Tex Hex Pop Up Cinema: Past Foward Visionary Transport

Title: Tex Hex Pop Up Cinema: Past Foward Visionary Transport
Location: Buffalo Bayou/White Oak Bayou, Culture Map Office – 1911 Wood Street, 77002
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Description: The University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts and Buffalo Bayou Partnership present Tex Hex, an artist-made boat created by the design-build group Simparch.May 21st launches the first of many artists’ projects aboard Tex Hex. For this one night only at 8:30pm,Tex Hex provides a pop-up screening along the water’s edge at 1011 Wood Street, home of digital magazine CultureMap,in downtown Houston.

This self-contained cinema projects from and onto an on-board screen enabling recorded and live video content to be viewed while the boat is stationary or in motion.Filmmaker and the Mitchell Center’s Artist in Residence Deborah Stratman curates the evening’s program,Visionary Transport. This 70-minute film program features artistic takes on Car Culture, with works by Kenneth Anger, Buckminster Fuller, Buster Keaton and Amanda Pope.

Bring your blanket, and enjoy this floating cinema with a fantastic backdrop of downtown.
Start Time: 20:30
Date: 2011-05-21