Lee Lavy: Excavation 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 an archeological excavation and attempt to make sense of the objects they… Read more »
Please join ATA and Other Cinema in celebrating Lise’s life and work. Lise was one of the founders of ATA, and the force behind shaping ATA into the renegade institution we love today. She was a great filmmaker and a beloved educator. We will reflect on her monumental contribution to ATA and the community as… Read more »
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 Window Gallery presents: Levon Fox, Next Best Thing Closing Party: Sunday, June 19th 6-9PM ‘Next Best Thing’ A disembodied residency in ATA’s window gallery. The classic purpose for a residency is a reflective time that allows for the incubation of new work and thought. Increasingly, residencies have adopted the workshop model, where the time… Read more »
I am inspired by the current meme craze, and strive to create my own version of this phenomenon. It’ lowbrow art, within a “high-art” meme. I sometimes use unconventional materials like Perler beads, reminiscent of my early childhood, I still find pleasure and entertainment in its simple attraction. With the toys of my childhood I… Read more »
Artists’ Television Access (ATA) teams up with SFPL to mine the treasures in the Library’s 16mm film archive. Join us for a quarterly screening series of fantastic movies. Banks and the Poor (Morton Silverstein, 1970, 16mm) Whether looking at our current economic landscape, or that depicted in this 46-year old muckraking documentary, it should come… Read more »
June 1, 2016 – June 30, 2016 I am inspired by the current meme craze, and strive to create my own version of this phenomenon. It’ lowbrow art, within a “high-art” meme. I sometimes use unconventional materials like Perler beads, reminiscent of my early childhood, I still find pleasure and entertainment in its simple attraction…. Read more »
June 1, 2016 – June 30, 2016 ATA Window Gallery presents: Levon Fox, Next Best Thing A disembodied residency in ATA’s window gallery. The classic purpose for a residency is a reflective time that allows for the incubation of new work and thought. Increasingly, residencies have adopted the workshop model, where the time is used… Read more »
Vintage Equipment including: Bolex, 8 mm camera and projector, 16mm projectors, overhead projectors, Super 8 and 16mm film cameras, Polaroid Land camera, Vintage Signs, film editing equipment, digital picture frames, Old film stock including Ektachrome 4X5″, 16mm film stock, found footage, old stereographic cards and other collectibles and vintage ephemera. 100ft Fuji 64D 16mm color… Read more »
Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back, By Dean Spade Follow Queers Against Israeli Apartheid’s campaign to get the City of Seattle’s LGBT Commission to cancel a meeting about LGBT rights in Israel. The meeting, which was funded by the Israeli Consulate, was part of a propaganda tour for Israel. There was a massive backlash against the… Read more »
Indigenous life from the experience of one Xican-India family. Screening clips from 25-years of original film, video and moving images from the mujerista artista familia – the D’s: Lola, Osa, Louis, Liz, Tim, Laura, Celia, and Liliana de la Riva. The film company Eagle Bear Productions c/s, has screened works throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico… Read more »
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 »
Dada Here & Now Visual Arts Symposium Part 1: Dada Cinema Presenters Tom Dunn and Christopher Squier discuss the Dadaist use of film and video that utilize a variety of approaches which embrace the absurd and irrational as a means to question or challenge established social values, practices and hierarchies. Some of the video art… Read more »
NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS An energized evening that champions personal expression and radical form, with most of the makers in person: Featured are the West Coast premieres of Sarah Lewison’s March, Patrick Tarrant’s The Take-Up, and Sydney Kovar’s The Pursuit of Profit. ALSO, in the house: Our man Max Godino with his PK Dick-inspired Days of… Read more »
