Author: Fara
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30-Hour Marathon, Program IV: Marshall Weber’s “Flatlands”
Celebrating ATA’s 30th, Marshall Weber ATA co-founder returns to San Francisco to present his seminal 1985 stereo video piece, two channels of VHS video with four audio tracks. Metaphorically reproducing the dichotomies of the right and left brain hemispheres, and the internal thoughts and external environments of the leading protagonist Boyd Sayjack.Part psychedelic documentary and part psycho-drama, “Flatlands” follows the story of Boyd’s journey from the Kafkaesque maze of public health services, through his imprisonment within a hospital of scheming doctors to his oblique and colorful liberation. The piece features interviews with dyslexic artists recalling the torments of the right-handedness prejudice, the tortuous language, speech, and reading exercises, and the crude pharmaceutical treatments of the nineteen-fifties and sixties. The tape also incorporates the more humane progressive research of Dr. Joseph Rosenthal, Director of the Learning Disabilities Clinic at Kaiser Hospital in Berkeley, California. “Flatlands” is a lurid ‘psycho-delic’ trip through the astounding diversity of human cognition. It provokes complex questions regarding the normalization of of language codes and ‘literacy’.Produced in San Francisco, “Flatlands” also features the last major acting appearance of Pope Ondine who acts the role of Surgeon Generalisimo. Pope Ondine was one of Andy Warhol’s primary film ensemble ‘Superstars’ in the sixties and seventies. 1985, 1:40:00 min.Selected Screenings:
1993 -University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
1987 -L.A. Theater Center, CA
1986 -San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, CA
1985 – Focal Point Media Arts Center, Seattle, Washingto -
OPENSCREENING — ATA FILM & VIDEOS
Artist Television Access presents a unique night of short films by the very artists that help make our organization possible. We’ll be showcasing an eclectic arrangement of work by ATA members past and present. 8-bit soundtracks, mix-media dialogues, medieval ‘apple knocking’ , night-vision basement punk shows, VHS rap video mash-ups, San Francisco fog and Mary Lou Williams, and time traveling cows trying to stop robot takeovers (in super-8!) –truly a night not to be missed!Work by: Dayv Jones, Karla Milosevich, Brian Taylor, Carl Diehl, Mike Missiaen, Lizzy Brooks, Ali Kashani, Tim Johnson, Kathleen Quillian, Dale Hoyt, Shae Green, Iiona Berger and Ivan Jaigirdar
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 4TH, 8PM, $7-$10
992 Valencia Street (between 20th and 21st)Artists’ Television Access is a San Francisco-based, artist-run, non-profit organization that cultivates and promotes culturally-aware, underground media and experimental art. We provide an accessible screening venue and gallery for the presentation of programmed and guest-curated screenings, exhibitions, performances, workshops and events. We believe in fostering a supportive community for the exhibition of innovative art and the exchange of non-conformist ideas.Happy 30th Anniversary to ATA!
Artists’ Television Access (ATA) is now celebrating its 30th year as the home for accessible alternative arts in San Francisco. Over the past 30 years, ATA has presented thousands of cutting-edge, free and low-cost film and video screenings, performances, open and curated screenings, gallery exhibitions and workshops.
Join us from September to December 2014 as we celebrate ATA’s 30th anniversary with special programming, including a 30-hour Movie Marathon, Open Screening Retrospective, selections from the Artists’ Television (ATV) Video Archive, exhibitions, workshops, and more!