Author: Fara

Presented by Mission Creek Music And Arts Festival and Whaddya Gonna Do About it Productions. Featuring a LIVE presentation of Watch This!

Participating filmmakers:

Charles Chadwick www.myspace.com/chadwickfilms
Victor Fanucchi http://victorfanucchi.com/
Kate Hupp
Dana Jae http://www.filmson45.com/
Alex Lasky http://www.myspace.com/castlesinspain
Peter Max Lawrence http://www.petermaxlawrence.com/
John Madden http://www.whaddyagonnadoaboutit.com/
Doc Matthews
Jennifer Noland http://www.jennifernoland.com
Michael I. Shiller http://www.tripleave.com/
Jim Swanson http://www.heckleandjive.com/

Co-Presenter (television show) Watch This! http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=51938191703&v=info&ref=ts

program:

The Vagina Song (2009) Director: John Madden/Lyrics: Maya Prickett
run time: 4 minutes, 57 seconds, Format HD
A unique and quirky young lady is fed up with men and travels through fantasy worlds in search of true love; or at least a guy that thinks of her as more than a blow up doll!

8 ¾’s (2008) Director: John Madden
run time: 3 minutes, 2 seconds; Format: Mini DV
An homage to the great Fellini, 8 ¾’s explores a filmmaker’s creative process and the all consuming challenge of coming up with the almighty “IT” in time to meet the deadline for a 24 hour film contest.

Operation Orange Gold (2009) Director: Kate Hupp
run time: 2 minutes, 40 seconds, Format: Animation
A ragtag group of mice seize the day and take fate into their own hands in this witty animation piece.

Tweaker Bitch (2010) Co-Director: Rebecca Parks-Ramage and Peter Max Lawrence
run time: 3 minutes, 52 seconds, Format: mini dv
Music video for the San Francisco band Mon Cousin Belge

Queer in Kansas (2009) Director: Peter Max Lawrence
run time: 17 minutes, 54 seconds, Format: High 8, Super 8, Animation
This experimental personal documentary utilizes a wealth of home movies, video and audio diaries to tell the story of the filmmaker’s quest to find his way in the world as an adopted child and artist.

True Working Class Heroes (2009) Director: Michael I. Schiller
run time: 4 minutes, 5 seconds. Format Video/16mm
Music video for the Bay Area hip hop crew, Triple Ave featuring Hyp (Hip), Saint and Gypsy

Love Dreams Love (2009) Director: Doc Matthews
run time: 3 minutes, 54 seconds, Format: video
Music video for the San Francisco band, Number’s Game.

Breath (2009) Director: Alex Lasky
run time: 4 minutes, Format: video
Music video for the San Francisco band, Castles in Spain

Old Man (2009) Director: Alex Lasky
run time: 4 minutes, Format: video
Music video for the San Francisco band, Castles in Spain

Reelin’ (1996) Director: Jim Swanson
run time: 2 minutes, 15 seconds, Format: Super 8, 16mm and Animation
A whirling man staggers through various environments, transforming between real and animated many times, eventually becomes overwhelmed. Single framed on Super 8 using cels created on a desktop computer and laserprinted, hand-drawn cels, cutouts, and pixilation with thousands of paper wads.

Except Now (?) Director: Jim Swanson
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Peace War (2008) Director: Jim Swanson
run time: 2 minutes, 9 seconds, mixed media
Music video for the San Francisco punk band, Spot 1019, from the album: This World

Owes me a Buzz (1991)

Head South (2008) Co-Directors: Dana Jae/John Madden
run time: 12 minutes, 12 seconds, format HD
Inspired by the Paul Simon song, Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard.

Intermission (2007) Director: Charles Chadwick
run time: 5 minutes, 21 seconds, Format: 16mm, animation

All About Fire (2007) Director: Charles Chadwick
run time: 7 minutes, 20 seconds, Format: 16mm, animation
A play on instructional films created using found footage.

Loop (2003) Director: Jennifer Noland
run time: 3 minutes, 5 seconds, Format: 16mm
Experimental montage exploring war and the market driven economy

Glide (2004) Director: Jennifer Noland
run time: 2 minutes, 24 seconds; Format 16mm – Color and B&W
An action packed romp through the mind of the filmmaker.

Chekhov’s Gun (1998) Victor Fanucchi
run time: 19 minutes, 44 seconds; Format: 16mm
In 1897, Anton Chekhov first articulated the most famous axiom of story structure: “if a gun appears on stage in a play, someone must be shot by the final curtain.” Chekhov’s Gun imagines what might happen if the characters in a film somehow
discovered this “rule” and and then set about avoiding their fate.

co-presented by Mission Creek Music And Arts Festival
This month’s openscreening will be assembled around music related works, featuring special screening of “Free NYC” from (((unartig))).

FREE NYC
2009

New York is an expensive place to live, but occasionally there’s an incentive: Free admission shows, especially during the summer. “Free NYC” portrays the highlights of 2006 – 2009 and offers a wide variety of musical genres.

Artists include:
g.i.c. & funkface @ union square 11/28/2008 “really real”
fucked up & moby @ rogan store 10/14/2008 “blitzkrieg bop”
sonic youth @ battery park 07/04/2008 “silver rocket”
suicide @ south street seaport 07/27/2007 “frankie teardrop”
wire @ southstreet seaport 05/30/2008 “pink flag & 12XU”
mission of burma @ solar1 04/19/2008 “that’s when I reach for my revolver”
liars @ McCarren pool 07/20/2008 “plaster casts”
anthrax @ east river park 02/05/2009 “madhouse”
dub trio @ ludlow street 09/09/2007 “bay vs leonard”
dirty projectors @ whitney museum for american art 07/20/2007 “rise above”
amanda palmer @ soundfix records lounge 09/19/2008 “dear old house”
beautiful south @ cake shop upstairs 11/06/2006 “old red eyes is back”
88 boadrum @ williamsburg waterfront 08 08 08

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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 anywayEnjoy 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 Katy at ataopenscreening@atasite.org

Screening tonight canceled, many apologies. Please check back soon as this film will now be playing in August.

The fringes of Iranian society can be a lonely place, especially if you are a teenage girl with few resources to fall back on. The Glass House follows four girls striving to pull themselves out of the margins by attending a one-of-kind rehabilitation center in uptown Tehran. Forget about the Iran that you’ve seen before. With a virtually invisible camera, the girls of The Glass House take us on a never-before-seen tour of the underclass of Iran with their brave and defiant stories: Samira struggles to overcome forced drug addiction; Mitra harnesses abandonment into her creative writing; Sussan teeters on a dangerous ledge after years of sexual abuse; and Nazila burgeons out of her hatred with her blazing rap music. This groundbreaking documentary reflects a side of Iran few have access to or paid attention to: a society lost to its traditions with nothing meaningful to replace them and a group of courageous women working to instill a sense of empowerment and hope into the minds and lives of otherwise discarded teenage girls.