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  • Häxan: Witchcraft Through The Ages

    dir by Benjamin Christensen, 1922, 80min, 16mm

    Some consider Benjamin Christensen’s 1922 film Häxan to be the first documentary as it incorporates historical information pertaining to medieval paganism into its overall narrative. The film is nothing short of groundbreaking for its time, and even today the imagery can be shocking, disturbing, and at times darkly humorous.

    Presented on 16mm, this version, subtitled Witchcraft Through the Ages, is a shorter version with an all new soundtrack featuring narration, and music by Nine Inch Nails.

  • OpenScreening

    Free

    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.

    Door opens at 7

    contact: openscreening@atasite.org



  • Nonconsensual Paintings: Solo-exhibition of new works by Rebecca Kaufman

    [San Francisco, CA, July 22] At Artists’ Television Access in San Francisco and curated by Hannah Beck, Rebecca Kaufman exhibits new paintings and a video installation in the solo-exhibition Nonconsensual Paintings throughout the month of August. The opening reception is Saturday, August 3, 6-9pm with artist talk and a video/sound performance. The duration of the solo-exhibition is until August 31 with gallery hours on Saturdays and Sundays 1-6pm or by appointment contact sinuousspeck@gmail.com.   

    Curatorial Statement:

    They’re not meant to be easy to look at, just like a nonconsensual episode is not easy to discuss. The visceral feeling is divorced from the intellect. There is comfort when the intellect can make sense, but what happens when the intellect is usurped by feeling? Rebecca Kaufman’s new body of work, Nonconsensual Paintings, is presented to the audience as vibrating glitches, scratching and jumping white light on an analog screen. As optical art, the series holds your uneasy eyes to experience a nonconsensual act, one you did not expect, but that is happening to you nonetheless. Do you keep quiet or do you use your voice to assert your space? A dilemma the world of women have constantly grappled with, but like a siren reverberating around the planet, the #MeToo Movement slammed the brakes and toppled the facade on the misogynistic iron fist. Kaufman’s unapologetic work takes back female space with size and content devouring your gaze and space. Like hypnosis, Kaufman’s optical art holds the viewer to expose where women’s vibrating spirit has been coalescing since time began.

    Hannah Beck, Curator