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  • Mission Creek Music Festival Film Night

    Program:

    “Music for Adults,”
    An Oxbow documentary, Christian Anthony, Dir.

    Selected Moments of “Burn My Eye “
    Virgil Porter Dir.

    “Meet the Thinking Fellers Union”
    Gibbs Chapman,Dir.

  • Short Shorts

    Short videos by San Francisco Art Institute Alumni

    Indulge your fetish for the avant-garde and the retro-garde.

     

     

     “Cum Shots and Field Goals”

    By Michelle Silva , TRT: 5 min.

     

    From 16mm found footage of 1970’s porn and of the wholesome, masculine pastime of contact sports, comes the sweaty stench of victory, climax and boredom.

     

     “BUMS”

    By Michelle Silva , TRT: 4 min.

     

    A cast of pathetic, toothless boozers and the blatant crack dealers of 6th andHoward Street.

     

     “Leni Riefenstahl: The woman behind the Reich”

    Artist: Todd Daniel, TRT: 8:00

     

    A Lego documentary chronicling the life and art of the nazi-filmmaker, focusing on her Olympic opus, Olympia.

    Format: DV (Originally shot with Logitech web cam and then extensively re-photographed over and over again.)

     

     

    Afraid of Virginia Who’s Wolf (T, U, V).

    By Brendan Lott, miniDV.  8 min.2003.

     

    A beautiful classic compulsive disorder dysfunction gets grinding into makeover marital meditation Mike Nichols’ obsessive of on.

     

    “I Made Out for Peace, Bush Can Kiss My Ass”

    By Automme Zigg, miniDV, TRT: 5 minutes

     

    A short documentary about when the people of San

    Francisco got together to make out! Not war!

     

     “Amor Peligrosa”

    By Michelle Silva, TRT: 2 min. 30 sec.

     

    A love story of two skeletons who take part in earthly, human desire and eternal love, falling to rest in peace in their “his” and “hers” grave plots.

     

     “Nostalgia”

    By Diana Nucera , miniDV, TRT: 1.30 minutes

     

    The perfect moment of love that can only be found in

    the air.

     

     

     

     “Cover Girls”

    By Diana Nucera , TRT: 5 min

     

    A flash dance to the past bringing out all the

    skeletons in the 80’s closet.

     

    Film by John Palmer to be announced

     

     

     

  • OpenScreening

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    AN hour of uncensored underground video by local artists, fourth Fridays at ATA.

    May 2003 PROGRAM:
    includes:
    …..”Gardening At Night”, an “ambiguous neterotopia” by Norman W. Long.
    …..”Geografia del Cuerpo”, emotional spilunking by Arias and Aragon.
    …..”Political Interlude”, by Action Point Network.
    …..”Decision 80″, a forboding return to the Carter/Reagan election of 1980 by Jim Finn.
    …..and mystery guests!

    SUBMISSION
    House Rules:
    * 20 mins or less
    * miniDV/DVcam, VHS, s-video, 16 and 8mm film (byo projector)
    * Cued and Labeled DUBS.
    * any genre (in progress and excerpts ok)
    * Deadline: 7pm shownight OR when 60mins total recieved.
    (1-2 week advance submission recommended)
    * to: c/o meg/openscreening, ATA, 992 Valencia SF, CA 94109

    7pm:  door/drinks/schmoozing
    8pm-ish: projector rolls for an hour or so
    10pm: take the party outside!

    audience,

    $4
    artists, FREE
    refreshments,

    $donation

    INFO:
    Contact: meg at openscreening@homtail.com OR 415.788.0912×3
    Future Shows:
    June 27th & July 25th (and 4th Fridays monthly @ ATA)