Artists' Television Access

Author: Fara

  • OpenScreening

     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

  • GAZE: Screening #2, Labor/Memorial

    In our second showcase of local and international works by women filmmakers, GAZE presents a diverse collection of shorts that run the gamut from libidinal sorcery to deadpan melodrama.

    Coming at the tail end of summer, Labor/Memorial includes a paean to the gendered dramas of home maintenance, and an occultist memorial that features the late great George Kuchar. We are excited to have many of the filmmakers in attendance this month, and can promise a lively Q and A along with an opportunity for the local filmmaking community to meet, conspire, and discuss our projects.

    Program:

    Waiting for Darryl, by Thalia Drori
    Spectroscopy, by Leslie Supnet
    Birthday, by Mari Okada
    Leonora, by Eliane Lima
    First, by Suzanne Oshinsky
    Craig’s Cutting Room Floor, by Linda Scobie
    Crying in Our Cars, by Isabelle Martin
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    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.

  • BLOODRAPE

    ATA and Shalo P present:
    IN 2013, A YEAR AFTER THE APOCALYPSE, CODE V HAS GRANTED VAMPIRES HUMAN RIGHTS ALLOWING THEM TO WALK AMONG THE LIVING. THIS EARTH SHATTERING FILM FOLLOWS THE NOTORIOUS 90S ALL GIRL VAMPIRE-HARDCORE BAND…

    The conceptual lovechild of three exciting bay area artists – Tucker Bennett, Taeer Maymon & Zach Shipko – BLOODRAPE follows the gruesome journey of an “all-girl-vampire-hardcore-thrash-punk band” as they eviscerate their way across a twisted American landscape, enlisting two counter-culture fans along the way to document a big sensational dip into the deep red bliss that is BLOODRAPE.

    Like a sexploitative parody of underground “scene” documentaries, BLOODRAPE plays out both comically self-effacing, sincerely strung together by the sinews of self-determination AND paradoxically as a sincere homage to the institutions of nipple pizza, blood cocaine, clay genitals, children being boiled upside-down (not in the movie), hardcore grrrls and an immoral love for irrelevant VHS camcorders.

    THE DEVIL MADE THEM DO IT AND IT SENT ITS CHILDREN TO BE CAST AS BLOOD-SOAKED ANGELS.

    See a veritable “who’s who” of body parts splash like “Pollacks on a canvas” – with wild surprises and some awfully poignant gore, critics have described BLOODRAPE as an “unforgivingly errant exercise in new maverick Bay Area filmmaking”.

    The program also includes a selection of “choice cuts” organized by  Shalo P – as the night leads up to a appointed “live” appearance by BLOODRAPE (IN THE FLESH).

    “five stars” TIM BUCKLESHIRE – North Hampton Review
    “George Kuchar’s dramatic turn was spellbinding” Eddy Fossil – Borntorunton Gazette
    “A film for the whole family – the whole family from THE HILLS HAVE EYES” Jana Vondz – Pulicetera Magazine
    “I almost threw my life away because of meth. Oh no, I meant AIDS.” – Folgers Crystals – South Hampton Review