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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.
SEPT. 6: BALDWIN's 222 LAUNCH-16MM INDUSTRIAL ANOMALIES Well hello!! OC is back, jes' shaking with the excitement of a case of Archive Fever...a wide-eyed, full-bodied embrace of our own kind of Cultural Anthropology, a sub-pop group-grok of both outsider cinema and street-savvy fashion!! Yes, BOTH the astonishing surprises in secret 16mm industrial-film caches, AND the marvelous milieux opened and at hand in the instance of an actual public auction of vintage Tees!! Craig Baldwin's limited-edition 222 T-Shirts catalog--in this, its inaugural launch--serves as a irresistible invitation to a cinemascopic display of thee most curious clothing artifacts..on tables, on the walls, and on live models!..scheduled so that the bidding action plays as prologue to a delirious evening of gobsmackin' celluloid core-samples. Both lineages--from the cotton plant!--understood as precious traces of particular sensibilities oh-so-at-risk of disappearing forever into the black hole of forgotten cultural history. Come in to browse for free for the afternoon's silent auction; we'll deliver the garments to the winners at our 8PM show-time. Titles include: 1953 tribute to the rescue of Treasures in a Garbage Can (the veritable theme of tonight's event!), IBM's mid-50s proto-techno-utopian Piercing the Unknown, a '56 personal-travelog-record of a Carnivalesque Caribbean cargo cult, in Kodachrome, an early-70s Christian rant on ''cults”, with Eldridge Cleaver(!), a mid-70s Oscar Mayer Wienermobile ride into a disco-fueled factory overflowing with fatty cow flesh, a '68 educational-TV explication of human sexual intercourse, a late-70s;Mormon fantasia of Jesus Christ preaching amongst the Mayan pyramids, an early-80s human-potential confessional on celebrity bed-wetting, a mid-70s tsunami-apocalypse/doomed-date cautionary...and of course mid-century trailers and TV commercials. PLUS free books, films, albums, cassettes, even laserdiscs...and open bar! $12
SEPT. 13: KORNELIA BOCZKOWSKA's THE ANIMAL SHOW Ever wondered how experimental films represent animals? This program features films that challenge the representation of animals in mainstream media, highlighting non-anthropocentric modes of seeing, being, and movement. These home movies, diaries, animations, found footage, and music videos--both handmade and digital--deepen our understanding of the complex relationship between humans, animals, media, and environment ~ Becoming, Jan van Ijken (Netherlands, 2018), the miraculous genesis of animal life seen in a great microscopic detail: a salamander in its transparent egg from fertilization to hatching; Not (A) Part, Vicky Smith (16mm, UK, 2019), in relation to the rapid decline of flying insects, dead bees found on walks were positioned directly onto negative film and contact-printed; Jamal [A Camel] (16mm, 1981), Ibrahim Shaddad's report from the life of a Sudanese camel plays out in a dreary, small room--a sesame mill; buffalo lifts, Christina Battle (16mm, Canada, 2004), a herd of buffalo desperately try to hold on as they cross the film frame;a b movie, Lindsay McIntyre (Canada, 2005), in-camera S8 film about a dog named b; Laika, Deborah Stratman (USA, 2021), homage to the spirits of Space Test dogs, with music by Olivia Block, Michael Morris (16mm, USA, 2023), cine-poem for Black Taffy’s song Riding Day and a loving nod to LeGrice’s 1970 Berlin Horse PATTAKI, Everlane Moraes (Cuba, 2019), in the dense night, when the moon lifts the tide, water beings are hypnotized by the powers of Yemaya, goddess of the sea; The Fourfold, Alisi Telengut (Canada/Mongolia, 2020), based on ancient shamanic rituals in Mongolia and Siberia, and against the backdrop of modern existential crisis and human-induced environmental change, an exploration of indigenous worldviews and wisdom: a reclaiming of the ideas of animism for planetary health; HORANGI, Lynn Kim (USA/Korea, 2024), based on a dream of laying in a field of tigers, wrapping around each other, existing in union..a moment of tenuous harmony and myriad tactile feelings and emotions; Cuban iMAL (world premiere, USA, 2025), shot by both Dominic Angerame (here in person) when in Cuba and Alanna Zrimsek when on African safari; TBA, Toney Merritt (USA), also a 2025 world premiere, and also with artist in person!
MAYAN TREASURES
SEPT.27: MEJIA: VERSES OF RESISTANCE: GUATEMALAN POET-FILMMAKERS A righteous celebration of the history-making initiatives by our own Alex Mejia to recover/restore crucial films with the National Cinematheque in Guatemala City! Tonight he guides us on a ultra-rare journey through the region's radical cinema underground, where poets picked up cameras and filmmakers found their voices in verse...from a forgotten 40s doc capturing indigenous political mobilizations for Jacobo Arbenz, through national poet Otto René Castillo's experimental collaborations in West Berlin exile, to militant writer Eduardo Labarca's fierce reflections on art and armed struggle. The program showcases the recently digitized Al Cabo del Tiempo (scanned right here at SF State!), in which the radical Taller de Cine collective grapples with defeat through a critical poet's lens. We'll witness Anais Taracena's lyrical video with indigenous author Rosa Chávez, building toward our centerpiece: Javier Briones' sublime meditation on historical memory, told through Maya Achi voices and the ancestral lands that hold their stories. Five films..Decades of resistance..Traditions of political fury becoming cinematic poetry.
OCT.18: SPRINKLE/STEPHENS' PLAYING WITH FIRE
NOV.8: SACHS: BOOK LAUNCH/FEATURE PEEK + QUILLIAN + 
NOV.15: NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS OCCUPIED STATE
NOV.22: SPELLETICH/THOMPSON: GENERATION ICE + LORD + WOBBLY + 
DEC.6: ROURKE's BIT OF WIND + 
DEC.13: LAW/CACOPHONY: SANTA CLONE RAMPAGE + 
DEC. 20: FINLEY: A RADICAL THREAD + PREVIOUS CALENDARS
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