ABOUT Marfa Myths is an annual music festival and multidisciplinary cultural program founded in 2014 by nonprofit contemporary arts foundation Ballroom Marfa and Brooklyn-based music label Mexican Summer. With Marfa Myths, the two organizations bring together a diversity of emerging and established artists and musicians to work creatively and collaboratively across music, film, and visual […]
Screening + Q&A Ballroom Marfa and the Marfa Book Company presented a screening of the documentary The River and the Wall, followed by a Q&A with executive producer Nancy Sanders, producer Hillary Pierce, and associate producer Katy Baldack. The film follows five friends on an immersive adventure through the unknown wilds of the Texas borderlands […]
Screening + Q&A Ballroom Marfa presented a free screening of Cassandro, The Exótico! with a special appearance from Cassandro; Q&A hosted by Sauvignon Blanca; and DJ set by Tokyo Bois. The film is a unique and intimate portrait of the eponymous lucha libre star who grew up in Juarez, Mexico. The program celebrated Cassandro’s life […]
Film Series Ballroom Marfa presents A Triptych of Films about Migration that consider the scale of human migration; the difficulties faced by migrants and asylum seekers; and the forces behind mass migration. The films include: El Mar La Mar, Island of the Hungry Ghosts, and Capernaum.
Apariciones / Apparitions by Carolina Caycedo Ballroom nominated Apariciones / Apparitions by Carolina Caycedo as the film selection for the 2019 season of Artists’ Film International (AFI). Organized in conjunction with Whitechapel Gallery, London, AFI is a program that showcases international artists working in film, video and animation. Caycedo’s Apariciones depicts ghost-like dancers inhabiting the […]
Screening Ballroom Marfa presents a free digital screening of João Vargas Penna’s Landscape Film: Roberto Burle Marx on May 16th at 8pm CST through our Ballroom Marfa Film channel on vimeo. The film is a journey through the art and life of the Brazilian landscape architect and painter, Roberto Burle Marx, best known for the iconic […]
Grammar of Gates / Gramática de las puertas by Miguel Fernández de Castro Organized in conjunction with Whitechapel Gallery in London, Artists' Film International (AFI) is a program that showcases international artists working in film, video and animation. Every year all participating institutions nominate a moving-image work from an artist living and working in their […]
Exhibition Invocation for a Wandering Lake: Parts 1 & 2 Please note: visitors are invited for outdoor screenings of Chang's film (12 min, looped), projected onto Ballroom's exterior at sundown […]
Kite Symphony is a multimedia collaboration between musician Roberto Carlos Lange, also known as Helado Negro, and visual artist Kristi Sword. The artists are creating a new, non-linear, and impressionistic style film and live score, as well as a new body of sculptural work that explore the landscape of West Texas
Exhibition Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas For the exhibition, The Blessings of the Mystery, artists Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas create a new film and series of installations […]
Exhibition Laura Aguilar, Genesis Báez, Teresa Baker, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Christie Blizard, The Frank Duncan Archive, Nancy Holt, Katherine Hubbard, Isuma, Benny Merris, Alan Michelson, Laura Ortman, Elle Pérez, Sondra […]
Exhibition Kenneth Tam OPENING CELEBRATIONS: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2022, 4–7PM Kenneth Tam’s solo exhibition Tender is the hand which holds the stone of memory features a series of commissioned […]
Ecstatic Land Film Schedule October 26, 2022 –May 2023 Ballroom Courtyard Sundown until 10pm Join us from sundown until 10pm for the Ecstatic Land film series in the Ballroom Courtyard […]
Isuma, One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk (2019), Directed by Zacharias Kunuk As a part of the Ecstatic Land screening series, Ballroom Marfa presents Isuma's One Day in the Life of Noah […]
Closing Celebrations of Ecstatic Land & Kenneth Tam You're invited May 5–6, 2023 as we celebrate the closing of two exhibitions Ecstatic Land and Kenneth Tam: Tender is the hand […]
Tongues of Fire Jorge Méndez Blake, Jesse Chun, Adriana Corral, JJJJJerome Ellis, Nakai Flotte “Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers. […]
Silent Spikes November 9, 2023, 6–7:30 PM Cantor Auditorium Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University Join the Cantor Arts Center and Ballroom Marfa for a special screening of Kenneth Tam's […]
Sound Bath Ceremony led by Guadalupe Maravilla Saturday, March 16 4pm Free and open to all. Join us for a healing sound bath ceremony led by Guadalupe Maravilla and other […]
Film Screening + Q&A Mariposa Relámpago, 2023 Friday, March 15 8pm Join Ballroom Marfa and Guadalupe Maravilla for a film screening of Mariposa Relámpago on Friday, March 15, 2024. […]
Film Screening CLAY, 2024 Friday, September 27 2:00 - 3:30 PM Screening of CLAY, a film produced by Maida Branch about Johnny Ortiz-Concha's ceramics practice, followed by a talk with Branch and Ortiz-Concha moderated by James Beard Foundation Award-winning journalist, Shane Mitchell. Opening reception for an installation of newly made micaceous clay vessels by […]