Sean Smith is a guitarist from San Francisco who has been releasing albums of complex and moving instrumental music for the better part of the last decade. He began releasing albums of solo acoustic guitar in 2003 and currently leads a power trio in avant rock excursions. https://seansmith.bandcamp.com/ Paul Clipson is a San Francisco-based filmmaker who often collaborates with… Read more »
Unpiano Books is pleased to announce the release of a book of collected writings from San Francisco author Mike McGuirk. Mike McGuirk has worked as a writer in San Francisco for more than 15 years. His writing has appeared in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, The Stranger, the Cleveland Scene and SOMA Magazine, and on… Read more »
Hannah BECK & Nathalie BRILLIANT Performing, BLUE PT II: Harmony in Contrast @ ATA Window, 992 Valencia St Saturday, May 21, 2-4pm Sunday, May 22, TBA https://www.facebook.com/events/1182179178473289 Blue Pt. II: Harmony in Contrast: This idea came to me when I was sewing a needle point of my nude onto a blue leotard. I was lying… Read more »
Join us for a night of films and friends celebrating Bruce Baillie’s work! The Bruce Baillie Project is a collaborative project to help share and preserve Bruce Baillie’s work. We are fundraising to publish a bi-lingual book about Bruce’s films and to organize an international 16mm retrospective of his work. Program: Quixote, Bruce Baillie, 43… Read more »
ERIK DAVIS + MARK MCCLOUDSAMPLE THE MICROGRAM + Now that the official “Psychedelic Renaissance” is upon us, tune in and turn on to this brain-melting trip into the history and art of LSD-25. After his long PhD quest at Rice U, counterculture historian Dr. Erik Davis finally returns to OC with a clipadelic discourse on… Read more »
Join Caroline Blair’s Motion Picture Directing class for a screening of the 2016 FINAL FILM projects. The showcase features a variety of narrative scenes starring Bay Area actors. Directing Students: Michael Beltran, Enrique Coronado, Emmy Damanhouri, Nik Gay, Kelly Gleason, Jacob Krummel, Danny Mendez, Nestor Palma, Sean Van Steen, Cameron Ward and Ashley Wilhelm. Door… Read more »
Greta Snider’s Experimental Doc Workshop from San Francisco State University brings 18 different short film portraits to the screen. Come to this free screening to meet the artists, family members, ghosts, and video games featured in creatively designed portrait films. Filmmakers include: Joshua Berger, Michael Cruz, Trey Flanigan, Taylor Giffin, Ryan Ianelli, Justin Jue, Shelby Martin,… Read more »
In the summer of 2013, I lost my job at a yuppie craft ice cream shop and sold my guitar, fancy uke, and my DSLR to make rent. I was living in warehouse in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia and, despite living with two gay men, I still felt like a pariah being a baby… Read more »
ATA Window Gallery Presents: Hannah Beck Solo Vitrine Rendition of the Duo Performance ‘Blue Parts’ … and then some May 15, 2016: 12PM – 7PM the title of the piece is “Solo Vitrine Rendition of the Duo Performance ‘BLUE PARTS’ … and then some” The piece consists of the simultaneous construction and maintenance of three… Read more »
ATA Window Gallery presents: Lindsey Filowitz Make Me Up Make Me Up, a series of videos by Lindsey Filowitz, documents the transformative ritual of painting our faces. Cosmetics is a billion dollar industry targeted towards human insecurity. Every day many people choose to hide behind a mask of “perfection,” to become someone else, someone better… Read more »
ALEX RIVERA’s SLEEP DEALER + In his first feature, our long-time ally Alex (PapaPapa) Rivera oh-so-artfully turns speculative fiction into a terrifying critique of a paranoid future. This Sundance-winner spins a fantastic narrative on the dystopian outcomes of globalization, particularly the privatization of water and the place of immigrant labor in the neo-liberal economy. Rivera’s… Read more »
Preston Swirnoff (San Diego / Mexico City) Joshua Emery Blatchley (San Diego) Solo Organ San Diego-based musician and composer Preston Swirnoff will play music from his new solo project ‘Haunted Sea Songs of Bahia’ – dark, eerie Brazilian folk ballads about the power of the ocean, disappearing fishermen, and lost love. Features versions of… Read more »
