The Chronicle on Henry’s UNIVERSITY INC.

Screening this weekend as part of Salvage Vanguard’s MicroCinema program is Kyle Henry‘s UNIVERSITY INC. In addition to the film screening, Henry will have a “talk back” discussion after the film with Texas State Employees Union rep Caroline O’Connor on the current state of corporatization at UT, especially ongoing university-wide faculty and support staff cutbacks made in the name of the “bottom-line.” Kimberly Jones at The Austin Chronicle provides a little backstory on the film, which is now 10 years old yet remains relevant:

When the University of Texas announced plans in 1997 to shutter its long-running campus repertory film series, Austin filmmaker Kyle Henry was a grad student. (Word was the university needed the cash for a new stadium jumbotron.) He began documenting the protests, and in the process, had his eyes opened to a soul-sickening corporatization of academia. Read more of Jones’ Goodbye to All That: Revisiting Kyle Henry’s ‘University Inc.’ and a film community’s cri de coeur

Also screening is Henry’s AMERICAN COWBOY, about gay rodeo champ and Houston native Gene Mikulenka’s wild adversity filled year long journey to the International Gay Rodeo Finals in Albuquerque, NM. Screenings are Sunday and Monday, November 22 & 23, 7 and 9 PM. Tickets are $5 at the door.

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