As part of ATA’s 5th Annual Film & Video Festival, the ATA Window is projecting a selection of experimental shorts, visually stunning pieces and innovative animations. The projections, made on a buttermilk-based window screen, are visible from dusk until midnight. Loop Loop by Patrick Bergeron Wrestling With My Father by Charles Fairbanks Barcodes by Cecilie… Read more »
Some strange future, some strange present: video magician Jesse Malmed brings an exciting new performance and peripatetic participatory installation rooted in ecstatic improvisation, the history of experimental film and conceptual poetics. Improvised sing-alongs, Conversational Karaoke!!, deep listening, deep watching. Zaum/Beyonsense is a program of experimental shorts surrounding the Russian sound symbolist poetry movement / utopian… Read more »
Sound artists perform live electronic scores for experimental films. As with experimental film, electronic musicians approach their medium with unconventional structures, pushing against conventional boundaries or definitions. This departure incorporates and celebrates unexpected ingredients and impressions, breaking open new forms not-yet-categorizable. Come check out this evening of fresh, unprecedented cross-pollinations between Bay Area sound and… Read more »
Transit and the Ballot is part of an event series aimed at encouraging citizen participation in lowering our carbon footprint, and is helping raise funds for the documentary project, MIND THE GAP, a film about sustainable transportation. The event includes a Transit Pub Quiz, speaker Rebecca Long from the MTC talking about transit issues on… Read more »
ATA and Alternative Tentacles present: The Widower (7pm) Terminal City Ricochet (9pm) DVD + CD soundtrack release One of the most asked-about Biafra-related projects finally seeing the light of day! Never available on VHS and rarely shown outside of Canada, this dystopian vision is as timely as ever. Jello Biafra will appear in person for… Read more »
The second ATA festival shorts program explores futuristic landscapes and lo-fi culture. This program includes films and videos by Kathleen Quillian, Whitney Horn & Lev Kalman, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Jeff Guay, Zachary Epcar, Bryan Boyce, Jesse McLean, and Kerry Laitala. Chromadepth 3D glasses and chromatic jello shots will be provided. For complete information, including interviews with… Read more »
The first shorts program of ATA’s 2010 festival explores the relationship between our natural environment and consciousness. The screening includes films and videos by Paul Clipson, Sam Barnett, Bill Brown, Patricia McInroy, Gina Carducci & Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Vera Brunner-Sung, Karl Lind, John Palmer, and Maite Abella. The screening will be followed by the ceremonial… Read more »
Bill Hsu works with electronics and live animation systems. He has performed in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He is a founding member of the Beanbender’s collective, which organized over 150 concerts of new music in the San Francisco Bay area. He teaches and does research at San Francisco State University. Website: http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~whsu/art.html Gino… Read more »
99 Hooker highlights his Bay Area collaborations in his first screening here in many years: Next! West coast debut of acclaimed alt.doc on artist and character Ernst Benkert Attention Deficit Gift: A mind bending mash-up mind of old and new work. Program kick-offs with a couple of gems from the Bay Area ImprovCore scene: Bible… Read more »
The 1st Annual San Francisco Immigrant Film Festival will be screening works that explore a wide array of issues facing the global immigrant community. These works showcase the lives of immigrants, exiles, and their pursuit of equality and social justice. program: ‘Obesity’ (Obesidad) 7’, Vicky Ramirez, USA 2010, Doc. Food is a very important element… Read more »
The 1st Annual San Francisco Immigrant Film Festival will be screening works that explore a wide array of issues facing the global immigrant community. These works showcase the lives of immigrants, exiles, and their pursuit of equality and social justice. program: ‘Partenze‘ (Departures) , 5’, Antonello Novellino, DV, Italy 2010, Narrative Short, USA Premier. It… Read more »
The 1st Annual San Francisco Immigrant Film Festival will be screening works that explore a wide array of issues facing the global immigrant community. These works showcase the lives of immigrants, exiles, and their pursuit of equality and social justice. program: BORDER GATHERING 3mins, Adolfo Dávila García, HD, Mexico 2006, Doc. A divided family get… Read more »
ACTION ART LIVE ART PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION VIDEO ARTE SIN CENSURA NO BUDGET NO LIMITS RAW ART READY TO GO ACTION ART Performance Installations CURATED/PRODUCED by: gal*in_dog AKA Guillermo Galindo, Alyssa Lee, and Guillermo Gómez Peña. FESTIVAL SITE: http://www.myspace.com/powminiperformanceartfestival $12 in advance – $15 at door http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/125903 Just in time for the next credit crunch and as the main… Read more »
Liz Wing of ATA talked recently to the festival filmmakers about their work. You can read the interviews before or after you see it at the festival! Paul Clipson – Union Sam Barnett – Reduction Bill Brown -Chicago Corner Patricia McInroy – Found: Nothing Missing Vera Brunner-Sung – Untitled (Perlman Pl.) Karl Lind – Disconnected… Read more »
San Francisco Cinematheque presents: Pakistan and a radical interrogation of the documentary form. They write: “The scars of colonialism, partition and subsequent post-colonialist ventures of improvement run deep in Karachi. Representations of Pakistan by Western media portray a rogue state, suffering from conflict, extremism, natural disasters and sporadic martial law, made more fearsome by its… Read more »
ATA is pleased to present
IN PERSON: MELISSA AUF dER MAUR