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Archive for September, 2010

Works by Loren Means

Artist Loren Means hand paints super 8 film stock, enlarging individual segments to create stand-alone works: “My images arose from my attempt to make motion pictures from a fine art perspective. I began painting on the surface of 8mm and Super8 film. I was fascinated by the fact that a minuscule brushstroke could expand into… Read more »

Pablo Guardiola: Marco Polo

Marco Polo

Opening reception for the artist Monday, September 13th, 7 – 10pm Marco endlessly searches for Polo.  Polo will eventually become Marco. This repeats. Marco Polo is the anti-Ulysses; he is not trying to get back home.  He is not trying to find a new one.  Each city encourages movement. Upon arrival it’s always useful to… Read more »

Works by Loren Means (Closing Reception)

Artist Loren Means hand paints super 8 film stock, enlarging individual segments to create stand-alone works:  “My images arose from my attempt to make motion pictures from a fine art perspective. I began painting on the surface of 8mm and Super8 film. I was fascinated by the fact that a minuscule brushstroke could expand into… Read more »

Expo for Independent Arts

Join ATA and dozens of Bay Area arts groups at CELLspace this Saturday, September 25, for the 11th Annual Expo for Independent Arts. It is the only grassroots connection fair for local arts, music and culture, and also features free workshops, performance, and hundreds of local culture-makers. Admission is free, NO ONE is turned away,… Read more »

Electronic Cinema

Sound artists perform live scores for films by experimental filmmakers

WHAT IS LIFE WITHOUT THE LIVING?

Two experimental queer works will be screened at Artists Television Access on Thursday, Sept. 23th, 2010. The program title misremembers the opening lyric to the theme to Imitation of Life. The tune hauntingly floods Luther Price’s A (1995). Alongside David Scheid’s video, Margot Kidder (2005), these works reconstruct Hollywood from a space of queer fantasy,… Read more »

ATA announces 5th Annual Film & Video Festival program

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — The 5th Annual Artists’ Television Access Film & Video Festival celebrates original, independent and underground film & video with screenings, installations and workshops, October 19th – 23rd. Thursday, October 21, ATA will screen the first of two shorts programs. Titled “Human Nature,” the program explores the relationship between our natural environment… Read more »

3rdi Green Eye screening: The Anatomy of a Carbon Footprint

Join us on September 18 & 19 for a weekend of films, talks and workshops about our changing climate, how we got there and what we can do to reduce our carbon footprint. All proceeds from these programs will be donated by 3rdi and ATA towards flood relief efforts in Pakistan. Ticket prices mentioned below… Read more »

ATA Sidewalk Sale

Mind-Blowing Sidewalk Sale!!!!! Saturday, September 18th, Artist Television Access 992 Valencia Street at 21st 11am to 3 Looking for some Movie and photography Equipment????? Now’s your big chance to acquire some useful equipment to start on your next Big moving Image project.  Will be selling loads of useful Audio Visual Equipment including: 16mm projectors, regular… Read more »

OpenScreening

ATA’s openscreening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the BayArea. Get your work out there! Get feedback! Or just come and take it all in! 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… Read more »

Pablo Guardiola: Marco Polo | Opening reception

Marco Polo

Opening reception for the artist Monday, September 13th, 7 – 10pm Marco endlessly searches for Polo. Polo will eventually become Marco. This repeats. Marco Polo is the anti-Ulysses; he is not trying to get back home. He is not trying to find a new one. Each city encourages movement. Upon arrival it’s always useful to… Read more »

THE INVISIBLE FOREST

Vertical Pool and A.T. A. presents: (2008; 111 min) a film by Antero Alli (in person) A theater director, Alex (played by the director of the film, Antero Alli), brings a troupe of nine actors to a remote forest to engage in paratheatrical work. For those of you unfamiliar with this term, it refers to a range… Read more »

“Faubourg Tremé—The Untold Story of Black New Orleans”

A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition Film Showing & Discussion A documentary film about the radical Black history of New Orleans on the 6th anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy “Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans” was largely shot before the Katrina tragedy but edited afterward, giving the film both a celebratory and elegiac tone. It… Read more »

Part of Me Came Home

In historic St. Charles, Missouri, spirited Terrie O’Neal who never had the big family she wanted, welcomes two schizophrenic Vietnam veterans and one blind World War II veteran into the home she shares with her eleven year-old son and 82 year-old father. Using cinema verite observation that allows us to intimately watch a household struggle… Read more »

Vincent Moon

We are excited to bring in music video director phenom Vincent Moon for an evening of music shorts.  Moon is one of the most exciting artists working today, reinviting the genre of music videos through his intimate and profound take away shows. A recent Artist in Focus and winner of the Sound and Vision Award at… Read more »

SELECTION festival: Call for entries is now open!

“If your film has never been picked by any festival, it’s a perfect fit for SELECTION festival”. On September 13, @ 21:00, CINE FANTOM is starting a new stage of SELECTION festival. Now at VINZAVOD, every Monday! SELECTION festival is a unique experiment if the Russia-based CINE FANTOM club, which has no analogues in the… Read more »

THE TREATMENT

Two years in the making, The Treatment is the third movie by Lovewarz. Taken into a world of live performance art filmed across the country, the piece is a narrative of historical examples of artists fighting for access to new language. A star cast jumps through vivid scenery exhibiting gutteral attempts at using new voices… Read more »