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  • RETELLING STORIES

    A night of film storytelling in conjunction with the current window installation “Necrocapital: AIDS in the Age of Surplus Value”

    WITH:

    MATT WOLF:

    SMALLTOWN BOYS – 21min – 2003

    The historical relationship between AIDS activist artist David Wojnarowicz and Sarah Rosenberg, a fictional teenage lesbian from New York’s Upper West Side are imagined in this experimental documentary.

    MIKE KUCHAR:

    THE PICTURES OF DORIAN GAY – 23 min – 1995

    Paint drips and body fluids ooze in this “tell all” and “hide nothing” documentary about two San Francisco males.

    BLUE BANSHEE -14.3 min – 1994

    Commissioned to be a “promo” for a loud punk rock band, Mr. Kuchar feared that the noise the band made would spoil the mood of his visuals, so he used the sound of a lush orchestra to score the picture and the antics.

    THE STONE BOY – 6 minutes – 2011

    New work!

    CHRIS VARGAS:

    LIBERACEÓN – 15 min – 2011

    Rescripts the biography of Liberace—the late, flamboyant yet closeted, and apolitical pop pianist—in order to insert him into a queer history of radical AIDS/HIV activism.

     

    Mike Kuchar in person.

    Chris Vargas in person.

    This program is organized by Jason Fritz Michael, Eric Stanley and Margaret Tedesco.

     

     

  • Benefit for Dara Greenwald

    ATA and Other Cinema co-present:

    a screening of recent media-artworks, towards the raising of funds to help our dear sister-artist Dara Greenwald, fighting for her life against cancer.

    Ms. Greenwald is the author of a very many video works, especially those around themes of history, activism, and feminism.

    She was formerly a principal at Video Data Bank, the largest  distributor of video art in the US. In recent years she moved to upstate NY, where she was able, with partner Josh MacPhee,  to curate the massive retrospective “Signs of Change”, that last year debuted at NYC’s Exit Art before traveling nationally.

    Among the dozen-plus pieces on the 5/20 feature-length program are works by Greta Snider, Jem Cohen, Jim Finn, Paul Chan, Ben Coonley, and Melinda Stone & Igor Vamos.

    “The Package”, a 2010 production by Dara herself will also be included, as well as one by Erick Lyle, who will act as emcee for the evening. Ex-SF resident Lyle is the much-lauded author of “On the Lower Frequencies”, on Bay Area sub-cultures, who is returning to town for this extraordinary event.

    Refreshments, including alcoholic beverages and snacks, will be available at the gallery’s bar (a portion of which also goes to the ‘Heal Dara’ campaign).

    Doors open at 7:30; show-time is 8pm.

    Patrons are encouraged to contribute what they can, starting in the $6-10 range.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • cancelled

    Due to a hard drive , this screening has been postponed to the fall, sorry.

    THE FREE FORM FILM SERIES PRESENTS:
    MUTATED: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Ripoffs and the Direct Market

    The origin, future and influence of the _TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES_ and their effects on all forms of entertainment media, including the comic book industry, television, toys, film, and mass-culture.
    This installment of the Free Form Film Series brings you an educational and absurd collection of cultural mutations. More than just a presentation about one cartoon fad, BC Sterrett’s lecture/video presentation stands as an assessment of commercial (and oddly, often legal) forms of re-appropriation.  A presentation that, in our age of the hollywood remake, couldn’t be more relevant, and insightful, but also couldn’t be much funnier!
    Video footage and lecture by media archeologist/cartoonist BC Sterrett
    of The Lost Media Archive (UT).

    The Lost Media Archive is a Utah-based collection of mondo/ kitsch/ cult/ ephemeral/ experimental/ historical/obsolete/ forgotten/ unearthed audio-visual and textual documents. The LMA is also a resource for those who cling to
    bygone media formats. The LMA was founded by Blair Sterrett an

    d works together with loaf-i productions and the Free Form Film Festival to arrange screenings, viewings, and concerts. The LMA also promotes and initiates the creation of new and unusual films, albums, performative projects, and book events. We accept donations of any and all projection, recording, and filming devices. When possible, we maintain these machines for use by recordists andfilmmakers.