4th Annual ATA Film & Video Festival

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My Tears Are Dry (Laida Lertxundi, 2009)Artists' Television Access has announced the full programme of its 4th Annual ATA Film & Video Festival, to be held next October 21-23 in San Francisco. Three days full of activities including an interesting workshop on experimental film distribution and exhibition, gallery installations and two programmes of experimental film from local and international filmmakers, such as Paul Clipson, Kerry Laitala, Tommy Becker, Maarit Suomi-Väänänen, Chris Kennedy, Laida Lertxundi and Martha Colburn.
Complete information available at the festival's website.

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 [email protected], 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)

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