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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 »
Mike Kuchar and Chris Vargas in person.
This program is organized by Jason Fritz Michael, Eric Stanley and Margaret Tedesco.
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ATA and Other Cinema co-present: a screening of recent media-artworks, towards the raising of funds to help our dear sister-artist Dara Greenwald, fighting for her life against cancer. Ms. Greenwald is the author of a very many video works, especially those around themes of history, activism, and feminism. She was formerly a principal at Video Data… Read more »
This screening features short films relating to the movement to promote sustainable and economically just practices to the trucking and port industry. It includes “Race to the Bottom” which depicts how the miss-classification of Port truckers has lead to major labor and environmental justice issues right here in the Bay Area, and especially West Oakland…. Read more »
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Experimental, fiction and documentary films from advanced production Media Studies classes at the University of San Francisco. Filmmakers include: Joseph Zolonoski Daniela Ricci-Tam Rachelle Phillips Elliot O’Dea Chelsea Mohr Vicki Moratati Grecia Lacayo Rebecca Chan David Camacho Lindsay Arakawa Ben Ambrogi Jaime Giacomi Tabish Habib Derek Hanson Kevin Kunze Daniel Madore Alexa Michael Robin Pagnanelli… 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 »
Stars burn out, legends live forever.Legends never die, they just get shot. Blaze Foley: Duct Tape Messiah is a documentary about the doomed poet whose life was a country song. Born in a tree house, killed in a friend’s living room and 86’d from his own funeral, Blaze Foley is now a bona fide Texas… Read more »
Programs: 12 noon – 3:30 pm (shows screen on the hour and half hour) PROGRAMS: A Trip Down Market Street, Old and New: shorts from theExploritorium and Oddball Film and Video Urban Bike Tips: from Mind the Gap Runner/Skater/Biker: shorts from The Disposable Film Festivaland The Three-Minute Picture Show Moving Beyond the Automobile, from Street Films (tentative) This year at… Read more »
SFSU (Conceptual Information Arts) presents: new works by: Evan Albertson Leslie Armstrong Nova Barton Sean Bennett Patrick Boehner Sarah Castle Christina Davidson Alice Esposito Taylor Fitzgerald Alex Galaviz Audrey Goodman Jessica Johnston Christopher Lopez David Mcmahon Jordan Perkins-Lewis Astrid Ramos Hanada Shagour Spencer Siegrist Michael Thurin Andy Zevallos
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Join us for a wide-ranging evening of experiments in electronic performance, put on by students of SFAI’s ‘Signal to Noise’ class. Led by instructor Andrew Benson, the performers blur the lines between audio and video, the body, the circuit, and the signal. Featuring performances by Hannah Kirby, Emily Chaves, Travis Miller, Nick Thomas, Taylor Buttling,… Read more »
The Free Form Film Festival presents an eclectic night of new performance, documentary and experimental works. Featuring the buzzing sounds of the earth magnet, a simple fellow and his epic battle to bring down a dead oak, an ode to the mortality and spirit of the chicken and more. Live musical guests: Bones and Balloons… 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 »
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A mix of talk show, comedy, and music performance. Hosted by George Chen publisher V. Vale (http://researchpubs.com/) comedian Chris Thayer (http://www.facebook.com/christhayercomedy) cartoonist Jason Shiga (http://www.shigabooks.com/) performance by Tastyville (http://www.mefeedia.com/watch/37358604) music by Spaceburn (Steve Santa Maria and Brian Tester) $5 all ages Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=154136854639400
April 19, 2011 – 11:25 pm
Try going a day without plastic. Plastic is everywhere and infiltrates our lives in unimaginable and frightening ways. In this touching and often flat-out-funny film, we follow “everyman” Jeb Berrier, who is admittedly not a tree hugger, as he embarks on a global tour to unravel the complexities of our plastic world. What starts as… Read more »
