Author: Fara

An extensive selection of short films  being presented at Artist’s Television Access on the Bay area 1st  Earth Day Film Festival in conjunction with their partner organization ‘San Francisco Earth Day Festival’ – now in their 45th year.

Earth Day Film Festival will provide a space for San Franciscans to learn, share and connect with each other and the Earth whilst being able to experience the best in local and international film-making talent through animations, documentaries, comedies and experimental pieces which focus on environmental themes including, but not limited to, drought; sustainable agriculture, local wildlife, spirituality and music. A mere handful of the featured films include Zina Brown’s ‘Dreams of the last butterflies, Minea Herwitz’s ‘Crabbin” and Bill Shupp’s ‘The Watchers’, Ronnie Alman ‘Filter’, ‘Solar Furnace’,Kerry Laitala,  Ronnie Allman ‘Cross Country Impressions’, among others.

In an attempt to promote a sustainable and respectful relationship with  Earth, we will be exploring a range of pertinent environmental issues through variety of mediums which includes  speakers,  filmmakers, outdoor walks and classes/workshops.

Trough the exploration and discussion of such paramount issues, the themes and messages of these films are intended to represent and embody the urgency and solidarity with which we must act if we are to live a fulfilled and harmonious existence on this wonderful planet.

Throughout a week of Earth Day Film Festival show us a full calendar of activities in different venues in the city such as Roxie Theater.

Check out the schedule on their website and Facebook

www.earthdayfilmfest.org

OUT WITH DROUGHT “Matters of Water” properly re-titled “Matters of Life (and Water) returns for World Water Day 2015 (3/22) with a tsunami of film and video demonstrating the importance, meaning, and value of water to human life.
As our blue Earth ball turns in space and life-giving H20 evaporates off its ever-heating surface, ATA is proud to present a selection of work from around the world which examines the raw effects of the Anthropocene or celebrates water’s enduring qualities. Pieces from Hot Water: Water, War and Peace exhibition at Balance-Unbalance: Water, Climate and Place/Reimagining Environments 2015 Conference (Arizona State University/Electronic Arts Experimental and Research Centre/National University of Tres de Febrero) including Detroit Water Brigade, Vanautu Women’s’ Water Music (disaster donation information available!!!), World Water Fund’s Women and Water, Fragmentos de observación by Montserrat Rodríguez, Tracey Benson’s Aeotaroa Wai: Words for Water, Marisa Allan’s Weeping Medusa (homage to Ralph Steiner), Oksana Chepelyk’s COLLIDER_100: Kyiv 2014, Molly H./Simon Cox’s The Litter from War and Commerce Makes Homes for Small Fish, and much more. With possible late-night rain dance, divining rods, and bar.
Hot Water 2015 exhibition selections panelist, OUT WITH DROUGHT curator, and Associate Editor on the Water-wheel 2014 e-book, Water Views: Caring and Daring, Dr. Molly Cox, in person. For more information, please contact: mollybh@aya.yale.edu

XLterrestrials present CiTiZEN KiNO #44: The Bitmaker’s Afterlife, plus a fundraising launch party w/ special guests

CiTiZEN KiNO is a hybrid of film, internet, theater, hacker culture, happening and public forum. Each program is an interactive and tactical media performance, a live cinema with variable outcomes. Media clips, video, film arts and animations are collected as only a potential playlist to mix and navigate current situations, to analyze various topics, and to inspire collective engagement. We re-imagine cinema as a dynamic platform to re-tune our environments to open-source community experiences + dialogue events, as opposed to individual consumers downloading finished scripts from a screen.

In C-Kino #44 “The Bitmaker’s Afterlife” we explore a landscape shaped by Neo-Liberal and Neo-Libertarian Gentrification, Silicon Valley’s Technotopian pre-Occupations, and the endgame of The Anthropocene, that slightly awkward concept that we have now departed from the natural world, and are entering the 100% Corporate Agro-male-dominated Epoch, which spawns a disembodied user-progeny of Zuckerborgs, Googleplexibles, Amazonbrood and i-Wombs.

But wait, don’t despair ! We don’t just navigate dysfunction-utopias, we propose a future social organism, a new political operating system and seeking out higher collective intelligence, without the systemic capture-all parasites sucking all your time space-time and/or plundering all your material-world resources required for a sustainable earthbound existence. There are still options and opt-outs !