August 4 – 18, 2014
—-Wednesday, August 6, 2014, 6:00 pm “POOP IS ART AND VICE VERSA” (opening) “POOP IS ART AND VICE VERSA” is an exhibition featuring the latest works by internationally uncelebrated artists, Guillermo Sanchez and Rafael Saenz, founders of IPoopYou.com. The exhibition will be a prolific assortment of paintings, small photographs, fashion designs, and a site-specific installation. Many parts of the pieces use as a medium real animal POOP that has been carefully hand picked from local farms in the bay area and converted into (f)ART. http://www.atasite.org/2014/08/poop-is-art-and-vice-versa-opening/ —–
——Thursday, August 7, 2014, 8:00 am OpenScreening 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. FREE admission for contributing artists. Not a filmmaker? Come and hang out with us anyway. Enjoy the atmosphere, the art, the movies, the people. http://www.atasite.org/2013/11/openscreening-90/
—– Friday, August 8, 2014, 8:00 pm, $7 Dr. Hawaii & Jezus: El Teror! & Death Wish 6: The Eviction An Evening of three films: “Dr. Hawaii” (Michael Rudnick and Rock Ross 1976, 45min), “Jezus: El Teror!” (Phillips Enggasser 2005, 25min), and, “Death Wish 6 : The Eviction” ( Douglas Katelus 2014, 4min). http://www.atasite.org/2014/08/dr-hawaii-jezus-el-teror-death-wish-6-the-evictio n/
—– Saturday, August 9, 2014, 7:30 pm Southern Lights: Films by Pablo Marin SF Cinematheque presents : Pablo Marin In Person A prominent figure in the burgeoning filmmaking scene of Argentina, Pablo Marin appears in person from Buenos Aires to present a screening of his personal, lyrical Super-8 films, which—in the traditions of Narcisa Hirsch, Claudio Caldini and Marie Louise Alemann—bring “a structural/formal concern into the realm of autobiographical/intimate cinema” and demonstrate a dazzling proficiency at in-camera composition superimposition. Films to screen include Resistfilm, a complex medley of elaborate superimposed homages to early avant-garde landmarks and wild landscapes of the 21st Century; Denkbilder, an international travelogue fusing Buenos Aires and Berlin, and other travelogues Diario Colorado, Carta austral (“a dark map of southern introspection”);1640, “a lightning landscape”; and other films including xoxo, 4×4 and the complete Untitled Trilogy. http://www.atasite.org/2014/08/southern-lights-films-by-pablo-marin/
—– GAZE: CALL FOR ENTRIES: GAZE is a film series dedicated to screening independent film and video made by women. GAZE promotes women’s artistic expression and creates dialogue related to the influence of this powerful medium. All formats and lengths are accepted, and there is no submission fee. Submission instructions are at http://gazefilmseries.wordpress.com Please email gaze@atasite.org if you have any questions.
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—– ATV: Artists’ Television (ATV) Artists’ Television Access has a television program A.T.V that screens local and international experimental video and film and sound works on a first come first served basis every Sunday night at midnight. Sundays at Midnight, Cable Channel 29 or streamed live on BAVC’s website:http://www.bavc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1881&Itemid=1911 http://www.atasite.org/exhibit/atv/
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—– ABOUT ATA 2014 is ATA’s 30th Anniversary!! Artists’ Television Access is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) artist-run screening venue and gallery located in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District. ATA is supported in part by Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, The Tamaas Foundation, individuals members, donors and volunteers. How to Reach Us: Artists’ Television Access 992 Valencia Street (at 21st) San Francisco, CA 94110 (415) 824-3890 ata@atasite.org Directions: Take Bart to 24th Street Mission. Walk 1 block east to Valencia and 3 blocks north. ATA is located between 21st and 20th Streets
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