CineMarfa 2013

CineMarfa 2013 looked at experimental ethnography with a program that examined the lives of teens, televangelists, brickmakers, New Yorkers, and fisherman with a wildly diverse range of styles and approaches. A program of Texas experimental filmmakers was presented by Caroline Koebel, Mark Allen and Machine Project came with a live performance and screening of Machine-made films, and a found footage workshop was offered to the community with an accompanying screening of the resulting films.

 
 
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Lineaus Lorette
May 5
Lineaus Lorette

Lineaus Lorette lives in West Texas. He is a man of many passions. Among them: crafting the finest medicine balls and punching bags in the world, collecting prison...

West Texas Cloud Appreciation Society
May 5
West Texas Cloud Appreciation Society

West Texas Cloud Appreciation Society is a documentary-style film essay that examines the towns and regions of West Texas, and the people who inhabit them...

The Friendship State: Texas Experimental Filmmakers
May 5
The Friendship State: Texas Experimental Filmmakers

THE FRIENDSHIP STATE was originally conceived for presentation in New York City (where I used to live) as a testament to the vitality of cinema art in Texas...

Found Footage Workshop
May 5
Found Footage Workshop

The premiere of the 16mm found footage films that have been produced by local filmmakers during the Found Footage workshop held this year at the CineMarfa studio...

CineKids
May 5
CineKids

Bring the kids for complimentary milk and cereal and a screening of a classic ethnographic film that is suitable for all ages...

Spring Breakers
May 4
Spring Breakers

Four sexy college girls plan to fund their spring break getaway by burglarizing a fast food shack. But that’s only the beginning… During a night of partying, the girls...

Seventeen
May 4
Seventeen

Arguably one of the most fascinating films ever made about teenagers, this verite-style documentary was made for TV in 1983 but was rejected for...

God's Angry Man
May 4
God's Angry Man

Dr. Gene Scott, an American TV preacher, manages to collect several hundred thousand dollars within 30 minutes. A film about a monomaniac and a nationwide...

Mark Allen and Machine Project
May 3
Mark Allen and Machine Project

Thirteen films produced by Los Angeles collective Machine Project with appearances by (but not limited to): pizza, babies, psychics, trapdoors, an opera for dogs...

From the Other Side
May 3
From the Other Side

For years immigrants passed through San Diego, but cutting-edge technologies have helped stem the flow of illegal immigration there. This leaves only the mountains and...

Leviathan
May 3
Leviathan

One of the most critically-acclaimed documentaries in recent years, Leviathan is a groundbreaking, immersive portrait of the contemporary commercial fishing industry...

Thy Kingdom Come Thy Will Be Done
May 3
Thy Kingdom Come Thy Will Be Done

Assembled by British documentary filmmaker Antony Thomas, THY KINGDOM COME THY WILL BE DONE is an exploration of the political ramifications of religious...

Reassemblage
May 2
Reassemblage

This groundbreaking work epitomizes the idea of “experimental ethnography”. Informed by poststructuralist theory, Min-ha’s use of disjunctive editing...

Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore
May 2
Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore

Leckey’s dazzling cut-up of found footage from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s of the underground music and party scene in the U.K...

Karthik Pandian at Michael Strogoff
May 2
Karthik Pandian at Michael Strogoff

Indian Country, an exhibition by artist Karthik Pandian at Michael Strogoff brings together works from the artist’s oeuvre that find both kinship and conflict between...

In Comparison
May 2
In Comparison

Bricks are the resonating fundamentals of society…Through different traditions of brick production Farocki’s film has our eyes and ears consider them in comparison...

The Films of Hermann Schlenker
May 2
The Films of Hermann Schlenker

During the 1960s and 1970s, amateur ethnographer Hermann Schlenker made a slew of exceptional non-narrated ethnographic films documenting material culture...

Street
May 1
Street

“James Nares’ Street is a microcosm of contemporary New York that makes accessible the countless individual moments, gestures, and interactions that are normally too fleeting...