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Archive for 2011

Jeremy Rourke

..it is a snow inspired piece from a wonderfully cold studio—can it snow please?—–the sun goes down early——there are elk on valencia, there is a buffalo breaking store windows, there are hearts all around that are beating——-the countryside is down an alley—-ata is a wonderful place——the countryside is everywhere—-there is snowy wild about the city—–

Small Press Traffic: Bay Area APIA poets and the Avant Garde led by Barbara Jane Reyes

Panel discussion on Bay Area Asian-Pacific-Islander-American poets and the avant-garde. In this panel, authors, editors, and educators will discuss APIA poetry, and their relationships with avant-garde poetries, the historical contexts for today’s poetries, and challenges or obstacles to writing with consideration to aesthetics and ethnic identity. Participants include Jai Arun Ravine, Margaret Rhee, Eileen Tabios,… Read more »

Other Cinema Benefit Celebration

ATA co-presents: Other Cinema Kickstarter campaign On Sat. December 17th, ATA Gallery hosts a benefit celebration for its flagship programming project, Other Cinema. Grounding the gallery’s media arts exhibitions for some 27 years, OC will be feted by such long-standing collaborators as Anne McGuire & Wobbly, once again joining forces as the vocalist/electronics duo Freddy… Read more »

Farewell to a Pilot: An evening with Thomas Carnacki and Sylvia Schedelbauer

 ATA presents an evening of expanded cinema, acoustics, and electronics, featuring a sonic performance and films by Thomas Carnacki and Sylvia Schedelbauer. The show will be grouped into 2 sections: The Thomas Carnacki ensemble deploying various and sundry devices, sound-emitting appliances, vibrating vessels, and odd found objects in a very rare live audio-visual collaboration among… Read more »

CCSF Directing Students Showcase

Join CCSF Department of Cinema’s Motion Picture Directing class for a screening of the 2011 final film projects. The showcase features a variety of narrative scenes starring Bay Area actors. Directing Students: Saara Annunen, Enrique Barrera, Ochi Batdavaajav, Francis Bautista, Alyssa Byrd, Scott Dietrich, Sarah Haugen, Norio Horikawa, Tanya Marino, Jimmy Nguyen, Alex Ortego, Lawrence… Read more »

Visions of Them – 20 Short Films from SFSU Cinema

Students at SFSU Cinema Department’s Experimental Documentary Workshop screen short film portraits from Fall 2011. In these short films, students use the language of cinema to tell you about someone –  Dads; kids in trouble; loved ones lost; people between cultures; and ‘casual encounters.’ Doors at 6:30, Show at 7:30   Free

ATA Fundraiser: The ATA Winter Beach Formal

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Come see your favorite local bands & support ATA! There will be a raffle with amazing prizes and limited edition tote bags designed by local artist Matt Furie Beach and/or formal attire encouraged! Shannon & the Clams Buffalo Tooth Primitive Hearts Chen Santa Maria Puce Moment Cool Ghouls American Splits Artists’ Television Access 992 Valencia… Read more »

OCCUPY!

Please join us for a night of videos, sound, performance, poetry, film and discussion about the Occupy movement. With work about: Occupy History Oakland General Strike Occupy San Francisco Media La comunidad de la Mission UC Davis student protests Why do we Occupy? Artists including: Molly Hankwitz Martha Colburn OccupySF Poets OccupySF Media David Cox… Read more »

USF end of the year Student Showcase

The University of San Francisco’s Advanced Narrative Production and Motion Graphics Class end of the semester screening. The Motion Graphics Class is taught by Bryan Boyce and students will demonstrate their knowledge of After Effects, Photoshop, Green-screen, and other elements of digital motion. The Advanced Narrative Production class is taught by Danny Plotnick and features… Read more »

EPILOGUES: Another Positivist (trans)formation

8pm-8:45pm ~ Diologu’in & Dance Party ~ Come early to meet the filmmakers and share some snacks & drinks! Featuring live DJ’d soundscapes from Commedia Sexy All’italiana, Vitamin Wig C. 9pm-10:45pm ~ Screening ~ Bring your friends, lovers, collaborators Fims by: • Luke Baldwin • Keith Ballard • Ama Birch • GC Erenberg • Aimee Goguen • Robert Hansen… Read more »

