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Archive for 2007
Themes for the eclipse
December 27, 2007 – 8:00 pm
» More images Metal Rouge and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma perform live to two new Super 8mm films by S.F. filmmaker Paul Clipson Metal Rouge are the LA based duo of Helga Fassonaki and Andrew Scott. With guitar, santoor, contact microphones & a battery of effects pedals they kick up the kind of storm one would expect… Read more »
Open Screening: “YOU”
December 20, 2007 – 8:00 pm
I’m sure You will show how to reach up, give up, break up, close up Yourself. so, are you interested in getting your movies out there? do you wanna share your films, get feedback and meet other filmmakers? You should submit your shorts to us We are arranging the coolest Open Screening in the Bay Area…. Read more »
OpenScreening “YOU”
December 20, 2007 – 8:00 pm
Im sure You will show how to reach up, give up, break up, close up Yourself. so, are you interested in getting your movies out there?do you wanna share your films, get feedback and meet other filmmakers?You should submit your shorts to usWe are arranging the coolest Open Screening in the Bay Area.At the legendary… Read more »
Club Sandwich presents:
December 12, 2007 – 8:00 pm
Death Sentence: Panda Shearing Pinx (ex-Channels 3&4) Mutators (Canada) Mincemeat or Tenspeed (Philly) High Castle (mems of Woman’s Worth, Hips, Childpornography)
Two films on CUBA & VENEZUELA
December 6, 2007 – 7:30 pm
On the Hillside of the HimalayasIn 2005 Pakistan suffered a devastating earthquake. Over 80,000 people were killed, tens of thousands were injured. In the remote Himalayan mountains, there were no doctors to treat the injured. That is when more than 1,200 Cuban doctors and nurses arrived, from the heroic Henry Reeve Internationalist Brigade, to provide… Read more »
ATV November Schedule
December 6, 2007 – 12:00 am
Sunday Nights at Midnight, Cable Channel 29, San Francisco
Le Mouvement Quotidien: a pyschogeographical exploration of everyday spatial practice
November 30, 2007 – 8:00 pm
presentation by: Hunter H. Fine
Sponsored by: San Francisco State University Communication Studies Department
Le Mouvement Quotidien
November 30, 2007 – 8:00 pm
Psychogeography is about the instinctual exploration of the emotional contours of ones environment. It aims to discover and create subversive and anti-authoritarian places and journeys that can be used in the development of new, more liberating, kinds of locales. Situationists psychogeographers adopted the practice of the derive as their basic tool.-Alastair Bonnett This exploration revolves… Read more »
Culture in the Amnesiac City
November 29, 2007 – 8:00 pm
Download the flyer! (544KB PDF) Amnesia Bar 853 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA 94110http://www.amnesiathebar.com Featuring live music and performances by: Freddy McGuire Mystical vocal stylings of Anne McGuire backed by the electronic mashups of Wobbly.http://myspace.com/freddymcguirehttp://myspace.com/wobbbly Cones Cones are Wendy Farina, Kurt Keppeler, Phillip Dachelet. Formerly the rock band known as “Fierce Antler”.http://myspace.com/wearecones Black Pearl Stepchild… Read more »
VIDEO FIREBALL
November 16, 2007 – 8:00 pm
Syracuse is a city known for its snow, its salt, and its basketball team. Unbeknownst to many, it is also the site of a modest but thriving arts community, with a rich history, especially in the vague sphere (or ball) of video. Syracuse is home to the Everson Museum of Art, the host of some… Read more »
Open Screening – Impressionism & Expressionism
November 15, 2007 – 8:00 pm
Theme: Impressionism & Expressionism Next open screening will be November 15th!!! Pissarro meets Monet at the Academy Suisse in 1859, then, in 1861, Guillaumin and Cézanne with whom he was to work later at Pontoise Monet , Renoir , Sisley , Bazille met at the Fine Arts School in 1862, while studying in Charles… Read more »
Too Late for Tears
November 11, 2007 – 8:00 pm
Come be part of the studio audience watch local artist collaborative, Transistor Radio Theatre, perform a live reading of Too Late for Tears, Sunday, November 11, 8:00 p.m., $6, at Artist Television Access (ATA), 992 Valencia Street, at 21st St., San Francisco, CA. Tickets available at the door. Utilizing a core group of actors… Read more »
