For a dozen summers, poets from California and across the U.S. have come to San Francisco to read in the Bay Area Poetry Marathon reading series. This August we’ll host a special event guest curated by poet Zoe Tuck.
Readers will include Elana Chavez * Madison Davis * Rob Halpern * Geraldine Kim * Tessa Micaela * Monica Mody * Maisha Quint * Cosmo Spinosa
For more information, visit the Bay Area Poetry Marathon website or contact series founder/curator Donna de la Perriere at donnadlp@zoho.com.
3 Short Movies by Joseph Dwyer.
Accompanied by a curated hour-long program of dark, odd, confusing motion pictures.
Joseph Dwyer makes movies that simultaneously critique and pay homage to past genres in cinematic history. Wisdom Teeth is a 16mm experimental nod to German Expressionist film of the 1920’s. Dwyer reached a 1950’s mood by 2012 with The Diddler, an examination of 50’s American motion picture aesthetics, in particular Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Most recently, he has completed a picture resembling the 1970’s feel of the Italian giallo film, breaking away from monochrome into bright, saturated, primary color intensity with “Good Evening, Officer Bracelitz”—Starring Maxine Holloway, Siouxsie Q and Jordan Smith.
Accompanying the three shorts will be an hour-long program of 10 more short pictures made over the past few years by friends and colleagues including:
Ricky Camilleri
Frank Difficult
Dave Fischer
Devon Kelley
Laura Maxfield
and Juan Pablo Pacheco
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 7:30 pm
Show at 8pm
More Info: contact
Programming@atasite.org