Dayv Jones Video Retrospective II

This retrospective of video artist Dayv Jones will include works first aired on his cable access shows stonewall warriors and artists’ television including 90’s riot grrrl bands and performance artists as well as Dayv’s experimental video works. It will also debut a couple of new works include a live video performance that will be accompanied… Read more »

Small Press Traffic: Kaplan Harris in conversation with Bruce Boone and Robert Glück

Thirty years after the LeftWrite conference,Kaplan Harris sits down with the organizers of the conference to revisit some of the motivations, fractures and legacies of this seminal moment in Bay Area History.Kaplan Harris is writing a grassroots history of poetry and activism in the wake of the New Left. His recent work is found in… Read more »

FREQUENCY SPECTRUMS/Works with sound & film

  JOHN DAVIS AND PAUL CLIPSON TASHI WADA AND MADISON BROOKSHIRE BEN BRACKEN AND JOHN DAVIS   Passage: a new work in sound and light for two projectors by Madison Brookshire and Tashi Wada.   Madison Brookshire is a Los Angeles-based artist whose interdisciplinary work investigates modes of perception and qualities of time. He has… Read more »

OpenScreening

ATA’s openscreening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area.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 »

Right window Gallery: Melissa Wyman: Backwards Beasts (opening)

Melissa Wyman’s Backwards Beasts is the marrying of two participatory projects that explore the awkward and symbiotic nature of interpersonal relationships. Collaborating with intimate partners, total strangers, and her 14 month old daughter, she utilizes wrestling and backwards gestures to seek out the transition (and oscillation) between forced and fluid moments: when ‘foreign’ or strange actions appear… Read more »

Once It Started It Could Not End: Cut-Ups and Collage by Sears, Cox, Kennedy and Rosentrater

sf cinematheque presents:  David Cox and Kelly Sears In Person Very apocalyptic, but also very charming. With a visual style recalling a digital-era Lewis Klahr, the video work of Kelly Sears draws significantly on the American vernacular of mid-century advertising, industrial cinema and other ephemeral forms to describe a paranoiac culture of surveillance and secret… Read more »

ATA Announces Band Line-Up for December Fundraiser

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Artists’ Television Access announces the band line-up for its Sunday, December 11, 2011 fundraiser, The ATA Winter Beach Formal. Shannon & the Clams Buffalo Tooth Primitive Hearts Chen Santa Maria Puce Moment Cool Ghouls American Splits There will be a raffle with amazing prizes and limited edition tote bags designed by… Read more »

Beautiful Moving Images

San Francisco premieres of new work plus some older favorites. T. S. Eliot’s words meet their visual match plus the poetry of solitary nature. Views of everyday surroundings and a library of books waiting to be read. Christo’s Central Park curtains and an airport made geometric. The program includes Christina Battle’s To Reveal the Fourteen Windows; Minyong… Read more »

Periwinkle Queer Cinema: Food!

 Adults Only “Falling in Love with Chris & Greg” Episode 3: “Food” , 26 min. video by Chris Vargas & Greg Youmans Earlier episodes are available here: http://www.fallinginlovewithchrisandgreg.com/ Plus: queer shorts about food by: Lindsay Laven, Matthew Strange, Vainhein & Vulvaareola, Peter Max Lawrence, Christopher Carroll, Lorin Murphy, and more! Also: yummy door prizes, refreshments and fun! Image by: Jason… Read more »

Right Window Gallery: Patrick Hillman: Sets & Reps (opening)

Patrick Hillman’s new installation Sets & Reps evolved from a series of conversations and interactions between the artist and a 70 year old bodybuilder named Guy. Discussions on male muscle culture, gay sex apps, and heartbreak translated into a diverse range of works including crocheted undergarments, a paper and Mylar sculpture, and a series of photographs. Patrick Hillman is a San… Read more »

Brazil on Screen

ATA presents Brazil on Screen, an ongoing program of contemporary Brazilian film. The evening opens with the North American premier of A Vermelha Luz do Bandido (The Bandit’s Red Light) followed by  Rogério Sganzerla’s 1968 film O Bandido da Luz Vermelha  (The Red Light Bandit). A Vermelha Luz do Bandido (The Bandit’s Red Light), 16:00… Read more »

Right Window Gallery: Abner Nolan: Babble (opening)

San Francisco based artist Abner Nolan’s Babble is informed by the wandering creative impulses of his 4 year old son. The installation combines videos documenting the intimate building of temporary structures overlaid by boarded up windows, a contemporary symbol of urban recession and blight. Abner Nolan is a San Francisco-based artist. His work has been included in… Read more »

Small Press Traffic: A Conversation….

