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Archive for 2006

Jam and Jive

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Performance by: Ezee Tiger  http://www.myspace.com/ezeetiger Reagan’s Memory  http://www.springsteenrocks.com/reagans.htm

Wonder Show

Wonder Show Promo

Artists’ Television Access celebrates the cultural fringe in Wonder Show, an alchemical maelstrom of sound and vision. Wonder Show will feature a diabolic spectacle of moving image and sound filling every corner of our premises, with a kaleidoscopic grab bag of punk rock visions from videolusionist Dayv Jones along with electroconvulsive audio by Josh “Kit”… Read more »

Goal Dreams

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GOAL DREAMS is a new documentary feature focusing on national and personal identity as experienced by a sports team like none before. How can a team without a recognized homeland, no permanent domestic league, no place to train and with players and coaches scattered around the globe compete in the world of modern football? Founded… Read more »

CELLULOID SKETCHES & WATERCOLOR MOVIES

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» More images “A screening of experimental super 8mm films and music illuminating the results of an ongoing collaboration between local filmmaker/artist Paul Clipson and Bay Area band Tarentel. Stream of conciousness, in-camera editing, dissolves and superimpositions of nature, urban landscapes andunknown spaces vast and small, collide with Tarentel’s improvised sound collages of instruments, rhythms… Read more »

Initials: videos by Matthew Hughes Boyko

View Trailer Here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFKuDrWB54g) With the popularity of video blogging and websites like Youtube, Blogspot and Myspace we are seeing a new aesthetic in video. How does this amateur video affect our visual culture and fine art? Matthew Hughes Boyko has created a collection of work by appropriating Youtube videos and creating original videos inspired… Read more »

LUZ ALIBI*DYEMARK*TARPITA FLEISCH

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luz alibi Luz Alibi earned a silver trophy in the 1986 rowboat competition, despite being docked points for jumping out of the watercraft to push. She has since gone on to pursue other interests, among them a love of trumpet and cheese. She currently performs with Le Flange du Mal, Diatric Puds, Rutro and the… Read more »

CITY OF PHOTOS BENEFIT SCREENING FOR ASHA FOR EDUCATION

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City Of Photos » More images A rare Bay Area screening of City of Photos by Nishtha Jain. This exploration of the ethos of neighborhood photo studios in Indian cities reveals entire imaginary worlds in the smallest of spaces. Tiny, shabby studios that appear stuck in time turn out to be places throbbing with energy…. Read more »

Halloween Party

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Come out to ATA on Halloween night! We’re opening our doors and inviting you in for punch, cookies, music, dancing, and non-stop horror video mash-ups on the big screen. Wear a costume to be in our costume contest!

Godhead

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Godhead is the story of Zero and Magus, boyhood friends who now as young men, find access to another dimension through a small glass sphere called a dragon tear.  Taking turns “through the tear” they encounter a beguiling woman named Eave.  One at a time, over and over again, they transport themselves, involving themselves deeper… Read more »

OUT2

OUT2

 The Free Form Film Festival returns to its home-base of San Francisco for an intimate one-night-only screening of OUT. This second installment in the FFFF’s “outsider” series focuses on the most kitsch-friendly of all outsider art motifs: the holidays. The spirit of Thanksgiving, Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, and New Years Eve all find their way into… Read more »

JULY ’64: A.N.S.W.E.R. Film Series

The night of Friday, July 24, 1964 started off normally enough in Rochester, New York, but by the next morning no one would look at race relations in the North the same again. July ‘64 takes a penetrating look at the underlying causes of the urban insurrections that swept through Black communities like wildfires that… Read more »

JULY ’64

July 64

   The night of Friday, July 24, 1964 started off normally enough in Rochester, New York, but by the next morning no one would look at race relations in the North the same again. July ‘64 takes a penetrating look at the underlying causes of the urban insurrections that swept through Black communities like wildfires… Read more »

THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC

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Trash Fish Entertainment and Artists Television Access are proud to present THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC with a beautiful new score for solo guitar, performed live by LESTER “TOMBSTONE” RAWW of THE PINE BOX BOYS and THE ZAG MEN.  Presumed lost for fifty years – until a second-generation print was discovered in a storeroom… Read more »