ALTERNATIVES OF ALTERNATIVES
November 9, 2007 – 8:00 pm
» More images Alternatives of Alternatives introduces film and video works that focus on “alternative” lifestyles or subcultures (new age gnostics, new media-art zealots, cryptozoologists, revolutionary theatre collectives) with critical eyes and ears, presented in an “alternative” cinematic structure. One purpose of the screening is to investigate the way “alternative” forces arrange and define themselves… Read more »
Grapes of Wrath
November 8, 2007 – 7:30 pm
“Wherever there’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever there’s a cop beating up a guy, I’ll be there. I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad. I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry and they know supper’s ready. And when people are eating the stuff… Read more »
GREY DATURAS, MY DISCO, CHAINGARDEN, MENEGUAR, CHAINGARDEN
October 31, 2007 – 8:00 pm
GREY DATURAS are from Melbourne, Australia. An epic wash of drone, metal, and improv musics, the trio have released several albums and CDRs, but their first domestic issuance is the Crucial Blast repress of 2004’s “Dead in the Woods”. If the Melbourne sunshine puts a smile on most of its native’s faces, this must be… Read more »
11th Annual Arab Film Festival
October 28, 2007 – 9:00 pm
Gaza Another Kind of TearsA documentary by AbdelSalam ShehadaPalestine, 2006, 53minGaza Another Kind of Tears focuses on the anguish an individual family endures during the occupation, it’s subsequent joy at the liberation of 2005, and the interminable wait for the sweet promise of change. Followed by Galil: A School with No WallsA documentary by Avi… Read more »
11th Annual Arab Film Festival
October 28, 2007 – 7:00 pm
A Selection of Shorts from the Amman Filmmakers Cooperative and a documentary from Saudia Arabia Amman Filmmakers CooperativeThe Amman Filmmakers Cooperative (AFC) is a not-for-profit cultural initiative and talent incubator. The AFC promotes independent Arab filmmaking through training, experimentation, and networking. The AFC project was founded in May 2003 by Hazim Bitar, a filmmaker and… Read more »
11th Annual Arab Film Festival
October 27, 2007 – 1:00 pm
Nazek :A Documentary by Ramez KazmouzIsrael, 2007, 52min, USA PremiereNazek is the first Arab senior officer in Israel; she is 48 years old and a mother to four children. Being an Arab woman and a police officer might have been challenging enough for Nazek but serving in the Israeli police presents major contradictions and sets… Read more »
OpenScreening – “FILM”
October 18, 2007 – 8:00 pm
Next open screening will be October 18th!!! “FILM” Only! Regular 8; Super 8; 9,5 mm; Regular 16; Super 16; 35 mm; 65 mm; 70 mm You can submit on DVD, mini dv, VHS… but it has to be shot in FILM so guys are you interested in getting your movies out there?do you wanna share your films,… Read more »
MOUNT EERIE, THE MOOOLS, LLOYD AND MICHAEL, ALWAYS
October 7, 2007 – 8:00 pm
Mount Eerie is the ongoing venture of Phil Elverum, once known as Microphones. He recently released a 132 page photo book and 10″ called “Mount Eerie Pts 6 & 7”http://www.pwelverumandsun.com/ Indie rockers Moools hail from Japan and have been performing since 1998, graced Olympia’s YoYoAGoGo festivals in both 1999 and 2001.http://www.moools.com/ Lloyd and Michael is… Read more »
Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
October 5, 2007 – 8:00 pm
» More images Guy Debord’s fourth film still stirs debate today, It uses a soundtrack of excerpts from his most renowned Situationist text “Society of the Spectacle” and a collage of documentary, still image and detourned movie clips. The English-subtitled version that has previously circulated is so dense that one cannot attend to the delicate,… Read more »
Bootleg series
September 28, 2007 – 8:00 pm
“Commandante” by Oliver Stone. This documentary Of Fidel Castro offers an illuminating insight into one of the world’s most important leaders of the latter part of the 20th century. A candid, direct and uncut portrait that touches on major historical twentieth century events. For detail please Sign Up for the ATA Email List! At http://www.atasite.org/.
