Aurora Picture Show is a proud member of the Fresh Arts Coalition and is pleased to participate in the first annual Fresh Fest event with a goodie bag screening showcasing the best of our 2009 Flickerlounge and Extremely Shorts Film Festival.  The screening starts at 7:45PM, but the good times will begin at 6PM.  We hope you will join Aurora and Fresh Arts for this FREE community event.

FRESH FEST promotes the best and most dynamic alternatives for art and culture outside of the Theatre and Museum Districts including dance and theatrical performances, a poetry booth, film screenings after dark, an instrument petting zoo, a costume and dress up trunk, and other hand-on activities for the artist in all of us - not to mention an educator´s preview complete with more performances and a dance workshop. Gather your friends, family and dogs and come by earlier in the day to preview and sample some of Houston´s best progressive arts organizations at Discovery Green!
At 6pm there will be an Educator's Preview open to all educators who are interested in seeing what Houston's alternative art scene can offer their students.

From 6-8pm the following performances will take place:
6-8:00PM Costume Dress Up Trunk with Stages Theater and Main Street Theater
6-8:00PM Poetry Booth with Inprint
6:00 Dance Houston Hip Hop Workshop with King David
6:45 Mildred's Umbrella presents Timothy Evers performing an original piece, Self Inflicted Wounds
7:00 Spoken Word performance from Michael K Taylor & Empress Winters
7:15 screenings from Southwest Alternate Media Project's The Territory
7:45 The Aurora Goodie Bag: a selection of short treats from Aurora Picture Show compiled from Flickerlounge and Extremely Shorts Film Festival


THE AURORA GOODIE BAG Screening
Three Minutes Out (3:00)
Shizuko Tabata
It is a three minutes travelogue. The stills in the filmmaker's hand and the color of their background...These two images, one inside the other in the flame, are looped together and metamorphose. It's the appearance of the origin of film through a series of stills.
 
Sprout (5:00), 2007
Jeanne Stern
A kitchen sink overflows causing the room to flood. As the water rises, the room sprouts to life.  This film was shot inside of a dresser drawer and a suitcase using clockwork puppetry techniques. Materials include book covers, crayons, wax, and crepe paper.
 
Les Malaventures de Zut-Alors (10:00), 2006
Jeanne Stern
The story of Siamese brother and sister, Zut and Alors, and their quest for love. Uses clock-work puppetry. Materials include book covers, crepe paper, bicycle bells, party blowers and more.
 
Oscillating Fan (2:57)
Rob Tyler
A quiet symphony of circulating air.  Oscillating Fan is an abstract and joyful look at domesticated technology.

Mermaid Dreams (1:06)
Camilo Gonzalez
A Russian expatriate talks about how her dreams have shifted over time and sea.
 
The Order (3:00)
H. David Waddell
A stop-motion animation crafted with a digital camera in the confined space underneath a table.  Without the use of special effects or filters, The Order uses the camera to its full effects, playing with aperture and focus to create dramatic effects and to transport the viewer into another world.

Frog Jesus (1:16)
Ben Peters
He thought he could make a frog jesus... A nostalgic voyage takes a darker turn, exploring the naiveté of mankind through the eyes of a young boy.

I Am The Blueberry (1:06)
Al Herrmann
A musical tale of fruit and fate.

Introducing: Cloud of Funk (3:00)
Mark Walley and Angela Guerra
A fake funk band which consists of Mark Walley, Michael-Paul Hernandez and Angela Guerra. The soundtrack for the video was created entirely of single sounds repeated rhythmically and layered so the end result is a complete song.

Fresh Arts is a collaboration of 25 of the most original and thought-provoking arts groups in Houston - the distinctive organizations that make the city's arts scene one of the most dynamic in the country. Aurora is a proud member of Fresh Arts Coalition and shares in its mission to make the arts accessible to the public, increase audience participation, and support progressivity in art.