The Man Who Laughs

TRASH FISH ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION is once again proud to present Paul Leni’s 1928 almost-a-masterpiece “The Man Who Laughs,” accompanied by a new score performed live by TFEC recording artists The Zag Men. Starring Conrad Veidt (the somnambulist from CALIGARI), the whey-faced Mary Philbin, and the uncanny Madonna impersonator Olga Baclanova, THE MAN WHO LAUGHS updates… Read more »

MadCat window installation constructed by Rebecca McBride and Gracie Bucciarelli

Featuring films and videos by Amy Hicks, Jadwiga Kowalska, Pavitra Wickramasinghe, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Samantha Krukowski, Vonda Yarberry, Anita Bacic and Natalie Woodlock, Fabienne Gautier, Liselotte Wajstedt, Anabela Costa, Paulina Velazquez Solis, Meredith Root and Cecilia Lunqvist. More information, titles and running times of each piece can be found on the MadCat website

The Sword and Sandals – Reagan´s Memory – Fkenal (from San Diego)

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» More images Free Jazz, Destructive Rock and mass caos at the ATA – The Sword and Sandals The “sword and sandal” film genre usually refers to a low-budget Italian movie on a gladiatorial or mythological subject; for the genre occupied much of the less pretentious segment of Italy’s movie industry before the invention of… Read more »

Surveillance Times

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Renegade independent radio stations keep activism alive by stealing from the omnipresent corporate airwaves. Phone conversations are overheard and surreptitiously recorded. Ubiquitous video cameras capture a steady stream of unguarded moments. These innovative documentaries reveal the power of modern surveillance technologies, the incumbent whittling away of civil liberties and the upending of notions of privacy…. Read more »

OpenScreening

Open Screening

See fresh perspectives and formula shattering techniques in film, video and music 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. $4, FREE admission for exhibitors. Door, 7:30pm, Projector: 8pm SUBMISSIONS: * CUE and LABEL all tapes w/ name,… Read more »

Rural Women: Finding Independence

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These unique documentaries depict women with entirely different approaches to gaining independence. In a water deprived Iranian village, Atefeh stands alone defending her fields from Mother Nature’s arid whims. Unafraid of hard work and tough negotiations, Atefeh stands her ground, a lone woman, to save her livelihood. In The Angelmakers, several women in a small… Read more »

unpiano and burgerworld present Point Break

Point Break

» More images In the coastal town of Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers call themselves the ex-presidents. commit their crimes while wearing masks of ex-presidents Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. The F.B.I. believes that the members of the gang could be surfers and send young agent Johnny Utah undercover at the beach to… Read more »

Fidel

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Fidel, an award-winning documentary by Cuban-American journalist, Estella Bravo, is a portrait of the Cuban leader. The film spans a period of 40 years of Castro’s rule from his early childhood and college days to his Presidency of Cuba and includes interviews with Harry Belafonte, Nelson Mandela, Alice Walker, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Sydney Pollock, and others…. Read more »

BOYFRIENDROBOTIQUE

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BoyfriendRobotique IS the cutting edge. They are a troupe of five, comprised of gay straight and trans performers who put on a show fusing vaudeville and DaDa. For inspiration they draw on the Surrealists, the Cockettes, Jean Genet and the Spice Girls; performing a full on collision of the most beautiful and the most mundane…. Read more »

…And Now- INTRODUCING- BOLLYWOOD!!!

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Know about the many faces of the Indian Film Industry. Learn about the many cinemas within Indian cinema as we go down the decades, (from Indian Independence till now).  How the Indian films have reflected the social and political moods of its people and look at and beyond the dance and drama that constitutes the… Read more »

Open Screening

  See fresh perspectives and formula shattering techniques in film, video and music art from theBay Area and beyond! One hour of shorts are accepted monthly on an open revolving basis, and the refreshments are darn good. $4, FREE admission for exhibitors. Door, 7:30pm, Projector: 8pm SUBMISSIONS: * CUE and LABEL all tapes w/ name,… Read more »

PIRATE CAT RADIO presents:

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Join Pirate Cat Radio – celebrating 10 years as a flagship Bay Area pirate FM/Internet station – for a night of rare music videos, a documentary of a legendary early 80’s downtown NYC cable access show, and live music by a surprise guest, mystery acoustic band TBA. Hosted and programmed by PCR deejays. A portion… Read more »

