Artists' Television Access Calendar of Screenings and Events http://www.atasite.org/calendar ATA is a nonprofit video gallery in San Francisco's Mission District that hosts screenings of independent, underground, and experimental videos and films, performances, gallery exhibitions of local and emerging artists, and a weekly public access cable show. en-us Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:34:36 GMT web@atasite.org http://www.atasite.org http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition Film Screening - Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 7:30PM 2009-11-10 2009-11-10 ATA Screenings Artists Television Access Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 7:30PM San Francisco, California Dare Not Walk Alone was conceived in 2003 by artist Jeremy Dean while he was living in �America�s oldest [European-settled] city,� Saint Augustine, Florida. When Dean volunteered to restore the stained glass windows in an historically Black church he learned of the events of 1964�protests, beatings, and a campaign of non-violent civil disobedience that led to the passage of the first Civil Rights Act.

This film is an emotional march from past to present combining rarely seen news footage from 1964 with present-day testimony to tell the true story of troubled times in St. Augustine. See African-Americans and their allies put their lives on the line to force the U.S. President to sign the first Civil Rights Act. The film goes on to address the inequalities and oppression that are the daily reality for the Black community and the need for continued struggle. 83min., 2008.

]]> http://www.atasite.org/calendar/?x=4304 http://www.atasite.org/calendar/?x=4304 ATA Screenings Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:06:00 PDT Happiness is a Warm Projector - Thursday, November 12, 2009, 8PM 2009-11-12 2009-11-12 ATA Screenings Artists Television Access Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 8PM San Francisco, California Experiments in Cinema film festival (a Basement Films production - now in it�s 5th year) is designed to bring the international community of cinematic experimentalists to New Mexico and to expand our statewide conversation about movie making to include alternative cinematic histories. That is, As New Mexico imagines it�s future as a new media center, it is our civic responsibility as media makers, educators and movie fans to actively participate in, and help direct this sometimes anemic regional dialogue about all things cinematic. To this end it is the mission of Basement Films and Experiments in Cinema to nurture the next generation of movie makers and media theorists top become informed citizens of the world.

Basement Films travels to ATA to screen an international selection of un-dependent cinema from the first 4 years of Experiments in Cinema. This 75 minute program will feature contemporary experimental, underground and un-dependent films from Germany, Japan, Canada, Russia, Panama, China, South Korea, Spain, and, although no one is truly sure why, Texas!

PROGRAM

God Bless America by Tadasu Takamine, Japan, TRT 9 min, 2002

Gruppenbild Mit Fahne by Nik Kern, Germany, TRT 3 min, 2004

Establishing Shots by Chris McNamara, Canada, TRT 12 min, 2006

Aria by Brooke Alfaro, Panama, TRT 3.5 min, 2005

Graphit Auf Leinwand by Hanni Welter, Germany, TRT 10 min, 2007

Energie by Thorston Fleisch, Germany, TRT 6 min, 2007

Alone by Gerard Friexes Ribera, Spain, TRT 3 min, 2008

No Silvery Song by Karen Hipscher, New Mexico, TRT 3.5 min, 2007

Icon by Chi Jang Yin, China, TRT 4 min, 2006

Let�s Get Married by Mary Magsamen and Stephen Hillerbrand, Texas, TRT 3.5 min, 2008

