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  • ATA co presents  LAST MAN IN DHAKA CENTRAL at 3rd i’s annual Film Festival

    ATA co presents  LAST MAN IN DHAKA CENTRAL at 3rd i’s annual Film Festival
    SUNDAY NOV 12TH , 5:00 PM NEW PEOPLE CINEMA, SF
    Filmmaker in Person! Filmmaker Naeem Mohaiemen brings his razor-sharp critique and keen awareness of global politics to the conversation, as he probes Peter Custers, a Dutch journalist who traveled half-way across the world to participate in a left-wing uprising in Bangladesh. With short Abu Ammar is Coming.
    Please use promotional code “cp_2017” when purchasing tickets for this film and receive 20% off an individual $11 ticket (until online sales end on the day of the screening. Online fees not discounted).
     
     

  • ATA co-presents at 3rd i South Asian Film Festival

     Kaul (A Calling)

    Saturday November 12 @ 1:00 pm  (Screening @ Castro Theatre)

    Aadish Keluskar’s bold and innovative “Kaul” can only be described as a truly transformative cinematic experience. Deeply inspired by the films of Tarkovsky and Bela Tarr, and firmly rooted in a Marathi milieu, Keluskar delivers a uniquely visceral film that brings equal measure of the surreal and the sublime.

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    United Red Army (The Young Man Was, Part 1)
    November 13 @ 2:30 pm (Screening @ New People Cinema )
    Skype Q&A with Naeem Mohaiemen!!
    This striking and hypnotic documentary — the first in a trilogy on ultra-left movements — by visual artist Naeem Mohaiemen, reconstructs the hijacking of Japan Air Lines flight 472 at the hands of the Japanese Red Army in 1977, during which the hijackers forced the plane to land in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    Using the original sound recordings and surveillance video from the airport control tower, and a written transcript of the tense and cautious conversation between the hijackers and the hostage negotiator, the captivating and meditative doc presents a blow-by-blow account of the event. Mohaiemen interrupts the negotiations to take a trip back to his own living room, where he followed the events as an eight-year-old, hoping it would end so he could watch his favorite TV show.
    As reviewer Wilson-Goldie (Bidoun) notes, United Red Army “delves further into the unintended damage that violent revolutionary movements wrought, articulating the need to address them critically, skeptically, even generously, but without nostalgia or romance, fascinated but not seduced.”
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  • SF Cinematheque and Gray Area present: Perpetual Motion

    September 16–December 7, 2016
    Gray Area / Grand Theater  2665 Mission Street  San Francisco
    PERPETUAL MOTION
    Perpetual Motionis the most comprehensive convergence of international performance cinema practitioners ever assembled in the Bay Area. Presented over seven evenings September 16–December 7, 2016, with all artists performing in person, this series is curated by San Francisco Cinematheque and will be presented at Gray Area’s historic Grand Theater, located in San Francisco’s Mission District.
    Performance Cinema is an exciting and emergent genre of avant-garde moving-image art which represents a crucial attack on the sterility of the contemporary, digitally-located media environment, advocating for the embodied, collective consideration of real-time, site-specific media experiences. Through mis-used or modified analog film projectors, live video synthesis and physical interaction with the media interface, performance cinema practitioners variously burn, etch, mutilate and destroy projected film, machinery and the image itself. These artists create immersive spectacles of sight and sound, opening a space for questioning and contemplating visual culture through direct activation of the senses. As a dynamic, regenerating and resurrecting media experience, Performance Cinema exists only in the present and is truly an art of its time.

    September 16 | 8pm
    Perpetual Motion, Program One: Dust to Dust
    arc (Oakland) / Jürgen Reble (Germany) / Trinchera Ensamble (Mexico City/Seattle)
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    September 17 | 8pm
    Perpetual Motion, Program Two: Ghosts in the Machines
    Scott Arford (Oakland) / Michael A. Morris (Dallas) / Le Révélateur  (Sabrina Ratté and Roger Tellier-Craig; Montréal)
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    October 11 | 8pm
    Perpetual Motion, Program Three: Ken Jacobs’ Nervous Magic Lantern
    Ken Jacobs (NYC)
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    October 26 | 8pm
    Perpetual Motion, Program Four: Natural Forces
    Beige (Vanessa O’Neill and Kent Long; Richmond) / Keith Evans (Bolinas) / Karl Lemieux (Montréal) + BJ Nilsen (Sweden)
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    November 9 | 8pm
    Perpetual Motion, Program Five: Spectres
    John Davis (Vallejo) / Kerry Laitala (San Francisco) + Voicehandler (Norway/Oakland) / Raha Raissnia (Tehran/Brooklyn) + Panagiotis Mavridis (Greece/Brooklyn)
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    November 22 | 8pm
    Perpetual Motion, Program Six: Birth / Death / Resurrection
    Malic Amalya + Nathan Hill (Oakland) / Sally Golding (Australia/UK) / Hangjun Lee (Seoul) + Jerome Noetinger (Grenoble)
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    December 7 | 8pm
    Perpetual Motion, Program Seven: Cinema of Confrontation / The End
    Bruce McClure (Brooklyn) / Greg Pope (UK/Norway) + Sult (Norway/Oakland)
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    Perpetual Motion is a presentation of San Francisco Cinematheque in partnership with Gray Area and is supported by generous funding from the Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund/Grants for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, Zellerbach Family Foundation and by generous donations from Cinematheque’s individual donors and members.