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Since 1974 Small Press Trgramaffic Literary Arts Center (SPT) has been at the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area innovative writing scene, bringing together readers, writers, and independent presses to engage, create, present, critique and archive their work.

Program: In partnership with Poetry Center and Ugly Duckling Presse:
Señal chapbook series poets:

Florencia Castellano (Argentina), Luis Felipe Fabre (Mexico), Pablo Katchadjian (Argentina), with translators John Pluecker, Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal, Rebekah Smith

Our second LIVE A/V installment celebrates Expanded Cinema: Kerry Laitala West-Coast-premieres her 25-min. “Astro Trilogy”, a transporting triple-projection live-accompanied by the sonic superstar we call Wobbly. These two psychonauts transport us way past Pluto to finally shed some light on all this so-called Dark Energy! Dominating the second half are the downright dangerously hacked audiovisuals of the long-missed Lori Varga, setting up her own battery of sprocketed spitfires, her dense visual matrix matched by the knobbing, potting, and looping of East Bay glitch whiz Kit Young! ALSO: the BBC’s “Delian Mode” doc on Radiophonic royalty Delia Derbyshire, Mary Ellen Bute’s stereoscopic treat, Craig Baldwin’s filmstrip-tease, and the Dream Machine!!

optron2:battle of the projectors

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