My Daughter the Terrorist (US Premiere)
September 27, 2007 – 7:30 pm
11th Annual MadCat Women’s International Film Festival
My Daughter the Terrorist (US Premiere)
September 21, 2007 – 7:30 pm
What makes anyone want to blow themselves up for a cause? Dharsika and Puhalchudar belong to the suicide brigade of the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam), fighting for recognition by the Sri Lankan government. The girls are close friends. They have been eating, sleeping, training and fighting side by side for seven years. They… Read more »
At the Margins
September 14, 2007 – 7:30 pm
Program: * Tales From the Margins Kavita Joshi2006 24 min Color Mini DV India US Premiere Twelve women strip themselves naked on the streets of Manipur in protest. A young woman has been on a fast demanding justice, and is forcibly nose-fed and kept under arrest by the government for… Read more »
SURFING FOR LIFE
August 31, 2007 – 8:00 pm
A vibrant and award-winning one-hour documentary about inspiring well-spent lives, offers a totally fresh look at successful aging. Narrated by Beau Bridges, it profiles ten legendary surfers who model healthy aging by staying active and engaged into their 7th, 8th and 9th decades. Through interviews, contemporary day-in-the-life footage, and a wealth of rare archival material, the… Read more »
INTIMATE OBSERVATIONS & EXQUISITE CORPSE
August 25, 2007 – 8:00 pm
Intimate Observations is a collection of moving collages and cinema vérité committed to the confines of small gauge celluloid. These new experimental works capture candid situations, mundane objects and familiar landscapes but reveal something extraordinary about them. Local filmmakersinclude B Berzins (“Receding Memories”), Christian Bruno & Natalija Vekic (“7:30PM”), Paul Clipson (“TUOLUMNE”), Daniel Gorrell (“Ships,… Read more »
MACHINE TREE
August 24, 2007 – 8:00 pm
Animation and experimental film cut to the heart of things in a way live action often forgets how to do. With abstraction, beauty and emotion can be expressed more simply and more directly than what we’ve come to expect from the standard narrative. In animation, Instead of a million years of inherited facial response, we… Read more »
I Pity the Fool
August 17, 2007 – 8:00 pm
» More images In 2005, in an effort to improve its image for the nationwide attention brought to the city by the hosting of the 2006 Super Bowl, the city of Detroit began demolishing long-vacant buildings, hastening the natural slow decay caused by decades of industrial collapse. As the city dismantles itself, clues to its… Read more »
OpenScreening – On The Road!
