FILM

Aurora Picture Show presents Outdoor Film Screening: Andrea Grover, From the Menil Film Archive: “Leaps into the Void”, Friday, April 9, 8PM.  Outdoors in Menil Park, 1515 Sul Ross. Free Admission. Curator Andrea Grover in attendance.

Aurora Picture Show Founder, Andrea Grover, assembles samples of works that resonate with the exhibition Leaps into the Void: Documents of Nouveau Realist Performance from largely unseen films and videos in the museum archive. The exhibit, on view from March 19 to August 8, explores the radical gestures of this avant-garde movement which sought to explore new ways of perceiving reality through aggressive acts and “poetic recycling of urban, industrial and advertising reality” (Pierre Restany). Selections include works from Yves Klein, Niki de Saint Phalle, and Jean Tinguely, among others.

Arrive early and purchase tasty cupcakes from Frosted Betty Mobile Bake Shop!

Andrea Grover is a migrant curator, artist and writer. In 1998, she founded Aurora Picture Show, a now recognized center for filmic art, that began in Grover’s living room as “the world’s most public home theater.” She recently programmed an evening of films for Dia Art Foundation and curated an exhibition for Carnegie Mellon University’s Miller Gallery.

Pictured:  Niki de Sainte Phalle and Geraldine Aramanda at the opening of the Machine Snow at the Rice Museum, Rice University, March 1969. Photo Hikcye-Robertson. Courtesy Menil Archives.