FILM

Aurora Picture Show and the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts present a media archeological dig right from the heartland of Texas featuring artists including Luke Savisky, Potter Belmar Labs and Graffiti Research Labs. As part of our annual Media Archeology multimedia festival, these artists will host site-specific media events that explore the past and the present through tools that have been manipulated and repurposed such as film, light, sound, and live performance.

The second night of the festival will feature Potter Belmar Labs of San Antonio.  2010 Media Archeolgy Festival - Texas Focus:  I Am Curious Remix with Potter-Belmar Labs.  Warning: Mature content, viewer discretion advised.

In June of 1969, arsonists set fire to Houston's Heights Theater during a run of the controversial film "I am Curious (Yellow)," by Swedish writer/director, Vilgot Sjöman. Live cinema artists Potter-Belmar Labs will investigate this history within the context of late-60s Houston, taking into account the broader censorship movement of the age as well as the phenomenon of reactionary violence in our own time. Potter-Belmar's live cinema performance will center on a remix of Sjoman’s film, exploiting the kaleidoscope shape of the film in their performance.

Special thanks to Sharon & Gus Kopriva and Gallery M Squared for their support of this program.

Potter-Belmar Labs is Leslie Raymond and Jason Jay Stevens, collaborating artists since 1999, with internationally exhibited, prize-winning work, in live cinema performance, single-channel video, and installation art. Potter-Belmar Labs specializes in audience-participatory, multimedia spectacles and curiosities. Their work offers means of interaction, like unique switches, sounds and peepholes, and their live cinema performances often involve direct audience participation. For live cinema performance, PBL has appeared at such venues as the Ann Arbor Film festival, Bearded Child Film Festival (Minneapolis, MN). Anitmatter Film Festival (Victoria, BC), Chicago Filmmakers, Craig Baldwin's Other Cinema, and the San Antonio Museum of Art, and has taken their act on the road for Midwest and West Coast Tours.

2010 MEDIA ARCHEOLOGY FESTIVAL: TEXAS FOCUS September 16-18, 2010 In collaboration with the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts The best treasures are found in your backyard. Aurora Picture Show and the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts present a media archeological dig right from the heartland of Texas featuring artists including Luke Savisky of Austin, Potter Belmar Labs of San Antonio and Graffiti Research Labs of Houston. As part of our annual Media Archeology multimedia festival, these artists will host site-specific media events that explore the past and the present through tools that have been manipulated and repurposed such as film, light, sound, and live performance.

Special thanks to 29-95.com for their support of Media Archeology.

Pictured:  detail of a Still from "I am Curious (Yellow)."