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ATA’s Open Screening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area. Get your work out there!

The first Thursday of every month we have an Open Screening. An 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: programming@atasite.org

PORTLAND PIXILATION: HEIT + POPP + HOUGH
OC welcomes Oregon animation maven Laura Heit, with a “Best Of” selection of single-frame work from her Portland hometown! A hands-on artist partial to puppets, Heit offers an entrée into the DIY aesthetic of the Pacific Northwest, where the art-form has always flourished. And so to her Rover’s Eye (Mars imaging!), Apollo Six (cut-outs of the failed flight), Two Ways Down (fall into underworld), and Deep Dark (song-cycle of projected shadows). PLUS Ben Popp’s Coastal Observations (shoreline flipbook), Juxtaposition (sensual foray from S8mm), HearNW (rhythmic synesthesia), and East Lake San Souci (Super16mm in the track area). Thirdly, Kurtis Hough honors us with his Cryosphere (tears against global warming), Painted Hills (the geometry of geology), To See More Light (elemental/cosmic), and Some Trees (poetic short). BONUS: 16mm ‘toons for trick ‘r treat goblin gobblin’!