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Amnesia Bar
853 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
http://www.amnesiathebar.com

Featuring live music and performances by:

Freddy McGuire
Mystical vocal stylings of Anne McGuire backed by the electronic mashups of Wobbly.
http://myspace.com/freddymcguire
http://myspace.com/wobbbly

Cones
Cones are Wendy Farina, Kurt Keppeler, Phillip Dachelet. Formerly the rock band known as “Fierce Antler”.
http://myspace.com/wearecones

Black Pearl Stepchild
Crazy jump blues plus free jazz. Black Pearl Stepchild is Douglas Katelus (Reagan’s Memory), Randylee Sutherland (Reagan’s Memory / Sword and Sandals), Wilson Drozdowski (Womans Worth), Matthew Grothman (Womans Worth / Vholtz)

Chickenfish
Mashed up music plus video, from members of CatFive (http://www.katfive.com), featuring Ezra Li Eismont and James Whitehead.

Come out and meet the volunteers who collectively run ATA, one of San Francisco’s oldest nonprofit alternative arts spaces devoted to experimental media.

Why is ATA having a benefit show at Amnesia?

ATA moved into the historic building at 992 Valencia in 1987 when the neighborhood was still affordable and its trendiness was nothing to brag about. Since the sale of the building two years ago to a new owner, ATA’s monthly rent has been increased by over 200% to meet San Francisco’s “market rate”, with more increases on the way. At the same time the main source of city funding for the arts on which ATA depends has been reduced steadily. ATA is run collectively by dedicated volunteers. We choose to keep admission prices low to make the arts accessible to everyone and we don’t charge artists a fee to use our space or to show their work. We’re holding this benefit show to bring attention to the state of the arts and the dying culture of San Francisco and to help fund ATA’s activities in the coming year. ATA thanks Amnesia for its support!

About ATA:

Artists’ Television Access is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, all-volunteer, artist-run, experimental media arts gallery that has been in operation since 1984. ATA hosts a series of film and video screenings, exhibitions and performances by emerging and established artists and a weekly cable access television program.

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Syracuse is a city known for its snow, its salt, and its basketball team. Unbeknownst to many, it is also the site of a modest but thriving arts community, with a rich history, especially in the vague sphere (or ball) of video. Syracuse is home to the Everson Museum of Art, the host of some of the first video exhibitions, and the first major museum to house a permanent video collection. Through Syracuse University, many influential figures in the field of video art and the arts in general have emerged such as Bill Viola, David Ross, Sol Lewitt, and Lou Reed. Through venues such as Spark Video, the tradition of video-based artwork in Syracuse has carried forth and yielded rich and diverse bodies of work. Common flights of DIY ethics, performance, documentary, and personal narrative have developed a unique style to much of the video that has come out of Syracuse. This program draws from some the city’s most recent and fresh activity in video art.

VIDEO FIREBALL
Video Fireball is a place for local, international, famous, and unknown artists to present video-based art. It is here for artists who utilize the ubiquitous and elastic medium of video in ways that are unique, subversive, informative, and explosive. The Fireball absorbs and ignites audio-visual communication.

The founding of Video Fireball was inspired by the renowned Spark Video <http://sparkartspace.com> screening series, held in Syracuse, New York. Spark’s rich history of providing outlets for local and international video art carries over into a new community and creativity here on the west coast.

Theme: Impressionism & Expressionism

Next open screening will be November 15th!!!

                 Pissarro meets Monet at the Academy Suisse in 1859, then, in 1861, Guillaumin and Cézanne with whom he was to work later at Pontoise
Monet , Renoir , Sisley , Bazille met at the Fine Arts School in 1862, while studying in Charles Gleyre’ workshop, and constituted the core of the movement. Bazille will be killed at Franco-Prussian war of 1870
        
                   Degas meets Manet in 1862 (” Portrait of Manet” – 1864 ), before meeting Monet and Renoir in 1866 at the café Guerbois. He will have as a follower, since 1877, Mary Cassatt (1845-1926)

              From 1868, Manet will have as pupils Berthe Morisot (1841-1895), who will become his sister-in-law by marrying his brother Eugen, and Eva Gonzales (1849-1883)

             Caillebotte meets Degas, Monet and Renoir in 1873, and helps them to organize the 1st exhibition of the Impressionist group in 1874, before becoming co-organizer and co-financial of most of the following ones. Manet and Corot decline the invitation to take part in this exhibition

             Gauguin, at his beginnings as a painter, meets Pissarro in 1875 and becomes his pupil, then takes part from 1879 on in the Impressionist shows

             Van Gogh will arrive in Paris in March 1886, where he will discover and integrate Impressionism.

                                               In FIlm & Video

so guys

are you interested in getting your movies out there?
do you wanna share your films, get feedback and meet other filmmakers?
You should submit your shorts to us
We are arranging the coolest Open Screening in the Bay Area.
At the legendary ATA, Artist television Access

 

For you who are not currently making movies or maybe never touched a camera, don’t feel left out… this is a venue for us all…
You can watch the great shorts, hang out, enjoy our refreshments, meet new interesting people and be a part of a night worth to remember.
be prepared to cry, smile and just simply open your mind.

LOVE

Camilla & Luk

 Luk & Camilla

 

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 Camilla & Luk – 415-368-7431 or ataopenscreening@atasite.org

 ATA’s open screening 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