Usually the first Thursday of every month, but due to scheduling conflict we are holding OpenScreening in the 2nd Thursday in June. 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… Read more »
Tonight’s 16mm screening pairs a film by San Francisco poet and filmmaker James Broughton with one from the Golden Age of Comedy, the era which so profoundly inspired Broughton’s films. * Chickens Come Home (James W. Horne, 1931) 31 min. Black & White In this pre-code-era comedy, Oliver Hardy plays a fertilizer salesman-turned-politician, and Stan… Read more »
White Poppy: White poppy is a songwriter, drone and new age musician from Vancouver Island. She has released music with Not Not Fun, Constellation Tatsu and more. whitepoppy.bandcamp.com Kristian North: Kristian North is a Montreal based singer songwriter, previously the frontman of weird punk band Babysitter. He is supporting his first solo release, a dense… Read more »
Cal Alumni Artist Collective In this collection of works the artists employ their unique personal lenses, exploring what has influenced their own ways of seeing while offering viewers an experiential journey. The resulting experimental, fictional, and documentary videos utilize metaphor, symbolism and poetic gestures to narrate lived experiences, share personal philosophies and world views, and… Read more »
Sky5 is an ongoing project focused on an individual’s recognition of their place under the sky, and the excitement that comes with this affirmation. Sky5 is comprised of the simple act of stopping where you are, looking up, and high fiving the sky you find over head. This action can be performed anywhere by anyone…. Read more »
“Made in 2013 It Is What It Is is the story behind the band The Breathing Light. Recorded over various periods in it’s short period of 5 years, it gives viewers insight into the personalities and ideals that make up the band. Race, Rock N’ Roll and Reality make “It Is What It Is” the… Read more »
NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS For 33 years now, the OC season has been consummated with an energized evening of radical expression and form, with many of the makers in person. Spot-lit on this Spring round are Julie Murray’s Radius (West Coast debut), and Frédéric Moffet’s Fever Freaks (Cali launch). PLUS premieres from Tala Brecke, in person… Read more »
An evening of Sound and Image with (Show will start on time at 7:30! Doors at 7pm) Lovataraxx (Grenoble, FR) LOVATARAXX is a cold wave duo that produces minimal impulsive dance beats softened by hypnotical voices. Their layers of synthesised sound and heavy bass riffs are deeply mingled with the dark pop sounds of the… Read more »
E.VARGAS + T.S.PORRAS + K.CATO + S.SCHEDELBAUER’s WISHING WELL + East Bay impresario Elia Vargas enacts his in situ [Meta]rials, an anti-Anthropocenevisual rite where dry ice meets crude oil. Co-featured is tamara suarez porras’ in six* parts, a live performance composed from 35mm (found) slides, overhead projectors, and her live narration about the family of… Read more »
Join us at ATA for CCSF’s Spring 2018 presentation of the: Directing Students Showcase Join Professor Caroline Blair and CCSF Department of Cinema’s Motion Picture Directing class for a screening of the 2018 final film projects. This showcase features a variety of narrative scenes starring Bay Area actors. Directing Students: Arabella Deluco, Amilcar Ybarra-Rojas, Imani Donato, Scarlet Gonzalez,… Read more »
Featuring work by: Lacey Johnson, Jared Gruendl, and ART Heart: Children of Riot Grrrl and Queercore (Abram/Chan/Graney-Saucke) Science Witch (2018) spins a short educational tale highlighting the importance of not forgetting your gay roots. Fossil Record (2018) is a hypnotic collage of re-contextualized satellite footage of mega-storms and prismatic geysers, setting the stage… Read more »
Closing Reception May 13th 4-7pm Ancient Greek philosophers wrote of four temperaments (or ‘humors’) that color all of creation: sanguine, choleric, melancholic and phlegmatic. Urbanity is part of this creation, and also embodies versions of these dispositions. The Humors video series suggests urban behaviors and relationships, those of people and of the built environment itself…. Read more »
Mothering Every Day is a program of film and video work about embodying / performing motherhood, domestic labor, and the quotidian. The idea for this program was generated by the artists themselves who were frustrated about the challenges of getting work about maternity screened in the film and art world. From poetic gesture to direct… Read more »
4pm -7pm Ancient Greek philosophers wrote of four temperaments (or ‘humors’) that color all of creation: sanguine, choleric, melancholic and phlegmatic. Urbanity is part of this creation, and also embodies versions of these dispositions. The Humors video series suggests urban behaviors and relationships, those of people and of the built environment itself. Chicago artist Yuge… Read more »
CYRUS TABAR + DEAN SANTOMIERI + COX’ VR + SCIENCE IN ACTION + Comes now the 3rd of our signature Mediashowcases, and the world premiere of Santomieri’s Monuments in Steel and Glass, a spoken-word turn on his tenure as his school’s film-projectionist, in tandem with a 16mm treasure. An educational on urban architecture embedded into… Read more »
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 Experimental Film class and our Advanced Documentary class. You’ll see all sorts of wild and heady emissions. The fun starts at 7:00 pm. There will be snacks. Free!
