December 22, 2018 – 8:30 pm
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NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS For over 30 years now, the OC season has been consummated with an energized evening of radical expression and film form, with many of the artists in person (7!). Spot-lit on this round are Jeremy Rourke’s performance may two thousand and eighteen, Bryan Boyce’s Fake but True, Tim Johnson’s March of Tim, and David King’s Male Men, all world premieres with makers… Read more »
December 21, 2018 – 8:00 pm
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ATA invites our community to celebrate with the space with us. Live music and performance by: I, Plank Turqouiz Noiz more TBA! Refreshments provided courtesy of Rainbow Grocery.
December 19, 2018 – 8:00 pm
Michael Swaine returns from the north with letter-games and piano-key-shadow-puppets. mild and anagram eyeball traffic . // crashes into (1971) Stan Brakhage’s EYES ; “…wishing [to film] … some of the more ‘mystical’ occupations of our Times – some of the more obscure Public Figures …” Police car ride along footage, 35 minutes. City before eye bulging eyedrops rapidly… Read more »
December 18, 2018 – 7:30 pm
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10 beautiful documentaries from SFSU Cinema. Meet Luchadors, analogue cassette artists, explicit game streamers, creative artists, and epic survivors in this program that brings together light, shadow, dreams and memories. Show opens with incandescent 16mm selections from the Material Cinema class. Door at 7:00, Show starts 7:30
December 16, 2018 – 7:00 pm
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Please join us for an evening of final works by the students at SFSU school of arts. Works by: Jeremy Au Saida Balbigy Richard Bond Danielle Boyington-Warmack Calum Craik Emily Ulrika Elfving Mary Evans Anna Maria Lygnebrandt Andres Montano Kate Norton Jade Nouchi Anthony Ruiz Omar Solorio Clara Davis Hiroaki Takano Jeremy Au Saida Balbigy… Read more »
December 15, 2018 – 8:30 pm
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DREWs’ OPEN COUNTRY + CASH’s RIDIN’ THE RAILS + So in tune with the current class crisis, Jesse and Glenda Drew truck in from the Valley to deliver a robust updating of their big-hearted embrace of the real proletarian roots of the Country/Western genre. Their much-anticipated historical essay situates the origins of C/W music as being drawn from the same well as “hillbilly” or “folk”, written from the perspectives… Read more »
December 14, 2018 – 7:30 pm
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POSADA HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE IN SPRING. ATA Presents POSADA, a Holiday Benefit for the Border Angels in their efforts to support the migrantes at Tijuana. Come join us for live music, video installations and dancing- ATA style. Musical Performances TBA. Border Angels is volunteer based, non profit organisation that advocates for… Read more »
December 12, 2018 – 7:00 pm
Students in Architecture of Time from the Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley present a series of short videos that celebrate their semester-long journey developing their artistic voices and conceptual thinking about the conveying of messages/moods/ideas with images and sound moving across time. Class: Architecture of Time from the Department of Art Practice at… Read more »
December 11, 2018 – 6:30 pm
Ingmar Bergman’s World (Stig Björkman, 1972) 53 minutes At the end of the 1960s dramatist-turned-director Ingmar Bergman had been Sweden’s most highly-regarded cinematic export for well over a decade and had solidified his reputation as one of the world’s foremost makers of thought-provoking feature films. It was time for him to try making his first film… Read more »
December 9, 2018 – 10:00 am
This sale will feature many items that would make memorable Holiday gifts. You will find many useful items and item of collectible value. Cinema Books Hand-made jewelry, many necklaces that feature vintage glass beads Vintage Equipment including Bolex, 8 mm camera, 8mm projectors, 16mm projectors, overhead projector, Polaroid Land camera, Vintage Signs, film editing equipment, digital picture… Read more »
December 8, 2018 – 8:30 pm
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CATO’s L00p8L00p8 + LANE’s APPEARANCES + GAGNON’s GOING SOUTH + This third instance of the Archive Effectelegantly demonstrates how the terrain of “found footage” has expanded from 16mmcelluloid, to analog and then digital video, to broadcast television, to internet TV, and now to www content-aggregators themselves. Kristin Cato (on violin) and Cindy Sawprano (on musical saw!) prime the party with the world premiere of L00p8L00p8, a Live Film performance that whirlpools… Read more »
