Author: Fara

  • New! Form! Fiction! “The Nova Avon”: Social Media Fiction Screening, Performance, and Maker Opportunity

    Please, drop in for the presentation between 7 and 10pm to:

    See a hybrid literary-video-performance project that grows on the Internet…

    Watch content being created live before your eyes…

    Make collaborative content, instantly uploaded to social media sites…

    Join an explorative, fun, and questioning project…

    10 Characters 7 2011 Claire Bain annotThis interactive presentation introduces the ongoing performative social media fiction project called “The Nova Avon.” A cast of characters interact with real people on the internet to form a story that interweaves with true life. Come see videos, performances, and other media that tell stories of fictional people who navigate the internet as a model for interpersonal life. Watch an instant video and staged photos being made and uploaded onto this project. Participate by contributing ideas, create new characters, get behind or in front of the camera (or keyboard, pen, paintbrush). Join the social networks of these characters, reflect on your place in the network of real and virtual interaction, and have fun! Claire Bain and guest artists will be present to provide a thought-provoking and fun experience that will make you see your world differently! Join in, or sit back and wonder…

    Claire Bain is a Bay Area artist working in processes and ideas concerning systems-power-identity in western society. She uses whatever media and materials needed to support each project, including the internet, installation, photography, painting, video, drawing, sculpture, graphic art, writing, and performance. Bain has presented work in several Bay Area venues such as ATA, Somarts, Southern Exposure, SF Cinematheque, Other Cinema, Pacific Film Archive; and in New York and New Mexico.

     

    http://nova-notes.blogspot.com

  • 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 admissionfor 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

  • Staff Night: In The Mood For Love

    please join us for a screening of Wong Kar Wai’s “In The Mood For Love”.

    Set in 60’s Hong Kong, the film centers around a woman and a man, both married, whose friendship is kindled by the strange circumstances in which they find themselves. Shot in rich, heavy color, which has become one of Wong Kar Wai’s trademark features, the film is visually gorgeous. The story, poignant and full of longing. Starring two of the most respected actor/actresses in Chinese cinema, Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung (who actually won Best Actor at the Cannes for his role in the film). Running time is 98 minutes with English subtitles.

    Please come to relax, chat, and enjoy an awesome movie! Feel free to bring friends, drinks/snacks. I’ll bring some red wine and fresh fruit (keeping it healthy!).

    Let’s get together around 7-7:30, in order to start the film at 8.