Artists' Television Access

The State of Nebraska’s refusal to halt alcohol sales to the dry Pine Ridge Indian Reservation from its border town of Whiteclay gets an in-depth look in this documentary about a century-old problem. Four off-sale beer stores in this 14-person hamlet sell over 11,000 cans of beer a day to an Indian clientele with virtually… Read more »

Five American nomads “hit the road” in this sprawling 16mm documentary feature.  A beautiful and remarkable love letter to travel.   Dir: Danielle Lombardi and Brigid McCaffrey  Additional Films:Fledgeling – Tony Gault, Elizabeth Henry (Denver, Co)Faces on Mars – David Borengasser (San Francisco) CLOSING PERFORMANCE:  Live Performance by Add Oil

Bryan Konefsky Experiments in Cinema film festival (a Basement Films production – now in it’s 5th year) is designed to bring the international community of cinematic experimentalists to New Mexico and to expand our statewide conversation about movie making to include alternative cinematic histories. That is, As New Mexico imagines it’s future as a new… Read more »

Please join us for an opening reception ofStephanie Mansolf’s installation“Dear Catastrophe”and reading of members of Dodie Bellamy’s prose workshop Sunday, November 8, 2009, 2-6pmat 4:00 p.m. readings by: Lindsey BoldtMari CollingsDrew CushingApsara DiQuinzioMaizie GilbertKevin KillianSara LarsenMinnette LehmannAnne McGuireRon Palmer Stephanie Mansolf’s “Dear Catastrophe” will run from November 8-29, 2009. Organized by Dodie Bellamy, “Dear Catastrophe”… Read more »

Live acoustic performances by Bay Area singer/songwriters Emily Jane White, Foxtails Brigade and Steve Taylor (of Rogue Wave) w/ a debut screening of Foxtails Brigade’s “Chat With Sivan music” video by Andrew and live improvised film projections by Luke Judd.

A mix of ephemeral media and experimental film that probes the depths (or grazes the surfaces) of human psyche and surroundings. FEATURED WORKS BY:Charles Chadwick, Elizabeth Henry, Daniel Small, Christina Corfield, Kate Gorman, Adam Paradis, and Steve Shearer

John Butcher lives in London and has played the saxophone for over 20 years. His work ranges through free improvisation, multitracked  pieces, work with pre-recorded tape, and also with live electronics. He appears on over 40 recordings.  Solo concerts have long been a particular enthusiasm, as was featured in an episode of the BBC TV series… Read more »

A heartfelt documentation of the nightlife in one of San Francisco’s most beloved dive bars: Expansion Bar.  With footage collected over the last ten years of the bar’s existence and including interviews with Dick Wood, John Anderson and Gary Milliman film maker Martin Reade gives viewers the chance to be a part of this singular… Read more »

During the Serb-Croatian war a young soldier and devout Catholic (JAKOB BOKULICH) unwittingly drinks tea made from the hallucinogenic datura flower and experiences what he believes to be a visitation from the Virgin Mary. In this religious vision, he receives a dangerous mission which he takes to heart and travels to post-9/11 America — Oakland,… Read more »

Description: In Celebration of their first full length album, The Yellow Dress and ATA present an evening of music, videos, literature, and unending joy The Yellow Dress: The official house band of www.therumpus.net, The Yellow Dress sprung to life in late 2007 with a series of songs about(respectively) the tragic death of Tatiana the tiger,… Read more »

Maggots and Men, an experimental historical narrative set in post-revolutionary Russia, re-tells the story of the 1921 uprising of the Kronstadt sailors with a subtext of gender anarchy. A thoughtful homage to Soviet silent era directors and artists of the Russian avant-garde, the film explores themes of re-invention, revolution, community, and corruption. Directed By: Cary… Read more »

Campbell Rodeo, United States, 2009, Directed by Anna Campbell 1:57 min.Gender Poo, United States, 2009, Directed by Coco Guzman, 1:35 min.Orange Trio, United States, 2009, Directed by Lorin Murphy, 3:00 minProportianate Respons, United States, 2009, Directed by Ariel Federow, 1:05 min.Lavender Valley, United States, 2009, Directed by Ariel Federow, 2:10 min80_08, United States, 2009, Directed… Read more »

Gender? United States, 2009, Directed by Joie Rey 10minAids Camp, United States, 2009, Directed by Gary Fembot 25minBlush, United States, 2009, Directed by Jen Crothers 3minWink and Pucker ,United States, 2009, Directed by Ami Puri 5:40minCrazy Wisdom, United States, 2009, Directed by Elizabeth Ore 10minPinball Wizards, United States, 2009, Directed by Ali Cotterill 2:27minF2Todd, United… Read more »

In May 1959, a decade before Stonewall, Los Angeles had its own gay riot. Cooper’s Doughnuts was an all night doughnut shop on Main Street in downtown Los Angeles, nestled between Harold’s and the Waldorf, gay bars dating back to the 1930s. Cooper’s was a late-night hangout for drag queens, butch hustlers, street queens and… Read more »

