Aurora and Big Queer Picture Show co-present a program of artist Nazli Dinçel’s 16mm experimental films exploring desire and dislocation.

Aurora and Arts & Culture Lab present a free cinema performance by artist Katherine Bauer involving multiple 16mm film projections and live photographic exposures.

Part of the 2024 Texas Biennial, Aurora and Basket Books & Art present a selection of films by Houston artist Krista Leigh Stienke, with the artist in attendance.

Aurora presents a special screening of experimental short films by Collective Los Ingrávidos, an evolving group of film/video artists based in Tehuacán, Mexico. This screening is free and held at The Storyhive.

Aurora and the MFAH present the world premiere screening of short films made collaboratively by young artists ages 7-15 in our Summer 2024 Youth Filmmaking Camps.

NOTE THE DATE CHANGE! Aurora Picture Show and the Menil Collection co-present this free annual outdoor event that has become a Houston tradition for participants and picnicking attendees since 2013!

Aurora and Buffalo Bayou Partnership co-present this free outdoor event featuring new site-specific video installations by Houston artists Violette Bule, Ronald Llewellyn Jones, and Nick Vaughan & Jake Margolin. There will also be a looped animated film made by artist Ezra Wube with local residents and a market featuring music, food trucks, and local vendors.

Aurora and the MFAH co-present the US premiere of Baba Hillman’s lyrical essay film Kitâb al-Isfâr: Book of the Journey, followed by an in-person conversation and Q&A with the filmmaker.

In conjunction with the Chryssa & New York exhibition, Aurora and the Menil Collection present a free outdoor screening of short experimental film and video works by artists including Jenny Holzer, Muriel Magenta, and Luis Arnías.

DiverseWorks, Aurora Picture Show, and Project Row Houses invites you to The Eldorado Ballroom to celebrate this year’s The Idea Fund grant recipients and hear about their upcoming projects.

Aurora and The Moody Center for the Arts co-present this free program celebrating computer art pioneer Lillian Schwartz with a selection of some of her earliest films, made at Bell Laboratories 1970-76, followed by a conversation with guest Kristen Gallerneaux.

This installation of Aurora’s member gathering and secret cinema will be held at Brasil / Flatland Gallery. Guest archivist will present rarely seen film footage shot in Houston between the 1950s and 70s!

Drop by Aurora Picture Show's big rummage sale Saturday to say hello and riffle through our things! We'll be selling tons of neat cheapos, and besides raising a little money for the organization this will also be a chance to hang out at our Bartlett Street space. Cocktails by Double Trouble begin at 1pm!

On the centennial of cinematic master Sergei Parajanov, this special presentation features rarely-seen short films he made in the 1960s as well as new experimental shorts by contemporary artist and Parajanov’s goddaughter, Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, who will be in attendance.

Join us for this festive holiday gathering at MKT BAR at Phoenicia Specialty Foods and benefiting Aurora! Good company, delicious snacks, music, animation activities, and more!

Aurora presents a day of free stop-motion animation activities for kids and families at BakerRipley East End Learning Center.

Aurora and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts present Japanese-born interdisciplinary artist Eiko Otake’s solo performance project, A Body with Fukushima.

Aurora and Basket Books & Art present this special screening of films by Texas-based Latinx-Indigenous artist Abinadi Meza, with the artist in attendance.

A free, outdoor screening of short films exploring our connections with nature as we move through borders and between worlds. Co-presented by Aurora and Houston Climate Justice Museum.

Join us at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston for the world premiere screening of projects made by participants in this year’s summer youth filmmaking camps!

Aurora and the Menil Collection present a free screening of experimental films made between the 1940s and 1970s by Joseph Cornell, Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, Storm de Hirsch, Shirley Clarke, Nam June Paik, and others.

Join us for Aurora’s members and staff for our quarterly social and secret cinema gathering! This time, we’ll be celebrating the 100th birthday of visual artist, filmmaker, and legendary eccentric Harry Smith with images of his paintings, short films, and music from his Anthology of American Folk Music. Free for members.

Aurora Picture Show and The Menil Collection present this lively, annual evening of outdoor, community-sourced projections covering the museum’s façade.

Guest filmmaker/curator Andrew Lampert presents an eclectic program celebrating the centenary of Harry Smith (1923-91) with a screening of Smith’s masterpiece Early Abstractions alongside a selection of films and videos by his contemporaries and descendants.

Aurora Picture Show and Buffalo Bayou Partnership present this free event anchored at Tony Marron Park and featuring video installations along the Buffalo Bayou East trails by Houston artists Chap Edmonson, Jamie Robertson, and Input Output.

El Paso-based Chicano filmmaker Willie Varela, who has made personal, experimental films and videos exploring social space and cultural identity since the early-1970s, will be here for a screening of films and videos and a conversation about his life and work.

Aurora and Public Poetry present the world premiere screening of new "filmpoems" made through the collaboration of Houston poets and filmmakers and relating to people, places, and experiences specific to the city. Participating artists in attendance.

The Idea Fund has awarded 12 projects by Houston artists in its 2023 cycle. Join us for this free, celebratory event, at which the grant recipients will give brief presentations about their exciting upcoming projects.