January 28, 2005 – 8:00 pm
Join us for an evening of independent animated shorts sounding off on the themes oflove, politics, and the intersection between the two. This collection of eclectic,amusing, thought-provoking and deeply personal works will make you laugh (andpossibly cry too). Filmmakers will be in attendance to present their work. Areception will immediately follow the screening. Featured artists… Read more »
January 20, 2005 – 8:00 pm
Prepare for another four years with a nostalgic romp through the Nixon era with camp stars from East and West. Come to our AntiAuguration Special Program of films by SF’s own original drag collective The Cockettes and NY’s underground master performance artist Jack Smith. The Cockettes’ “Tricia’s Wedding” 33 min. 1971, 16mm color/sound “The world-famous… Read more »
January 19, 2005 – 8:00 pm
January 16, 2005 – 8:00 pm
Mojados is an eye-opening documentary filmed over the course of ten days that follows four men into the desperate world of illegal immigration. Alongside Bear, Tiger, Handsome, and Old Man, director Tommy Davis takes a 120 mile cross-desert journey that has been traveled innumerable times by nameless immigrants who ? like these four young migrants from… Read more »
January 16, 2005 – 5:00 pm
REPATRIATION, winner of the Freedom of Expression Award at the 2004Sundance Film Festival, documents the lives of North Korean spies who werecaptured and imprisoned in the South for 30 to 40 years. Upon theirrelease, the prisoners had no place to call home, and many moved intoDirector Kim Dong-won’s neighborhood. A deep bond formed between some… Read more »
January 15, 2005 – 8:00 pm
Launched in 1975, Operation Condor united half a dozen Latin Americandictatorships with a singular cause: to stamp out the threat of leftistpolitical opposition by any means possible, often by torture andassassination. In the name of “the struggle against terrorism,” Condorconducted a secret war on South American dissidents for more than a decade? a war its… Read more »
January 15, 2005 – 6:00 pm
A stark portrait of a woman on death row. This is a documentary about thefirst black woman to be put to death in the United States in the modernera. The film tells her story and follows her through her final months ondeath row.
January 15, 2005 – 4:00 pm
THE LETTER explores what American news outlets have dubbed the “Somali invasion” of Lewiston, Maine, an insulated, predominately white former mill town struggling to maintain its equilibrium in a rapidly changing economy. Filmmaker Ziad H. Hamzeh probes the reactions of city officials and citizens to the sudden influx of 1,100 former Somali refugees who,… Read more »
January 6, 2005 – 7:00 pm
The Super-8 Club was started by volunteers at ATA to create a home for Super-8 filmmaking in the Bay Area. Meetings will be held on the first Tuesday of the month at 7:30 PM. The Super 8 Club invites filmmakers to experiment with and present new ways of working with a film medium that is… Read more »