Aurora Picture Show presents "Invisibilities: Matchbox Show and Animation" by Filmmaker Laura Heit

Aurora Picture Show

03.23.13

For the first time in Texas, Aurora Picture Show will present an evening of films and performance with artist Laura Heit. In addition to a series of short animations and puppet films, the evening w

Film screening: It's Such a Beautiful Day

14 Pews

03.23.13 - 03.24.13

It's Such a Beautiful Day, a trilogy of animated shorts, uses photo/stock-footage manipulation and live-action film along with animated line drawing to tell the story of Bill, a career loser

Mondo Cinema

Must-see movie list includes a Killer black comedy, an inspiring New Orleans documentary & a bold Imposter

By Joe Leydon

08.17.12 | 6:00 am

Editor's Note: Each week Joe Leydon explores interesting and/or idiosyncratic movies outside of the Hollywood mainstream – be they in massive megaplexes or much smaller venues - in a colu ...

Latin Wave 7

Short, Bald, Fat — and universal: Colombian director Carlos Osuna seeks common truths in animated movie

By David Theis

04.29.12 | 6:00 am

At first glance, Carlos Osuna’s Gordo, Calvo y Bajito (Short, Bald and Fat) seems out of place at a Latin American film festival. Speaking for myself, I go to an Argentine or Chilean or ...

Rare Birds

Train projecting: Pablo Gimenez Zapiola puts art in motion to get on a Houston roll

By Chris Becker

07.14.11 | 1:29 pm

Pablo Gimenez Zapiola’s alchemic art is rooted in his love of drawing, painting, architecture, photography, film and video. An exhibition of his works opens Friday at Spacetaker Artist Resour ...

Film: My Dog Tulip

Brown Auditorium Theater

02.13.11 - 02.20.11

Featuring the voices of Christopher Plummer, the late Lynn Redgrave and Isabella Rossellini, My Dog Tulip is a bittersweet account of author J. R. Ackerley’s 16-year relationship with his ado

2010 Academy Award Nominated Short Films (Animation)

Brown Auditorium Theater

02.11.11 - 02.19.11

See this year’s nominated animation shorts in advance of the Feb. 27 Academy Awards. Films: Day & Night (Walt Disney), A Pixar Animation Studios Production, Teddy Newton, USA, 6 m

One Movie Moment

My date with the real Snow White: Forget the impostors of today, this voice shouldn't be forgotten

By Joe Leydon

12.21.10 | 6:20 pm

It was 73 years ago today that Walt Disney premiered Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, arguably one of the most influential and undeniably one of the most enchanting movies ever made. By now, it&rsq ...

Opening of Around the Infinite: Pablo Giménez Zapiola

labotanica

10.29.10

This solo exhibition of work by Pablo Giménez Zapiola pushes the limits of time through long exposure photography as he investigates what happens "inside" a long take and how we ca

that's all folks

#OverIt: Bugs Bunny turns 70 and somehow gets a new show

By Steven Thomson

07.28.10 | 10:29 am

The 70th birthday of America's favorite smart-talking rabbit, Bugs Bunny, came and went Tuesday without any Lady Gaga-sized fuss. On July 27, 1940, Bugs made his debut in the short animated fil ...