THE FOURTH ANNUAL CINEMARFA FILM FESTIVAL MARFA TEXAS MAY 1 – 4, 2014

CineMarfa has a unique take on the idea of a film festival, with an emphasis on the intersection between film and fine art. Films made by visual artists, as well as rarely screened archival, experimental, documentary, and narrative films, will be seen alongside new (and historic) films from across the spectrum of world cinema.

All events are FREE.

Notes From a Revolution: The Diggers, Com/Co, and the Haight

On Friday July 20, 2012 at the Marfa Book Co., CineMarfa and Marfa Book Co. are proud to present a very rare screening of a film made by the San Francisco Diggers, NOWSREAL. The screening marks the release of the book Notes From A Revolution: The Diggers, Com/Co, and the …

Reassemblage

Co-produced by Jean-Paul Bourdier Directed by Trinh T. Minh-ha 1982, 40 minutes, Color, 16mm/DVD With uncanny eloquence, REASSEMBLAGE distills sounds and images of Senegalese villagers and their surroundings to reconsider the premises and methods of ethnographic filmmaking. By disjunctive editing and a probing narration this documentary strikingly counterpoints the authoritative stance typical …

CineMarfa 2013 was a huge success, thanks to our wonderful sponsors, presenters, and audience members! See pictures on our Archives page and read about the festival in Louis Black’s blog in the Austin Chronicle and Peter Lucas’ piece at Glasstire.com

Harmony Korine’s newest film, SPRING BREAKERS, will have its Marfa premiere at this year’s CineMarfa! Starring James Franco, Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine and Gucci Mane. This screening is FULL so we cannot accept any more reservations but we will try and accommodate as many standby guests as possible.

Download a 2013 schedule

City of Marfa Awards CineMarfa With Advertising Grant
Thanks to the City of Marfa, who have awarded CineMarfa with a grant to help defray the cost of out-of-town advertising. We invite our guests to check out the Visitor’s Center when in Marfa for answers to all of your questions about the goings-on in the town.

Louis Black to Present At CineMarfa
We are excited to announce that Louis Black will be attending CineMarfa 2013! Black, co-founder of The Austin Chronicle and the South By Southwest Festival will introduce some of the films from our program. More details to come.

CineMarfa receives TCA Grant
tca The Texas Commission on the Arts has awarded CineMarfa with a grant as part of their Arts Respond program. The grant, which falls under the Economic Development category, is to help CineMarfa reach our goal of doubling our out-of-town audience for the 2013 festival.

updates_foundfootagephoto Found Footage workshop underway
CineMarfa’s second free filmmaking workshop is underway, with participants working on new films made from archival 16mm found footage. The finished films will be featured in the upcoming CineMarfa film festival – stay tuned for more details.