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OPEN SCREENING

See fresh perspectives and formula shattering techniques in film and video
art from the Bay Area and beyond! Open Screening accepts one hour of shorts every month on an open revolving basis. Live local bands open every show, and the refreshments are darn good.
We have a few minutes open due to a last minute reschedule, so send ’em in!

FREE admission for exhibitors

7pm: Door/Bar
7:30: A/V Collission
8pm: Projector

PROGRAM (to date):

John Tunui’s documentary “Remembering Harvey Milk and George Moscone 25 Years Later”,”Spies Not US” directed by John Ray, Jamie Atherton’s “Soft Green Road”, Mike Missiaen, “Usu As A Work” by Michael Mantra, and surprise guests!

OS Submission Info:
* Cue and label all tapes w/ name, contact, title and length.
* Mail dubs to: “openscreening”, 992 Valencia, SF, 94110
* 1-2 week advance submissions strongly recommended
* Email inquiries do not guarantee a space. Tapes do
* Max trt: 20m
* DVD, miniDV/DVcam, sVHS, sm beta, 8mm and 16mm
* All genres. Student, “in progress”, and segments welcome
* Info: contact meg @ openscreening@hotmail.com

NEXT SHOW: Friday, July 23rd, 2004.

 

CUNextTuesday Media is a new all-women’s media collective, collaborating on radical media for and about women.  They are currently raising funds to benefit beginning and continued production of several documentaries, including one on women in prison, one on radical women in today’s political culture and one on the crisis inPalestine.  

tonight’s program:

* Adbuster’s latest video magazine  (www.adbusters.org) – 15 min.

* “Born In Flames” – 90 min.

This film has been named as one of the best American independent films

ever made. Director, and lesbian feminist, Lizzie Borden, brings forth a

vision of a dystopic futuristic society brought low by a group of women

who topple the state-run media estate.   (Hell, yeah!)  Set in New York

City, the story begins ten years after a revolution that has been won by

socialists.  The result is that most of the fringe radical movements, led

by minorities, liberals, gay rights organizations, and feminists, are

being made even more powerless by the new male dominant regime.  This is

when the group of women decides to mobilize and take the revolution

forward beyond all expectations as they forge their own liberation.  Among

the group are the black and beautiful Honey, a presenter for the radio,

and the vivacious Isabel (Adele Berti) who is also a performer for the

metropolis’s futuristic radio station.  Pirate radio, radical women and

revolution – who could ask for more!