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Small Press Traffic: Robert Glück and Aaron Shurin

Small Press Traffic

a reading and conversation with : Robert Glück and Aaron Shurin Since 1974 Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center (SPT) has been at the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area innovative writing scene, bringing together readers, writers, and independent presses to engage, create, present, critique and archive their work.

Other Cinema; Avant to Live: NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS

An energized evening that champions personal expression and radical form, with most makers in the flesh: Featured are in-person premieres of Kate McCabe‘s You And I Remain, Scott Stark‘sIs It True What They Say?, Mike Kuchar‘s Sleepwalkers, Tommy Becker‘s Exiting the Zoo, Ken Paul Rosenthal‘s Sally, Faith Arazi‘s Seasonal, and Emily Drummer‘s Histories of Simulated… Read more »

a gathering

ATA is holding a benefit for all who have been affected by the Oakland Ghost Ship fire. Please join us for a night of live performances, visual art, music and much more: with: Requiem in sound drought spa DJ Alex Coppola Paul Clipson and Ben Tinker

SFSU Art Dept Final Video Work

With: Joshua Max Allen Berger Amanda Kristie Campbell Daniel Edwinson Denver Gacayan Meehaun Glasper-Wade Johnny Janis Daniel Miramontes Marilyn Roxie Archer Saffarian Sam Stollerman Tiah Tam Will Winter

Architecture of Time

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Students in Architecture of Time from the Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley produced individual short films, exploring video as a narrative composition of sound and image moving across time. Engaging the creative, technical and conceptual skills they have developed over the semester, students explore issues reflective of both their personal experiences and broader… Read more »

Small Press Traffic: LAYLI LONG SOLDIER & CEDAR SIGO

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a reading & conversation with LAYLI LONG SOLDIER & CEDAR SIGO Since 1974 Small Press Trgramaffic Literary Arts Center (SPT) has been at the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area innovative writing scene, bringing together readers, writers, and independent presses to engage, create, present, critique and archive their work.

University of San Francisco End-of-Semester Screening

Find out what’s on the minds of the students from The University of San Francisco. Tonight’s screening will feature a wild night of digital mini-masterpieces and showcases works from our Advanced Narrative and Motion Graphics courses. You’ll see genre-busting narratives and stylish graphic emissions. The fun starts at 7:00 pm.  There will be snacks Doors… Read more »

Periwinkle Cinema: Torrey Pines with a LIVE score by Your Heart Breaks

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Torrey Pines is a stop-motion animated feature film by director Clyde Petersen. Based on a true story, the film is a queer punk coming-of-age tale, taking place in Southern California in the early 1990’s. North American Tour with a LIVE score by Your Heart Breaks. Catch it at Periwinkle Cinema December 8th! Raised by a… Read more »

Super Moon Spectacles, K. Laitala’s Intro to Film Final Class Screening

Presented by San Francisco Art Institute. Pre-show with classic cartoons Screenings of Two group projects include: A Spoonful of Corderoy, a raucous hand-made film utilizing loops And Organic Infinite– a Cinegram Film made entirely with a flashlight   Individual Projects include: Shaikha Waleed Alsalman Dean Alvarez Julia A. Fairbrother Goodwin, Jesse D. Christopher Hernandez Sabah… Read more »

ATA@SFPL; USA Poetry: Allen Ginsberg & Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Ruth Asawa: Of Forms and Growth (SCREENING AT NOE VALLEY BRANCH LIBRARY)

USA Poetry: Allen Ginsberg & Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Richard O. Moore, 1966)   Upon returning home from a year in New York, learning techniques from Albert Maysles and other cutting-edge documentarians, San Francisco poet and KPFA co-founder Richard O. Moore began making dozens of cinema verite films for KQED, most prominently a 1963 James Baldwin profile called Take This Hammer. In… Read more »

Small Press Traffic: CODY-ROSE CLEVIDENCE & TC TOLBERT

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a reading & conversation with CODY-ROSE CLEVIDENCE & TC TOLBERT Since 1974 Small Press Trgramaffic Literary Arts Center (SPT) has been at the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area innovative writing scene, bringing together readers, writers, and independent presses to engage, create, present, critique and archive their work.

