Love, From Death Row: A Day of Art and Film
This free & open to the public event will feature a screening of two films about death penalty and the families that are affected by it. There will also be an exhibition featured of incredible artwork created by people currently on death row which is entitled "Love, From Death Row".
Free & open to the public
Exploring Analogue
An exclusive one night event to experiment and experience analog photography with local artist Sabrina Dennis.
Austin School of Film x AFS Cinema: Official 2020 Showcase
All work created by real-life students, highlighting their experience as filmmakers and artists through new work and short films. Works extend a wide variety of mediums including: Super 8, 16mm, Digital Filmmaking and more. Come hear the stories of those who live, work, and breathe in the lone star state.
Exploded Drawing 48 with Mono/Poly
Exploded Drawing is an organization based in Austin whose aim is to elevate the electronic music community in Texas by encouraging creativity and stimulating conversation between artists and listeners. Each official session features 6 artists performing original music.
DOC SHORTS: Fall 2019 - Student Showcase
Join us for a free screening of doc shorts created in Austin School of Film's 10-week intensive Documentary Filmmaking production course— led by scholar, educator, and award-winning Documentary Filmmaker, Tania Romero!
ATX Stage Diversity Mixer
ATX Stage Diversity’s mission is to advocate for and spark collaborations between POC stage performers, performance venues and community allies, with the aim of increasing diversity both on stage and within audiences.
East Austin Studio Tour: WEEK 2
This year, Motion Media Arts Center is both an Official Big Medium Community Partner and gallery hybrid for East Austin Studio Tour 2019. This November, we will feature 20 artists and their work.
East Austin Studio Tour: WEEK 1
This year, Motion Media Arts Center is both an Official Big Medium Community Partner and gallery hybrid for East Austin Studio Tour 2019. This November, we will feature 20 artists and their work.
Cinema Obscura: Experimental Media Exhibition
CINEMA OBSCURA is an ever-evolving experimental audiovisual series produced by Motion Media Arts Center combining analog film, video mapping, installation, and sound. This showcase will feature three independent multimedia artists work produced in conjunction with Austin School of Film.
You Are Me & I Am You (Documentary Screening)
FREE SPECIAL EVENT: Documentary Discussion & New Trailer release party for the feature length documentary film "You are Me & I am You" (currently in production) about indigenous partera (midwife) and yachak (shaman) Carmen Cumba (also known as "Mama Carmen") in Cotacachi, Ecuador who, despite many hardships and obstacles, is working to improve people’s lives and influence western medicine through her practice of pakarina and the use of medicinal plants to heal people.
Artist Exhibition: Lorelei Linklater
OPENING NIGHT: Saturday, August 10th beginning at 6pm
EXHIBITION DATES: August 10 - 25, 2019
GALLERY HOURS: 9am – 9pm (Monday – Sunday)
Documentary Filmmaking: Summer Student Showcase
Join us for a free screening of doc shorts created in Austin School of Film's 10-week intensive Documentary Filmmaking production course— led by scholar, educator, and award-winning Documentary Filmmaker, Tania Romero!
Loud & Clear Youth Film Fest 2019
With our community partner Alamo Drafthouse, Austin School of Film will host an afternoon of work created by youth campers in our 2019 Summer Film & Creative Media camps. The screening will include a special Q&A with the campers, where attendees can ask the students directly about their media projects, experiences, and films.
Matched Imperfect -- Premiere
Charlene is caught up in a past relationship with inability to cope with her emotional attachment to Chris. Three visitors arrive revealing different perspectives to her current dilemma to influence her next action.
A Short Film directed by J.D. Denham; starring Sheilava, Alex Gabelli, Madeleine Robb, Juliet Robb, and Marissa Nicole.
TRANSFORM FILM FEST >>> SCREENING & AWARDS <<<
LET’S. DO. THIS 〰️ We’ll kick off the night with a special keynote by a very special #Texan woman filmmaker, Chelsea Hernandez. We’ll be hearing from our 2019 JUDGES and screening 20 short films made by Texan women. Cappin’ off the night with awarding Best Narrative, Best Documentary, Best Animation, Best Experimental, and Fan Favorite of the 2019 fest.
TRANSFORM FILM FEST >>> OPENING NIGHT <<<
TRANSFORM FILM FEST is the first & only film festival exclusively for Texas women. Join us as we kick off the fest with a night of drinks, bites, a panel featuring three badass women from the film community, & SO MUCH more! All humans welcome to attend!
On The Skids -- a BLiPSWiTCH production
Born from an examination of urban sprawl throughout Austin and the world, 'On the Skids' lives in the liminal spaces, exploring the changes in our spacial and cultural landscapes and how these thresholds of time effect our own personal transformations.
Official SXSW Showcase: Community Works
Presenting select works created by Austin School of Film's Narrative, Experimental, Animation, & Documentary filmmaking students in 2018 >>> An Official South-By-Southwest (SXSW) showcase <<<
Diptych III
This is your fashion winter solstice, the shortest hour of the year—a buzzy blur of concrete, light and fabric that won’t let your head go for six long months…
SWERVE ::: The Mike Frames Fashion Show
The Austin School Of Film 8000 sq.ft. post-industrial warehouse space full of beautiful people, good vibes, art, and style!