A conversation with Robin Tremblay-McGaw and Alysia Abbott Poet and critic Tremblay-McGaw converses with writer and radio producer Alysia Abbott about her father Steve Abbott’s relationship to the Bay Area writing scene as the editor of Poetry Flash and Soup and as one of the lead organizers of the LeftWrite Conference. Robin Tremblay-McGaw lives in San… Read more »

Worlds Within Worlds: Remembering Owen Land

Among filmmakers, George Landow/Owen Land (1944–2011) was frequently ahead of his time and always profoundly original. In the 1960s, arguably the golden age of so-called lyrical filmmaking, Landow’s own early films explored the physical properties of film and the paradoxes of visual representation in ways that anticipated the next decade’s vogue of “Structural Film.” Of… Read more »

Openscreening

ATA’s openscreening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area.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 »

Right Window Gallery: CLASSIC ROCK

CLASSIC ROCK Anne McGuire and Karla Milosevich   Reception Sunday, October 23rd, 5-8pm www.rightwindow.com

Valencia Chapter 5 Fundraiser Sneak Preview Party

Michelle Tea’s novel Valencia is being adapted into a feature film. The project is made up of 21 individual short film chapters by a variety of artists and filmmakers. This is a fundraiser for the cast and crewof “Chapter 5”. The chapter is directed by Hilary Goldberg, produced by Shani Heckman, and features Tanya Wischerath… Read more »

Valencia Chapter 5 Fundraiser Sneak Preview Party

Michelle Tea’s novel Valencia is being adapted into a feature film. The project is made up of 21 individual short film chapters by a variety of artists and filmmakers. This is a fundraiser for the cast and crewof “Chapter 5”. The chapter is directed by Hilary Goldberg, produced by Shani Heckman, and features Tanya Wischerath… Read more »

Lumière and After

San Francisco Cinematheque in association with ODC Theater present In December 1895, French industrialists Auguste and Louis Lumière presented, at Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris, an event which was (arguably) the world’s first public film screening: a series of ten films—each less than a minute in duration—depicting, variously, industrial processes, the activity of… Read more »

Periwinkle Queer Cinema: SEX MAGICK & ALTER-EGOS –

Periwinkle Queer Cinema Every 3rd Weds. • ADULTS ONLY! • SEX MAGICK & ALTER-EGOS – a witches’ brew of shorts about rituals and transformation, bizarre sexuality and occult phantasmagoria “Alien Sex Video” • 4 min • Jenn Kolmel and Kate Gilbert “I Know My Soul” • 3 min • Crystal Mason “Certain Death” • 4… Read more »

6th ATA Film & Video Festival – SUPER8 FILM WORKSHOP

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Super8 Film Workshop Learn the Basics of Super 8mm Film This hands-on workshop will give you the basic skills to get started in Super8. The first meeting begins with a brief history of Super8, basic camera operation & shooting tips. Then each student will shoot their own 50ft cartridge of B&W reversal film. The second… Read more »

6th ATA Film & Video Festival – SLING-SHOTS

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The second shorts program of ATA’s 2011 festival explores the archetypal Davids and Goliaths in our experiences. This program includes films and videos by Bryan Boyce, Chris Matule, Andrew Wilson, Clint Enns, Shalo P, Tim Gallaher, Hazel Gore, Peter Freund, Karl Lind, Dayv Jones and Douglas Katelus. Join us before the films and during intermission… Read more »

6th ATA Film & Video Festival – CITY SYMPHONIES

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The first shorts program of ATA’s 2011 festival explores the physical and emotional landscapes of our world. The screening includes films and videos by Tommy Becker, David Baumflek, Rachel Manera, Stephanie Barber, Alexandra Cuesta, Lori Felker & Robert Todd, Nadia Rais, Friedl Vom Gröller and Paul Clipson. Join us before the films and during intermission… Read more »

6th ATA Film & Video Festival – OPENING RECEPTION

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ATA will kick off this year’s festival with a reception, 7pm to 9pm, open to the public. Stop by and meet the filmmakers, check out the installation and enjoy light refreshments.