Tenebre

Tenebre

 Taking their cues from Chicago post-rock and jazz-influenced instrumental groups such as Don Caballero and 33.3, Tenebre accompanies impressive instrumentation with a focus on tasteful, clean tones. On record, their material drifts between sweeping orchestral arrangements and static, arhythmic chords, touching upon the the swelling guitar wash of Dirty Three. Tenebre’s live show, however, is an… Read more »

SomA

With difficulty walking, and half-blinded from torture by the Brazilian military dictatorship, 79 year-old Roberto Freire continues to develop somatherapy, completing his life’s work. Incorporating the ideas of Wilhelm Reich, the politics of anarchism, and the culture of capoeira angola, Soma is used by therapists organized in anarchist collectives to fight the psychological effects of… Read more »

Retrospective for Squidhead

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Mike Missiaen has been making films for seven years. In this show he gathers together six of his best works. Using super 8 and digital video Mike makes works both comedic and meditative. His pieces are linked by a visual style that elevates the mundane and evocative soundtracks featuring local musicians. The Lineup: Tsukiji (Tokyo… Read more »

Rhythm from Wreckage!

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Frame leveled and dada-mined, new media technologies are turned on their head.  On the flipside emerge marvels of sensory fusion, creative sabotage, and kinetic splendor.  The latest installment of this quasi-irregular series brings new vidsonic constellations from the likes of: Sue Costabile, Wago Krieder, Joey Bargsten, Carl Diehl, and Mack Mcfarland. Plus! Lo-fi psychedelia and collateral… Read more »

A Wilderness in Your Heart

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      A first feature by Robin Dunn. A unique stylistic blend of Before Sunrise, My Dinner with Andre and Lost Highway. Robin Dunn’s feature explores the light and dark sides of passionate love, eros, thantos and  love of a good conversation. When you’re in love there’s nothing like those long spinning intimate dialogues that stretch… Read more »

On The Edge: The Femicide in Ciudad Juárez

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On The Edge is a documentary covering the brutal murders of hundreds of poor young women in the border town of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico,murders that have been repeatedly ignored and unresolved by police and governments since 1993, despite the continued and persistent efforts of family members and activists to obtain justice for the victims. Rather… Read more »

DAUGHTERS OF EVEREST

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Daughters of Everest brings a unique flavor to a familiar story: the attempt to climb Mount Everest. In 2000, the first-ever expedition of Sherpa women to climb Everest was organized. This captivating documentary gives a close-up account of the expedition. Although the Sherpa people are legendary for their unmatched skill in mountaineering, Sherpa women are… Read more »

SUBLIME FREQUENCIES presents an Asian documentary double feature:

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» More images   PHI TA KHON: Ghosts of Isan(A Film by Robert Millis/Color/75 minutes) Masks and outfits made of rice steamers, shredded rags and clanging bells transform participants of Thailand’s PHI TA KHON festival into ghosts, devils, demons, and spirits unleashed for a bacchanal.  Outrageous wooden phalluses and plenty of rice whiskey heighten licentious… Read more »

Death by Tealight VI

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In the Hall of the Mountain Gods, by Catherine Czacki » More images This is to be the final installment of Death by Tealight. THE END OF AN ERA CLOSES (unless perhaps DBT is brought back from beyond the grave). Death by Tealight has made it to its sixth incarnation, with a vast variety of… Read more »

The Connie and Bonnie Show and Friends

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Baltimore musicians and art scene instigators Rahne Alexander and Kristen Anchor are the queer/tranny pop duo The Connie and Bonnie Show. (Rahne, voice, guitar; Kristen, drums). Anchor and Alexander perform funny rockabilly influenced pop songs preceded by a short curated video set including their work and other short underground/experimental videos, this tour, Films About Nothing…. Read more »

Silver Summer: works from Lasso collective

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» More images LASSO is an art collective consisting of six members:  Brendan Nakahara, Dave Singley, Jessie Wright-Jackson, Paul Wingert, Perry Lubin, and Gabe Castellanos. LASSO is a structure in which the individual and collaborative creative pursuits of six friends reside.  LASSO is loose, that’s how they like it.  They draw, paint, take photos, screenprint, make… Read more »