December 7, 2018 – 7:00 pm
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 mini-masterpieces from our Advanced Narrative film class. The fun starts at 7:00 pm. There will be snacks. Free! Doors 7:00, Films 7:15
December 6, 2018 – 8:00 pm
ATA’s Open Screening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area. Get your work out there! 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 screen a film or just be a member of the audience. Either… Read more »
December 4, 2018 – 9:00 pm
Fall Semester Final Class Screening: New works made by K. Laitala’s Personal Cinema Moving Image Artists from the San Francisco Art Institute. Group Projects include: Hi-Beams, a Film that uses motion analysis to capture fleeting moments of time & Knee Jerk, a hand-processed film made in response to the recent Supreme Court justice confirmation. Individual… Read more »
December 4, 2018 – 7:00 pm
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Join us for the Culmination of the San Francisco Art Institute’s 2018 Fall Semester Intro to Film Class taught by K. Laitala. Group Projects include: Tutti Frutti made with hand-painted loops and a Cameraless Cinegram made with a flashlight entitled: Conjuring in the Dark, and screened in glorious 16mm as well as Individual student… Read more »
December 2, 2018 – 4:00 pm
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On Sunday, December 2nd , the Los Angeles-based film collective, We Make Movies is bringing its signature Writers Workshop back to the San Francisco film community. The nine-year old LA film collective, which has executive produced dozens of films in Los Angeles and Canada and collaborated on hundreds more, is excited to be partnering with… Read more »
December 1, 2018 – 8:30 pm
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1968+50: PARIS SITUs + MEXICO CITY + SAM GREEN’s CHICAGO DNC David Cox and Molly Hankwitz, as Bivoulab, retrieve the absolutely essential 20th Century moment that is Paris, May 68 in their In Memorium Futuri, an hour séance/screening on Situationist cinema and its echoes off the Parisian cobblestones. Guy Debord, Michelle Bernstein, Maurice Lemaitre, and their many angry comrades were the catalysts for massive change in the West, largely through… Read more »
November 30, 2018 – 7:30 pm
San Francisco Democratic Socialists of America Jia Zhangke’s masterpiece 24 City Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzs3ew526Gc 24 City twists documentary and fiction together through oral histories of three generations of people in Chengdu, China. It traces the history of a state-owned munitions factory under the CCP and its demolition to make way for luxury high-rise apartments. As the area’s history… Read more »
November 30, 2018 – 2:42 pm
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Almost-Public/Semi-Exposed is the ATA Window Gallery’s annual month of installed performance. Each November we open the space to a wide range of live performers. Past years have included performance art, modern dance, Butoh, art games, endurance pieces, sound art, live painting, ritual practice, projector performance, public intervention, radical burlesque, durational poetry, and more… Almost Public/Semi-Exposed… Read more »
November 30, 2018 – 11:59 am
Opening: Friday 2 November 6 to 9pm It’s a famed Bulgarian colloquialism to remark ‘oh, what a theatre!’ when bearing witness to conflict, the drama of politics or expression of passionate behaviour. ‘National Theatre’ is a result of works made in an extended period of residency in Alex’s mother nation of Bulgaria and expanded upon… Read more »
November 29, 2018 – 7:30 pm
SF Cinematheque presents: Working collaboratively since 1994, Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby create provocatively genuine video works which explore (and evoke) of states of emotional tenderness, empathy and grace. In their complexly confrontational use of such taboo tropes as cuteness, earnest direct address, emotive identification with animals and pop-cultural fixation, Duke & Battersby disarm… Read more »
November 24, 2018 – 8:30 pm
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MICRO-ARCHIVES/ ANOMALIES + JOE DANTE’s MOVIE ORGY With Civil Defense crackers on offer, this Atomic Age retro-romp sets off a feisty trifecta on the high stakes and high art of Motion Picture Archiving, with tonight’s celebration of Collectors and Collectionsoscillating between behind-the-scenes and in-front-of-screens. Our favorite four human-scale “folk archives” share both their anomalous sources and their masterful re-mixes, including several on 16mm! Adam Dziesinski remembers Oddball Films(Stephen Parr RIP) with his 275 Capp… Read more »
