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co-presented by Mission Creek Music And Arts Festival
This month’s openscreening will be assembled around music related works, featuring special screening of “Free NYC” from (((unartig))).

FREE NYC
2009

New York is an expensive place to live, but occasionally there’s an incentive: Free admission shows, especially during the summer. “Free NYC” portrays the highlights of 2006 – 2009 and offers a wide variety of musical genres.

Artists include:
g.i.c. & funkface @ union square 11/28/2008 “really real”
fucked up & moby @ rogan store 10/14/2008 “blitzkrieg bop”
sonic youth @ battery park 07/04/2008 “silver rocket”
suicide @ south street seaport 07/27/2007 “frankie teardrop”
wire @ southstreet seaport 05/30/2008 “pink flag & 12XU”
mission of burma @ solar1 04/19/2008 “that’s when I reach for my revolver”
liars @ McCarren pool 07/20/2008 “plaster casts”
anthrax @ east river park 02/05/2009 “madhouse”
dub trio @ ludlow street 09/09/2007 “bay vs leonard”
dirty projectors @ whitney museum for american art 07/20/2007 “rise above”
amanda palmer @ soundfix records lounge 09/19/2008 “dear old house”
beautiful south @ cake shop upstairs 11/06/2006 “old red eyes is back”
88 boadrum @ williamsburg waterfront 08 08 08

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ATA’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 anywayEnjoy 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 Katy at ataopenscreening@atasite.org

Screening tonight canceled, many apologies. Please check back soon as this film will now be playing in August.

The fringes of Iranian society can be a lonely place, especially if you are a teenage girl with few resources to fall back on. The Glass House follows four girls striving to pull themselves out of the margins by attending a one-of-kind rehabilitation center in uptown Tehran. Forget about the Iran that you’ve seen before. With a virtually invisible camera, the girls of The Glass House take us on a never-before-seen tour of the underclass of Iran with their brave and defiant stories: Samira struggles to overcome forced drug addiction; Mitra harnesses abandonment into her creative writing; Sussan teeters on a dangerous ledge after years of sexual abuse; and Nazila burgeons out of her hatred with her blazing rap music. This groundbreaking documentary reflects a side of Iran few have access to or paid attention to: a society lost to its traditions with nothing meaningful to replace them and a group of courageous women working to instill a sense of empowerment and hope into the minds and lives of otherwise discarded teenage girls.

A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition Film screening
A classic Cuban film by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

In this movie about a filmmaker named Oscar, Cuban director Alea tackles the problems men have in conceding authority and autonomy to women in Cuba. Oscar is researching a documentary on male attitudes and while interviewing several subjects, he learns that a husband feels he must have a higher salary than his wife, and while the bee may flit from flower to flower, the flower cannot go from bee to bee. As the extent and shape of male chauvinism begins to emerge in his research, the married Oscar falls in love with an independent-minded woman who is working on the docks where they are filming. At this point, male biases are brought home to his doorstep—will he be honest and leave his wife for the woman he now loves? If not, can he really make a documentary on machismo if his vision is hampered by his own biases? 1983, Spanish with English subtitles.