Curated and presented by Dale Hoyt presented by SF Cinematheque in collaboration with Pacific Film Archive During its 30+ years of existence, the San Francisco Art Institute’s New Genres (formerly Performance/Video) department has produced innumerable high-caliber artists and has influenced performance and conceptual art on a global scale. Simultaneously, the department’s commitment to maintaining state-of-the-art… Read more »
A new short by Elia Vargas, Woven is textures of reality balanced in psychosis. It is a narrative driven as much by sound as by image that explores our relationship to the world through our perceptions. Those five wonderful sensory tools that extend our percepts. Woven observes Valentine as she undergoes an animalistic transformation in… Read more »
Amreeka chronicles the adventures of Muna, a single mother who leaves the Palestinian West Bank with Fadi, her teenage son, with dreams of an exciting future in the promised land of small town Illinois. In America, as her son navigates high school hallways the way he used to move through military checkpoints, the indomitable Muna… Read more »
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Julie Indelicato (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_lU43SQxs4) Julie ‘s song writing style lends to the great female artist like Ani DiFranco’s guitar playing and is often characterized by a signature staccoto style rapid fingerpicking and many alternate tunings. She delivers many of her lines in a speaking style notable for its poetic fashion. Leo Suarez (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvHBkHhZK88) Leo started playing… Read more »
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 »
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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 »
February 27, 2011 – 7:00 pm
Co-presented by Cut and Run Radical collective Red Channels is in town from New York City, and is bringing rare films and videos to screen, and for use in stimulating open discussion. This program features early examples of video art, collectively produced documentary, and recent reenactments, which explore the relationship of moving image artists to… Read more »
February 27, 2011 – 4:00 pm
Arcade Fire are literally on fire these days and deservedly so—it’s been a phenomenal year for the band in so many ways with The Suburbs riding high in the charts and on a wide range of Top 10s, collaborations with Terry Gilliam and Spike Jonze, the HTML 5 interactive short film, a recent packed-out world… Read more »
February 27, 2011 – 2:00 pm
Ivory Tower starring Chilly Gonzalez, Tiga, Peaches and Feist with music by Chilly Gonzalez and Boys Noize, is the story of two brothers and their unhealthy rivalry over both the chessboard and a woman. Hershell is a chess purist, the prodigal son. Thadeus is a disciplined, ruthless competitor. After 4 nomadic years in Europe, in… Read more »
February 25, 2011 – 9:00 pm
“..makes you feel like you’re in a tiny apartment twenty stories above a city of open sewers, big churches, and satellite dishes, and this scrawny guy with eyes like M&Ms is playing these oddball pop songs that make you want to laugh and cry.”-Rolling Stone This SF Premiere of the award winning documentary on dynamic pioneering Brazilian musician Tom… Read more »
February 25, 2011 – 7:00 pm
Pool Party is the surprising story of the largest swimming pool in New York City that transformed into the most unique music venue the world has seen. Both an eclectic music showcase and an urban history lesson, this documentary follows the pulse of McCarren Pool as it reflects the state of the neighborhood in which it lives—Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Weaving stories of… Read more »
February 24, 2011 – 8:00 pm
A n evening of film-work alongside live experimental sound pieces with: Tashi Wada & Madison Brookshire En & Paul Clipson Radiant Husk & Zach Iannazzi Sean McCann —- Tashi Wada “Wada is obsessed by the brain scrambling properties of sustained tones and maximalist microtonal confusion and Alignment – written by Wada and performed on violin… Read more »
February 22, 2011 – 11:31 am
Opening reception Tuesday, February 1st, 7-10pm Bridge abstracts the everyday experience of driving. In this work, a video of driving across a bridge is projected on ten layers of scrim. With each layer of scrim we see a larger and larger image, thus showing us the space in which video projection exists. The exaggerated perspective… Read more »
February 19, 2011 – 1:30 pm
This afternoon will also feature a talk by writer Lierre Keith.
