Ant Farm 1969-71:
Early Underground Adventures with Space, Land and Time
Sunday, January 11, 1pm
Sunday, January 11, 3pm
Video Salon with Filmmaker Laura Harrison
Location: Aurora Video Library: 1524 Sul Ross
Limited First-Come, First-Served Seating with no RSVP

We are no longer accepting reservations for the 1PM or 3PM.  However, we have a limited number of first-come, first-served seats available at both salons. For those with an RSVP, you should arrive 15 minutes early as we will release any unclaimed seats to walk-ins. 

Filmmaker Laura Harrison introduces her current documentary project (co-produced by Beth Federici) with a 30-minute sneak peek, Ant Farm 1969-71: Early Underground Adventures with Space, Land and Time.  The film, currently screening at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, is a 30-minute version of what will be a feature length documentary, ANT, about the renegade 1970s architecture collective Ant Farm. 

Soon to be a one-hour independent video documentary, ANT is the first film to delve into the work of the renegade 1970s art/architecture collective Ant Farm, best known for its iconic land-art piece Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, TX.  Radical architects, video pioneers, and mordantly funny cultural commentators, the Ant Farmers created a body of deeply subversive multidisciplinary work that questioned everything by posing a set of creative and comedic alternatives. Incorporating archival video, new footage shot over the past eight years and computer animation based on period architectural sketches, this multi-layered film considers Ant Farm's significance in today's neo-conformist culture and its impact on the artists and designers of the future.

Please join Houston filmmaker, Laura Harrison, as she presents 30 minutes of the film and discusses this comedic band of culture commentators.  This event is FREE, but RSVPs are requested.


LAURA HARRISON
Laura Harrison's award winning documentary Secret People (2000) - a chronicle of the past and present of leprosy in America - was broadcast nationally on PBS' Independent Lens series and won a silver medal for Best Feature Documentary at the SXSW Film Festival. Thurmond, W. Va (1995) - a portrait of a "ghost town in the making"- received a Jury Award at the NY Expo of Short Film and Video, among many others. Most recently, Laura co-executive-produced Voting in America, a compilation of nine short films about why Americans don't vote that was broadcast on PBS in 2004. Current projects include Dreaming of Kawthoolei, a film about Burmese girls growing up in refugee camps on the border with Thailand.

Laura worked for eight years in France as an editor on French feature films before returning to the US to complete an MA in documentary filmmaking from Stanford University. Since 1997, Laura has taught media literacy and video production in the Houston public school system, history of documentary film at the University of Saint Thomas, curated programs for the Aurora Picture Show, and made several short documentary and experimental films. One short, "Below," will be presented this month as part of The Territory's 32nd season on Houston PBS.