November 23, 2018 – 7:30 pm
Ditch your Black Friday plans and come hang out at your favorite Artist Television Access, THE BEST DIY/UNDERGROUND THAT MONEY CANT BUY. Yoy– Shoegaze/ grunge https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/yoy/eV3bBuzzed lightbeer- fem punk/ grunge https://buzzedlightbeer.bandcamp.com/ Dream Fsh– experimental/ bedroom pop with hip hop influences With live accompanying visuals by Tamara Chu, Video alchemist and friendly neighborhood witch. https://www.instagram.com/chu.tamara/
November 18, 2018 – 5:00 pm
Known for deploying humor as a key strategy, Faith Holland reinvents ideas about gender, sexuality, and the body as they relate to internet culture. Pixelated Desires takes us inside Holland’s moving image practice by bringing together a selection of videos and GIFs. Highlights include WWW³, a trilogy that envisions the web as endless tunnels, a… Read more »
November 17, 2018 – 8:30 pm
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Back by popular demand, Hans Grusel’sKrankenkabinet now attempts an even darker theme than the Aztec mummies, with their appreciation/appropriation of cultauteurs Doris Wishman (Bad Girls Go to Hell, A Night to Dismember) and Jack Hill(Spider Baby, Mondo Keyhole)…as artfully re-mixed by Brutallo, and as part of this season’s Trash thread. Local electronic ace Thomas Dimuzio graces out gallery (maybe for the first time ever!) to boast to the world… Read more »
November 16, 2018 – 8:00 pm
Co-presented with Canyon Cinema a Darkness Swallowed Betzy Bromberg 2005 78min 16mm “When a Darkness Swallowed opens on some old photographs, it seems to be one kind of film, a personal work exploring memory, perhaps focusing on the child depicted in one of the photos, absent from the other. But very quickly it shifts to… Read more »
November 14, 2018 – 8:00 pm
This November Periwinkle Cinema presents our yearly all Trans/Gender Queer/Gender Non-Conforming/Gender Fluid/ Agender screening. We are here and we won’t be erased. We shall continue to fight to build our future and give voice to those most silenced. Come be with us to experience this program, celebrate who we are, be with community. As always… Read more »
November 10, 2018 – 8:30 pm
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He’s back! Our homeboy who hit it big with the world’s first chart-topping video game played through a female protagonist! From Pong to Doom and beyond, the cultural expansion and global reach of games has ushered in a new era of diversity, story-telling and representation, along with cautionaries over their social impact. Games from around the world now explore issues of… Read more »
November 9, 2018 – 8:00 pm
In his first solo show, Javier Briones will screen The Color of Time and El Soñador, two short optically-printed experimental documentaries about San Francisco. One mid-length documentary, The Earth Did Not Speak, exploring human rights and Indigenous people’s resilience in Guatemala and a preview of a work-in-progress, Yo Soy Fidel, a two-channel film that follows Fidel Castro’s ashes through Cuba during the… Read more »
November 4, 2018 – 5:00 pm
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GAZE film series presents a collection of shorts exploring gendered oppression, bearing witness, survivorship, and modes of resistance for a curated screening to benefit the Bay Area Women Against Rape(BAWAR), where call volume and requested services rose dramatically alongside the Kavanaugh hearings and confirmation. In curating this social fundraiser, we hope to respond to the needs… Read more »
November 3, 2018 – 8:30 pm
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In our co-presentation with PFA, both sides of the Bay are mobilized by the excitement around this feature debut from a pair of young radicals out of Brooklyn’s fabled Union Docs incubator. With mass surveillance and pervasive policing as context, both outside and in the fiction, Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer, here in the flesh, have managed to conjure a revolutionary spirit at world’s… Read more »
November 2, 2018 – 6:00 pm
It’s a famed Bulgarian colloquialism to remark ‘oh, what a theatre!’ when bearing witness to conflict, the drama of politics or expression of passionate behaviour. ‘National Theatre’ is a result of works made in an extended period of residency in Alex’s mother nation of Bulgaria and expanded upon with his return to his nation of… Read more »
November 2, 2018 – 2:26 pm