Sky Hopinka In Person SF Cinematheque in association with the Communication and Media Studies Department at Sonoma State University and the UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Department present: Sky Hopinka’s film work scrutinizes the layered structure of identity in relation to homeland, landscape and language. Like puzzles, his films are constructed with fragmented and superimposed images. Watching… Read more »
MIKE KUCHARs’ FLESHAPOIDS RELEASE + VAZQUEZ’ GEORGE KUCHAR BIO+ We are tickled pink to screen the DVDedition of Mike Kuchar’s 1965 Sins of the Fleshapoids, co-written with and starring brother George! After some five years of sold-out status, this epic achievement in Mike’s storied career is once again available to his salivating fans, thanks to… Read more »
We had a great turnout and a great batch of films at May’s Open Screening. Thanks to all who came and screened. Alex Brouillet The Enigma of Sydney Fowler Alex Selland Birds, Ships, Docks I Assume You Know Nothing Lars Skovgaard Laursen Mame Dave O’Shea Peanut Butter & Butter Billy & the Easter Bunny Esther… Read more »
A hybrid short creative film about gentrification of San Francisco’s Mission District. When the she witnesses Matteo receiving his final eviction notice on his rent-controlled apartment then over-hears the real estate agent plans to sell the building for over a million dollars, Carmelita gets fired up, awoken from a long rest. She joins Matteo in… Read more »
A hybrid short creative film about gentrification of San Francisco’s Mission District. When the she witnesses Matteo receiving his final eviction notice on his rent-controlled apartment then over-hears the real estate agent plans to sell the building for over a million dollars, Carmelita gets fired up, awoken from a long rest. She joins Matteo in… 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 »
Kerry Laitala’s Intro to Film Final Class Screening: Group Projects include Ribbon Candy and Under the Red Light, two hand-made cameraless films. In addition, the following students will premiere recent new Moving image works: Nicholas Espejo Sanghun Lee Haru Urushido Heng Yang Jonathan Naisteter Brian Bigham Gabriel Selvaggio Dordetti Frank Nunez Vivian Vivas Jiwoo Shin… Read more »
Crystal Vielula Queer Movie Stills Reception: April 25 6-8pm Crystal Vielula is a San Francisco based artist and art educator. She is the maker of cheeky coloring books, paintings, collages and the celebrated queer pride mural in Clarion Alley. This work is part of a Queer Movie Stills series that plays with iconic romantic scenes… Read more »
Come for a sneak peek of queer works-in-progress. Dress code: slumber party attire Artists: Lacey Johnson, Celeste Chan, and more TBA
APRIL28: JESSE DREW/NEWSREEL + JOSHUA HARPER/FREAK TV + For our Maypole party, we’re sprouting radical cinema seeds planted by the heroic 16mm film collective Newsreel (50th anniversary!). Jesse Drew himself rolls in from Davis to intro these guerrilla pieces from the 60s/70s, when the collective became the de facto chronicler of the revolutionary moment. He’ll highlight clips from the 1969 Amerika (street battles in the heart of the beast), and People’s… Read more »
USA Poetry: Allen Ginsberg & Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Richard O. Moore, 1966) black & white, 30 minutes 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… Read more »
SF Cinematheque presents: Malena Szlam In Person Presented in association with Communication and Media Studies Department at Sonoma State University and Los Angeles Film Forum “Malena Szlam’s films are meticulously assembled using a menagerie of techniques to physically alter the film elements resulting in dreamlike, collaged, flickering images leaving viewers with a sense of wonderment,… Read more »
APRIL21: COLBURN + GALLAGHER + GEISER + QUILLIAN + For the second of our SisPics diptych, AND to close our animation double-header, we’ve assembled a veritable mothership of animators–almost all women—making this showcase a regular on OC calendars! Featured is the West Coast debut of Martha Colburn’s Rotterdam-selected Western Wilds, her account of Karl May–the German writer who made the Western novel a fixture on European bookshelves–that turns into an auto-bio… Read more »