Glitch vs. Scratch

The MisALT Screening Series is excited to present its October screening: “Glitch vs. Scratch.” This screening seeks to create a dialog between artists working in Scratch Cinema (film based practices that make interventions on the celluloid level) and Glitch based video and media practices (which manipulate images by exploiting vulnerabilities on the molecular and electron… Read more »

Diaries of George Kuchar

  In celebration of  Gerge Kuchar’s life and work, ATA and Mike Kuchar present an evening of video diaries. George Kuchar was perhaps the most prolific and influential underground filmmaker . With his twin brother, Mike — and later, alone — Kuchar made some of the earliest films in the 1960s explosion of experimental movies. The… Read more »

Radical Adults Lick God Head Style! New Weird Urbanism and the Rapture of Decay

San Francisco Cinematheque presents:  From Baltimore to Providence to Chicago to San Francisco, we lurch, drift and dream. In moldering back alleys and along gentrified promenades those with eyes to see create poignant cine-poems of decay, rebirth and love among the ruins. A cinema of desperation and possibility, these films jump between documentary, narrative and… Read more »

TO DREAM OF FALLING UPWARDS

    A Film by Antero Alli (in person): The elder Magus of the Thelemic Temple of Horus (Arden Schaeffer) just passed away. Jack Mason (James Wagner), a promising sex magickian cultivated to advance the lineage,  loses it all when the elder Magus’ biological son (Duncan Cook) unexpectedly inherits everything with plans to commercialize and franchise the Temple…. Read more »

OpenScreening

  ATA’s openscreening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Ar   ea.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…. Read more »

Small Press Traffic: an night with How(ever) with Kathleen Fraser, Susan Gevirtz and Bev Dahlen

Join Kathleen Fraser, Susan Gevirtz and Beverly Dahlen to discuss the arrival and labors of HOW(ever), a magazine dedicated to the inquiry into modernist and contemporary innovative writing practices by women. WHY HOW(ever)? And what about the women poets who were writing experimentally? Oh, were there women poets writing experimentally? Yes there were, they were…. Read more »

Right Window Gallery: Capitalism Is Over! If You Want It

Capitalism Is Over! If You Want It presents a screening of “Living Without Money” in conjunction with current exhibition at Right Window. Panel discussion to follow. Screening of documentary film “Living Without Money” 25 September 2011 at 2.00 pm $5 donation – no one turned away for lack of funds Capitalism Is Over! If You… Read more »

UNDER THE PAVEMENT – A Premiere Exhibition: New Works by Experimental Filmmaker Nara Denning

Opening with a live darkly eccentric set by MR. ODOM & THE ODOM POLES   UNDER the PAVEMENT is a feature length compendium of five short films united under a common theme of identity crisis in the modern era.  Each story presents a conflict between inner and outer reality that takes shape in the characters’ dreams… Read more »

UNDER THE PAVEMENT – A Premiere Exhibition: New Works by Experimental Filmmaker Nara Denning

Opening with live chamber music by THE CLASSICAL REVOLUTION  UNDER the PAVEMENT is a feature length compendium of five short films united under a common theme of identity crisis in the modern era.  Each story presents a conflict between inner and outer reality that takes shape in the characters’ dreams and interior lives. Here they… Read more »

Right Window Gallery: Capitalism Is Over! If You Want It

Capitalism Is Over! If You Want It presents a screening of “Living Without Money” in conjunction with current exhibition at Right Window. Panel discussion to follow. Screening of documentary film “Living Without Money” 25 September 2011 at 2.00 pm   Capitalism Is Over! If You Want It Installation at Right Window September 1 – October… Read more »