Other Cinema; LO-FI SCI-FI: COX’ FIRST WOMEN IN SPACE + PERKOWSKI’s VIRTUAL BOYS +

Back with the finale of his Rocket Opera trilogy is Mission Renaissance man David Cox! His ensemble epic consummates his quest for a musical translation of the Space Race, especially in the figures of Tereshkova and Ride. His keys cue collaborators John Smalley, Rachel Levin, Jonathan Parnell, Zac Fisher, Jono Jones, Molly Hankwitz, and Simon… Read more »

Amazing Ray Day: Jeff Keen

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Introduced by Tanya Zimbardo, guest curator Program includes: Marvo Movie, 1967, col, sound, 5 min. Rayday Film, 1968-1970 + 1976, col, sound, 13 min. Day of the Arcane Light,1969, col, sound, 13 min. The Dreams and Past Crimes of the Archduke, 1979-84, col, sound, 7 min All files courtesy LUX, London

OpenScreening

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ATA’s Open Screening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area. Get your work out there! The first Thursday of every month we have an Open Screening. An Open Screening is where we invite local filmmakers to show their short subject films (under 15 mins.). It is a free event and you can either… Read more »

Emily Lacy, Nu Normol, Froogy’s Groovies

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Emily Lacy is an L.A.-based performer and artist who has been composing and collaborating for over 10 years. Her work employs video, tape loops, guitar, and variable sonic textures to create a new form of experimental folk. Prioritizing the relationships between politics, economics, language, and power, Lacy has made the rights of others central to… Read more »

Almost Public/Semi-Exposed III

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ATA Window Gallery in San Francisco presents Almost-Public/Semi-Exposed III, our third annual month-long festival of installed performance art.Last year’s festival included a wide range of performances including public-intervention, spatial exploration, durational poetry and more which were experienced by thousands of passers-by. From November 1st – 30th we will host as many performers as possible to… Read more »

Other Cinema; Aesthetics of Analysis: KEVIN B. LEE + HARUN FAROCKI’s PARALLEL

One of the most visible and articulate “video essayists” alive today, the SF-born Lee demonstrates both his Theory and his Practice of the newest genre within film criticism. Instead of merely writing a text on a work of cinema, today’s media-savvy critics might now make their points on time-based platforms through audiovisual “quotations” from the… Read more »

OTHER CINEMA: VANESSA RENWICK + SAM GREEN + MELINDA STONE +

Tonight’s stars align! Cosmic forces effect the intersection of four vets of cross-country film-touring, materializing simultaneously at our 992 address: Vanessa Renwick, the prolific Portland pilgrim delivering Vanloads of nuanced non-fiction to Western cities for decades, rolls in with a half-hour of psycho-geographies, as well as the Cali premiere of “Next Level Fucked Up”, her… Read more »

OTHER CINEMA: PRELINGER’s SORTING THE ARCHIVES + YOUR FILM LIBRARY+

Arguably America’s most enlightened intelligence on Archival Film, we’re honored to host this crown jewel of the SF-based Internet Archive, Mr. Rick Prelinger, with another relaxed exchange on intellectual history and its easy and useful access.  His talk turns away from the idea of “repositories of the past” towards understanding them as pointers to the… Read more »

Periwinkle Cinema: annual TDOR

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The Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) serves several purposes. It raises public awareness of hate crimes against transgender people, an action that current media doesn’t perform. Day of Remembrance publicly mourns and honors the lives of our brothers and sisters who might otherwise be forgotten. Through the vigiwe express love and respect for our people in… Read more »

Small Press Traffic: a reading & conversation with ALLISON COBB & LINDSEY BOLDT

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Since 1974 Small Press Trgramaffic Literary Arts Center (SPT) has been at the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area innovative writing scene, bringing together readers, writers, and independent presses to engage, create, present, critique and archive their work. Program: a reading & conversation with ALLISON COBB & LINDSEY BOLDT

Light Field – Program 6

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The first annual edition of Light Field presents an international exhibition of recent and historical experimental moving image work on celluloid. This screening is curated by film programmer David Dinnell. Films in Program 6 include: Blue Loop July (USA, 2014, 5 min, 16mm, sound) – Mike Gibisser Chicago’s summertime blazes, unanchored. Skywriting out of time. Part… Read more »

OTHER CINEMA: ADAM CURTIS’ “BITTER LAKE” + PUTIN + POITRAS + BRECKE

Our second round of Poli-Sci–Cinema mirrors last week’s: A half-hour of political “briefs” sets up a long-form compilation-doc…in tonight’s case, Curtis’ recent, riveting “Bitter Lake”! Experimental collage-cum-critical essay, our fave avant-garde broadcaster takes on the tangled triangle of power relations between the US, Afghanistan, and Saudi Arabia. Curtis manages to connect all the dots—and then… Read more »

