After an 11-year stint of avante-garde programming and generally being "the most pioneering film festival in the country", the Cinematexas Film Festival is no more. Sure, we have a wealth of film festivals to keep us entertained here Austin, but we're feeling a bit wistful about Cinematexas and their talent for bringing us the finest in indie/oddball/shorts that we might otherwise miss. Apparently, a lot of other folks are feeling misty too, because this weekend's Cinematexas Viking Funeral is a hot ticket: the finale, a screening of Ronnie Bronstein's Frownland and Don Hertzfeldt's Everything Will Be OK, has already sold out. Fortunately, there's an entire weekend's worth of free Cinematexas programming so you can say a proper goodbye to the film festival that "shocked, inspired, pillaged and plundered the minds of Austinites from 1996-2007" (hence the Viking Funeral theme!) Oh, and "Viking helmets are encouraged, but not required." Presumably the afterparty will including loading up a floating pyre with 16mm film reels and torching that sucker, but you'll have to ask around.

On Saturday, Cinematexas will screen a compilation of new work from Cinematexas alumni (4:30pm) and a showcase of UT student films (7pm). At 9:15, they'll screen Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud, an early experimental work from Todd Haynes that hints at his current experimental piece I'm Not There.

On Sunday, there will be more Cinematexas alumni films at 2pm, followed by a 4pm screening of Interkosmos, a mockumentary/love story about an East German space program in the '70's, complete with lots of Brehznev-era socialist maxims and an austere Krautrock soundtrack.