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Screenings and performances:

The work in “intervals” seeks to explore the pauses, the durations and the spaces in between the things that make up the structure of our lives. In our contemporary world where time has been unduly compressed into work schedules, advertising, newsclips and entertainment-induced attention spans, the artists in “intervals” have chosen to focus on the places and moments where seemingly nothing is happening. But, we’re asking you to look again…

Film/video screenings and performances:

Program I: Thursday, October 16, 8pm and Friday, November 21, 8pm

Yin-Ju Chen, “Untitled_03”, video
Howie Cherman, TV spots for “Formal Engagement”, video
Stan Douglas, “Monodramas”, video
Gilbert Guerrero, “Gilbert Performs a Film About Two People Sitting on a Park Bench or Brujería, con una Pelicula Robado del Teatro de Díos”, film/sound performance
Charles Gute, “Untitled”, video
Lindsay Ljungkull, “Scenes As A Film”, super-8 transfer
Norman Long (on Oct. 16) sound performance
Norman Long, Charles Boone and friends (on Nov. 21), sound performance
Mechele Manno, “Appointment with Tom Marioni”, video
Mike Missiaen, “Untitled”, super-8 film
Jo Nigoghossian, “running from, running to, pulling over to piss or the sublime”, video
Sarah Vogwill, “Electric Time”, super-8 transfer
Lee Walton, “A somersault at the midpoint between my coffee table and my favorite bookstore”, video

Program II: Friday, October 17, 8pm

Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days starring Rosaleen Linehan and Richard Johnson, filmed in 2001 by Patricia Rozema for the Beckett On Film series (Blue Angel Films)

4 American Composers: John Cage, filmed by Peter Greenaway in 1983 for Channel Four Television/Transatlantic Films

Flour Arrangement (a Bruce Nauman performance), a project by Bill Allan, 1969

Take a peek into the lives of a host of characters in this series of shorts set in Australia, Bosnia, Vietnam, Lebanon, Africa, the US and more. These funny, heart wrenching and touching films are meticulously crafted portraits of people both real and fictional.

Local maker Thanh Diep uses animation to explore her experiences as a Vietnamese-American woman living with Cerebral Palsy in Thanh. Caroline Leaf’s Academy Award nominated film The Street, follows a young boy as he waits impatiently for his grandmother to die so he can get his bedroom back. Leaf painted directly onto glass to create a somber yet humorous story of life and death. Suit Yourself by Mandy Ord is a darkly comic portrait of the fictional character Raymond. With his edible suits and “everyman” face masks Raymond tries his best to fit in. If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home By Now Diane Bonder uses text “ripped from the headlines” of a small town newspaper in Western Massachusetts to reveal a battle over public versus private space. Incorporating documentary strategies and landscape photography, this humorously insightful film tells a story of this struggle land use, property and ownership. Riva (N. CA Premiere) by Tamara Tracz is a hand processed portrait of one woman’s tumultuous life. As a Communist Jew Riva was forced to flee Palestine to escape persecution and torture. Riva moved on to Serbia where she had a family and began to write children’s books. Now, at age 90, she has returned to where she began, to the country that has become Israel. Throughout her life the spunky Riva maintains her political fervor and her interest in education. Finally, The United Dondi’s by Joann Berman uses animation to take a look at Puerto Rican communities in New York City.

For more info,
MadCat Film Festival
www.somaglow.com/madcat
415 436-9523

Archimedia: New Workshop Series at ATA!

Instructors are an internationally exhibited design/research team, Archimedia,(award winning filmmaker David Cox and media artist/writer Molly Hankwitz) offering an array of experimental workshops on the creative use of and exploration of mobile, portable and networked tools is being offered at ATA starting March 28th to June 20th. All courses run four hours, 1pm to 5pm and are held on Saturdays. Cost is

$40.00 per workshop unless otherwise noted. Interested students are asked to bring their own equipment: laptop, cell phone, digital cameras and camcorders, gaming devices, electronic “toys”, power cords, batteries, etc. In the interests of appealing to those who do not own many gadgets but want to get started, some equipment may be provided or shared. All levels welcome! Bring tools you most want to work with. Wi fi enabled tools are encouraged and there is wi fi at ATA. Courses will be open until filled.

Standard fees:

$40 one class

$60 two classes

$80 three classes

Registration is non refundable and is confirmed by advance payment in full by check or money order with a note or email stating your preferred classes and dates. Please include a list of what you intend to work with, and what you are interested in working on.

Checks should be made out to: Molly Hankwitz/Archimedia and mailed to:
3288 21st Street, #28, SF CA, 94110. Please no returned items.

Questions? Drop an email with your information to archimedia.workshops@gmail.com. All classes are held at Artists Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, SF CA 94110. Confirm registration by email or check in mail to the above address. Note: ATA is not set up to take calls re: Archimedia workshops.

Please contact us: archimedia.workshops@gmail.com
or call at 415 401 5227, or 415 283 7757 (cells)

Course dates may be subject to change.

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UNTRAIN YOUR BRAIN – TAKE UP A TACTICAL MEDIA WORKSHOP!!!!

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Saturday 3/28 and 5/16 — MEDIA PRODUCTION FOR CELL PHONES AND SMALL DEVICES BOTH ANALOGUE AND DIGITAL Learn to make mini movies using what you have – use old camcorders, old webcams, new phone cams, and other types of cameras to make films. Work around the limits of small screens, limited frame rates, limits of storage and battery time. Improvise tripods and other stabilization devices made from ordinary objects and learn production techniques for the small screen. Put your cell phone video into a form you can edit digitally. Bring your own tools or works in progress.

$40 per student. Limited to 8 participants.

Info: http://www.atasite.org/archimedia/