Years before AFI-Dallas, before Lone Star in Fort Worth, before the plethora of film festivals that have popped up in the past decade, the Dallas Video Festival was bringing adventurous programming to North Texas. Only the USA Film Festival is older. As the video festival enters its third decade yet again anchored at a new [...]
Not the most current projection format At this year’s Dallas Video Festival, running Thursday to Sunday at the Dallas Angelika, the films will be projected through iTunes. Artistic director Bart Weiss believes his is the first film festival to take this approach. How it works: Filmmakers delivered QuickTime movies on a hard drive, flash/thumb drive [...]
Photo courtesy of www.storycorps.net Dave Isay, creator of the StoryCorps series heard every Friday during KERA‘s Morning Edition, is traveling the country to celebrate the paperback release of Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project. Monday night, the former radio producer brought these tales of the unsung [...]
The Dallas institute of Humanities and Culture presents its first “Festival of Ideas” this weekend. What in the world is a “festival of ideas”? Basically, it’s a quartet of public panels, each anchored by a guest speaker who is either a journalist-pundit (The New York Times‘ David Brooks, for instance) or a policy advocate (Maya [...]
Andrew Windy Boy recalling the trauma of Indian boarding school in Our Spirits Don’t Speak English I’ve been attending the Dallas Video Festival since the mid-1990s when I started writing about television for The Dallas Morning News. Unlike conventional film festivals, DVF was designed so restless viewers could sample pieces of different work by moving [...]
Get the Flash Player to see this content. The Amon Carter Museum will present its first-ever video installation beginning November 15 — a single, 18-minute, five-channel work occupying an entire gallery. Originally commissioned by the North Dakota Museum of Art as part of its series on the “Emptying out of the Plains,” The Plains of [...]
Guest blogger Lydia Regalado is an arts educator, crafter and blogger who writes about people who gather to make things. Kathy Cano-Murillo, also known as Crafty Chica at her product booth at Maker Faire. It’s been two weeks since Maker Faire and I’m still going through all of my goodies and information that I picked [...]
It’s the end of the month and that means we’ll soon be welcoming new film festival guest bloggers. In November, the Asian Film Festival of Dallas will pick things up. I’m looking forward to their posts. It’s also time to say thank you to AFI Dallas, for blogging with us in October. If you like [...]
If you are looking for events to celebrate Dia De Los Muertos (or Day of the Dead for the gringos out there), there are is a slew of them out there on Saturday. Among the highlights: Learn how to make sugar skull sculptures at the Bath House Cultural Center. Be sure and stop back by [...]
The KERA radio story: The expanded online story: Books and bookstores are supposed to be dying. But despite the internet and the dire economy, new bookstores have just opened in Plano and Oak Cliff. The new shops are not your typical booksellers, though. Not in North Texas. For one thing, Legacy Books in Plano is [...]
