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  • ATA’s Very Own 2017 Halloweenie Spooky Party

    Come dressed to impress, we will be kicking off ATA’S inaugural live series with a Halloweenie party. Costume contest, refreshments, and spooky/fun vibes to follow. DJ sets by XELA and FLINK, live performances by Lofi Legs and Sting Raze. Cut a rug, dress up, and dance some more. See you there!

    Sting Raze     – a band of San Francisco misfits. No shared background, nor musical philosophy. But we all agree on “Fuck Trump”. We’re 3 weirdos crushing the air, painting spaces in the sound waves as we go. Are you tired of mass produced main stream pop music? We got you! stingraze.bandcamp.com

    Lofi Legs     – SF natives Paris Cox-Farr and Maria Donjacour formed Lofi Legs, a 2-piece garage rock project in 2016. They are good, be nice to them. lofilegs.bandcamp.com

    Flink     (aka Girl Friday) is an SF based dj and advocate for all things Post Punk, Goth, and all kinds of Waves…especially the dark kind. You can catch her at Elbo Room and other dives around the city!

    Alex Coppola     (Xela) is an Oakland based DJ, record hoarder, and member of music collective Late Feelings. Playing a mix of international folk-pop, disco, electronic and funk, always with an ear for the groove, Xela is a project meant to share both classics and forgotten gems with deep appreciation, mostly in the form of dance. soundcloud.com/xela-music

  • Other Cinema: MEDIA ARCHEOLOGY2

    OC ARCHIVAL ANOMALIES
    Industrials amok! Here’s a jaw-dropping 16mm compilation of our most time-warped titles–educational, informational, and promotional films that together map out the real underside of 20C film production. These preposterous shorts—at times excerpted to foreground their sublimely ridiculous essence—come from that great mass of non-fiction films produced for extra-theatrical audiences—schools, churches, corporate groups—for the promulgation of certain ideas and products. Over these eight decades, their retrograde ideologies and modes of address have become increasing exposed, naked to the eye, like grotesque fossil skeletons in a paleo-media boneyard. Curated by Craig Baldwin, this uncanny initiative mines the most mind-melting filmic artifacts from OC’s 4000-plus, including Little Oscar Meyer, sex-ed, bed-wetting, noise cults, religious ecstasies, car fantasias, tech obsessions, ad absurdum. And beers for a buck! 

  • Periwinkle Cinema: The Gold Fish Casino

    The Gold Fish Casino Film follows the queer journey of a plucky Salmon playing for high stakes in the Water Wars. At The Gold Fish Casino, The Salmon must gamble her eggs for high stakes: enough clean water to get home and spawn. On her journey she encounters a queer menagerie, and transforms from a sweet naïve fish into a bold powerful force. The Water Nymph, a washed up veteran of the Water Wars with an enigmatic past, charms The Salmon while dealing dirty cards. Onstage, The Army Chorus of Engineers sing cheerful numbers about Manifest Destiny while at the bar the down-trodden River Creatures hatch plans to topple the Water Tycoon. Just as The Salmon’s luck is running dry, a cryptic communiqué from The Water Underground, a renegade gang of
    Water Nymphs, is delivered to the water table.
    As a mighty storm brews in the distance, the Water Tycoon shuffles in for a cataclysmic show down: Will the Salmon and her fellow creatures rise up, or will it all go down the drain? Rife with double entendre, musical numbers and stunning visuals, The Gold Fish Casino engages the audience with Water politics using archetypal characters, musical numbers and humor.

    The Gold Fish Casino has been primarily grassroots funded and is possible thanks to the hard work and generous donations of many.
    We depend on our community to spread the word and to help us continue to raise funds for this very serious undertaking. Please consider a tax-deductible donation today. Every drop counts. The Gold Fish Casino film project is fiscally sponsored by Fractured
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