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The Arts at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, a visual arts exhibition program, is planning a Spring 2012 program of experimental film and new media from the Middle East, North Africa, and their diasporas. Inspired by the Arab Spring and its potential for a radical redress of oppressive structures of power,… Read more »

ATA Announces Band Line-Up for December Fundraiser

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Artists’ Television Access announces the band line-up for its Sunday, December 11, 2011 fundraiser, The ATA Winter Beach Formal. Shannon & the Clams Buffalo Tooth Primitive Hearts Chen Santa Maria Puce Moment Cool Ghouls American Splits There will be a raffle with amazing prizes and limited edition tote bags designed by… Read more »

Artists’ Television Access announces 6th Annual Film & Video Festival program

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — The 6th Annual Artists’ Television Access Film & Video Festival celebrates original, independent and underground film & video with screenings, a filmmaker reception, a media installation and a hands-on workshop, October 19-23. On Wednesday, October 19, ATA will kick off the festival with a reception, open to the public. Stop by… Read more »

Tonight! Japanese Tsunami Relief hosted by Other Cinema at ATA!

OTHER CINEMA‘s Spring ’11 screening calendar is in fact extended into June with the extraordinary addition of a special program that responds to world crises during the term of our on-going series… Fujiyama in Red (after the1990 Kurosawa movie that foresaw the catastrophe) is a live A/V show that we’re staging to raise funds for Japanese Tsunami Relief…. Read more »

‘Drawing Crowds: A Night Out with the Hillbillies of Valencia Street’

5-YEAR RETROSPECTIVE OF ATA FESTIVAL TO SCREEN AT THE ROXIE THEATER

Artists’ Television Access celebrates the first five years of the ATA Annual Film & Video Festival with a retrospective screening at the Roxie, Playback: 2006-2010, April 19th, 2011. The program includes works by Tommy Becker, Ariel Diaz, Paul Clipson, Zachary Epcar, Sam Barnett, Jibz Cameron & Hedia Maron, John Palmer, Rachel Manera, Carl Diehl, Martha… Read more »

Call for Entries: 6th Annual ATA Film & Video Festival

Artists’ Television Access invites experimental film and video makers to submit their work to its 6th Annual ATA Film and Video Festival. Works including but not limited to, animation, documentary, narrative, abstract and found footage based will be accepted. Also, this year we are open for proposals for workshops, installations and media performances. The ATA… Read more »

Cut and Run’s 2011 Experimental European Tour – Call for Submissions – Call for Venue Proposals

“Cut and Run began in early 2009 in San Francisco as a single screening event at Artists’ Television Access. It has since evolved into an annual traveling film festival featuring experimental and avant-garde cinema, both contemporary and past works. “C + R celebrates works that deviate from mainstream and traditional cinema and opt towards authentic,… Read more »

ATA Film & Video Festival: Lightstruck Workshop Film!

Check-out this film created in Kerry Laitala’s Lightstruck workshop. The workshop was part of the 5th Annual ATA Film & Video Festival! The film was made by exposing 16mm, B&W film stock by hand. “Cinegrams” were created by placing objects and material directly onto the film and casting their shadows upon the film with light…. Read more »

Selected Shorts from 2009 ATA Festival to screen in Hong Kong

A program of short works from the 4th Annual ATA Film & Video Festival is going to be part of the 14th edition of the Microwave International Media Arts Festival in Hong Kong. The screening will take place at the Lecture Hall of the Hong Kong Space Museum on December 12, 2010. As the first… Read more »

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: INCITE! Journal of Experimental Media & Radical Aesthetics

INCITE! is calling for submissions for its issue #3: NEW AGES Utilizing the 2010 International Experimental Media Congress as an opportunity for reflection, this issue aims at addressing the generational shifts and divides in today’s experimental film, video, and new media sphere. Submission Deadline: December 15, 2010 More info at http://www.incite-online.net/callforsubmissions_issue3.html

Call for Entries: Experiments in Cinema V6.3

Experiments in Cinema V6.3 (a Basement Films production in collaboration with UNM’s Department of Cinematic Arts) is currently seeking submissions for the 6th annual celebration of international, cinematic experimentation. This year’s festival will take place in Albuquerque April 13-17, 2011. They encourage all moving image artists creating unembedded, undependent, underground, experimental, personal, and wildly imaginative… Read more »

Interviews with ATA Festival Filmmakers

Liz Wing of ATA talked recently to the festival filmmakers about their work. You can read the interviews before or after you see it at the festival! Paul Clipson – Union Sam Barnett – Reduction Bill Brown -Chicago Corner Patricia McInroy – Found: Nothing Missing Vera Brunner-Sung – Untitled (Perlman Pl.) Karl Lind – Disconnected… Read more »

ATA announces 5th Annual Film & Video Festival program

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — The 5th Annual Artists’ Television Access Film & Video Festival celebrates original, independent and underground film & video with screenings, installations and workshops, October 19th – 23rd. Thursday, October 21, ATA will screen the first of two shorts programs. Titled “Human Nature,” the program explores the relationship between our natural environment… Read more »

SELECTION festival: Call for entries is now open!

“If your film has never been picked by any festival, it’s a perfect fit for SELECTION festival”. On September 13, @ 21:00, CINE FANTOM is starting a new stage of SELECTION festival. Now at VINZAVOD, every Monday! SELECTION festival is a unique experiment if the Russia-based CINE FANTOM club, which has no analogues in the… Read more »

ATA wins Best of the Bay 2010!

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Call for Entries: 5th Annual ATA Film & Video Festival

Artists’ Television Access is accepting submissions for its 5th Annual ATA Film and Video Festival. We are looking for experimental film and video, including but not limited to, animation, documentary, narrative, abstract and found footage. The ATA Film and Video Festival is committed to showcasing short films and videos that use an unconventional stylistic and… Read more »

MadCat Women’s International Film Festival : Divided Spaces

Divided Spaces  This program looks at how individuals understand physical boundaries, public space and the power of words. Matte Box Fun Mavis Navin 19823:10 min b/w Super-8 US Navin reveals all the many ways to break up a film frame with her matte box set. Moose Mountain Mary Beth Reed 2002 5 min b/w 16mm US Reed takes the viewer on… Read more »