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Other Cinema’s early April ‘split-ticket’ of “Wavelength Works” initially focuses on the Visible Range, while next Saturday’s attends to the larger electromagnetic spectrum. Among tonight’s repertoire we’ll be treated to an arguably ‘West Coast’ predilection for Light, both electric.. and from paraffin! Here’s a trifecta of optical superstars, each of whom steps up to the challenge of a live expanded cinema performance: Divya Farias and Alex Mejía bring Sleep When The Baby Sleeps, an audiovisual act for film, video, saxophone, and voice. Working in high-contrast rhythms of sound and image, the piece explores sleep not as rest, but as a paradoxical threshold—where exhaustion breeds agitation, memories loop, and the body resists its own release. Fragmented moving images, optical pulses, breath, and saxophone lines spiral between tension and surrender. PLUS: The J Lee Mobile Unit is a daring arrangement of projectors, keyboard, candelabras, and free-hanging mobiles, all synchronized by the ‘Third Hand Collective‘ to enact a marvelously playful sound/shadow-play improv. Jake Scott returns from CalArts with the premiere of his triple-projector How Everything Is Connected as the finale to this program, that also proffers pieces by Francois Miron and Craig Baldwin, so as to provide refreshing visuals between live acts. A Tommy Becker Loopy Overture welcomes all into our Dream Machine pre-show milieu. $14

ATA’s free community film/video show welcomes short format work or (15 min or less) from all genres. An open forum for independent filmmakers to show their work, we hold screenings the first Thursday of the month at 8:00 pm. Entries must be received by 7:00 pm on show night.

Submissions: To submit a digital file, email openscreening@atasite.org. For physical media, label all tapes with name, contact info, title, and length, and mail to: Open Screening, 992 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110. 1–2 weeks advance submissions recommended. If not, just walk in before the show.
Maximum length: 15 min.
Formats: Digital file (PC or Mac), DVD, miniDV/DV-cam, VHS, beta, 8 mm, and 16 mm. For 8 mm and 16 mm films give us advance notice.

Doors at 7:30 pm, show at 8:00 pm, FREE