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HOUSTON & MARFA, TX | MAY 17-19 & 26-29
“In a landscape where nothing officially exists (otherwise it would not be ‘desert’), absolutely anything becomes thinkable, and may consequently happen”. Reyner Banham, Scenes in America Deserta. Deserting the Site
is the first project of DUST (Desert Unit for Speculative Territories), a three-year series of transdisciplinary seminars, lectures, events and workshops co-organized by les Beaux-Arts de Nantes Métropole, France and the School of Art at the University of Houston, TX
in the wider context of Fieldwork: Marfa, with the support of the Cultural Service of the French Embassy in Houston. READ MORE |
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VISUAL ARTS |
FRANCE | MAY 9-13
Leigh A. Arnold, assistant curator at the Nasher Sclupture Center in Dallas is invited to participate in the Visual Arts Focus Program
in France in May. Developed by the Institut Français with the support of the Cultural Service of the French Embassy in Houston, this program seeks to promote exchanges between French and international art professionals and institutions and to develop international art networks. Leigh is among the 16 upcoming international curators invited to discover the French cultural and artistic scenes in Paris, Montrouge and the Languedoc-Roussillon region of France. READ MORE |
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | DEADLINE MAY 30
The Heritage Curator and Conservators-Restorers Departments of the Institut National du Patrimoine offer international students and professionals the opportunity to complete a training program aiming at strengthening their capacity to manage collections and heritage institutions, to lead a cultural and scientific project and learn to be experts in the field of cultural heritage in France.
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CINEMA |
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | DEADLINE MAY 15
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New Faces of French Animation, a program launched by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in Canada and the US in 2015, is returning for its second edition. It offers to non-commercial theaters, art houses and universities a selection of short animated films that were presented at the 2015 Annecy International Animation Film Festival and curated by its director Marcel Jean. LEARN MORE |
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MARFA, TX | MAY 5-8
During her time in California in the late 60s, French New Wave pioneer Agnès Varda made three films, inspired by the politics and youth culture of Los Angeles and San Francisco. Cinemarfa will screen Black Panthers in which Varda turns her camera on an Oakland demonstration against the imprisonment of activist and Black Panthers cofounder Huey P. Newton. Empathic and perceptive, Black Panthers is a powerful political statement. The screening of Lions Love (. . . and Lies)
is a metacinematic inquiry into the alternating currents of whimsy and tragedy that typified late-sixties America. READ MORE |
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AUSTIN, HOUSTON, TX & OKLAHOMA CITY, OK | MAY 15, 20-22
The Austin Film Society, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Oklahoma City Museum of Art
will screen No Home Movie. In this moving portrait of her relationship with her mother, an Auschwitz survivor from Poland whose harrowing past and chronic anxiety has greatly shaped her daughter’s art, the great Belgian filmmaker, Chantal Akerman, shuttles between fiction, adaptation, documentary and essay film. READ MORE |
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DALLAS, EL PASO, HOUSTON, LUBBOCK, TX & OKLAHOMA CITY, OK | MAY
Winner of the Crystal for Best Feature Film at the 2015 Annecy Animation Festival, Franck Ekinci and Christian Desmares' April and the Extraordinary World is a visually striking, original, and dynamic animated sci-fi adventure based on a graphic novel by Jacques Tardi. READ MORE |
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AUSTIN, TX | JUNE 3-5
The Austin Film Society is partnering with the film festival Premiers Plans of Angers to create a cross-cultural dialogue about independent film with the support of the Cultural Service of the French Embassy in Houston. Films and filmmakers in attendance include: Two Birds, One Stone presented by Fajria Deliba; Keeper
presented by Guillaume Senez; and The Good Life, presented by Jean Denizot. Additionally, Xavier Massé, producer of Premiers Plans, will present a short program of the student films of renowned French filmmakers from the Paris film school, La Fémis. READ MORE |
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BOOKS |
The debut novel of French mathematician, author, and Oulipo member Michèle Audin, One Hundred Twenty-One Days, published by Deep Vellum in Dallas, TX, retraces the lives of French mathematicians over several generations during World Wars I and II. READ MORE |
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MUSIC |
AUSTIN, HOUSTON, DALLAS, TX | MAY 19, 20, 28
Dirtyphonics is a French electronic music band from Paris, consisting of members Charly, PitchIn, and Pho. Their music style is based on electro, dubstep, drumstep, drum and bass and trap. Since 2006, they have been turning heads with their unique live act, combining the efficiency of a DJ set with the energy of a rock concert.
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Cultural Service of the French Embassy
Consulate General of France
777 Post Oak Blvd
Suite 600
Houston, TX 77056
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