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film | music | performance art
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ATA Rent Emergency
Artists Television Access has served artists for 40 years with a radical approach to access. Our storefront microcinema at 992 Valencia Street has served thousands of artists across all points of…
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It is time! ATA is facing a rent emergency, and we need your support to remain at 992 Valencia! Donations in any amount matter!
¡Viva ATA!
¡Viva ATA!
Almost-Public/Semi-Exposed continues today with "Free Songs" by Mary Graham, live in the gallery from 10:00–11:30 and 4:30–5:30!
December 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Almost-Public/Semi-Exposed continues today with "Free Songs" by Mary Graham, live in the gallery from 10:00–11:30 and 4:30–5:30!
Tonight at ATA, Other Cinema presents Xpanded Animation, with four works by local hero Jeremy Rourke, plus films by Anna Firth, Jim Trainor, Kelly Gallagher, and more!
Other Cinema: XPANDED ANIMATION
ROURKE’s BEEN IN THE WIND + PICKARD/MONTERO + TRAINOR + This season’s celebration of single-frame cinema boasts none Other than local hero Jeremy Rourke, with four new and enhanced wor…
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December 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Tonight at ATA, Other Cinema presents Xpanded Animation, with four works by local hero Jeremy Rourke, plus films by Anna Firth, Jim Trainor, Kelly Gallagher, and more!
Almost-Public/Semi-Exposed is back with its tenth annual month-long program of live performance! The festival kicks off this afternoon, with "does the carrier care" by Susan Wolf.
Almost Public / Semi-Exposed 10
The ATA Window Gallery presents our tenth annual month-long festival of installed performance art. From December 6 to January 8, the ATA Window Gallery becomes an epicenter of live performance. Mor…
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December 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Almost-Public/Semi-Exposed is back with its tenth annual month-long program of live performance! The festival kicks off this afternoon, with "does the carrier care" by Susan Wolf.
Tonight at ATA, it's a student showcase from the University of San Francisco!
University of San Francisco Student Showcase
Find out what’s on the minds of the students from The University of San Francisco. Tonight’s screening will feature a wild night of mini-masterpieces from our Motion Graphics and our Advanced Narra…
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December 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Tonight at ATA, it's a student showcase from the University of San Francisco!
Join us tonight for a free open screening! If you have something you'd like to show in the program, email [email protected].
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…
www.atasite.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Join us tonight for a free open screening! If you have something you'd like to show in the program, email [email protected].
Open Screening is coming up this Thursday! If you have something you'd like to show in the program, email us at [email protected].
November 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Open Screening is coming up this Thursday! If you have something you'd like to show in the program, email us at [email protected].
Tonight at Other Cinema, it's a No-Thanks Giving double bill, with Give It Back and Spaces of Exception!
Other Cinema: NO-THANKS GIVING
NEW RED ORDER: GIVE IT BACK! + SPACES OF EXCEPTION Following their last feature here, our Native (Ojibway) cohorts have been busy with many projects–including a bombshell for ITVS–and t…
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November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Tonight at Other Cinema, it's a No-Thanks Giving double bill, with Give It Back and Spaces of Exception!
Tonight at ATA, Rewards Program live-scores a three-projector celluloid meditation on charade, mimesis, and masquerade.
Rewards Program
A three-projector celluloid meditation live-scored by improvisational trio Rewards Program, on charade, mimesis, and masquerade. Visuals in special collaboration with musician and artist Katia Mash…
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November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Tonight at ATA, Rewards Program live-scores a three-projector celluloid meditation on charade, mimesis, and masquerade.
Tonight, Other Cinema brings you the second Psycho-Geo program of the season, raging against the evil machine that is ICE!
Other Cinema: PSYCHO-GEO2; OCCUPIED STATE
SPELLETICH/THOMPSON: ON ICE + LORD + WOBBLY + The Cali Apocalypse plays out ever more cinematically in this scream of rage against the evil machine that is ICE! Mission gem/Ant Farm vet Chip Lord k…
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November 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Tonight, Other Cinema brings you the second Psycho-Geo program of the season, raging against the evil machine that is ICE!
We hit our goal! In just nine days, the community has donated over $60,000 to ATA which means we're able to stay current on our payment plan for our portion of the rent at 992 Valencia.
November 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
We hit our goal! In just nine days, the community has donated over $60,000 to ATA which means we're able to stay current on our payment plan for our portion of the rent at 992 Valencia.
Tonight at ATA, Other Cinema brings you Avant to Live, with experimental films by Tommy Becker, Kelly Sears, Jake Parker Scott, and many more!
Other Cinema: AVANT TO LIVE
BECKER + SCOTT + NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS A polymorphous program that honors radical expression and innovative film-form, this evening of New Experimental Works promises a fresh bouquet of more than …
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November 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Tonight at ATA, Other Cinema brings you Avant to Live, with experimental films by Tommy Becker, Kelly Sears, Jake Parker Scott, and many more!
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The community hub owes its landlord $45,000 in back rent.
One of the last footholds of an older San Francisco is in trouble
The community hub owes its landlord $45,000 in back rent.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The community hub owes its landlord $45,000 in back rent.
Tonight, the Arab Film Festival presents Borderless, a shorts program by filmmakers from the West Bank, Gaza and Occupied Palestine.
Borderless | AFF2025
Too often, Palestinians are seen only through narrow, distorted frames. This shorts program challenges these misconceptions…
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November 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Tonight, the Arab Film Festival presents Borderless, a shorts program by filmmakers from the West Bank, Gaza and Occupied Palestine.
