Newly restored 1975 Texas art documentary Jackelope screens at the MFAH with filmmaker Ken Harrison and guest artists in attendance.
Peter Lucas
Peter Lucas
Peter Lucas is a film/video curator and arts organizer living in Houston, Texas. He has created and presented screening series’, events, and exhibitions in association with the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle International Film Festival, Experience Music Project, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, and Aurora Picture Show.
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Peter Lucas highlights some favorite programs in the upcoming Houston Cinema Arts Festival 2015.
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The American Genre Film Archive in Austin rescues 35mm film prints and celebrates outrageous and overlooked cinema.
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Objects, Matter, and the Dream State at Aurora Picture Show in Houston
by Peter Lucasby Peter LucasPeter Lucas previews an upcoming Houston screening of historic and contemporary experimental films co-presented by DiverseWorks and Aurora Picture Show.
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Austin’s Punk/New Wave Cinema, Discovered and Re-Discovered
by Peter Lucasby Peter LucasA newly restored program of rarely seen short films gives a glimpse of Austin's DIY rennaisance in the late-'70s and early-'80s.
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Japan’s Own Summer of ’68 (and Thereafter) Charted in Ambitious MFAH Show
by Peter Lucasby Peter LucasThe MFAH's landmark exhibition assembles conceptual Japanese photo-based art from the late-60s and 70s previously unseen in this country.
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Austin-based multimedia artist Luke Saviski's Ht/X event opens Houston's CounterCurrent 15 festival.
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This Friday, Houston audiences have the rare opportunity to journey into the nocturnal underworld of late-60s Tokyo in the experimental queer film that influenced Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange.
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I asked Robert Earl Keen why he loves the movie. He immediately cited its understatement. “So much is left to the audience’s imagination. It allows one to feel like a participant.”
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This week, film artist Roger Beebe is touring Texas with his multiple–projector presentation, Films For One To Eight Projectors, with stops in Houston, Austin, and Dallas.
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A “cheat sheet” for arts documentaries and live cinema performances happening in Houston this Thursday-Sunday
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The Houston Cinema Arts Festival explores street photography and its extensions in film and video.
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Artifacts from Sun Ra’s D.I.Y. record label El Saturn in the 1950s and 60s on view at Rice Media Center
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Film artist Jodie Mack brings flickering patterns and her personal rock opera to Houston and Austin MONDAY, TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY!
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It’s nice timing that the MFAH’s “Truffaut: On Childhood” series has arrived on the heels of Richard Linklater’s recent coming-of-age film, Boyhood.
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This installation of the Sights Unseen series finds layers of family, history, and memory on display at a Houston cafeteria.
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BLACK DROP: Astral Observations In Spring, TX
by Peter Lucasby Peter LucasThe transit of Venus across the Sun, the history of recorded image, and the intersection of three Texas art institutions.
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The 17th annual Extremely Shorts Film Festival presents an eclectic mix of movie moments from around the globe.
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Images from Houston's annual rolling group show, the Art Car Parade.
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The eclectic West Texas film festival revs up its projectors for four days of adventurous cinema.