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April 2018
The Speed Trials Arcade
New work by Crosstown Arts resident artist Josh Short
Inspired by 1980s era arcade games, Josh Short has created a series of interactive driving simulators based on popular American mythologies about the road and our love/hate relationship with cars. Josh uses cast-off exercise equipment, hand-made banners, remote-controlled cars, surveillance cameras, and detritus found from the road to create a mechanical “Bricolage.”
Outflix Film Festival Launch Party
Screening of a short film highlighting the 20th anniversary of the Outflix Film Festival (the Mid-South’s LGBTQ film fest), plus a preview of new festival events for 2018 and information on sponsorship opportunities.
Indie Memphis Nights
Join Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts for monthly screenings of independent films.
This legendary, low-budget, entirely African-American produced and conceived meta-soap opera from Bill Gunn, writer of the The Landlord and author of Rhinestone Sharecropping, was recently rediscovered and restored.
Introduction by Indie Memphis Senior Programmer Miriam Bale.
Pay-what-you-can
Presented by Orion FCU.
Talking Back to the Screen: Feminism & Film Criticism
Monthly filmmaking forum presented by Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts
April topic: Hair & Makeup for Film with Alicia George
In Alice Bolin’s upcoming book, Dead Girls, she writes about moving to L.A. and seeing the city through a white male literary lens, and needing to trust her own eyes rather than what she’s read. Miriam Bale’s path through the male-dominated world of film criticism at New York newspapers was similarly one of learning to trust her own eyes. The two writers will have a dialogue about different ways to engage with writing about film, a misogynistic industry, as women. Dead Girls (which covers Twin Peaks to True Detective) is an essay collection out in June 2018 from William Morrow/ HarperCollins. Alice Bolin teaches nonfiction at the University of Memphis.
Miriam Bale is new Senior Programmer of the Indie Memphis Film Festival.
MicroCinema Club
Monthly short film screening series, presented by Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts.
This month: Narrative Spotlight Shorts
Films include I Live Here, Mrs. Drake, Last Call Lenny, Fry Day, Gema, and New Neighbors.
Doors at 6:30 pm | Screening at 7 pm. Admission is pay-what-you-can
Open Crit
Crosstown Arts’ Open Crit series, organized in partnership with ArtsMemphis, is a monthly critique event where visual artists are invited to bring new and/or in-progress studio work for critical feedback and group discussion particular to each artist’s practice. All sessions are free and open to the public.
Memphis Manifest
Exhibition of ho scale graffiti, freight photography, track displays, and graffiti photography by multiple artists. Hosted by BoradExplorer.
March 2018
The A.R.T.S.Posure Experience
Live music | dance performances | art gallery | fashion show
Fundraiser for the A.R.T.S. Initiative Inc.