August 16, 2007 – 8:00 pm
<p><strong><font style=”BACKGROUND-COLOR: #000000″ color=”#ffffff”>Next open screening will be on August 16th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</font></strong></p> <p><strong><font style=”BACKGROUND-COLOR: #000000″ color=”#ffffff”> On the Road, Ladies and Gents. </font></strong></p> <p><strong><font style=”BACKGROUND-COLOR: #000000″ color=”#ffffff”>Have You ever been on the road?</font></strong></p> <p><strong><font style=”BACKGROUND-COLOR: #000000″ color=”#ffffff”> Have You ever seen the road? </font></strong></p> <p><strong><font style=”BACKGROUND-COLOR: #000000″ color=”#ffffff”>Shoot Your experience. Express Your way.</font></strong></p> <p><strong><font style=”BACKGROUND-COLOR: #33ff00″><font style=”BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff”> Bring it… Read more »
Resist to Exist
August 15, 2007 – 8:00 pm
The Program: Resistir Para Existir : La Lucha Cucapa (2007)( Resist to Exist: the Cucapa Struggle) + Excerpts from “The Battle of Mexcio City” (2001)Rage Against The Machine’s concert DVD with xtras including interviews with Zach de la Rocha, Noam Chomsky and Subcommandante Marcos.+ current clips from the indigenous struggles in Oaxaca, Atenco, etc.+ Alicia… Read more »
Montaña de Luz (Mountain of Light)
August 9, 2007 – 7:30 pm
The Cuban documentary Montaña de Luz-produced by ICAIC (Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos)-follows Cuban doctors working in collaboration with the communities throughout Latin America and Africa.The doctors work for no pay in areas of the world where there is either no medical care available or where the few local doctors are unable to… Read more »
Hobo Film Festival
July 30, 2007 – 7:00 pm
The railroad industry in America has played an immense role in the development and progression of our modern society. Besides its most obvious role as a life line for supplies and sustenance to newly burgeoning towns and industry, it helped spawn an incredible subculture of people, the hobos and tramps of America. These hobos used… Read more »
Club Sandwich presents:
July 29, 2007 – 8:00 pm
who can forget the academy award winning “my cousin Vinnie” with Marisa Tomei and Joe Pesci? Pesci’s attempt to pronounce “youths” as “yoots” sticks in our heads when trying to describe the essence of tonight’s show. Abe Vigoda played the very first Club Sandwich show back in July of 2006, so it’s an anniversary of… Read more »
PLAGUES & PLEASURES ON THE SALTON SEA
July 28, 2007 – 8:00 pm
leonard Knight and his salvation mountain PLAGUES & PLEASURES ON THE SALTON SEA is a feature documentary directed by Chris Metzler & Jeff Springer, with narration by legendary counterculture filmmaker JOHN WATERS and music by the surreal, southwestern, alt-rock supergroup, FRIENDS OF DEAN MARTINEZ. Once known as the California Riviera, the Salton Sea is now… Read more »
The Sparror Screenings:
July 26, 2007 – 8:00 pm
Following on from the hugely successful June event Cine Fantom:Russian Experimental Cinema, this month we welcome Ali Sparror from Cube Cinema.(www.cubecinema.com). Ali will present recent film and video work from Bristol, UK and discuss the Cube and its relationship to ATA. Expect cut&paste, homemade parcels of wonder, skate films, and baroque animation. PART ONE: Cutting… Read more »
atv big screen rerun
July 22, 2007 – 8:00 pm
This months screening features more work from last years ata film and video festival, footage of the pixies in 1989, bikini kill in 1992, as well as soundies from mabel hillary, otis spann and lucille bogan. 8:00 bikini kill- jigsaw youth, don’t owe you nothin- wash d.c. 1992 pan- sarah garmisa mutiny- abigail childs post… Read more »
music by the eyeful presents:
July 14, 2007 – 8:00 pm
Night of films by David Michalak and stories narrated by Dean Santomieri, with live music by Dean and violinist Angela Hsu. Special guest Bob Marsh will read the DADA poem Seahorses and Flying Fish by Hugo Ball with Man Rays Return to Reason projected. About the Artists David Michalak is celebrating over 35 years of… Read more »
Stolen Rights
July 6, 2007 – 8:00 pm
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled their homelands and livelihoods in historical Palestine during the 1948 Israeli occupation to become dispersed in the neighboring Arab countries. Arab host countries vary in rights and restrictions accorded to Palestinians. Since their arrival in Lebanon nearly 60 years ago, the experience of Palestinian refugees was one of marginalization, suffering,… Read more »
