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The ATA Festival presents a FREE workshop on experimental film exhibition and distribution hosted by local distributors and filmmakers.

Our workshop and discussion offer insight into the world of experimental film exhibition and distribution. This is a must-attend event for the super-independent and experimentally minded writer/director/editor/producer.

Festival co-director Kelly Pendergast will moderate panel and audience discussions with: Microcinema International founder Joel Bachar; SFcinemateque executive director and filmmaker Jonathan Marlow; filmmaker, curator and Canyon Cinema Board Member Maia Carpenter; filmmaker and Other Cinema founder and programmer Craig Baldwin; and Associate Editor/Producer of Wholphin DVD Magazine Emily Doe.

If you would like to attend, send us an e-mail before October 15 to festival@atasite.org, and reserve a spot!

If there are specific topics you would like to hear discussed at the workshop, please let us know when you e-mail us.

Emerging artist, alicia boal, leads you into an intimate encounter with light in all its diffusions, abstractions and reflections. a seasoned world traveler, she captures the essence of the mundane. Alicia takes her audience on a promenade of color’s dance; the elixir of light, shadow, shape and form in black and white.

4:00 pm PIXIES – GOUGE
Remember the first time you heard the Pixies? After five years and five
albums of their unique combination of surf music, punk rock and 50’s rock
‘n’ roll, the band broke up leaving behind a legacy which influenced a
generation of artists from Nirvana to Radiohead. This documentary
incorporates dynamic Pixies performance footage with interviews from the
likes of Bono, Thom Yorke, Blur, PJ Harvey, Steve Albini and, of course, the
band themselves. Dir. Matt Quinn, England 2001, 50 min.

Preceded by:

RANGE LIFE
Johnny Go’s got a problem. His band’s either on the verge of breaking
through or breaking up. Everything depends on tonight’s show. Dir. Robert
Trondson, USA 2002, 19 min.

1-2-3 FOREVER / CITYCITY BANGBANG
U.S. PREMIERE! Two films, one story and the strangest delivery service
you’ve ever seen. Dir. Gunnar Knutsen, Norway 2002, 20 min.