LIVE PLAY

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Guest Curated by Matt Davignon (Found Objects Festival, Sound/Shift)Video by Sarah Lockhart (21 Grand)Myrmyr (Laptop/violin/cello duo of Marielle Jakobsons & Agnes Szelag)Luz Alibi/Mr. Maurader (trumpet/electronics duo)Quartet (Moe! Staiano/Percussion, Kanoko Nishi/Koto, Lance Grabmiller/Laptop, Matt Davignon/Turntable) Project>Soundwave proudly presents the first show of the Soundwave>Series 2nd Season. “LIVE PLAY” is a different sort of audio-visual feast. Guest… Read more »

SCOTT ARFORD – T/R – SKULLCASTER

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» More images SCOTT ARFORD Scott Arford has long been one of the leading figures of new media arts in the San Francisco Bay Area. His works include sound and visual performances, multichannel sound and video installations, and low-frequency spatial-acoustic explorations. He was awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2005 Prix Ars Electronica. In 1995… Read more »

Memoria del Saqueo (Social Genocide)

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“The government must resign! Kick them out!” In December 2001, Argentina was in a state of siege—thousands of people filled the streets banging on pots and pans, protesting decades of corrupt leadership that resulted in devastating economic ruin. Director Fernando Solanas opens with this astounding scene and, in ten incisive chapters, shows how the Argentine… Read more »

Romance, Mystery and Death

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This collection of videos somehow came together by itself rather than being a result of a pre-defined concept. They all somehow happen to explore certain heavily romantic moods and subjects. Nostagia, melancholy, romance, mystery and death. Their tempo is slow, but hypnotizing. The artists’ choice of subject is not restricted to local themes, they choose… Read more »

THE GREATER CIRCULATION

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» More images In late 1908 Czech poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote his “Requiem For a Friend”over two fevered nights at the Hotel Biron in Paris. A hundred years later a paratheatre group in Berkeley California prepares to stage his “Requiem”as a performance ritual.  Time dissolves as impressions of the contemporary era begin haunting Rilke’s… Read more »

Daniel Hintz/Oscillating Innards/Xome

ATA presents an evening of blistering yet lovely BrutalSFX noise with a solo set of noise guitar from Leavenworth’s Daniel Hintz. Also appearing are acclaimed noise artists Oscillating Innards and Xome. Daniel Hintz (a.k.a. Cactus), is a writer, guitarist, and radio d.j., based in San Francisco. Hintz, was born November 2, 1964, in San Francisco…. Read more »

NINE SHORT FILMS BY TONY GAULT

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  Utilizing evocative color saturation and image mutation, Gault’s optically printed films reveal psychosomatic illnesses of American culture. Including : PICTURE #4 (’93, 6m) “a wry appropriation from his psychotherapist’s Thematic Apperception Test”-Village Voice.HOUSESITTING (’99, 16m), whose “drift of images pulls the viewer along at a phantomlike remove from personal and cultural connection”-L.A. Weekly. NOT TOO MUCH… Read more »

Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky

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Ricky “In the not too distant future of 2001… In the not too distant past of 2001, Ricki-Oh (or also known as Ricky-Ho for some reason in the English dubbing) is sent to prison after he murders the drug dealers who killed his girlfriend (well, technically she killed herself). Ricki, a fairly nice guy when… Read more »

Voces Inocentes (Innocent Voices)

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More than 300,000 children presently serve in armies in over 40 countries Based on the true story of screenwriter Oscar Torres’s embattled childhood, Luis Mandoki’s Innocent Voices is the poignant tale of Chava (Carlos Padilla), an eleven-year-old boy who suddenly becomes the “man of the house” after his father abandons the family in the middle… Read more »

long notes for spring

The Dial

The DialThe Dial is a duo from North Adams, Massachusetts, comprised of multi-instrumentalist Anne Doerner, and composer and sound artist Ven Voisey.  A mix of acoustic instrumentation (violin, accordion, xylophone, guitar…), field recordings, and electronic textures make up their intricately carved sonic structures. http://www.v—v.net Jefre Cantu-Ledesma with film by Paul ClipsonCantu-Ledesma, a local experimental musician… Read more »

Mental Rev Productions presents:

Tazers and Lies

» More images Program: Tazers and Lies:  The truth about military recruitment lies somewhere between tazers and lies.  (Official entry 2006 Athens International Film Festival).    http://media.indypgh.org/uploads/2005/08/taser1_edit.mov Divine Persecution: who has the power to oppress LGBT people�hate spouting homo-phobes or Ohio voters.  (Official entry 2006 Minneapolis International Film Festival)       Voices From the Movement: A documentary from… Read more »

