Author: Fara

  • MOVING SHELTER #2

    SFiCA is pleased to announce Moving Shelter #2, a night of performance and video art, to take place on March 4th at Artists’ Television Access. Moving Shelter is an ongoing curatorial project initiated by SFiCA that aims to position work in a variety of media engaged with the limits of home, mobility, and durability. From the daily personal experience of commute, to local processes of gentrification and displacement, to global patterns of migration and mass refuge, to non-place-based digital comfort, movement and shelter are increasingly charged signals of contemporary politics and culture. The second installment of Moving
    Shelter brings together artists examining this spectrum of issues through the concept of “the body as shelter.” The night will conclude with a discussion between artists and curators.

    Performance works by Luna G. Reiley, Melissa Koziebrocki, and Prima Sakuntabhai
    Video works by Danna Bialik and Izidora Leber,

    Curated by SFiCA
    SFiCA is a coalition between students and alumni of California College of the Arts and the San Francisco Art Institute whose mission is to provide platforms for dialogue, exhibition, and participation while fostering a culture of collaboration between the graduate programs of CCA and SFAI. Resting on the tenants of inclusion and openness, SFiCA situates artists, curators, designers and writers within the arts community of the Bay Area and beyond.

  • OpenScreening

    ATA’openscreening.jpeg.pagespeed.ce.NgD79VABiRs 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 7:30 pm

  • ATA Staff & Friend’s night: Timeless Motion ♥ ATA!

    To provide an opportunity for visitors to the Timeless Motion exhibition at SOMArts Cultural Center to experience the moving image work of the artists whose installations are on view in the gallery, Timeless Motion presents a FREE screening of films and videos by Paul Clipson, Keith Evans, Kerry Laitala, Jeanne Liotta, Kathleen Quillian, Rosario Sotelo, Scott Stark and Mark Wilson. Works from each artist were selected for their relationship to, and exploration of, the themes in the SOMArts exhibition.

    Angel Beach (2001) Scott Stark 16mm, color, silent
    Another Void (2012) Paul Clipson Super 8, color
    (music by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma)
    Child of Light (2009) Keith Evans Super 8 Kodachrome
    Fin de Siècle (2011) Kathleen Quillian Digital Video, color
    (sound design by Gilbert Guerrero)
    Flor Serpiente (2014) Rosario Sotelo , 16mm, b/w

    (music by Zachary James Watkins)
    Motion Studies (1995) Mark Wilson 16mm, b/w, silent
    Retrospectroscope (1997) Kerry Laitala 16mm, b/w, silent
    Sutro (2009) – Jeanne Liotta  Digital Video
    (sounds by Scanner, from Lauwarm Instrumentals)
    Wyoming No. 3 (2006) Keith Evans Super 8, b/w & c olor

    total running time <> 75min

    About Timeless Motion –
    Seven artists known primarily for their work in experimental film and video present new work in the Timeless Motion exhibition at SOMArts Gallery that exposes the elemental components of moving image art through drawing, printmaking, collage, photography, projected light, sound and installation. The audience is given time and space to engage with moving image art in an intimate gallery setting in order to understand and appreciate how the illusion of cinema is both created and perceived. Spanning in scale from molecular to cosmic, the art works on display in Timeless Motion render the invisible visible by reconfiguring the elements of the cinematic form to examine time, image, sound and movement.