Complete event listing for
Vimeo Theater
201 Trinity St
Friday, March 9
It’s hard to construct a program from the world’s most impressive collection of short-form media. With millions of incredible videos to choose from, it’s not a question of finding good stuff, it’s how does one ig...
Director(s): VariousShorts Program
90 min
Girl Walk // All Day is a feature-length dance music video and tale of urban exploration that follow three dancers across New York City. They turn the city's sidewalks, parks, and stadiums into an evolving stage as a sto...
Director(s): Jacob KrupnickNarrative Feature
75 min
Produced by Oxford Film and Television, Wikileaks: Secrets and Lies is Bafta winner Patrick Forbes' seventy-six-minute documentary of the Wikileaks affair as told by the people involved: personal, moving and frequently h...
Director(s): Patrick ForbesDocumentary Feature
81 min
Saturday, March 10
Upon becoming the father to triplets, filmmaker Avi Zev Weider explores the nature of technology. Woven together with expert interviews and portraits of people who have intimate relationships with technology, "Welco...
Director(s): Avi Zev WeiderDocumentary Feature
86 min
On Thursday, November 7, 1991, Earvin “Magic” Johnson made people stop and watch at the Forum in Inglewood, California. But it wasn’t his basketball brilliance that was captivating audiences worldwide. Instead, he ...
Director(s): Nelson GeorgeDocumentary Feature
75 min
In 1991 Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested in Milwaukee and sentenced to 957 years in prison for killing 17 people and dismembering their bodies. "Jeff" is a documentary that explores the city of Milwaukee by meeting ...
Director(s): Chris James ThompsonDocumentary Feature
79 min
Raised in the Tennessee mountains, Wayne White started his career as a cartoonist in NYC. He found success as one of the creators of the Pee-wee's Playhouse TV show which led to work designing some of the most iconic ima...
Director(s): Neil BerkeleyDocumentary Feature
88 min
Ginger Baker is known for playing in Cream and Blind Faith, but the world's greatest drummer didn’t hit his stride until 1972, when he arrived in Nigeria and discovered Fela Kuti's Afrobeat. After leaving Nigeria, Ging...
Director(s): Jay BulgerDocumentary Feature
92 min
Sunday, March 11
As the creator of Family Guy and one of the co-creators of American Dad!, Seth MacFarlane has brought his boundary-pushing brand of humor to millions each week. Join Seth for a no-holds-barred discussion about his ground...
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Seth MacFarlane, Eric Moro
It’s 1971 and communes and new religions are on the rise. The Source Family are an "Aquarian tribe," a secretive but outlandish group of 140 beautiful young people who stroll Los Angeles in colorful robes, de...
Director(s): Jodi Wille, Maria DemopoulosDocumentary Feature
105 min
"The Central Park Effect" reveals the extraordinary array of wild birds who grace Manhattan’s celebrated patch of green and the equally colorful, full-of-attitude New Yorkers who schedule their lives around t...
Director(s): Jeffrey KimballDocumentary Feature
60 min
"WE ARE LEGION: The Story of the Hacktivists" takes us inside the world of Anonymous, the radical "hacktivist" collective that has redefined civil disobedience for the digital age. The film explores e...
Director(s): Brian KnappenbergerDocumentary Feature
89 min
Commissioned by a Middle Eastern Biennial to make a film on the theme of "art as a subversive act," independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi ("I Am a Sex Addict") goes overboard. Told that he can do whateve...
Director(s): Caveh ZahediDocumentary Feature
108 min
Monday, March 12
"Seeking Asian Female" is an eccentric modern love story about Steven and Sandy – an aging white man with “yellow fever” who is obsessed with marrying any Asian woman, and the young Chinese bride he finds...
Director(s): Debbie LumDocumentary Feature
80 min
Impassioned about freedom of sexual expression, Australian sex worker Rachel Wotton has become highly specialized in working with clients with disability. Rachel’s philosophy, that human touch and sexual intimacy can b...
Director(s): Catherine ScottDocumentary Feature
70 min
In Bahia, Brazil, generations of impoverished families live in palafitas, shacks built on stilts over the ocean bay. When the government threatens to reclaim the bay in the name of ecological restoration, hundreds of fam...
Director(s): Annie EastmanDocumentary Feature
75 min
We’re rolling out the red carpet for this year’s design awards finalists. Come join iStockphoto as we toast to the artists of SXSW’s Film Design Competition. Enjoy complimentary drinks and apps, followed by a speci...
A showcase of our favorite Title Sequences of the year presented by IStockphoto and in collaboration with AIGA Austin.......
Director(s): VariousShorts Program
75 min
Bad Brains are one of the most important and influential American bands still working today. They melded punk and reggae into an innovative style that has yet to be copied. Their impact and influence can be heard in grou...
Director(s): Mandy Stein, Benjamen LoganDocumentary Feature
105 min
Tuesday, March 13
With the twenty-first century comes a new breed of artist: the indie game designer. These innovators design and program their distinctly personal games in the hope that they may find connection and success. After years ...
