Artists' Television Access

Author: Fara

  • Cyber Beach Party & nanobites

    cyberbeach memariaCyber Beach Party, Gary Fembot, 20 mins.

    Cyber Beach Party is a celebration of e-waste. Techno-trash just has to end up somewhere, what better place than Cyber Beach with host Bibi Brioche, co-host Selexa and the danseparc dansers?  Using laptops as go-go platforms and routers as beach balls, the gang parties until the break of digital dawn.
    linda goldsteinnanobites, Gary Fembot (producer), 60 mins.
     
    nanobites is the other side of the electro-dawn,   Feeling besieged by micro-critters and based on real posts  from birdmites.org, characters go to great lengths to eradicate these pests of undetermined, possibly man-made origin: move from town to town, rant at the government,perform self-surgery, encase themselves in layers of layers of nylon and find many uses for Epsom salts. Contributors to nanobites:  Karla Milosevich, Maria Coomber, Gary Fembot, Chris E. Vargas, Akiko Carver, Johnny Ray Huston and Skye Thorstenson.
     

     

  • Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton

    imagesThe world scandalized James Broughton, a sartorial-minded pre-Beat filmmaker and poet, so he, in turn, scandalized it. In Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton, directors Eric Slade and Stephen Silha detail Broughton’s courage and impertinence in rejecting the heteronormative life of the 50s onward with its emphasis on frenetic consumerism and careerism. He embraced the avant-garde movement of the early 20th century by erasing the boundaries between poetry and cinema, thereby creating a new aesthetic in film. At the Cannes Film Festival, while bestowing a special award for Broughton’s 1953 film The Pleasure Garden, Jean Cocteau enthused, “Bravo! An American who made a French film in England.” Slade and Silha capture the many personalities like Pauline Kael, doyenne of the arts, with whom he had a child, and Anna Halprin, dancer and choreographer that orbited Broughton throughout his life. Broughton’s performative films heavily influenced the “happenings” of the 1960s and, later, the gay liberation movement of the 1970s. Their common denominator is the interplay of humor, play, and the id imbued with a theatrical dimension. After his 1967 effervescent filmThe Bed, the mainstream accepted sexuality in all its forms in film. Broughton erased the division between life and art, philosophy and practice, poetry and cinema, etc., creating a new idiom that defied categorization.

     

  • OpenScreening: U-Matic night

    openscreeningNext Open Screening we will screen short films from the past. We’ve been digging in the ATA U-Matic archive, and found interesting, hilarious, stunning shorts from the 80’s and 90’s. Shorts films includes the following titles: Spiraling and Spoiling, Short Attention Span, Ameba on the Floor, Is this your Park?, Jonathon, Grief Class.

    You can also submit your shorts!

     

    ATA’s openscreening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area. Get your work out there! Get feedback! Or just come and take it all in! One hour of shorts are accepted monthly on an open revolving basis, anything goes with the screened work, and the refreshments are pretty good too. $5, FREE admission for contributing artists. Door:7:30pm Projector: 8pm

    Not a filmmaker? Come and hang out with us anyway. Enjoy the atmosphere, the art, the movies, the people, the refreshments

    Submissions: Label all tapes w/ name, contact, title and length. Mail to: Openscreening, 992 Valencia, SF, 94110 1-2 week advance submissions strongly recommended. If not. . . it is all good. Max length: 15 min. Formats: DVD, miniDV/DVcam, VHS, beta, 8mm and 16mm All genres.

    More Info: contact  
    Programming@atasite.org