Back by popular demand Hanky Code The Movie with special short film Cruising Elsewhere preceding. Bringing Queer Sexy back to San Francisco. Cruising Elsewhere Whatever happened to Wohler Beach? Oral histories and spectral pornography resurrect memories of a once legendary Russian River gay beach in this sexy short. Dir. Ryan White 13 Min. Hanky Code… Read more »
GOAT FAMILY + JEREMY ROURKE + 99 HOOKER + Our LIVE A/V series returns with a trio of electrifying performances that fuse spoken/sung-word with (mostly animated) movies.Jeremy Rourke makes good on his“i’ll be around” promise with a loop back through our venue, yodeling amidst an ensemble of energized stop-motion works, fork-plucked harp melodies, and a world premiere live performance/animation. The Goat Family do-si-do’s beneath… Read more »
In attempts to ward off bad luck, ATA is having a Friday the 13th show. Lofi Legs, Elipsis, and ioi will be here to lead the ritual, accompanied by video installations and live projection. https://m.soundcloud.com/lofilegs-422388560 https://elipsis-sf.bandcamp.com/releases https://ioiofficial.bandcamp.com/ All friends, friends of friends, and soon to be friends are invited.
SODA_JERK + VICKI BENNETT + LYNNE SACHS + In person, Oz sisters Dan and Dominiquedeliver the No. American debut of their most ambitious work to date, Terror Nullius, a rogue re-mapping of their national mythology, interweaving samples of Australian Gothic, eco-horror, and Road Movie genres. It’s arthouse meets grindhouse, mobilizing feminist bike gangsfor political satire! Co-featured is Consequences (One Thing Leads to Another) by Vicki (People Like Us) Bennett, a resonant echo of… 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 »
3rd i and AAAS present. A SUITABLE GIRL, (directed by Sarita Khurana & Smriti Mundhra) which premiered last year at the Tribeca Film Festival, and won the Best New Documentary Director award. A SUITABLE GIRL follows three young women in India struggling to maintain their identities and follow their dreams amid intense pressure to get… Read more »
Jesse Malmed In Person In order to make a one-liner, one must first invent the universe. Swinging through town on a west coast tour, Chicago’s own lingua-contrarian enunciationist Jesse Malmed unspools Untitled (Just Kidding), an ever-evolving suite of films and performative interjections made over the last half decade. Jesse Malmed: “The works play in creative… Read more »
Many people have a strong sense that their views are right and couldn’t possibly be wrong. So how do we come to hold strong convictions and why is it hard to consider we could be mistaken? Through the eyes of a group of people convinced that they knew the date for the end of the… Read more »
Back by popular demand Hanky Code The Movie with special short film Cruising Elsewhere preceding. Bringing Queer Sexy back to San Francisco. Cruising Elsewhere Whatever happened to Wohler Beach? Oral histories and spectral pornography resurrect memories of a once legendary Russian River gay beach in this sexy short. Dir. Ryan White 13 Min. Hanky Code… Read more »
Tonight screening is a celebration of the work of S. Smith Patrick both as filmmaker and director of the photography, she is a documentary filmmaker and photographer living in the Mission. Her work explores human rights and social issues, mostly as they affect women and children. Seeing Siem Reap (27 mins. 2015) A group of Cambodian street kids… Read more »
This March travel back to the 90’s with Periwinkle Cinema as we remember what life was like pre twitter, facebook and iPhone. Back when the simple act of handing out balloons to kids caused a stir. Meet the women who inspired baby Dykes of all ages and are working towards creating visibility with-in their community… Read more »
Gaze Film Series present: Please join us for the San Francisco premiere of INFERNO TOWERING THE, Anne McGuire’s stirring reedit of a Hollywood classic. Set in San Francisco 1974, this film is thick with A-list stars. The action moves forward from the end of the film until you find yourself at a beginning you have… Read more »
