Artists' Television Access
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Saturday, October 25, 2025, 2:00 pm, classic-editor, {{unknown}}
CINE+MAS: The Young & The Dramatic Shorts
https://cinemas17.eventive.org/schedule/the-young-the-dramatic-shorts-68dc2dbfae7971335d6dfdd3
Prepare for an afternoon of emotional depth and contemporary struggle. This powerful shorts program explores the collision of tradition and modernity, testing the resilience of its characters. In “Barrio,” a recent college graduate fights to save her aunt’s beloved Mexican bakery from the creeping shadow of gentrification in Portland. Then there’s “Shelf Life” from Brazil, where an unemployed, pregnant ER nurse must confront the sudden chaos in her personal life after her hospital abruptly shuts down. The lineup also features stories of personal liberation and overcoming grief, including “The Mourning Of,” where a woman processes the loss of her mother in the most unusual way—by attending strangers’ funerals.
Saturday, October 25, 2025, 8:00 pm, classic-editor
OC: BODY MODIFICATION
ANGELO MADSEN: A BODY TO LIVE IN
Arguably America’s most prominent trans maker, Angelo (North by Current) Madsen has placed their West Coast theatrical premiere here in thee feisty microcinema that, for almost four decades now, has stood up for queer empowerment, sex-worker rights, and the Modern Primitive movement. In fact, ReSearch‘s V Vale, Paul King, and Cleo Dubois–widow of the subject of tonight’s doc–are all on hand tonight to introduce Madsen‘s masterwork, a feature-length exploration of the huge human community who find erotic, psychic, and spiritual satisfaction in binding, piercing, and tattooing their bodies as they please…a subculture aptly represented by the life and career of recently deceased Fakir Musafar. Dubois gave Madsen free rein to bring to light more than a hundred hours of previously unseen recordings, to be stitched together with Musafar‘s stunning photographs and the voices of performance artists Annie Sprinkle and Ron Athey. While Madsen‘s provocative profile questions assumptions about “masculine/feminine”, and considers issues of BDSM control and consent, it also acknowledges the complexity of other ethical issues surrounding the practices, faces the charges of (Native) cultural appropriation, and forces audiences to think critically about the line(s) between free individual expression and reckless self-harm. $13
Monday, October 27, 2025, 7:00 pm, classic-editor
Rewards Program
A three-projector celluloid meditation live-scored by improvisational trio Rewards Program, on the passage through the veil and 20th century terrors.
Wednesday, October 29, 2025, 6:30 pm, classic-editor, {{unknown}}
CINE+MAS: The Most Beautiful Deaths in the World
Don’t miss this poignant feature-length documentary, “Las Muertes Más Bellas del Mundo” (The Most Beautiful Deaths in the World). Directors Quique Aviles and Ellie Walton follow the journey of five artists whose families fled El Salvador’s brutal civil war in the 1980s. The film is an intimate look at how these Salvadoran-Wachintonian artists—including a poet, a dancer, and musicians—have transformed generational trauma into beautiful, powerful art. This is a story of healing, identity, and the enduring power of community.
Thursday, October 30, 2025, 6:30 pm, classic-editor, {{unknown}}
CINE+MAS: Own Hand
https://cinemas17.eventive.org/schedule/own-hand-68da67dcf73c82176c5b666c
The festival delivers a jolt of pure drama with the feature film “Own Hand” from Bolivia. Based on a terrifying real event from 2013, this tense narrative interweaves three desperate perspectives: a prosecutor racing to prevent the lynching of five unjustly accused young people, the father trying to save his sons from a mob, and one of the victims fighting for his life. It’s a powerful, relentless story about injustice and survival.
Friday, October 31, 2025, 7:15 pm, classic-editor, {{unknown}}
CINE+MAS: Darker Side of Life Shorts
https://cinemas17.eventive.org/schedule/darker-side-of-life-shorts-68d4f73514cd99cbf39dbc4d
Close out the month with a terrifying lineup perfect for Halloween night! “Darker Side of Life Shorts” offers bite-sized doses of suspense, fantasy, and horror that will leave you wondering how the filmmakers even conceived of these stories. The program features films like Mexico’s “Blind Spots,” an accidental injury during a golf lesson that leads to a horrifying consequence, and the unsettling Brazilian fantasy “Gira,” where a Black policeman’s encounter with a mysterious wanderer brings a touch of magic to Rio’s “Little Africa” zone. Plus, stick around for a Q&A with some of the talented filmmakers!
About Artists' Television Access
Artists' Television Access is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) artist-run
screening venue and gallery located in the heart of San Francisco's Mission
District. ATA is supported in part by Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel
Tax Fund, The Christensen Fund, individuals members, donors and volunteers.
CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA: Join ATA as a member and receive exciting gifts, including the 2008 DVD compilation, T-shirts, and free admission to screenings and more! Artists on the 2008 DVD compilation include: Yin-Ju Chen, Mike Rollo, Marthaxiv, Sam Manera, Wago Kreider, Federico Campanale, Paul Clipson and Carl Diehl. http://www.atasite.org/membership/
How to Reach Us:
Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia Street (at 21st)
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 824-3890
ata@atasite.org
Gallery is open before and after screenings for viewing.
Screenings start at 8pm unless otherwise noted.
Directions: Take Bart to 24th Street Mission. Walk 1 block east to Valencia and 3 blocks north. ATA is located between 21st and 20th Streets.