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San Francisco pop band BLAMMOS looks to bring the local independent music community together by exploring and showcasing music videos by other bands, artists and filmmakers, teaming up with the Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival to present the 2nd Annual Bay Area Indie Music Video Festival.  The event will be hosted by BLAMMOS, and will feature the works of unsigned artists from the greater Bay Area.
To submit, your video must be independently produced, under 5 minutes, and sent to blammostheband@yahoo.com via web link no later than July 16th.  All genres are welcome.

Next open screening will be on the july 17th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This time all movies are going to be related to music in a simple or odd way.

 No worries, just submit and come play with us.

Not a filmmaker? Come and hang out with us anyway

WE WILL BE SHOWCASING WORKS BY:

Bleached and Static

http://www.bleachedandstatic.com

http://www.youtube.com/user/BleachedStaticFilms

Amelia Tith

Molly Livingston

+ more!

Also we have two musical guests:

The 12 Year Old Genius
http://www.myspace.com/the12yearoldgenius

Vankmen
http://www.myspace.com/vankmen

& maybe more!!

Enjoy the atmosphere, the art, the movies, the people, the refreshments

Submissions: Label all tapes w/ name, contact, title and length. Mail to: Openscreening, 992 Valencia, SF, 94110 1-2 week advance submissions strongly recommended. If not. . . it is all good. Max length: 15 min. Formats: DVD, miniDV/DVcam, VHS, beta, 8mm and 16mm All genres.

More Info: contact Matt & Richard at ataopenscreening@atasite.org

 ATA’s open screening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area. Get your work out there! Get feedback! Or just come and take it all in! One hour of shorts are accepted monthly on an open revolving basis, anything goes with the screened work, and the refreshments are pretty good too.

$5, FREE admission for contributing artists. Door:7:30pm Projector: 8pm

The Kearneys talk back to Spielberg’s characters

David Larsen

Rodney Koeneke

Tonight’s program is inspired by the work of the katsudo benshi, the Japanese artist of cinematic narration during the silent movie era. Benshis were the actors, writers, and orators who accompanied films live in the theater to explain, voice and comment on the screen action.

In our neo-benshi adaptation of the format for a modern sensibility, each writer/performer takes a film scene, mutes the dialog, then devises a new script (sometimes with sound effects) to interpret, ventriloquize and even sing both with and against the film.  Their performances serve to subvert, amplify and hijack the original visuals.

In addition to several world premieres from local Bay Area artists, we are delighted to have been able to lure three performers from events in Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, where we participated in neo-benshi cabarets over the last year.

The bill features performances by

• Jaime Cortez – Guess Who’s Citing Donor Men?
• Douglas & Nicole Kearney – A Ninja, No Dandies: the Temple of Doom
• Rodney Koeneke – Sprain My Pop
• David Larsen – Anglo Runs
• Cynthia Sailers – A Fan’s Honest Piano
• Erika Staiti & Konrad Steiner- Who’s Virginia Woolf Afraid Of?
• Clive Worsley – Hi Major, Seen John?

Plus some other merriments to be added.

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“Neo-benshi at its best mashes up subversive written scripts, deft acting, and acrobatic mind-eye coordination.”  – Steve Dickison, The Poetry Center, SFSU