Gaze # 14: ARE YOU ? and other returns at the ATA

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Presented by Gaze film series. Please join us for the WORLD PREMIERE VIDEO of “ARE YOU?“ and other shorts by Kim Miskowicz. Drawing from her video archive of references for her 2-dimensional work, Miskowicz weaves the sublime with reminders of its impermanence such as listening to crickets at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon… Read more »

Site Specific

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New works by Seamus Harahan, Mike Hoolboom, Helena Girón and Samuel Delgado, Gabriela Golder, Kevin J Everson, John Skoog, and Ralitsa Doncheva. An incident on a Belfast street; the search for the last living witch on the island of Lanzarote; the extraction and movement of salt from the Atacama Desert of northern Chile to the… Read more »

on housing

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please join us for a short program on housing and eviction crisis in the bay area. Program: We Are The Future: BYG organizes against displacement in Alameda (Ariel Appel, 9:57) Three youth leaders of Bayanihan Youth Group at Encinal High School organize their fellow students to fight for housing justice in the City of Alameda… Read more »

Small Press Traffic: OBSESSIONS; a talk by KAIA SAND

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Since 1974 Small Press Trgramaffic Literary Arts Center (SPT) has been at the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area innovative writing scene, bringing together readers, writers, and independent presses to engage, create, present, critique and archive their work. Program: OBSESSIONS: a talk by KAIA SAND

OTHER CINEMA: POLITTI1: ELECTION ANGST ; J.GRIMONPREZ’ SHADOW WORLD + SMASH TRUMP+

Kick-starting our Scritti Politti specials, 2 Saturdays straddling the US election: the West Coast theatrical premiere of Johan (Dial HISTORY) Grimonprez‘ searing indictment of the sleeeazy underworld of global weapons dealers, and the corrupt political/military leaders awash in their slush-funded kick-backs and call-girls! Based on Andrew Feinstein‘s book and with help from Eduardo Galeano, Seymour… Read more »

MANY WORLDS: An Evening of sound, film and video performances

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  A program of three improvisatory sound, audio and music compositions performed live in collaboration with film and video projection. with: Buttons and Faith Arazi All My Senses Rebel and Konrad Steiner Dire Wolves and Paul Clipson   BUTTONS Per Anders Nilsson is an Improvising musician and electro-acoustic composer based in Gothenburg, Sweden. He is… Read more »

OpenScreening

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ATA’s Open Screening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area. Get your work out there! The first Thursday of every month we have an Open Screening. An Open Screening is where we invite local filmmakers to show their short subject films (under 15 mins.). It is a free event and you can either… Read more »

ATA co-presents at 3rd i South Asian Film Festival

 Kaul (A Calling) Saturday November 12 @ 1:00 pm  (Screening @ Castro Theatre) Aadish Keluskar’s bold and innovative “Kaul” can only be described as a truly transformative cinematic experience. Deeply inspired by the films of Tarkovsky and Bela Tarr, and firmly rooted in a Marathi milieu, Keluskar delivers a uniquely visceral film that brings equal… Read more »

Nathalie Brilliant: “Nucleus”

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ATA Window Gallery presents Nathalie Brilliant’s Nucleus Opening Reception: Oct. 11, 6 – 9 PM The ATA window presents, “Nucleus,” a show that comprises of one video piece. The video piece was created for My Home My Mission, a project that considers what it means to belong, and what a “home” is when the concept… Read more »

Other Cinema: HAXAN WITCHES & ASTRAL VISIONS

After 2 epic Autumns in the East Bay, the Haxan Project now sets up stakes in the Mission, to initiate a Big-City audience into its irresistible cycle of wicca-ed cinema, with a tent-full of works—all women-made—capped by a provocative live performance! Curators Courtney Fellion, Phaedra Restad, and Hannah Schulman have hand-picked the very best work… Read more »

VOICE sculpting sound with Maja S. K. Ratkje (U.S. premiere)

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Documentary feature · 2010-2014 VOICE (dir. IJ. Biermann) follows the Norwegian musician/ composer/ sound artist Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje through the seasons all over Europe, presenting the variety and universalism of her work. Performances, sound recordings, and intimate personal scenes are composed into a complex portrait of an uncompromising artist challenged between conflicting poles of… Read more »

