COLLECTIVE:UNCONSCIOUS
Directed by Lily Baldwin, Frances Bodomo, Daniel Patrick Carbone, Josephine Decker, Lauren Wolkstein
2016

7pm – doors
8pm – "pornographer" w/ director Melissa Cha
815pm – collective:unconscious

Libations provided by our lovely friends at Strange Land Brewery and Texas Saké Co

Suggested $5 donation at the door
Discounted series ticket bundles available at hyperrealfilm.club
Screenings every Tuesday June - August

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“A man and his grandmother hide out from an ominous broadcast. A suicidal Grim Reaper hosts a children’s TV show. The formerly incarcerated remember and reinterpret their first days of freedom. A suburban mom’s life is upturned by the beast growing inside her. And a high school gym teacher runs drills from inside a dormant volcano.

Welcome to collective:unconscious, a new collaborative feature in which five of independent film’s most adventurous filmmakers join forces to adapt each other’s dreams for the screen. The film pushes at the boundaries of narrative and surrealism, inviting viewers to immerse themselves inside a literal dream state. It’s like nothing you’ve ever seen with your eyes open.”

take a look: https://vimeo.com/174024660 

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about the short:
"a short film about a narcissist, shot on 16mm color"

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hyperreal film club is a time and a place for new friends, old friends, freaks, geeks, enemies, lovers, and ghosts to come watch some neat flicks.

Join us each tuesday as we explore the far reaches of weird, beautiful, and forgotten cinema from a host of diverse filmmakers. Alongside each night's film, all screenings feature some combination of short films by local filmmakers, sets by local musicians or visual artists, director visits, or other interactive installations. Check out hyperrealfilm.club for ticket bundle options + secret CLUB GEAR

the hyperreal film club
-at-
museum of human achievement
:presents:

RAT FILM
Directed by Theo Anthony
2016

7pm – doors
8pm – short film tba
815pm – Rat Film

Libations provided by our lovely friends at Strange Land Brewery andTexas Saké Co

Suggested $5 donation at the door
Discounted series ticket bundles available at hyperrealfilm.club
Screenings every Tuesday June - August

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“Theo Anthony’s experimental documentary Rat Film is, indeed, about rats. Actual rats with their whip-like tails, twitchy noses, and miraculous survival skills that have tormented Baltimore city for over a century. But it’s also about rats as a metaphor. The behavior of rats, we are told, mirror humans in many ways. They “dream of a desirable future,” according to those studying their dream patterns. They respond adversely to overcrowding and neglect—turning on each other or becoming passive with depression. To extend that metaphor further, Anthony suggests that we citizens of Baltimore are essentially rats in a cage whose destinies have been orchestrated by racist policies and corrupt urban engineers.

In short, Baltimore has a rat problem because Baltimore has a poverty and segregation problem.

The film’s hero, if you will, is Harold Edmund, a charismatic and philosophical technician with the city’s rat control squad, Rat Rubout. He drives around the city helping those Baltimoreans with yards that have been invaded by the persistent pests.

“It ain’t never been a rat problem in Baltimore,” Edmund says. “Always been a people problem.” Some people choose to bypass the Rat Rubout team and take matters into their own hands. Anthony shows us a guy who has a veritable arsenal to combat the rats in his backyard. (After shooting a rat’s head off, he cheerfully assures us that the rat felt no pain.)

We also see an enterprising (and hilarious) pair who literally go fishing for rats—using peanut butter and turkey meat as bait and dangling their rods over alleys.

We get a glimpse at a man who keeps rats as pets. In one deadpan tableaux, three rats are perched on his shoulders, as he gently lifts a wooden recorder off the table and begins to play.

