Tag: MicroCinema

MicroCinema: Tribute to Barbara Hammer

Crosstown Arts and Indie Memphis present MicroCinema: Tribute to Barbara Hammer. 

Crosstown Theater
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Doors at 6:30 pm | Screenings begin at 7:00 pm
Tickets: Pay-What-You-Can

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE

In honor of the incredible experimental lesbian filmmaker, Barbara Hammer, Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts are excited to bring this Tribute to Barbara Hammer for this month’s MicroCinema. A prolific filmmaker, installation artist, and pioneer of feminist and queer cinema for over 50 years, Hammer’s work consistently and relentlessly explored the intimate experiences of lesbian relationships, the erasure and censorship of queer history, and the relationship between sex, age, and the body. 

Nitrate Kisses (1992), her first feature-length work, is a foundational queer classic that takes the shape of an experimental documentary exploring queer history and its erasure in the archives and the movies — something she would continue to explore in later work. Her short, Audience (1982), provides us with an insight into her vibrant personality and poses questions about the relationship between the artist, the art, and the audience experience that we wonder about to this day. 

We’re ecstatic to screen her work and celebrate her impact on experimental and queer cinema.

Many thanks to Electronic Arts Intermix for this program!

Content Advisory: This program does include depictions of explicit nudity.



MicroCinema: Shifting Lines – New Queer Animation

Crosstown Arts and Indie Memphis present MicroCinema: Shifting Lines: New Queer Animation in Crosstown Theater. 

Crosstown Theater
Wednesday, May 10, 2023
Doors at 6:30 pm | Screenings begin at 7:00 pm
Tickets: Pay-What-You-Can

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Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts are honored to present Shifting Lines: New Queer Animation from Frameline Distribution. These six shorts traverse various styles of distinctive animation and live-action to explore relationships, family, and the development of identity in ways that are as thoughtful as they are stunning to watch.

From the tenderness and awkwardness of first crushes in high school, the warmth of chosen family, to the honor and power in intergenerational Indigenous knowledge, these expansive films remind us how much of our lives are formed by the intimate bonds we form with each other, how they bend and fray, and most importantly, how we maintain them.

Many thanks to Frameline Distribution for this program!

Content Advisory: While these films are animated, some films contain references and depictions of drugs and alcohol that make this program best suitable for those who are 16 and up.

MicroCinema: IF/Then Southern Shorts

Crosstown Arts and Indie Memphis present MicroCinema: IF/Then Southern Shorts. 

Crosstown Theater
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Doors at 6:30 pm | Screenings begin at 7:00 pm
Tickets: Pay-What-You-Can

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE

For this month’s MicroCinema, Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts are ecstatic to have partnered with IF/Then Shorts to present an array of incredible, often touching documentary shorts from filmmakers throughout the South. We’re glad to be able to include in this program a preview screening of Zaire Love’s SLICE, which was a part of the 2021 IF/Then + Hulu Short Documentary Lab and the recipient of the 2020 Black Creators Forum Short Film Grant!

These IF/Then-supported films cover a vast swath of the region, from Memphis to western rural Texas, to New Orleans and Central Florida. They intimately and thoughtfully foreground workers who are reeling from the effects of the oil industry (WHEN IT’S GOOD, IT’S GOOD), the deep impact the work of Haitian immigrants in the U.S. have on their families back home (MADAME PIPI), and those who’ve beautifully mastered the art of slicing right here in Memphis (SLICE).

Thank you to IF/Then Shorts for their work and support in making this program possible!

Microcinema: 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival Shorts Tour

Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts present Microcinema: 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival Shorts Tour in Crosstown Theater.

Crosstown Theater
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Doors open at 6:30 pm | Show begins at 7 pm
Tickets: Pay What You Can

Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts are honored to start off Microcinema this year with a program of shorts from the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the oldest avant-garde and experimental film festival in North America! This program of shorts features fascinating works from filmmakers from around the world who employ an array of approaches — an absurdist music video, a mediation on physical and mental spaces within the African Diaspora, and a video essay exploring the innocence and role of bags in post-revolution Iranian cinema.

POSTPONED MicroCinema: Best of Ottawa International Shorts

** This event is postponed until further notice.

Monthly short film screening series, presented by Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts.
This month: Best of Ottawa International Shorts

Best of the 2019 Ottawa International shorts, including films that defy logic, defy physics, defy convention, and especially defy expectations.

Doors at 6:30 pm | Screening at 7 pm. Admission is pay-what-you-can.

Screening:
Baby Baby | Aggelos Papantoniou & Nikhil Markale | Australia
Erodium Thunk | Winston Hacking | Canada
Girl in the Hallway | Valerie Barnhart | Canada
Alfred Fauchet, Here and There (Alfred Fauchet, à droite, à gauche) | Mathieu Georis | Belgium
Tricky Women 2019 Trailer | Marta Pajek | Poland
Slug Life | Sophie Gate | UK
Acid Rain | Tomek Popakul | Poland
Gravedad | Matisse Gonzalez | Germany
DONT KNOW WHAT | Thomas Renoldner | Austria

MicroCinema Club

Monthly short film screening series, presented by Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts.

This month: Human Rights & Environmental Shorts
Shorts from the 2018 Human Rights and Environmental Film US Tour. Mariano Pozzi is from Argentina and works for the Human Rights Film Festival of Buenos Aires (FICDH) and the Environmental Film Festival of Buenos Aires (FINCA).

Doors at 6:30 pm | Screening at 7 pm. Admission is pay-what-you-can.