UP DOWN & SIDEWAYS NEW PEOPLE CINEMA, SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY NOV 4TH 2:45 PM Hypnotic rhythms and complex polyphonic music reverberate through the hills of Nagaland in this portrait of an indigenous community and their remarkable musical traditions, set in the alluring northeast of India. Use promotional code “cp_2018” when purchasing tickets for ‘Up Down… Read more »
November 1, 2018 – 8:00 pm
ATA’s Open Screening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area. Get your work out there! 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 screen a film or just be a member of the audience. Either… Read more »
October 31, 2018 – 3:03 pm
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Zoë Leonard is interested in the function of memory, the cultural codification of space into place, the naturalization of construct into Truth, how and why meaning deteriorates, and how the body navigates the ideological landscape. A long time Mission resident, she has shown work at the Little Roxie and ATA, helped start Thrillhouse Records, and… Read more »
October 30, 2018 – 7:30 pm
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https://mintreed.bandcamp.com/ “bewitchingly stuck between the 60’s and the 90’s, Mint comes through with clean cut indie jams.” https://dreamhaste.bandcamp.com/ – Dream Haste “from the bedroom to the bathroom of your heart, dream Haste will blur the preconceived notions of dance music and will probably appeal more to your mom than you(just the way they planned).” https://www.facebook.com/juicebumpsband/ – Juicebumps… Read more »
October 27, 2018 – 8:30 pm
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SACHS/OLESKER’s WASHING + HAMMER’s DEREN + We’re tickled pink to welcome back prodigal daughter Lynne Sachs, here with Lizzie Olesker to anchor a program on women’s labor, both manual and intellectual. Sachsshows her Carolee, Barbara, and Gunvor, about the ongoing cinema legacies of Ms. Schneemann, Hammer, and Nelson. That inspiring opener in fact leads us directly into a half-hour piece by the prolific Hammer, who HERSELF has honored another… Read more »
October 26, 2018 – 7:30 pm
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oin the San Francisco Democratic Socialists of America for a screening of Blue Collar, the 1978 directorial debut from Paul Schrader, with a discussion after. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfbX5dPODZs Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, and Yaphet Kotto star as a trio of “hard workin’, fucked over” auto factory workers. Finding themselves in dire financial straits, they wager it all on a plot… Read more »
October 21, 2018 – 4:00 pm
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The Los Angeles-based film collective, We Make Movies is bringing its signature Writers Workshop to the San Francisco film community. The nine-year old LA film collective, which has executive produced dozens of films in Los Angeles and Canada and collaborated on hundreds more, is excited to be partnering with the esteemed Artists Television Access for… Read more »
October 20, 2018 – 8:30 pm
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GRETA SNIDER’s 3-D + L.CAPLAN + A.COPPOLA + The second half of our Focus on Locusdouble-header features two world premieres—exquisite expanded cinema/retinal rivalry pieces by the Mission’s own Greta Snider, plus a timely revival of her epochal 16mmdiary Portland, train-hopping with Ivy McClelland and Iggy Scam! Lana Caplanbreaks away from her SLO college gig to unspool a NorCal debut, Patches of Snow in July (Hawaii volcano), as well as her earlier Maelstroms (Mexico border)…. Read more »
October 20, 2018 – 1:00 pm
Home Movie Day is a celebration of amateur films and filmmaking held annually at venues worldwide. Home Movie Day events provide the opportunity for individuals and families to see and share their own home movies with an audience of their community. It’s a chance to discover why these films are important and to learn how… Read more »
October 19, 2018 – 8:00 pm
The Children of Ibdaa: To Create Something Out of Nothing,’ 27 mins. 2002 A Palestinian children’s dance troupe uses it’s performance to express the history, struggle and aspirations of the Palestinian people. ‘Ibdaa’ has screened internationally and continues to be used as an educational tool as the Palestinian struggle for self-determination continues. http://cinesmith.net/children_ibdaa.htm Return To… Read more »
October 17, 2018 – 8:00 pm
This October Periwinkle Cinema presents our Annual Halloween Spooktacular! Spooky shorts some videos. A smattering of splattering and something with pumpkins. There will be free candy at the door. Snacks and beverages for sale and as always there will be free popcorn and door prizes. Costumes are Strongly encouraged.
