Author: Fara

SAT. SEPT 18: BUCHANAN + GOLDBERG + SOE’s A.S.S. +

On Sat. Sept 18, ATA Gallery’s Other Cinema finally restarts its Fall (in-person) season with Grit wit Crit: San Francisco Psycho-Geography! Featured on this festive evening of film and video shorts is the theatrical premiere of Anthony Buchanan‘s City street Pilgrimage, Valerie Soe‘s (tentatively in-person) Auntie Sewing Squad—on Chinese-American women sewing Covid masks for the community, Daniel Gorrell ‘s Proposals–on the Tenderloin’s Roving Tailor Michael Swaine, and Jim Goldberg‘s photo essay Los Hermanos–on the immigrant experience.

ALSO on the program are Dan Janos‘ Flora My Dear–on Muybridge‘s murder act, Bruce Baillie’s Tung, Mike Kavanagh‘s Twilight of the Movie Palace, Steve McQueen in a Bullit promo, and shorts from Jeremy Rourke, Bryan Boyce, and Chris Marker!

PLUS 49ers SuperBowl film for the free champagne intermission!

Come early for Frank Stauffacher’s mid-century 16mm love-letter, Notes on the Port of St. Francis…and a Laughing Sal loop!

Doors open at 7:30 for 8:00PM show. Admission is $7.

Proof of vaccinations and masks are required.

We are excited to announce we will be returning to live showings with a hybrid in-person and live-streamed Open Screening on Thursday, August 5th! 

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 way it is FREE.

If you have any submissions or questions, send them to volunteer@atasite.org. We strongly encourage you to submit ahead of time. If not, just see us before the show with your work.

CA State Covid guidelines will be adhered to. Proof of vaccinations and masks are required.

Doors open at 7:30, show starts at 8, Free

Per OC’s long-standing obsession with older film artifacts, here’s a program of sublime essays woven from those marvelous celluloid survivors: Sam Green sends in his very latest—in fact a NorCal premiere— Five Thoughts about Thirty Pieces, a matrix of memory and meanings stemming from John Cage’s engagement with our own Kronos Quartet.Bill Morrison debuts his jaw-dropping Buried News, a handful of 35mm newsreels found buried under the Yukon permafrost, retrieving reports of racial conflict from the 1917-1924 period that have been sidelined in the national historical consciousness. AND: Sylvia Schedelbauer’s Memories, Craig Baldwin’s Time Bomb, Linda Scobie, Ellie Vanderlip, and local light Michael Cruz with a live film performance drawn from the buried reels right under our gallery’s very floorboards!