Entries Tagged 'Events' ↓
September 12th, 2009 — A Note from the Staff, Events
For those of you in the middle of a film/waiting for a film at AGLIFF today, we want to thank you all for your patience and cooperation with the Alamo Drafthouse Staff while waiting for the power to come back on. Please see the main page as to the schedule changes that will be coming up for the SWIMMING WITH LESBIANS screening on Sunday, September 13, at 11:45am. For everyone waiting to see HANNAH FREE, I hope you enjoyed the opportunity to chat it up with Festival Guest Sharon Glass while waiting for the power to return. She’s such a sweetheart!
September 8th, 2009 — Events
AGLIFF Executive Director David Sweeney introducing the film
Tonight kicked off the first night of the Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival in its 22nd year! The opening film screening of the short Tongzhi in Love (Dir. Ruby Yang) and the feature I Can’t Think Straight (Dir. Shamim Sarif).
The turnout for the first film was incredible! The lobby was full of badge holders with more waiting outside the the building waiting to buy tickets for the film!
Badgeholders Donna Garrett and Caroline Scott were the first in line for the first screening!
Tonight’s screenings were sponsored by ALLGO: A Statewide Queer People of Color Organization, Book Woman, and Subaru.
August 31st, 2009 — Events, Volunteers
With the 2009 festival rapidly approaching, it’s time for the AGLIFF street team to take the message of the festival to the masses! We will be hitting the local hot spots in our fabulous new festival shirts. If you see us around town, feel free to hunt us down and ask about the festival! We speak film.
On Friday, August 28th, we hit up the happy hour at Rain.
February 18th, 2009 — Events, Special Screening
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is bringing back the venerable David Schmader for a live annotated screening of Showgirls on Thursday March 5th!
David Schmader, the World’s foremost authority on Paul Verhoeven’s masterpiece, will be appearing at the Alamo Lake Creek to provide a live commentary to what very well could be the most terribly awesome movie ever made.
At 7:30pm on Thursday March 5th, for one night only, Schmader will be dissecting Showgirls for our entertainment. In addition to the 7:30 Showgirls Screening, we will also screen David’s one man stage show Straight with a live Q&A after the presentation.
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February 5th, 2009 — Events, Filmmakers, Monthly Screening, Uncategorized
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Launch Party with the film’s Director Sebastian Cordoba to Follow
Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009
Time: Screening 7pm, Launch Party 8:30pm
Place: The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum’s Spirit Theatre
Admission: $5
This screening is free for Members of aGLIFF, AFF, AFS, Cine las Americas, and TSHM.
aGLIFF will begin its Monthly Screening series with THROUGH THICK AND THIN, a documentary by filmmaker Sebastian Cordoba, who will be in attendance. This screening is also a collaboration with the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum’s Altered Lives: An Immigration Film Series.
THROUGH THICK AND THIN follows the extraordinary stories of seven bi-national gay and lesbian couples whose lives are dramatically affected by the current state of immigration laws in the United States. Cordoba intimately captures integral moments of each of the couples as they struggle to stay together at whatever cost, sometimes demonstrating that love does not conquer all.
For some couples, this means immigrating to a different country, while others try to maintain a semblance of normalcy by commuting between distant places overseas. And, for some of them, in which the foreign partner is already illegal, they try to keep things as they are while avoiding the scrutiny of immigration enforcement.
The immigration rights issue is a sensitive and personal one to the director, Sebastian Cordoba, who will join us to discuss the film and his own experience as he was in a binational relationship with an American citizen and has struggled with this very issue first-hand. In fact, he was able to maintain a working visa status by producing this documentary.
aGLIFF will host a launch party for its Monthly Screening Series as well as the launch of the Texas State History Museum’s Immigration Film Series outside the Spirit Theatre following the screening.
January 13th, 2009 — Events, Special Screening
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aGLIFF and the Austin Video Bee are proud to co-sponsor the traveling exhibition of CHANNELING: An Invocation of Spectral Bodies and Queer Spirits.
The screening will take place on Saturday, January 24th, from 8:30pm-10pm at the Hideout Theatre on Congress Avenue.
The program’s curators, Latham Zearfoss and Ethan White (who will be in attendance) describe the program as:
…an entryway into the spirit realm and the queer body politic: a program of experimental moving image work that calls up the ghosts of the past and the specters of the future.
The intent of the program is to re-imagine film and video as occult technologies that allow us to connect with the bodies, experiences, and emotions that are often invisible – ghostly, even – in everyday life.
The works in the program take a personal approach in dealing with the political and historical problems that haunt the queer experience: the AIDS pandemic (Renwick, DiStefano), the body in transition (Montague), the idealized nuclear family (Pena, Robinson), and the narrow cultural standards of desirability (EMR, Moulton).
CHANNELING presents emerging and established artists critically engaging with these concerns on their own campy, poetic, sexual, humorous, and even utopian terms, using a variety of aesthetic approaches such as digital video, homemade effects, saturated 8mm, home movies, animation, green screen, and more.
Please visit the CHANNELING website for news, tour info, and more information about the artists and works included in the program.
The 68-minute program includes:
- Vanessa Renwick - 9 IS A SECRET (2002, 6:00, video)
- Elliot Montague - WELL DRESSED (2006, 10:00, Super 8mm on video)
- Shana Moulton - WHISPERING PINES #7 (2006, 5:00, video)
- Michael Robinson - CAROL ANNE IS DEAD (2008, 7:30, video)
- EMR (Math Bass & Dylan Mira) - SOMETHINGS GONNA SOON (2008, 4:00, video)
- Aay Preston-Myint - SOME GHOSTS (2007, 2:00, video)
- Jillian Pena - COMPROMISE (2005, 10:00, video)
- John Di Stefano - (tell me why): THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF DISCO (1990, 24:00, video)
And be sure to join us for an afterpary DJ’d by the program curators, Latham and Ethan at the Cockpit from 10pm-2am.
