SPECIAL EVENTS

Freneticore presents Second Sundays!  The September program is Space, Land and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm!  Sunday, September 11, 7pm at Frenetic Theater, 5102 Navigation Blvd. Houston, TX 77011.

Before Burning Man, before The Yes Men, before South Park, before flash mobs, there was Ant Farm, the prototypical underground culture jamming architectural firm and performance art and media collective whose antics and anarchic guerrilla theatre paved the way for future armies of free-thinkers and public artists. A potent combination of video, music, animation and editing captures the spirit of this underground group, which mixed political subversion and goofy good times to create an art movement that resonates today. Prepare to have your mind blown!

About the Directors/Producers:

Laura Harrison: Co-Producer/Director/Editor
Laura Harrison's award winning documentary Secret People (2000) - a chronicle of the past and present of leprosy in America - was broadcast nationally on PBS’ Independent Lens series and won a silver medal for Best Feature Documentary at the SXSW Film Festival (MVFF screening 1999). Thurmond, W. Va (1995) - a portrait of a "ghost town in the making"- received a CINE Golden Eagle Award and a Jury Award at the NY Expo of Short Film and Video. Most recently, Laura co-executive-produced Voting in America, a compilation of nine short films about why Americans don’t vote that was broadcast on PBS.

After graduating from Harvard University with a degree in art history, Laura worked for eight years in France as an editor on French feature films before returning to the US to complete an MA in documentary filmmaking from Stanford University. A Houston resident since 1995, Laura has taught history of documentary film at the University of Saint Thomas, curated programs for the Aurora Picture Show and made several short films. In addition to Space, Land and Time, she is working on Dreaming of Kawthoolei, a portrait of a Burmese girl who lives in a refugee camp on the Thailand/Burma border.

Elizabeth Federici: Co-Producer/Director
Beth Federici is an independent filmmaker, educator and media activist. Most recently she co-directed/produced the feature length documentary “Neither Here Nor There”, which documents a Bosnian refugee family making Missouri their new home while struggling to come to terms with the past they left in Srebrenica. The film was broadcast on the St. Louis PBS station KETC in 2009 and received the “Best of the Heartland” award at the 2010 Kansas City Film Festival. She is currently Producing/Directing a personal documentary titled “Climbing the Family Tree”, a film that will recreate her grandparents’ immigration to Ellis Island. Federici was awarded three gold Telly awards while producing/editing for the Columbia Channel in Columbia, Missouri, as well as a Merit Finalist award from the Worldfest Houston film festival for her documentary “Bauhaus Gotham”. She earned a Masters degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2007 and currently works as a freelance producer/editor in New York City.

About Second Sundays:
For all of you that get a little fun-starved on Sunday nights, Frenetic Theater presents:
Second Sundays!
An eclectic lineup of supercool events
Always on the 2nd Sunday of the month
Always the low price of $7 admission
And always freakin' FUN.