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Archive for July, 2013
Windows Stay Gold (reception)
July 24, 2013 – 7:00 pm
Reception and Screening in support of the Windows Stay Gold (Bonanza 2.5) July exhibition at the ATA Window Gallery! Windows Stay Gold exhibition emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to medium. Each object and image on display builds off of another piece in a separate medium, bouncing ideas, forms, and energy around the exhibition space. This installation… Read more »
Lingering Gaze on the Desert: two films by Hisham Mayet
July 21, 2013 – 5:30 pm
Hisham Mayet visited ATA this week with two impressionistic documentaries from his archive. Both films, Palace of the Winds, and Folk Music From the Sahara: Among the Tuareg of Libya, explore the musical and cultural practices of North African Muslim communities, isolated from the region’s major thoroughfares by vast and windswept deserts, but connected enough to modern… Read more »
An Evening with Sublime Frequencies and filmmaker Hisham Mayet
July 20, 2013 – 8:00 pm
Palace of the Winds Shot over the course of two years (2006-2008), Palace of the Winds is an intimate and dreamlike journey exploring the music of Saharawi culture from Guelmim in Southern Morocco to the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott. With spectacular images from inhospitable landscapes, chimerical phenomena that transpire by the sheer remoteness of the land, and haunting… Read more »
THE SPACE INVADERS: IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME
July 19, 2013 – 8:00 pm
This award-winning documentary charts the rise and fall of arcade video games and their surprising second life in basements and garages all across the country. Musician Jean Baudin will play original music before the screening. Director Jeff Von Ward and game collectors interviewed in the film will be in attendance to answer your questions afterward…. Read more »
Periwinkle Cinema: Reality Check
July 17, 2013 – 8:00 pm
It’s important to check ourselves — our actions, our motivations, our politics. There’s sometimes a big difference between the way we think things are and the way things actually are. This month Periwinkle Cinema is helping you out with a serious “Reality Check.” From reality television shows to man-stalking dykes to a musical call-out of… Read more »
Your Skin is the Fourth Wall (postponed)
July 13, 2013 – 8:00 pm
Pedro Alba (Spain). “PERFORMANCE & EXPERIMENTAL ARTIST ON THE PROCESS OF COMMUNICATION AND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION.” His work is based on the development of ideas and concepts worked from the transmedia and multidisciplinary. Mr. Alba’s work is like an open research laboratory and he believes that “video is not going to be a discipline that will escape.”… Read more »
Re-inventing the Reel
July 12, 2013 – 8:00 pm
Celebrating one year of Elements of Image Making. In February of 2012 in Oakland California, Elements of Image Making began as a workshop for the promotion of analogue film craft. It has become a monthly meet-up/hang-out/nerd-out connecting those with something to learn and those with something to teach. Operating non-hierarchically and without agenda, Elements of Image Making is a vagrant… Read more »
OpenScreening
July 11, 2013 – 8:00 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 admissionfor contributing artists…. Read more »
Directing Dissent: A Film by Sophie Hamacher
July 6, 2013 – 8:00 pm
Directing Dissent is a documentary about John Roemer, teacher and social activist, and his decisions to either live within the law, or have a sound basis for civil disobedience. Set in Baltimore, a city with a turbulent history of charged race relations, Roemer’s story takes us through the heated battles of the civil rights movement… Read more »