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June/July 2005 FILM FILM SHOW
CURATED BY DANNY PLOTNICK Mission
Creek Music Festival Wednesday, June 8, 2005. 7:30PM $6 @ATA Bleepity
Bloop Bloop. Mission Creek Music
Festival teams up with filmmaker Danny Plotnick for the second consecutive year
to bring you an evening of music-based & films videos. Most of the films on the bill are locally
produced, showcasing the Bay Area’s unique brand of musical and filmic
derangement. On
the docket are: Derek
Shybell’s What Is Circuit Bending?, a short
documentary on the phenomenon of circuit bending, whose practitioners jerry-rig
circuit boards of children’s toys, appliances, and musical instruments to
create new and unexpected sounds. Rock
Ross’ Psycho Porpoise, a scratch animation in
which Ross’ celluloid etchings serve to booglerize the film’s optical
soundtrack beyond belief. Eats
Tapes’
seizure-inducing, retinally-scorching video for Ptery D. directed by Nate Boyce. Three
video remixes by The T.V. Sheriff.
Match Game PM, Spanish Language Television, and Sammy Davis Jr. all get
sonic and visual makeovers as the beats-per-minute and edits-per-second reach
land speed records in these amphetamine-laced t.v. pastiches. Classic
visions of dementia from the vaults of The
Cryptic Corporation featuring Yello’s The Evening’s Young directed by Dieter Meier, and the Residents/Renaldo
and the Loaf collaboration Songs
For Swinging Larvae directed by Graeme Whifler. Sexy
dance videos from from Hey Willpower , Mutilated
Mannequins and "Strip Mall Glass," a
video for Veronica Lipgloss and the Evil Eyes directed by Justin Kelly. Animated
rap damage for Gold Chains’ Nada directed by Ruben Fleischer in
cooperation with MusorkVision. Minimalist
manifestations from The Numbers directed by Orthlorng
Sue. Rodney
Ascher's
never-aired pilot for a major TV network—an animated autobiography of one of
rock's most notorious personalities.
We’d tell you what network and what personality, but they might sue us. Audio
and found footage collage from England’s People Like Us. A
Hieronymus Bosch animated bloodbath courtesy of Buckethead, directed by Syd
Garon & Eric Henry. A
sneak preview of the forthcoming Camper Van Beethoven dvd. Screening
tonight will be five dogme inspired films and videos from their New Roman Times cd, including a world
premiere from director Teddi Dean Bennett. Step Across the Border
Directed by: Nicolas
Humbert, Werner Penzel Mission Creek Music
Festival Saturday, June 11, 2005.
7:30PM $6 @ATA Winner of many awards such
as the Golden Gate Award, the European Film Award, the Grand Prix International
and more, this film combines the related fields of cinema direct with
improvisational music. The filmmakers turned on the camera spontaneously,
reacting to instantaneous inspiration. In turn, noted musician Fred Frith shows the integral link between all forms of music
by connecting with primal rock music, traditional Japanese percussion, North
African pop to techno music and beyond, while showing his genuine love and
artistry for all things musical. STEP ACROSS THE BORDER was voted by Cahiers du
Cinema to be one the One Hundred most important movies in film history in 2000. @ Artists' Television Access ATA Screenings
Sunday, June 5, 2005 Monday, June 6, 2005 Tuesday, June 7, 2005 Wednesday, June 8, 2005 Thursday, June 9, 2005 Friday, June 10, 2005 Saturday, June 11, 2005 Sunday, June 12, 2005 ATA 992 Valencia Street San
Francisco, CA 94110 State of Denial Amnesty International screening Directed and produced by:
Elaine Epstein Friday, June 17, 2005. 8PM
$5 @ ATA State of Denial takes an
unprecedented and unflinching look at how the citizens of South Africa are
living with the AIDS epidemic, given the climate of confusion and neglect
perpetuated by President Mbeki's administration. Producer/Director Elaine
Epstein, a native South African who has worked extensively in AIDS and public
health, offers a unique insider's look at the complex issues affecting the
nearly five million South Africans living with HIV and AIDS. The film offers a
moving account of a society struggling to overcome the harsh realities of
illness, global healthcare inequities, and government paralysis. Intimate conversations
capture the unbreakable spirit of a people determined to conduct their lives
with dignity, grace, and humor. As one man contemplates death, he pleads that
God should spare his wife so that his children will not be orphaned. In another
exchange, a young woman elicits laughter from her HIV/AIDS support group as she
recounts how she was abandoned by a date after revealing she is HIV positive.
To provide context to these personal stories, Epstein also secures candid,
in-depth interviews with some of the country's most notable politicians, health
care professionals, and activists‹some of whom are her former colleagues. Informative and thoughtful,
State of Denial is a compelling documentary that highlights the complicated
circumstances exacerbating a national health crisis. With images of pain,
outrage, defiance, and hope, the film is an insightful investigation of
humanity persevering in the face of unimaginable atrocity. South Africa may
feel like a distant land, but these people and their stories possess an uncanny
familiarity. San Francisco Independent Student film
festival
UFO Pictures present: the
Second Annual San Francisco Independent Student Film Festival. Friday, June 24, 2005. 8PM
$5 @ ATA
Program: Premiere: Premiere: The Nightingales: Directed
by Brad Kane trt: 10:00 Ole Pologa (The Suffer): by
Zena Noah Iese trt: 3:00 Bay Alarm spec: Directed
by: Armando S.
Ani trt:0:30 Untitled: Directed by:
Margarita Peralta trt: 4:30 Kandy Kidz: Directed by Micah Brandt trt: 10:00 A Collection of shorts:
Directed by Robin
Dunn trt: 25:00 Mid-Penn…a tv pilot.
Directed by Matt
Chapman trt: 11:00 Red: Directed by Blake Harjes trt: 2:00 Additional entries TBA |
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