Please join us for the closing reception of Kate Hoffman’s Liquid Gold-Black Gold, the Golden Age of Whaling 5 – 7 pm, Friday June 29. This month at the ATA window gallery is a segment from Kate Hoffman’s project “Liquid Gold-Black Gold, the Golden Age of Whaling”. Reflected in the project “Liquid Gold-Black Gold” are… Read more »
Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos [Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands] (Bruno Barreto, 1976, 110 min) Dona Flor is married to Vadinho, a gambling good-for-nothing who dies young. After being widowed, she marries again with Teodoro, the town’s pharmacist, and an upstanding gentleman. The problem arises when her deceased husband’s ghost comes to… Read more »
Beard Club: directed by Laura J. Lukitsch (in person) A journey to understand the social politics of facial hair. Each day, every man must decide either to shave or not to shave. The act can be one of conformity, rebellion, laziness, or transition. Visiting men in their various domains, from pubs to barbershops, filmmaker Laura J. Lukitsch opens… Read more »
Thalia Drori presents her dark comedy, Toxic Energy Little Miss Potentiality returns, to answer the question: why is the mayor of Richmond, California developing an LSD-like drug that makes people dance naked? She joins forces with a massage parlor coworker and a lobotomized TV reporter. Together they race to uncover the devious mayor’s plot to stay in power,… Read more »
Lucky Express: a full length feature documentary that winds through India’s railways and stations, in the company of destitute children who have made Indian Railways their vast network and home. Confiding their life stories, fears, hopes and dreams, these disowned and abandoned youngsters astonishingly entrust their sobering reality to Lucky – former train station vagrant. Through him, we experience a rare… Read more »
The month of June is considered pride month, when the LGBTQ community is celebrated for its part in the diversity of the greater community of human kind. Periwinkle Cinema presents our June Spectacular: a celebration of queer visions as part of our monthly commitment to the queer film/video community. Curated by Lorin Murphy. program: Krystal by Eliane… Read more »
Crystal Palace is an experimental film/video festival curated by Liena Vayzman for ArtSpace’s 15th Anniversary, its crystal anniversary, that calls for crystal-themed, crystallizing, and multi-faceted video and film. Non-narrative and experimental narrative work created in any film/video/digital media format is welcome. Projections will be accepted in DVD format only. Crystals include snowflakes, diamonds, ice crystals,… Read more »
Limite (Mário Peixoto, 1931, 114 min) The only movie made by film pioneer Mario Peixoto in the silent era. In a drifting small boat, two women and a man recall their recent pasts, involving desperation, prison and lost love. Em um pequeno barco perdido no mar, duas mulheres e um homem revisitam o passado recente…. Read more »
TALKIES: standup comedy and short comedic films hosted by Anna Seregina and George Chen with comedy from: Chris Garcia (http://chrisgarciacomedy.com/) Jesse Elias (http://jesseeliasstuff.com/) Chris Thayer (http://thisischristhayer.com/) DJ Real (http://www.facebook.com/djrealsmells) David Gborie (http://twitter.com/thegissilent) Joey Devine (http://joeydevine.tumblr.com/) Gordo McLachlan and films by Brian Lee Hughes Joey Izzo David Enos (http://davidenos.tumblr.com/)
ATA Window Gallery presents: Liquid Gold-Black Gold, the Golden Age of Whaling By Kate Hoffman Until June 30: Closing reception Friday June 29, 5-7pm This month at the ATA window gallery is a segment from Kate Hoffman’s project “Liquid Gold-Black Gold, the Golden Age of Whaling”. Reflected in the project “Liquid Gold-Black Gold” are the… 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 »
Dan Anderson is most known as a maverick Midwestern film programer, having founded Minnesotaʼs Bearded Child Film Festival, as well as programing the Arkansas Underground Film Festival and Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. These rarely shown short films combine a rural, vanguard sensibility, with hand-made experimentation and a voyeuristic taste of Americana. Blog at cineplosion.blogspot.com ****** Leisure Series Three… Read more »