Join us for a screening of films from the University of San Francisco’s Film Studies program. Tonight our eyes will feast on documentary projects as well as Experimental emissions. There will be Super 8, there will be live music, there will be snacks (both edible and filmic). FREE! Filmmakers include: De’Andre Armstrong, Alex Canepa, Riley Covington, Yasmine Diba, Sarah… Read more »
Join us for the final film screening of the *Media for Social Change* class at the UC Berkeley’s Art Practice Department! Participating Artists: Tara Baghdassarian, Anyun Chatterjee, Irene Chen, Janie Contreras, Belinda Cortez, Sarah Del Monte, Vanessa Donasco, Suzi Hyun, Shannon Kim, Kay Kuok, Alicia Lemus, Mel Nothern, Reaa Puri, Sophia Sobko, Susan Stewart, and… Read more »
Non-fiction films by first-year MFA Film students at California College of the Arts. Program: Grandmother and Me; Kat Cole, 2016, 6min With her wedding approaching, Kat Cole creates a visual letter to her fiancé’s only living grandparent: his 100-year old grandmother whom she will never meet. In this intimate documentary, Cole exhumes long-kept secrets to capture the complexities… Read more »
GATEWOOD: THE TOOTHPASTE IS OUT OF THE TUBE + WEIRD SF + Last week the world was shocked to learn of the death of our beloved Bernal Heights neighbor, internationally renown photographer Charles Gatewood, a trail-blazing documentarian of outsider sub-cultures for the greater part of his life. Despite the extremity of his subject matter, Charles… Read more »
Join us for the Culmination of the San Francisco Art Institute’s 2016 Spring Semester Intro to Film Class taught by K.Laitala Group Projects include Sleepy Doorknob, a hybrid hand painted extravaganza, a hand-painted Cinegram Film, finished and screened in glorious 16mm as well as Individual student projects by: Maurice Ballesteros Isaac Benavides Gabriel Peguero Damian… Read more »
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 »
The series utilizes distorted figurative realism combined with stylized organic forms and pattern, to create a psycho-emotive portrait. As humans, our experiences are often highly nuanced, each individually informed by memory, expectation, and the whims of neurotransmission. These works are a celebration of that complexity: Nervous laughter. Tears of joy. The vibrant reciprocity that gives… Read more »
NIK NERBURN RETROSPECTIVE + Erstwhile OC miracle-worker, the now at-large Mr. Nerburn bounces back into our Mission District safe-house for a feature-length review of his “punk-documentarian” practice. In the Shadow of Paul Bunyan criss-crosses the outsized myth of the jolly logger with the hidden history of the US-Dakota Indian War, told from the perspective of… Read more »
An evening of short films by queer filmmakers raised in San Francisco and still living in the Bay Area. Short films programmed by Still Here Productions. Still Here Productions brings together artists and community to explore the experiences of Queer/LGBTQI individuals raised in San Francisco during the 1980s and 1990s in the context of the… Read more »
Rapid Cycling: series by Chris Love April 1, 2016 – April 30, 2016 The series utilizes distorted figurative realism combined with stylized organic forms and pattern, to create a psycho-emotive portrait. As humans, our experiences are often highly nuanced, each individually informed by memory, expectation, and the whims of neurotransmission. These works are a celebration… Read more »
BANKSY DOES NEW YORK + HOWZE’s STENCIL NATION + Possibly the world’s leading expert on sidewalk stencils, street art, and the Artist Known As Banksy, Russell Howze returns to SF from an international tour behind his Manic D Press publication Stencil Nation, to throw up/down a crucial visual lesson on the illegal public art of… Read more »
This evening’s programs features a selection of films screened silent for the first time, presenting the opportunity to experience these works in a new light. San Francisco-based filmmaker Paul Clipson often collaborates with sound artists and musicians on films, live performances, and installations. His films aim to bring to light subconscious visual preoccupations that reveal themselves… Read more »
Queer makers explore presents, futures and friendship through gazes of trans masculinity. 3 short films programmed by Finn Paul. Program running time-65 min Mymy by Anna Helme (the here and now) a visit by Finn Paul Time eaters by Harry Dodge As always, FREE POPCORN, Raffle and door prizes . .
