AMIA 2011
Austin, Texas
Screenings

Wednesday - 11:30pm | Alamo Ritz - Free Admission
AMIA Reels of Steel

"Battles" between hip hop DJs have been going on for nearly 30 years. The two participants set up their turntables and try to blow each other off the stage by cutting up crazier and more obscure vinyl. This November we're going to put a whole new spin on it. It's a battle to the finish as each archivist, armed with reel after reel of educational films, cartoons, home movies, stag films and more, tries to get the crowd pumped into a frenzy and win the fat gold chain that signifies AMIA Emulsion Propulsion Champ 2011!

Thursday - 7:30pm | Paramount Theatre
Archival Screening Night

The AMIA Archival Screening Night provides an opportunity to showcase recent acquisitions and preservation efforts.

Friday - 8:00pm | Hyatt Room Foothills II
Home Movies of Silent Film Stars

Most of us have worked to preserve silent films and can even provide basic histories about the people who made them. But when it comes to silent stars, more is known about their on-screen characters than their off set personalities. This screening will provide a history about several silent film stars as shown through their own home movies.

Friday - 9:30pm | Town Lake Gazebo
Seeding the Clouds: Film on Fog

Open screening! Bring your own reels and rolls as Austin artists Barna Kantor and Scott Stark point their 16mm projectors at billowing clouds of pure cold steam. The misty mayhem will reveal dimension, movement and voluptuousness not previously found in your found footage.

Saturday - All Day | Paramount Theatre
Screening Day

9:00am - We Can't Go Home Again
"We Can't Go Home Again" is an experimental, multi-narrative film bordering on cinema and visual arts. A collaboration between student filmmakers and director Nicholas Ray, a film professor at Harpur College, Ray continued to experiment and re-edit the film until his death in 1979.

10:45am - Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
Whether viewed as an opera, a subtitled foreign language film, or a labor of love to Joycean language and wit, Finnegans Wake is a tribute to the filmmaking genius of Mary Ellen Bute (1906-1983) and Ted Nemeth (1911-1986).

1:00pm - Amateur Night: Home Movies from American Archives
Dramatic, funny, poignant and even strange, Amateur Night presents 16 amateur films from the collections of American film archives. Featuring films by average Joes alongside notables like Alfred Hitchcock, Richard Nixon, animator Helen Hill and Smokey Bear, Amateur Night adds to the images archival audio, commentaries from family members, and newly-recorded music.

3:00pm - Word is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives
The first feature-length documentary about lesbian and gay identity made by gay filmmakers, "Word is Out" captures the voice of the emerging gay rights movement of the 1970s. This film was restored in 2009 by the Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation, a collaboration between Outfest and the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

Saturday - 8:00pm | Paramount Theatre
AMIA Restoration Screening: A Night At The Movies

It's a night at the movies circa 1937! Cartoon, trailers, a short subject and a feature screening of David O. Selznick's Technicolor screwball comedy classic NOTHING SACRED, starring Carole Lombard and Frederic March. The restoration is from the original YCM nitrate camera negative which has been unseen outside of a few screenings and is being presented in 35mm. And what better way to start a night at the movies than with the classic "A Night at the Movies."

"Mobilizing a heart-shaped face that might have been carved from alabaster were it not quite so elastic, oversized eyes that flicked from wide-open innocence to heavy-lidded allure, and a voice that, though velvety on command, more often gushed forth in a high, tinkling rush, Carole Lombard seemed to play with the properties of celluloid as if they were finger paints." -- Village Voice

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