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flickerlounge: NeoGeo
Curated by Aurora Picture Show
March 16-April 21, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, March 16, 6-9pm
What does the drill bit see? This was the driving question that led to the development of a visualization that explores both new and time-worn representations of geological strata, petroleum, and time. Flickerlounge will feature an installation with multiple video monitors as well as scaled down replicas of Dupont Tychem TK hazardous material suits.
Marina Zurkow makes psychological, animated works about humans and their relationship to animals, plants and the weather. She is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow, and has been a NYFA …
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flickerlounge – unBlocked: performance based video
Co-presented by Aurora Picture Show
January 19-February 25, 2012
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 19, 6-9pm
Blurring the distinction between performance, video art and body art, these young artists from the University of Houston work with ideas about media, personal narrative and social commentary. Using their bodies as tools for expression, short videos include a father’s excessive travel souveniers that take on a life of their own, a poetic line of sand, illegal immigrant stories, tearful false eyelashes and many others.
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Music Videos and Shorts from Braden King
November 11-December 17, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, November 11, 6-9pm
Co-presented by Aurora Picture Show
Flickerlounge presents a series of short films and music videos by filmmaker Braden King. Playing off a personal narratives, landscape and a sense of place and time, Braden King’s work transforms a nostalgic feeling of home. Videos include: Sparklehorse’s MORNING HOLLOW, Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s ” HORSES, [POSTCARDS FROM] HERE and HOME MOVIE. Aurora Picture Show and Houston Cinema Arts Society will also be co-presenting Braden King at the Cinema Arts Festival November 10-12.
About Braden King
Braden King …
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October 29, 2011
12-6pm
Co-presented by Aurora Picture Show
Working with Mayor Annise Parker and her staff, a group of Houston non-profit organizations have come together to celebrate Houston’s 175th birthday! Flickerlounge will feature short films from the Texas Archive of the Moving Image of historical and home movie footage from Houston and Texas with everything from a zookeeper that rides a zebra, a knife throwing family and informational videos about Houston. This program is co-sponsored by the Texas Archive of the Moving Image.
For more information on Houston 175, click HERE.
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September 9-October 28, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, September 9, 6-9pm
Co-presented by Aurora Picture Show
Curated by Mary Benedicto
View abstract and non-narrative timebased concepts through Video LAB. Video LAB chronicles, compiles and serves as a place and structure for video and sound art in the North Texas area. These fields of activity are distinctive practices in the arts that are growing rapidly. Video/Sound equipment and software have become portable and economically feasible for a growing number of artists to utilize as a tool for the creative process. Video LAB is a conduit to the proliferation of video/sound art …
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Native Artists Consider the Relationship Between Land and Identity Curated by Carolyn Lee Anderson & Emily Johnson April 28-June 11, 2011 Opening Reception: Thursday, April 28, 6-9pm
DiverseWorks presents one of the largest multi-disciplinary surveys of contemporary Native American Artists that Houston has seen. Work in the main gallery, flickerlounge and the theater features the work of nearly 50 contemporary Native American artists from nineteen tribal nations across the United States. This survey offers audiences multiple …
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March 11-April 16, 2011 Opening Reception: Friday, March 11, 6-9pm
March 11-April 16, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, March 11, 6-9pm
Awardees from Chicago’s competitive Artadia Fund will be featured in the DiverseWorks’s exhibition The North Wind and The Sun, highlighting innovative artists. Likewise, flickerlounge will feature two inventive artists working with video and performance, Michelle Handelman and Carol Saft.
Michelle Handelman works in the tradition of feminist body artists who use their bodies not just as makers of the work, but as agents of the work. Handelman states, “My work can be described by theorist, Helene …
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January 14-February 26, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, January 14, 6-9pm
Co-presentation with Aurora Picture Show
Playing off Parody of Light, Aurora Picture Show expands this idea with videos that parody art, media and religion through ironic viewpoints about television personalities and notions of success. The films include Embrace of the Irrational by Jonn Herschend, Frog Jesus by Ben Peters and The Art of Painting #3 by Lily Sparks.
Embrace of the Irrational, 18 min, 2009, Jonn Herschend
Embrace of the Irrational, begins as what appears to be an hour long educational video written and directed by the …
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November 5-December 18, 2010 Opening Reception: Friday, November 5, 2010, 6-9pm Co-presentation with Aurora Picture Show
In this installment of flickerlounge, we will showcase short films by San Francisco based filmmaker Sam Green. Sam Green is a filmmaker whose documentary The Weather Underground was nominated for an Academy Award in 2004. Flickerlounge will feature some of his short-form documentaries including: Lot 63 Grave C, Pie Fight ’69, Clear Glass and others. Not only do Sam Green and Brent Green share …
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September 10-October 23, 2010 Opening Reception: Friday, September 10, 2010, 6-9pm Co-presented by DiverseWorks with Aurora Picture Show September 10-October 23, 2010 Opening Reception: Friday, September 10, 2010, 6-9pm Co-presented by DiverseWorks with Aurora Picture Show
The DiverseWorks main gallery exhibition Before (During) After features work by photographers whose lives were transformed by Hurricane Katrina, the devastating storm that destroyed the Gulf Coast five years ago. Flickerlounge presents two short documentaries from the Media That Matters Film Festival that take an intimate look at people and communities affected by Katrina.
A Loud Color …
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