Artists' Television Access acaba de anunciar el prgorama de su 4º Annual ATA Film & Video Festival, que se celebrará los próximos 21 a 23 de Octubre en San Francisco. Tres días repletos de actividades, incluyendo un interesante taller sobre distribución y proyección de cine experimental, diversas instalaciones y dos programas de cine experimental de cineastas locales e internacionales, entre los que destacan Paul Clipson, Kerry Laitala, Tommy Becker, Maarit Suomi-Väänänen, Chris Kennedy, Laida Lertxundi y Martha Colburn.
Más información disponible en la web del festival.
Workshop
Wednesday, October 21, 2009. 7:30 pm free
Distribution Workshop/Panel Discussion
The ATA Festival presents a free workshop on experimental film exhibition and distribution hosted by local distributors and filmmakers. Our workshop and discussion offer insight into the world of experimental film exhibition and distribution. This is a must-attend event for the super-independent and experimentally minded writer/director/editor/producer.
Festival co-director Kelly Pendergast will moderate panel and audience discussions with: Microcinema International founder Joel Bachar; SFcinemateque executive director and filmmaker Jonathan Marlow; filmmaker, curator and Canyon Cinema Board Member Maia Carpenter; filmmaker and Other Cinema founder and programmer Craig Baldwin; and Associate Editor/Producer of Wholphin DVD Magazine Emily Doe.
If you would like to attend, send us an e-mail before October 15 to festival@atasite.org, and reserve a spot! If there are specific topics you would like to hear discussed at the workshop, please let us know when you e-mail us.
Film programmes
Thursday, October 22, 2009. 7:30 pm $7-$10
Specters & Machines
Followed by musical performance and announcement of ATA Audience Award.
- The Salariat in Parts (Zachary Epcar, 2009, 11:18, 16mm/DV, San Francisco, CA
- Diatribe (Ben Popp, 2009, 2:07, 16mm, Portland, OR)
- Breathe (Sam Barnett (in person), 2009, 5:24, Animation, Berkeley, CA)
- Up And About Again (Maarit Suomi-Väänänen, 2009, 9:49, S16mm, Finland)
- Passage Briare (Friedl vom Groller, 2009, 3:00, 16mm, Germany)
- Patrolling The Ether (Carl Diehl, 2009, 7:00, miniDV, Portland, OR)
- Elro (Ariel Diaz (in person), 2009, 3:52, miniDV, San Francisco, CA)
- Spectrology (Kerry Laitala (in person), 2009, 11:00, 16mm, San Francisco, CA)
Friday, October 23, 2009. 7:30 pm $7-$10
Stories We Tell Ourselves
Followed by musical performance by Pissy and announcement of ATA Audience Award.
- A Poem to be Read into a Flashlight with a Microphone Placed Above the Breast of a Pregnant Mother (Tommy Becker (in person), 2009, 2:50, DV, San Francisco, CA)
- To Be Regained (Zach Iannazzi (in person), 2009, 10:00, 16mm, Williamsburg, MA)
- The Acrobat (Chris Kennedy - 2007, 6:00, 16mm, Canada/USA)
- Naomi & Irving (Laura Bouza (in person), 2007, 4:00, 16mm/miniDV, Los Angeles, CA)
- Spaghettidog (Elham Rokni, 2006, 5:32, miniDV, Israel)
- Destination Finale (Philip Widmann, 2008, 9:15, 8mm, Germany)
- My Tears Are Dry (Laida Lertxundi, 2009, English, 16mm, Spain/USA)
- Myth Labs (Martha Colburn, 2008, 7:30, DVcam, Netherlands/USA)
- Chorus (Paul Clipson (in person), 2009, 7:00, S8mm, San Francisco, CA)
Installations
October 3, 2009 - October 31, 2009.
Window Installation
- The Scorpion and the Frog (Ben T. Brown, 2009, HD, New York, New York, USA)
- - --opened eye, closed i - i closed, eye opened-- (Jeejung Kim, 2009, 5:10, HD, Tuscon, AZ, USA)
- Afternoon Dream (Jim Granato, 2009, 4:00, super8, San Francisco, CA, USA)
- Ich bin ein junger Hupfer (Anna Geyer, 2008, 8:00, 16mm, San Francisco, CA, USA)
- Numbers (Yin-Ling Chen, 2007, 3:08, super 8, London, UK)
- So Much Water So Close to Home (Matthew Kluber, 2008, 2:20, DV, USA)
- Dollar Portrait (Matthew Perino, 2007, 5:00, 16mm, Boulder, CO, USA)
- mercy - oh, MERCY! - mercenaries (Alex Moeller, 2009, 9:15, DV, Iowa City, USA)
October 22, 2009 - October 23, 2009.
Gallery Installations
- Gaze (Mary Franck, 2009, USA)
- Trace (Rebecca Najdowski, 2009, 3:25, DV, San Francisco, USA)