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  • ATA Window Gallery: Sehnsucht by China Langford

    ATA Window Gallery: Sehnsucht: Slide Projections by China Langford

    Opening Reception: Wednesday, August 5th, 2015, 7-9pm
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    Sehnsucht: Slide Projections by China Langford

    Sehnsucht is a German word with no equivalent English translation. It is roughly akin to nostalgia or longing, but in English these terms are related to the memory of something one has known, while sehnsucht has no such reference. Instead it describes a homesickness for an intangible home, a yearning for an unknown place, one which can last a lifetime. These slide projections are my effort to communicate, through photography, the feeling of sehnsucht, which is to me as palpable and universal as breath. The images are my rumination on the human desire to move closer to the imagined home, and the possibility that the unattainable nature of that home is what guides our course.

  • Films by Zach Iannazzi and Margaret Rorison

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    Zach Iannazzi and Margaret Rorison In Person

    The film/video work of Margaret Rorison—co-founder and curator of Baltimore’s Sight Unseen screening series—is described as “an impressionistic exploration into the visceral nature of memory and experience.” A featured artist in CROSSROADS 2014 and ’15, Rorison appears in person for the first time visits San Francisco to present a selection of these sophisticated and hypnotic works including the celestial elegy The Waiting Sands; PULL/DRIFT, “an immersive experiment in movement, rhythm, and ritual” made in collaboration with the Effervescent Dance Collective; vindmøller, a dense hand-wrought study of weather and Danish wind power; and her latest: One Document for Hope. Rorison is paired tonight with Zach Iannazzi who will present examples of his masterful hand-made cinema including California Picture Book, a drifting found footage compendium of Nor Cal seasons past; Preservation Through Dissemination, a graphic and abstract imagining of a visionary cinema inventor; and II, an foreboding double-projected home movie collage reflecting on accidental impressionism, mid-century male bonding rituals and the hubris of hunting culture.

  • Mike Kuchar: Soul Searching Series & more

    mike kucharATA is proud to present an evening with avant-garde underground filmmaker Mike Kuchar (in person), exploring through the Soul Searching Series and other works.

    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 humour for over 50 years.