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  • OpenScreening

    Support underground film

    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

    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 Matt & Richard at ataopenscreening@atasite.org

     

  • ATA 2007 Film & Video Festival Opening Night Party

    ILLUMINATIONS
    ILLUMINATIONS (Paul Clipson, 2007)

    x ATA Film Festival Poster 2007 (thumbnail 150px)

    Come join us for a night of music and film – celebrating the start of the 2nd Annual Film & Video Festival! Featuring: Illuminations, a Super 8 film by Paul Clipson with Live Music by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and the Full Moon Ceremony featuring Tony Gross, Mareille Jakobsons & Gregg Kowalsky (film at 8:30pm – approximately 30 minutes). Plus: An eclectic music selection by dj_spaceinvader & Niles of mk2 reality enhancement systems. Doors at 7:30/

    $5

    ATA Film and Video Festival website

  • Exquisite Corpse

    Nine different sequences began with nine artists making a short video. Changing hands each time, a 2nd, 3rd and 4th video were made, each in response to whatever preceded it. Based on a game the Surrealists named “Exquisite Corpse”, what follows presents nine unique video collaborations.

     

    Project Co-ordinator – Rachel Cornish

    Nine Artists – Charlotte Bernstein, Eileeen Bonner, Rachel Cornish, Rachel Dobbs, Sally Irvine, Liliana Lopez, Stormsmith Nomi, Fritz Stolberg, Teresa Whiting

     2004, England, 80 min

     

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    Gaza, 2003
    A video installation, by Larissa Sansour. Military helicopters are filmed from the ground while in flight. The footage is interjected by black tape and the whole piece is projected . Every thirty seconds the loud sound of an approaching helicopter is followed by the sky opening above the specators’ head  to reveal a helicopter speeding by at low altitude. Gaza is meant to evoke the experience of Palestinians on the ground.  The repeated alternation between black tape and open sky creates a tense atmosphere. The termination of an aerial attack is never really a relief, It is just the point at which you start fearing the next one. time 3.59

     

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    Videoclip, 2001
    “happy new everything” by Andreas Templin
    time: 3:09
    artist unknown

    Plus other Video Installations.

     

    The 2005 Bayennale is slated to take place in over 40 venues throughout the Bay Area July 22- August 7, 2005. The festival was instigated by California artist Lowell Darling and London artist Bill Allen, and has been organized by a volunteer committee comprised of Port of Oakland Public Art Committee (PAC) coordinator Geoff Dorn, PAC members Gregory Wiley Edwards, Jen Loy and Juan Carlos Quintana, BorderZone Arts’ Tressa Berman, and Oakland Cultural Affairs Commissioner Devin Satterfield, under the direction of Elisabeth Beaird.

     

    info:   http://www.bayennale.com