Opening Reception: Tuesday, Dec 9, 2014 6-8:30PM Jared Radin was raised in New Jersey and received a B.A. in American Studies from Wesleyan University. We live in an unprecedented moment defined by rapid, worldwide change. The globalization of capital has created flows of people, goods, information, and culture that move across the Earth and are… Read more »
For the month of November, 2014, ATA’s window was animated by daily inhabitancies. Each day, a different artist or group of artists installed themselves in the storefront window, occupying it for a range of one to 48 hours. Their actions varied from just being there to performing music to outraged/ous splattering of substances. In the words of the ATA Window… Read more »
Please join CCSF Department of Cinema’s Motion Picture Directing class for a screening of the 2014 final film projects. The showcase features a variety of narrative scenes starring Bay Area actors. Directing Students: Dan Meek, Fazil Sadiq, Caio Pereto, George Almanza, Behailu Aregaw, Russell Coker, Mark Green, Ivan Moore, Taylor Mosley, Lyman Roberts, Jake Sperling, Daniel Vazquez, Robert Natata and our TA,… Read more »
ATA presents an evening of Audio/Visual performances with: AUDIO ENSEMBLE ECONOMIQUE (LA, NOT NOT FUN) MARIA HORN / KALI MALONE (STOCKHOLM, OMA333) SKY MADDEN (SF, TRI WORKS) VISUAL JOHN DAVIS (SF) PAUL CLIPSON (SF) John Davis is a California-based visual artist and musician. His current work builds on the transcendental qualities of experimental film, while… Read more »
From a queer apocalyptic land, to a 70 year-old bodybuilder, to a young girl fleeing Iran at night, what does our collective future/freedom look like? ANCIENT FUTURE is irreverent, rejecting exotification – and paying homage to the wisdom of our ancestors and homelands. ANCIENT FUTURE – we claim it queer with these cosmic creations. Featuring… Read more »
13 films creatively explore the topics of kickboxing, water, obsessive compulsive disorder, and more.
Experimental videos and sound performances
guillermo galindo’s Primeval Intersection class: “Women on Fire Eat Their Shoes (We caught on Fire)” X Anniversary, (CCA Since 2004) Artists~ Francesca Ferreira-Carvana, Mckenzie Toma, Tay Gersbach, Eva Gibeau, Sahara Johnson, Kay Janowiak, Nikita Schoen, Maria Nunez, Olivia Krause, Tu Vo, Jenny Mount
ATA Window Gallery presents: Jared Radin Jared Radin was raised in New Jersey and received a B.A. in American Studies from Wesleyan University. We live in an unprecedented moment defined by rapid, worldwide change. The globalization of capital has created flows of people, goods, information, and culture that move across the Earth and are shaping… Read more »
Opening Reception: Tuesday, Dec 9, 2014 6-8:30PM Jared Radin was raised in New Jersey and received a B.A. in American Studies from Wesleyan University. We live in an unprecedented moment defined by rapid, worldwide change. The globalization of capital has created flows of people, goods, information, and culture that move across the Earth and… Read more »
End of the Semester SCREENING & PARTY : Including “Screen Tests”. “Portraits” and “Up Your Ass” excepts based on the stage play by Warhol assassin Valerie Solonos. Featuring work by Connor “Superstar”.“Ultra” Nanxi, “International” Karlie “Pope” Ryan, The Dutchess, Alfredo “Drella” ,”Plastic Exploding” Fahad Will “My Man”, Kenneth “Name” JP “WoodLawn”, “Vile”, Hun “Lil’ Warhol”, Dai “Polk”
Kerry Laitala & Artists’ Television Access presents: The San Francisco Art Institute’s INTRO to Film Final Class Screening: Group Projects include Mash Film with sound by Eli McNally And the latest Flashlight Film: Torch and Shadows Unite! The Following Filmmakers will unveil their latest cinematic creations Chao Xu Inger Heeschen Darpan Tilokani Tal Drori Noah… Read more »
April Dean, Sunrise to Sunset/A Room for Room of One’s Own (11/8, 11/9) Mirabelle Jones, Comfort and Civilization (11/15, 12pm-12am) Cheryl Meeker and Dan Spencer, Contested (1BR) Space (11/16) Amanda Chaudhary, CatSynth (11/17) Jacquelyn Shannon (11/20) Laurie Buenafe Krsmanovic and Bob Webb, Husk (11/21, 6-8pm) Nathalie Brilliant, Maria Dawn, & Sarah St. Leger, Modern Limen (11/22, 12pm-8pm) Bob Webb, Laurie Buenafe, Pigeon, and Annikah Peabody/Bare Bones Butoh (11/23, 1pm-5pm)… Read more »
April Dean, Sunrise to Sunset/A Room for Room of One’s Own; Mirabelle Jones, Comfort and Civilization; Cheryl Meeker and Dan Spencer, Contested (1BR) Space; Amanda Chaudhary, CatSynth; Jacquelyn Shannon; Laurie Buenafe Krsmanovic and Bob Webb, Husk; Nathalie Brilliant, Maria Dawn, & Sarah St. Leger, Modern Limen; Bob Webb, Laurie Buenafe, Pigeon, and Annikah Peabody/Bare Bones Butoh; Ryan Schnirel, How to Explain Pictures… Read more »
