art, with the Internet offering artists a new medium for the creation of art, an infinite space to display their work, and a marketing tool. But with this expansion of creative opportunities come sticky questions of ownership and the communal experience of art.

The Toronto Film Festival was bifurcated by news of crisis; festival attendees reacted with the rest of the world and questioned the relevance of film in the face of events.

The Austin Chronicle is founded and struggles quite a bit.

MTV forces American youth to sell their souls, but has Joan Jett in a bikini!

The latter half of the 20th century has brought rapid change, sometimes extinction, to cultures which once seemed almost frozen in time. UT's Ethnographic Film Festival, April 27-29, shows how cultures all over the globe are handling that change.

For Spy Kids, his first youth-oriented movie, director Robert Rodriguez maintains the spirit of youth - and El Mariachi

Bruce Branit and Jeremy Hunt made "405" with a digital camera, off-the-desktop software, and a desktop computer. The action / comedy has now become the most popular short film on the Web.

The past year has been witness to an amazingly cooperative tag-team project between the Austin Film Society, the Austin City Council, and the Mueller Neighborhood Coalition that -- as of now -- has resulted in a superstar studio setup that could well change the very fabric of filmmaking in Austin.

Belinda Acosta runs down programs to take our minds off the upcoming election, along with programs to make us confront it.

The only punk rock band that mattered, and why they still do

We are wrong, wrong, wrong. So is golf.

An interview with Canadian documentary filmmaker Ron Mann about his newest film, Grass.

Sundance 2000: The year of "dot-comming," short films, female athletes, and the feverish race for the next big thing.