Welcome to New Orleans: A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition Film Series
July 5, 2007 – 7:30 pm
The city of New Orleans is a ghost town after Hurricane Katrina. While most people left the city in fear, racism and poverty is there to stay. In a city full of racists and vigilantes, we meet the 58-year-old former Black Panther and co-founder of the Common Ground Collective, Malik Rahim. All his life he… Read more »
Welcome to New Orleans
July 5, 2007 – 7:30 pm
The city of New Orleans is a ghost town after Hurricane Katrina. While most people left the city in fear, racism and poverty is there to stay. In a city full of racists and vigilantes, we meet the 58-year-old former Black Panther and co-founder of the Common Ground Collective, Malik Rahim. All his life he… Read more »
Russian Experimental Cinema: CINE FANTOM CLUB
June 29, 2007 – 8:00 pm
The Offshore reserves Russian State Museum The concept CINE FANTOM has existed for twenty years, since the first issue of CINE FANTOM, a self-published cinema magazine, came out, which editor-in-chief was Igor Aleinikov. Initially, CINE FANTOM was associated with activities of Soviet cinema underground, a legendary parallel cinema movement. Since the mid 90-ies CINE FANTOM… Read more »
A German and a Mexican Tour
June 24, 2007 – 8:00 pm
» More images Straight from Austin, TX “A German and a Mexican Tour” showcases work from filmmakers Katja Straub and Miguel Alvarez. Both love, tell and collect stories – narrative or documentary – always with an emphasis on visual exploration. Their rather non-traditional shorts range from personal documentary to narrative film, from experimental to cinema… Read more »
Life in Baghdad after the Occupation:
June 23, 2007 – 8:00 pm
baghdad days The Tenth Planet: A Single Life in BaghdadA documentary by Melis Birder “There are nine planets in the universe and I am the tenth one” says Kawkab, a young Baghdadi woman, as she describes herself. Her name means “Planet’ in Arabic and she is indeed a world unto herself, not afraid to speak… Read more »
OpenScreening
June 15, 2007 – 8:00 pm
Next open screening will be on the June 15th !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everything appears Black and White to me. Can t You see? This time only Black and White films and videos. Experimental, narrative, music videos, bla bla bla. How about that? No worries, just submit and come play with us. Not a filmmaker? Come and hang out with us… Read more »
FLOCK OF WORDS: the Lake Ivan Performance Group
June 9, 2007 – 8:00 pm
From Display Devices » More images David Finkelstein comes to ATA to deliver an evening of video and improv for his West Coast premiere appearance! Working out of New York with his collaborators in the Lake Ivan Performance Group, Finkelstein’s style of narrative improvisation clothed in video drag could be described as Jack Smith meets… Read more »
Jurassic Park 4
June 3, 2007 – 7:00 pm
The theatrical final installment to the epic series that is Jurassic Park…in musical form. With the dinosaurs growing in size and strength the 3 scientists from JP1 must reunite to put an end to the madness…before the dinosaurs put an end the human race. Featuring an all-star cast and a killer soundtrack.
Reagan’s Memory / Thee Houseguest / Womans Worth
June 2, 2007 – 8:00 pm
Reagan’s Memory Formed by avant garde filmmakers Ian Enggasser and Douglas Katelus in 2004 to wed art films and other random moving images provided by Rachel Manera with loud improvisational sound, Reagan’s Memory later came to its own with the addition of the crazed visual and sound artist Anthony DeSimone on drums to lurk the… Read more »
atv big screen rerun
May 29, 2007 – 8:00 pm
Don’t have cable, too busy on sunday nights…this month ata will be reairing atv shows form last december featuring gang of four, duke ellington, nina hagen, big maybelle, ruth brown, the gits, the divinyls, anita o’ day and more shorts from the 2006 ata film and video festival. the program: 8:15gang of four – urgh!… Read more »
QueerMixed Media
May 25, 2007 – 8:00 pm