Sf Cinematheque presents: Sweet Work: Sugar and Power Sarah Jane Lapp In Person Once producing half of the nation’s sugar, the Domino Sugar Refinery was a paragon of industrialism and labor in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Reprising a screening presented at Williamsburg’s UnionDocs in July 2014, this program presents a trio of films which examine labor history… Read more »
Winding down the month’s excellent window performance series: Tessa Siddle (11/28, 12pm-8pm) Marcelle Marais, Princess VuVu and the Undead Machine (11/29) Closing Reception (11/30) You really have to be there to understand … or not. Each performance is different, and they all transform the social-spatial dynamics of the sidewalk and street. Tonight in the theatre, San Francisco Cinematheque presents Sarah Jane… Read more »
Karmen Gei: The story of tempestuous Carmen, first told in a short story by Prosper Merimee and made famous in an opera by Georges Bizet, gets a new and striking modern-dress adaptation in this provocative drama with stunning Senegalese music. Karmen Gei (Jeinaba Diop Gai) is an inmate in a women’s prison in Senegal; bisexual,… Read more »
The good people at KALW have done a feature on ATA’s 30th birthday. Take a listen here: http://kalw.org/post/last-bastion-freak-culture-valencia-turns-30
The Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) was started by transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honor the memory of Rita Hester, a transgender woman who was killed in 1998. The vigil commemorated all the transgender people lost to violence that year and began an important memorial that has become the annual Transgender… Read more »
Join us for a reading and conversation with Jocelyn Saidenberg and Amina Cain hosted by former SPT Director Robert Glück Jocelyn Saidenberg’s books include Mortal City, Cusp, Negativity, Shipwreck and Dead Letter. Born and raised in New York City, she’s lived and worked in San Francisco since 1994. She is the founding editor of KRUPSKAYA Books and one… Read more »
Right Window is pleased to present the paintings and drawings of Paul Milosevich. We have early and recent drawings and watercolors inspired by growing up in Trinidad, Colorado, with a Croatian family from Ledenice. Paul Milosevich: ROOTS (Colorado/Croatia) ROOTS will be on view 24 hours a day from the sidewalk, or by appointment during 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 artists…. Read more »
This November, ATA Window Gallery is excited to present a series of installed performances ranging from movement to musical, ritual to reenactment, interactive to endurance. All month long, walk on by, peek inside – free for all curious passers by! Featuring: April Dean (11/8, 11/9) Mirabelle Jones (11/15) Dan and Cheryl (11/16) Amanda Chaudhary (11/17)… Read more »
This October and November the ATA Gallery is featuring a collaboration by two San Francisco based artists, photographer Hanna Quevedo and painter Joshua Nissen King. Here’s a selection of pieces from their show. Relevant Links: http://www.hannaquevedo.com http://www.joshuanissenking.com
For Better Homes & Gardens Today Artists Christopher Statton and megan Wilson have partnered with the Gubbio Project, the Coalition On Homelessness, and At The Crossroads to: 1) Heighten awareness around “home” and the realities of homelessness; 2) Cultivate a dialog within communities and amongst disparate groups; and 3) Raise money to benefit each of these critical… Read more »
HANNA QUEVEDO In collaboration with JOSHUA NISSEN KING Hanna’s photos will be hung gallery style spaced with slightly more breath between each image allowing for the continuation of the images by King’s intuitive site specific painting. King will extend the palette of the images captured by Quevedo until they meet the periphery of… Read more »
For Better Homes & Gardens Today Artists Christopher Statton and megan Wilson have partnered with the Gubbio Project, the Coalition On Homelessness, and At The Crossroads to: 1) Heighten awareness around “home” and the realities of homelessness; 2) Cultivate a dialog within communities and amongst disparate groups; and 3) Raise money to benefit each of these critical… Read more »
For Better Homes & Gardens Today Artists Christopher Statton and megan Wilson have partnered with the Gubbio Project, the Coalition On Homelessness, and At The Crossroads to: 1) Heighten awareness around “home” and the realities of homelessness; 2) Cultivate a dialog within communities and amongst disparate groups; and 3) Raise money to benefit each of these critical… Read more »
