CineMarfa just announced the latest addition to their 2013 festival lineup: Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers. Here’s a video interview with director Korine from The Guardian:

“There is a very clear narrative at its core, then around it is this kind of … something that’s more like a liquid narrative. Something more tonal, more about a culture of surfaces, the way things look and feel. I wanted to make a movie that kind of was … y’know … I don’t know if you want to call it post-narrative, or post-articulation. Something that was more inexplicable. Something that was more like a feeling, almost like a drug experience. With a kind of transcendence. Then it disappears, goes into darkness.” – Harmony Korine on Spring Breakers

From our friends at CineMarfa…

Check out the program and schedule for CineMarfa 2013 on our NEW website:

www.cinemarfa.org

All screenings are FREE

Reservations are now OPEN

The 2013 program includes work by Chantal Akerman, Werner Herzog, Harun Farocki, James Nares and others. Updates and rumors are also available by way of their Facebook page.

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A fresh review of North of South, West of East, the multi-channel narrative film that premiered here at Ballroom as part of our 2011 fall visual arts exhibition, AutoBody. The write-up also features a brief Q&A with director Meredith Danluck, excerpted below.

“The idea came out of being couch-ridden with a broken leg on a TV-viewing binge while reading about durational cinema from the 1970s,” said Danluck over a phone conversation to her home base, New York City. “I wanted to see all the characters outside of their dramatic moments, the dead time and spaces in between became interesting and full of potential.”

On comparing the material from House of Incest to her first LSD experience:

“The material was so like what was brought on by LSD that it proved my point that this is a world that is accessible to the poet, accessible to the artist. If we hadn’t really … belittled the poet so much, and the artist so much, we wouldn’t have needed the alchemy or the drug to reach those visions.

One of the most marvelous things which is almost undescribable and probably only happened to mystics was turning into gold. Suddenly I turned, I myself turned, became gold. It was a sensation I’ve never yet been able to describe. Except compared to making love probably… That’s one of the themes of Volume 5. And then of course it continues the struggle of the woman trying to remain a woman and yet trying to be an artist too.”

— An excerpt from Robert Snyder’s 1973 documentary Anaïs Nin Observed. [via Dangerous Minds]

On location at the Marfa shoot for Rashid Johnson‘s video work, set to debut at his New Growth solo exhibition at Ballroom Marfa on 8 March 2013.

From left to right: Samuel Lee Roberts (dancer), Rashid Johnson (artist), Erin Kimmel (Associate Curator), Alex Ernst (Assistant to Rashid Johnson) and Robert Davis (Rashid Johnson Studio Fabricator).

As most readers of the Ballroom blog already know, Beach House is going to be playing here in Marfa on April 21, 2013 — pre-sale tickets are long gone, but we’ll be releasing a few standing-room only tickets at 7:30p the night of the show.

The Baltimore band is no stranger to West Texas, either, as they recorded Bloom, their lush 2012 album, at Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, one of the small border towns between Marfa and El Paso. The above clip is a teaser from “Forever Still”, a short film the band made during the recording process. It’s set to debut on Pitchfork.tv on February 4.

Check out film stills at www.beachhousebaltimore.com

We are excited to announce Meredith Danluck’s multi-channel narrative film, North of South, West of East, will screen at Sundance (!) this year as part of the festival’s New Frontier, which highlights work that celebrates experimentation and the expansion of cinema culture through the convergence of film, art and new media. The film premiered here at Ballroom as part of our 2011 fall visual arts exhibition, AutoBody, and will screen again in a custom built theater complete with 360 surround sound this month in Park City (!!). Watch the trailer here, and get screening times here.

Just a quick post to say, hope your holidays were merry (and get even merrier over the next five days). Be sure to listen tomorrow to Marfa Public Radio‘s Talk at Ten interview with Noveller, who will live score the Swedish silent film The Phantom Orchard for our annual pre-New Year’s celebration this Sunday, December 30. You can listen live on 93.5 KRTS or streaming on the web. All the gory details about the performance here.

We continue our (pre) New Year’s silent film tradition with a screening of the Swedish masterpiece The Phantom Carriage, with a live soundtrack by Brooklyn-based guitarist Noveller, on December 30 at the Crowley Theater. The Phantom Carriage (1921) is based on Körkarlen, a novel by the 1909 Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf, and directed by Victor Sjöström (best known for his performance as Professor Isak Borg in Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries).

As always, the screening is free, doors at 7 pm, show at 7:30 pm. You can read more about the film here, and check out Noveller’s excellent session with Liz Berg at WFMU at the Free Music Archive.

Here’s a sneak peek at rehearsals for our second year of The Reading, featuring Dion Cook’s screenply, Cutter, about a Miami trauma physician who moves to the United States after surviving the horrors of the 1994 Rwanda genocide. We’re pretty stoked to have over 17 actors here from Dallas (!), plus director John S. Davies and Marfa-newcomer Fred Curchack, who’s designing and orchestrating the shadow play (of which you can see a bit in the photos above). It’s going to be pretty amazing. Performances are one day only, this Saturday, 21 April, at 2 pm and 8 pm (come to the matinee and then have your pick of restaurants around town). RSVP here! –nicki