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  • The Book of Jane (SF premiere )

    A.T.A. and Vertical Pool present: “The Book of Jane” (2013; 117 min USA)
    A Film by Antero Alli (in person)
    janetitle1111“The concepts raised in “The Book of Jane” are profound and often complex and provides evidence of the artistic and intellectual power that can be generated through underground filmmaking. It is also one of Alli’s crowning achievements.” –  Phil Hall, filmthreat.com (5 stars)
     
    Alice, a Professor of Comparative Religion, is writing a book exalting the ancient values of pre-Hellenic goddess mythologies. One day she meets Jane, an enigmatic older woman who roams the university campus, sleeps under a bridge, and who rattles her with disturbing insights. Alice is also a muse to her partner Colette, an artist who paints goddess portraits. When Colette hears about Jane, she encourages a reluctant Alice to invite her over for dinner. “The Book of Jane” is a story of three women bound together by fate to advance the values of an ancient culture but at a deep cost no one expected. It’s also a tale of the hidden histories of the nomadic homeless. With an all S.F. Bay area cast including Luna Olcott, Marianne Shine, Madeline H.D. Brown, & Felecia Faulkner.  Written, directed, & photographed by Antero Alli.

     

    Watch a 5-min excerpt
    The movie site (pix, credits, clips)
    Antero Alli, filmography

  • OpenScreening

    openscreeningATA’s openscreening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area. Get your work out there! Get feedback! Or just come and take it all in! One hour of shorts are accepted monthly on an open revolving basis, anything goes with the screened work, and the refreshments are pretty good too. $5, FREE admission for contributing artists. Door:7:30pm Projector: 8pm

    Not a filmmaker? Come and hang out with us anyway. Enjoy the atmosphere, the art, the movies, the people, the refreshments

    Submissions: Label all tapes w/ name, contact, title and length. Mail to: Openscreening, 992 Valencia, SF, 94110 1-2 week advance submissions strongly recommended. If not. . . it is all good. Max length: 15 min. Formats: DVD, miniDV/DVcam, VHS, beta, 8mm and 16mm All genres.

    More Info: contact  
    Programming@atasite.org

  • Small Press Traffic: Stanley, McCreary, Robinson

     

    JARED STANLEY

    Jared Stanley is the author of two books of poetry, The Weeds and Book Made of Forest, as well as four chapbooks, including How the Desert Did Me In. He is a member of the public art group Unmanned Minerals, whose latest installation, It Calls From the Creek, is a site-specific walking poem installed on the Deer Creek Tribute Trail in Nevada City, California and on view through September 2014. Stanley is a 2012-2014 Research Fellow at the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art, and teaches at Sierra Nevada College. He lives in Reno, Nevada.

    JENN MCCREARY

    Jenn McCreary’s new full-length collection, & now my feet are maps, is forthcoming from Dusie Press in 2013. Other works include The Dark Mouth of Living (Horse Less Press), & Odyssey & Oracle (Least Weasel Press), :ab ovo: (Dusie Press), & a doctrine of signatures (Singing Horse Press). A 2013 Pew Fellow in the Arts, she lives with her family in Philadelphia, where she co-edits ixnay press with Chris McCreary.

    ELIZABETH ROBINSON

    Elizabeth Robinson is the author of multiple collections of poetry, most recently Blue Heron and Counterpart. She is also the author of a mixed genre meditation called On Ghosts. Robinson has been the winner of the National Poetry Series and the Fence Modern Poets Prize and the recipient of grants from the Fund for Poetry, the Boomerang Foundation, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. She is a co-editor of Instance Press and the literary journal pallaksch.pallaksch.