Austin Downtown Arts: Film

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REEL Women
I had found a group that made sense. A group of women who were searching, and striving for the same things: to produce, write, direct, film, act, and watch movies; a group where women could come together -- void of all pretentious bullshit and get things done. Anna Julia's idea had taken form. REEL Women had been born, and what a pretty little baby she was.

Ron Jeremy: Porn Buddha
He was born into a Jewish family who don't seem too put off by his ultimate career choice, although after the first porn film, his dad told Ron not to use his last name.

A Small Thing...
The world of cinema is glamorous, BIG, brilliant, and crisp. It's usually hoisted by a fat budget. And coincidentally, often strangely buffered from the reality it reflects upon. The world of film I am familiar with it happens at a much more personal level, especially with small format filmmaking like Super 8.

Texas Film Art
Neal Coleman, curator of Texas Film Art, presents a show of photography, storyboards, sketches, posters, miniatures, replicas, and sculptures in the Artists Coalition of Austin Gallery located inside the Artplex.

Texas Film Festivals
You've got it. You are holding in your hand a script like no other. It has witty yet provocative dialogue, originality, action, love, comedy, and a political slant. It is a written testament to all things good about film. Now that that this has been established, what is your next step?

That Damned Film-maker -- Or Where the Hell is Alejandro Jodorowsky When You Need Him!
That very spring at the institute, in film/video art class we had just watched Jodorowsky's El Topo, one of the most reviled and exalted films of the early '70s, called by various reviewers "a stilted, misogynistic gore fest" to "a surreal psycho-western, a Zen affirmation" the truth lying somewhere vacillatingly in between. So when the job of interviewing this cat fell to me, well...to say the least, I was nervous.

A Treat for the Eyes and Ears
Eye and Ear celebrates artists who have partaken in the fusion of avant-garde music and improvisational film.

Underground
Financed in part by the French behemoth CIBY 2000 and Serbian television (closely tied to Milosevic's regime), Underground reared its impish little head right smack in the middle of the Bosnian war.

Worthy Mothers
Every day, people make important decisions based on little, if any, information, while they aimlessly stumble through the world of politics and politicians, trying to make sense of it all. Somewhere along the way they teach their children the skills they need not only to survive, but to understand the world around them.