An evening of sound/film performances with: Irwin Swirnoff Jon Porras Linda Scobie and John Davis Ben Bracken and Paul Clipson Irwin Swirnoff makes films, takes photos, writes creative non-fiction and gets inspiration from all kinds of music. His work wants to take you on faded daydreams filled with longing, desire, and lingering memories. He’s interested… Read more »
À Meia-Noite Levarei Sua Alma [At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul] (José Mojica Marins, 1964, 105 min) Coffin Joe, an undertaker, believes in the “continuity of the blood.” A sadist, he prowls the city in search of a woman to bear him an immortal child, while terrorizing people. Zé do Caixão está a procura da… Read more »
Ever want to kick back and let some of your best friends entertain you? Join us for an evening of show and tell + dance, smile, new and surreal weekending at ATA . Bringing together some of the most creative people in the Bay art and music communities, DADADANCEPARTY wants to open your Memorial Day weekend… Read more »
AL OTRO LADO Dir. Natalia Almada, US/Mexico, 2005, 66 min. In Spanish with English subtitles. Like many in Sinaloa, the drug capital of Mexico, 23-year-old Magdiel faces two choices to better his life: trafficking drugs or crossing the border into the United States. Yet Magdiel has a special talent that could be his ticket out:… Read more »
Navigating queer desires has never been a walk in the park. Okay, maybe sometimes it consists of cruising in the park. Whatever. Senses of radical queer self-hood don’t just catalyze themselves, they take some serious nurturing. That nurturing can take a lot of forms — a sassy critique of ‘heterosexual values,’ a serious conversation about… Read more »
STREETOPIA (RE)COVERED POETRY WAGON TOUR Booklyn artist Marshall Weber is doing a 72-hour poetry recitation on the streets of San Francisco as part of the Streetopia Exhibition at the Luggage Store Gallery. Weber will walk around the city reciting poetry matching the locations he ends up at, a little Gregory Corso near his old apartment at 2004… Read more »
Join CCSF Department of Cinema’s Motion Picture Directing class for a screening of the 2012 final film projects. The showcase features a variety of narrative scenes starring Bay Area actors. Directing Students: Nico Schafgans, Israel Perez, Bipop Upreti, Candace Bernard , Paul Arnott, Wayne Brogdon, Rafael Prieto , Altay Yildiz , Tati Montenegro, Shane Sahaki, Brit… Read more »
In its first showcase of local and international works by women filmmakers, GAZE presents a diverse collection of shorts on the concept of HOME. When all is fleeting and ephemeral, what can we call home? And are we ever truly at home? From the experimental unearthing and reassembly of family history to the voyeuristic gaze… Read more »
Isabel Fondevila caught up with Mallary Abel, Brenda Contreras and Kelly Pendergrast, and had a chance to ask them about ATA’s new women-made film series. What inspire the Gaze series and why did you call it Gaze? Mallary: GAZE simply came from the aspiration to start a Women’s film festival. It took about a year… Read more »
Students from Greta Snider’s Experimental Documentary Workshop at SFSU screen short film portraits from Spring 2012. 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
USF students present their films and videos from two Spring 2012 experimental film classes. works by:Ben Ambrogi Clement Bauer Stephanie Bunting Marshall F. Byrne Matthew Ching Sara Cortese Natalie Eakin Crystal Ferguson Maggie Gaster Sarah Hulsman Feral Huntley Priyanka Mehta Vicki Mortati Jared Nangle David Owens Daniella Ricci-Tam Youxi Zeren Joe Zolonski
The California Chronicles is the true story of sublime nature writ large across the West, and writ small on the page. The concept is simple: since May, three friends—Bob Glass, Darryl Jones, and Eliot Rose—have been chronicling their journeys into California nature, both around the Bay Area and further afield, and keeping a blog with… Read more »
O Cangaceiro [The Bandit of Brazil] (Lima Barreto, 1953, 105 min) Inspired by American westerns, this film narrates the times of the “cangaceiros” in the “sertão” (backcountry) in Northern Brazil. A group of bandits abduct a small town school teacher to ask for a ransom. But one of them falls in love and flees with… Read more »
“in conjunction with UCSC’s May 4-5 conference Emergent Communities in Contemporary Experimental Writing integrations of community and creation with Ronaldo Wilson, Vanessa Place, Sueyeun Julliette Lee, Tisa Bryant Juliana Spahr, and Anna Moschovakis
Artist’s Television Access invites you to attend this year’s Art Auction FUNRaiser! More than 50 works will be available, including pieces by Chris Johanson, Martha Colburn, Scott Hewicker, and many more! Images of the work available now! Come for the art, stay for the refreshments! Live music by The Beehavers and a post-auction soul dance… 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 for contributing… Read more »
An evening of sound/film performances with: Irwin Swirnoff Jon Porras Linda Scobie and John Davis Ben Bracken and Paul Clipson Irwin Swirnoff makes films, takes photos, writes creative non-fiction and gets inspiration from all kinds of music. His work wants to take you on faded daydreams filled with longing, desire, and lingering memories. He’s interested in… Read more »