Dubus by Alexei Dmitiev, Russia, TRT 4 min, 2005

Latent Sorrow by Shon Kim, South Korea, TRT 3.5 min, 2006

Soft Version by Erik Moskowitz, New York, TRT 3.5 min, 2006

Tale of the Sea�s Dream by Ben Popp, New Mexico, TRT 5 min, 2007

Little Clips by Julie Perini, Portland, TRT 1 min, 2007 ]]> http://www.atasite.org/calendar/?x=4288 http://www.atasite.org/calendar/?x=4288 ATA Screenings Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:36:00 PDT OVERLAPPING WORLDS SUN CIRCLE / Films by Paul ClipsonDATE PALMS with filmsELM with video by Jon Parr - Friday, November 13, 2009, 8PM 2009-11-13 2009-11-13 ATA Screenings Artists Television Access Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 8PM San Francisco, California Date Palms is Oakland-based musical duo Marielle Jacobsons and Gregg Kowalsky. Sound artist artist violinist Marielle Jakobsons "creates a dim world where Eastern folk melodies meet damaged textures and desolate atmospheres."-Aquarius "Layered in textures and sound, Jakobsons knows how to weave an immaculate sonic tapestry that is stunning and profound."-Fina. Gregg Kowalsky's compositions range from drone and noise pieces to meditative psychedelia, which are highly influenced by the thick, humid air of South Florida where Gregg lived for most of his life. He is interested in filling the spaces his music occupies through dense, live, multi-channel mixes."- Kranky Kowalsky utilizes...an eclectic array of source material: tape cassettes, sine oscillators, contact mics, bells, bird callers and a computer.- Aquarius "Elm is the solo project of Jon Porras who is half of duo Barn Owl. Porras uses guitars, vocals, harmonium, harmonica, drum and flute combined with a huge amount of talent and imagination to create his own mysterious world. There's a kind of underlying menace and bleakness but there's light shining through with gorgeous tones that I find very uplifting." - Norman Records
"SUN CIRCLE is the duo of Greg Davis and Zach Wallace. Psychoacoustic minimalism meets psychedelic maximalism. Ecstatic high volume drones, long form trance musics and peace noise. Bowed strings, voices, organs, percussion, home-made and world instruments. Greg Davis lives in Burlington, Vermont. He has played shows all over the world with many different people and has released solo and collaborative albums on many different labels, including Carpark Records and Kranky. Zach Wallace lives in Swan Valley, Montana. He performs solo, with Memorize the Sky and SUN CIRCLE and has played with people ranging from Tony Conrad to Anthony Braxton."-On Land Festival

Paul Clipson is a San Francisco-based filmmaker who often collaborates with sound artists and musicians on live performances, films and installations. His work has screened this year at the Rotterdam Film Festival, the Cin�math�que Fran�aise and in the NYFF Views From The Avant Garde program.

]]> http://www.atasite.org/calendar/?x=4316 http://www.atasite.org/calendar/?x=4316 ATA Screenings Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:42:00 PDT Free Form Film Series - Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 8PM 2009-11-18 2009-11-18 ATA Screenings Artists Television Access Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 8PM San Francisco, California Five American nomads "hit the road" in this sprawling 16mm documentary feature.  A beautiful and remarkable love letter to travel.  
Dir: Danielle Lombardi and Brigid McCaffrey 

Additional Films:
Fledgeling - Tony Gault, Elizabeth Henry (Denver, Co)
Faces on Mars - David Borengasser (San Francisco)

CLOSING PERFORMANCE:  Live Performance by Add Oil

]]> http://www.atasite.org/calendar/?x=4305 http://www.atasite.org/calendar/?x=4305 ATA Screenings Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:44:00 PDT OpenScreening - Thursday, November 19, 2009, 7pm Door, 8PM 2009-11-19 2009-11-19 Open Screening Artists Television Access Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 7pm Door, 8PM San Francisco, California

This month's openscreening will explore the following theme: The West We Won

plus a special presentation of:

Heap Us 'Round Our Ruins an Interstate Film Circuit

Experimental/underground filmmakers Ben Balcom and Josh Weissbach will present Heap Us �Round Our Ruins: An Interstate Film Circuit. Both filmmakers differ in their approach and subject matter, but are both unified by an interest in the vitality of the moving image as an experience of communication. With that said, this film program will try to promote connections that speak to each other across these two collections of films.