October 13, 2018 – 8:30 pm
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DANIEL + RENWICK + LORD + KATELUS + Look for the four vans in front of ATA! Bill Daniel makes his escape from Tex-ass, Vanessa Renwick brings her Le Guin-inspired Kesh down from Portland, and Doug Katelus loads his Hammond organinto our gallery for an evening celebrating the imagination of that huge American subculture that’s switched to “mobile living systems”. Doug sets the tone as the house Solo Organ, sharing his Econoline tribute to boot. Bill tacks up… Read more »
October 7, 2018 – 7:30 pm
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This iteration of Lamfanti Presents features an evening of films on the wild side, including four recently preserved films by Julie Murray: FF (1986), Tr’cheot’my P’sy (1988), A Legend of Parts (1988), and Conscious (1993). These 16mm prints from Canyon Cinema will be screened alongside archival finds–amateur scopophilia with a predilection for the derriere (digital scans courtesy the Austrian Film Museum). Julie Murray’s films were preserved by… Read more »
October 6, 2018 – 8:30 pm
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E.DAVIS’ JACK PARSONS + J.BERMAN’s EARTHLINGS World-renown fringe religion scholar Erik Davis materializes into our cine-séance with Babalon Rising: Jack Parsons Blasts Off, an inside report on the Man of the Hour, Jack Whiteside Parsons, the OTOsorcerer/inventor who founded the JPL, spread wide the words of Aleister Crowley, incidentally catalyzed the cult of L. Ron Hubbard’s Scientology, and, with New Age matriarch Marjorie Cameron, brought Thelemic sex-magick into Californiaparlance. Author of Techgnosis, The… Read more »
October 5, 2018 – 7:30 pm
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Yung Heazy Drawing strong comparisons to acts like Mac Demarco, The Beatles and the current wave of bedroom pop acts like Cuco, Clairo, Rex Orange County and Gus Dapperton, Yung Heazy & rsquo’s music melds elements of jazz, psych and pop with endearing lyricism and harmonies. A prolific artist, Jordan Heaney performs all instruments, records… Read more »
October 4, 2018 – 8:00 pm
ATA’s Open Screening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area. Get your work out there! 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 screen a film or just be a member of the audience. Either… Read more »
October 3, 2018 – 6:00 pm
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Zoë Leonard is interested in the function of memory, the cultural codification of space into place, the naturalization of construct into Truth, how and why meaning deteriorates, and how the body navigates the ideological landscape. A long time Mission resident, she has shown work at the Little Roxie and ATA, helped start Thrillhouse Records, and… Read more »
September 30, 2018 – 6:18 pm
BFF.fm – Best Frequencies Forever is a community radio station broadcasting online from the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District. Together, 112 volunteer DJs produce 158 hours of original programming every week, bringing the Bay Area music scene to the world through the magic of Internet radio. For our ATA installation, we imagined a strange… Read more »
September 29, 2018 – 8:30 pm
SPELLETICH BENEFIT: SAVE-THE-ROBOTS + GAMERA + Here’s a chance to support a true Friscostalwart, Kal Spelletich, a veritable pillar of our arts community, evicted from his long-running tenure at his Dogpatch studio by the relentless forces of gentrification. A percentage of monies from the door and bar (so drink up!) goes towards Kal’s daunting moving/storage expenses. Screening are a daring duo of his robot docs amongst… Read more »
September 28, 2018 – 10:40 pm
RLTA Organizing for Community Ownership of Iconic 1914 Redstone Building Goal is to preserve San Francisco’s defining center for creative organizing San Francisco —The Redstone Labor Temple Association (“RLTA”) has announced that it is working with the Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA) to be in escrow to purchase the 55,000-square-foot Redstone Labor Temple, located in… Read more »
September 27, 2018 – 7:30 pm
SF Cinematheque presents Facebook Event Page Advance tickets available here New Beginnings is a recurring curatorial endeavor oriented to the presentation of historic works of international artist-made cinema in the contemporary context. This seasonal series intends to open space for new cinematic encounters, revive interest in forgotten (or not forgotten) classics, to problematize canons through… Read more »
September 25, 2018 – 6:00 pm
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Please join us on Tuesday, 9/25, from 6-9 PM, for a viewing of her performance documentation developed during the residency. Eilen will Skype in from NYC from 7-8 PM, and mangoes will be served. Wishing you all a happy SF summer! X Tak Eilen Itzel Mena Once It Fell… September 14-27, 2018 Right Window, 992… Read more »
September 22, 2018 – 8:30 pm
