CineMarfa 2012
The films in the year’s program were grouped loosely together around the theme of “documentary in extremis” – documentary “in the farthest reaches” or “at the point of death”. They included a tribute screening of abstract films by “absolute” filmmaker Jordan Belson, an exclusive cinematic performance by Harmony Korine in which the filmmaker presents his favorite outrageous YouTube clips, a program of rarely-screened documentaries about rural America by Harmony’s father, Sol Korine, Mark Flood’s art videos, a program of historic and rare avant-garde shorts curated by Thomas Beard of Light Industry, and a screening of the recently restored print of the verité masterpiece chronicling the alienation of American Indians living in downtown Los Angeles THE EXILES presented by filmmaker and scholar of Native American film Cedar Sherbert.
For the Native American men and women featured in this film, the nightlife in LA’s run-down Bunker Hill neighborhood is an escape from the monotony of life "back home...
Sister Corita (1918-1986) was a teacher, political activist and one of the most innovative and unusual pop artists of the 1960’s. She was also a Catholic nun...
A classic of Russian animation for children. On June 2, 2181, Alice, her father Professor Seleznyov, and Captain Green go on a space expedition to find rare animals...
A film unearthed from the buried landscape of the American Nightmare, TRASH HUMPERS follows a small group of elderly “Peeping Toms” through the shadows and margins...
Artist Mark Flood makes a rare personal appearance to introduce videos he created between 2009 and 2012 and answer questions from the audience. Courtesy of Mark Flood...
MOUTH MUSIC demonstrates the distinctive modes that the human voice, the most influential of all musical instruments, takes on in southern folk music and folk culture...
Sixteen character-based videos from artists in curator Trinie Dalton’s community that consider crossover between the joy of looking and the desire to be seen...
Scratching & Painting on Film, Al Jarnow, 1968, 16mm film transferred to DVD, color, 3 minutes. Here in the first of two stream-of-consciousness...
Korine's directorial debut is an examination of grief, neglect, glue-huffing and cat-hunting in an Ohio town that has been decimated by a tornado. Gummo's mostly non-actor...
A rare screening of Kuchar's low-rent melodrama. This byzantine saga—presented in pulpy chapters like a thumb-staining dimestore novel—chronicles the misadventures...
In his fascinating examination of a triple homicide case in Conroe, Texas, Herzog probes the human psyche to explore why people kill—and why a state kills. In intimate...
Five years before THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, Texas native Tobe Hooper set out to make a film about the end of the Vietnam War from the perspective of...
Jordan Belson (June 6, 1926 – September 6, 2011) made abstract, visionary, deeply meditative, often mandala-based films over a career spanning six decades...
AXIOM, 2010, DVD, b/w, sound, 1 minute, Sally Grizzell Larson, The rhythm of clapping hands, the repetition of images in equally timed segments...
British filmmaker Peter Watkins set this rarely-seen 16mm pseudo-documentary in an alternate universe in1970, only slightly removed from reality and resonant with...