All the colors of the rainbow! CloggingThe world´s hottest queer cloggers trained in the fine tradition of San Francisco’s own Barbary Coast Cloggers will dance their ass off for you! Short Films: Drive ThruJed BellWillie´ s Drive Thru serves up surgery, hormones, and social/sexual bafflement in this cheerfully animated, bitterly true-to-life satire of the FTM… Read more »
CHRIS MARKER on the Fate of the Left
May 24, 2007 – 7:00 pm
Chris Marker’s Grin NOTE SPECIAL STARTING TIME 7pm Le Fond de l’air est Rouge / A Grin Without a Cat (1977/1993) 180 min. in English, Spanish and French with some English subtitles. The untranslatable French title is a play on words suggesting that revolution was in the air but not on the ground. (IMDB) Marker was… Read more »
ANIMATED SHORTS
May 23, 2007 – 7:30 pm
Recent works by: Eugene L. Apellido Megan R. Brooks Blair Cecil-Wishing Jack R. Daley Barbora Dorflova Natalie Esperanza Peter J. Frontiera Joanne P. Hintay Edward D. Hofmann Young Kim Gail H. Kuwamoto Celeste L. Mccarty Mari L. Nakamura Seth A. Quittner Andres Rojo Sytiva L. Sheehan Kyaw Thein Karen Tse Claudio M. Yerahian also presenting:… Read more »
THE SILENCE AFTER (The downfall of CBGBs)
May 20, 2007 – 8:00 pm
Before CBGBs doors finally closed for good on October 15th 2006 a number of farewell shows graced the legendary club for a very last time. Some of these performances were sensational, others outrageously pathetic and insulting. No matter what category one might file them under, they all had one thing in common. A sold out… Read more »
Bay Area Indie Music Video Fest
May 20, 2007 – 6:00 pm
San Francisco indie pop band Blammos looks to bring the local independent music community together by exploring and showcasing other local bands’ music videos. Blammos has teamed up with the Mission Creek Music/Film Festival Festival to present the first annual Bay Area Indie Music Video Fest. The event will be hosted by Blammos, featuring unsigned bands… Read more »
Directing Classes show at ATA
May 18, 2007 – 7:00 pm
Cutting edge work from a fresh generation of filmmakers. Works by: Eva AllredAlexis KandanesAbdullah OzturkBenny Ortega IIIFilomeno FielOmar WilsonNicholas HoffmanPatricia OvandoMark BreimhorstPamela CasperAndre PonceTiffany OkeefeJessica WrightAvi CohenMichael DoucetteBradley CameronChristina FimbresJason FergusonDaniel MartinezKiersten LaneAmadeus Demarzi 7-8 Reception with food, drink and DJ8-10 Screening
Animated films of Brent Green with live soundtracks Mission Creek Music/Film Festival
May 16, 2007 – 8:00 pm
Artist in person
Animated films of Brent Green with live soundtracks
May 16, 2007 – 8:00 pm
Brent Green’s adamantly hand-made animated films- which have screened at Sundance, the Getty Museum, Hammer Museum, Walker Arts Center, Bellwether Gallery and the IFC Center- will be shown with live improvised soundtracks. Brent has worked with the likes of Califone and Vic Chesnutt. The New York Times called Green’s films “some of the most original… Read more »
Slow Superconductors: Burden of Dreams II
May 14, 2007 – 8:00 pm
Brian De Graw (Gang Gang Dance / Brown Sounds) “Retina Riddim” 33 minutes 3 seconds of eye splitting edits, original score with images of riots, cops, and random pretty dirty things. Ecstatic Peace : Thurston Moore’s record label, Films by Andrew Kesin. A Quad screen installation of edits from all different bands from the experimental… Read more »
Bacchanale
May 11, 2007 – 8:00 pm
Bacchanale is a “lost” adult arthouse film from 1970, released towards the end of the grindhouse era and at the dawn of XXX. The (surprisingly enlightened) sex in this film is overwhelmed by a script chock full of low-budget surrealistic pretensions. This creative tact was originally designed to provide enough of a veneer of artistic… Read more »
Urban Sustainability through film
May 4, 2007 – 7:00 pm
We invite you to come join us in Celebrating urban sustainability from San Paulo to San Francisco, from clean food and water to dumpster driving.These films are not to be missed! They will inspire laughter, awe, and action. A must see event for all urban activists. Mountainfilm on Tour Films 2005/2006 MINI CINE TUPY: Sergio Bloch… Read more »
Spit n Glitter (Premiere)
April 24, 2007 – 8:00 pm
Witchy gangsteresses with dagger heeled stilettos stampede through the alleys like rats destroying archaic dominions with their glittery hoot hoot llama. Post screening performances to be announced.
