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  • Mike Kuchar: The Mind’s Landscape

    Filmmaker Mike Kuchar illuminates the zone between heaven and hell with these sensuous new movies:

    Soul Surfers

    Meat With Bones

    and more…..

    The vibrant, poetic and wild works of Mike Kuchar have inspired generations of filmmakers and artists with their wickedly perverse parodies of pop-culture and abundant creativity. From early 8 mm films made with his twin brother George Kuchar featuring friends from their Bronx neighbourhood to the underground sci-fi extravaganza Sins of the Fleshapoids 1965, his films take the language of Hollywood and make it so ‘overblown it’s glorious’. In the 1990s Mike Kuchar embraced video with the same transformative passion that he brought to his early 8 mm films, and created a vast body of work ranging from delirious teleplays to recent digital fantasies, displaying a unique creative sensibility. Relishing the possibilities of the most minuscule budgets his films are radiant and lurid in equal measure, celebrating human creativity with an undiminished passion and humor for over 50 years.

  • OpenScreening

    ATA’openscreening.jpeg.pagespeed.ce.NgD79VABiRs 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

  • Lindsey Filowitz: Active Death

    ATA Window Gallery Presents:

    Lindsey Filowitz: Active Death

    May 7 – June 1, 2017

    Closing Reception: May 28th, 7-9pm

    I am pleased to present “Active Death,” an installation at the Artists’ Television Access Window Gallery from May 7 – June 1, 2017. A living still life that will transform minute by minute, it begins with a lavish display of fresh flowers and immature fruit, which will ultimately turn – growing green mold, cloud-like fluff, petals devoid of their moisture, and an aroma unpleasantly ripe.

     

    This work reveals that the marvel of pleasures is due to their ephemeral nature. Many questions are raised: What is beauty if not that which is natural? What is death if the result is rebirth? What is photography if not about the passing of time?

     

    A scene not dissimilar from one found in a 16th-17th Century European painting, I have re-considered the purpose of a classical still life. The Dutch Golden Age was period where art no longer solely represented Christianity, but rather rendered naturalistic tableau. In turn, photography also demonstrates a moment as it is and was.

     

    Hung in the background of the installation are adjunct still lifes of mixed media, with work by yours truly, Mark Filowitz, and Hannah Hughes. The vase in Mark Filowitz’s 1990 painting holds the floral centerpiece exhibited, as does his drawing study. A closer look on the walls behind will reveal several referential clues. My photographs displayed are excerpts from a project about falling in and out of love that revisits the motifs of flora and food, both metaphors for sexual desire, relationships, life, and death. These themes structure the narrative of the project: the natural objects slowly rot and shrivel away paralleling a relationship doomed to fail.

     

    The installation will be documented regularly through its process of decay. With the camera acting as a tool that can preserve the mortal, the resulting photographs are evidence that new beginnings often follow loss.

     

    I hope that you all can witness the fruits of my labor, ever-changing from beginning to middle, and eventually end.

     

    Mark Filowitz is an artist and musician from Brooklyn, NY. Hannah Hughes is a photographer based in Oakland, CA, whose work focuses on memory.