Experimental Response Cinema | Experimental Response Cinema is an Austin-based collective of avant-garde film and video artists, devoted to bringing local, national, and international experimental films to Austin screens

2013

Thank You!

by admin on Jun 14, 2013 • No Comments

Thank you to all who hosted, supported, and attended all our events this season! We had a record 19 events including many guest filmmakers, a field trip, our first fundraiser and city grant, and saw many, many wonderful, enriching, confounding, incredible moving images. It was a true delight, and we’re...

Past Events

2013

June 13th @ NMASS – How to Build a Fire: Films and Videos by Michael A. Morris

by admin on Jun 8, 2013 • 1 Comment

Experimental Response Cinema and the Church of the Friendly Ghost are excited to host Dallas based filmmaker and 2013 Texas Biennial artist Michael A. Morris! Morris will present his films, videos and his multi-projector performances in the final ERC screening of the New Media Art and Sound Summit! See the full lineup of festivities for...

2013

June 13th @ NMASS – ERCATX II

by admin on Jun 7, 2013 • 1 Comment

Experimental Response Cinema and the Church of the Friendly Ghost are excited to partner for our second showcase of Austin-based moving image artists! This screening will also be the final Austin screenings of Lyndsay Bloom and Metrah Pashaee before we bid them farewell; please join us for these enormously diverse programs! Featuring work by David Bartner, Lyndsay...

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June 7th – Polari Presents COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER

by admin on Jun 3, 2013 • No Comments

WITH THE FILMMAKERS IN ATTENDANCE! Artists A.K. Burns & A.L. Steiner are launching a 2013 US Tour of their sociosex film COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER and coming (!) to Austin for a special screening at the North Door. Polari is excited to present this wildly imagintive film featuring the very queer talents of folks from MEN,...

2013

June 1st – Large-Scale: Experimental Films on 35mm

by admin on May 15, 2013 • No Comments

Experimental Response Cinema is excited to partner with the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz to present a rare screening of classic and contemporary experimental works made on that now-classic format of 35mm film! Cabinets, windows and frames of reveries, hand-painted epics, radically reshaped and vital emulsions, and explorations of the primal elements of the medium are some of the...

2013

May 18th – Küçük Sinemalar! Experimental Cinema from Turkey

by admin on May 1, 2013 • No Comments

Experimental Response Cinema and AMOA-Arthouse are proud to present this screening featuring a number of vital and contemporary works from Turkey! Hot off the heels from a showing at Albuquerque’s Experiments in Cinema, this program was curated by ERC’s Ekrem Serdar who will be present for the screening. Küçük Sinemalar formed as an informal group in...

2013

May 9th – Focus Group: The Screening Room with Jonas Mekas

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Join us for our final event featuring Robert Gardner’s The Screening Room with the Visual Arts Center! In this episode, the Visual Arts Center will be showing Gardner’s interview with legendary filmmaker and ciné-activist Jonas Mekas! Preceding the episode, ERC’s Scott Stark will present a short talk and screen the second reel of Mekas’ WALDEN:...

2013

April 24th – Three x Mark LaPore (w/ Michelangelo Antonioni and Phil Solomon)

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Mad Stork Cinema is excited to present an evening of films by Mark LaPore, along with pieces by Phil Solomon and Michelangelo Antonioni! “Mark LaPore was an experimental ethnographic filmmaker who made several films in the Sudan, India and Sri Lanka, as well as various parts of the U.S. over a period of nearly thirty...

2013

April 17th – Filmmakers in Person: Jean Gabriel Périot / Mark Street

by admin on Apr 2, 2013 • No Comments

Experimental Response Cinema and the Austin Film Society are proud to host a double header with filmmakers Jean Gabriel Périot and Mark Street in person for back-to-back in person presentations! Both screenings will take place at the Austin Film Society screening room – you can buy tickets on the film society website at the links...

2013

April 16th – Focus Group: The Screening Room with Robert Breer

by admin on Apr 1, 2013 • No Comments

Join us for our third outing with the Visual Art Center’s series devoted to Robert Gardner’s The Screening Room. In this screening, the Visual Arts Center will be showing Gardner’s interview with legendary filmmaker Robert Breer, with a number of his films. Preceding the interview, ERC co-programmer Ekrem Serdar will do a short presentation on...

2013

April 10th – 4 x Nathaniel Dorsky

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Mad Stork Cinema presents a screening featuring four films by master filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky! Dorsky’s films are celebrated for their exquisite visions, the awe they inspire, and the way in which his films elude description; we are excited to present four recent films by an artist described as “making work of rare and sometimes startling...

2013

March 28th – Focus Group: The Screening Room with Suzan Pitt

by admin on Mar 20, 2013 • 1 Comment

Join us for the second edition of the Visual Art Center’s series featuring Robert Gardner’s The Screening Room! For this screening, the Visual Arts Center will be showing the episode focusing on animator Suzan Pitt. Preceding The Screening Room, ERC’s Rachel Stuckey will do a presentation on women animators and showcase films by Janie Geiser, Daina...

2013

March 27th – Workers Leaving the Factory

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Mad Stork Cinema presentes a screening devoted to the genesis of movies, WORKERS LEAVING THE FACTORY by the Lumiere Brothers! Mad Stork will be screening the original Lumiere piece on films, along with several other works that tackle this moment of origin. Including work by Harun Farocki, Eve Heller, Les Leveque, Ben Russell along with...

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