“DEEVEEDEE”
April 19, 2007 – 8:00 pm
How to Become a Great Artist DEEVEEDEE is a video exhibition exchange project initiated by Bull.Miletic in 2005. The basic idea of DEEVEEDEE is to produce DVD compilations of video art made/curated by the youngest generation of artists/curators working in the diverse cultural milieus. The intention of DEEVEEDEE is to create an alternative venue for… Read more »
atv big screen rerun
April 17, 2007 – 8:00 pm
A second chance for those without cable, without tv or with a life on saturday nights to see artists’ television. This month shows that aired last november featuring- the bumpershow, au pairs,x, bikini kill, vanita smyth, the slits and works from the 2006 ata film and video festival. Program: 8:00- in between: a brief visual… Read more »
Thanks for Giving My Number Back
April 13, 2007 – 8:00 pm
Written & directed by Bay Area multimedia artist Michael Trigilio, Thanks for Giving My Number Back explores the thin lines between love and death, fantasy and reality, hope and helplessness. Equal parts self-portraiture and science fiction, the story folds itself into a tangle of giggles, heartache, and fear. Watch the trailer…
A Poodle, no Horse and 25 Femmes
April 6, 2007 – 8:00 pm
PROGRAM: Passing Suburbia: Beate Rathke, Christine Woditschka; Neu Lindenberg/Berlin, 2005, 4:20min The clean and heteronormative suburb of Berlin isn´t safe any more! Unexpected characters appear. Does one´s own home keep its promise of freedom? Christine Woditschka is a Berlin-based video artist, exploring different ways in using a camera. Beate Rathke lives in Berlin and San… Read more »
In the Shadow of the Palms IRAQ
April 5, 2007 – 7:30 pm
Internationally Award-Winning In the Shadow of the Palms – Iraq, the only documentary filmed in Iraq prior to, during and after the U.S. invasion. Join us for an introduction and update by Richard Becker of the ANSWER Coalition on the war in Iraq and the role of the anti-war movement. The feature length documentary film… Read more »
Yarns for All
March 30, 2007 – 8:00 pm
This evening consists of dreamy and lyrical hand made films by David Enos and his music, plus grandiose fables by Isaiah Saxon and Sean Hellfrisch of Encyclopedia Pictura. www.encyclopediapictura.com
Yvonne Rainer’s JOURNEYS FROM BERLIN/1971
March 29, 2007 – 8:00 pm
Cynthia Beatt in Berlin » More images Following our sold-out screening of Debord’s totalizing critique of culture, we present Rainer’s fourth film, and some say her finest, an essay on radicalism and rehabilitation. How are oppositional politics advanced by their partisans and neutralised by the State? Radicals are those who expose hidden repressive tendencies in… Read more »
The Return of CINEMATASTIC!
