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.
Mike Kuchar and Chris Vargas in person.
This program is organized by Jason Fritz Michael, Eric Stanley and Margaret Tedesco.
A night of film storytelling in conjunction with the current window installation “Necrocapital: AIDS in the Age of Surplus Value”
WITH:
MATT WOLF:
SMALLTOWN BOYS – 21min – 2003
The historical relationship between AIDS activist artist David Wojnarowicz and Sarah Rosenberg, a fictional teenage lesbian from New York’s Upper West Side are imagined in this experimental documentary.
MIKE KUCHAR:
THE PICTURES OF DORIAN GAY – 23 min – 1995
Paint drips and body fluids ooze in this “tell all” and “hide nothing” documentary about two San Francisco males.
BLUE BANSHEE -14.3 min – 1994
Commissioned to be a “promo” for a loud punk rock band, Mr. Kuchar feared that the noise the band made would spoil the mood of his visuals, so he used the sound of a lush orchestra to score the picture and the antics.
THE STONE BOY – 6 minutes – 2011
New work!
CHRIS VARGAS:
LIBERACEÓN – 15 min – 2011
Rescripts the biography of Liberace—the late, flamboyant yet closeted, and apolitical pop pianist—in order to insert him into a queer history of radical AIDS/HIV activism.
Mike Kuchar in person.
Chris Vargas in person.
This program is organized by Jason Fritz Michael, Eric Stanley and Margaret Tedesco.
Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 824-3890 [email protected]
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