Cinematexas Viking Funeral Weekend

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.