Director(s): Lisanne Pajot, James SwirskyDocumentary Feature
96 min
"WE ARE LEGION: The Story of the Hacktivists" takes us inside the world of Anonymous, the radical "hacktivist" collective that has redefined civil disobedience for the digital age. The film explores e...
Director(s): Brian KnappenbergerDocumentary Feature
89 min
Celebrate SXSW 2012’s brightest stars! This year’s Film Awards is sure to be unforgettable.......
Wednesday, March 14
Seventy highschool students agreed to be locked down for 24 hours to write, shoot, and edit a short film. Come see the product of this madness screened at Vimeo Theater for The Austin School of Film's annual Youth M.A.F....
Director(s): VariousNarrative Feature
120 min
On April 2nd 2011, LCD Soundsystem played its final show at Madison Square Garden. Shut Up And Play The Hits documents this once in a life time performance and paints an intimate portrait of James Murphy as he navigates ...
Director(s): Will Lovelace, Dylan SouthernDocumentary Feature
110 min
Bad Brains are one of the most important and influential American bands still working today. They melded punk and reggae into an innovative style that has yet to be copied. Their impact and influence can be heard in grou...
Director(s): Mandy Stein, Benjamen LoganDocumentary Feature
105 min
Whether it’s in a big-budget action film, video game, advertising campaign, or handmade flipbook, animation is everywhere. In Drawing Inspiration, Vimeo taps its creative community to present a program focusing on all ...
Shorts Program
90 min
20 years after riots ripped through Los Angeles, "Uprising" documents how hip hop forecasted – and some say ignited – the worst civil unrest of the 20th century. The film revisits the riots in gripping deta...
Director(s): Mark FordDocumentary Feature
66 min
Thursday, March 15
Film-maker and journalist Gotham Chopra spends a year following his father and spiritual icon Deepak Chopra, separating the man from the myth with a raw honesty only a son can have. What starts as decoding of Deepak beco...
Director(s): Gotham ChopraDocumentary Feature
83 min
Raised in the Tennessee mountains, Wayne White started his career as a cartoonist in NYC. He found success as one of the creators of the Pee-wee's Playhouse TV show which led to work designing some of the most iconic ima...
Director(s): Neil BerkeleyDocumentary Feature
88 min
In the gig poster community, artists such as Daniel Danger and Jay Ryan prove that creating this artwork is a way of life, more than just a career. These artists are at the forefront of an expansion of the gig poster gen...
Director(s): Scout ShannonDocumentary Feature
98 min
"Under African Skies" travels with Paul Simon back to South Africa on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his historic Graceland album. Paul reunites with the original band to give a reunion concert and to ...
Director(s): Joe BerlingerDocumentary Feature
108 min
At a time when the country is rethinking its drug policies large and small, one state rises to the forefront of national attention. Once a pioneer in legalizing medical marijuana, the state of Montana is poised to become...
Director(s): Rebecca Richman CohenDocumentary Feature
72 min
Friday, March 16
On April 2nd 2011, LCD Soundsystem played its final show at Madison Square Garden. Shut Up And Play The Hits documents this once in a life time performance and paints an intimate portrait of James Murphy as he navigates ...
Director(s): Will Lovelace, Dylan SouthernDocumentary Feature
110 min
Re:Generation Music Project is a documentary film about original music collaborations that examine and re-imagine the history of different musical genres through the eyes of five of the most influential electronic produc...
Director(s): Amir Bar LevDocumentary Feature
82 min
Photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey, he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. In "Chasing Ice", Balog deploys revolutionary time-...
Director(s): Jeff OrlowskiDocumentary Feature
76 min
You might have to be a little crazy to do it, but anyone can watch. Check out some of the world’s boldest athletes on the big screen as Vimeo presents a program dedicated to the wild world of action sports. Be prepare...
Shorts Program
90 min
Girl Walk // All Day is a feature-length dance music video and tale of urban exploration that follow three dancers across New York City. They turn the city's sidewalks, parks, and stadiums into an evolving stage as a sto...
Director(s): Jacob KrupnickNarrative Feature
75 min
Saturday, March 17
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters follows the acclaimed photographer’s decade-long quest to create a series of haunting, surreal, and stunningly elaborate portraits of small-town American life. His photographs are lik...
Director(s): Ben ShapiroDocumentary Feature
77 min
From Led Zeppelin to The Rolling Stones, Elvis to Madonna, Bob Dylan to Bob Marley, John Lennon to Johnny Rotten, Bob Gruen has captured half a century of music through the eye of a lens. In this landmark documentary, G...
Director(s): Don LettsDocumentary Feature
104 min
Birthed as a dusty trading route at the turn of last century, Sunset Strip became the world's center of gravity for music, glamour, fashion, sex, and decadence. This curvy, mile-and-a-half strip of road falls just outsid...
Director(s): Hans FjellestadDocumentary Feature
94 min