
Artists' Television Access
Weekly Newsletter
Coming Up This Month
Thursday, June 26, 2025, 8:00 pm, classic-editor
An evening with Jeremy Rourke
With his characteristic wit and endearing charisma, , guitar in hand, will sing us through a selection of recently-made live cinema performance: a stop-motion bicycle tour from NYC to San Francisco, a puppet with a head made of autumn leaves, hot air balloons illuminated at dawn like film in a projector. Music and stories conjure the on-screen animations while simultaneously, the earth rolls through space like the rear wheel of a penny farthing. Also Cheap drinks &16mm films!
Door 7:30, Show 8
PayWhatYouLike
Friday, June 27, 2025, 8:00 pm, classic-editor
Anti-Fascist Film Series: April Captains
Five INSPIRING Films of People Power and Democracy Overthrowing Fascism, June 27 – August 1
April Captains tells the story of Portugal’s 1974 Carnation Revolution, when junior officers, tired of colonial wars and
authoritarianism, led a coup that ended decades of fascist rule and restored democracy with massive popular support. (Portugal 2000)
Saturday, June 28, 2025, 2:00 pm, classic-editor
3rd i films: Burqa Boxers
FREE – seating is limited.
Register for free tickets
In this documentary in Kolkata, India, where marriage is considered the ultimate feminine career fulfillment, four young Muslim women challenge stereotypes by learning to box with one of India’s first female boxing coaches. As they train, the women negotiate poverty, battle tradition and learn to confront fear.
The screening is free, but please support New Light, a nonprofit in Kolkata, India, featured in the documentary, dedicated to providing a safe haven for the children of sex workers. Your donations will help them continue their comprehensive community services. https://www.paypal.com/us/fundraiser/charity/2817738
Alka Raghuram, director of Burqa Boxers, is an award-winning filmmaker and a multidisciplinary artist. She has made several fiction, experimental, and documentary films. She was awarded the L’Oreal Woman of Worth Filmmaker Award for her script The Conqueror at Tribeca All Access. Her script Ayna was a finalist at the Sundance Screenwriters Lab. Alka frequently collaborates with other artists to create narrative performances and installations. Some of her collaborations include “Yatra” with Kathak and Flamenco dancers Pandit Chitresh Das and Antonio Hidalgo Paz; “Agni” with choreographer Charlotte Moraga and musician Alam Khan, and a photo, video and art installation Inspired by Burqa Boxers at the Locarno Film Festival. She recently received Creative Work Fund for a multimedia project called “Invoking The River” about the river Yamuna’s mythological significance and its environmental degradation in collaboration with Chitresh Das Institute of dance.
WINNER – Locarno Film Festival, co-production market top prize: Grant Open Doors
WINNER – Westlake International Documentary Festival, IDF Forum: Director of the Year
Sunday, June 29, 2025, 2:00 pm, classic-editor
Workshop: 16mm Hand Processing
Can’t afford to work in analog because of the exorbitant prices for film and processing? Learn to process your film and skip the lab fees. This workshop will go over the basics of black and white 16mm film processing. The fee for this event is $40 (cash only). This workshop is limited to the first six people.
Monday, June 30, 2025, 7:30 pm, classic-editor
Rewards Program
An improvisational music project featuring Miles Lassi, Zekarias Thompson, and Skyway Man set to expanded cinema 16mm and 35mm slide projections by Ellie Vanderlip.
different ensembles ranging from the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall to national broadway tours like Ain’t Too Proud, Dirty Dancing, and Tina: The Tina Turner Musical. Miles is dedicated to creating new media and has done so at the New York Film Festival, Lincoln Center, Apollo Theater, deYoung Museum, Joyce Theater, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, A.C.T., SXSW and Snap Studios/KQED.
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.