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  • Other Cinema: OPTRONICA1

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    KRAFTWERK: POP ART + YOUNG + BECKER +

    Opening our semi-annual Optronica suite is) Kraftwerk: Pop Art, the BBC‘s absorbing doc on the godfathers of electronic music. Produced in conjunction with (and including performance clips from) their famous 2013 Tate Modern shows, the 55-min. report, like the band itself, proceeds effortlessly from expert interviews to fascinating music excerpts, some as early as 1970! Opening is local dorkbot Kit Young, here with a ingenious joy-station of video-loopers and analog FX boxes for his 20-min. Plumb the Depths. ALSO: The unstoppable Tommy Becker premiering his Aquarium, Vicki (PLU) Bennett‘s Matmos homage, and jolts of juice from Len Lye, Anna Spence, and Negativland (RIP Don Joyce).

  • MOVING SHELTER #2

    SFiCA is pleased to announce Moving Shelter #2, a night of performance and video art, to take place on March 4th at Artists’ Television Access. Moving Shelter is an ongoing curatorial project initiated by SFiCA that aims to position work in a variety of media engaged with the limits of home, mobility, and durability. From the daily personal experience of commute, to local processes of gentrification and displacement, to global patterns of migration and mass refuge, to non-place-based digital comfort, movement and shelter are increasingly charged signals of contemporary politics and culture. The second installment of Moving
    Shelter brings together artists examining this spectrum of issues through the concept of “the body as shelter.” The night will conclude with a discussion between artists and curators.

    Performance works by Luna G. Reiley, Melissa Koziebrocki, and Prima Sakuntabhai
    Video works by Danna Bialik and Izidora Leber,

    Curated by SFiCA
    SFiCA is a coalition between students and alumni of California College of the Arts and the San Francisco Art Institute whose mission is to provide platforms for dialogue, exhibition, and participation while fostering a culture of collaboration between the graduate programs of CCA and SFAI. Resting on the tenants of inclusion and openness, SFiCA situates artists, curators, designers and writers within the arts community of the Bay Area and beyond.

  • 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 7:30 pm