Jaded Consumer Looking for Something More

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A fucked up urban fairytale about the quest for horny unicorny. Featuring music by Glass Candy, Hey Willpower, Gravy Train!!!!, autonervous, Extra Action Marching Band, Veronica Lipgloss, New Collapse, and more — soundtrack coming out soon on Cochon Records (www.cochonrecords.com). 8:30p and 10:00p screenings

Silent Voices (Voces sin Libertad)

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25 Basque men and women bravely express their condition as victims of the situation in the Basque Country, the nationalist power, the lack of freedom, insolidarity, the equidistance, the fear. Keys to understand the cruel reality of what has been going on for more than 30 years in the Basque Country. The silent voices of… Read more »

ReCalibrate: Michelle Dizon’s Video Works

Experimental video artist Michelle Dizon comes to San Francisco Cinematheque from Los Angeles for her first solo screening.  Working with home movies shot in California and the Philippines, low-end video, numerous found images from the web and other films, and carefully culled and original texts, Dizon articulates a compelling political and aesthetic vision that constantly… Read more »

Taliban Country

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In May/June 2004, Walkley-award winning investigative reporter Carmela Baranowska was embedded with U.S. Marines in one of the most dangerous and remote parts of Afghanistan, beyond the reach of UN and aid agencies. Frustrated by the limitations imposed on what she could report, Baranowska decided to travel back to Oruzgon Province independently of the U.S…. Read more »

Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley

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Feature documentary explores Jeff’s legendary music and its enduring impact, paying tribute to the life and legacy that Jeff left behind with his music, lyrics and unforgettable voice. Co-sponsored by Ironweed & Film Arts Foundation Info: http://www.noisepop.com/2006/films.php Badgeholders *do* get into Noise Pop Films, and the walk-up ticket price is $8 unless otherwise stated for… Read more »

Directions: Death Cab for Cutie

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The Bay Area premiere of ‘Directions,’ the 11 video companion to Death Cab for Cutie’s Grammy nominated album, ‘plans,’ featuring a video for each and every song on the record by directors including Paul Brown, Ace Norton, Monkmus, Autumn de Wilde, and Laurent Briet. Preceded by a new trailer about Girls Rock camp for girls… Read more »

The M-80 Project

  In 1979, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis hosted a two-day No/New Wave festival, featuring Devo, the Fleshtones, James Chance and the Contortions, the Monochrome Set, Minneapolis’ own the Suburbs, Judy Nylon with a young Alejandro Escovedo on guitar, and many others, when this music was just beginning. Early black-and-white video imagery captures the… Read more »

The Cuts + Jonny X and the Groadies + Spider and the Webs + The Old Haunts

Oakland’s Cuts are rock and roll traditionalists with releases on Birdman and Lookout. Jonny X and the Groadies barrel out of Portland, Oregon with a screamo penchant for robotic beats and insane chugga skree. Unlike much anything else out there, seizure inducing black metal-influenced dramatones.http://www.myspace.com/groadies Spider and the Webs from Olympia do glowing pop rock… Read more »

Dual Injustice & The Other Side of the Burka

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Dual Injustice:  Since 1993, over 400 women have been violently killed and roughly 4,000 cases of disappeared women have been registered in Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua, in northern Mexico. Known as “feminicide,” this phenomenon has become the most embarrassing human rights scandal in recent Mexican history.  Under fire for their incompetence, the police have attempted… Read more »

Gadabout Film Festival (Cancelled)

The Gadabout is a nationally touring film festival that screens a program of 20+ international short films. Independent in every sense, these films share the same willingness to challenge the conventions set for filmmaking. The Gadabout is a distribution avenue for truly indie filmmakers that distrust Hollywood and the commercial film festival circuit. We are… Read more »

Shorts 4th Annual Absolute Time Film Festival

Films from all over the world contemplating the relationship of labor and economics, the identity of individual to family and the struggle of Gay people for basic human rights, make-up the exciting array of films in the 4th Annual Absolute Time Film Festival. TOP OF A CIRLCE kicks off the third and final day of festival…. Read more »

