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Artists' Television Access

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Tonight at ATA, legendary underground filmmaker Mike Kuchar presents a selection of recent works!

atasite.orgAn Evening with Mike Kuchar – Artists’ Television AccessThe vibrant, poetic and wild works of Mike Kuchar have inspired generations of filmmakers and artists with their wickedly perverse parodies of pop-culture and abundant creativity. From early 8 mm films made with his twin brother George Kuchar featuring friends from their Bronx neighbourhood to the underground sci-fi extravaganza Sins of the Fleshapoids 1965, his films take the language of Hollywood and make it so ‘overblown it’s glorious’.
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Tonight at ATA, Dutch avant-garde composer and performance artist Jaap Blonk presents his absurd performance YappiScope, an ongoing work containing short videos, scores he wanders through, interactive animations, live soundtracks to silent films and other new multimedia work.

atasite.orgJaap Blonk, YappiScope – Artists’ Television AccessDutch avant-garde composer and performance artist Jaap Blonk presents his absurd performance YappiScope. It is Jaap Blonk’s show with visual projections.
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Over at the Roxie, ATA is excited to co-present the opening night of this year's 3rd i SF International South Asian Film Festival! 3rd i will be honoring the creative genius of award-winning British-Indian director and screenwriter Avie Luthra with a showcase of his short films.

thirdi.orgA Celebration of the Extraordinary Work of Avie LuthraFor Opening Night, 3rd i Festival is thrilled to honor the creative genius of award-winning British-Indian director and screenwriter Avie Luthra with a showcase of his comedic, nuanced, complex, and socially insightful short films. Join us for an inspiring retrospective of his brilliant narratives that lift up stories of immigration, relationships, identity, gender, sexuality, and social justice, followed by a Q&A with the director, moderated by Delhi Crime Executive Producer, Pooja Kohli!!
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Join us tonight for a special Thursday Other Cinema show! Acclaimed conceptual artist, geographer, and MacArthur Fellow Trevor Paglen uses photography, science, and Errol Morris' interrotron to expose hidden surveillance networks centered on former military investigator Richard Doty.

atasite.orgOther Cinema: UFO PSY-OPS – Artists’ Television AccessSpecial Thursday Other Cinema presents show! Former military investigator Richard Doty is hated in parts of the UFO community, mainly for his role and mastery in spreading lies.
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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.

atasite.orgTINAFF: Program 7 – Artists' Television AccessThis is Not a Film Festival (also known as TINAFF) is a monthly recurring film showcase, allowing local Bay Area filmmakers, artists and creatives to gather, connect, and present their work. No submission fees, no awards, no gatekeeping. Our goal is to provide a space where truly independent films can be shared and enjoyed the way they’re meant to be; with a live audience.
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Tonight at Other Cinema it's Post-Kolonial Spectres, with Adrian Quetzal Randall's A Human Year Is Seven Earth Years and Riar Rizaldi's Tellurian Drama!

atasite.orgOther Cinema: Post-Kolonial Spectres – Artists' Television AccessA true breakthrough and international discovery!! Here in-person with A Human Year Is Seven Earth Years, Honduran-American Adrian Quetzal Randall has cooked up an unprecedented Meso-American mystery play, an extremely sophisticated personal cine-essay that opens up areas of speculative history in an Adam Curtis-esque stream-of-consciousness revelation on the military origins of Central American telecommunications and programming, tracing a psychedelic labyrinth across four continents.
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Tonight at ATA, filmmaker Mikey Inouye presents Mālama Mākua, a documentary chronicling the ongoing struggle to end the Military destruction of Mākua Valley in O'ahu and to restore the lands to Native Hawaiian stewardship.

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Tonight at Other Cinema it's Psychedelic Cinema, including work by Toney Merritt, Linda Scobie, and Jordan Belson!

atasite.orgOther Cinema: Psychedelic Cinema – Artists' Television AccessOC is truly honored to welcome back esteemed European critic, author, and curator KorneliaBoczkowska! This incendiary cinema visionary is in fact a huge fan of West Coast aesthetics, and she keeps breaking new discursive ground around those idiosyncratic sensibilities that are so dear to our native filmmaking themes and practices.
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Other Cinema resumes tonight with Incredibly Strange Religion, a skeptical bow towards alt-religion, art-religion, and fantasy cults, with the all-too-rare return of the Church of Magic!

atasite.orgOther Cinema: Incredibly Strange Religion – Artists' Television AccessFALL CHARM BRACELET takes a skeptical bow towards alt-religion, art-religion, and fantasy cults with our annual Incredibly Strange Religion revival!! In tonight’s celebration of new, creative ritual imagination and performance, an apocalyptic 99 minutes of spiritual absurdity serves to support the all-too-rare return of the truly awesome Church of Magic, a tour de force performance-art initiative by ATA soulmate Ben Folstein!!
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ATA is excited to be partnering with @sfcinematheque.bsky.social on CROSSROADS 2026! Join us at Gray Area 5:00 on Saturday for "bury it in the garden", a program exploring mysteries within the everyday and losses latent in quotidian spaces.

sfcinematheque.orgCROSSROADS 2026 – program 4 – SFCinemathequeAs a centerpiece, Maryam Tafakory’s Daria’s Night Flowers grounds a program of quiet incantations, rituals of remembrance, intergenerational traumas and healings and domestic anxieties. Works exploring mysteries within the everyday, losses latent in quotidian spaces.
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Tonight at ATA, Antenna Releasing presents the The Weird Kidz “Embrace the Weird” Roadshow featuring post-screening Q&As with director Zach Passero, and special guests like producer Lucky McKee (May, The Woman) and producer Charles Horak. Featuring special pre-show goodies and more!

events.humanitix.comThe Weird Kidz "Embrace the Weird" RoadshowJoin us for The Weird Kidz "Embrace the Weird" Roadshow featuring a filmmaker Q&A post-screening, special pre-show goodies, and more!
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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.

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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.

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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.

atasite.orgRosie Reed Hillman’s Something That Was OursATA 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-…