Jon Jost’s *Rembrandt Laughing *is a portrait of the passage of one year in the lives of some San Francisco friends, circa 1988 (before the dot.coming of the city), a slow marijuana hazed story which drifts like the fabled fog, encompassing the quirks and habits of a generation that made the city theirs, if only… Read more »

Take an alchemical journey with Ira Cohen’s Invasion of the Thunderbolt Pagoda, a mythosphere-filtered-through-Mylar worthy of  Kenneth Anger’s most lysergic moments, with ritual music provided by ex-Velvet Undergrounder Angus Maclise. Also on the program is Marty Topp’s Paradise Now: The Living Theatre in Amerika. “Life, revolution and theater are three words for the same thing:  an unconditional NO to… Read more »

From Coalinga To Osaka — Faxed Head: Live in Japan 1995 Beautifully shot on three cameras during Faxed Head’s improbable 1995 tour of Japan, From Coalinga To Osaka documents the pride of Coalinga, CA in all their self-handicapped, brain-damaged glory. Live footage of the self-proclaimed “desk metal” quartet is interspersed with baffling but authentic footage… Read more »

This evening’s screening of 14 shorts features experimental, narrative, and documentary films and videos that use the city of Los Angeles in overtly narrative or thematic roles, thereby allowing the city to serve not only as the setting, but as a protagonist as well. Charles Doran, the program’s curator, presents the LA premiere of his… Read more »

Ocean of Oceans, 2008-11mins 20sec- A figure is burdened by cumbersome limbs as she churns in ocean waves, then moves toward a horizon. Her doppelganger uses the long arms as an asset, sailing through sea and space with ease. Sound design by Lily Wolfe of Parker and Lily and The Low Lows. Arms, 2007- 1… Read more »

This feature-length animation video follows several inflicted characters and recounts the ways in which they find resolve. A series of entropic scenarios held together by an attraction to failure and its spectacle describe the characters’ malfunction – their inability to fulfill personal desire. Compelled by the consequences and rewards of their attempts they question their… Read more »

Mario Pfeifer’s film *Yet Untitled [»Pieces of Nature«] (2008)* is a structural narration about the production of movingimages. Departing from the abstract space of an empty film studio, the German filmmaker is developing a poetical investigation of the spatial and aesthetic conditions of his medium and the implications for the production of meaning. The script… Read more »

San Francisco City College is glad to present final screening of experimental filmmakers with a bit of narration over here and a bit of sensation over there. Video and Film. Program: “Film Production Department”, Vince Morel B. Vilan, TRT: 5 min 7 sec 24 framesThis is a short introductory overview celebrating the Cinema Department.  “The… Read more »

featuring subjects such as:Sonic Youth in 16mm:  David Borengasser’s film of Sonic Youth performing at the FillmoreAlphebetization of the Wizard of Oz:  Matt Bucy catalogues each word in the classic filmAnimation,Channel surfingWeb-mashing and internet doodlingFound footage filmmaking…and many other acts of culture-conciousness further info soon to be posted at freeformfilm.org

6pm-8pm: live radio broadcast of “Voices of Native Nations” on kpoo radio, 89.5fm including Ohlone Leaders and their Organizations “Voices of San Francisco’s First Peoples”. Mary Jean Robertson, will host Ann Marie Sayers, Tribal Chair Person (Costanoan/Ohlone), Corina Guild, founder of Ohlone Shell Mound Peace Walk. 8pm-930: Screening of Ruth Morgan’s photo portraits of Ohlone… Read more »

De Montréal presents the work of several emerging video artists currently based in Montreal.  The pieces, in production, challenge the constraint of time and place set up by the nature of creation.  And the finished work, viewed, documents a place saturated in a rich culture influenced by theatrics, politics, and comedy. Here video is used… Read more »

 Media ecologist Gerry Fialka’s interactive workshop probes the cultural and historical context of advertising as art and Marshall McLuhan’s axiom “Advertising is the cave art of the 20th century.” Both ads and art eschew rational argument. Fialka analyzes how symbols, magic and imagery play directly to our emotions. Much like art, ads have a profound… Read more »

Cut and Run is a series of eclectic shorts by various San Francisco based filmmakers. Through the use of 16mm, video, and archival mediums, these pieces come together as a visual dialogue venturing out to discuss the topics cut out and neglected by the mainstream media in the U.S. 

What happens when middle-class people get caught up in the dizzying spell and allure of Information Technology, finance and real estate? They STUMBLE. This is what popular Kannada theatre person and director Prakash Belawadi tries to say in his English languge film.  Stumble offers a snapshot of ordinary lives trapped in the extraordinary “gold rush”… Read more »

This program explores the diverse realm of video and the various ways artists employ it as a process of communication, point of reflection, backdrop for action, and vehicle of abstraction.  In “J.M.E. in MySpace: Tropical Feelings”, a Comic video essay about grime music and MySpace, Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn show that “beneath the passive… Read more »