Artists' Television Access

Author: Fara

  • OpenScreening

    openscreeningATA’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

  • Match (dat) sock (opening reception)

    This show is for you, and for you..
    It’s for us! For our feet. For our hearts!

    It would be lovely to see you there, come by and enjoy my latest work,
    http://anariverorossi.blogspot.com/2013/04/match-dat-sock.html?view=flipcard

    Help the socks to find the perfect match, they went on never ending travels and adventures to find it.
    You will enjoy wonderful encounters while trying to find your own secret sock personality.

    Much Love,
    Ana Rivero

    This project represents a metaphor of the complex reality that is finding a soul mate in San Francisco.
    This idea came to me out of the mission impossible that  is finding a match in this city which is filled with the most complex and creative personalities.
    This is almost as hard as finding the lost sock…
    Each sock represents a soul that is searching for it’s match, just as the souls in the city are in a constant search of their mates, hoping to find that match out there to fulfill the hearts desires.
    Through the use of socks, I am aiming to represent a human reality in a satirical way. I wish to get people to see their situation with perspective, with humor, relaxing into the idea of finding their partners.

    Thank you to my match sock Todd Hanson for his help in brain storming to find new play on words and matching socks.

    Do you think Dating Socks…is your thing?

    In a city where socks get easily disconnected and lonely this is an attempt to help them find their solemate.
    Some fell out of the basket, some ran away from home with the illusion that the may find an ideal match.
    I even heard some were thrown away just because they were disconnected, lonely or had some holes in their personality.
    Socks have fitting rights and I am stepping up for them.
    Please, next time you find a sock alone consider donating it to the Match.sock project.
     
     

  • Staff night: Lettre de Sibérie/Letter From Siberia (Cancelled)

    letter from siberia(Chris Marker/1957/62mins/digital projection)

    Chris Marker’s iconic yet rarely screened early travelogue which André Bazin was perhaps the first to argue represented a newly emerging form of filmmaking he called “the essay documented by film”.

    “Letter From Siberia unfolds as a collage offering Siberia from different angles and through various modes of cinematic representation, with the object of conveying the complexity of the country and at the same time exposing the role of the film itself in negotiating and composing different versions of Siberian reality. Marker revels in energetic litanies detailing the flora, fauna, human inhabitants, geographical features and principle industries of the region, which often take wry swipes at contemporary political sensibilities. Ducks are resolutely collectivist (‘there are no kulaks among ducks’), and the domesticated bear Ouchatik is less frightening than the police. The location footage is periodically interrupted by forays into still photography and animation… The generic digressions and shifting perspectives of Letter From Siberia converge to frame its subject as a land of paradox, midway between ‘the Middle Ages and the 21st century, between the earth and the moon, between humiliation and happiness’…
    The film’s energy and inventiveness come from a self-conscious dialectical mobilization of these contrasts, which purposely avoids resolving them into a tidy synthesis.”
    -Catherine Lupton