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Join us for a screening of films from the University of San Francisco’s Film Studies program. Tonight our eyes will feast on documentary projects as well as experimental emissions. There will be celluloid & there will be snacks (both edible and filmic).

Filmmakers include:

Chloe Chau, Kate Dillon, Kayla Gaultney, Ty Gausman, Dorothy Holdt, Hailey Delia Jose, Marina Montalvo, Anya Osundwa, Leah Ruthven, Sophia Strouzas, Logan Swartz, Any Perez, Shak Craviotto-Velasco, Diego Davidson-Gomez, Lily Driscoll, Kade Duncan, Sam Engle, Janelle Frazier, Micah Hart, Rory Johnston, Aidan Leggatt, Rainie Stevens, Ines Ventura.

ATA’s free community film/video show welcomes short format work or (15 min or less) from all genres. An open forum for independent filmmakers to show their work, we hold screenings the first Thursday of the month at 8:00 pm. Entries must be received by 7:00 pm on show night.

Submissions: To submit a digital file, email openscreening@atasite.org. For physical media, label all tapes with name, contact info, title, and length, and mail to: Open Screening, 992 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110. 1–2 weeks advance submissions recommended. If not, just walk in before the show.
Maximum length: 15 min.
Formats: Digital file (PC or Mac), DVD, miniDV/DV-cam, VHS, beta, 8 mm, and 16 mm. For 8 mm and 16 mm films give us advance notice.

Doors at 7:30 pm, show at 8:00 pm, FREE

LYNNE SACHS’ EVERY CONTACT LEAVES A TRACE

Since 1990, filmmaker Lynne Sachs (in person tonight!) has collected 600 business cards—from a hairdresser, a therapist, a textile artist… Together they form an archive of encounters. The title of this imaginative essay film, Every Contact Leaves a Trace, is a basic principle of forensic science…and any trace can link a person to a place, another person, or an object. If that’s true, Sachs wonders, might every personal encounter not also leave a trace on your being? To find out, she tracks down some of the people behind the business cards. The thread connecting these hundreds of cards is Sachs herself, so the filmmaker naturally becomes the center of the film. Yet the focus is not on her; she merely provides the perspective—the point of departure. With her warm, contemplative voice-over and playful visual invention, Sachs weaves countless faces and voices into a patchwork of connections. These encounters—whether forgotten or remembered, faint or vivid—have become part of her being. $15