Exhibition Alternative

Evil of Dracula by Martha Colburn

"...how filmmaker and exhibitor-auteur Bill Daniel offers up Funhouse Cinema, his wildly diverse weekly Monday night showcase at the..."

Nov. 21, 1997 Screens Feature by Jerry Johnson

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

Film Encounters of the in*situ Kind

Show Me Yours, I'll Show You Mine

"...Experimental films and videos often elude the uninitiated. One is..."

Dec. 22, 1995 Screens Feature

Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...title: Now Charli XCX closes the six-day celebration of cinema with her digital quest to make a collaborative album..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Wes Anderson Brings Isle of Dogs to SXSW

Plus Midnighters bring the gore, and Alita party

"...the ABCs of Death series. Fans of Japanese genre cinema will be slavering for Katsuyuki Motohiro's live-action adaptation of..."

Feb. 7, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Announces 2015 Lineup

Circling the Thunderdome

"...– exciting new works in American and international independent cinema. The Austin roll call is encouragingly long this time..."

Feb. 3, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

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

Qmmunity: Top Five Scene Shakers

Qmmunity counts five major queer scene shake-ups in 2023

"...when you think about it. Paired with Ron Rice's experimental short film "Chumlum." Fri., Dec. 15, 7pm. AFS Cinema,..."

Dec. 15, 2023 Column by James Scott

Kustom Film Kommando

Interview With Filmmaker Kenneth Anger

"...Halloween weekend, is a premier figure of American avant-garde cinema. Legendary as an underground filmmaker, Anger prefers to regard..."

Oct. 31, 1997 Screens Feature by Clay Smith

Remembering 'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie'

CinemaTexas program notes

"...originally printed in conjunction with screenings put on by CinemaTexas, a graduate-student-run film society that was part of the..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature

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

Feed an Artist, Nourish the World

Austin School of Film underground and avant-garde shorts

"...by dint of the director's prodigious influence on the cinema of the obscure, the bizarre, the disconcerting. After all,..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Tilda Swinton and Jim Jarmusch Go Together Like Cream

The actress dishes on ‘Only Lovers Left Alive'

"...From her groundbreaking experimental work with the late Derek Jarman to her slinky-sinister..."

April 24, 2014 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

No Failure to Communicate

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

"...work, and its place in the ever-quickening world of cinematic art, analog, digital, and otherwise...."

April 23, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Indie Shorts on Display

The Territory Begins New Season

"...world. Featured are documentaries, short narratives, animation, digital, and experimental works. A total of 28 works will be broadcast..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Screens Feature

On Polish Screens, the Past Stays in the Picture

Films from the past and present screen at the Austin Polish Film Festival

"...Festival promises to be yet another terrific and enlightening cinematic buffet, including four of the 21 digitally remastered films..."

Oct. 17, 2014 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Austin Critics Announce the Five Best Austin Films of 2022

Linklater and mountain lions, the pandemic, the legacy of slavery, and the fight for abortion rights all part of this year’s AFCA Austin Film Award short list

"...by local filmmaking legends that push the form of cinema...."

Jan. 6, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

After Blue

French sci-fi weirdness finds a new Eden

"...After Blue is the second proper feature from French experimental filmmaker Bertrand Mandico – although his output of shorts..."

June 3, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Demonic

Neill Blomkamp takes us head first, straight to Hell

"...he's been back in the shorts world, founding the experimental Oats Studios shingle and just, well, having fun rather..."

Aug. 20, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Breaking the Internet With Neill Blomkamp's Demonic

Terror and terabytes create a new vision of possession

"...attend an early screening of Demonic today at AFS Cinema, but will be unable to attend due to the..."

Aug. 18, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

About Endlessness

Roy Andersson carves another exquisite, funny, mordant world

"...– are not conventional narratives. They’re not even traditionally experimental, but rather a collection of intricately rendered living paintings..."

May 7, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Space Dogs

Disturbing history of animals in space is rightly upsetting

"...There were dozens more animals – “experimental subjects” is perhaps a more exacting term – sent..."

Sept. 18, 2020 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Son of the White Mare

Gorgeous avant garde animation recounts a Hungarian myth

"...West, the latest restoration is immersive and enthralling, an experimental feast for the eyes even if the story itself..."

Aug. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Contrast Film Festival Flick Picks

Our selection of the cross-media event’s boundary-pushing films

"...Flaming Creatures Thu., July 18, 8pm @AFS Cinema With its graphic depictions of sex coupled with an..."

July 19, 2019 Screens Feature by Beth Sullivan

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

Telling The David Whiting Story or, the Cesar Romero Joke

Louis Black reflects on working decades ago with Walter Reuben

"...return to filmmaking. Kicking off with a feature, this experimental work has had less than a handful of screenings..."

Feb. 16, 2015 Screens Post by Louis Black

Take 10

The annual 10 Under 10 showcase spotlights collegians with cameras

"...Under 10, an annual program featuring short documentary and experimental films made by University of Texas students. Radio-Television-Film professor..."

May 7, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Science of Sleep

Michel Gondry's film is messy, confusing, painful, and ultimately, thanks in no small measure to the unfettered talents of Gael García Bernal and Charlotte Gainsbourg, utterly rewarding.

"...love and desire, in particular – retrofitted for the cinema screen, The Science of Sleep is likely to cleave..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The House of Sand

The House of Sand is a quintessentially moderate art film: panoramic and symbolic, epic in scope, technically accomplished, and miraculously acted by the mother-daughter team of Fernandas Montenegro and Torres in showy dual roles.

"...moderate art film – not as philosophical or formally experimental as Woman in the Dunes, but panoramic and symbolic,..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Long Stories Short

The Cinematexas International Short Film Festival

"...of the leading lights of the so-called New Queer Cinema, and one who began his career with a Barbie..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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