Artists' Television Access

Author: Fara

  • Boom The Sound of Eviction

    boomJoin the San Francisco Region of the Inlandboatmen’s Union-ILWU for a film screening of “Boom The Sound of Eviction”: Learn about the late 90’s tech boom and how it relates to today’s wave of evictions and displacement of working class communities.

    After the film, hear from community members, tenants, homeowners and union members who are fighting back against eviction, foreclosure and displacement.

    https://www.facebook.com/events/401910503276603

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    In 2001 former Inlandboatmen’s Union member Mark Liiv, along with Whispered Media Collective, created “Boom, The Sound of Eviction”. The film chronicles the late 90’s technology boom and bust and the effect it had on San Francisco residents and neighborhoods. We will screen this film and afterwords hear about the connections between the last tech boom and the one we are experiencing now.

    We will then hear from community members who are currently being displaced and what they are doing to fight back. We will touch on how evictions, foreclosure, high cost of living/rents and job loss all contribute to the displacement of working class communities in San Francisco and the larger Bay Area and what we can do to fight back together to preserve our homes, communities and the city we love.

  • 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

  • OUR PUBLIC GOOD

    CCSFOUR PUBLIC GOOD: an experimental documentary and community news project by filmmaker/writer, Molly Hankwitz.

    OUR PUBLIC GOOD, a work-in-progress about CCSF; its students, faculty and staff. As a resident of San Francisco for over twenty years and as an artist engaged with media culture, I have created this work in light of the shocking efforts to privatize CCSF and discredit faculty, staff, and students with threats of closure. I focus on what members of the academic community say about the value the school and on its benefit to students and the city as a progressive, multi-cultural institution. The work functions both as community engagement and counter spin to the negativity of mainstream media towards CCSF since last year. Various short interviews with students at Ocean Campus, faculty members speaking from Mission campus, and short statements from ex-faculty now working in the UC system are presented. There is also an ongoing collection of digital portraits of students, faculty and staff in the CCSF community and an original manifesto and call to action by poet, Walter Alter, commissioned for the piece. Alter attended CCSF in the 1970s.

    OUR PUBLIC GOOD started in summer of 2013 with support from the CCSFcommunity, ATA and Found SF. The first phase of the project is featured in the “window” gallery of Artists’ Television Access with audio audible on Valencia Street.

     

    I Ms. Hankwitz thanks the following organizations: ATA, CCSF, Found SF, Voices of Immigrants Demonstrating Achievement, Mindshadow Media, SFSU Design and Industry, and SF History Project, and thanks to: Walter Alter, Katie Burge, Craig Baldwin, Chris Carlsson, LisaRuth Elliot, Li Miao Lovett, Suki O’Kane, Alice E. Rogoff. Special thanks to David Cox and Amber Straus. Participants appearing in the work are deeply appreciated.

    Opening Party! Thursday, January 16th, 6 – 8pm,

    Music and refreshments. There will be onsite video recording during the opening. Share your story and experience of CCSF and become part of the visual project. Please join us. Bring a friend!