Filmmaker Alka Raghuram in Person! In a culture where beauty, delicacy, refinement and submission are the prized traits to the ultimate feminine career fulfillment, marriage, young Muslim women in Kolkata challenge stereotypes, learning boxing with Razia Shabnam one of the first Indian women to become a boxing coach and an international referee. Burqa Boxers is the… Read more »
RICK PRELINGER’s NO MORE ROAD TRIPS + Conscientiously caretaking the Cultural Commons, our Genial Helmsman Rick Prelinger graces the gallery once again with his open-hearted audience-participatory feature. His Lost Landscapes screenings are legendary for their communal memory-sharing and respect for the “human scale” of the amateur. Here Rick stitches and hitches a dream-ride through the… Read more »
ATA Window Gallery presents: Michael Mersereau’s Fear Eats the Soul Opening Reception: March 17, 2016 6-9pm https://www.facebook.com/events/803025719841257/ Fear Eats the Soul is a sound and light composition displaying the full dialogue of Angst Essen Seele Auf, (Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, 1974) converted to Morse code. A story of xenophobia, class and love in Germany.
SALISE HUGHES’ SPACES BETWEEN CITIES + A collaboration, and a celebration, shot in many formats and with a inspiring spectrum of styles! Twenty experimental makers across four continents have joined, Exquisite Corpse-style, the heads to the tails of their respective contributions, towards the compilation of this expansive yet radically subjective ”road movie”. Among the cohorts… Read more »
This program explore how specific spaces, places and sites reflect varying experience of rootedness, movement, displacement and transformation. Featuring the work of Julieta Anaut, Vera Brunner-Sung, Lisa Danker, Caroline Key, Kadri Koop, Sasha Litvintseva, Jeannette Louie, Vanessa Renwick, Margaret Rorison and Mónica Savirón. “La mirada detenida” / “Gazing into space” – Julieta Anaut Untitled – Vera… Read more »
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 »
POSITIVE FORCE: MORE THAN A WITNESS has been called “fascinating and inspirational” (The Washington Post) and “engrossing” (WAMU 88.5 Bandwidth). A review in The Guardian summarizes the film nicely: “Positive Force: More Than a Witness examines the staunchly do-it-yourself ethos of the group, as well as its undersung role as a catalyst of Washington DC’s… Read more »
TURNER/CHRISTENSEN’s KORLA + KATELUS With his sparkling jeweled turban, organist Korla Pandit (1921-1998) was an alluring enigma, television pioneer, and the godfather of exotica music. Though he never spoke a word on any of the 900 episodes of his 1950s TV program, Korla nevertheless captured the hearts of countless housewives with his soulful, hypnotic gaze… Read more »
In the spirit of China Libre, come lit and stay for the goodies. We’ve got you on the visually poetic and absurd, all on fresh celluloid, Hi-8, and video. Inspired by Ray and Charles’ Eames Powers of 10, PRGRM I is exploring all the small things on a BIG SCALE, what we really think of… Read more »
Monica’s work utilizes systems theory methodology and concepts derived from observations that demonstrate biological growth. Projects are grown into architectonic composites that generate hyper articulated forms and spatial fields. The species work is grown through varied aggregation at multiple scales. The objective is the production of new systems and organizational methods that represent morphogenetic evolutionary… Read more »
Artists’ Television Access (ATA) teams up with SFPL to mine the treasures in the Library’s 16mm film archive. Join us for a quarterly screening series of fantastic movies.These short films remind us that the word “movie” comes from “movement”. They emphasize motion and music instead of the verbal. Program: all films are presented in 16mm…. Read more »
Please join us for the inimitable Karen Weiser and Julie Patton! Karen Weiser is the author of two full length collections of poetry: the recently released Or, The Ambiguities and To Light Out (UDP), as well as various and assorted chapbooks. Currently she’s working on the libretto for an opera (“You Who Made the Heavens Incline”) in collaboration with composer Peter Gilbert. It… Read more »
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DARR/MACLAINE’s THE END + ARCHIMEDIA + GREEN + With research support from celluloid savant Brecht Andersch, Hell on Frisco Bay blog-god Brian Darr plots a magical map of our much-loved City, through a re-visitation of key locations in Christopher Maclaine‘s 1953 Beat masterpiece The End (screened in its half-hour entirety). Darr‘s revelatory tour is mirrored… Read more »
