DIY Films in Austin by Matt Dentler
Whether it's the charitable organizations willing to help with funds, the film school ready to inspire, the co-ops offering an environment for creative energy, or the festivals with exhibition outlets, there is a strong do-it-yourself film community all over Austin.

Local Film and Videomaker Support Organizations by Justin  Davis
The film industry here in Austin is not just for those with big pocketbooks or grandiose visions of Hollywood commercialism.

Lullaby poetry by Faulkner Fox

N. Coleman's Corner by Neil Coleman
What makes rear curtain sync an exciting and fun way to shoot pictures is that it is a method of getting images in very dark places.

Notes from the Woodshed by Paul Klemperer
The movie industry has always been linked to Tin Pan Alley, the commercial music industry. A major effect of this linkage is that musical clichés, icons and stereotypes have been readily transferred to the big screen.

Ron Jeremy: Porn Buddha by Grace McEvoy
People call Jeremy addicted (to food), a tightwad, a clown, a spotlight hound and a man who can maintain an erection longer than any man in pornography.

A Small Thing... by Jodie Keeling
The world of cinema is glamorous, BIG, brilliant, and crisp. It's usually hoisted by a fat budget. And coincidentally, often strangely buffered from the reality it reflects upon. The world of film I am familiar with it happens at a much more personal level, especially with small format film-making like Super 8.

That Damned Film-maker -- Or Where the Hell is Alejandro Jodorowsky When You Need Him! by Ricardo Acevedo
That very spring at the institute, in film/video art class we had just watched Jodorowsky's El Topo, one of the most reviled and exalted films of the early '70s, called by various reviewers "a stilted, misogynistic gore fest" to "a surreal psycho-western, a Zen affirmation" the truth lying somewhere vacillatingly in between. So when the job of interviewing this cat fell to me, well...to say the least, I was nervous.