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Title
Cinematexas
Description
About
Since its inception in 1995 as a tiny student showcase, the festival has grown rapidly, mutating with each new edition. Our competition program is a forum, an ongoing argument, a free zone for celebrating and exchanging stories, for collaborations and for exposing audiences to brave and radical forays in cinema. We seek out and reward films that provoke, expose and explore the short format as a genre in itself, arduously defending the beauty, social role and integrity of the moving image. Although our first and primary focus was and is short film, over the years we have come to understand and champion this truth: artistic expression cannot be confined to a camera, projector and a screen.
At present, the festival includes sidebars for theater, performance art and all manner of live performance (Eye + Ear); invitational film/video programs in which programmers and filmmakers are invited to trace the face of their city/country of origin, exile, transit or residence (Face/Off); site-specific moving image installations (Terra Cognita); a symposium about life as seen through the eyes of communities instead of through the lens of mainstream media (Parallax View); and free filmmaking workshops for children with scant resources (Cinemakids).
Cinematexas has been called "one of the most significant and inspiring film festivals in the country" by indieWIRE. “Through a consistently high standard of adventurous, unabashedly cerebral programming, Cinematexas has earned a place as one of the most vital showcases for visionary cinema in the U.S.” – Ioannis Mookas, senses of cinema, Fall 2004. We are downright humbled and amazed by what we have created when composer Terry Riley, a true pioneer of creative expression, tells us “It is really remarkable what you are doing. I wish there were more things around the country like it.”
Languages
English