FANTASTIC PLANET: Live Scored by the Switched On Ensemble
The Lifted Traces team returns with a gigantic, immersive film experience for one of the most psychedelic animated tales ever made!
Groundwork: Artists Taking Risks
A space for diverse artists to experiment, take chances in a safe space, and support each other. Come join our community of diverse artists in this bimonthly works-in-progress event. Contact us to sign up for a slot for you or your group; artists of color are especially welcome!
Jurassic Park — Life Finds A Way (SCREENING)
Join Todd Stephens and his cast and crew for the screening of his newest short fan film, Jurassic Park - Life Finds A Way. If you're a Jurassic Park fan, you'll not want to miss this! Anybody is welcome, no ticket needed.
AKIRA: Live Scored by the Switched On Ensemble
The Switched On Ensemble, a new supergroup of employees from Austin’s synthesizer headquarters featuring Joey Postiglione, Patrick Edwards and JU4N Cisneros, will perform a once-in-a-lifetime, concrete-shaking, brain-searing original score in accompaniment of the film at 8pm.
EAST AUSTIN STUDIO TOUR: WEEK 2
Join us for a unique curated pop-up gallery at our creative East Austin hub featuring 25+ artists and their work spanning the entire spectrum of visual arts. We hope to inspire people of all ages with new meaningful work.
EAST AUSTIN STUDIO TOUR: WEEK 1
Join us for a unique curated pop-up gallery at our creative East Austin hub featuring 25+ artists and their work spanning the entire spectrum of visual arts. We hope to inspire people of all ages with new meaningful work.
EXHIBITION: "Flash Forward" by Carlos Mats (Xchematic)
Join Motion Media Arts Center for an evening with Carlos Mats of Xchematic. In his debut exhibit titled FLASH FORWARD, Mats' will display a carefully curated exhibition and celebration of Xchematic’s 14 years of professional foray into the creative, technological and artistic fields for the first time as a single, career-spanning body of work.
East Austin Studio Tour Weekend 1
It's that special time of year in East Austin where we all gather for conversation, empowerment and inspiration of the hundreds of artists contributing to our city's creative culture.
....It's East Austin Studio Tour.
Join us for a unique curated pop-up gallery at our creative East Austin hub featuring 20+ artists and their work spanning the entire spectrum of visual arts. We hope to inspire people of all ages with new meaningful work.
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Abby Ruston
Adrienne Cullins
Anna Swanson
Avery Orendorf
Carlos Canales
Carmen Izurieta
Chery Henderson
Drea Peters
Dustin Pilkington
Eli Halpin
Erin Wendel
Faiza Kracheni
Heidi Lowell
Karli Isiyel
Kelsey Kilcrease
Keri Anderson
Laura Lee Romaine
Lakeem Wilson
Lorelei Linklater
Martha Wells
Mary Wendel
Meena Matai
Sarah Luna
Sasha Knight
Taylor Pilkington
Valentina Dorsa
Art Obscura: a special exhibition curated by MMAC featuring 16mm & Super 8 experimental projection.
*All artists & exhibitions are official E.A.S.T participants/events.
FEATURED FOOD VENDOR
Cool Beans
CB was established in '14 by owners & Brownsville, Texas natives Rolando and Priscilla. They wanted to take everything that they loved about their culture and celebrate the abundance through a plant based menu. From tacos, tamales and tortas, we'll have one of each!
About the EAST:
Big Medium's East Austin Studio Tour (EAST) is a free, annual, self-guided art event spanning two weekends in November. EAST provides opportunities for the public to meet the artists and artisans of Austin in their creative spaces.
Caroline Eck & Bryan Lee Taylor: VARIOUS WORKS
Caroline Eck is a multimedia artist living and working in Austin, Texas. Her work takes the viewer to a cold, personal, and paradoxical world laced with uncertainty and the subconscious. The subjects and drawings are a development of the experiences in the artist's life and the emotional effects they have had on the artist in addition to dreams and imagination. She's currently completing a BFA in studio art and marketing at St. Edward's University.
Bryan Lee Taylor is a multimedia artist living and working in Austin, Texas. His primary focus is on 35mm film photography and drawing inspiration from day to day experiences of human interaction and emotions.
Ben Livingston, Paintings + Neon
About the Artist:National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) fellow, Ben Livingston was Born 1958 in Victoria, Texas into a creative family. His mother, Polly Lou Livingston, known for her voice and personality of Tree Trunks, on "Adventure Time with Finn and Jake".
Livingston spent much of his childhood creating allegorical scenes that were playing in his mind. He also liked making other things, like stories and songs, which blossomed with international critical acclaim at age 50.
In 1992, Ivan Karp of the OK Harris Gallery in the SOHO district of New York City saw Ben's paintings and offered him a place in his stable of artists with the agreement that he move there from Texas.
Harris was involved in launching the careers of artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist, Frank Stella, and John Chamberlain.
Livingston's signing off from aspirations as a "highfalutin" artist in New York City is defined by his solution oriented painting: "How I Decided NOT to Move to New York".
The paintings exhibited for this series are from that body of work.