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This Month at ATA

Artists' Television Access
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Monday, October 27, 2025, 7:00 pm, classic-editor

Rewards Program

A three-projector celluloid meditation live-scored by improvisational trio Rewards Program, on the passage through the veil and 20th century terrors.

MILES LASSI is an interdisciplinary artist based out of Oakland, CA. As a musician, he has performed in over 150 cities throughout North America, Europe and Asia with many different ensembles ranging from the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall to national broadway tours like Ain’t Too Proud, Dirty Dancing, and Tina: The Tina Turner Musical. Miles is dedicated to creating new media and has done so at the New York Film Festival, Lincoln Center, Apollo Theater, deYoung Museum, Joyce Theater, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, A.C.T., SXSW and Snap Studios/KQED.
SKYWAY MAN is the alias of keyboardist, songwriter, and producer James Wallace. Based in Oakland via Richmond, VA, and Nashville, TN, he has released seven albums and composed music for Film/TV, including Joe Pera Talks With You (HBO). Over the past 15 years, he has toured extensively across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, performing at festivals like Bonnaroo, Pickathon, SXSW, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, and Wilco’s Solid Sound. He has collaborated with Abigail Washburn, Langhorne Slim, Erin Rae, and Maya Hawke, among others. Brittany Howard once named his band a favorite local act in Rolling Stone, and his work has been featured in NPR, The Wall Street Journal, and Stereogum. He’s produced 20 full-length albums for other artists, including Bay Area musicians Mikayla McVey, Milk for the Angry, and Pancho Morris. Over the past few years he’s developed a practice of live instrumental film scoring using keyboards and sequencers.
ZEKARIAS MUSELE THOMPSON (b. 1983, they/them/their) is an artist based in Oakland, CA, and Reykjavik, IS often working in sonic composition, mark-making, photography, collaborative group practice & performance, and writing. Their practice is concerned with humanity’s conceptual and emotional organizational structures—and how we bring them into material form. Zekarias has presented solo exhibitions and projects at the Museum of the African Diaspora, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, The Lab, Gray Area, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, and the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies. Zekarias is a co-founder of Working Name Studios, a collectively owned and organized arts institution with the mission of building institutional stability and equity for underrepresented creative practices, ideas, and people. They were part of the Emerging Artist Program at the MoAD for 2024, and are currently an MFA candidate in the Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley.
ELLIE VANDERLIP is a San Francisco-based experimental filmmaker, performer, and educator. She received her MFA in Cinema from San Francisco State University in 2022. She is a co-director at Oakland’s Shapeshifters Cinema, on the board of directors at San Francisco’s Cinematheque, and maintains a studio at Artists’ Television Access. She has hosted filmmaking workshops with the Exploratorium, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the University of San Francisco, and lectures at St. Mary’s College and San Francisco State University. Her primary focuses are found footage experimental documentary, material cinema, and expanded cinema performance. Her work has screened nationally and internationally, including at San Francisco DocFest and Belgrade’s Kinoscope Festival, and has upcoming writings about alternative archives in Found Footage Magazine.

 

Wednesday, October 29, 2025, 6:30 pm, classic-editor, {{unknown}}

CINE+MAS: The Most Beautiful Deaths in the World

https://cinemas17.eventive.org/schedule/the-most-beautiful-deaths-in-the-world-68d4ead113b8fde6b62c954a

Don’t miss this poignant feature-length documentary, “Las Muertes Más Bellas del Mundo” (The Most Beautiful Deaths in the World). Directors Quique Aviles and Ellie Walton follow the journey of five artists whose families fled El Salvador’s brutal civil war in the 1980s. The film is an intimate look at how these Salvadoran-Wachintonian artists—including a poet, a dancer, and musicians—have transformed generational trauma into beautiful, powerful art. This is a story of healing, identity, and the enduring power of community.

Thursday, October 30, 2025, 6:30 pm, classic-editor, {{unknown}}

CINE+MAS: Own Hand

https://cinemas17.eventive.org/schedule/own-hand-68da67dcf73c82176c5b666c

The festival delivers a jolt of pure drama with the feature film “Own Hand” from Bolivia. Based on a terrifying real event from 2013, this tense narrative interweaves three desperate perspectives: a prosecutor racing to prevent the lynching of five unjustly accused young people, the father trying to save his sons from a mob, and one of the victims fighting for his life. It’s a powerful, relentless story about injustice and survival.

Friday, October 31, 2025, 7:15 pm, classic-editor, {{unknown}}

CINE+MAS: Darker Side of Life Shorts

https://cinemas17.eventive.org/schedule/darker-side-of-life-shorts-68d4f73514cd99cbf39dbc4d

Close out the month with a terrifying lineup perfect for Halloween night! “Darker Side of Life Shorts” offers bite-sized doses of suspense, fantasy, and horror that will leave you wondering how the filmmakers even conceived of these stories. The program features films like Mexico’s “Blind Spots,” an accidental injury during a golf lesson that leads to a horrifying consequence, and the unsettling Brazilian fantasy “Gira,” where a Black policeman’s encounter with a mysterious wanderer brings a touch of magic to Rio’s “Little Africa” zone. Plus, stick around for a Q&A with some of the talented filmmakers!

About Artists' Television Access

Artists' Television Access is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) artist-run screening venue and gallery located in the heart of San Francisco's Mission District. ATA is supported in part by Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, The Christensen Fund, individuals members, donors and volunteers.

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How to Reach Us:
Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia Street (at 21st)
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 824-3890
ata@atasite.org

Gallery is open before and after screenings for viewing.
Screenings start at 8pm unless otherwise noted.

Directions: Take Bart to 24th Street Mission. Walk 1 block east to Valencia and 3 blocks north. ATA is located between 21st and 20th Streets.