Films from Four Mountain Ranges by Marcy Saude

A program of recent experimental documentary shorts investigating marginal histories embedded in the landscape. Fragmented tales of outlaws, back-to-the-landers, farmers, and most of all- mountains. Former gold rush boom towns; serial killers in Santa Cruz, California; anabaptist folk medicine as performance art; anarchists and Comanche re-enactors; a rural festival of antique farming technology; quiet looks… Read more »

Periwinkle Queer Cinema Series

 Every 3rd Wednesday, Periwinkle Queer Cinema Series showcase video and films across genres from a broad spectrum of LGBTQ filmmakers. The series was started by filmmaker Lorin Murphy at the legendary big GAY warehouse in San Francisco. Program:    3 min Lezbrarian by Chris Vargas 4 min. Have you Seen A Transsexual Before? by Chris Vargas        … Read more »

Small Press Traffic

Please join Small Press Traffic for our season opener with a screening of Warren Sonbert’s “A Woman’s Touch” (with introduction by Alan Bernheimer and Melissa Reilly) plus a sound piece by Jim Brashear!

MISSION EYE & EAR

a live cinema series at Artists’ Television Access (ATA) curated by Lisa Mezzacappa and ATA    New film/video + music collaborations by: CORY WRIGHT +  BILL BASQUIN GRAHAM CONNAH +  KATHLEEN QUILLIAN LISA MEZZACAPPA/NOAH PHILLIPS  +  SYLVIA SCHEDELBAUER RANDY MCKEAN + CARL DIEHL   … performed LIVE!   SAN FRANCISCO – Artists’ Television Access (ATA) and… Read more »

By chance and by sleight of hand…expanded cinema by Leyna Marika Papach, Jerry Smith, Jim Haynes, and Thomas Carnacki

23five Incorporated & ATA present: Leyna Marika Papach (New York) Jerry Smith (Oakland) Jim Haynes (Berkeley) Thomas Carnacki (Berkeley) 23five Incorporated presents an evening of expanded cinema at ATA. Leyna Marika Papach will be collaborating with Jerry Smith on a performance based on the idea of a game, with numbers, chance, and music and image… Read more »

Artists’ Television Access announces 6th Annual Film & Video Festival program

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — The 6th Annual Artists’ Television Access Film & Video Festival celebrates original, independent and underground film & video with screenings, a filmmaker reception, a media installation and a hands-on workshop, October 19-23. On Wednesday, October 19, ATA will kick off the festival with a reception, open to the public. Stop by… Read more »

OpenScreening

ATA’s openscreening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area. 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… Read more »

“NACO es CHIDO” – “KITSCH is COOL”

 Naco es Chido is the brainchild of Sergio and Yareli Arau, a mockumentary on the epic return of Botellita de Jerez. Directed by Sergio Arau, the film tells the story of Botellita de Jerez, who disappeared along with their new record after a fist fight. 20 years later, the infamous missing recordings are found in… Read more »

installation by Jasmin Lim

Lim creates sculptural photographs that explore the mechanics of perception and the ways the mind distorts and obscures raw visual information to conceptualize the world. Her work seeks to draw attention to this mediated experience. With this installation, Lim has used as a sample case study the saga of JT LeRoy, homeless youth turned author,… Read more »

3rd i Queer Eye: Flying with One Wing

3rd i puts on its queer eye again this summer! Join us for a weekend of films and performances celebrating LGBT stories from contemporary Sri Lanka to ancient India. Flying with One Wing; Asoka Handagama (Sri Lanka, 2002, 81mins) In anticipation of a focus on Sri Lanka at our annual festival this November, 3rd i’s… Read more »

DIMENSIONS

Everyone experiences the world differently. Sights, sounds, and feelings are processed by theconscious mind and are then followed by internal thoughts and reactions. The quality of these conscious experiences and how the brain processes them is a phenomenonthat remains one of the greatest mysteries in science. “Dimensions brings together local and international artists to share… Read more »

Face of a Stranger

  While famed director Nichols Ray worked on his “experimental” film with students at SUNY COLLEGE in Binghamtom, N.Y., local upstart David Michalak worked on his own feature, paying tribute to shadowy German expressionism, silent movies and the serials of the 1920s.  It is a story of a kind-hearted man who turns to cruelty when his lover dies… Read more »

