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Animation and experimental film cut to the heart of things in a way live action often forgets how to do. With abstraction, beauty and emotion can be expressed more simply and more directly than what we’ve come to expect from the standard narrative. In animation, Instead of a million years of inherited facial response, we have the language of dreams. Experimental film uses similar abstraction, boiling down a concept to a series of events. Both allow for the creation of context that helps communicate ideas outside of the mainstream dialog. Machine tree hopes to give light to these potentials within animation and experimental film. Instead of endeavoring to simulate reality more and more accurately, we intend to remind ourselves of the necessity of unreality, the horror of raw perception, the wonder we all share at stories told in their rawest, purest form. The show will run 1 hour and 15 minutes. There will be an intermission and refreshments will be available.

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In 2005, in an effort to improve its image for the nationwide attention brought to the city by the hosting of the 2006 Super Bowl, the city of Detroit began demolishing long-vacant buildings, hastening the natural slow decay caused by decades of industrial collapse. As the city dismantles itself, clues to its past resurface. Collections of scraps sifted from rubble—an archeology of unanswered questions—combine to tell a surrogate narrative filled with missing pieces and forgotten motives, old letters, photographs, and home movies. Fractured moments occurring on one summer day, maybe two, echo events from thirty years earlier. The day is sunny, but it is humid, and clouds are gathering. It is going to rain. 84 min, Super 8/DV, 2007. 

<p><strong><font style=”BACKGROUND-COLOR: #000000″ color=”#ffffff”>Next open screening will be on&nbsp;August 16th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</font></strong></p>
<p><strong><font style=”BACKGROUND-COLOR: #000000″ color=”#ffffff”>&nbsp;On the Road, Ladies and Gents. </font></strong></p>
<p><strong><font style=”BACKGROUND-COLOR: #000000″ color=”#ffffff”>Have You ever been on the road?</font></strong></p>
<p><strong><font style=”BACKGROUND-COLOR: #000000″ color=”#ffffff”>&nbsp;Have You ever seen the road? </font></strong></p>
<p><strong><font style=”BACKGROUND-COLOR: #000000″ color=”#ffffff”>Shoot Your experience. Express Your way.</font></strong></p>
<p><strong><font style=”BACKGROUND-COLOR: #33ff00″><font style=”BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff”>&nbsp;Bring it to us and let us all go… under or through.</font></font></strong></p>
<p><strong>Just submit Your film and come play with us. Not a filmmaker? </strong></p>
<p><strong>Come and hang out with us anyway.&nbsp;&nbsp;M<span style=”FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: ‘Times New Roman’; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA”>eet up with local filmmakers, make a&nbsp;connections, let’s create together. </span>Enjoy the atmosphere, the gallery,&nbsp;the movies, the people, the refreshments. </strong></p>
<p><strong>LOVE Camilla &amp; Luk </strong></p>
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<p>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’s all good. </p>
<p>Max length: 15 min. Formats: DVD, miniDV/DVcam, VHS, beta, 8mm and 16mm All genres. More Info: contact Camilla &amp; Luk -;415-368-7431 or ataopenscreening@atasite.org ATA’s open screening is the&nbsp;Biggest 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 &lt; </p>