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

Not a filmmaker? Come and hang out with us anywayEnjoy 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 Katy at ataopenscreening@atasite.org

 

]]> http://www.atasite.org/calendar/?x=4306 http://www.atasite.org/calendar/?x=4306 Open Screening Sat, 17 May 2008 12:14:00 PDT EXHIBICION LUMINOSA - Friday, November 20, 2009, Galley at 12Pm,screening at 7:30 pm 2009-11-20 2009-11-20 ATA Screenings Artists Television Access Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 Galley at 12Pm,screening at 7:30 pm San Francisco, California The potential of light will be explored in a variety of ways at this day-long exhibition and nighttime performances curated by Luis Garcia and Cyrus Tabar. Harnessing the energy of the Sun, ATA goes off the grid by powering the show via solar panel and rechargeable batteries! Enjoy the works of Luca Antonucci, Nick Cope, Luis Garcia, Hailey Loman, Harvey Newman, Kathy Nguyen, Daniel Small and Cyrus Tabar in an open-gallery setting from 12pm-7pm. Then brace yourselves for an evening of optic and sonic mind-melting marvels! Shimomitsu and Softserve�s aural soundscapes push things forward from 7:30pm------

]]> http://www.atasite.org/calendar/?x=4307 http://www.atasite.org/calendar/?x=4307 ATA Screenings Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:18:00 PDT Food for Radical Thought - Sunday, November 22, 2009, 8:00pm, Doors at 7:00pm for pre-show refreshments 2009-11-22 2009-11-22 ATA Screenings Artists Television Access Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 8:00pm, Doors at 7:00pm for pre-show refreshments San Francisco, California Join us for a special evening of food, justice, and sustainability. As part of her whirlwind tour of the San Francisco Bay Area, Lierre Keith, author of The Vegetarian Myth, in conjunction with Artists' Television Access, will present a special selection of films and videos followed by a discussion of the topics in her book.

Plus special presentations by radical locals including the How to Homestead crew.

Locally grown, cured, brewed, and fermented refreshments to be provided.

]]> http://www.atasite.org/calendar/?x=4329 http://www.atasite.org/calendar/?x=4329 ATA Screenings Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:51:00 PST Amanda Curreri: <i>Unfortunate Monument</i> - November 1, 2009 - November 30, 2009, 2009-11-01 2009-11-30 Window Installations Artists Television Access Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 San Francisco, California Beginning with a photograph found in a de-accessioned library book celebrating early Nazi infrastructure (published in Germany, 1934), Unfortunate Monument aims to pull forward a multiplicity of moments embedded in this singular image.

For the ATA Window, a projection of the image, doubled, is paired with German composer Paul Hindemith�s Trauermusik (Mourning Music). Striking in its cartoon-like style, the monument in the photograph gives clues to its origin by way of date, language, and its incriminating crown of shovels. As with all the other images in the de-accessioned book, it is a pristine, two-sided paste-in card with German text on the reverse. This card, in particular, celebrates the completion of the newest German motorway. The final sentence of the text on the card roughly translates: Further Works are in Preparation. Our ominous understanding of the image is connected to our present location in time, as we witnessed these industrious German shovels dig pits for mass graves just a few years after they contributed to modern infrastructure.

Through the quiet, mournful tone of the music coupled with the image projection, Unfortunate Monument aims to reconstruct a new monument in the storefront window on Valencia Street. A temporary monument that speaks to the power of time-construction in collective social histories.

Amanda Curreri is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. Her posi-active body of work is focused on renegotiating the routine ways we understand space and language. She recently received a Joan Mitchell Fellowship and Stipend to attend OxBow�s Artist Residency (MI), and is preparing for her Spring 2010 solo exhibition at Ping Pong Gallery (SF). If you like biscotti, she urges you to participate in an artwork on view at the Brooklyn Historical Society and accessible online at: www.joesbiscottirecipe.blogspot.com.

]]> http://www.atasite.org/calendar/?x=4309 http://www.atasite.org/calendar/?x=4309 Window Installations Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:33:00 PDT