Cinema Arts Society

A new org dedicated to pure cinematic experience launches in Houston this week - the Houston Cinema Arts Society. The group's inaugural events include a show with Alex Rivera tonight at the Aurora Picture Show at 7 pm. Rivera, video artist and filmmaker, will discuss and present works from 1995-2006, that preceded his first feature film Sleep Dealer. Rivera will screen Papapapá, Dia de La Independencia, Braceros, Cybraceros and The Borders Trilogy.
This weekend the HACS presents digital artist Lynn Hershman who will present two programs at the MFA, Houston, Saturday night at 7 and Sunday afternoon at 2.
The Sunday afternoon program will explore the roots of Hershman Leeson’s current new media work with viewings of her early video and performance art. Saturday evening's show will screen rare archival film and video footage chronicling the feminist art movement in the United States from 1968 to the present.