A group exhibition featuring the work of Christopher Blay, Laddie John Dill, and Virginia L. Montgomery. Through a diverse range of media—including sand, foam, neon, and photography—the exhibition offers immersive expressions of the convergence of human relationships, technology, the landscape, and imagined futures.
Seven Sundays of cosmic cinema—including classics, new releases, and a live performance by Jeanne Liotta—begins March 9. Free to all. Curated by Vance Knowles, Ballroom Creative Director, and Ralph McKay, Ballroom Film Programmer.
Midstream in Space Sightings the appropriately pivotal artist JEANNE LIOTTA revisits Marfa after two residencies at McDonald Observatory. For over three decades Liotta has made films, moving image installations, projector performances and other lens-based works. Operating at the lively intersection of art, science and natural philosophy her work has earned prestigious international awards and best-of lists. Images made under our Dark Skies will come home for the first time. The evening concludes with PATH OF TOTALITY, a live projector performance restaging the August 2017 solar eclipse and bringing the cosmic into the confines of a projection Space.
Ballroom Marfa is honored to present an intimate evening with Erika Wennerstrom—the voice behind Heartless Bastards—in a rare solo performance. Erika hides out under the West Texas stars to write and record […]
A rising star of Japanese genre film for ten years, the prolific Ugana Kenichi arrives with WE ARE ALIENS (2024) which is currently burning up the international film circuit. One day Seiya is calling strangers on the phone to tell them “It’s me, thank you” when a creature with emerald-blue fur, something he had never seen before, descends from the sky. This wise little furry, along with his companions, has come to exterminate the human race. A surprisingly sweet alien apocalypse movie with a subversive attitude that embraces otherness and strangeness.
A stellar space epic came rushing in from behind the Iron Curtain in 1963. Pioneering and much-imitated, IKARIE XB 1 is one of the cornerstones of contemporary sci-fi cinema. This Czech gem predates STAR TREK and 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. It was clearly an influence on both and remains one of the few sci-fi films of unsanctioned optimism.
A rising star of Japanese genre film for ten years, the prolific Ugana Kenichi arrives with WE ARE ALIENS (2024) which is currently burning up the international film circuit. One day Seiya is calling strangers on the phone to tell them “It’s me, thank you” when a creature with emerald-blue fur, something he had never seen before, descends from the sky. This wise little furry, along with his companions, has come to exterminate the human race. A surprisingly sweet alien apocalypse movie with a subversive attitude that embraces otherness and strangeness.
Space Sightings final feature, VISITORS - COMPLETE EDITION (2023). It’s the end of the world as we know it, and the monsters are clearly having a blast. Zombie alien apocalypse is seldom this fun. A trio of friends have driven in search of their incommunicado bandmate only to find themselves in the middle of a demonic outbreak. Puerile, scrappy and infected with deadpan humor, this is about as far as you can get from arthouse horror. Boomboxes not bombs!