[Anthony] is a Baltimore native and his film is filled with both affection and despair for his city. I can’t say that Rat Film is a cheery experience, but it’s certainly an indelible one.”
-Baltimore Magazine

take a look: https://vimeo.com/181354897

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Join us each tuesday as we explore the far reaches of weird, beautiful, and forgotten cinema from a host of diverse filmmakers. Alongside each night's film, all screenings feature some combination of short films by local filmmakers, sets by local musicians or visual artists, director visits, or other interactive installations. Check out hyperrealfilm.club for ticket bundle options + secret CLUB GEAR

the hyperreal film club
-at-
museum of human achievement
:presents:

BUTTER ON THE LATCH
Directed by Josephine Decker
2013

7pm – doors and moods mix by Krista Van Liew
8pm – “No Cover” with director Mitchell E. F. Lamon
815pm – Butter on the Latch

Libations provided by our lovely friends at Strange Land Brewery andTexas Saké Co 

Suggested $5 donation at the door
Discounted series ticket bundles available at hyperrealfilm.club
Screenings every Tuesday June - August

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“Josephine Decker has fashioned the kind of feature debut the film industry simply doesn’t support, but would do well to encourage: a visually poetic, virtually free-form groove in which emotion, rather than narrative, guides viewers through a young woman’s visit to a Balkan folk music camp.

One shouldn’t expect answers from “Butter on the Latch,” which unfolds in an almost dreamlike space, where flash-frame hallucinations and other abstract images — such as an old lady dancing in a clearing — compete with the highly impressionistic footage. Though she has dabbled in documentary, Decker seems uninterested in capturing a strict record of events, collaborating with d.p. Ashley Connor (one-third of the pic’s tiny crew) to find a looser visual language here. Frankly, it’s a disorienting place for most audiences to find themselves — like being air-dropped into alien territory and forced to find one’s bearings without the benefit of traditional film language.”
-Variety

take a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZXWP1rEO4Y

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Join us each tuesday as we explore the far reaches of weird, beautiful, and forgotten cinema from a host of diverse filmmakers. Alongside each night's film, all screenings feature some combination of short films by local filmmakers, sets by local musicians or visual artists, director visits, or other interactive installations. Check out hyperrealfilm.club for ticket bundle options + secret CLUB GEAR

the hyperreal film club
-at-
museum of human achievement
:presents:

INVISIBLE ADVERSARIES
Directed by Valie Export
1976

7pm – doors
8pm – “A Bird’s Nest” with director Christine W Chen
815pm – Invisible Adversaries

Libations provided by our lovely friends at Strange Land Brewery andTexas Saké Co

Suggested $5 donation at the door
Discounted series ticket bundles available at hyperrealfilm.club
Screenings every Tuesday June - August

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“Breaking free of conventional unities of body, space and time, this early feature by one of Europe's leading feminist filmmakers is a haunting excursion into psychic disintegration and crumbling identity. It loosely covers one year in the life of Anna, a young Viennese photographer increasingly convinced that the Hyksos, a hostile alien force, are invading people's bodies and responsible for the decay and rising violence around her. Valie Export skillfully exploits montage and integrates video, performance and installation art with elements from Cubism, Surrealism, Dada and avant-garde cinema.”
-Women Make Movies

take a look: https://mubi.com/films/invisible-adversaries/trailer

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Join us each tuesday as we explore the far reaches of weird, beautiful, and forgotten cinema from a host of diverse filmmakers. Alongside each night's film, all screenings feature some combination of short films by local filmmakers, sets by local musicians or visual artists, director visits, or other interactive installations. Check out hyperrealfilm.club for ticket bundle options + secret CLUB GEAR

the hyperreal film club
-at-
museum of human achievement
:presents:

SLEEPWALK
1986
Directed by Sara Driver

7pm – doors
8pm – “Finger” with director Sophie Rousmaniere
815pm – Sleepwalk

Libations provided by our lovely friends at Strange Land Brewery andTexas Saké Co

Suggested $5 donation at the door
Discounted series ticket bundles available at hyperrealfilm.club
Screenings every Tuesday June - August

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"Sara Driver's first feature — a luminous, oddball comic fantasy about ancient Chinese curses and Xerox machines, set in Manhattan's Chinatown and its immediate environs — may well be the most visually ravishing American independent film of its year (1986).

