Idea Fund Announces 2013 Grantees
The Idea Fund has announced the ten Texas-based artists collectives with unusual projects for their 5th round of grants: The Bridge Club – Art and Performance Collaborative (Huntsville); Erin Curtis (Austin); Bill Davenport (Houston); Esteban Delgado (San Antonio); Everything Records / Robert Hodge and Philip Pyle (Houston), Madsen Minax (Houston); Ryan O’Malley, Joe Peña, Dr. [...]
Aurora Open Screen Night is Now Open, But Please Check Your Hollywood at the Door
Houston’s Aurora Picture Show is looking for submissions for its “Open Screen Night,” a new quarterly event featuring experimental media projects and other screening events that are unlikely to find a home elsewhere. Specifically, they’re soliciting rough cuts, the products of youth media workshops, and artist projects, but are open to anything that fits the [...]
CONNECT THE DOTS. Media Archeology 2012
The Aurora Picture Show’s 9th annual Media Archeology Festival (Thursday through Saturday, Sept. 21-23) premieres a host of unique films and live audiovisual performances that transform everything from magnetic fields to cardiac rhythms to landmark film abstractions. When the Media Archeology Festival began nearly a decade ago, it was primarily focused on artists’ repurposing of [...]
’bout sound and vision
Experimental Eye and The Sounds of Silence. The next 6 weeks bring Houstonians rare opportunities to see some of the most dynamic experimental films in history- many shown on delicious 16mm film! Four upcoming film screenings–one presented by the Aurora Picture Show, and three co-presented by the Menil Collection and Rice Media Center–showcase a diversity [...]
Aurora Looking for New Director as Harvey Moves On
Delicia Harvey, Executive Director of Houston’s Aurora Picture Show is stepping down to take up a new role as Owner/Producer in partnership with her husband’s film and video production business, Carrithers Studio. Aurora Associate Director Rachel Blackney will take over as Interim Director as the org’s board begins a search for a new head. During [...]
Indy Grits Andy Smith to Jury Aurora Extremely Shorts Festival- 2012 Call For Entries Open Now!
Aurora Picture Show is again looking for adventurous three-minute or shorter films and videos from around the world- it has opened submissions for the 2012 edition of its popular, long-running Extremely Shorts Film Festival. The 15th annual festival will be held June 29th and 30th in Houston. Andy Smith, Executive Director of the Nickelodeon Theatre, [...]
Aurora’s 8th Media Archeology Festival Brings Big Electronic Fun to Houston Thursday-Saturday
The 8th annual Media Archeology Festival is fixin’ to bring three cross-genre, high-tech artworks to Houston next week. From Thursday through Saturday, the fest, co-presented by Aurora Picture Show and UH’s Mitchell Center, centers this year on play- artists using the images and techniques of games as they manipulate, recycle and reinvent electronic media. [...]
NO GRAVY ON THE LENS! IKEA/AURORA Free Stop Motion Animation Workshop Saturday
In conjunction with its Media Archeology Festival, Aurora Picture Show is sponsoring a stop-motion animation workshop at mega-retailer IKEA, 7810 Katy Freeway in Houston, on Saturday, September 10. From 12-3, the youth can make their own films using IKEA soft toys and finger puppets, pages from the new 2012 IKEA catalog and their own drawings, [...]
Aurora Awards Joan Jonas its 2011 Award at Upcoming Gala Awards Dinner
Houston Microcinema Aurora Picture Show has named the pioneer video and performance artist Joan Jonas as its 2011 Aurora Award winner. The award will be presented at the $250 -a-plate 11th Annual Aurora Award Dinner on Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. at the home of Jim McAlister. The Aurora Award, presented annually to [...]
Interning works: Sinai Tirado new Membership and Administrative Associate at Aurora Picture Show
Aurora picture show has promoted former intern Sinai Tirado to Membership and Administrative Associate. Sinai will be part of Aurora’s public face as office and screening greeter, as well as coordinating membership and general office management. Tirado starts work at Saturday’s Boot Camp Premiere. “Adopting the artistic tendencies of her family back in Venezuela, Sinai [...]
Veins in the Gulf
Veins in the Gulf, Elizabeth Coffman and Ted Hardin’s film about history, bayous, and cajuns will be screened outdoors in the backyard of Aurora Picture Show in Houston on Saturday April 27, at 7:30pm. It’s brought to you by Shrimp Boat Projects (Eric Leshinsky and Zach Moser, who have finished welding new rails on their [...]