Kronos Quartet multimedia event announced for Houston film festival The Houston Cinema Arts Festival will feature two performances of the "live documentary"

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The acclaimed avant-garde classical group Kronos Quartet is bringing "A Thousand Thoughts," its film-music project that chronicles the foursome's long history, to H-Town as part of the Houston Cinema Arts Festival's 10th anniversary festival in November.

The show, with two performances at the Asia Society Texas Theatre at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Nov. 11, features the quartet -- violinist David Harrington, violinist John Sherba, violist Hank Dutt, and cellist Sunny Yang -- playing alongside footage covering its career. The film portion features interviews with the likes of composers Philip Glass, Steve Reich and Terry Riley who talk about the quartet's music and influence. It's written and directed by Sam Green, who acts as the narrator, and Joe Bini.

Kronos Quartet was founded in 1973 and has worked in a variety of genres ranging from movie scores ("Heat," "Requiem for a Dream") to rock, jazz, tango and experimental. Some of the artists the group has collaborated with or accompanied live are David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Bjork, Tom Waits, the Dave Matthews Band, The National, poet Allen Ginsberg, soprano Dawn Upshaw, jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, Mexican "punk folklorico" band Cafe Tacuba, and the Modern Jazz Quartet.

"A Thousand Thoughts" won best documentary feature at the San Francisco Film Festival. Green showcased his first "live documentary," "Utopia in Four Movements," at the Houston Cinema Arts Festival in 2010.

The Asia Society Texas Theatre is located at 1370 Southmore Blvd. in Houston.

The Houston Cinema Arts Festival runs Nov. 8-12 in various locations. For information, go to http://cinemartsociety.org.