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16mm Film with Skip Elsheimer of A/V Geeks and Luke Savisky
Dates:
Sun Aug 29, 2010 00:00 - Mon Jun 07, 2010
Location:
United States of America
VIDEO SALON
16mm Film with Skip Elsheimer of A/V Geeks and Luke Savisky
Sunday, August 29, 1PM
Location: El Dorado Ballroom, 2310 Elgin Ave Houston, TX
FREE Admission
Like movies themselves, film collections have auteurs. Join us for a 16mm discussion about techniques for presentation and archiving with special visiting artists and 16mm collectors Skip Elsheimer and Luke Savisky. The two collectors will screen samples of favorite clips and projects as well as discuss their experiences in preserving and sharing the underutilized medium of film.
Founder of A/V Geeks, a club focused on educational motion pictures, Skip Elsheimer has been collecting small-gauge films since his teenage years and now boasts a pool of about 18,000 of the strangest films known to man. Combing the fallout from government auctions, he has accumulated a remarkable collection of “orphan” films. Essentially castaways, they are the films no one else wants: classroom films, home movies, industrial films.
Austin-based artist Luke Savisky earned his BFA at the University of Texas at Austin. He known for stretching the limits of visual media, using optical illusions, light sculpting ad direct projection techniques on unusual projection surfaces. He is also proud to call himself a film geek and will be a part of Media Archeology.
16mm Film with Skip Elsheimer of A/V Geeks and Luke Savisky
Sunday, August 29, 1PM
Location: El Dorado Ballroom, 2310 Elgin Ave Houston, TX
FREE Admission
Like movies themselves, film collections have auteurs. Join us for a 16mm discussion about techniques for presentation and archiving with special visiting artists and 16mm collectors Skip Elsheimer and Luke Savisky. The two collectors will screen samples of favorite clips and projects as well as discuss their experiences in preserving and sharing the underutilized medium of film.
Founder of A/V Geeks, a club focused on educational motion pictures, Skip Elsheimer has been collecting small-gauge films since his teenage years and now boasts a pool of about 18,000 of the strangest films known to man. Combing the fallout from government auctions, he has accumulated a remarkable collection of “orphan” films. Essentially castaways, they are the films no one else wants: classroom films, home movies, industrial films.
Austin-based artist Luke Savisky earned his BFA at the University of Texas at Austin. He known for stretching the limits of visual media, using optical illusions, light sculpting ad direct projection techniques on unusual projection surfaces. He is also proud to call himself a film geek and will be a part of Media Archeology.
Prom Date with the A/V Geeks
Dates:
Sat Aug 28, 2010 00:00 - Mon Jun 07, 2010
Prom Date with the A/V Geeks
Skip Elsheimer in attendance
Saturday, August 28, 7 PM
Location: El Dorado Ballroom, 2310 Elgin Ave
$10 Non-members; $5 Aurora members
Break out the chiffon, cummerbunds and awkward teen memories for this unforgettable presentation by an Aurora favorite, A/V Geeks. Vintage 16mm films of proms, dance and social etiquette will be shown in this historic ballroom. Prom-themed treats and punch will be served amidst decorations reminiscent of yonder years. Get your outfit ready for the photo backdrop and the special Prom King and Queen contest!
Special thanks to Saint Arnold Brewery and Project Row Houses for their support of this program
A/V Geeks is a collection of over 22,000 films, which travels across the nation showing ephemeral screenings in unique settings. For more than a decade, these geeks have been rescuing old 16mm school films from dumpsters and obscurity and showing them to folks like you.
Skip Elsheimer in attendance
Saturday, August 28, 7 PM
Location: El Dorado Ballroom, 2310 Elgin Ave
$10 Non-members; $5 Aurora members
Break out the chiffon, cummerbunds and awkward teen memories for this unforgettable presentation by an Aurora favorite, A/V Geeks. Vintage 16mm films of proms, dance and social etiquette will be shown in this historic ballroom. Prom-themed treats and punch will be served amidst decorations reminiscent of yonder years. Get your outfit ready for the photo backdrop and the special Prom King and Queen contest!
Special thanks to Saint Arnold Brewery and Project Row Houses for their support of this program
A/V Geeks is a collection of over 22,000 films, which travels across the nation showing ephemeral screenings in unique settings. For more than a decade, these geeks have been rescuing old 16mm school films from dumpsters and obscurity and showing them to folks like you.
Fragments: Filmmaker Darrin Martin in attendance
Dates:
Fri Aug 13, 2010 00:00 - Mon Jun 07, 2010
Location:
United States of America
Fragments
Friday, August 13, 2010
Filmmaker Darrin Martin in Attendance
Location: DiverseWorks
$7 Non-members; Aurora members free
For once, we encourage you to bring your cell phones to a screening so that you can participate in an evening of new video performance, as well as solo and collaborative video works from Darrin Martin. Failed utopias, technologic euphoria, roll-playing workshops, hearing loss, the nature of sound, and other actualities often inaccessible to the naked eye are playfully addressed in this presentation by Darrin Martin. Fantasy and delusion through a language of disjointed architectural ruins and sculptural remains fuse with his current research into ubiquitous technologies in a premiere of the video-performance, Fragments. A screening of his most recent solo works and collaborations with Torsten Zenas Burns, an experimental video artist, will precede the performance.
