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Author: Fara

  • Other Cinema: FAMILY AFFAIRS

    LYNNE SACHS’ FILM ABOUT A FATHER WHO +FAMILY AFFAIRS
    Lynne Sachs brings us Film About A Father Who, a feature length archeological DIG into her own internal movie archive. Over a period of 35 years between 1984 and 2019, filmmaker Sachs shot 8 and 16mm film, videotape and digital images of her father, Ira Sachs Sr. Film About A Father Who is her attempt to understand the web that connects a child to her parent and a sister to her siblings. With a nod to the Cubist renderings of a face, Sachs’ exploration of her father offers simultaneous, sometimes contradictory, views of one seemingly unknowable man who is publicly the uninhibited center of the frame yet privately ensconced in secrets. In the process, she allows herself and her audience inside to see beyond the surface of the skin, the projected reality. As the facts mount, Sachs as a daughter discovers more about her father than she had ever hoped to reveal. A benefit show for Dana Sachs‘ Humanity Now project which has launched an emergency fund to assist Ukrainian refugees. *$10-$100

  • Other Cinema: INFINITE COLUMN

    ARC +


    On Sat. April 2nd,ATA Gallery’s Other Cinema proudly presents a one-person show of films by the East Bay artist and impresario arc ! This legendary figure in Bay Area experimental filmmaking, central to both Black Hole Cinematheque and the Light Field fest, is organizing a very special 90-minute program, in two halves, for our Valencia St. venue. He promises a half dozen films, two of them multiple projection. These are the pieces to be exhibited: ascensions, breathing, hexagram, window, katabasis, infinite column, the arc of the sun. Most of these are from the last five years, and in fact, four could be considered world premieres! *$8

  • Other Cinema: OPTRONICA1

    STARK + KUC + VARGA + DON FROM LAKEWOOD +
    Using found family photographs (mostly 35mm slides), Scott Stark cracks open the family archive to generate imaginative and at times illogical narratives. The Last Forever (in collaboration with Polish filmmaker Kamila Kuc) unravels a story of a missing spouse and possible murder, while Underlying Persistent Volumes populates an instructional video for software development with photos of birthday parties, road trips and Christmas rituals. Plus an exercise video and (LIVE!) musical interludes. AND Lori Varga‘s “demo” of Super 8mm Cartridges, Eric Saks/Patrick Tierney‘s pixelvision gem Don From Lakewood, John Warren‘s narcissus, the hunter, the numbness, Ryan Worlsey‘s new doc on Sue-C, Len Lye, and The Blob! *$9