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Find out what’s on the minds of the students from The University of San Francisco. Tonight’s screening will feature a wild night of mini-masterpieces from our Motion Graphics and our Advanced Narrative classes. You’ll see genre-busting narratives and stylish graphic emissions.

Filmmakers include: Anna Callaghan, Michelle Daher Yaacoub, Diego Davidson-Gomez, NinaDubcova, Poppy Harrison, Melanie Hughes, Carolayne Lage, Ernest Maschka, Marina Montalvo, Sophia Stallworth, Seth Villavicencio, Abigail Wadkins-Daub, Sydney Waldrop, El Wright, Kaylee Wright, Shak Craviotto-Velasco, Kamryn Dancy, Joey DiLeva, Andrea Duque, Sam Engle, Elisabeth Fox, Janelle Frazier, Ty Gausman, Micah Hart, Hailey Delia Jose, Ankit Mukhopadhyay,
Ashley Muse-Wilburn, Logan Swartz, Max Wirth-Kovacs.

Doors 6:45, Show 7:00 pm

There will be snacks. Free!

ATA’s free community film/video show welcomes short format work or (15 min or less) from all genres. An open forum for independent filmmakers to show their work, we hold screenings the first Thursday of the month at 8:00 pm. Entries must be received by 7:00 pm on show night.

Submissions: To submit a digital file, email openscreening@atasite.org. For physical media, label all tapes with name, contact info, title, and length, and mail to: Open Screening, 992 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110. 1–2 weeks advance submissions 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, 8 mm, and 16 mm. For 8 mm and 16 mm films give us advance notice.

Doors at 7:30 pm, show at 8:00 pm, FREE

NEW RED ORDER: GIVE IT BACK! + SPACES OF EXCEPTION

Following their last feature here, our Native (Ojibway) cohorts have been busy with many projects–including a bombshell for ITVS–and tonight’s half-hour opener gives us a strong sense once again of their razor-sharp perspective. Their de-colonial discussion comes to focus on ex-Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf‘s rematriation of a sizable East Bay land parcel to the Sogorea Te Land Trust, serving as a springboard for a larger campaign for the return of most all Indigenous lands and cultural artifacts. In the program’s second part, we bear witness to Matt Peterson/Malek Romamny‘s studied cine-essay on mass population displacement, with coverage of Mohawk and Dine resistance to Black Mesa relocation juxtaposed with footage of Palestinian refugee camps, environmental activists, and families of martyrs and political prisoners. The parallels between the Southwestern US footage and the Gaza material create a conversation about the critical importance of the meaning of homeland, and its conditions for life, community, and sovereignty. $10