Aurora Picture Show is a non-profit media arts center that presents artist-made, non-commercial film, video, and multidisciplinary works. It is dedicated to expanding the cinematic experience and promoting the understanding and appreciation of moving image art. Aurora has distinguished itself as a home for vanguard work that falls outside of conventional moviemaking and traditionally has fewer exhibition outlets. It’s screenings are known for being memorable and not-to-be-missed as they are not often repeated and are difficult to duplicate.
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Sergei Parajanov, Arabesques on the Theme of Pirosmani, 1985. Courtesy of Georgian Film and Studio Mematiane.
Guest artist Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili in conversation with Aurora Picture Show Curator Salome Kokoladze. Photo courtesy of Aurora Picture Show
Sergei Parajanov, Arabesques on the Theme of Pirosmani, 1985. Courtesy of Georgian Film and Studio Mematiane.
Lillian Schwartz: Early Permutations program. Photo courtesy of Aurora Picture Show.
Lillian Schwartz, UFOs, 1971.
Lillian Schwartz: Early Permutations program. Photo courtesy of Aurora Picture Show.
Lillian Schwartz at Work, Bell Laboratories, circa 1975.
Lillian Schwartz: Early Permutations program. Photo courtesy of Aurora Picture Show.
Guest Kristen Gallerneaux, Curator of Communications & Information Technology at The Henry Ford, in conversation with Aurora Picture Show’s Peter Lucas. Photo courtesy of Aurora Picture Show.
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“The terrific range of project proposals we receive each year speaks to the mobile and porous disciplinary boundaries of contemporary art practice, and to the rich and inventive ways writers approach art today. They are alert to the urgent need to expand the conventions of art history and criticism with ideas from other discourses, such as black studies, transnational and diaspora studies, gender and women’s studies, and LGBT studies. The work of lesser known and overlooked artists and art communities continues to be mined, with writers articulating new ways to counter the striking imbalances of race, class and gender that continue to affect the arts and the culture industry.”