ATA is pleased to co-present at: 3rd i’s 12th ANNUAL SF INTERNATIONAL SOUTH ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL (Nov 6-9 in San Francisco; Nov 15 in Palo Alto) http://www.thirdi.org ————————————————————– Psychedelic Cinema: Radhe, Radhe + Shorts Nov 9, 2014 5:30 pm New People Cinema An explosion of color and sound on the silver screen captures the essence of this program of shorts. In… Read more »
Better Homes & Gardens Today Megan Wilson and Christopher Statton are in ATA’s display window, painting hundreds of signs with one word on them: “Home.” Black letters and a flower spell out the word in English or other languages, each on a solid color background. Sold in pairs for $100,… Read more »
Twin sisters Beatrice and Zoe are in love with Ray, a hypnotist-bank robber obsessed by apocalyptic visions. Though Beatrice and Ray are married, Ray runs off with the more free-spirited Zoe and they abscond to a seedy motel to plot their future together. Meanwhile, Beatrice files for divorce and two metaphysical entities from a dream-like Bardo realm take interest in their fates in… Read more »
May Jack-o-lanterns burning bright Of soft and golden hue Pierce through the future’s veil and show What fate now holds for you. ~Author Unknown Periwinkle’s October Spooktacular will be a night of queer horror shorts and a mystery feature that is sure to scare the pants right off you. Curated By Gentry McShane We will… Read more »
Join us for a reading with Ed Roberson and Truong Tran hosted by former SPT Director Elizabeth Treadwell Ed Roberson is the author of eight books of poetry, including Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In, a winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, and a recent collection, The New Wing of the Labyrinth (Singing Horse… Read more »
Zombie Love – Queer Women of Color Zombie Shorts screening that includes Outside, A Night In the Woods, GoodNight My Love, and Book of Lilith. Book of Lilith: This short film follows Lilith, the leader of a camp of survivors of the zombie apocalypse. She stealthily wipes out “strays” of infected on the deserted beach… Read more »
Shorts Program 2 Time 114 min Central Market 10:12 min Journey of a Freedom Fighter 30:37 min Siham 13:14 min Growing Home 14:52 min Rest in Peace 15:53 min 3 Candles 15:53 min Mariam’s Chance 14:50 min The Arab Film Festival is the largest independent annual showcase of Arab films and filmmakers in the country…. Read more »
Shorts Program 1 : 98 min Sled 12:00 min Wishing Well 15:20 min Egyptian Sons 30:00 min In Her Eyes 10:10 min Though I Know the River Dry 19:28 min Pink Bullet 11:11 min The Arab Film Festival is the largest independent annual showcase of Arab films and filmmakers in the country. The festival has… Read more »
Stop by ATA to see the artists at work during the day, then join in the Receptions + Dialogs October 29 & 30, 7PMFor Better Homes & Gardens Today Artists Christopher Statton and Megan Wilson have partnered with the Gubbio Project, the Coalition On Homelessness, and At The Crossroads to: 1) Heighten awareness around “home” and the realities… Read more »
Wednesday, October 15, 2014, 7:00 pm 18th Annual Arab Film Festival: Short Program 1 The Arab Film Festival is the largest independent annual showcase of Arab films and filmmakers in the country. Shorts Program 1 : 98 min Sled 12:00 min Wishing Well 15:20 min Egyptian Sons 30:00 min In Her Eyes 10:10 min Though… Read more »
Guillermo and Rafa are 30-something entrepreneurs who make art from a material that makes most of us cringe. Not unfamiliar to challenging taboos, they run a gift poop delivery service called I Poop You, which allows anyone with an imagination to express his or her most nuanced emotions towards loved ones via six flavors of… Read more »
Continuing our 30th celebration, ATA presents four audio/visual presentations by Anne McGuire/Wobbly, Kerry Laitala, konrad steiner and Paul Clipson/Joshua Churchill . The Frey McGuire Show: 7 Lies (Anne McGuire & Jon/Wobbly, 5 min) Orbit with live sound manipulation (Kerry Laitala , 16mm, 9 min) Spectacle of Light double projection (Kerry Laitala , 16mm, 10 min) “Violence” is a nine minute choreography which… 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 »
Bay Area-artist Anne McGuire says she doesn’t mind when her performance partner tries to trip her up while singing live. McGuire, a prolific video and performance artist, sings original and often improvised lyrics while longtime collaborator Wobbly (Jon Leidecker) provides accompaniment with a synthesizer and sampler. Usually they perform alongside video McGuire has shot. While she sings, Wobbly likes… Read more »