ANALOGICA is a yearly international festival for disseminating and learning about analog technologies as well as to promoting artists and filmmakers who work with film. The festival takes place during the first weekend of October in Ora (BZ) a small town situated inthe Alps, in northern Italy. ANALOGICA SELECTION is the annual short film program presented… Read more »
Open Show SF is excited to announce its roster for the Best of 2015 showcase! STORIES & PRESENTERS Global Eye: Inside-Outside, David Gross Local Lense: Working For The Wires, Noah Berger Excellence in Motion: Alternate Reality, Stephane Kiss Inspired Art: The Immortals Project, Peter DaSilva ABOUT OPEN SHOW Experience stories with a human touch and get inspired by… Read more »
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Amy Halpern In person. GAZE is honored to be hosting the San Francisco premiere of Amy Halpern’s feature film FALLING LESSONS (1992) coupled with two of her recent short films. Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called FALLING LESSONS, “a stunning, life-affirming experience from a major experimental film artist.” Amy Halpern is an independent… Read more »
ROURKE + GALLAGHER + PUPPETS FACING WEST + A star-studded lineup is showcased for this latest in our series of engagé experimental animation! In person is Dee Hibbert-Jones with her (and Nomi Talisman’s) rotoscoped tour de force Last Day of Freedom, following films from Martha Colburn, Jodi Mack, Nancy Jean Tucker, and the Quay Brothers…. Read more »
A celebration of the works of current and former film students of the City College of San Francisco who experiment with the medium. This celebration includes a diverse group of individuals that are exploring the edges of who they are within the framework of their non-conforming art. With films by Kenneth Edwards, Michael Delaney, Natalia Salazar, Ivan Moore, Toby Nies,… Read more »
Michael Mersereau: “Fear Eats the Soul ATA Window Gallery presents: Michael Mersereau’s Fear Eats the Soul https://www.facebook.com/events/803025719841257/ Fear Eats the Soul is a sound and light composition displaying the full dialogue of Angst Essen Seele Auf, (Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, 1974) converted to Morse code. A story of xenophobia, class and love in Germany…. Read more »
Based on the legendary 90’s lesbian memoir Valencia by Michelle Tea, this film takes us on an adventurous journey through Michelle’s tumultuous love life as told by 20 different filmmakers, including noted filmmakers Silas Howard (BY HOOK OR BY CROOK), Cheryl Dunye (WATERMELON WOMAN) and recent Sundance award-winner Jill Soloway (AFTERNOON DELIGHT). Valencia the novel… Read more »
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ELEKTRO MOSKVA + DAVIS + PAYNE/BALDWIN + Our second Op installment is anchored by the North American premiere of this riveting Russian report on electronic music from the former USSR, directed by Elena Tikhonova and Dominik Spritzendorfer. Opening is John Davis, the pillar of NorCal’s analog synth scene, who sets off his 20-min. Soviet Hiss,… Read more »
ATA Window Gallery Presents: The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project. Reception: Tuesday, February 23, 2016. 6-9PM The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project is a data-visualization, data analysis, and storytelling collective dedicated to documenting and resisting the dispossession of San Francisco Bay Area residents. http://www.antievictionmap.com/
South Indian superstar Rajnikanth commands a fan base of dedicated supporters for who fandom exists beyond just assiduously watching his films to frenzied celebrations at movie releases and birthdays that have over time garnered legendary reputations. This talk explores the political and social history of fandom in South India, and specifically the case of Rajinikanth… Read more »
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KRAFTWERK: POP ART + YOUNG + BECKER + Opening our semi-annual Optronica suite is) Kraftwerk: Pop Art, the BBC‘s absorbing doc on the godfathers of electronic music. Produced in conjunction with (and including performance clips from) their famous 2013 Tate Modern shows, the 55-min. report, like the band itself, proceeds effortlessly from expert interviews to… Read more »
SFiCA is pleased to announce Moving Shelter #2, a night of performance and video art, to take place on March 4th at Artists’ Television Access. Moving Shelter is an ongoing curatorial project initiated by SFiCA that aims to position work in a variety of media engaged with the limits of home, mobility, and durability. From… Read more »
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 »
