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Archive for February, 2012

SHORT SHARP SHOCK: 3rd i International Shorts

Meenakshi Shedde (in person), leading Mumbai-based film critic and India consultant for the Berlin and Dubai Int’l Film Festivals, brings a package of award-winning shorts from India (screened at the Cannes, Berlin and Dubai film festivals) over the last 5 years. The program includes a diverse range of films, both in terms of content and… Read more »

Mad Dance

Mad Dance is a new showcase for films & videos that explore radical visions for madness in a culture that pathologizes difference. Tonight’s inaugural screening features three works that navigate the psycho-geography of the personal and the political. Curated by Ken Paul Rosenthal.   The Accursed Mazurka  (1994, 40”) by Nina Fonoroff The Accursed Mazurka uses the enveloping… Read more »

Plots: in Post Bubble / Christopher Jones

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In the ATA Gallery: Plots: in Post Bubble – Christopher Jones Please join us for the reception on February 24, 2012. Time tba. statement about the work: 1-_space between object and its shadow 2-_space between document and document_er_arian 3-_space between houses_duplexes_condominiums_townhouses 4-_space between generations raised in ^-^-^-^ 5-_space between physical and psychosocial and digital developments… Read more »

Noise Pop: N.A.S.A.- The Spirit of Apollo

This film takes a look behind the making of N.A,S.A.’s globetrotting debut album, The Spirit of Apollo, masterminded by Sam Spiegel and DJ Zegon, featuring a truly staggering array of talent: David Byrne, Karen O, Tom Waits, Kool Keith, Nick Zinner, Lykke Li, M.I.A., Kanye West, George Clinton, Chuck D, Seu Jorge, and the RZA…. Read more »

Noise Pop: Blank City

Before HD there was Super 8. Before Independent Film there was Underground Cinema. And before New York there was…well, New York. Once upon a pre-Facebook time, before creative communities became virtual and viral, cultural movements were firmly grounded in geography. And the undisputed center of American—some would say international—art and film was New York City…. Read more »

Noise Pop: Hit So Hard

Hit So Hard is the pull-no-punches portrait of the hell-and-back life of Patty Schemel, the hard-hitting drummer of Courtney Love’s seminal rock band “Hole” during its peak years. As a young girl who always knew she was “different” from the other kids in her farm town home outside of Seattle, Patty never dreamed she would… Read more »

Noise Pop: Bob and the Monster

Q&A with Director Keirda Bahruth and Producer Rick Ballard after the screening. “Bob and the Monster is about a guy everybody wanted to be around until he became the guy everybody assumed had died. In the 1980s, Bob Forrest’s band, Thelonious Monster, was at the center of a music scene that included the Red Hot… Read more »

MISS SHANNON // UNDERGROUND (A) (T) (A) LASERBEAM PREMIER [Q] [A] [Z]

A B.J. DINI film presented by LEAGUE OF BURNT CHILDREN & PERIWINKLE CINEMA SHE IS MANY THINGS TO MANY PEOPLE — unapologetic Vietnam Vet, photographer of the Underworld, GENDER-BENDER-MIND-FUCKER, connoisseur of FAST CARS, FAST TIMES and FAST POISONS — TRANNY PUNK DIVA — the Bay’s very own Psychedelic Queen with the TASER, LASER, BIG BOOBS,… Read more »

MINDSCAPES

  MINDSCAPES IS A FILM ART EVENT THAT STRIVES TO BRING TOGETHER EMERGING AND ESTABLISHED ARTISTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD TO SHARE THEIR ART & PHILOSOPHY IN AN ART HOUSE SETTING.   VIDEO ARTISTS GINNETTA CORRELI AND CASSANDRA SECHLER CREATED MINDSCAPES IN ORDER TO BRING TOGETHER ARTISTS IN AN ONLINE COMMUNITY AND TO CREATE A… Read more »

Dirty Looks presents: City of Lost Souls

Dirty Looks, a touring New York-based platform for queer film and video, will host the West Coast premier of a restored copy of  at Artists’ Television Access. Dirty Looks commissioned a new subtitle track to be cut to a recently restored copy of the film last September, in conjunction with an event co-sponsored by TRANSLADY FANZINE. Angie Stardust… Read more »

(Re)capture

Opening reception: Thursday, January 26th,  6 – 8 pm ___ New work by Glenna Cole Allee, Molly Hankwitz and Linda G. Wilson An exhibition of color photography and collaged objects, (Re)capture presents complimentary aesthetic approaches to the appearance and disappearance of culture and meaning in everyday life. Glenna Cole Allee presents two digital c-prints of full size milk… Read more »

Andrew Lampert—Man with a Movie Projector

Sf Cinematheque presents: Andrew Lampert In Person Far from the fussiness of his downtown day job—preserving classics of the avant-garde at Anthology Film Archives—the cinema of Andrew Lampert sprawls with contingency, chance and unscripted accident. He writes: “…sublime confusion fashions new narratives and non-linear relationships. Space and time. The time it takes to fix a… Read more »

david benzler and randylee sutherland 2012

our worlds in moon/sun on a theory/theme black and white or light and  shadow right or wrong? we dont know and neither do y’all !!!!

SIGHT UNSEEN

An evening of short films selected by NYC artist-curator Billy Miller. Featuring: “Film For January 1, 2012” (2012) by artist-filmmaker Scott Treleaven An intuitive assembly of super 8 films collected in the months leading up to the New Year, and created on the last day of 2011. Soundtrack: “Clouds Without Water” by Psychic TV. http://www.scotttreleaven.com/ “Peter… 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 »