Shorts

Films from all over the world contemplating the relationship of labor and economics, the identity of individual to family and the struggle of Gay people for basic human rights, make-up the exciting array of films in the 4th Annual Absolute Time Film Festival. TOP OF A CIRLCE kicks off the third and final day of… Read more »

KIT + Mikaela’s Fiend + Die! Die! Die! + Cortina

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Cortina Die! Die! Die! KIT Mikaela’s Fiend KIT are the product of the much maligned “best summer ever”, a sarcastic moniker lobbed at the midmonths of 2002 by Friends Forever fanatics and Dirty South transplants alike. Somehow after the honeymoon there are 3 vinyl babies (7″s on zum/post present medium, narnack buddy series, hello asshole/hug… Read more »

Living Room:

Living Room - Space and Place in Infoshop Culture

We live in a society where public places that people feel like they are an active part of and can use for non-economic purposes are increasingly rare. Public spaces where people can go in order to feel like a part of a community and to participate in creating a transformational culture of resistance to the dominant… Read more »

THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME

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Long regarded as the worst rock-and-roll film of all time, THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME is the kind of dispiriting experience that even the most hardcore Led Zeppelin fan can barely endure.  With its daft fantasy sequences, incompetent direction, and lazy concert footage (shot at Madison Square Garden), SONG fails most spectacularly at the level… Read more »

THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC

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Trash Fish Entertainment and Artists Television Access are proud to present THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC with a beautiful new score for solo guitar, performed live by LESTER “TOMBSTONE” RAWW of THE PINE BOX BOYS and THE ZAG MEN.  Presumed lost for fifty years – until a second-generation print was discovered in a storeroom… Read more »

OpenScreening

Open Screening

See fresh perspectives and formula shattering techniques in film, video and music 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. FREE admission for exhibitors. Door, Bar:7:00pm, Projector: 8pm  SUBMISSIONS: * CUE and LABEL all tapes w/ name, contact,… Read more »

DRUNK WITH POWER

Little is known about Bay Areas SIXES with limited releases, cryptic interviews,and next to no documentation. Nothing but a bloodied trail of live miasma can peice together a 15+yr hellish trainwreck. Dating back somewhere around the late 80’s under the nom de guerre, AZOG, years of venomous scum electronics thrust upon the west coast underground… Read more »

Bhopal: The Search for Justice

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On December 2, 1984, the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India leaked poisonous methyl isocyanate gas killing 15000 men, women and children. Bhopal was and remains the world’s worst chemical industry disaster. 20 years later, survivors are being re-victimized by the deliberate thwarting of scientific and medical studies concerning the damage. Exploring charges of… Read more »

OpenScreening

Open Screening

See fresh perspectives and formula shattering techniques in film, video and music 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……….. FREE admission for exhibitors. Door, Bar:7:00pm, Projector: 7pm………. SUBMISSIONS: * CUE and LABEL all tapes w/ name, contact,… Read more »

FILTHY FILTHY PUPPETS

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Still from Fine Dishes 4 Fine Bitches by Xander Marro Fort Thunder Image from Les Hipsters Perdus by Kirsten Webb & Raphi Soifer Still from Book 5 from the Untitled Book Series by Michael Trigilio FILTHY FILTHY PUPPETS features film and video shot using puppets and inanimate objects as live actors. Radical storytelling, criticism masked… Read more »

“Voices of Patriots: Why Are We In Iraq?”

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Admission:  $10-40 (includes free copy of DVD; every $10 raised will allow us tosend a copy to a U.S. Congressional/Senate representative).  No one turned away forlack of funds. The 30-minute educational documentary “Voices of Patriots” features the perspectivesof experienced military servicepeople who have courageously taken a stand againstthe Bush administration’s policies in Iraq.  The interview… Read more »

Along the Road Little Child

Along the road

This is a true-to-life documentary film about a group of Finnish and Somali children seen through their common play, about two sets of siblings who met each other in the yard of their housing estate. The children’s play reflects the realities and moralities of the adult world and in it, the small events of their… Read more »

Heidi Diehl and The Spirit Battery

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Operating in the realm of suspended disbelief The Spirit Battery relishes the possibility of supernatural presence in electronic experience. The glitches, noises, and other aberrant signals that emmanate from malfunctioning technology suggest, if only momentarily, ghosts in the machine. The Spirit Battery seeks to extend this period of spectral speculation by entangling the curious gestures… Read more »