ROURKE + COLBURN + GALLAGHER + GEISER + Since the days of psychedelic lightshows, the Bay Area has been art the global forefront of expanded cinema and Live A/V. Tonight in fact we’re adding three film performances to a phalanx of X~peri~Mental Animation, tipped by the return to our stage of the much missed…Jeremy Rourke! The now-legendary “natural” parlays harp,… Read more »
September 19, 2018 – 8:00 pm
This September cum join Periwinkle Cinema for our second annual Vintage Porn Mystery Box. A night of 8mm and Super8 GLBT porn from the 70s and 80s. Leather, hair and grease. Doubles and Triples perhaps a four way. Its just through the beaded curtain. **this show is 18 and over only** As always free popcorn… Read more »
September 18, 2018 – 7:30 pm
Tickets: http://sflff.gala-engine.com/2018/itineraries/screenings-at-ata/ In 1967, Chicano leader King Tiger (born Reies Lopez Tijerina) along with armed men took over the court of Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico by force. The outcome of such bold action was the largest manhunt in recent US history. Tijerina managed to survive prison, a psychiatric hospital, and a several assassination attempts. The Chicano… Read more »
September 17, 2018 – 7:30 pm
Tickets: http://sflff.gala-engine.com/2018/itineraries/screenings-at-ata/ Claudia loves being a nurse. Handling adrenaline, controlling emotions, saving lives. At home everything is different: there’s a room to clear out, she needs to find a new roommate. Claudia cannot deal with her cousin Silvia’s recent suicide. Outside there’s work, her Aunt’s grief, an encounter with an old friend. Inside she… Read more »
September 16, 2018 – 5:30 pm
Tickets: http://sflff.gala-engine.com/2018/itineraries/screenings-at-ata/ Description Light and heavy. American and Latin American. A mix of shorts that pack a lot of substance into a short amout of time. In This Program The Earth Did Not Speak JAVIER BRIONES / GUATEMALA / 2016 / 4TH WORLD CINEMA, DEVELOPING NATIONS, DOCUMENTARY, ENVIRONMENTAL, GUATEMALA, HUMAN RIGHTS, INDIGENOUS CINEMA, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, LATIN… Read more »
September 15, 2018 – 8:30 pm
DAMON PACKARD’s FATAL PULSE The season opens with a most extraordinary event—rising from the very depths of Hollywood, here’s the in person return to San Francisco of the prodigiously gifted Damon Packard, with his first feature in many years! In fact, his film happens to be ALL about his hometown—it’s a screamingly hilarious send-up of the super-stylized thriller genre that the industry… Read more »
September 12, 2018 – 7:00 pm
Tommy Pico Tommy “Teebs” Pico is author of the books IRL, Nature Poem, Junk, and Feed (forthcoming 2019 from Tin House Books). He was a Queer/Art/Mentors inaugural fellow, a 2017 fellow in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts, won a Whiting Award and a 2018 American Book Award. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay… Read more »
September 11, 2018 – 6:30 pm
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Brooklyn Bridge (Ken Burns, 1981) 58 minutes Before he became synonymous with public television, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns had always intended his work “to be shown on film in a dark room with many people,” as he later would admit. His first major film as a director was shown at film festivals and nominated for… Read more »
September 8, 2018 – 7:46 am
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Open Screening has been great fun in 2018! Here are some of the artists who have participated, and their works. Thanks to all artists, filmmakers, and attendees! SEPTEMBER 2018 AMJ Order to Escalate Child Jerry Barrish I Will Be Alex Bruillet Suburban Velocity Kelsey Ellison Monologue: Stacy’s First Sex Experience You Ain’t You Till You’ve… Read more »
September 6, 2018 – 8:00 pm
ATA’s Open Screening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area. Get your work out there! 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 screen a film or just be a member of the audience. Either… Read more »
August 31, 2018 – 7:30 pm
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ATA has been throwing a lot of parties with Lofi Legs + friends as of late. Our last party was pretty iconic as we transformed ATA into a massive blanket fort. This upcoming show with LOFI LEGS, DREAM HASTE, tbd opener, and video/installations by FAITH ARAZI is not to be missed! Rumor has it that… Read more »
August 25, 2018 – 8:00 pm
Presented by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Born in Flames is a 1983 documentary-style feminist fiction film by Lizzie Borden that explores racism, classism, sexism, and heterosexism in an alternative United States socialist democracy.[1] The title comes from the song Born in Flames written by a member of Art & Language, Mayo Thompson of the band Red Krayola.[2] Born in Flames is set in a near future U.S. (though it pointedly looks very present), a decade after a… Read more »
August 24, 2018 – 8:00 pm
