Open Screening is coming up on Thursday! If you have something to show in the program, email us at openscreening@atasite.org.
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Please join us tonight for a mutual aid fundraiser and conversation around Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina's Chronicle of the Years of Fire, winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival.
Rewards Program is back tonight with "Swimming Class in My Looking Glass", a live-scored three-projector celluloid meditation on bent light, consciousness, and the deep sea.
Tonight at ATA, This is Not a Film Festival is a monthly recurring film showcase, allowing local Bay Area filmmakers, artists and creatives to gather, connect, and present their work.
TINAFF: Program 5
This is Not a Film Festival (also know as TINAFF) is a monthly recurring film showcase, allowing local Bay Area filmmakers, artists and creatives to gather, connect, and present their work. No subm…
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Today at ATA, join us for the closing ceremony for this month's window gallery show, "On the Wonk", the variety show will feature 16 micro acts. From a first-time unicycler,to a somber monologue on being a chimney sweep in the 1800s, the variety show is sure to have something for everyone.
Join us at ATA tonight for the opening reception of Deterrence, a multimedia exhibition showcasing works by Latine, Chicano, and immigrant artists that critically engage with the United States' official foreign policy and border security strategy. The exhibition will be on view July 24–30.
Please help us raise 15k by August 1st to help ATA continue to provide a home for experimental art in the heart of the Mission!
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Tonight at ATA, Final Girls Berlin Film Festival showcases horror cinema that's directed, written, or produced by women, trans, and non-binary filmmakers.
Final Girls Berlin Film Festival
Final Girls Berlin Film Festival showcases horror cinema that’s directed, written, or produced by women, trans, and non-binary filmmakers. We are committed to creating space for female and g…
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Join us at ATA tonight for a free seminar investigating the 16 mm experimental films in the collection of the SFAI Legacy Foundation and Archives!
Studio 26: Fantom Classroom of the Art Institute
A free seminar, investigating the 16mm experimental films in the collection of the SFAI Legacy Foundation and Archives.
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Open Screening is coming up on Thursday! If you have something to show in the program, email us at openscreening@atasite.org.
Rewards Program is back tonight with "An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail", a live-scored three-projector celluloid meditation on revolution, rivalry, and queer existence.
Tonight at ATA, Abigail Severance and Lori Goldston present A Time and Space Machine.
A Time and Space Machine: Abigail Severance & Lori Goldston
Program: Shot entirely in public spaces, Abigail Severance’s recent work plumbs the politics and promises of witnessing through a lens, tenderly wrestling with our apocalyptic anxieties. From trai…
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Open Screening is coming up on Thursday! If you have something to show in the program, email us at openscreening@atasite.org.
TINAFF is back with its third showcase, tonight at ATA.
TINAFF (This is Not a Film Festival): Program 3
This is Not a Film Festival (also know as TINAFF) is a monthly recurring film showcase, allowing local Bay Area filmmakers, artists and creatives to gather, connect, and present their work. No subm…
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Other Cinema's final show of the season is tonight! Join us for a double header of local experimental works and new animations, including three live performances.
Other Cinema: AVANT TO LIVE
SEASON-ENDING SPECTACULAR!! A Double-Header of local Experimental Works, including 3 Live Performances! Here’s an hour-plus primo block of hand-processed, compilation, and live-action premier…
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Saturday afternoon, join us at the Right Window for a gallery tour and poetry reading!
Right Window Gallery Tour: Ivan Sokolov’s The Stars Above The Stars Below The Stars
Poetry reading by Joni Prince, Maria Malinovskaya & Jean Day.
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DocFest is celebrating its 25th anniversary! Tonight we kick off the 2026 festival with an evening of flashbacks to 2001: Atomic Ed & the Black Hole, Gibtown, and Plaster Caster.
25th San Francisco Documentary Festival
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Tonight at ATA, Rewards Program presents The Beeswax of Icarus, a three-projector celluloid meditation on insect society, interstates, and winged things.
Join us at ATA tonight for a free seminar investigating the 16 mm experimental films in the collection of the SFAI Legacy Foundation and Archives!
Studio 26
Fantom Classroom of the Art Institute A free seminar, investigating the 16mm experimental films in the collection of the SFAI Legacy Foundation and Archives. doors 7, films 7:30
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This evening ATA welcomes visiting filmmaker Rosie Reed Hillman for a screening of her new film, Something That Was Ours, a multi-character portrait following the lives of women carving their own paths as witches and healers.
Rosie Reed Hillman’s Something That Was Ours
ATA welcomes visiting filmmaker Rosie Reed Hillman for a screening of her new film, Something That Was Ours. Following the lives of women carving their own paths as witches and healers, this multi-…
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Tonight, Other Cinema presents Alexandra Juhasz' Please Hold, an experimental documentary addressing a raft of questions about mourning and media.
Other Cinema: MOURNING AND MEMORY
How do neighborhoods, queer bars, sweaters and scarves, and videotapes hold ghosts? What does it mean to hold the legacy of beloveds on changing formats? Here’s an experimental documentary en…
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Tonight at ATA, join us for a showcase of experimental and documentary films by students from the University of San Francisco!
University of San Francisco Experimental & Documentary Spring Showcase
Join us for a screening of films from the University of San Francisco’s Film Studies program. Tonight our eyes will feast on documentary projects as well as experimental emissions. There will be ce…
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Join us tonight for a free open screening! If you have something to show in the program, email us at openscreening@atasite.org.
Open Screening
ATA’s free community film/video show welcomes short format work or (15 min or less) from all genres. An open forum for independent filmmakers to show their work, we hold screenings the first Thursd…
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Tonight at Other Cinema, Lynne Sachs presents her new film Every Contact Leaves a Trace!
Other Cinema: EXQUISITE ESSAYIST
LYNNE SACHS’ EVERY CONTACT LEAVES A TRACE Since 1990, filmmaker Lynne Sachs (in person tonight!) has collected 600 business cards—from a hairdresser, a therapist, a textile artist… Toge…
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Open Screening for this month is being POSTPONED to Thursday, May 14. We'll see you then!
Open Screening is coming up! If you have something to show in next week's program, email us at openscreening@atasite.org.
Open Screening is coming up! If you have something to show in next week's program, email us at openscreening@atasite.org.
Tonight at ATA, Rewards Program presents Plato's Rave, an entirely analog three-projector celluloid meditation on crystalline structures and psychedelia!
Tonight at Other Cinema, it's Incredibly Strange Music hosted by media-archaeologist and live re-mixer 99 Hooker!
Other Cinema: INCREDIBLY STRANGE MUSIC 1
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Tonight it's Optronica at Other Cinema, with a trifecta of optical superstars stepping up to the challenge of a live expanded cinema performance!
Other Cinema: OPTRONICA
Other Cinema’s early April ‘split-ticket’ of “Wavelength Works” initially focuses on the Visible Range, while next Saturday’s attends to the larger electromagnetic spectrum.…
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Today at the right window gallery, it's the opening of White Paint, an exhibition of works on paper by Robin Tremblay-McGaw.