The American Genre Film Archive in Austin rescues 35mm film prints and celebrates outrageous and overlooked cinema.
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Now that Sony has cancelled the release of The Interview with “no further release plans” for the $44 million comedy starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, there are a lot…
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This upcoming Austin screening dives inside the mechanisms of the moving image with rarely-seen film/video works by Hollis Frampton, Paul Sharits, Tony Conrad, and Steina Vasulka.
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Austin Film Group to Present Mystery Grab Bag of Awfulness Tonight
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThe American Genre Film Archive (AGFA) was formed a few years ago to archive 35mm film prints, focusing on the exploitation era of independent cinema—the 1960s through the 1980s (think…
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The 26th Dallas Videofest is an opportunity to see the depth and breadth of what is happening globally in video art.
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Land and People: Recent Films of James Benning Brings Film Marvels (and Marvelous Filmmaker!) to Austin April 6-8
The Austin Film Society in conjunction with Alamo Drafthouse will host trailblazing American filmmaker James Benning (b. 1942) for in-person presentations of four of his films on April 6-8. A…
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Austin film programmer Zack Carlson and the Alamo’s upcoming screening of rarely seen mindblower, “The World’s Greatest Sinner” Everyone knows that Austin’s original Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is the coolest. Many…
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What do you get when ten teams of filmmakers team up with ten nonprofit orgs to make ten films in 48 hours? The first-ever Reel Change Film Frenzy! On January…