Three by Guy Debord
Several films from 1894 from Thomas Edison’s Studio
Four by Gregg Biermann
Images from these films may have been seen by passersby or people waiting across the street in the increasingly drizzly evening.
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
Program:
*Cabin Fever* (Dir. de Sade, 2010)
This short film is a reenactment of the crowded cabin scene from the Marx Brothers’ *A Night at the Opera*. This scene can be seen as metonymic of the figures position as constructing the landscape, while being unsustainable within the landscape. A comedic conceit drives more and more figures into the space of the cabin, delineating it as a place with a function, while simultaneously making this place unusable for its purpose. The narrative conclusion is that these figures must then be expelled in order for the claimed place to exist as such. In this the function of the place is changed to that of a joke.
KIMBA’S CAVE by Kimba Anderson
and many more
A lyrical documentary shot in colour and black and white by Chris Arnold and Isabel Fondevila in 2005 .The movie explores a question Michael Musika asks his third grade students ” if being a creative person means to remain a child in an adult world ?” At the heart of the question, is Michael Musika and his friend Obo Martin and their adventures through San Francisco1s music scene, playing shows in hallways , baroque bars, social séances, and lantern-lit forests. Musika translates the experience to the children as a spooky comic myth. Through fact, fiction, and fairy tale the movie questions the difference between artistic freedom and childhood. Do you have to sell your dreams to make a living?
This full length documentary features musical performances by San Francisco luminaries Sean Hayes, Jolie Holland, Michael Musika, Sleepy Todd and Ara Anderson