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

Erin Leland

Everything is Everything
April 5 – April 25, 2013
Opening: April 5, 6-8PM

Michael Strogoff is pleased to present Everything Is Everything,
a new exhibition by Erin Leland, organized by Jessica Brassler
from April 5 – April 25, 2013. In Everything Is Everything,
Leland makes garment photographs of coveted clothing from
bad angles in a manner similar to an unflattering portrait.

Alongside these photographs will be displayed two videos,
including a collaborative video made with artist Michael Sirianni
featuring many similar fashion products; and a rewritten
interview recorded with her father as he describes a life spent
exorcising old shapes for new ones.

‘Everything is Everything’ is a figure of speech that both
reduces and expands all things. It talks about proximity, for
example: two parts on separate ends of the earth are as close as
two parts on the same table. In the exhibition, the video
projection Vertical Way documents the seeking of contact between
the earth and the table.

Please join us at 124 E. El Paso St, Marfa TX on April 5th, 2013
from 6-8pm for an opening reception. Cold beer will be served.

Read on.

Our Adopt-a-Highway sign is up, on a lonely stretch near Prada Marfa. Orange jumpsuits forthcoming. Special thanks to Jessica Brassler and the Texas Department of Transportation for making this happen.

The Drive-In, now available en Español thanks to Ballroom intern Cristina Garcés.

El concepto para Drive-In surgió de las discusiones sobre el futuro del programa de cine de Ballroom Marfa, entre las fundadoras Virginia Lebermann, Fairfax Dorn y Josh Siegel, comisario de cine del Museo de Arte Moderno de Nueva York. Ya se trate de películas, música o instalaciones multimedia, Ballroom Marfa es consciente de la voluntad de los artistas por realizar, y del público por participar, en eventos que se celebran al aire libre bajo el cielo del lejano oeste de Texas. Drive-In reaviva el espíritu comunitario que existe en torno a la idea original drive in en los cines, pero lejos de jugueteos nostálgicos, nos sitúa ante una re-configuración del clásico drive-in hacia una arquitectura que combina cine y auditorio al aire libre situado en un paisaje desértico. Cine de verano, proyecciones de películas, juegos acústicos, festivales de música, ópera bajo las estrellas o en el coche, serán las experiencias redefinidas por el público.

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Eric Wareheim of Tim and Eric Awesome Show directs Leland Palmer through a lip-synch performance of Beach House’s “Wishes” that seems to be informed by some kind of Twin Peaks meets Friday Night Lights dream logic, chills and creep-vibes blended together.

Tickets for Beach House’s Marfa show with Holy Shit on 21 April 2013 are currently sold out. However if you are interested in attending a riveting musical performance out here on the high desert grasslands of Far West Texas, there are still tickets left for Jeff Mangum on 31 March 2013. Just sayin’ …

We were all crushed to learn of Jason Molina’s death on 16 March 2013. He was 39.

Jason and his band the Magnolia Electric Company came out to play at Ray’s Bar here in Marfa in September of 2005 on their fall tour. Some images from better days. Rest in peace …

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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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Meanwhile, over at David Beebe’s Boyz2Men taco trailer park, another drive-in project came to life this Friday night with an after hours selection of Eric Burdon videos. R&B videos to follow tonight. As Beebe writes on MarfaList, “we’ll debut this weekend with some music videos late Friday night and 8-10:30 or slightly later on Saturday- come on by and check it out!”

Also: Daniel Bachman delivers seriously zoned-out guitar ragas — in the style of Jack Rose, John Fahey and Robbie Basho — over at Marfa Book Company. Doors at 8 PM. $8 advance, $10 at the show.

Another weekend, another happening at Michael Strogoff, the Marfa gallery from Nicolas Miller and Ballroom Associate Curator Erin Kimmel:

From the website:

Please join us for the opening of Steve Kado’s
Total Motion Sickness, Friday, March 15 from 7-9pm.
Light and talking performance at 8pm.

Michael Strogoff
124 E El Paso St
Marfa, TX 79843
www.michaelstrogoff.com

Saturday 12-5
Sunday 12-5
or by appointment 917-226-5552

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Ballroom Marfa Drive-In and Vizcaino Park Master Plan

In last week’s edition of our local paper, the Big Bend Sentinel, Fort Davis-based columnist and historian Lonn Taylor asked questions about the ongoing Ballroom Marfa Drive-In project, shedding light on the history of drive-in movie theaters in the process.

“The popularity of drive-ins was a function of the baby boom that followed World War II, when many young families had noisy children,” he writes. “Drive-in owners added playgrounds for the children and concession stands, some of them serving full meals, for adults. Even Marfa, with a population of 3,600, had a drive-in, which opened in 1953 just west of the cemetery and closed six years later.”

He goes on to wonder about the lessons learned from other developers who have tried to launch projects in our Far West Texas town, specifically the failure of the Brite family to establish a Disciples of Christ community in the World War II-era, an exercise that included enticing believers with the work of architect Leighton Green Knipe, who, as Taylor writes, “gave them a magnificent building whose sanctuary will seat five hundred people.” A building which, after the thriving congregation failed to materialize, “now stands empty on the west side of the courthouse square.”

Taylor also considers the more well-known story of Donald Judd’s arrival in the early ’70s and the 40 years in between that turned, in Taylor’s words, “a drought-blighted cattle town into an international art center.”

Ballroom’s Director of External Affairs & Drive-In Project Manager Melissa McDonnell responded with a letter clarifying that the Drive-In project — encompassing a rehabilitation of the entire 21-acre site at Vizcaino Park — goes beyond the historical models discussed by Taylor …

“The Drive-In project also includes a master plan for Vizcaino Park, which has come out of discussions with Presidio County and community members. The master plan looks at the entire park and identifies needed improvements for existing park structures, such as the baseball field bleachers and locates new recreational spaces such as a soccer field and possibly a skate park. Other organizations such as Big Bend Soccer Association and El Cosmico have expressed interest in participating in the development of these new spaces.

“The Drive-In theater space is for all community organizations to use and program,” she continues. “While Ballroom Marfa will have programming that includes film screenings, concerts and operas, the facility will be available for local organizations to host movie screenings, high school graduations, music concerts, plays, etc.”

Further discussion and exploration of this ongoing project is encouraged from all members of our community. Vistors are welcome to stop by the Drive-In Project space at the Ballroom offices, next door to Marfa Studio Arts at 106 San Antonio. Melissa is also available for comments and questions about the Drive-In project at [email protected] or 432-729-3600. You can also find out more at the Drive-In section of the Ballroom website.

Click here for the full text of Taylor’s column. Click here for Melissa’s response, which we’ve included in full after the jump …