Strangelet + Brale.co

Improvised sound and 16mm film from Lucio Menegon‘s Strangelet [with Valerie Kuehne, Paul Pinto and Jeffrey Young (NY), Suki O’Kane and Michael Zelner with films by Alfonso Alvarez] and Brale.co [Bruce Anderson, Dale Sophiea, Gregory Hagan and Nico Sophiea with films by Lorin Murphy] And then the story behind them: Local filmmakers and musicians convene… Read more »

The Writer

Co-presented by Cinema Speakeasy  http://cinemaspeakeasy.com/sf/ The Writer wanders the streets in a search for belonging and a chance to get his work published. All the while he is fast losing his grip on reality. A chance encounter with a woman while he wanders the streets homeless gives him hope for a better outcome in his… Read more »

THE ANIMAL WITHIN

A program of short films selected by NYC artist-curator Billy Miller* Featuring: Safari (2008), by: Catherine Chalmers Photographer Catherine Chalmers (who may be best known in biology circles for her portraits of genetically modified mice) goes beyond brutal accuracy in her animal photography. In Safari, the artist straddles the border between the real and the… Read more »

OpenScreening

ATA’s openscreening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Ar ea.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… Read more »

ATA SUNDAY SALOON: Resonant Forms

West Coast Tour Kick Off 4 solo sound performances by West Coast artists Zachary James Watkins (Oakland), Ryan Gregory Tallman (Fresno), John Krausbauer (Portland) and Collin McKelvey (Oakland). Works are intimate, textures unfold patiently, resonance is holy and improvisation is unavoidable.  Bay Area multi-media artist Keith Evans whose work is concerned with the “ephemeral and… Read more »

The Sing It Out Loud Tour: Experimental Animations by Jodie Mack

Jodie Mack is an independent animator, curator, and historian-in-training who received her MFA in film, video, and new media from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007 and currently teaches animation at Dartmouth College. Combining the formal techniques and structures of abstract/absolute animation with those of cinematic genres, her handmade films use… Read more »

Fog Tropes # 2

ATA presents: an evening of Image and sound with Monopoly Child Star Seachers (Portland) w/ a video by Spencer Clark Orphan Fairytale (Belgium) w/ Titania”  by Spencer Clark Pod Blotz w/ a film by Suzy Poling Sudden Oak w/ a film by Zach Iannazzi MONOPOLY CHILD STAR SEARCHERS w/ “The Spectacle of Light Abductions” (VHS)… Read more »

Rick Bahto/Robbie Land: Poetry of Place

Rick Bahto and Robbie Land in person   In celebration of small gestures and displaced meanders, San Francisco Cinematheque presents this rare summer screening, a convergence of two artists who create mysterious and lush explorations of the visual world each with extremely patient, almost reverent senses of place, of memory, and of time. From Los… Read more »

Cartoon Justice presents: Electric Eclectic Kinetic – Generative Video with Live Improv

 an Evening of Generative Video with Live Improvised scores by two very different the electro-acoustic band’s Cartoon Justice and Eurostasche  Cartoon Justice will perform live scores for  2 short Buton films by Jorge Davies and for the Kinetic Video’s “Socialmedia Hallucinarium R23” ***, “Primoria 3”, and “Transversions” by Mika Pontecorvo/Meg Schoerke/Neal Elzenga/Kersti Abrams…(live band –… Read more »

The Search: The Seeker: The Spirit: An Evening of Films by Kirthi Nath

ATA,  3rd i and CAAM present: The Search: The Seeker: The Spirit Kirthi Nath makes films that that seem spun from dreams. She has established a body of creative work that fluidly straddles genres, occupying a fertile landscape of cultural poetics, experimentalism, documentary and hybrid narrative. Tactile and dreamlike, her work explores storytelling, memory, desire, spirituality… Read more »

The Autonomy of Place: Cut + Run Tour 2011

Traveling film festival, Cut + Run, hits the road again for their 3rd annual tour of experimental short films. This year C+R presents the work of American filmmakers from throughout the country each exploring the fringes of the Autonomy of Place. Each film uniquely investigates the capacities in which we recognize the politics and philosophies of the forgotten,… Read more »

OpenScreening

ATA’s openscreening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area.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 »

ATA SUNDAY SALOON

  High energy music from 3 Bay Area bands dabbling in punk, jazz and metal. While in turn keeping it all a “physical” sound. HIGH CASTLE NO BABIES NUCLEAR DEATH WISH myspace.com/nucleardeathwish www.myspace.com/highcastleyayyay http://www.myspace.com/nobabies KUSF in Exile’s own DJ Cactus between sets with visuals by Douglas Katelus.

