Author: Fara

DAVID SHERMAN + REBECCA BARTEN + SCOTT STARK +

The first of this Spring’s Archive Fever Dreams is blessed by the return of two long-time pillars of the Bay Area underground scene – Rebecca Barten and David Sherman!!..and they’re both bringing new works made out of archival material – Rebecca‘s, a crafty montage on the vagaries of her emotional life, and David‘s, a rare assembly of ‘outs’ from the legendary Dion Vigne, North Beach beatnik artiste whose box of raw footage of that community of poets and jazz musicians came as a gift from Vigne‘s widow herself! PLUS local light Scott Stark‘s ‘found’ collection of 3-D slides – a 50s cocktail party in Tulsa, OK!! ALSO in wait is an exquisite cosmic animation whose title must remain under wraps until showtime. AND there’s a heap of other treats, intermixing both archival source material and “derivative” found-footage films: Treasures in a Garbage Can, Oscar Meyer Weiners, Mormons in Guatemala, and Bat-Men of Trinidad. PLUS both Hungarian fencing AND cemeteries. $13

ATA’s free community film/video show welcomes short format work or (15 min or less) from all genres. An open forum for independent filmmakers to show their work, we hold screenings the first Thursday of the month at 8:00 pm. Entries must be received by 7:00 pm on show night.

Submissions: To submit a digital file, email openscreening@atasite.org. For physical media, label all tapes with name, contact info, title, and length, and mail to: Open Screening, 992 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110. 1–2 weeks advance submissions recommended. If not, just walk in before the show.
Maximum length: 15 min.
Formats: Digital file (PC or Mac), DVD, miniDV/DV-cam, VHS, beta, 8 mm, and 16 mm. For 8 mm and 16 mm films give us advance notice.

Doors at 7:30 pm, show at 8:00 pm, FREE

BILL DANIEL’s MISSION BAY + BEN WOODS’ BASTION OF MEMORY +

Our annual iteration of local work on SF locales here foregrounds the brave interrogations of changing Bayshore communities by a prodigal photog/filmmaker who’s fortunately returned to roost on the City‘s easternmost side –Bill Daniel unspools two beauties on the Bayshore‘s, uh, beaches, in tandem with a sneak-peak at Greta Snider‘s 16mm paean to the same liminal paddlin’ zone. Fort Point stalwart Ben Wood steps up with his own 18 min. essay on that same shoreline, though at its northernmost, a downright riveting account of the Irish immigrant who manned the Lifesaving Station at the promontory, who details ship-lore in the dangerous days before the Golden Gate. A Fisherman’s Wharf overture celebrates those shallows between those two compass points. This focus on our proud extension into our beloved salt/fresh water pond is complicated by other supporting shorts – from Jim (Angels) Granato, (hopefully) a Thad Povey episode, and, yes, a knee-slapping send-up of Haight/Ashbury stereotypes by decidedly LA-based Damon Packard. Plus a passel of pre-show pieces by the home-team, all to illuminate possible understandings of what “San Francisco” might mean. $12