Traveling along the path of a labyrinth, the viewer passes through a series of extremely diverse landscapes, which are created through lush animation, evocative orchestral music, and rich dialog, in which words are used as much for rhythm and texture as they are for meaning. A man and woman guide us on this trip, taking… Read more »
HANNA QUEVEDO In collaboration with JOSHUA NISSEN KING Hanna’s photos will be hung gallery style spaced with slightly more breath between each image allowing for the continuation of the images by King’s intuitive site specific painting. King will extend the palette of the images captured by Quevedo until they meet the periphery of… Read more »
Co-sponsored by Goethe Institute. Bay area improvisers Jacob Heule (percussion) and Bill Hsu (electronics, interactive animations), joined by Birgit Ulher (trumpet, electronics) from Hamburg, Germany, present an evening of improvisations on acoustic and electronic instruments, and interactive video. Video clips: https://vimeo.com/104885235 https://vimeo.com/103780752 https://vimeo.com/58384921 Birgit Ulher studied the visual arts, which still have an important influence on… Read more »
The second of two nights celebrating the life and works of the hugely influential filmmaker brothers George Kuchar (1942-2011) and Mike Kuchar. George Kuchar’s long and loving interest in extreme weather is most poignantly portrayed in his “weather diary” films depicting his tornado-chasing exploits during severe storm seasons in Oklahoma. He habitually took up residence… Read more »
Over two nights, ATA celebrates the life and works of the hugely influential filmmaker brothers George Kuchar (1942-2011) and Mike Kuchar. Night one focuses on new and recent works by Mike Kuchar, feature the “SoulSearching” and generation Z series.Program:LOST BLUES SUMMER SINS SOULSEACKERS NONSENSICLE CHASING SHADOWS GENERATION Z THE SPIDER’S PARLOR (SFAI collaborative class project) … Read more »
Just in time for our Kuchar mini-fest September 25 (Mike Kuchar) & 26 (George Kuchar‘s gorgeous weather diaries) see our Calendar Laugh, squirm and possibly shed a tear when KQED 9 profiles Bay Area filmmaking legends George and Mike Kuchar in the Truly CA broadcast premiere of It Came from Kuchar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwZoUX3CxXE See ‘It… Read more »
Twin sisters Beatrice and Zoe are in love with Ray, a hypnotist-bank robber obsessed by apocalyptic visions. Though Beatrice and Ray are married, Ray runs off with the more free-spirited Zoe and they abscond to a seedy motel to plot their future together. Meanwhile, Beatrice files for divorce and two metaphysical entities from a dream-like Bardo realm take interest in their fates in… Read more »
Thursday, September 25, 2014, 8:00 pm Over two nights, ATA celebrates the life and works of the hugely influential filmmaker brothers George Kuchar (1942-2011) and Mike Kuchar. Night one focuses on new and recent works by Mike Kuchar, feature the “SoulSearching” and generation Z series.Program: LOST BLUESSUMMER SINSSOULSEACKERS NONSENSICLE CHASING SHADOWS GENERATION Z THE SPIDER’S… Read more »
Friday, September 26, 2014, 8:00 pm The second of two nights celebrating the life and works of the hugely influential filmmaker brothers George Kuchar (1942-2011) and Mike Kuchar. George Kuchar’s long and loving interest in extreme weather is most poignantly portrayed in his “weather diary” films depicting his tornado-chasing exploits during severe storm seasons in… Read more »
Tuesday, October 7, 2014, 8:00 pm, $7-$10 Traveling along the path of a labyrinth, the viewer passes through a series of extremely diverse landscapes, which are created through lush animation, evocative orchestral music, and rich dialog, in which words are used as much for rhythm and texture as they are for meaning. A man and… Read more »
HANNA QUEVEDO In collaboration with JOSHUA NISSEN KING – DOUBLE EXPOSURE Gallery Opening October 1st – 2014 6-9pm Hanna’s photos will be hung gallery style spaced with slightly more breath between each image allowing for the continuation of the images by King’s intuitive site specific painting. King will extend the palette of the images… Read more »
Since 1974 Small Press Traffic (SPT) has been at the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area innovative writing scene, bringing together independent readers, writers, and presses through publications, conferences, talks, and our influential reading series. Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center promotes and supports writers from all over the globe—particularly those who push the… Read more »
