New Growth Film Program
Marfa, TexasBallroom Marfa presents the New Growth Film Program, co-curated by Rashid Johnson and Josh Siegel, MoMA.
Free
Ballroom Marfa
- 23 Nov
- 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
- Admission
- Free
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Artists’ Film International — Alix Pearlstein
Marfa, TexasOrganized in conjunction with Whitechapel Gallery, London, Ballroom Marfa is pleased to present the fifth season of Artists’ Films International, a program that showcases international artists working with film, video and animation. This year Ballroom Marfa will feature the work of New-York based Alix Pearlstein.
Free
Le Révélateur with Mary Lattimore & Jeff Zeigler
Marfa, TexasFor our fifth annual New Year’s film program, we present Philippe Garrel's 1968 experimental film Le Révélateur, scored by harpist Mary Lattimore and synth player Jeff Zeigler. Doors at 7 pm; show at 7:30 pm.
Free
Sound Speed Marker
Ballroom Marfa is pleased to present Sound Speed Marker by Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler. The three video installations and related photographs, covering a span of five years of work, explore film's relationship to place and the traces that movie making leaves behind. The exhibition includes the premiere of Giant (2014), a work commissioned by Ballroom Marfa.
Marfa Myths 2014
Marfa, TexasMexican Summer and Ballroom Marfa are coming together for a day-long celebration full of music and good vibes at the El Cosmico campground in Marfa, Texas on Saturday, March 8, 2014. Free. Doors open at noon.
Free
Artists’ Film International—Nicole Miller
Marfa, TexasOrganized in conjunction with Whitechapel Gallery, London, Ballroom Marfa is pleased to present the sixth season of Artists’ Films International, a program that showcases international artists working with film, video and animation. This year Ballroom Marfa will feature the work of Nicole Miller.
Marfa Myths 2015
Marfa, TexasMarfa Myths is a four-day festival of music, cinema, and visual art in the high desert grasslands of Far West Texas. Presented by Ballroom Marfa and Mexican Summer, the festival enters its third year in 2016.
Desert Surf Films
Marfa, TexasBallroom Marfa presents Desert Surf Films - a program curated by Executive Director Susan Sutton - on Friday and Saturday, August 28-29, at 8:30pm in the Ballroom Marfa courtyard.
Free
Artists’ Film International — Brigid McCaffrey
Organized in conjunction with Whitechapel Gallery, London, Ballroom Marfa is pleased to present the 2015 season of Artists’ Film International, a program that showcases international artists working in film and animation. This year Ballroom Marfa will feature the work of Los Angeles-based filmmaker Brigid McCaffrey in a weekend of screenings, discussions and public walks in Marfa and the Big Bend.
Marfa Myths 2016
Marfa, TexasMarfa Myths is a four-day festival of music, cinema, and visual art in the high desert grasslands of Far West Texas. Presented by Ballroom Marfa and Mexican Summer, the festival enters its third year in 2016.
This is Presence: Artists’ Film International — The Institute for New Feeling with Arturo Bandini
Marfa, TexasThis exhibition features newly-commissioned work from artist collective the Institute for New Feeling (IfNf), including the video nominated by Ballroom Marfa for the 2016 season of Artists’ Film International (AFI). he IfNf project will be complemented by two micro-exhibitions hosted by Arturo Bandini in Ballroom’s courtyard. These distinct projects will both respond to the theme of AFI 2016: technology.
Dirty Gay Movie Night
Marfa, TexasPoet Eileen Myles joins forces with Ballroom Marfa and Mexican Summer to present Dirty Gay Movie Night at this year's Marfa Myths. This evening’s double-feature includes two hot and heavy classics of *LGBTQ cinema: Bijou (1972) and Community Action Center (2010).
Free
Marfa Myths 2017
Marfa, TexasMarfa Myths is an annual music festival and multidisciplinary cultural program founded in 2014 by Brooklyn-based music label Mexican Summer and the nonprofit contemporary arts foundation Ballroom Marfa.
Tower: Screening and Q&A
Marfa, TexasUsing a unique blend of historical archival footage, interviews and rotoscope animation, Tower reveals the action-packed, untold stories of the witnesses, heroes, and survivors of America’s first mass school shooting, when the worst in one man brought out the best in so many others.
Free
Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film
Marfa, TexasScreening + Q&A Ballroom Marfa presented a screening of Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film, followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Sam Wainwright Douglas, artist Raven Chacon, and producer David Harstein. Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film follows art collective Postcommodity as they strive to construct Repellent Fence, a two-mile long […]
Free
Artists’ Film International — Denise Ferreira da Silva & Arjuna Neuman
Marfa, TexasAbout Ballroom nominated Serpent Rain by Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman for the 2017 season of Artists’ Film International (AFI). Serpent Rain screened at Marfa’s Crowley Theater along with 12 videos from around the world. The international program was looped into a day of drop-in screenings. This was followed by the feature presentation […]
Free
Marfa Myths 2018
Marfa, TexasBallroom Marfa and Mexican Summer bring their annual music festival and multidisciplinary cultural program back to Marfa for 2018.
Nostalgia for the Light + Star Party
The McDonald Observatory Fort Davis, TexasScreening + Star Party Ballroom Marfa presented a free screening of Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia for the Light at the McDonald Observatory. The film was complemented by free entry to the evening’s Star Party and a chance to learn more about the McDonald Observatory’s participation in the Giant Magellan Telescope. Nostalgia for the Light documents the […]
Free
stone circle | Reactivation Screening + Talk
Marfa, TexasAbout To celebrate the reactivation of Ballroom’s latest commission, Haroon Mirza’s stone circle, Ballroom presented a very special program at the Crowley Theater. First we screened PASSAGE, a short film by artist and co-founder of the CineMarfa film festival, Jennifer Lane, which documents megaliths across the Iberian Peninsula. The screening was followed by a short […]
Free
The Way You Make Me Feel: Artists’ Film International — Jibade-Khalil Huffman
Jibade-Khalil Huffman’s First Person Shooter is a complex visual collage that layers stock digital animation, video shot by the artist, bold text, and multichannel audio. The piece weaves together themes of anxiety, race, violence, overstimulation and boredom from a fractured palette of source material. Overlaid onto the imagery, a libretto-like text inflects the video’s barrage of stimuli, applying lyricism to episodes that intentionally frustrate conventional narrative expectations.