I lived in the Mission for 14 years from 1995 to 2007. During that time I watched the neighborhood slowly change from a place where people moved to for cheap rent and work space to one of affluence and all the trappings that come with that. ATA had always been a source of gravity for… Read more »
Enter the hand-crafted, skin-grafted world of Christopher McManus in conversation with Vimeo’s Andrea Allen. www.disposablefilmfest.com
The Gaza Strip, a small territory on the Mediterranean largely inaccessible to the outside world, remains an enigmatic and misunderstood place. The Re-Imagining Gaza project seeks to explore and capture the human spirit and contrasting colors of Gaza, socially, culturally, and politically, through a series of cinematic interventions and participatory media. Roger Hill of Mental-Rev… Read more »
Static, feedback, interference and reception: analog and beyond Guest curator Paul Baker (Austin) will attend and perform a live static installation. Featured Artists: Joel Cadman (Spinning Lights) Gilles Chartier (Le Pixelour) Rosa Menkman Yoshi Sodeoka Lars Larsen (LZX Industries) Paul Baker www.freeformfilm.org
Sweet Crude is about Nigeria’s Niger Delta – the human and environmental consequences of 50 years of oil extraction, the history of non-violent protest, and the members of a new insurgency who became the young men of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND). The film confronts issues of human rights, resource control, environmental justice and… Read more »
Artists’ Television Access celebrates the first five years of the ATA Annual Film & Video Festival with a retrospective screening at the Roxie, Playback: 2006-2010, April 19th, 2011. The program includes works by Tommy Becker, Ariel Diaz, Paul Clipson, Zachary Epcar, Sam Barnett, Jibz Cameron & Hedia Maron, John Palmer, Rachel Manera, Carl Diehl, Martha… Read more »
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. Jack plots… Read more »
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 »
John Butcher’s work ranges through improvisation, his own compositions, multitracked saxophone pieces and explorations with feedback and extreme acoustics. He is well known as a soloist, recently exploring unusual site-specific acoustics, and has released seven CDs of solo saxophone music. He has toured and broadcast in Europe, Japan, North America and Australia. His compositions include… Read more »
Psychosis – an illness that is apparently incurable, a diagnosis that literally turns the lives of those involved upside-down. Nothing is the same as it once was, and the sojourns in psychiatric wards are often followed by a life-long dependence on medications that have severe side-effects. Talking about the illness is a taboo—for who wants… Read more »
The black-and-white film depicts the tumultuous period of 1956 when the controversial Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser stunned the world by seizing the Suez canal from its European owners, and declared it Egyptian property. The movie uses actual newsreel footage to illustrate the ensuing battle that pitted Egypt against Israel, Britain and France. The superpowers suppressed the crisis, and… Read more »
There is a traditional form of film presentation from the silent era which involves a speaking performer accompanying a projected film. One contemporary re-visioning of the form replays short scenes from modern films (with the sound muted) overdubbed live with new narration. Tonight’s program blends intervention, critique, satire and homage, featuring an ensemble piece with Tisa… Read more »
Club Sandwich presents: RANK/XEROX: http://mondovision.tv/rankxerox.html / http://myspace.com/rankxeroxx “Even as Rank/Xerox’s music (thus far) resonates with the very best of the grim, mesmeric post-punk seeping out of England in the early ’80s, their bracing sound feels wholly unforced. Born of this troubled moment, it hits an anxious nerve.” – SF Bay Guardian TENANTS: http://newtenants.blogspot.com / http://myspace.com/veinsss… Read more »
MISSION EYE & EAR: a new live cinema series film/video + music collaborations by: NARA DENNING + KASEY KNUDSEN CARL DIEHL + RANDY McKEAN MIKE KUCHAR + PHILLIP GREENLIEF … performed LIVE! plus: encore performance/screening: Postmark Tokyo by MARK WILSON (2007) with live score by duo B. (LISA MEZZACAPPA/JASON LEVIS) —– Artists’ Television Access (ATA) and… Read more »
presented by SF Cinematheque in association with Pacific Film Archive In the middle decades of the twentieth century, 8mm and Super-8mm film formats were introduced to the consumer markets as amateur mediums, “simpler” alternatives to the more expensive 16mm gauge. These small-scale tools also attracted artists for the spontaneity they afforded to filming, the fragility of… Read more »
The San Francisco Film Society presents Fever Dreams: Laurel Nakadate February 23-March 2, a multiplatform presentation of the work of the American multimedia artist. The program includes theatrical screenings of Nakadate’s two feature-length films, the presentation of a number of her short videos in nontheatrical venues and a collectible poster of her photography. Nakadate’s work… Read more »
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge | Scott Treleaven | Terence Hannum “The title for the show comes from a remark that Gysin made to Genesis, and Genesis to me: that magical training can only be passed on by the touching of hands.” — Scott Treleaven An evening of solo and collaborative projects by Scott Treleaven, Genesis Breyer… Read more »