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We show films every Saturday at ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st).
SHOWTIME 8:00pm. ALWAYS FREE BOOKS, VINYL, VHS, AND WINE.
MAR.1: ROURKE's LIVE PERFORMANCE + COLBURN + WHOA! Yes, Other Cinema/ATA is getting back on its feet, and we are super excited to present our season-opener: For our expanded animation show we've compiled an extraordinary selection of pixilated treats from across film history (starting in 1912), a half-dozen of them from exploding Mission art-star Jeremy Rourke!..here in person to musically perform his irresistible stories! Besides the world premiere account of his recent cross-country bike ride, Your Sky Will Be in Bloom, he's unspooling 4 other hand-made works, including an homage to Helen Hill. Setting the stage for his fresh cine-poems is a half-hour opening set of similarly personal works: Len Lye, Mary Ellen Bute, Phillip Stapp, Jordan Belson, and Martha Colburn's new Rats, for Suzanne Vega! PLUS good ol' Gilbert with his homemade Shapeshifters beer!..$12
Here's the NorCal feature premiere from a true indy maker who finally broke out of the LA regime to tell his (our) story--that of neighborhood record-stores and the sub-cultural magick that surrounded them. Wilcha's tragicomic tale of returning to the New Jersey bastion of dangerous music and weirdness—where he worked as a youth before tearing off west for CalArts--reveals a sorry-ass storefront that has fallen into decay and behind the times. His quest to re-capture the special sensibilities of the 70s and 80s eventually expands into an quasi-autobiographical evocation of other unfinished personal obsessions from that same formative period. Ultimately evolving into project-based encounters with later pals Judd Apatow and Ira Cohen, these true stories cohere into a moving meditation on music, work, and the sacrifices made carving out a creative life on the margins of Hollywood. Plus Russ Forster's Califone turntablism $10
MAR. 15: BRIAN DARR IN PERSON: OPUS (n)ONE + WARM SPELLS: MATING RITES + Comes now our first Live A/V show of the season, a hybrid program that carries over the record-store theme from last Sat., but blows up the multi-media aspect into a delirious circus of audiovisual delights. Long-lost critic Brian Darr is back in his SF hometown for one week only, so now is thee time to experience his para-cinematic sound-and-image celebration of the unlikeliest record label of the late 20th Century..a remote Maine launching pad for obscure avant garde composers, best remembered for its wild psychedelic covers. The second half belongs to J. Lee's Warm Spells, a 6-person A/V ensemble using overhead projectors, rear-projection, shadow puppets, and live musical performance, to enact their Pan-Galactic Mating Rites. Opening are playful riffs from lo-fi intermedia, including glasses-less 3-D, jug-whistling, the Trololo Man, and Len Lye's kinetic sculpture. $12
MAR.22: LYNNE SACHS + SCHEDELBAUER + KUC
We've assembled a godsmackin' troika of the most superhumanly gifted women makers of our time, a truly fortuitous curatorial coup that coincides with Sachs' visit to the Bay Area. She is showing a ½ hr. cut from her her new feature project, Every Contact Leaves a Trace, and fielding questions about her intentions and trajectories with this current long-form. AND: Old ATA comrade (relocated to Berlin) Sylvia Schedelbauer finally peeps back up with her 24-min. multi-layered portrait of her mother, also settled in Berlin (from Japan), an astounding feat of family-archive excavation (mostly from S8 color!) that is ever-so-meticulously ordered into a profoundly resonant, and revelatory montage. The third component of this collective debut comes from Kamila Kuc, the formerly London-based cine-artiste who has now moved to the Coast, Her Plot of Blue Sky.This jaw-dropping, never-before-seen penetration of Moroccan women's society and sub-culture (Amazigh)--in fact enabling the women to use cameras(!)--gives voice to a huge marginalized population who are accustomed to being shuttled from forced marriage to prostitution to institutionalized old age dead-ends, by an oppressively patriarchal Arab state. $14<
MAR. 29: SHULEA CHEANG's UKI +This is the radical new one from infamous Taiwanese ex-pat Shulea Cheang, well-known for her sexual-identity politics, her critique of media, her eco-militancy, and her queer visions of the future. Through her revolutionary use of both live-action and game-engine 3-D animation, this outrageously imaginative sci-fi project proposes a dystopian world of 2060, an oppressive wasteland of electronic trash. De-commissioned replicant Reiko struggles to lead other defective humanoids in a gender-fuck rebellion against a corporation that controls society through pleasure-enhancing drugs. Come early for the concluding chapters of Craig Baldwin's kindred speculative-future saga Mock Up On Mu. $10
APR. 5:
Our peripatetic sugar bear/mad meister of Media Re-Mix trundles thru town once again, here to anchor a carnivalesque compendium of lo-fi apparati, with the premiere of 99 Hooker's Incredibly Strange Music Videos - LIVE. His live breaking and re-making of the music-video genre is preceded by a most-curious collection of early audio technologies, including Rich DeLaup's Drum Buddy, Maurice Martenot's Music from the Spheres, and Max Fleischer's synchronous sound animation. The debut of Scott Alexander's Leon Theremin mini-pic echoes Russ Forster's Theremin-busking! But the real elephant in the room–like it or not--is the utterly unprecedented AI hijinx from none other than Damon Packard! Preceded by Tim Johnson's laserdisc riff and Gerry Fialka's PXL Vision exemplar, Damon's love-hate pak from LA is damn impossible to respond to, so surprising are his hyper-vivid visions from this audacious new kind of media. $13
APR. 19: MANNING's PALESTINE REPORT + ARCHIVAL A FIDAI + 
APR. 26: BRECKE IN PERSON: SOMALIA IN THE PICTURE Our own (Bernal Heights) international-doc star-shooter is just in from Rwanda to sneak-peek his long-in-the-making Somalia masterpiece, the utterly epic quest for the lost film culture of that troubled country. Brecke teams up with the Somali director of the most essential film account of the Dervish liberation story at the core of its national identity. Their film-historical interviews generate multiple themes riding a progressively revelatory narrative. Brecke checks in on the current Somali nationals in the Diaspora, all the while—from Mogadishu!--witnessing the production, the destruction, and the determined efforts to finally unearth the crown jewel of 90 years of obscured and obliterated cinema. $14
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