At last week’s Flux Screening Series at the Hammer Museum we premiered Lauri Faggioni’s beautiful new video Dear God for Monsters of Folk.
Lauri is celebrated for her work as an artist and production designer for her work with Michel Gondry and Johan Renck. As a director in her own right she has worked with Bright […]

Tim “the one with the glasses” Nordwind of OK Go
Featured filmmakers Saman Keshavarz (winner of Best Music Video at SXSW 2010), Andy Bruntel and Edouard Salier (in town from Paris)
OK Go’s Damian Kulash closes out the night.
Enjoy the full photo set from the evening.

I had the pleasure of catching Spike Jonze’s new short film I’m Here on the big screen at last week’s SXSW Film Festival. Now finally it is online for all to see.
This beautiful story of robot love also has an amazing soundtrack, I challenge you not to fall in love with Aska’s There Are […]

Saturday at the conclusion of our SXSW panel, How to Create a Viral Video (which featured Damian Kulash, frontman of OK Go, Margaret Gould Stewart of YouTube and Jason Wishnow, director of film and video at TED) we concocted an interactive demonstration. Damian jumped up on the panel table, Jason grabbed a video camera and […]

Flux will be hosting what promises to be one of the more fun panels at this year’s SXSW… “How to Create a Viral Video.”
How to Create a Viral Video
Saturday, March 13, 11am
From pranks and mashups to world-changing talks, viral videos infect our minds every day. But how does a video go viral? Jonathan Wells from […]

[ 15 Mar 2010; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ]

“A magical, compelling and perfectly musical document.”
- Jim Jarmusch

In the summer of 2007, The White Stripes embarked on a cross-country Canadian tour to accomplish their goal of performing in every province and territory across the expansive northern nation. The Emmett Malloy-directed documentary film, Under Great White Northern Lights, captured that incredible journey. On March 15th […]

[ 12 Mar 2010 to 21 Mar 2010. ] Photo by Jeff PicardAustin’s 6th Street during SXSW Music 2009

From its start in 1987, SXSW quickly established itself as one of the most important music festivals in the country. Its Film and pioneering Interactive festivals are no longer overshadowed by the Music section.

Flux is excited to be participating in this year’s SXSW Interactive. Jonathan Wells […]

[ 23 Mar 2010; 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ]

As part of the quarterly Flux Screening Series showcasing innovative film and music, the Hammer will present a dynamic evening of shorts and videos from around the globe.

Among our special guests for the evening are OK Go and their creative collaborators James Frost and Syyn Labs behind their epic Rube Goldberg Machine video “This Too […]