February 18, 2011 – 8:00 pm
In August 2010, French filmmaker Vincent Moon and Efterklang’s 8 piece-live band met up on an island off the Danish coast. The objective was to shoot a film. A film with the same length as an album, and a film full of performances, experiments and collaborations. Over an intense period of 4 days Efterklang collaborated… Read more »
February 17, 2011 – 8:00 pm
Early submissions for February’s Open Screening include the work of: Miko Riverenza, Robert Hansen and Gina Clark, Jocelyn Marquis, Brian Delu Fan, and Aren Haun. 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… Read more »
February 10, 2011 – 7:30 pm
IN celebration of Black History Month, Answer Coalition presents: Freedom On My Mind: Nominated for an Academy Award, this landmark film tells the story of the Mississippi freedom movement in the early 1960s when a handful of young activists changed history. When Bob Moses came to Mississippi in 1961 to head up the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee’s… Read more »
February 6, 2011 – 7:30 pm
On Sunday, February 6, ATA celebrates the 100th birthday of the most powerful B movie actor in the free world with a critical collection of Ronald Reagan’s finest and most ironic big screen moments curated by Bryan Boyce. Experience the overwhelming force of Reagan’s bland charisma as it was meant to be seen… in an underground… Read more »
February 5, 2011 – 9:28 am
Artists’ Television Access invites experimental film and video makers to submit their work to its 6th Annual ATA Film and Video Festival. Works including but not limited to, animation, documentary, narrative, abstract and found footage based will be accepted. Also, this year we are open for proposals for workshops, installations and media performances. The ATA… Read more »
February 1, 2011 – 7:00 pm
Opening reception Tuesday, February 1st, 7-10pm Bridge abstracts the everyday experience of driving. In this work, a video of driving across a bridge is projected on ten layers of scrim. With each layer of scrim we see a larger and larger image, thus showing us the space in which video projection exists. The exaggerated perspective… Read more »
January 29, 2011 – 5:00 pm
Artists’ Television Access proudly invites the Bay Area community to celebrate 26 years of cutting edge, alternative and experimental art at this year’s fundraiser. The night features a live and silent art auction of work from almost 50 established and emerging artists, with live musical performances by Grass Widow and Puce Moment, and visual presentation… Read more »
January 28, 2011 – 6:30 pm
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The San Francisco Chapter of UNIFEM (United Nations Development Fund for Women) will host a fundraiser to support the work of Ninel (Neli) Babcinschi, an advocate and defender of trafficked victims in Moldova. Participants will hear from Kate Transchel, professor of Russian at California State University at Chico, and an expert in human trafficking in… Read more »
January 27, 2011 – 8:00 pm
BROKEN WINDOWS: In early December 2008, after Republic Windows and Doors abruptly told its workers that it was shutting down the operations, 240 members of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) occupied the plant. The executives of the company claimed that the Bank of America had canceled Republic’s line of credit, making it impossible… Read more »
January 23, 2011 – 11:00 pm
Live Art/Meditation by the Community at the San Francisco Buddhist Center (around the corner from ATA on Bartlett Street) Saturdays and Sundays January 15 & 16: 10am-6pm January 22 & 23: 10am-6pm Plus a special screening of With One Voice, a documentary film about mysticism Sunday, January 16th, 6pm For more information, please contact Suvanna… Read more »
January 21, 2011 – 9:31 am
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“Cut and Run began in early 2009 in San Francisco as a single screening event at Artists’ Television Access. It has since evolved into an annual traveling film festival featuring experimental and avant-garde cinema, both contemporary and past works. “C + R celebrates works that deviate from mainstream and traditional cinema and opt towards authentic,… Read more »
January 20, 2011 – 7:30 pm
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 »
January 16, 2011 – 6:00 pm
This screening is in conjunction with two weekends of events taking place in the ATA window by the San Francisco Buddhist Center. Only in recent times has it been possible to make the world’s vast spiritual teachings available to a global audience, and to create a dialogue between its most revered teachers. Now, for the… Read more »
January 15, 2011 – 8:00 pm
, by director Peter Joseph, is a feature length documentary work which will present a case for a needed transition out of the current socioeconomic monetary paradigm which governs the entire world society. This subject matter will transcend the issues of cultural relativism and traditional ideology and move to relate the core, empirical “life ground”… Read more »
January 8, 2011 – 8:49 am
Opening reception for the artist
Wednesday, December 8th. 6 – 9 pm
January 4, 2011 – 4:36 pm
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Check-out this film created in Kerry Laitala’s Lightstruck workshop. The workshop was part of the 5th Annual ATA Film & Video Festival! The film was made by exposing 16mm, B&W film stock by hand. “Cinegrams” were created by placing objects and material directly onto the film and casting their shadows upon the film with light…. Read more »
