Author: Fara

ATA co-presents: Other Cinema Kickstarter campaign

On Sat. December 17th, ATA Gallery hosts a benefit celebration for its flagship programming project, Other Cinema. Grounding the gallery’s media arts exhibitions for some 27 years, OC will be feted by such long-standing collaborators as Anne McGuire & Wobbly, once again joining forces as the vocalist/electronics duo Freddy McGuire; Kerry Laitala & John Davis’ live-cinema phantasmagoria, Greta Snider’s new black and white experiment; Bryan Boyce’s hilarious video wizardry, Bill Daniel historic S8 bike messenger jamboree, Jeffrey Skoller’s tell-all tabloid on Baldwin in his younger days, Jesse Drew’s media surprise, Archimedia’s duet, Goldwave’s ever-awesome opticals over Blackmonk’s groovy tunes, and others. Friends, fans, and followers are encouraged to demonstrate their support, and have a jolly good time doing it, with delicious atrocities from Christine Metropoulos’ Delicatrocities!
 
Please also pledge your support for the Other Cinema Kickstarter campaign, for lots of great art prizes. New rewards are pending, so keep an eye out!

 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/othercinema/other-cinema-benefit
 
Showtime is 9PM. Admission is sliding-scale, from $6.66 to $99.99. 
 
www.othercinema.com

 ATA presents an evening of expanded cinema, acoustics, and electronics, featuring a sonic performance and films by Thomas Carnacki and Sylvia Schedelbauer. The show will be grouped into 2 sections: The Thomas Carnacki ensemble deploying various and sundry devices, sound-emitting appliances, vibrating vessels, and odd found objects in a very rare live audio-visual collaboration among and between these artists; and secondly, a section of Schedelbauer’s award-winning shorts, produced in San Francisco and Berlin over the last 5 years.

Thomas Carnacki is a purloined moniker attached to the recording and performing activities of Berkeley-based Gregory Scharpen, who emerges from the twin factory-farms of theatrical sound design and the oblique-concrete audio outfit irr. app. (ext.). Thomas Carnacki has performed on both coasts of the continent, and has convinced a sizable number of luminaries to shed their dignity and participate in the proceedings, with performances at Project Soundwave Festival, the 2008 Whitney Biennial, Illuminated Corridor, and on Neighborhood Public Radio. The core ensemble also includes Jesse Burson, James Kaiser, and Gregory Hagan.

Born in Tokyo, Sylvia Schedelbauer first moved to Berlin in 1993, where she has been based since. Her films negotiate the space between broader historical narratives and personal, psychological realms, mainly through poetic manipulations of found and archival film footage. Selected screenings include the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, the London Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, the Robert Flaherty International Film Seminar, and the Stan Brakhage Symposium. Awards include Best Sound Design at the Ann Arbor Film Festival (2010), the German Film Critics’ Award for Best Experimental Film (2008), and the VG Bildkunst Award (2007). For this night, she will be introducing and screening False Friends, Remote Intimacy, way fare, andSounding Glass.

Join CCSF Department of Cinema’s Motion Picture Directing class for a screening of the
2011 final film projects. The showcase features a variety of narrative scenes starring Bay
Area actors.

Directing Students: Saara Annunen, Enrique Barrera, Ochi Batdavaajav, Francis
Bautista, Alyssa Byrd, Scott Dietrich, Sarah Haugen, Norio Horikawa, Tanya Marino,
Jimmy Nguyen, Alex Ortego, Lawrence Rickford, Livia Santos, Andrew Smith, Justin
Viz and Nick Wasilewski.

7:30 door 8:00pm show
Music, drinks, lots of fun