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  • Gay Shame: Tech=Death

    ATA Window Gallery presents: Gay Shame

    GAY SHAME is a virus in the system. We are committed to a trans/queer extravaganza that brings direct action to spectacular levels of confrontation. We work collectively outside boring and deceptive non-profit models to fight white supremacy, capitalism, ableism, cops, settler-colonialism and all forms of domination. Liberals think we are frivolous decorations and mainstream gays want us gone. Against them and with each other we instigate, irritate, and agitate, to build cultures of devastating resistance.

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    The installation is called “TECH=DEATH”

    “No pride in sharing shenanigans
    No pride in Scott Wiener
    No pride in Carnie Asada
    No pride in rainbow capitalism
    No pride in upzoned evictions
    No pride in settler colonialism
    No pride in SRO flipping
    No pride in Elon’s lady
    No pride in freemarket fantasies
    No pride in Sonja Trauss
    No pride in realtor drag
    No pride in Israeli occupation
    No pride in diversifying I.C.E.
    No pride in Jump Bikes
    No pride in Gavin Newsom
    No pride in CIA feminism
    No pride in impactful hubs
    No pride in parade barricades
    No pride in Dropbox bros
    No pride in street sweeps
    No pride in art washing
    No pride in corporate cooperation
    No pride in luxe lofts
    No pride in privatized parks
    No pride in lean-in libertarians
    No pride in LGBT cops
    No pride in social entrepreneurs
    No pride in ALL YIMBYS

  • MOSS INDEX Vol. 1


    We are thrilled to present volume 1 of Moss Index, a bi-annual screening series that shows films/videos about looking at nature (“nature”), interacting with the environment (“the environment”), and investigating the border regions where the human and the not-human intersect. An invitation to look at the environment might usually imply a certain political goal, but we are interested in starting further back: decolonizing our ways of seeing and imagining alternative socio-ecologies. Plant-vision, inter-species encounters, unmapping, wet thresholds. This is not a green film fest.

  • 39 1/2

    39 1/2

    Can a single woman at the precarious age of 39 1/2 find a way to have a baby with no Mr. Right in sight? Currently in post-production, Kara Herold’s 39 1/2, a hybrid comic feature combining narrative and animated elements, takes up where her autobiographical documentary, Bachelorette, 34, leaves off. Kara is still single in the last years of her 30s. She has always imagined having kids, but her dedication to the life of an independent filmmaker has siphoned away the time and opportunity. Her new age glamorous Zen monk boyfriend seems like a bright possibility, until he dumps her at her first suggestion that they get serious. She comes up for air at 39 ½, filled with a certain desperation and energized by a newfound determination to have a baby by any means necessary.

    MOM: Why don’t you put an ad in the paper? Svelte single seeks smart scholar in San Francisco. The alliteration might attract a smart English professor.

    KARA: Okay. But it has to be on my terms. How about iconoclastic, inspired, independent filmmaker

    MOM: Too un-INVITING! Dad and I will write it for you.

    Bio
    Kara Herold has written, directed, and produced a broad variety of films, from short animations to award-winning documentaries—all of them set in San Francisco. She has won many awards and grants, including support from the San Francisco Arts Commission, Pacific Pioneer Fund, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Film Arts Foundation, Djerassi Resident Artists Program and the New York State Council for the Arts.  Her films have screened at film festivals world-wide such as Sundance, MoMA, NYC, the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam. Kara Herold received an MFA in Cinema from San Francisco State University. She worked at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for twenty years and was a stagehand for the The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Transmedia at Syracuse University, but spends all of her summers in the Bay Area.