PAST VIDEO SALONS

Stop-Motion Animation
With David Waddell

David Wadell at the Menil Community Arts Festival from Aurora Picture Show on Vimeo.

As part of the Menil Community Arts Festival on March 13, 2010, Aurora hosted a free video salon with HSPVA Media Arts instructor David Waddell.  This free artist talk explored the basics of digital animation.  Families and youth interested in learning more about creating their own films were encouraged to attend. 
 

David Waddell is a multimedia artist working with collage, stop-motion animation, and installation.  He is currently a resident at Lawndale Art Center and the Director of Media Studies at the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.He received his MFA in painting from American University and his BFA in  Art at the University of Texas at Austin.

Lessons In Teenage Zombie Filmmaking
With Emily Hagins

Lessons in Teenage Zombie Filmmaking with Emily Hagins from Aurora Picture Show on Vimeo.

In October 2009, the Aurora Video Salon featured a conversation with Austin’s young filmmaker, Emily Hagins, who is the subject of the documentary Zombie Girl. An avid film lover, Emily had written several screenplays at a young age. But it was not until she turned 11 that she saw her very first zombie movie (UNDEAD), which inspired her to make her first feature length movie. Not only did she write the screenplay for the zombie feature, but she also directed, raised funds (and was awarded money from the Austin Film Society grant), did the camera work, co-produced, and edited the movie. Emily showed clips from her film, Pathogen, and discussed her experience as a filmmaker. SEE ORIGINAL CALENDAR DESCRIPTION


Writ Writer Video Salon
With Susanne Mason

Writ Writer Video Salon with Susanne Mason from Aurora Picture Show on Vimeo.

In September 2009, Susanne Mason, an award winning filmmaker from Austin, spoke at a video salon about her film, Writ Writer at the Aurora Video Salon Series. Writ Writer illuminates the historic conflict that emerged in the 1960s when Texas prisoners, inspired by the Civil Rights movement, challenged inhumane prison conditions. It focuses on the story of self-taught jailhouse lawyer Fred Arispe Cruz and his protracted legal battle for the right of prisoners to assist one another with lawsuits. SEE ORIGINAL CALENDAR DESCRIPTION