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  • ATA Window Gallery Opening: Thrombotic Resurrection

    The soul is the formation of a clot believed by some
    to be the divine inside of an immortal intravascular mass vessel. By
    obstructing the flow of mortality through the human being, some
    believe it is the actual vehicle by which injury occurs. When a spirit
    is injured, the body uses platelets to form a blood clot to prevent
    life loss at a site distant from its point of origin and is
    subsequently resurrected and ascends.

    Marcelle Marais (born on July 6, 1985 in Cape Town, South Africa) is a
    multifaceted artist working in the mediums of painting, music and

    performance. Marcelle immigrated to the United States at the age of

    eighteen and moved to San Francisco in 2004, where she attended the

    San Francisco Art Institute, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts
    in Painting in 2010. Her work expresses the continuous cycle of
    regeneration and degeneration of the self in various forms: the
    forever evolving, expanding, decaying, and rebirth through the

    intrinsic qualities of human nature.

    Bio: Maciej Makalowski is an interdisciplinary artist born in Poznań,
    Poland and raised in Montréal, Washington DC, and central
    Pennsylvania. His paintings, photographs, collages, and films explore
    political histories, nostalgia, popular culture, and fringe
    spirituality. He received an MFA in Painting from the San Francisco
    Art Institute in 2011 and a BFA in Painting and BA in Political
    Science from the Pennsylvania State University in 2008. He has
    exhibited in San Francisco, Oakland, Long Beach, Berkeley, Chicago,
    Portland, Tulsa, Russia, Pennsylvania, and Italy. He is also a
    founding member of the Basement artist collective in the Mission
    district of San Francisco. In his spare time, Maciej focuses on
    playing music and social work. He currently resides and works in San
    Francisco, CA. www.makalowski.com

  • Periwinkle Cinema: Bits and Pieces

    POSTRAMATIKS1Join us this April for a program of shorts that will crawl its way in to your brain. Some funny and some cute while others are a little creepy and also cute, from stop motion with meat and paper to the queering of multiple horror genres. Dream sequences and nightmares come to life for just a short while then they fade upon waking. We invite you to have a look and see some of you in us.

     

  • TRANSPARENT THINGS: music/film conversations between Rick Bahto & Paul Clipson

    Rick Bahto image 06An evening of experimental films, music videos, and works by Rick Bahto and Paul Clipson that feature their collaborations with sound artists and musicians. A conversations between the filmmakers will follow the screening.
    The program will include:
     
    MARIENDBAD (2012) Rick Bahto, 6 minutes, 35mm slides & 2 x 8mm on HD video, music:
    Marienbad by Julia Holter
    “I wanted to make something that would serve as a visual accompaniment to Julia Holter’s song “Marienbad”, but would not be strictly tied to it. I utilized multiple film projections interacting and interfering with one another in a single composition. The material seen in this video was made with Kodak Tri-X regular 8 mm motion picture film and Kodak Plus-X 35 mm still film, all of it processed by hand. The video is a single take documenting a live performance using two 8 mm projectors and a single 35 mm projector all aimed at the same space on a screen; there is no digital manipulation of the images, and no edits have been made to the recording.”

     
    OtherStates1 2OTHER STATES (2013), Paul Clipson  6 min, Super, color, sound by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma U.S. Premiere
    The third in a trilogy (with SPEAKING CORPSE and ANOTHER VOID) of films studying the hallucinatory effects of multilayered music and multi-compositional night imagery, focusing on fierce fragmentations of eyeballs, ATM machines and beer signs.
    Filmed in the Lower East Side and on 42nd Street in New York, and in the Tenderloin of San Francisco.
     

    FINALE (2013) 8 minutes, Super 8, b/w, music: Tragedy Finale by Julia Holter
    A variety of translations (and re-translations), featuring the Thomases Hardy and Bernhard.

     
    LIGHT YEAR (2013) 9.5 min., 16mm, music by Tashi Wada S.F. Premiere
    A commission for the San Francisco Exploratorium that I did as part of a Cinema Artist residency, this film-collage studies the water systems and architecture of the San Francisco waterfront, in abstract and formal contexts. The musical score by Tashi Wada is performed by cellists Charles Curtis and Judith Hamann.


    WORLD (2013) 5 minutes, Super 8, color & b/w, music: World by Julia Holter
    Several walks around town, with Rick Bahto, Julia Holter, and Mark So.


    DIFFICULT LOVES (2013) Super 8mm, color/B&W, 3.5 minutes, music by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
    A love poem of intimate immensities, featuring a theater of waters, lights and flowers. Filmed in San Francisco’s Botanical Gardens and my backyard. -P.C.
     
    MAXIM’S l (2013) 6 1/2 minutes, Super 8, b/w, music: Maxim’s I by Julia Holter
    A desktop ballet, featuring photographs taken during the studio recordings of Holter’s third full-length album Loud City Song.
     
    ABSTEIGEND (2012) Super 8mm, B&W, 6 minutes, music by Evan  Caminiti An impression of the industrial yards of Brooklyn, New York, as well as  Oakland, California. 
    FOR PAUL CLIPSON (2011) Rick Bahto, Super 8mm, silent
    VOID REDUX (2013) Super 8mm, color, 6.5 minutes
    A nervous portrait of a Zagreb train station filmed from the tracks. The imminent impact leads to seeing stars.- P.C.