Other Cinema: JOHN LAW’s HISTORY OF PRANKS + YES MEN +

Thee pre-eminent raconteur on all things Trickster, John Law (AKA Jack Napier) instigates a laff-riot of public put-ons and sub-cult capers that carries on the momentum from the recent Joey Skaggs biopic. In fact, a couple of classic Skaggs gags are in John’s video mix tonight, but not before the spoofing scene is set with… Read more »

George Kuchar: A Program of Inner and Outer Turmoil

Curated by Mike Kuchar (in person) George Kuchar was perhaps the most prolific and influential underground filmmaker . With his twin brother, Mike — and later, alone — Kuchar made some of the earliest films in the 1960s explosion of experimental movies. The exuberant auteur of the no-budget film had made nearly 220 movies and videos… Read more »

Periwinkle Cinema: The Bride of Frankenstein

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In this sequel to Frankenstein (1931) both Henry and his monster have survived. The monster, thought to be dead by the local villagers, is found out when he attempts to save a young girl from drowning. He’s taken into custody but escapes into the woods where he meets a blind man who enchants him with his violin…. Read more »

Small Press Traffic: CECILY NICHOLSON & TONGO EISEN-MARTIN

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Since 1974 Small Press Trgramaffic Literary Arts Center (SPT) has been at the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area innovative writing scene, bringing together readers, writers, and independent presses to engage, create, present, critique and archive their work. Program: a reading & conversation with CECILY NICHOLSON & TONGO EISEN-MARTIN

Other Cinema: G.SNIDER + K.QUILLIAN + L.SCHWARTZ 3-D +

Our 3 Live Cinema artistes marvelously re-mediate excavations from the 19th, 20th, and 21st Centuries! Bernal genius Greta Snider graces our gallery with a premiere and two other meta-marvels: Retinal Rivalry is used to transformative effect in “Gloria”, a 35mm slide consideration of 40s starlet Gloria Grahame, while her “Rendition” layers photochemical on digital in… Read more »

Mike Kuchar: A Program of Ancient and Modern Works

Mike Kuchar in person. The vibrant, poetic and wild works of Mike Kuchar have inspired generations of filmmakers and artists with their wickedly perverse parodies of pop-culture and abundant creativity. From early 8 mm films made with his twin brother George Kuchar featuring friends from their Bronx neighbourhood to the underground sci-fi extravaganza Sins of… Read more »

The IXth Annual Druid Underground Film Festival

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The widest touring underground film festival in the US, the 9th annual Druid Underground is a high-powered two-part blast of subversive cinema hosted by Billy Burgess that Flavorpill says doesn’t so much “defy convention as mow it down, douse it in kerosene, and flick a Zippo at it!” Part one of the program is a hardcore,… Read more »

Nathalie Brilliant: “Nucleus” (Opening Reception)

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The ATA window presents, “Nucleus,” a show that comprises of one video piece. The video piece was created for My Home My Mission, a project that considers what it means to belong, and what a “home” is when the concept of home is challenged by the surging crisis of evictions in San Francisco. My Home… Read more »

Small Press Traffic: Florencia Castellano (Argentina), Luis Felipe Fabre (Mexico), Pablo Katchadjian (Argentina), with translators John Pluecker, Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal, Rebekah Smith

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Since 1974 Small Press Trgramaffic Literary Arts Center (SPT) has been at the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area innovative writing scene, bringing together readers, writers, and independent presses to engage, create, present, critique and archive their work. Program: In partnership with Poetry Center and Ugly Duckling Presse: Señal chapbook series poets: Florencia Castellano… Read more »

Other Cinema: LAITALA & WOBBLY VS. VARGA & YOUNG +

Our second LIVE A/V installment celebrates Expanded Cinema: Kerry Laitala West-Coast-premieres her 25-min. “Astro Trilogy”, a transporting triple-projection live-accompanied by the sonic superstar we call Wobbly. These two psychonauts transport us way past Pluto to finally shed some light on all this so-called Dark Energy! Dominating the second half are the downright dangerously hacked audiovisuals of the long-missed… Read more »

OpenScreening

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ATA’s Open Screening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area. Get your work out there! The first Thursday of every month we have an Open Screening. An Open Screening is where we invite local filmmakers to show their short subject films (under 15 mins.). It is a free event and you can either… Read more »

