Category: events

  • OC: ISM2; THE DE-EVOLUTION BAND!

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    RARE SPUD NUGGETS FROM THE VAULTS OF DEVO +

    As we all know, DEVO is the smartest band in the universe, born out of the 1970 Kent State anti-war turmoil. Considering themselves artists and filmmakers as much as a musical “band”, DEVO took their subversive art all the way to unlikely pop stardom, and piled their measly  PR budgets into their films and videos. It is a super lucky coincidence that the laboratory elements of their early music-films and videos are now under the fastidious care of our dear collaborator who happens to live across the Bay, Peter Conheim!  Archivist/historian Conheim has been excavating nuggets from the vast vaults of the legendary group for 10 years, and this program will feature sparkling new restorations of some of their seminal titles (Whip It, The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprize, Duty Now For the Future, etc.), and take us through a journey of never-or-seldom seen archival spud wazz. See the hapless record industry reckon with the provocateurs in their midst, flummoxed journalists, insane live footage from the earliest days in Akron dive bars, Max ‘Kansas City, and much more! Special Surprize Guest TBA, and Gilbert‘s beer on tap!
    **Note Two Showtimes** 7PM, 9PM   $16

  • Studio 26

    Fantom Classroom of the Art Institute

    A free seminar, investigating the 16mm experimental films in the collection of the SFAI Legacy Foundation and Archives.

    doors 7, films 7:30

  • Rosie Reed Hillman’s Something That Was Ours

    ATA welcomes visiting filmmaker Rosie Reed Hillman for a screening of her new film, Something That Was Ours.Following the lives of women carving their own paths as witches and healers, this multi-character portrait forms a cinematic impression of women’s survival, considering the capacity of magic to transform and transport. Rosie Reed Hillman presents her project ‘Something That Was Ours’ compiled over four years across the UK and Ireland, with a specially edited short of this feature documentary in progress. 

    About the artist
    Rosie Reed Hillman is an award-winning UK photographer, filmmaker and visual anthropologist. Her work explores feminist themes around identity and place, particularly around women’s life cycle changes and everyday lives. Rosie is lecturer in filmmaking at Manchester School of Art, UK.
    Q&A with Rosie Reed Hillman after the screening.