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  • ATA @ SFPL (Screening @ Noe Valley Public Library)

    16mmATA @ SFPL is a 16mm film series that begins June 13 with our first program screening at the San Francisco Public Library’s Noe Valley Branch. ATA @ SFPL is a collaboration between Artists’ Television Access and the San Francisco Public Library…
    Claire Bain,  Brian Darr, Mark Wilson, Dayv Jones, and ATA programming have spent wonderful hours looking through 16mm prints in the library’s archive…and turned up all sorts of interesting things.
    Program:
    Library (Gregory Burke & Robert Primes, 1970)
    Find out what the San Francisco Public Library was like forty-five years ago with this entertaining portrait commissioned by the Friends of the Public Library. Both archetypal and surprising views of the “Old” Main Library (now the Asian Art Museum) and the branches.
    Eugene Atget (Harold Becker, 1964)
    Like a lost cousin to Chris Marker’s La Jetee, this beautiful black-and-white film showcases still photographs of a hundred-year-old Paris, set to the music of Eric Satie. It’s unexpected that such a serene film comes from a director who’d go on to make expensive productions with Hollywood stars like Al Pacino, Nicole Kidman and Bruce Willis.
    Claymation: Three Dimensional Clay Animation (Will Vinton, 1978)
    This lively promotional film demonstrates the delightful creativity and technological capability of Will Vinton’s Portland, Oregon animation studio, long before he made the California Raisins famous. Today the studio has morphed into Laika, the company responsible for box office hits like Coraline and The Boxtrolls.
    Wash It (Elizabeth Sher, 1982)
    Low-riders hop their way into a San Jose car wash shaped like a Mississippi riverboat, providing the perfect excuse for an ebullient study of motion, color, and music. An early short film (just five minutes long) by an established Bay Area documentary filmmaker and teacher.
    Anatomy of a Mural (Rick Goldsmith, 1982)
    San Francisco’s Mission Cultural Center has been a neighborhood mainstay for nearly forty years. This exquisite documentary reveals the collaborative process of the three local artists tasked with creating the intricate mural enveloping the building’s upper portion.

  • Staff Event (Cory’s test screening)

    Cory’s test screening for the crew.

  • “Bay Area BOOK FESTIVAL presents FABIANO ALBORGHETTI”

    A Visual & Music Poetry Reading

    Fabiano Alborghetti is a Swiss poet, author of five collections of poetry as well as numerous limited editions art-books and plaquettes. His poems are translated in 10 languages and he’s considered the most influential Swiss representative of the “novel in verse” as well as “detective poetry” genres. He was awarded the Pro Helvetia Literature grant in 2008 and 2014.  Among his published works, for the past ten years he wrote original plays, literary criticism and book reviews for periodicals, newspapers and internet media. He created poetry formats for journals, web, radio and promoted special poetry projects in jails, schools and hospitals He published several books of poetry, Verso Buda (Faloppio, LietoColle, 2004), L’opposta riva (Faloppio, LietoColle, 2006), Registro dei fragili – 43 Canti (Bellinzona, Casagrande, 2009), Supernova (Forlì, Edizioni L’Arcolaio, 2011), L’opposta riva – dieci anni dopo (Edizioni La Vita Felice, 2013)

    For the past ten years he wrote original plays, literary criticism and book reviews for periodicals, newspapers and internet media.

    He also signed poetry formats for journals, web, radio and promoted special poetry projects in jails, schools and hospitals. He has represented Switzerland at literary festivals and cultural events worldwide.

    Today we are honorific to enjoy the live lecture from  ‘The opposite shore’  and “Directory of Vulnerable’. The opposite Shore about illegal immigrants (based in Italy but coming from the Balkans, North Africa, Central Africa, Eastern Europe) with whom the author spent 3 years to collect their stories.

    ‘Directory of the Vulnerable’ , with a painful lucidity Alborghetti tries to comprehend and, yet again, he chooses direct observation and personal exploration, not so much of the protagonists of the drama, who are unavailable (or describable only in the distorting mirrors of journalists’ disinformation) but of the place which by way of allegory, contains and channels the tragedy. the author follows the customers, and families in particular;  he spies on their choices, movements, records fragments of their dialogues, their likely dreams, their inevitable catastrophes: he does this within the concrete reality of the shop, and the streets of the it y or the suburb, and also within the virtual reality of television and internet sites, via the cruel creation of spectacle that in recent decades has foraged hysterically in the sorrows.

    Along the reading you will accompany the visuals of mediadrift.com with Ryan Hooks and the music of violin and guitar of Kate Goldstein and Oscar Ugalde.

    The Bay Area Book Festival it’s a free book festival and street fair with local, national and international authors ranging from Nobel laureates to genre writers. The first annual edition on Berkeley. San Francisco Bay Area is a legendary literary mecca and the global capital of innovation. It’s the perfect home for a world-class international book festival celebrating the past, present, and future of the book 150 local, national, and international authors will be reading, debating, signing, reading along the weekend. San Francisco Chronicle and KQED, and from the community partners around the region.

    www.ata.org | www.baybookfest.org |www.fabianoalborghetti.ch| mediadrift.com