Author: Fara

9/13 Continuity Editing with Shotcut

Learn to continuity edit just like the professionals. Cut a sequence where shots appear to match and form a smooth continuous sequence using both archival and original material. Learn to apply transitions, sounds, music, fx, and transitions.

9/20 AI Filmmaking Using Free Tools

You don’t need cameras or media to make films. You can use free AI tools to assist in writing scripts, getting ideas, as well as generating the shots themselves, even audio. Learn how with free tools online.

9/27 Animation with Smart Phone

Learn how to use your smartphone to shoot animated object films. Import them into shotcut to add sound and titles. Learn how to light, animate and tell simple stories using nothing but objects around the house.

10/4 Short Form Filmmaking for Social Media

TikTok, Instagram reels, Facebook and other websites emphasize the very short form video as the dominant mode of contemporary delivery. Learn how to optimize subject matter choice composition, framing, and editing and sound to create social media ready video content.

Join us for an evening of poetry and creative writing at ATA on September 7th in celebration of Marika Christine’s debut poetry chapbook, Rumination for Lunch.

Additional featured writers include London Pinkney, Hanne Williams-Baron, Bridge Gamble and Kirsten Dualan. We will end the evening with an open mic, inviting folks to share 1-2 poems or any words they want! 

Doors at 6:30 

Readings start at 7pm 

Wrap up 9pm 

$5-10 NTAFLOF

BALDWIN’s 222 BOOK-LAUNCH/AUCTION + 16MM ANOMALIES

Well hello!! OC is back, jes’ shaking with the excitement of a case of Archive Fever…a wide-eyed, full-bodied embrace of our own kind of Cultural Anthropology, a sub-pop group-grok of both outsider cinema and street-savvy fashion!! Yes, BOTH the astonishing surprises in secret 16mm industrial-film collections, AND the marvelous milieux opened and at hand in the instance of an actual public auction of vintage Tees!! Craig Baldwin‘s limited-edition 222 T-SHIRTS– in this, his fourth book’s inaugural launch–serves as a irresistible invitation to a cinemascopic display of thee most curious clothing artifacts…on tables, on the walls, and on live models!..scheduled so that the bidding plays as prologue to a delirious evening of gobsmackin’ celluloid core-samples. The two lineages— both from the cotton plant!–here understood as precious traces of particular sensibilities oh-so-at-risk of disappearing forever into the black hole of forgotten cultural history. Come in to browse for free for the afternoon’s silent auction; we’ll deliver the garments to the winners at our 8PM showtime. Titles include: A 1953 tribute to the rescue of Treasures in a Garbage Can (the veritable theme of tonight’s event!)…IBM‘s mid-50s proto-techno-utopian Piercing the Unknown…a ’56 personal-travelog on a Carnivalesque Caribbean cargo cult, in Kodachrome…an early-70s Christian rant on ”cults”, with Eldridge Cleaver(!)…a mid-70s Oscar Mayer Wienermobile ride into a funk-fueled factory overflowing with fatty cow flesh…a ’68 educational-TV explication of human sexual intercourse…a late-70s Mormon fantasia of Jesus Christ preaching amongst the Mayan pyramids… an early-80s human-potential confessional on celebrity bed-wetting…a mid-70s doomed-date/tsunami-apocalypse cautionary…and of course mid-century trailers, TV commercials, and Russ Forster on the Califone! PLUS free books, films, albums, cassettes, even laserdiscs…and open bar! $12