Artists' Television Access

Archive for September, 2012

ATA Sidewalk Sale

Mind-Blowing Sidewalk Sale!!!!! Saturday, September 29th, Artist Television Access 992 Valencia Street at 21st 10 AM to 4 PM Looking for some audio/video Equipment????? Now’s your big chance to acquire some useful equipment to start on your next Big moving Image project.  Will be selling loads of useful Audio Visual Equipment including:  35mm Ektagraphic Slide… Read more »

Breakaway: A Bay Area Music Video Showcase

Breakaway is a screening focusing on the art form of music video-making. As the screen for viewing music videos has shrunk from theaters to televisions, and now to computers and mobile devices, this showcase brings the music video back to the big screen, and appreciates it as a form of artistic expression. This installment of… Read more »

Mad Dance Film Screening, Vol. II

Mad Dance showcases beautiful and provocative films & videos that re-envision the way we think and speak about our individual and collective mental health in today’s chaotic world. Tonight’s screening benefits and celebrates the 10-year anniversary of The Icarus Project; a grassroots, mutual aid and support network that believes lived experiences of madness are “dangerous gifts” needing cultivation… Read more »

Cine+Mas SF presents: LGBT Latino Shorts Program

2012 San Francisco Latino Film Festival

Critical Mass @ 20 screening

Please Join us for an evening of film/video celebrating the 20th anniversary  of the Critical Mass. About Critical Mass: On the last Friday of September, 1992, a group of San Franciscan cyclists showed up on Market Street for the first ever Critical Mass. This leaderless ride became a monthly “organized coincidence”, and in the years… Read more »

Interview with SF Latino Film Festival Director Lucho Ramirez

The third night of the SF Latino Film Festival is tomorrow. Come to ATA to see LGBT Latino shorts: Fallen Comrade, Recipe for Love and We’re All Meant To Be Queens /Todas Íbamos a Ser Reinas. You can get your tickets here. Why are you putting on this festival? How is it special for filmmakers? For filmgoers?… Read more »

Under My Nails, Cine+mas

Under My Nails, a Puerto Rican psychological thriller by Kisha Tikina Burgos and Ari Manuel Cruz, and Andrei Nemcik played to a packed house at ATA on Friday night as part of the Cine+mas Latino Film Festival. Under My Nails is gripping. I was on the edge of my seat, and I was sitting on… Read more »

Call for submissions: Images Festival 2013

The Images Festival is now accepting entries for the ON SCREEN section of the 26th edition of the festival which will take place April 11– 20, 2013 in Toronto, Canada. Images screens films and videos of any category that have a compelling, inventive, aesthetically unconventional approach in terms of form, content, story and/or structure. Fee… Read more »

Cine+Mas SF presents: Under My Nails

2012 San Francisco Latino Film Festival

Cine+Mas SF presents: Dirty Hearts / Corações Sujos

2012 San Francisco Latino Film Festival

Periwinkle Cinema: The Treatment

The Treatment By Lovewarz (Siobhan Aluvalot + Sara Thustra) 60 min. video 2010 Two years in the making, The Treatment is the third movie by Lovewarz. Taken into a world of live performance art filmed across the country, the piece is a narrative of historical examples of artists fighting for access to new language. Not meant… Read more »

Call for submissions: International Film Festival Rotterdam 2013

The International Film Festival Rotterdam aims to offer a quality selection of worldwide independent, innovative and experimental cinema and visual arts. Devoted to offering a platform to and actively supporting independent filmmaking from around the globe, The International Film Festival Rotterdam is the essential hub for discovering film talent and for catching the early buzz… Read more »

Call for submissions: International Short Film Festival Oberhausen

The next edition of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen will take place from 2 to 7 May 2013. As in previous years, works of all genres and formats may be submitted. International productions must not exceed a length of 35 minutes, German productions may not exceed 45 minutes. Films must have been completed after… Read more »

Small Press Traffic: I’ll Drown My Book Collective

Join us for the Bay Area launch of the Les Figues Press anthology I’LL DROWN MY BOOK: CONCEPTUAL WRITING BY WOMEN edited by Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place. The book features work by sixty-four women from ten countries. Contributors responded to the question: What is conceptual writing? I’LL DROWN MY BOOK… Read more »

TALKIES 4

Hosted by George Chen.
Co-produced by Jesse Elias, Miles K & Anna Seregina

Call for submissions: Chicago Underground Film Festival 2013

The Chicago Underground Film Festival exists to showcase the defiantly independent filmmaker. CUFF’s mission is to promote films and videos that dissent radically in form, technique, or content from the “indie” mainstream and to present adventurous works that challenge and transcend commercial and audience expectations. Early Deadline: October 1, 2012 | Regular Deadline: November 15,… Read more »

Call for Submissions: Experiments in Cinema

Basement Films annual Experiments in Cinema film festival is now accepting submissions for Experiments in Cinema v8.53! Next year’s festival will occur April 15-22, 2013 in Albuquerque, NM. Postmarked deadline for submissions is December 15, 2012. Fill out the EIC v8.53 online entry form: http://experimentsincinema.com/

Contemporary Visual Music

“Visual music” is an umbrella term for all kinds of things: music with a colour organ or oscilloscope techniques, expanded cinema or animated films. This diversity has been further extended by developments in digital technology. However the common denominator for all of the different techniques and formats is an evenly balanced combination of visual and… Read more »

OpenScreening

 ATA’s openscreening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area. Get your work out there! Get feedback! Or just come and take it all in! One hour of shorts are accepted monthly on an open revolving basis, anything goes with the screened work, and the refreshments are pretty good too. $5, FREE admission for… Read more »

Call for submissions: San Francisco International Film Festival

The longest-running festival in the Americas, the San Francisco International Film Festival, recognized throughout the world for its eclectic, intelligent and adventurous programs and events, is accepting submissions to SFIFF56 (April 25- May 9, 2013). Works in all genres, forms and lengths are considered. Regular Deadline for submissions: Postmarked November 5, 2012 More information: http://sffs.org/Exhibition/SF-International-Film-Festival/Call-for-Entries.aspx

Job Opening: Gallery/Sales Director at NIAD Art Center

NIAD Art Center seeks a motivated, energetic, Gallery/Sales Director who will coordinate and implement our exhibition program. NIAD Art Center is the home for 65 artists and the Gallery/Sales Director is responsible for exhibiting, marketing and the selling the art that is produced here. The Gallery/Sales Director will develop the art gallery schedule; select artists… Read more »