Other Cinema: TONY CONRAD + JOHN DAVIS + CYRUS TABAR +

Our tri-part OPTRONICA series—OC’s semi-annual fest of Audiovisual-Fusion— opens with a tribute to recently deceased drone demigod Tony Conrad, the minimalist confederate of Faust, La Monte Young, and the Velvet Underground. Tonight we groove both on his hypnotic performances—documented by SFAI grad Tyler Hubby—and on local A/V ‘avatars’ John Davis and Cyrus Tabar, performing pieces… Read more »

Formations

Gabriela received her BFA from California College of the Arts in the winter of 2012. She paint portraits that depict nearly still figures submerged within a destabilized landscape. Her paintings grasp on what is in constant movement and change in an over stimulated environment. Gabriela aims to capture an amplified state where figures fall apart… Read more »

Revive Spell – Craig Calderwood

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Opening Reception: Tuesday, September 13th, 6-9pm. “Revive Spell” is the third Installment of my piece “Beast of Burden” a large scale interspecies soft sculpture that now exists as a skin. In this install I attempt to bring the overkilled piece back, casting a revive spell with the aid of the trangels. Cue Rosa’s Theme. Photo… Read more »

SF Cinematheque and Gray Area present: Perpetual Motion

September 16–December 7, 2016 Gray Area / Grand Theater  2665 Mission Street  San Francisco PERPETUAL MOTION Perpetual Motionis the most comprehensive convergence of international performance cinema practitioners ever assembled in the Bay Area. Presented over seven evenings September 16–December 7, 2016, with all artists performing in person, this series is curated by San Francisco Cinematheque… Read more »

Call For Submission

The Echo Park Film Center is currently seeking film submissions for a 5 part series showcasing experimental work by filmmakers of color based in the United States. We’re looking for works that fall under the any of following categories: Portraits of Self and Identity, Found and Appropriated Footage, Social Justice, Dance, Movement, and Rhythm, Cameraless… Read more »

Cine+Mas: Perla-San Francisco Latino Film Festival

Perla is abandoned by her owner on the top of a hill, in the capital city of Santiago, Chile. Without knowing what to do, Perla joins the throngs of other dogs that roam the streets. Then one day she meets Samuel, a troubled man, and they both sta…

Cine+Mas: CRAVING CUBA- San Francisco Latino Film Festival

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http://bit.ly/SandsSilence Filmmakers in attendance Craving Cuba USA, 2016, Documentary-Society Directors: Zuzy Martin Lynch & Rick Lynch 65 min English with some Spanish- subtitled Shown with short film: “Craving Cuba is a documentary film about Cuban-Americans and their complicated relationship with Cuba. This is a story about identity, family, exile and hope. Follow the journey of… Read more »

Other Cinema: “HIDDEN RHYTHMS” + JEREMY ROURKE + COLBURN +

An eye-poppin’ program of ‘Pixilation Prodigies’ that includes TWO live performances!!: Bryan Boyce, Adrianne Finelli, and octogenerian Jackie Jones stage a shadow-play that animates the “Hidden Rhythms” of the grand dame’s singing saw…AND Jeremy Rourke debuts his Djerassi-seeded magnum opus Falling Piano Piece, another record-toppling live-musical animation, a genre he practically re- invents every outing!… Read more »

Three Freaks

Three multi-disciplinary artists share space for a one night performance exhibiting slices of their ongoing works. Ian Vanek debuts a ritualistic trance performance consisting of a projected short film loop and its accompanying live soundtrack; Cherry Pop 5 creates sounds set astray in a wash of previously unheard random cassettes chosen by candle light; and Ricki… Read more »

ATA OPEN SALON

AN ATTEMPT AT ESTABLISHING A SPACE/PLACE OUTSIDE THE STUDIO/HOME TO EXPOSE A PIECE. YOU ARE INVITED TO PLACE A PIECE IN ATA. DISCUSSION IS ENCOURAGED, BUT SO IS SILENCE … OR … SOMETHING POLYPHONIC ___ ALL MEDIUMS WELCOME___LIMITED PRESENTATION SLOTS AVAILABLE: CONTACT: salon@atasite.org FREE ADMISSION ~ **HEADLINERS :::Redwood Vos :::Jamil Moises Liban­Ortañez