Set in an irrational, poetic universe that bears a certain relationship to Jacques Rivette's DUELLE, this dreamy intrigue breaks a cardinal rule of fantasy by striking off in a number of directions: an executive barks in the street, a young Frenchwoman (Ann Magnuson) loses her hair, and machines in a copy shop start to purr and wheeze on their own initiative.

The moods that are established are delicate, and not everyone will be able to go with them, but Driver, the producer of STRANGER THAN PARADISE, sustains them with beauty and eccentric charm. Suzanne Fletcher, who also starred in Driver's previous 50-minute YOU ARE NOT I, makes a compelling (if unconventional) heroine, and Lorenzo Mans's screwball dialogue develops some engaging hallucinatory riffs."
-Jonathan Rosenbaum

take a look: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/sleepwalk

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Join us each tuesday as we explore the far reaches of weird, beautiful, and forgotten cinema from a host of diverse filmmakers. Alongside each night's film, all screenings feature some combination of short films by local filmmakers, sets by local musicians or visual artists, director visits, or other interactive installations. Check out hyperrealfilm.club for ticket bundle options + secret CLUB GEAR

the hyperreal film club
-at-
museum of human achievement
:presents:

THREE CROWNS OF THE SAILOR
1983
Directed by Raúl Ruiz
trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7e5VeYbrTg

7pm - doors
8pm - short film TBD
815pm - "Three Crowns of the Sailor"

Libations provided by our lovely friends at Strange Land Brewery andTexas Saké Co

Suggested $5 donation at the door
Discounted series ticket bundles available at hyperrealfilm.club
Screenings every Tuesday June - August

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"Ruiz’s dazzling opium dream of a film, Three Crowns of the Sailor is centered on an encounter between a student who has just committed a brutal murder and a drunken sailor who persuades the scared youth to accompany him to a nearby dance hall and listen to his macabre life story. Discovering that he’s condemned to remain the only living member of the crew, the sailor passes through a series of adventures in brothels and Latin American ports, all of which take place in a vividly surreal limbo world that Ruiz and master cinematographer Sacha Vierny (Hiroshima mon amour, Belle de jour) fashioned out of real locations in Paris and Portugal using a series of ingenious optical effects. “Paradoxes build on paradoxes and logic on illogic,” wrote Chicago Reader film reviewer David Kehr. “And yet the game has a serious end, building toward a world stripped of substance, in which everything signifies but nothing means.”"
-Film Society at Lincoln Center

Violet Crown Cinema, Hyperreal Film Club and Lo-Fi Fest present RERUNS, a re-examination of our collective childhood media. Each event will feature live re-scorings of media from the featured musician's formative years. Together, we're updating the past to see what inspires the art of the future. 

$5 tickets grant you access to the screening as well as a $5 Food & Beverage voucher at Violet Crown!

1st: More Eaze will be live re-scoring 2 episodes of Rocko's Modern Life
2nd: Little Mazarn will be live re-scoring a segment of the 1977 animated Hobbit film

Buy tickets HERE

Stay tuned for future performances with all new artists on July 19.

the hyperreal film club
-at-
museum of human achievement
:presents:

VANISHING WAVES
2012
Directed by Kristina Buozyte
trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqVAn5TpaME

7pm - doors
8pm - "Pushing Out Daisy" with director Alison Week
815pm - "Vanishing Waves"

Libations provided by our lovely friends at Strange Land Brewery andTexas Saké Co

Suggested $5 donation at the door
Discounted series ticket bundles available at hyperrealfilm.club
Screenings every Tuesday June - August

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"The art of the mind-bending sci-fi film is alive and well with “Vanishing Waves,” a striking achievement from Lithuanian filmmaker Kristina Buozyte and a surprise award winner at numerous festivals including Fantastic Fest and Sitges. A researcher, Lukas, agrees to participate in an experiment by submerging himself into an unconscious state where, via a new technological breakthrough, he can link with the mind of Aurora, a young woman left in a coma after a drowning accident. The hallucinatory set pieces pile up as Lukas tries to keep the true nature of what he sees hidden from the scientists observing him."
-adapted from Mondo Digital

:30pm: "JUNE'S MOON," a playlist curated by Heather Hasselle to set the summer evening mood. 

