Author: Fara

  • Top of the Food Chain

    A film by John Paizs

    ATA is screening for one night only the hilarious ” Top of The Food Chain” By John Paizs. If you came out for “Crime Wave”  last month  this  story of cannibals from outer space will not  disappoint you, clearly something odd is  mysteriously going on in the tiny town of Exceptional Vista. And the result? Definitely spectacular though probably as much an aquired taste as the late night B-Movies that inspired it.

    Once given abit of time to get rolling however, Top of the Food Chain’s full impact sneaks up on you. By the end, the amateur autopsies, blithely offhand resurrections and Scott’s he/she rubber friend- as well as a nutty aria about our lady of Fatima’s hat that Exceptional visita resident sexpot sings instead of saying grace over dinner – will either have alienated you completely or enticed you wholeheartedly into a world far beyong the boundaries of everyday imagination. Those are just a few of the terrifically ironic surprises that await you when you come to ATA to see Top of the Food chain.

  • 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 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

  • Experimental films and sounds from the Bay Area


    lost in the flood

    Wiggwaum (tape release)
    Paul Clipson + En – Maxwell August Croy and James Devane
    Chen Santa Maria
    Jay Korber

    WIGGWAUM (Loren Means, Randy Lee Sutherland, Doug Katelus) performing a free music set along with visual works from all three members on 16mm and video. It will also be the release party show for the new cassette tape “Live at the Hemlock Tavern”

    The ever prolific San Francisco super8 filmmaker PAUL CLIPSON will be screening works along with En- Maxwell August Croy and James Devane.

    CHEN SANTA MARIA (George Chen / Steve Santa Maria) fresh off a European tour will bring an aural assault to all 5 senses, changing the way we see the inside of those hallowed ATA halls.

    JAY KORBER project TBA

    myspace.com/wiggwaum
    myspace.com/chensantamaria
    myspace.com/jaykorber
    withinmirrors.org