Ballroom Marfa - Marfa, Texas

The Reading 2012

John S. Davies, Carolyn Pfeiffer, Nancy Sanders

21 April 2012

For the second year in a row, we are pleased to present The Reading, a professionally staged screenplay presentation that spotlights a winning script from the 2011 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting.

AutoBody Film Program

Winter 2011/2012

Please join us for our AutoBody Film Program, showcasing films related to car culture, throughout the winter of 2011 and 2012.

The Kid with Shahzad Ismaily

Shahzad Ismaily

30 December 2011

For our third annual New Year’s film program, we present Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid, followed by Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid’s short film, Meshes of the Afternoon, with live scores by multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily. Show at 7 pm, December 30, at the Crowley Theater in Marfa, Texas.

Art in the Auditorium 3

Kelly Nipper

26 August - 27 August 2011

Ballroom Marfa will continue its collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery, London, and nine other international art spaces for the third installment of the film and video program, Art in the Auditorium.

The Reading 2011

26 March 2011

On March 26, 2011, please join us for performances of The Reading, a professionally staged screenplay presentation that spotlights a winning script from the prestigious 2010 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting.

“The Blood of a Poet” with Eluvium

2011 January 01

For our second annual New Year’s film program, we’ll show Jean Cocteau’s avant-garde film The Blood of a Poet, accompanied by a live score by Eluvium, at the Masonic Lodge on January 1, 2011.

ART IN THE AUDITORIUM 2

Aida Ruilova

29 January 2010 - 7 March 2010

Ballroom Marfa continues a collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery in London and other international galleries from Oslo, Bergamo, Buenos Aires, Istanbul, and Wellington to bring together film and video artists from a global community.

THE WIND with Brian LeBarton

Brian LeBarton and Joel Nelson

2 January 2010

Brian LeBarton is a keyboardist, composer, and electronic musician, invited to Marfa to compose a live score to the 1928 silent film, The Wind.

PARADISE AND BACK: Michael Almereyda

15 May - 27 June 2009

In hosting Michael Almereyda as a filmmaker-in-residence, we put the spotlight on a unique force in American independent film and invite audiences to immerse themselves in a discussion with the artist as he walks us through a retrospective spanning two decades.

Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell

Matt Wolf

5 April 2009

Wild Combination pays homage to the inimitable Arthur Russell: avant-garde cellist, composer, singer, and disco artist.

ART IN THE AUDITORIUM

RYAN TRECARTIN, LEANDRO ERLICH, DIEGO PERRONE, LENE BERG, ALI KAZMA, SHAHRYAR NASHAT, NATHALIE DJURBERG, WANG JIANWEI, CORNELIA PARKER

1 November - 28 November 2008

This Saturday, 1 November, will mark the first installment of Ballroom Marfa’s month-long film and video series, Art in the Auditorium.

film.text.performance.film Part II: “text”

Michael Tracy, Christopher Rincon, Julia Meltzer, David Gatten, Christian Gerstheimer

11-12 April 2008

In December 2007 Ballroom Marfa launched film.text.performance.film, a two-part program pairing seemingly disparate areas of contemporary cinematic practice of filmic performance and visual text.

RUNNING AFTER DISASTER with MEL CHIN

Mel Chin

2 February 2008

Conceptual artist Mel Chin brings these two seemingly separate incidents together in his first animated film, “9-11/9-11, Chile/USA,” a fiction that weaves the lives of a Santiago couple embroiled in the attack on Santiago 1973, with two young lovers in New York City, 2001.

INDEPENDENT FILM Month

1 December 2006 - 2 December 2006 and 9 December 2006

In December 2006, Ballroom Marfa presents a month of independent film, in an effort to promote the concept of film as an art and expand the awareness of independent film.

FILM SCREENINGS WITH PETER DOIG

PETER DOIG

30 September & 1 October 2006

In the spirit of Peter Doig & Che Lovelace’s STUDIOFILMCLUB, Peter Doig held three open screenings during his opening weekend at Marfa’s Goode Crowley Theatre.

The AUDIBLE PICTURE SHOW

Matt Hulse

15 December 2005

The Audible Picture Show, an unusual initiative from Edinburgh, Scotland, is proud to reach Texas with an inspiring presentation of audio-only “films” to be enjoyed, in darkness, in the comfort of a cinema.

film.text.performance.film Part I: “performance”

Luis Recoder, Sandra Gibson, Michaela Grill, Giuseppe Ielasi, Bruce McClure

14 December - 15 December 2007

film.text.performance.film pairs two seemingly disparate areas of contemporary cinematic practice: filmic performance and visual text.

BE HERE TO LOVE ME

Margaret Brown

19-20 November 2005

Directed by Margaret Brown, this acclaimed documentary, Be Here to Love Me, is a compassionately directed portrait of Townes Van Zandt’s life and career.

André Gregory

André Gregory

30 March – 4 April 2005

Acclaimed theatre director André Gregory will be in residence in Marfa, Texas and will perform, with a small group of actors, artists, and designers, Samuel Beckett’s Endgame in an open rehearsal format, as well as presenting readings, talks, and screenings of his influential films My Dinner with Andre and Vanya on 42nd Street.

Music on Film II

Sound Team

25 February 2005

Continuing the Ballroom’s Music on Film series, SOUND team selects two documentaries based on the creative inspirations and technical masteries behind the creation of music.

Music on Film

Vance Knowles & Noel Waggener

10-24 February 2005

As a part of the Ballroom’s on-going Music on Film series, Vance Knowles & Noel Waggener have programmed a group of documentaries that explore musicians’ lives and works.

An Evening With John Waters

John Waters

23 October 2004

Join us for an evening with John Waters, the filmmaker, author, and photographer based in Baltimore and New York City, who became famous as “the Pope of Trash” (William Burroughs) and the “King of suburban exploitation.”

Kino-Eye: Approaches to Documentary Film Making

Don Howard

6-8 August 2004, 13-15 August 2004

Don Howard, an Austin-based filmmaker and professor of film editing at the University of Texas, will screen a series of films illustrating two of the primary sources of a documentary film’s power: cinematography and editing.