Artists' Television Access

Author: Fara

  • RADICAL LIGHTS: San Francisco Lines of Sight

    Filmmakers are often drawn to explore the face of where they live, and San Francisco offers a field of contrasting and visually arresting locations that has inspired experimental films and videos for more than fifty years. This program of work made between 1979 and 2005 includes Dominic Angerame’s Freedom’s Skyway, a blend of Chinatown and film emulsion fireworks; Michael Rudnick’s elegant cinematic paean of shadow and light, Panorama; Mark McGowan’s ethereal and mystifying contemplation Fog; Toney Merritt’s whimsical mystery By The Sea; Abigail Child’s Pacific Far East Line, a cinematic re-presentation of downtown movement and rhythm; Ken Paul Rosenthal’s I My Bike, a poetic rumination on life lived on the street; Tomonari Nishikawa’s Market Street, a concentrated mosaic of patterns encountered on the city’s main thoroughfare; Scott Stark’s delightful visual conundrum of urban spaces, SLOW; and Anne McGuire’s verité fantasy on the urban mundane, Joe DiMaggio 1, 2, 3. Thanks to Steve Polta.  (Steve Anker)
    Dominic Angerame:  Freedom’s Skyway (1980) 5 min. / Michael Rudnick:  Panorama (1982) 15 min. / Mark McGowan:  Fog (1979) 7 min. / Toney Merritt:  By The Sea (1982) 3 min. / Abigail Child:  Pacific Far East Line (1979) 12 min. / Ken Paul Rosenthal:  I My Bike  (2002) 6 min. / Tomonari Nishikawa:  Market Street  (2005) 5 min. / Scott Stark:  SLOW  (2001) 16 min. / Anne McGuire:  Joe DiMaggio 1, 2, 3  (1991) 11 min.
    Curated by Steve Anker
    presented in association with Pacific Film Archive and Prelinger Archives
    [members: $5 / non-members: $10]

  • Right Window Gallery at ATA: Matthew Gordon is “Posing as an Echo Tourist”

    November 7 – 28, 2010

    Opening: Sunday, November 7th, 4 – 8 p.m.

    Right Window is pleased to present a new installation by San Francisco-based artist Matthew Gordon. Through e-mail correspondence with the artist, I learned that the exhibition takes its name from a conversation where Gordon misheard/misunderstood what was being said to him. He wrote the phrase down in a notebook, along with other phrases gathered in a similar manner, and stored it away for later use. Eventually it reappeared in a poem, but also as a locus of thought around which Gordon created a new body of visual work.

    When I asked him to expound upon this idea of re-purposed text and ideas, Gordon responded via e-mail with the following:

    two plexiglass boxes-

    part almost then,

    part almost window,

    contain a prismatic relationship

    where mystical smog transforms into an accidental newscasting technique-

    i watch my hands,

    loosing a high stakes performance space,

    fill a field with guilt-

    i am enchanted by a copy and its double.

    posing as an echo tourist,

    my little heart is broken

    by a tactical break-up spell

    as the light shimmers on my invisible authors.

    And I’m sure we all know what that means.

    – Kevin Killian

    (The North Carolina Dermatologist, not the San Francisco based Poet/Playwright) Matthew Gordon (b. 1979) is a recent graduate of the California College of the Arts (2009). He is the Co-Director, along with Mik Gaspay, of the quasi-fictional exhibition space/opinion FiSHSPACE Gallery. His work has been included in group shows at Patricia Sweetow Gallery (SF) and Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery (Portland, Oregon).

  • Unifem presents: Senorita Extraviada

    SENORITA EXTRAVIADA: MISSING YOUNG WOMEN by Lourdes Portillo

    The film tells the haunting story of the more than 350 kidnapped, raped and murdered young women of Juárez, Mexico. In the midst of Juárez’s international mystique and high profile job market, there exists a murky history of gross human rights abuses and violence against women. Relying on the testimonies of the families of the victims this film documents a two-year search for the truth in the underbelly of the new global economy. (2001, 74 min, English, DVD).

    About Us:

    The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the US National Committee for UNIFEM (UNIFEM/USNC) was launched in June of 2009.  UNIFEM is the United Nations Development Fund for Women, and it works on women’s rights and development issues across the globe.  We are committed to expanding support and raising funds within the United States for UNIFEM.  Through our efforts we hope to encourage ourselves and others to become involved in advancing women’s rights around the world.

    If interested in learning more, please send us an email at sanfranbayarea@unifem-usnc.org.
    About the Film Series:

    This monthly film series will look at women’s rights and development issues.  Each month, a film that touches on one of the four themes of UNIFEM (The United Nations Development Fund for Women) will be selected.  These four themes are:

    • enhancing women’s economic security and rights,
    • ending violence against women,
    • reducing the prevalence of HIV and AIDS among women and girls, and
    • advancing gender justice in democratic governance in stable and fragile states.