INDEPENDENT FILM Month
Marfa, TexasIn 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.
Ballroom Marfa
- 23 Nov
- 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
- Admission
- Free
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Film
film.text.performance.film—Part I: “performance”
Marfa, Texasfilm.text.performance.film pairs two seemingly disparate areas of contemporary cinematic practice: filmic performance and visual text.
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Running After Disaster—Mel Chin
Marfa, TexasConceptual 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.
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film.text.performance.film—Part II: “text”
Marfa, TexasIn 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.
Free
ART IN THE AUDITORIUM
Marfa, TexasThis Saturday, 1 November, will mark the first installment of Ballroom Marfa’s month-long film and video series, Art in the Auditorium.
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Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
Marfa, TexasWild Combination pays homage to the inimitable Arthur Russell: avant-garde cellist, composer, singer, and disco artist.
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PARADISE AND BACK: Michael Almereyda
Marfa, TexasIn 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.
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THE WIND with Brian LeBarton
Marfa, TexasBrian LeBarton is a keyboardist, composer, and electronic musician, invited to Marfa to compose a live score to the 1928 silent film, The Wind.
ART IN THE AUDITORIUM 2
Marfa, TexasBallroom 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.
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The Blood of a Poet with Eluvium
Marfa, TexasFor 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.
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Art in the Auditorium 3
Marfa, TexasBallroom 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.
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Ballroom at the High Line: Atom Fables
The Highline New York, New YorkJoin the High Line and Ballroom Marfa for Atom Fables, a new collaborative work by artist Laleh Khorramian and musician Shahzad Ismaily. Atom Fables features Khorramian's one-minute films of transformations, which will be rearranged in real-time to a musical composition performed live by Ismaily and an accompanying ensemble.
Chalk the Block
El Paso, TexasBallroom Marfa collaborated with Chalk the Block –- a downtown El Paso public arts initiative -– to install our recently commissioned video work by Teresa Margolles, Irrigación.
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AutoBody Film Program
Marfa, TexasPlease join us for our AutoBody Film Program, showcasing films related to car culture, throughout the winter of 2011 and 2012.
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The Kid with Shahzad Ismaily
Marfa, TexasFor 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.
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Artists’ Film International 2012—Dan Finsel
Marfa, TexasBallroom Marfa is collaborating with Whitechapel Gallery, London for the fourth season of the film and video program, Artists' Film International. This year, Ballroom is proud to feature an installation by LA video artist Dan Finsel.
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Book and a Movie: “Never Let Me Go”
Marfa, TexasBallroom Marfa and Marfa Public Library are proud to present a new reading program, Book and a Movie, which focuses on novels that have been adapted into films. We will kick off the series with Never Let Me Go, a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, with a film directed by Mark Romanek.
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The Bike-In: Carbon Nation
Marfa, TexasBallroom Marfa is hosting the second Bike-In, which promotes a healthy lifestyle by encouraging all attendees to bike or walk to the event. For the next outdoor screening on Thursday, November 15, beginning at 7:30PM, we will screen Carbon Nation, a documentary about the solutions to climate change, relating directly to the themes in the current visual arts exhibition, Carbon 13.
THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE WITH NOVELLER
Marfa, TexasFor our fourth annual New Year’s film program, we’ll host a screening of the Swedish silent film, The Phantom Carriage, with a live score by Brooklyn-based guitarist Noveller, on December 30 at the Crowley Theater. Doors at 7 pm; show begins at 7:30 pm.
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The Reading — Devils at Play
Marfa, TexasFor the third year, we are pleased to present The Reading, a professionally staged screenplay presentation of a winning script from the 2012 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting.
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