Co-presented by SF Cinematheque. Craig Baldwin, ATA co-founder and organizer of the Other Cinema series of experimental and underground film/video and performances , is celebrated through two programs of his amazing and influential work exploiting found and archival footage embedded in countercultural sensibilities. 1st program: 7PM (¡O No Coronado! & Wild Gunman & RocketKitKongoKit) 2nd program: Sonic… Read more »
Co-presented by SF Cinematheque. Craig Baldwin, ATA co-founder and organizer of the Other Cinema series of experimental and underground film/video and performances , is celebrated through two programs of his amazing and influential work exploiting found and archival footage embedded in countercultural sensibilities. 1st program: ¡O No Coronado!, 40 minutes\16mm : Coronado, one of the least successful conquistadors, is perfectly suited… Read more »
A feature length narrative film that explores many of the difficulties facing queer youth of color.At the heart of the picture is a strong and complicated mother/daughter dynamic. Pamela (Aunjanue Ellis of Men of Honor, Ray, Undercover Brother, The Mentalist and The Help) plays the mother, a troubled soul dealing with abusive relationships and a sordid… Read more »
We all could use some humor medicine, so how about sharing together some QUEER COMIC SHORT MOVIES!!!!!???? The best way to laugh is with a group of people, so join us the third Wednesday in September (September 17) and prepare to laugh your ass off in the dark with a bunch of like minded folks…. Read more »
Paper Circus is a 45 minutes screening of Luca Dipierro’s cut-out animations, with a live soundtrack performed by Italian experimental band Father Murphy. Dipierro’s animations, described as “a perfect mix between creepy and charming” by the Huffington Post, are carnivalesque tales of acrobacy and death, both sorrowful and comical. The texture of the images is… Read more »
Craig Baldwin, ATA co-founder and organizer of the Other Cinema series of experimental and underground film and performances, hosts a special anniversary iteration of the famous weekly series, showcasing the work of three members of the 992 collective -Bryan Boyce (San Francisco), James T. Hong (Taipei), and Sylvia Schedelbauer (Berlin). The funky/punky media projects at… Read more »
New music/sound + film/video collaborations by: Crystal Pascucci + Isabelle Harada Zachary James Watkins + Rosario Sotelo Lisa Mezzacappa + Janis Crystal Lipzin with film scores performed live by the Eyes’nEars House Band: Marta Raviglia (IT), voice Steve Adams, winds Piero Bittolo Bon (IT), reeds Crystal Pascucci, cello Lisa Mezzacappa, bass Suki O’Kane, percussion Mission… Read more »
Artists Television Access (ATA) celebrates its 30th year as the home for accessible alternative arts in San Francisco with a special night of visuals, sound and partying, Please join our festive commemoration.
Special 30th Anniversary Program
Curated by Karla Milosevich
Special 30th Anniversary Program
Curated by Linda Scobie
Special 30th Anniversary Program
Curated by Kathleen Quillian
curated by Anastasia Pahules
Special 30th Anniversary Program
Special 30th Anniversary Program
Special 30th Anniversary Program
Special 30th Anniversary Program
Preceded by a brief intermission at 4:00 a.m.
Special 30th Anniversary Program
Special 30th Anniversary Program
Special 30th Anniversary Program
Curated by Molly Hankwitz
Celebrating ATA’s 30th, Marshall Weber ATA co-founder returns to San Francisco to present his seminal 1985 stereo video piece, two channels of VHS video with four audio tracks. Metaphorically reproducing the dichotomies of the right and left brain hemispheres, and the internal thoughts and external environments of the leading protagonist Boyd Sayjack. Part psychedelic documentary and… Read more »
Special 30th Anniversary Program
Images from Marshall Weber’s “Beautiful Losers” The 30 hour marathon included a wealth of films that documented San Francisco’s recent history in an essential way. They were not made for that purpose, but created by people inside of the experience and culture of the times. Very recent times. The Hamm’s brewery with the punks who were squatting… Read more »
Special 30th Anniversary Program
“The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden,” the latest documentary from San Francisco filmmakers Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller, was made from a highly unlikely set of circumstances. Eighty-year-old archival film, celebrity voice overs and interviews with Galapagos residents were blended together to tell this incredible true story, which premiered at Telluride Film Festival in 2013… Read more »