Periwinkle Cinema: Virgo Season Porn Mystery Box

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Periwinkle Cinema presents a mystery vintage porn show. Cum watch some unknown classics of the 70s, 80s and more. We have looked deep into the history of porn and are bringing some of the earliest, oiliest, and historically interesting porn on 8mm and super8 and VHS! We will be bringing along some classic porn mags… Read more »

Cine+Mas: ISUMMER SACRAMENT- San Francisco Latino Film Festival (Indivisible cancelled)

SUMMER SACRAMENT- San Francisco Latino Film Festival Director: Lionel Desai USA, 2016, Drama 62 min English with some Spanish- subtitled Shown with short film: Dogs & Tacos Guests from both short & feature film slated to attend. During one fateful summer in San Francisco’s Mission district, Richy is forced to deal with his mother’s deportation… Read more »

Cine+Mas: MADE IN CALIFAS SHORTS PROGRAM- San Francisco Latino Film Festival

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http://bit.ly/CalifasShortsATA Shorts by California filmmakers including Bay Area. A combination of seasoned and emerging talent. Several filmmakers have had their work with CMSF in past seasons. Cross Dir. Gerardo Maravilla 2015,USA, 10 mins – Action/Drama As a sick mother nods off to sleep, her teenage son anxiously sits with his new role as the familys… Read more »

Other Cinema: VAZQUEZ & GALINDO’s “GRRRR!” + MOLERO’s “VIDEOFILIA”

Flying up from Lima is Rotterdam’s Tiger Award-winner Juan Daniel Molero, with the US theatrical premiere of this long-overdue look at the contemporary lives and loves of Peruvian youths, coming of age in the globalized era of the internet, cybersex, and psychedelic drugs. Hooking up online, his slacker teens trip into a delusional world of… Read more »

ATA@SFPL: Night And Fog (screening at Noe Valley Library)

Artists’ Television Access (ATA) teams up with San Francisco Public Library to mine the treasures in the Library’s 16mm film archive. Join us for a quarterly screening series of fantastic movies. Night And Fog (Alain Resnais, 1955, 16mm)  “Some films are pleasant, others beautiful, some magnificent. This film is NECESSARY,” cineaste Ado Kyrou wrote upon Night And… Read more »

Opening Reception: Craig Calderwood & Gabriela Cobar

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Formations Gabriela received her BFA from California College of the Arts in the winter of 2012. She paint portraits that depict nearly still figures submerged within a destabilized landscape. Her paintings grasp on what is in constant movement and change in an over stimulated environment. Gabriela aims to capture an amplified state where figures fall… Read more »

Small Press Traffic: ANGELA ROBERTS & EMILY YAMAUCHI

Since 1974 Small Press Trgramaffic Literary Arts Center (SPT) has been at the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area innovative writing scene, bringing together readers, writers, and independent presses to engage, create, present, critique and archive their work. Program: a reading & conversation with ELEVATE Residents ANGELA ROBERTS &  EMILY YAMAUCHI

Other Cinema: YARD DOGS ROAD SHOW” + CIRCUS DELIRIUM +

Without a doubt, a truly authentic first-person account of the Performing Life! With cameo appearances by Ken Kesey, Michael Franti, and Speed Levitch, director Flecher Fleurdujon (in person) manages to capture thee genuine San Fran spirit in his rag-tag troupe’s audacious risk-taking, insane ingenuity, and joyous community. This home-grown feature details how a gang of… Read more »

Gaze #13: Certain Tension

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“I sometimes keep to one shot for a long time. A certain tension builds up between the beginning and the end of that shot, which immediately looks like fiction. It is indeed difficult to escape from fiction. But in the same way it’s also difficult to escape from the documentary style.” —Chantal Akerman. An homage… Read more »

OpenScreening

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ATA’s Open Screening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area. Get your work out there! The first Thursday of every month we have an Open Screening. An Open Screening is where we invite local filmmakers to show their short subject films (under 15 mins.). It is a free event and you can either… Read more »

EYE ENVIES MIND

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“A Brief Conversation With My Psychotherapist” – Balitronica

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Opening Reception: August 20th – 8:30-10:30 PM https://www.facebook.com/events/1067640073290541/https://www.facebook.com/events/1067640073290541/ Balitronica Gomez is a cyborg poet, performance artist and queer sex radical currently living in San Francisco. She was born and raised on the San Diego/Tijuana border where she was part of the punk and literary underground scene. She lived in Paris in a 17th century Dominican… Read more »