This event, led by TRISHA LOW is inspired by the work of Lois Weaver’s Long Table performance. From Low: I want to know if ~*”selling out”*~ is still a real thing and what it means to you / I want to know if alternative means of distribution mean can we make art for art’s sake… Read more »
Vernacular Visions is the fearless project of local photo phenom Justin Clifford Rhody, who renders 35mm slide detritus into marvelous displays of the American Uncanny. Tonight, the keen-eyed collector projects two of his masterworks—Western Lands (his original landscapes) and Moldy Marvels (diptychs of exquisite coloration and abstract form), both accompanied by evocative music and his… Read more »
A documentary by Marisa Holmes. It is 2011. Three years into the global financial crisis, there is a growing sense that political and economic elites sold out the people. In response, a wave of revolutions spreads from North Africa to Europe, and even the United States. In New York City a small group of activists… Read more »
An evening with Lucien Shapiro and friends, Film screening with Shaun Roberts Edison, and live music by death cheetah. Analects is a take on see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, and explores a symbolic loss of speech, hearing, and sight. As each of the senses is lost, a different mask is worn,… Read more »
West Coast Premiere In this entertaining, yet educational debut feature documentary, “Live From UB” takes us through the transition of Mongolia as a new nation learning how to take its first few steps and shows how urban Mongolians have used Rock music to overcome the powers of Soviet-style socialism, Orientalism and globalization over the past… Read more »
US Premiere In a region full of tension, artists in the Middle East have struggled for years to express themselves freely and to promote more liberal attitudes within their societies. During the Arab Spring, like many others of this new Arab generation, local artists had high hopes for the future and took part in the… Read more »
Courtney Fellion’s freshly-inked “Manifestoes and Declarations” issue of Canyon Cinemazine#4 kicks off the media-art component of SOS-SF, a 2-week course of creative resistance to the corporate onslaught on our City. As artists’ and cultural spaces are daily steamrolled, we fight back with the Anti-Eviction Mapping’s Project’s oral histories, Jeff Taylor/Whispered Media’s Boom (exc.), Rio Yanez… Read more »
Bay Area Premiere There are many that believe that Elvis is still alive. If he truly is, he wears a mask and goes by the name Orion. “Orion: The Man Who Would Be King” tells the story of Jimmy Ellis – an unknown singer plucked from obscurity, and thrust into the spotlight as part of… Read more »
In 1964, Johnny Cash – who up to that point was known solely as a country singer – recorded “Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian”, a concept album of folk songs about the treatment of Native Americans. It was not a great commercial success, primarily because radio stations and disc jockeys were unwilling to… Read more »
West Coast Premiere Featuring the stark, iconic photography of Thrasher Magazine’s Ken Salerno, dynamic animation, off-the-cuff interviews and archival footage “Riot on the Dance Floor” brings to life the gritty story of one of New Jersey’s most infamous clubs and its’ larger than life promoter Randy Now – postman by day, punk rock booker by… Read more »
In 1996 a young writer, Eddy Joe Cotton, hopped a freight train looking for adventure. He found it in a friendship with a San Francisco based filmmaker and a poet. With the techcrunch still over the horizon and the Bay Area underground thriving, their friendship blossomed out of cruising the streets in an old Ford… Read more »
Directed by underground cult director Jon Mortisugu and shot in San Francisco. Mod Fuck Explosion is a film you wont want to miss. Featuring apperances by Justin Vivian Bond (Shortbus, Kiki and Herb) James Duval (Totally Fucked Up, Doom Generation) and Desi Del Valle (Desi’s Looking For A New Girl, Costa Brava) plus a kick… Read more »
Corum’s Magic Mirror: “Magic Mirror is the creative audio/video project of Corum whose outsider vinyl Trilogy under the monikers of Beguiling Isles and Effigy Mounds has sought to explore a metaphysical relationship with a micro to macrocosmic world. His sounds examine esoteric and spiritual concepts through hypnotic layers of rhythm and melody, and might be… Read more »
This program brings together a sampling of recent works in Super 8 and 16mm made through the Echo Park Film Center in Los Angeles, including works made through the LA AIR artist-in-residency program. The residency program has facilitated the creation of dozens of new works in film and video by providing Los Angeles-based artists access… Read more »