7pm: "THAT YOU'LL EVER DO," a short film written, directed, and edited by Heather Hasselle (with help from a lot of friends). 

“The real reason behind making this movie, which happens to be a little bit about loneliness, womanness and child-havingness, was to learn how to make a movie.” -HH

7:20 "WASP" A short film by Andrea Arnold (an award-winning director of American Honey, Fish Tank and others)

7:40 Q&A

8:00 party/hanging/zine-selling/time-celebrating/poem-reading/deep conversating

the hyperreal film club
-at-
museum of human achievement
:presents:

WINDOW ON YOUR PRESENT
1988
Directed by Cinqué Lee
trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3exe3QTOtik

7pm - doors
8pm - "MALI" with RIDERS AGAINST the STORM (RAS)
815pm - "Window on Your Present"

Libations provided by our lovely friends at Strange Land Brewery andTexas Saké Co

Suggested $5 donation at the door
Discounted series ticket bundles available at hyperrealfilm.club
Screenings every Tuesday June - August

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"Back in the late 1980s when Spike Lee was helping to revolutionize the indie film world with vibrant, colorful, emotional and music-filled epics like School Daze and Do the Right Thing, his brother Cinqué Lee was traveling in the exact opposite direction with his own debut directorial effort, the stark and minimal Window on Your Present.
Shot in lo-fi black & white, the film takes place in a world where love and color do not exist. Lost souls randomly wander a desolate wasteland, either mindlessly picking through the rubble to pass the time or attacking each other for no other reason to stave off the boredom. We track along with Europa and eventually the boy she rescues, following them in their explorations and escapes to parallel realities.
Through skillfully chaotic art direction and bizarre angles, Lee and cinematographer Leslie Mentel have crafted an entire alternate universe - not an easy task given their non-existent budget and the oppressive omnipresence of the Manhattan skyline lurking just out of frame."
-adapted from Underground Film Journal

Admission is free

Doors at 8pm
“Dave” by Lauren Pruitt at 9pm
(secret feature) “xxxxxxx xx xxx xxxxxxx” at 9:15pm

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P R I V A T E / H O M E / V I E W I N G / E P . 2

(Scattering of dreams upon the rock)

(Unceasing sounds of nature)

(Disintegration and assimilation)

(Ecclesiastic obscenities)

voyage through memory and mind (and take a refracted listen):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83pT2FVxyCo

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he hyperreal film club
-at-
museum of human achievement
:presents:

INNOCENCE
2004
Directed by Lucile Hadžihalilović
trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V05v-8MnNw0

7pm - doors
730pm - premier of "Latitude" EP from clavicul (Houston)
8pm - "U R a Dial Tone" with director Lauren Kinsler
815pm - "Innocence"

Libations provided by our lovely friends at Strange Land Brewery andTexas Saké Co

Suggested $5 donation at the door
Discounted series ticket bundles available here
Screenings every Tuesday June - August

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"In Lucile Hadzihalilovic‘s “Innocence” nostalgia and dread become one–and it’s a perfectly welcome symbiosis. A remarkable sustained allegory, “Innocence” luxuriates in the kind of symbolic imagery one would associate mostly with the fantastic worlds of children’s fiction, but with the wherewithal to acknowledge the inherent rot and sinister underpinnings propping them up. To applaud Hadzihalilovic for discovering or revealing the sexual discourse roiling below the surface of accepted tropes and narratives of preadolescent fantasy is to deny the subtle evocation of burgeoning sexuality in “Peter Pan,” “Alice in Wonderland,” and any number of grim Grimm tales. But what Hadzihalilovic taps into is so primal and essential, both in terms of mythology and sociology, that her vision can stand on its own. At once a feminist parable and a bedtime story, “Innocence” unfolds like a crouching animal, waiting to pounce."
-IndieWire

Violet Crown Cinema, Hyperreal Film Club and Lo-Fi Fest present RERUNS, a re-examination of our collective childhood media. Each event will feature an experimental video set from a local visual artist followed by a live re-scoring of media from the featured musician's formative years. Together, we're updating the past to see what inspires the art of the future. 