Darrin Martin is a Bay Area artist whose works loosely examine how technologies are used in an attempt to measure and augment our daily perceptions. Martin’s collaborations with Torsten Zenas Burns build diverse speculative fictions around re-imagined educational paradigms. Martin has toured his work nationally and internationally. He occasionally curates screenings and teaches video and media arts at UC Davis. http://darrinmartin.com
Friday, August 13, 2010
Filmmaker Darrin Martin in Attendance
Location: DiverseWorks
$7 Non-members; Aurora members free
For once, we encourage you to bring your cell phones to a screening so that you can participate in an evening of new video performance, as well as solo and collaborative video works from Darrin Martin. Failed utopias, technologic euphoria, roll-playing workshops, hearing loss, the nature of sound, and other actualities often inaccessible to the naked eye are playfully addressed in this presentation by Darrin Martin. Fantasy and delusion through a language of disjointed architectural ruins and sculptural remains fuse with his current research into ubiquitous technologies in a premiere of the video-performance, Fragments. A screening of his most recent solo works and collaborations with Torsten Zenas Burns, an experimental video artist, will precede the performance.
Darrin Martin is a Bay Area artist whose works loosely examine how technologies are used in an attempt to measure and augment our daily perceptions. Martin’s collaborations with Torsten Zenas Burns build diverse speculative fictions around re-imagined educational paradigms. Martin has toured his work nationally and internationally. He occasionally curates screenings and teaches video and media arts at UC Davis. http://darrinmartin.com
Popcorn Kids: Boot Camp Screening
Dates:
Fri Jul 30, 2010 00:00 - Mon Jun 07, 2010
Popcorn Kids
Boot Camp Screening
Friday July 30, 2010 7PM-9PM
Boot Camp Filmmakers in attendance
Location: Lambert Hall, 1703 Heights Boulevard Houston, TX
FREE Admission
Walk the red carpet for the second annual Boot Camp World Premiere. Young filmmakers visions come to life on screen at our closing screening of films made by kids enrolled in Aurora’s summer filmmaking boot camps (Kids sessions July 19-23 and July 26-30; and teen session July 12-16). Friends, fans and parents are invited to see the work of these future auteurs.
Boot Camp Screening
Friday July 30, 2010 7PM-9PM
Boot Camp Filmmakers in attendance
Location: Lambert Hall, 1703 Heights Boulevard Houston, TX
FREE Admission
Walk the red carpet for the second annual Boot Camp World Premiere. Young filmmakers visions come to life on screen at our closing screening of films made by kids enrolled in Aurora’s summer filmmaking boot camps (Kids sessions July 19-23 and July 26-30; and teen session July 12-16). Friends, fans and parents are invited to see the work of these future auteurs.
Willie Nelson's 4th of July Celebration
Dates:
Sat Jul 10, 2010 00:00 - Mon Jun 07, 2010
Willie Nelson's 4th of July Celebration
In partnership with
Buffalo Bayou Partnership and
the Houston area Alamo Drafthouse Cinema locations
Saturday, July 10, 2010 8PM-10PM
Location: Outdoors on the Bayou, across from Tony Marron Park, 501 North York, Houston, TX. 77003
$10 Non-members, $5 Aurora Members and Bayou Buddies
Aurora Picture Show partners with the Buffalo Bayou Partnership, the Houston area Alamo Drafthouse Cinema locations, and the Rolling Roadshow for this rare film screening, complete with outdoor 35mm film projection and picnic extravaganza.
Willie Nelson's 4th of July Celebration flashes back to an open-air affair in College Station, Texas, in 1974. This extremely rare documentary, available only on 35mm and never commercially released, was shot over the course of three summer days and nights at Willie Nelson’s 2nd annual 4th of July bash. Drunken performers, crazy antics and heartbreakingly good music meld to create an incandescent record of a moment in American musical history—a moment that everyone knew was simply too good to last. Artists like Waylon Jennings, Wolfman Jack, Leon Russell, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and many more musicians appear as part of this Willie Nelson concert film.
Bring picnics or a few bucks for food from H-Town StrEATS, Banquet Depot and Lonestar Novelty Ice Cream. Lawn chairs or picnic blankets also recommended.
Special thanks to Saint Arnold Brewery and 29-95.com. Film print courtesy of American Genre Film Archives
In partnership with
Buffalo Bayou Partnership and
the Houston area Alamo Drafthouse Cinema locations
Saturday, July 10, 2010 8PM-10PM
Location: Outdoors on the Bayou, across from Tony Marron Park, 501 North York, Houston, TX. 77003
$10 Non-members, $5 Aurora Members and Bayou Buddies
Aurora Picture Show partners with the Buffalo Bayou Partnership, the Houston area Alamo Drafthouse Cinema locations, and the Rolling Roadshow for this rare film screening, complete with outdoor 35mm film projection and picnic extravaganza.
Willie Nelson's 4th of July Celebration flashes back to an open-air affair in College Station, Texas, in 1974. This extremely rare documentary, available only on 35mm and never commercially released, was shot over the course of three summer days and nights at Willie Nelson’s 2nd annual 4th of July bash. Drunken performers, crazy antics and heartbreakingly good music meld to create an incandescent record of a moment in American musical history—a moment that everyone knew was simply too good to last. Artists like Waylon Jennings, Wolfman Jack, Leon Russell, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and many more musicians appear as part of this Willie Nelson concert film.
Bring picnics or a few bucks for food from H-Town StrEATS, Banquet Depot and Lonestar Novelty Ice Cream. Lawn chairs or picnic blankets also recommended.
Special thanks to Saint Arnold Brewery and 29-95.com. Film print courtesy of American Genre Film Archives