Corpus Christi Film Society is partnering with the Austin Film Society (AFS) to bring the Austin-shot film Slacker 2011 to Corpus Christi with filmmakers in attendance.
The screening will occur on Friday, February 3, 2012, at 7PM at the ongoing CCFS monthly series of art-films at the Art Museum of South Texas.
Slacker 2011 is a shot-by-shot, scene-by-scene remake of the seminal independent film, Slacker, originally directed by Richard Linklater in 1991. In 2011 the AFS celebrated the 20th anniversary of Slacker, a film that helped define and expose Austin’s ‘weird’ culture to the world, by commissioning 24 Austin-based filmmakers to re-imagine the film. Slacker 2011 debuted in Austin on August 31, 2011.
“Our film series at the Art Museum was designed to bring fun, alternative film screenings to Corpus Christi,” said series co-coordinator Joe Hilliard. “To be involved with the Austin Film Society celebrating Slacker in our second month of the series is mind-blowing.”
Slacker director Richard Linklater was a judge in CCFS’s Corpus Christi 7-Day Film Project in 2011.
Richard Linklater’s SLACKER inspired a generation of American filmmakers by exploring the subculture of Austin, Texas in a loose narrative with a tapestry of quirky characters. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of that iconic movie, 24 of Austin’s top filmmakers banded together to update SLACKER with their own perspectives on the city. SLACKER 2011 is a stream-of-consciousness chronicle of a day in Austin, presenting the city-dwellers, dragworms, proto-hipsters and locations that give the city its modern identity. The film showcases a transformed town next to things that never change. SLACKER 2011 is an homage to twenty years of independent filmmaking, presenting the city’s changing face and showcasing some of its most exciting talent.
“SLACKER 2011 came off as a beautiful work of jazz, with each segment representing an instrumental solo. At times dark and tempestuous (Mingus-Parsons) and at others lyrically rhythmic, playful and exaggerated (Monk-Doubek) or rapid bursts of color (Parker-Coleman) the film showcased individual voices while still holding its center as a single work of art.”–Matthew Odam, The Austin American-Statesman
“SLACKER 2011 succeeds — if not, exceeds — in its mission to capture Austin 20 years after Linklater’s version; cleverly commenting on how many things have changed, yet so much has stayed the same. We might keep getting older, but Austin continues to stay weird.”–Don Simpson, Smells Like Screen Spirit
“A charming, sometime very funny snapshot of contemporary Austin.”–Kimberly Jones, The Austin Chronicle
CCFS at the Art Museum continues in April with a screening of John Woo’s The Killer with a killer Chinese buffet on April 6, 2012 and a screening of Once with a busker competition on May 4, 2012.
Join Corpus Christi Ride-In Theater for their first event, Raising Arizona at the Corpus Christi Watergardens. Nov. 4, 2011 at 8PM
May 2012