Open Screening is where we invite local filmmakers to show their short subject films (under 15 mins.). It is a free event and you can either screen a film or just be a member of the audience. Either way it is FREE. It is a great place to network, if you are a filmmaker, crew member, actor or a fan of local films. Please let us know if you would like to screen something. We love films and would love to see yours.
Submissions: Label all tapes w/ name, contact, title and length. Mail to: Open Screening, 992 Valencia, SF, 94110. 1-2 weeks advance submissions strongly 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, 8mm and 16mm. For 8mm and 16mm films give us advance notice.
@saintbollard
is the moniker that Andrew Choate uses when performing in relation to
bollards – the typically concrete and steel posts that form obstructions
to traffic in order to protect buildings, equipment, and pedestrians.
His images serve as an entry into a world of poems, songs, and stories
that highlight the existential and comedic dilemma of making peace with
the inanimate objects that surround us.
This
performance at ATA will be the North American premiere of a show that
has only been performed in New Zealand, where it won Best Performance
Art and the Warwick Broadhead Memorial Award at the Dunedin Fringe
Festival and Best Newcomer at the Auckland Fringe Festival in 2019. The
show combines @saintbollard’s images of bollards with analyses of
social situations, songs, and poems – all with the imperative to access
the emotional root of self-augmentation or purposeful debilitation in
relation to pre-existing and often hostile architecture. The amatory is
another emphasis 🙂
What
real people say – Alexander Karasulas: I can’t express how whacky,
surprising and entertaining Andrew Choate’s show is about…. well…
bollards.
Tejo van Schie : This is an unexpectedly satisfying show. Very interesting and thoughtful and funny too.
Asia
Kennedy: I’m no closer to knowing what this show is, but one thing is
for sure- there are few things better than someone being all in on
something. This dude is all in.
Slate
dubbed him “the world’s foremost bollard photographer,” and his project
has been featured by Instagram, Atlas Obscura, the Canadian Broadcast
Corporation, Radio New Zealand, Quartz, and the Otago Daily Times.
https://www.postandcourier.com/free-times/arts/feature/columbia-native-andrew-choate-twists-his-words-and-visuals-through/article_a1038280-413c-566b-b95a-350f0f6c2068.html Andrew Choate is
a performer and poet. His bold visual and spoken-word performances can
seem both choreographed and stream-of-conscious. The large and small
mysteries of life and the ways one tries to inhabit a world shaped by
others are at the forefront of Choate’s work. He is the author of
several books including Learning (Civil Coping Mechanisms/ Writ Large
Press), Stingray Clapping (Insert Blanc Press), Too Many Times I See
Every Thing Just The Way It Is (Poetic Research Bureau), and Language
Makes Plastic of the Body (Palm Press). He was born and raised in
Columbia, South Carolina. He currently hosts a radio show on KCHUNG and
curates a concert series dedicated to the international world of
improvised music under the name The Unwrinkled Ear.
NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS A sensational season-ender that honors radical expression and innovative film form, the program tonight promises a veritable tsunami of cinema initiatives (18!). Portland prodigy Carl Diehl bestows on us the first-peek at his magician-uncle ode Misdirections, whilst Bryan Boyce rushes in from El Cerrito with his latest Fake But True beauty. Specially spotlit is a raft of brill hand-rolled works by Winnipeg’s Rhayne Vermette! Two other Canadians also figure prominently–Matt Soar (Naked Launch) and Frederic Moffet (Horsey), while Andre Perkowski (Nixon Sings the Blues) and Montgomery Cantsin (SCREAMINGLY!) bring the news/noise from LA. Additional Coast debuts come from Peggy Ahwesh (The Falling Sky), Roger Deutsch (My Echo, My Shadow, and Me), Kent Lambert (Reckoning 7), Jenny Stark (Standing on Fishes), and Brittany Gravely (her 16mmAstrology). ALSO Jay Rosenblatt’s When You Awake, Anton Astudillo’s Almargen,Saifey Maynor’s Starring in a Student Production,Pyscho Gnostic’s Lithium Nuke Magick, and more! Free pencils and fruitcake!! *$9
