» More images A Vladmaster performance is a simultaneous ViewMaster experience. Everyone in the audience is given a ViewMaster viewer and a set of Vladmaster disks. A soundtrack of narration, music, sound effects, and ding noises to cue the change from image to image then leads the audience through the story. The glorious ker-thunk of… Read more »
Death by Tealight III is the third in a series of video screenings curated by Catherine Czacki, Claudia Mendoza, and Maggie Foster. The Death by Tealight series is geared towards experimental, conceptual short videos. The screening will begin at 9pm, doors at 8. Music before and after screening, by Eric Renehan Jones. Artists include: Minna… Read more »
See fresh perspectives and formula shattering techniques in film and video art from the Bay Area and beyond! One hour of shorts are accepted monthly on an open revolving basis, and the refreshments are darn good. $3, FREE admission for exhibitors. Door, Bar:7:30pm, Projector: 8pm SUBMISSIONS: * CUE and LABEL all tapes w/ name, contact,… Read more »
» More images A project of Ricardo “Chongo” Carpenter to provide a momentery relief from an uncertain future…a place where you can stop reading the headlines and walk away with a smile on your face…knowing that, yes, the children ARE the future…we are the world… 1) “Radio Rockers” Directed by Ricardo Carpenter -A story about an… Read more »
» More images Lost in the Wash begins with two strangers who meet in a laundromat. They do not know anything about the other, yet they are inexplicably drawn together. Their names are Lucy and Thomas, and they have one thing in common. Neither of them has anywhere else to go. This is the premise of a film… Read more »
OIL… It’s in our clothes, our laundry detergent, our toothpaste, cosmetics, furniture, contact lenses and office supplies. It’s in our telephones, CDs, tennis rackets, painkillers and plastic. Oil doesn’t just fuel our cars – it fuels modern life. Continuing instability in the Middle East means a shaky future for the steady flow of oil on… Read more »
Featuring underground screening of a classic overdubbed film. Intermission pee break w/ new videos featuring Chloe Sevigny w/ an eye patch, psych Monsters feedback, and Wil Oldham getting bloody and teary-eyed. Live performances by Tokion mag’s current King of Art, Mike Pare’s band, The Joints (NY) and Sorcery Bird- SF’s new hot noisadellic band. Please bring… Read more »
» More images BARR: (from vice mag) BARR is this kid Brendan Fowler from Baltimore via New York, but he lives in Los Angeles, which is where he belongs. Not because LA is full of bronzed robots who won’t hug you unless you make at least $300K a minute, but because LA is always sunny… Read more »
The year is 1966, the place, Oakland, California. The Blacks living in the ghettos are tired of being harrased by the police. They react by forming a group called The Black Panther Party of Self-Defense. The Panthers introduced a number of social programmes to the ghettos, propogated for electoral participation and in-structed in law and… Read more »
StreetLevel TV: Episode 16 Still haven’t seen StreetLevel TV yet? Now is your sweet 16th chance, don’t miss it! This month, StreetLevel TV brings you a cool breeze of independent news and information in these sweltering days of August. Okay, it’s the Bay Area and its rather chilly in August. But, these segments will… Read more »
» More images San Francisco native Bryan Boyce is a film and video artist whose work has been shown at venues around the world, including the Rotterdam Internatonal Film Festival, NY Expo of Short Film and Video, NY Underground, Chicago Underground, Cinematexas, RESFest and the Pacific Film Archive. Tonight’s program will include: State of the… Read more »
» More images A collection of uncanny video shorts from around the globe. Program: Run Yourself For President, 2004, USA, 3.20 minutes, DVDA pro bono public performance by local Bayarea artists Lowell Darlingin Berlin, Germany. Videoworks by Mladen Stropmik, Slovenia, MPEGThrough several short pieces a glimpse of everyday absurdity unfolds.Including one music video. B2 (16 sec), f3… Read more »
ATA and Super 8 Militia will co-present an evening of super 8 films in connection with Bayennal 2005. works by: Mike Missiaen, Kent Howie, Kim Miskowics, Eric Ostrowski, Rebecca A. Devlin, and many others for info and submission contact [email protected] The Super 8 Militia is an organization for those urban guerrilla filmmakers of the Bay Area looking to… Read more »