It is time! ATA is facing a rent emergency, and we need your support to remain at 992 Valencia! Donations in any amount matter!
¡Viva ATA!
¡Viva ATA!
ATA Rent Emergency
Artists Television Access has served artists for 40 years with a radical approach to access. Our storefront microcinema at 992 Valencia Street has served thousands of artists across all points of…
www.every.org
November 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
It is time! ATA is facing a rent emergency, and we need your support to remain at 992 Valencia! Donations in any amount matter!
¡Viva ATA!
¡Viva ATA!
Tonight at Other Cinema, it's a program of feminist films, with @lynnesachs.bsky.social in town to present her newest book plus a sneak preview from her upcoming feature!
Other Cinema: SISTERS’ PICTURES
SACHS’ SNEAK-PEEK/BOOK-LAUNCH + QUILLIAN + We are oh-so-lucky to host the most lovely presence of thee queen of contemporary film- essay, Lynne Sachs! Returning to the site of her very earli…
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November 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Tonight at Other Cinema, it's a program of feminist films, with @lynnesachs.bsky.social in town to present her newest book plus a sneak preview from her upcoming feature!
Join us tonight for a free open screening! If you have something you'd like to show in the program, email [email protected].
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…
www.atasite.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Join us tonight for a free open screening! If you have something you'd like to show in the program, email [email protected].
Open Screening is coming up this Thursday! If you have something you'd like to show in the program, email us at [email protected].
November 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Open Screening is coming up this Thursday! If you have something you'd like to show in the program, email us at [email protected].
Tonight at Other Cinema, it's a special Halloween horror edition with director @rodneyascher.bsky.social!
Other Cinema: HALLOWEEN HORROR AUTEUR
AN EVENING WITH RODNEY ASCHER Many of us came to know and love Rodney a couple decades back when he moved from Miami to San Francisco, and proceeded to impress larger and larger audiences with his …
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November 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Tonight at Other Cinema, it's a special Halloween horror edition with director @rodneyascher.bsky.social!
Tonight at ATA, Rewards Program live-scores a three-projector celluloid meditation on the passage through the veil and 20th century terrors.
Rewards Program
A three-projector celluloid meditation live-scored by improvisational trio Rewards Program, on the passage through the veil and 20th century terrors.
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October 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Tonight at ATA, Rewards Program live-scores a three-projector celluloid meditation on the passage through the veil and 20th century terrors.
The @cinemas-sf.bsky.social festival continues today, with a program of comedic shorts full of dark, witty takes on messy relationships and social anxieties.
CINE+MAS: Laughter Is Medicine- Comedy Shorts
Who said cinema can’t be hilarious and insightful? This comedy block promises dark, witty takes on messy relationships and social anxieties. “Juana Pelos” captures the awkward and…
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October 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The @cinemas-sf.bsky.social festival continues today, with a program of comedic shorts full of dark, witty takes on messy relationships and social anxieties.
At tonight's Other Cinema, it's the West Coast premiere of Angelo Madsen's new documentary A Body to Live In!
Other Cinema: BODY MODIFICATION
Arguably America's most prominent trans maker, Angelo (North by Current) Madsen has placed their West Coast theatrical premiere here in thee feisty microcinema that, for almost four decades now…
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October 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
At tonight's Other Cinema, it's the West Coast premiere of Angelo Madsen's new documentary A Body to Live In!
This afternoon at ATA, @cinemas-sf.bsky.social brings you a powerful shorts program exploring the collision of tradition and modernity, testing the resilience of its characters.
CINE+MAS: The Young & The Dramatic Shorts
Prepare for an afternoon of emotional depth and contemporary struggle. This powerful shorts program explores the collision of tradition and modernity, testing the resilience of its characters. In &…
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October 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This afternoon at ATA, @cinemas-sf.bsky.social brings you a powerful shorts program exploring the collision of tradition and modernity, testing the resilience of its characters.
Get your @cinemas-sf.bsky.social tickets! ATA will be presenting five shows in this year's SF Latino Film Festival.
CINE+MÁS 17
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October 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Get your @cinemas-sf.bsky.social tickets! ATA will be presenting five shows in this year's SF Latino Film Festival.
This afternoon, join us for a screening of Your Touch Makes Others Invisible at the Roxie Theater, with a Q&A from director Rajee Samarasinghe. Your Touch Makes Others Invisible is a surreal and lyrical exploration of disappearances in a small post-war community in northern Sri Lanka.
Your Touch Makes Others Invisible – 3rd i
YOUR TOUCH MAKES OTHERS INVISIBLE, directed by Rajee Samarasinghe, is a surreal and lyrical exploration of disappearances in a small post-war community in northern Sri Lanka, where memories of interactions between the Tamils and the Sinhalese linger. Fusing allegorical magic realism and investigative documentary…
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October 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This afternoon, join us for a screening of Your Touch Makes Others Invisible at the Roxie Theater, with a Q&A from director Rajee Samarasinghe. Your Touch Makes Others Invisible is a surreal and lyrical exploration of disappearances in a small post-war community in northern Sri Lanka.
Tonight at ATA, Other Cinema presents Optronica, with a program of short films plus an all-star line-up of seven intermedia magicians!
Other Cinema: Optronica
99 HOOKER + LIGHTS OUT + FORSTER + Our semi-annual Live A/V eye-and-ear-popper unveils an all-star line-up of seven inter-media magicians, interlaced amongst an equal number of single-channel short…
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October 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Tonight at ATA, Other Cinema presents Optronica, with a program of short films plus an all-star line-up of seven intermedia magicians!