1st : Melissa Cha of LACHANE audio/visual performance

2nd : TV Honest re-scores a piece of media that made an impression on them as a child. 
[It's gonna be a BAT of a good time, MAN as well as a BurTON of fun, & we'll give you '89 reasons why you should come, & a KeaTON is one.]

Stay tuned for future performances with all new artists on June 21 & July 19

BUY TICKETS HERE

An immersive, interactive art exhibition held in 3 acts

Featuring:
Thor & Friends
Future Museums
Cross Record

Live dance x choreography
by Lory Lyon

Live visuals x art installation
by Hyperreal Film Club

Performances to be held at Shirley's Temple in Austin, TX
Tuesday, April 4th, 2017
$5

Disclaimer: Attendees acknowledge the probable circumstance of artists performing in close physical proximity. Additionally, those who who wish to experience the performance in close proximity are encouraged to wear appropriate clothing (i.e. clothing that the attendee is comfortable getting wet/dirty/etc.)

Join us for an hour of immersive self care. Ambient sound makers, Future Museums, will create a relaxing soundscape coupled with calming visuals compiled by Hyperreal projected all around you. Free entry, free tea, free vibes. Donations accepted.

6:30 Doors

7 Screening

Join us for a night of experimental filmmaking as we screen some of the most celebrated pioneers throughout history and discuss their life's works and must-see pieces. 

We have careful curated films from the 1920's by Hans Richter, to 1940's and 60's with shorts by Maya Deren, Stan Brakage and David Lynch, leading us to the exciting films of the 70's and 80's with excerpts from Kenneth Anger all the way to present time filmmakers and visual arts. This screening will be introduced and lead by Faiza Kracheni, ASoF Education & Programs Director + local artist/filmmaker.

BEHIND THE SCENE is an ongoing film screening series brought to you by Hyperreal film club and Austin School of Film. Bringing together local creatives to introduce must-see films and talk about the craft. Learn directly from your arts community!

Free admission + drinks.

8 p.m. Doors + Moods by Curved Light

Featured screening of ‘Herman’ by Alton Jenkins and Bill Kenny

9 Feature screening

Admission + drinks are free but donations are accepted.

630 Doors

7 Screening + Lesson

Free admission + drinks. 

BEHIND THE SCENE is an ongoing film screening series brought to you by Hyperreal film club and Austin School of Film. Bringing together local creatives to introduce must-see films and talk about the craft. Learn directly from your arts community!

DETAILS: We will be discussing a film noir + ASoF instructor Corey Kline with screening to follow. 

About the artist: Cordelaine (Corey) Kline is an Austin based filmmaker and digital arts teacher. Kline is currently making a romantic comedy web series called Jim the Jerk (www.jimbrazina.com). Kline also operates a digital arts summer camp where he instructs 9-18 year olds about iPhoto, Garageband, iMovie, Scratch, and MS Office. Kline has worked as an Assistant Camera/2nd AC on 3 feature films. Kline graduated from the University of Iowa Cinema Program where he produced and DP'd a feature film called Diary of a Superhero which won the Award of Excellence from Iowa Motion Picture Association. www.cordelaine.com

630 Doors

7 M00N screening + Lesson

Free admission + drinks

BEHIND THE SCENE is an ongoing film screening series brought to you by Hyperreal Film Club and Austin School of Film. Bringing together local creatives to introduce must-see films and talk about the craft. Learn directly from your arts community!

DETAILS: We will be discussing the visual effects of british science fiction drama film MOON with multi-platform artist + ASoF instructor Caegan Meagher with screening to follow. 

About the artist: Ceagan Meagher is a local multi-platform artist in motion graphics, visual effects, photography, videography, audio/video editing and workflow management. His client work includes Verizon Wireless, Barnes and Noble, AT&T, Dell and T-Mobile among others. Additional skills and interests blanket the spectrum in 3D, projection mapping, photogrammetry and VR. He is the lead instructor Adobe After Effects and Cinema4D at Austin School of Film. 

His website and reel can be found at www.neondopemachine.com.