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Oct/Nov
2006 Film ATA Film & Video Festival Program
Announced! San Francisco, CA Artists Television
Access announces the first ATA Film & Video Festival, showcasing 25 short,
original, independent and underground films by local, national and
international film and video artists. The ATA Film & Video Festival will
screen October 19 & 20, 2006 at Artists Television Access, 992 Valencia
Street, San Francisco, CA. Doors will open at 7:30pm, screenings start at 8pm.
The public is invited to stay for the opening night party on Thursday night and
for the closing night party on Friday night, after each screening. Tickets are
$7-$10 sliding scale. The films in the program range from the
politically poignant Ha Ha Ha America by local filmmaker JD Ligon, an Official
Selection at Sundance 2006, to Vanessa Woods experimental animation The Touch,
a visual interpretation of Anne Sextons poem of the same name. The program is
arranged into four different themes which were decided from the final
selections: War, Truce, Quixotic Quips, and GNP. In addition to the screenings, the work of
seven other filmmakers will be displayed in ATAs Installation Window during the
month of October. Artists' Television Access is a nonprofit,
all-volunteer, artist-run, experimental media arts gallery that has been in
operation since 1984. ATA hosts a series of film and video screenings,
exhibitions and performances by emerging and established artists and a weekly
cable access television program. ATA Film & Video Festival Program: Thursday, October 19, 2006:
War The Wizard of Oz, part II (Paz
Tornero); La guerra (War) (Luiso Berdejo & Jorge C. Dorado); El Soldado
Trifaldon (Brigadier Trifaldon) (Alejandra Egana & Paz Puga); Selective
Service System Story (Bill Daniel); Animal, Animal (Tommy Becker). Truce Spektro Del Tempo (Ilona Berger);
Consenting Adults (Neil Ira Needleman); Myth ..7 (Sahar Mozaffar); The Touch
(Vanessa Woods); Bump Past Cut Up Through Windows (Nasturtium) (Paul Clipson);
Pump (Sinisa Kukic); You Can't Get There From Here (Liss Platt). Friday, October 20, 2006:
Quixotic Quips Bars and Tone (Gordon
Winiemko); Come Deer Children (Tommy Becker); Pigeons (Tony Benna & David
Elliott); Clean (PJ Raval); Reset (Mack McFarland); G Gordon Liddy (Lucas
Ketelle); 3 out of 4 (Stephen Slappe); The Promise of Bio-Marketing the Human
Mind (Carl Diehl); Fulltime (Artur Muradyan); Staring Newscasters (Jesse
England). GNP Suprematist Kapital (Yin-Ju Chen &
James T. Hong); The Cost of Free (Astra Price); HA HA HA America (JD Ligon).
ATA Film & Video Festival Installation: October 2006 Sensorial Hack &
Petting for pleasure FurReal S(t)imulation (Brenda Jean Grell); Clouds (Mark
OConnell); Interstate (part one) (Cortlund Halperin); Happy Again (Gregg
Biermann); (Post-) Cold War Dreamscape (Clark Buckner); You are not the only
one (Dan Gilsdorf); Authority Head Exorcism (Daniel King). ATA Film & Video Festival Website:
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