Recent Work by Rick Bahto and Casey Anderson

Los Angeles-based artists Rick Bahto and Casey Anderson present recent performance work across multiple media. Bahto will present his works You’re Already Dead for several readers and 16 mm film loop (realized by Lauren Sorensen, to whom the work is dedicated), two Super 8 filmsLebensraum and For Pablo Valencia, and the indeterminate Bouquet (for Casey Anderson).Anderson will… Read more »

Facebuuk Puppet Musical

“Facebuuk the Puppet Musical” is a video project involving four whimsical puppets who are obsessed with social networking. Their songs weave tails of despair, joy and triumph as they interact with each other in the mythical land of Facebuuk. Join Jenny Meow (the FB Status Junkie), Conrad Covic, (FB Causes Guy), Melody Manson (FB Stalker)… Read more »

Cupid Courier Collective

Cupid Courier Collective 1999-present a homage film Tanya Mia’s premier experimental documentary honors San Francisco’s Cupid Courier Collective’s ten plus years in service in the bay area. The film is composed of interviews exploring their progressive business model. It is layered with bike helmet footage captured on the streets in 2010 by the Cupid couriers. 14… Read more »

Reckon the Earth

  You shall possess the good of the earth and sun . . . . there are millions of suns left, You shall no longer take things at second and third hand . . . . nor look through the eyes of the dead . . . . nor feed on the specters in books,… Read more »

Trees Tropiques & Remembering Bagua

An observational immersion in life along the waterways where the sweet water of the Amazon basin mixes with the salty Atlantic Ocean is interrupted by questions about the ethics of including images of deforestation, which could land the protagonist in trouble with the environmental police. The editing waxes experimental, prompting the viewer to revisit editorial… Read more »

Fujiyama in Red: Japanese Tsunami Relief w/ Felt Drawing + Dominique Leone + Great Willow

Presented by Other Cinema

Tonight! Japanese Tsunami Relief hosted by Other Cinema at ATA!

OTHER CINEMA‘s Spring ’11 screening calendar is in fact extended into June with the extraordinary addition of a special program that responds to world crises during the term of our on-going series… Fujiyama in Red (after the1990 Kurosawa movie that foresaw the catastrophe) is a live A/V show that we’re staging to raise funds for Japanese Tsunami Relief…. Read more »

MISSION EYE & EAR

Organized by Lisa Mezzacappa & Fara Akrami
with support from Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposure Program
and the Subito Program of the American Composer’s Forum.

Eric Stanley & Jason Fritz: Necrocapital

Necrocapital is an installation created by Eric Stanley and Jason Fritz that brings together the HIV/AIDS pandemic, global capital, and the work of death. In conversation with the ghosted histories of AIDS art and current writing on biopolitics, we question our silent cohabitation of a world where life is predicated upon access to cash. Through… Read more »

SAICOMANIA

Presented by Colectivo Cinema Errante. Peruvian garage band Los Saicos have gone down in musical history for being one of the most legendary, yet short lasting, Latin American rock bands. Critics far and wide now label them Latin America’s first punk band or even go so far as to suggest they were one of the… Read more »

Community College Student Films…

Because Everyone Deserves a Second Chance Come and celebrate new work from the Cinema Department of City College, Featuring work by: Ana Arcioni R. Wyatt Batty Blue Aerial Bergen Davide F. Brusa’ Amy Covell Tom Ellis Claudia Escobar Sarah Haugen Judith Keenan Kevin Kranzky Shevi Loewinger Anna Lisa Marten Julio Menard Rocio Miller Prang Nimmukda… Read more »