The San Francisco Global Vietnamese Film Festival is a biennial film and video showcase centering Vietnamese filmmakers in Việt Nam and the diaspora—an international vision reflecting a transnational reality. This year’s festival inaugurates, with a party, its 2013 showcase of filmmakers of Vietnamese descent. The Opening Night Gala, held on April 26 at Artists Television Access, offers… Read more »
The Free Form Film Festival presents, Transcosmic Geometry. Static, feedback, interference and reception: analog and beyond, curated by Paul Baker and Ryan B. Wylie. This event will be the premiere of Transcosmic Geometry’s 2013 line-up. TG was first presented at ATA in 2012 and since has screened in Denton and Austin, TX and SomArts in San Francisco. The night will… Read more »
Each month, we are featuring interviews with the volunteer staff that make ATA possible, recognizing their work at ATA and their contribution to our vibrant artistic community. Here are the interviews with our Gallery Director Grace Rosario Perkins and ATA Board Member Shae Green. GRACE ROSARIO PERKINS Can you tell us about your first volunteering… Read more »
FARMER & ZAHER STEVE FARMER Steven Farmer is the author of Medieval and other books, most available from Small Press Distribution. Of his latest, Glowball, Sianne Ngai says: “. . . in a book where poems become exploding dandelion heads of the spreadsheet and the situation room, Steve Farmer radicaly estranges us from our present… Read more »
Jean-Gabriel Periot played his collage films at ATA last night. Poetic and unnerving, the images rain onto the screen; they layer on top of one another. He has pulled them from the archives, but they look different now, arresting. I stared as Hiroshima evaporated and rebuilt. I watched the faces of the Civil Rights Movement,… Read more »
Jean-Gabriel Périot in person
A magical collection of queer shorts exploring the spriritual, heroic, and often times overlooked super powers that are harbored in queer identities and sexualities. Still from “Audrey Superhero” by Amy Jenkins, part of Periwinkle’s April lineup.
Wiggwaum (with film by Doug Katelus) Doug Katelus & Randylee Sutherland, with newest member Matt Hartman, lead you toward the brain center, nervous center, soul center, through the ears. Wiggwaum is a spell of reeds, vox, percussion and A100 Hammond organ; amped up, melted, cracked up, splitting out sounds. “Sounds like death via sasquatch.” Randylee… Read more »
HOT VICTORY are like an octopus of drums and technology, and seeing them play is less an experience of watching a “band” with “songs” as being privy to some dystopian future-vision of a gladiator battle between two drum-bots. Caitlin and Ben face off behind a mutant drum kit bristling with synth pads and triggers and their… Read more »
As San Francisco’s dank and verdant spring arrives, GAZE presents a kinetic program of short moving image works that lay bare both streams of consciousness and visceral embodiment. Absurdity, queerness, and melodrama collide; the camera is a mirror, the screen is a diary. Featuring film, video and animation by local and international women filmmakers: Jillian Peña Angel Rose… Read more »
AIF (American India Foundation) in collaboration with 3rd i Films present two short films followed by discussion: Films: ‘‘Lucky’‘directed by Avie Luthra and, ‘‘Kujo’’, directed by Terrie Samundra , (more info bellow). Lucky, directed by Avie Luthra, 20min ( UK/South Africa ) Lucky is an AIDS orphan desperate to leave his rural Zulu village in South Africa… Read more »