1901 E. 51st St.
Austin, Texas 78723

The Austin Film Society is proud to continue Avant Cinema. its series of screenings of short experimental, avant-garde films and videos by regional filmmakers. Director of Programming Chale Nafus and Director of Artist Services Bryan Poyser, working with Austin filmmaker Scott Stark, UT RTF lecturer Spencer Parsons, and AMOA Art School & Laguna Gloria Site Director Judith Sims, will be curating various bimonthly programs of challenging cinematic art, often with the filmmaker in attendance. For this second in our series, Scott Stark has brought together three Austin notables – PJ Raval, Rick Reed, and Samantha Krukowski, who will each present selections from their body of work. Each artist will conduct a Q&A after screening his/her selections.

Program for 3.19.08

PJ Raval
• A Boy’s Mouth (5m) – white letters on a shifting background spell out the tragedy of a silent seven-year-old
• Clean (4m) – a man’s obsession with cleanliness inexplicably leads to killing and being overwhelmed by bandages
• HZ202 (2m) – shifting patterns of shades of green restfully convey the “frequency of thought”
• Net 06 (5m) – a rapid shuffle of close-ups of money reveal numbers, letters, shapes, and orderly lines, all accompanied by an electronic soundtrack

Samantha Krukowski
• Artreading (2008) – mesmerizing interplay of extreme close-ups of the surfaces of painting: textures, geometric shapes, dots of color, lines, and letters
• Stillwater (2006) – stunning images of water over rocks, forming wave patterns that dance rhythmically in reflected light
• Chalazae (2005) – the hypnotic mystery of egg yolks floating and disintegrating in oil poured over a sheet of glass

Rick Reed
• Capitalism: Child Labor (2006, 14m) – Rick Reed’s music accompanies and heightens the impact of Ken Jacobs’ manipulations of a found stereoptican dual image of boys working in a textile mill. The throbbing, rarely still view of the factory with its barefooted youngsters begins to be overlaid with close-up segments of the original shot until various portions of the photo rhythmically dance with one another, creating a visual counterpoint to Reed’s overwhelming score.

$4 for AFS members and students with school ID / $6 all others

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