[Sfbay-video] Catch FRISCOPHILLIA, Friday, Sept 8, 7:30 ATA

[sabrina at whisperedmedia.org]

Friscophillia:  An exploration of San Francisco locations and
history.

Join local  filmmakers and storytellers as they explore
the cracks and crevaces of San Francisco streets, corners, houses and rat
holes. Filmmakers include  Veronica Majano, Charlotte
Gutierrez, Sabrina Alonso,  and Alexa Inkeles. Plus rocking
SF story telling by the infamous Kelly Beardsley.
 $5-10 sliding scale. All preceeds benefit ATA.  no one turned
away. Friday, Sept 8th 7:30pm
at:
Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia Street (at 21st)
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415)824-3890
ata at atasite.org


Story telling by Kelly Beardsley

Kelly Beardsley has changed careers 6 times in 13 years and has been telling
stories about these jobs and other crazy times for 4 years; her stories
have been heard on This American Life, The California Report, KPFA, Spark,
Porchlight, and different open mics around the city. She now drives a
school bus here in San Francisco and lives downtown with her cat Taco.

Films:
"Ladyfest 2004 Trailer", 2min. Dir. Alexa Inkeles

In this fun short, hot bike messengers ride through
out San Francisco's Mission district delivering
neccessary goods to feminist art spaces.  They race
the clock in order to make it to the opening night of
Ladyfest 2004.


Work in progress (no title yet) 7 min. Dir. Charlotte Guiterrez

One San Francisco native's fascination and disgust with living in a
tourist attraction.


"Mischief at 16th and Florida" 28 min. Dir Sabrina Alonso

By weaving the intricacies of wild rat behavior; the complex history of
punk rock squatters, work
horses, plagues, robber barons, creeks, firehydrants and natural disasters
are
revealed in  this  lone industrial street in San Francisco's Mission
District.


"Calle Chula", 12min. Dir Veronica Majano

Veronica Majano depicts the character of a street in
the Mission District of San Francisco in her portrait,
"Calle Chula." This street is personified as a fifteen
year old Salvadoran/Ohlone girl on a search to
understand the changes brought on by colonization,
dislocation, and more recently, gentrification.
Tracing the history of the Mission from its first
residents, the Ohlone Indians, Chula explores the
effects of re-colonization on memory and memory loss.
For Chula, memory loss is a birthmark that was passed
down to her from her ancestors. "Calle Chula" is
Majano's way of addressing the causes and consequences
of cultural amnesia.