Artists' Television Access

This Month at ATA

Artists' Television Access
Weekly Newsletter

Coming Up This Month

Saturday, March 14, 2026, 8:00 pm, classic-editor

OC: LIVING CURIOSITIES!

A KINGDOM OF NOT RETROSPECTIVE

Kingdom of Not  – largely the creation of absurdist writer/performer Dan Carbone and surrealist cartoonist/one-man band Andrew Goldfarb – present their very own Cabinet of Film/Video Curiosities, with works by The Residents, Mike Kuchar, The Slow Poisoner, Bulk Foodveyer, and Dan Carbone. Featured is the world premiere of Dan‘s 1978 Super 8 Sound encounter with Andy Kaufman, backstage at CBS! KoN will perform live! Live Jazz piano stylings by Nick Culp, and special appearances by Baby Ding-Dong and OOK. Registered medical personnel will be on duty. The only exhibition of its type in North America! $14

Saturday, March 21, 2026, 8:00 pm, classic-editor

OC: MASTERS OF ILLUSION

CARL DIEHL: PAINLESS MAGIC + STAGE MAGICAN NGUYEN +

In person, Carl Diehl’s kaleidoscopic account of creativity, camaraderie, and curiosity begins with the life and times of the late, great magician, vaudevillian, & comedy emcee, Werner “Dorny” Dornfield (1892 -1982), then splinters prismatically into a mosaic of riddles and revelations about artist-led initiatives elsewhen & elsewhere! This experimental ethnography of magic shimmers with ephemera from the Golden Age of stage magic and beyond, and intrigues with insights from magicians, historians, philosophers, and Dorny‘s oldest surviving relatives. Interviews with musicians, performance artists, and experimental filmmakers conjure connections across contexts of art, magic, and everyday life. PLUS, on our stage!..Thee Amazing Michael Nguyen—SF’s master of prestidigitation, here to astonish all using sleight of hand and humor!! $12

Wednesday, March 25, 2026, 6:30 pm, classic-editor

Unnamed Footage Festival

It’s time to kickstart another Unnamed Footage Festival and we’re diving in with a special screening of an “EARLY CUT” of INVOKING SCREAM by Patricio Valladares (Invoking Yell).

After uncovering a buried box containing a VHS tape and a mysterious book of witchcraft at the gravesite of Invoking Yell lead singer Andrea Fernandez, a trio of metalheads unwittingly unleash a dark force. What begins as a documentary about Andrea’s disappearance and the 1998 murders of her ill-fated bandmates quickly spirals into a waking nightmare-where the past doesn’t just haunt those connected to it… it demands a sacrifice.

Followed by an opportunity to catch SHUDDER ORIGINAL, BODYCAM by Brandon Christensen in a theatre!

When two police officers show up to investigate a domestic dispute, there is an accidental shooting. Not wanting to be crucified by the public, the officers attempt to cover it up – only to uncover that the cameras aren’t the only things watching them.

Playing with A GOOD DAY TO DIE – A government produced film outlining the steps to be taken in the event of cosmic catastrophe.

It wouldn’t be a recalibration party if we didn’t look back on the year that was 60 seconds at a time. As we show our 2025 retrospective Power Hour: “Reverse the Curse”, edited by Thomas Burke – while enjoy drinks from our sponsor: Lime Ventures

Monday, March 30, 2026, 7:30 pm, classic-editor

Rewards Program

A three-projector celluloid meditation live-scored by improvisational trio Rewards Program.
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.

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.

CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA: Join ATA as a member and receive exciting gifts, including the 2008 DVD compilation, T-shirts, and free admission to screenings and more! Artists on the 2008 DVD compilation include: Yin-Ju Chen, Mike Rollo, Marthaxiv, Sam Manera, Wago Kreider, Federico Campanale, Paul Clipson and Carl Diehl. http://www.atasite.org/membership/

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.