Author: Fara

Comes now the West Coast premiere of Child’s marvelous re-mediation of the life and work of Emma Goldman, arguably the mother of American Anarchism. Abby is out here from NYC with her hour-long collage-essay, charging the discussion with her enlightened aesthetic of poetry, the archive, and experimental montage. As the Most Dangerous Woman Alive, Goldman’s life is seen as an ongoing negotiation of revolutionary purity and personal freedom, a complexity that Child mirrors in her own formal strategies. She layers multiple fragments of Emma’s liberatory legacy–from archive, from re-enactment, and from observational cinema–her speculative play with the revolutionary ideas extending to the present moment of feminist revolt! Opening: The Future Is Behind You (20 min.), a John Zorn-scored cine-poem which also celebrates Child’s insatiable visual curiosity in the endlessly generative integration of past and present 16mm sources.

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 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

Last year the film world was saddened by the loss of Peter Hutton, a beloved Bard prof with a singular shooting style: 100’ rolls of b/w silent raw stock, loaded into the Bolex and looking to the land- (and sea-)scape. This project was initiated in which filmmakers were invited to shoot a single roll in remembrance and homage. The touring program—here introduced by Eric Theise–consists of of 45 mins. of single projection and 15 mins. of double-, with contributions from David Gatten, Peter Rose, Lynne Sachs, Robbie Land, Eve Heller, Jacob Burckhardt, Cassandra Bull, Timoleon Wilkins, Dominic Angerame, and very many more. The show’s second section is a half-hour of 16mm *sound* shorts from the project’s principals: Theise (with sax accompanist John Ingle), Jenn Reeves, Mark Street, and Hutton himself (In Marin County).