Event hosted by Craig Jacobson and Cassandra Sechler of Dreams For Dead Cats Productions LLC Official website: www.dreamsfordeadcats.com In celebration of launching the fundraising campaign for the upcoming feature film “Tearful Surrender,” the second feature film from San Francisco based production team Dreams For Dead Cats Productions, Craig Jacobson & Cassandra Sechler host a special… Read more »
Multivrs Art Opening Films “Triptych” Bedroom Witch “Tale of a Pretty Black Ass”, Juicebox Burton “Illegible”, Daria Garina “You.Are.Here”, tere sánchez de tagle bartels “Untitled”, Chi Chi Castillo Performances and Music by Kara Phoebe India Sky EdgeSlayer
ATA’s Open Screening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area. Get your work out there! 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 screen a film or just be a member of the audience. Either… Read more »
Artist: Michelle Brandemuehl Bio: Michelle spent her formative years in Wisconsin where she studied painting and received her BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She now lives and works in San Francisco making paintings. Michelle has been a resident of the Edward F. Albee Foundation in Montauk, NY and has exhibited her work in Chicago, Brooklyn,… Read more »
ANALOGICA SELECTION is the annual short film program promoted by ANALOGICA. ANALOGICA is a platform and a festival for the investigation and dissemination of analog practices in visual and sonic experiments, it’s located in Bolzano, Italy. analogica.org All works will be digitally presented. Everything Turns… Aaron Zeghers // 12′:12” / 2017 / Canada / Super8 / experimental The mythology… Read more »
For obvious reasons, gays and lesbians have been forthright in their discussions about their sexual preferences and attractions. Interracial couplings have always carried with them myths, judgments, and projections stemming from stereotypes that live in American culture. In the case of white-on-black desire, the cultural matrix provides a particularly rich gumbo of racism, historical oppression,… 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 »
Artist: Michelle Brandemuehl Bio: Michelle spent her formative years in Wisconsin where she studied painting and received her BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She now lives and works in San Francisco making paintings. Michelle has been a resident of the Edward F. Albee Foundation in Montauk, NY and has exhibited her work in Chicago, Brooklyn,… Read more »
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ATA Window Gallery presents: Gay Shame GAY SHAME is a virus in the system. We are committed to a trans/queer extravaganza that brings direct action to spectacular levels of confrontation. We work collectively outside boring and deceptive non-profit models to fight white supremacy, capitalism, ableism, cops, settler-colonialism and all forms of domination. Liberals think we… Read more »
We are thrilled to present volume 1 of Moss Index, a bi-annual screening series that shows films/videos about looking at nature (“nature”), interacting with the environment (“the environment”), and investigating the border regions where the human and the not-human intersect. An invitation to look at the environment might usually imply a certain political goal, but we are interested… Read more »
In Homocore Minneapolis a documentary about the musical scene in Minneapolis, focusing on the queer punk groups, whose style is also called Homocore. Ganser interviews members of groups such as Tribe 8, The Misfires, The Butchies, representatives of the style.Follow the Homobiles as they tour and discuss the issues of being a queer rock and… Read more »
Celeste Chan and Elliat Graney-Saucke Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-heart-children-of-riot-grrrl-and-queercore-ata-5pm-8pm-tickets-45850273402 ART Heart is: a collage, a mixtape, a DIY documentary and tribute to riot grrrl & queercore’s influence on next generations. This is a love letter to queer and trans teens of tomorrow. 1990’s punk feminism tackled rape/abuse, suicide, mental illness, homophobia, body image, disability and more. Riot grrrl’s art,… Read more »
Celeste Chan and Elliat Graney-Saucke Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-heart-children-of-riot-grrrl-and-queercore-ata-5pm-8pm-tickets-45850273402 ART Heart is: a collage, a mixtape, a DIY documentary and tribute to riot grrrl & queercore’s influence on next generations. This is a love letter to queer and trans teens of tomorrow. 1990’s punk feminism tackled rape/abuse, suicide, mental illness, homophobia, body image, disability and more. Riot grrrl’s art,… Read more »
Just before he leaves the Bay Area, please join current Oakland and soon to be Montréal resident Jason Halprin for a Salon with Canyon Cinema on the evening of Friday, June 15th 2018 at ATA, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco. Jason will present a variety of work he has made over the last 20 years… Read more »
