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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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.
