Author: Fara

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 way it is FREE. It is a great place to network, if you are a filmmaker, crew member, actor or a fan of local films. Please let us know if you would like to screen something. We love films and would love to see yours.

Submissions: Label all tapes w/ name, contact, title and length. Mail to: Open Screening, 992 Valencia, SF, 94110.  1-2 weeks advance submissions strongly 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, 8mm and 16mm. For 8mm and 16mm films give us advance notice.

Door opens at 7

contact: programming@atasite.org

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 we are turning ATA into a TEMPLE of LIGHT/TIME/DISTANCE for LOFI LEGS’ SONIC CENTURY EP RELEASE!!!

As always, all friends, friends of friends, and soon to be friends are invited!

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 Socialist Democratic Cultural Revolution has purportedly created equality between the sexes. Of course, it hasn’t created equality in practice; despite official messages proffered by the media, women are still discriminated against in the workplace, sexually attacked on the street, and undervalued in the home. Four groups of women separately mount challenges to these structural inequalities; the Women’s Army activists, academic journalists, and two underground radio stations are variously comprised of poor women, non-white women, lesbians, and white middle-class women. When these disparate groups band together, they successfully take over the ultimate power source: the media. Importantly, as real-life activist Flo Kennedy voices in the film, it is precisely the women’s valuing of their different strengths that proves so crucial to their fight; or to quote Audre Lorde, their differences must “spark like a dialectic” to effect change and revolution.