» Aurora Picture Show

Aurora Picture Show, a non-profit cinema, was founded in June 1998 by Houston-based media artists Andrea Grover and Patrick Walsh. Through volunteer labor and equipment donations, the two founders converted a 1924 wooden church building into a 100-seat capacity cinema. Aurora’s mandate from the start was to champion short artist made films and videos, to host visiting film/videomakers and curators, and to encourage active audiences. Through consistently visionary programming, Aurora has achieved a reputation as one of the world’s finest microcinemas. To date, Aurora has hosted over 120 visiting artists and presented over 3000 films and videos.

In 2001, Aurora Picture Show was the subject of a national PBS program, Egg the Arts Show; Aurora was one of three small cinemas in the US chosen to be featured on this program on Microcinemas and the small cinema movement. In 2003, Aurora was invited by the Sundance Channel to create a Snapshot Diary, a one minute long segment on our cinema. This segment aired more than 20 times on the Sundance Channel.