Long Shadows: Wong / Fox / Beydler

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Introduced by Al Wong, filmmaker, and Tanya Zimbardo, curator.  Al Wong, Same Difference, 1975, 16mm transferred to video, color, sound, 17.5 min., soundtrack: Terry Fox, courtesy the artist.  “Same Difference (1975) was filmed in my kitchen window over an entire year. I had one person, Ursula Schneider, sitting there in a particular position so that… Read more »

Chaos and Order, an iotaCenter Salon

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Witness a collection of visual music from across time and from around the world that represent the spectrum of rationality. Order on the one side and chaos on the other.  Are they truly polar opposites? Is there order in total chaos or chaos in highly organized forms?  Tell us your thoughts in this night of… Read more »

Gott Mit Uns unveiled. An evening with Princess VuVu and the Undead

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Princess VuVu and the Undead will be returning to ATA to perform and celebrate the release of her visual album, Gott Mit Uns. Limited edition hand pressed DVD’s will be availabled for the first time ever at the event. Princess will be joined by special guests Balitronica Gomez performing a durational piece as Phantom Mariachi… Read more »

Periwinkle Cinema: The Transfused/1999/Nomy Lamm + The Need

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This month we are excited to be celebrating the work of living legend/artist/activist/singer Nomy Lamm with a live recording of her late 90’s rock opera collaboration with the Need “The Transfused” as well as a teaser for her upcoming documentary “Legacy of the Mystic Shrine” Presented in Glorious VHS! The Transfused/1999/Nomy Lamm + The Need… Read more »

EYE ENVIES MIND (opening reception)

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ATA staff show.

Speculation Nation

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Speculation Nation, Sabine Gruffat & Bill Brown, 75 min, USA/Spain 2014 The global financial crisis that began in 2007 battered Spain. Over a quarter of the population lost their jobs, and hundreds of thousands of people lost their homes. The constitutional guarantee for housing that has been a cornerstone of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco has… Read more »

OpenScreening

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ATA’s Open Screening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area. Get your work out there! The first Thursday of every month we have an Open Screening. An Open Screening is where we invite local filmmakers to show their short subject films (under 15 mins.). It is a free event and you can either… Read more »

An evening with: Kevin Hufnagel, Leila Abdul Rauf and Jessica Way

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Jessica Way is a guitarist and vocalist in the etherial doom-metal band, Worm Ouroboros, the dark folk/ambient band Barren Harvest, and the experimental folk project Hiraeth Eschar. As a guest vocalist she has collaborated with metal bands Ash Borer and Atriarch, industrial entity Theologian, and neo-folk’s Kinit Her and Fovea Hex. Through poetry and symbolism,… Read more »

Lee Lavy: Excavation

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ATA Window Gallery Presents: Lee Lavy: Excavation Opening Reception & Performance: July 13, 2016 @ 6PM A Temporal portal transports 2 post-human toxic waste beings (inheritors of the garbage of earth) inside the window gallery of Artist Television Access. The future being’s residency within our perceived realm of time and space will labor together on… Read more »

Penelope Anstruther: Midnight Insight [What’s Found Was Soon Forgotten]

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Midnight Insight [What’s Found Was Soon Forgotten]   Shadows blooming Emanating softly Like darkness off the water ________ Searching for markers in an inextricable landscape through heuristic process and dream memory.

Glitch analogique du nord

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          Analogue glitch art is a movement wherein video artists push aside high definition and modern tools and instead utilize the seemingly obsolete: VCRs, CCTV, video mixers, video synthesizers, and so on. Québec has been a hot bed for lo-fi enthusiasts, every artist approaching their analog instruments with a different methodology…. Read more »

ECSTATIC LANDSCAPES: An Evening of Film, Music and Performance

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With: Miranda Dershimer Faith Arazi/Maddie Moir Dave DeFilippo / Kevin Corcoran / Paul Clipson   Paul Clipson is a San Francisco-based filmmaker who often collaborates with sound artists and musicians on films, live performances, and installations. His Super 8 and 16mm films aim to bring to light visual preoccupations that reveal themselves while working in… Read more »

Periwinkle Cinema: Tattle-Tale Heart

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Join us for a screening and reception to celebrate an amazing new film by Lark Buckingham! Featuring an incredibly talented cast and a thrilling story you can’t miss! Tattle-Tale Heart / 2016 / 17 Minutes Tattle-Tale Heart is a short fictional narrative about authenticity, privacy & connection in social media—all seen through the lens of… Read more »