A portrait of a genius in a moment of turmoil, this unpolished but dynamic documentary follows jazz bassist, composer and bandleader Charles Mingus on the eve of his November 1966 eviction from his Lower Manhattan sublet, which he’d hoped to turn into a music school. A small crew of young New York filmmakers, energized… Read more »
Ancient Greek philosophers wrote of four temperaments (or ‘humors’) that color all of creation: sanguine, choleric, melancholic and phlegmatic. Urbanity is part of this creation, and also embodies versions of these dispositions. The Humors video series suggests urban behaviors and relationships, those of people and of the built environment itself. Chicago artist Yuge Zhou’s first… Read more »
In celebration of the DVD release of ELLIOT, the first feature film from San Francisco based Dreams For Dead Cats Productions, Craig Jacobson & Cassandra Sechler host an intimate screening of the movie followed by a Q&A. A limited amount of DVDs will be for sale at the event and there will also be a… 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 presents window installation by ANNA RIVERO ROSSI, City of the Living Dead is a mirror of what is happening outside the window. ttp://www.anariverorossi.com/
Capitalism has been the engine of unprecedented economic growth and social transformation. With the fall of the communist states and the triumph of “neo- liberalism,” capitalism is by far the world’s dominant ideology. But how much do we understand about how it originated, and what makes it work? CAPITALISM is an ambitious and accessible six-part… Read more »
Periwinkle Cinema Presents Queer Ghost Hunters the first season! We brought them back with their whole first season! We get to see if they found the Ghosts they were looking for and find out more about the queer afterlife and those who are trying make contact. Queer Ghost Hunters is an irreverent docu series following… Read more »
ATA is proud to present an evening of new and other works by 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… Read more »
SF Cinematheque presents: In 1933, at age 33, Harry Alan Potamkin (b. Philadelphia, 1900) died of complications related to starvation, at a time when he was one of the world’s most respected film critics, In his writings, he advocated for a cinema that would simultaneously embrace the fractures and polyphony of modern life and the… Read more »
ATA presents window installation by ANNA RIVERO ROSSI, City of the Living Dead is a mirror of what is happening outside the window. ttp://www.anariverorossi.com/
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 figure-four deadfall is named for the shape of the number it projects. Mount a short, solid post into the ground before fastening a horizontal lever post to it, a few inches above the ground. The inward side of this lever post should be sharp enough to impale your bait. A small wedge, previously carved… Read more »
A follow-up to the SILENT LIGHTS screening from 2016, this program features a new selection of films projected silent for the first time, presenting an unusual opportunity to experience these works in a different light. San Francisco-based filmmaker Paul Clipson often collaborates with sound artists and musicians on films, live performances, and installations. His films aim… Read more »
ATA, DSA and 3rd i present: Capitalism has been the engine of unprecedented economic growth and social transformation. With the fall of the communist states and the triumph of “neo- liberalism,” capitalism is by far the world’s dominant ideology. But how much do we understand about how it originated, and what makes it work? Capitalism:… Read more »
Sf Cinematheque presents: 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 the unearthing of unsung cinematic oddities, to… Read more »
ANALOGICA is a yearly international festival for disseminating and learning about analog technologies (film, music, photography). It takes place during the first weekend of October in northern Italy, in Ora (BZ) a small town in the Alps. Program (presented digitally): Sweet Oranges–Nora Sweeney 18′ 23” / 2014 / Usa / 16mm / documentary Heading west… Read more »
ATA Gallery + Window presents: “GOOD ROOM: New Work by Emily Gui” Closing closing recetion: Saturday, January 6th, 6 – 9pm.
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 »