Artists’ Television Access is a San Francisco-based, artist-run, non-profit organization that cultivates and promotes culturally-aware, underground media and experimental art. We provide an accessible screening venue and gallery for the presentation of programmed and guest-curated screenings, exhibitions, performances, workshops and events. We believe in fostering a supportive community for the exhibition of innovative art and the exchange of non-conformist ideas.
Filmmakers are often drawn to explore the face of where they live, and San Francisco offers a field of contrasting and visually arresting locations that has inspired experimental films and videos for more than fifty years. This program of work made between 1979 and 2005 includes Dominic Angerame’s Freedom’s Skyway, a blend of Chinatown and film emulsion fireworks; Michael Rudnick’s elegant cinematic paean of shadow and light, Panorama; Mark McGowan’s ethereal and mystifying contemplation Fog; Toney Merritt’s whimsical mystery By The Sea; Abigail Child’s Pacific Far East Line, a cinematic re-presentation of downtown movement and rhythm; Ken Paul Rosenthal’s I My Bike, a poetic rumination on life lived on the street; Tomonari Nishikawa’s Market Street, a concentrated mosaic of patterns encountered on the city’s main thoroughfare; Scott Stark’s delightful visual conundrum of urban spaces, SLOW; and Anne McGuire’s verité fantasy on the urban mundane, Joe DiMaggio 1, 2, 3. Thanks to Steve Polta. (Steve Anker)
Dominic Angerame: Freedom’s Skyway (1980) 5 min. / Michael Rudnick: Panorama (1982) 15 min. / Mark McGowan: Fog (1979) 7 min. / Toney Merritt: By The Sea (1982) 3 min. / Abigail Child: Pacific Far East Line (1979) 12 min. / Ken Paul Rosenthal: I My Bike (2002) 6 min. / Tomonari Nishikawa: Market Street (2005) 5 min. / Scott Stark: SLOW (2001) 16 min. / Anne McGuire: Joe DiMaggio 1, 2, 3 (1991) 11 min.
Curated by Steve Anker
presented in association with Pacific Film Archive and Prelinger Archives
Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 824-3890 [email protected]
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