The Dallas Video Festival starts tomorrow and runs through Sunday, spread between the Angelika, the DMA, and the Dallas Theatre Center. I went last year for the first time in a few years and was blown away by some of the stuff I saw. Dallas is missing a regular venue for more experimental film and video (like the Aurora or Northwest Film Forum), but this almost makes up for it.

The schedule is here and you can actually email Bart Weiss (the artistic director) and ask for suggestions of what to see based on what you like. bart at videofest dot org

Definitely my #1 do-not-miss is the Nam Jun Paik retrospective. I usually like the more experimental or electronic stuff, and this is what Bart suggested for me:

Wednesday August 09
8:45 PM The Modern Housewife (Angelika 2)

Thursday August 10
7:00 PM Nam June Paik Retrospective (DMA Horchow Auditorium)

Friday August 11
7:15 PM Mouse Heaven (Video Cabaret)
8:30 PM ROOM (Video Cabaret)
9:00 PM The Editorial Frame (Video Box)
9:00 PM Laptop Deathmatch (Videotheque)

Saturday August 12
4:00 PM Frozen Angels (Video Cabaret)
4:15 PM Urban Friction (Video Box)
5:15 PM The Other Side (Video Box)
9:10 PM Peep Show (Video Cabaret)

Sunday August 13
12:00 PM SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater Program (Videotheque)
3:30 PM Braindamadj’d … Take II (Videotheque)
3:45 PM The Wraith of Cobble Hill (Video Lounge)
3:45 PM “S.P.I.C. The Storyboard of my Life” (Video Lounge)
8:15 PM The Texas Show (Videotheque)