March 23, 2007 – 12:00 am
CINEMATASTIC! After a year in the wilderness, San Francisco’s premier screening of narrative shorts returns. CINEMATASTIC features 5 short films from local auteurs. There’s always mingling and refreshments before and Q&A with the filmmakers afterwards. Take a look at the line-up: “Armed & Dangerous” by Pete Koffe The best backwards Super 8 action-comedy ever made…. Read more »
Club Sandwich Presents A Bleak Future
March 22, 2007 – 8:00 pm
PEDESTRIAN DEPOSITequal parts academic sound structure, harsh noise composition, and severe depression; abstract sound drama.http://monorailtrespassing.com PRIVY SEALSheavy sonic hurt. emotional brutality. private confessions.http://www.geocities.com/privy_seals/ HAIRCUT MOUNTAIN TRANSIT two guys. fuck it. http://www.haircutmountaintransit.com/
Open Screening – Live “My last day on earth”
March 15, 2007 – 8:00 pm
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, anything goes with the screened work, and the refreshments are pretty good too. $5, FREE admission for contributing artists. Door:7:30pmProjector: 8pm Submissions: Label all… Read more »
Planet Drum Presents:
March 9, 2007 – 7:00 pm
An extraordinary film/slideshow/discussion celebrating bioregional beauty of one the most biodiverse regions in the world. Enjoy stunning photographs, and a breath-taking film of very unusual natural features, creating a complex mosaic of fascinating plant and animal habitats. Stay and chat about the Shasta Bio-region, as well as the Klamath-Siskiyou Bio-region. Bio-regional Education is the New… Read more »
‘Maquilapolis’ (City of Factories)
March 8, 2007 – 7:30 pm
“Many consider the U.S.-Mexico border to be ‘the laboratory of the future.’ In Maquilapolis the border is also the site where global capitalism is facing profound resistance. The maquiladora workers are neither helpless victims nor dupes of neo-liberal capitalism, but rather social actors in the full sense of the word” Rosa-Linda Fregoso, UCSC Carmen… Read more »
Dangerous Highway
March 4, 2007 – 2:00 pm
Eddie Hinton’s cadre of secret fans know what the world is about to find out; Eddie Hinton may be the greatest unknown musician you’ve never heard. Moisés Gonzalez and Deryle Perryman’s documentary traces the southern soulman through archival footage, and interviews with Jerry Wexler, Donnie Fritts, Dick Cooper, Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham, the Drive-By Truckers… Read more »
03MAR07 Playlist: Hugo Ball Room Drive-by Nanocinema
March 3, 2007 – 8:00 pm
Volks Stoehende Knochenschau (A Viennese newsreel project) 1) Schwul Sein Kann Schoen Sein 2) Theatergruppe Collage – Autoanbetung 3) Burggarten Blood of the Beasts by Georges Franju Works by Mara Mattuschka Nabelfabel Kugelkopf Cerolax II Pascal-Goedel Parasympathetica Les Miserables Danke, es hat mir sehr gefreut Kaiser Schnitt Der Schoene, Die Beste S.O.S Extraterrestria ID “Bonustrack”… Read more »
noise+video
February 23, 2007 – 8:00 pm
TRALPHAZ can best be described as an experience in over-the-counter broken Chinese just talking to 55555 meat cleavers hitting military skyplane side by side electronical sleeping smell. Based in San Francisco, TRALPHAZ has made several live appearances across the U.S. and has released material on labels such as Troniks, Harshnoise, Deathbomb Arc, and Resipiscent. This… Read more »
16FEB07 Playlist: Hugo Ball Room Drive-by Nanocinema
February 16, 2007 – 6:30 pm
Thought Forms by Dean Smith Wrack Light in Copper Ruin by Keith Evans, improvisations for Coelacanth Decasia by Bill Morrison All images were seen without sound for free by those who passed by and lingered a moment.
Talk, Talk, Talk, Talk, Talk, Talk, Talk
February 14, 2007 – 8:30 pm
Map from Bedtime for Bremer a book by Fred Rinne and Marshall Weber Tonight’s event features the premier reading of Bedtime for Bremer (a fable about the USA in Iraq) by Fred Rinne and Marshall Weber, a banjofied musical rendition of Christine Shield’s (Blue Hole Comix creator) new parallel universe fable The Lonely Bear and… Read more »
10FEB07 Playlist: Hugo Ball Room Drive-by Nanocinema
February 10, 2007 – 7:30 pm
Nautical Jazz Suite (34 min., 2006) film collage by Hugo Ball Room from Illuminated Corridor show with Ted Brinkley Suite for Faces (approx. 1 hour, 2006- ) by Hugo Ball Room processed film images for improvising musicians Histoire(s) du Cinema (1a,b) by J-L Godard (100 min. 1988) Images from these films were viewed by onlookers from the street free… Read more »