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  • 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

  • Small Press Traffic: Stanley, McCreary, Robinson

     

    JARED STANLEY

    Jared Stanley is the author of two books of poetry, The Weeds and Book Made of Forest, as well as four chapbooks, including How the Desert Did Me In. He is a member of the public art group Unmanned Minerals, whose latest installation, It Calls From the Creek, is a site-specific walking poem installed on the Deer Creek Tribute Trail in Nevada City, California and on view through September 2014. Stanley is a 2012-2014 Research Fellow at the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art, and teaches at Sierra Nevada College. He lives in Reno, Nevada.

    JENN MCCREARY

    Jenn McCreary’s new full-length collection, & now my feet are maps, is forthcoming from Dusie Press in 2013. Other works include The Dark Mouth of Living (Horse Less Press), & Odyssey & Oracle (Least Weasel Press), :ab ovo: (Dusie Press), & a doctrine of signatures (Singing Horse Press). A 2013 Pew Fellow in the Arts, she lives with her family in Philadelphia, where she co-edits ixnay press with Chris McCreary.

    ELIZABETH ROBINSON

    Elizabeth Robinson is the author of multiple collections of poetry, most recently Blue Heron and Counterpart. She is also the author of a mixed genre meditation called On Ghosts. Robinson has been the winner of the National Poetry Series and the Fence Modern Poets Prize and the recipient of grants from the Fund for Poetry, the Boomerang Foundation, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. She is a co-editor of Instance Press and the literary journal pallaksch.pallaksch.

  • GAZE #6: Luminous Impulse (all-animation show!)

    Deep Dark_GAZECobbled together using smoke, mirrors, and the old projector from your grandma’s attic, we bring you GAZE’s first ever all-animation show. From the hand-drawn and low fi to the digitally seamless, this series of films is a celebration of light, alchemy, and persistence of vision. There will be 3D glasses. There will be popcorn. See the beauty – touch the magic.
    program:
    Jodie Mack – “Let Your Light Shine”

    Laura Heit – “The Deep Dark”

    Tess Martin – “The Whale Story”

    Christine Lucy Latimer – “Focus”

    Sara Ludy – “Rooms”

    Kate Nartker – “Line by Line”

    Sarah Klein – “Between the Lines”

    Larissa Sansour – “Nation Estate”

    Hilary Goldberg – “The Deer In Between – Episode 1”

    Kerry Laitala – “Conjurors Box”

    Kiri Hargie – “10,950 Part II”

    Jilli Rose – “Predator!!!”

    GAZE is a film series dedicated to screening independent film and video made by women. GAZE promotes women’s artistic expression and  creates dialogue related to the influence of this powerful medium.