January 23, 2009 – 3:21 am
Saturday, January 24, 3:00pm
Talking Art with Matt Stokes
Arthouse at the Jones Center
Free admission
Opening reception for a 16 mm film and installation all revolving around an interpretation of the history of “punk, post-punk, and DIY movements” and its receptive effect on today’s community, by british artist Matt Stokes.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Matt Stokes’ artistic practice is marked by anthropological enquiry and an interest in events or informal movements that bind people together. Music subcultures have been central to the development of his most recent projects, which have focused on their ability to shape lifestyle, beliefs and create community. Stokes’ most noted works to date include Long After Tonight, a 16mm film that conveys strong emotional and spiritual content through the British communities connected to the music and dance of Northern Soul, and Real Arcadia, a research based project focusing on the history of a small rural acid house organization which archives and interprets the clandestine experience of those who attended or were affected by a series of cave raves organized by the group.
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January 19, 2009 – 5:18 pm
CHANNELING: An Invocation of Spectral Bodies & Queer Spirits
a touring film program curated by Latham Zearfoss and Ethan White (in attendance)
When: Saturday, January 24th, 8:30pm – 10:00pm
Where: Hideout Theatre, 617 Congress Ave.
Admission: $5
Afterparty: Cockpit, 113 San Jacinto, 10pm-2am, DJ’d by program curators Latham and Ethan
AUSTIN, TX – The Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival and the Austin Video Bee are proud to co-sponsor the traveling exhibition of CHANNELING: An Invocation of Spectral Bodies and Queer Spirits.
“CHANNELING is an entryway into the spirit realm and the queer body politic: a program of experimental moving image work that calls up the ghosts of the past and the specters of the future.
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September 7, 2008 – 2:40 pm
Really digging Andy Campbell’s review of Bruce LaBruce’s new film Otto; or, Up with Dead People from The Austin Chronicle’s fabulous Gay Place Blog. The film was recently shown as part of the Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival.
Excerpt:
Unlike any other Zombie flick, LaBruce exploits the revolutionary potential of the un-dead: Zombies are nature’s way of getting back at a world driven to destruction by late capitalism, and homosexuality becomes part and parcel of this outlaw status. Honestly, in LaBruce’s hands, it makes a strange sort of sense that zombies would be gay. It’s a final and horrific middle finger to the living status quo.
