This 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.

A 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.

OC 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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FALL 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!!

As 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.

Join 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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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…

You made it happen for ATA in November 2025, and we made every single of your dollars holler for eight months: - Rent? Made it. We're current. - Back rent? Made a huge repayment of $60K in…

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…

A free seminar, investigating the 16mm experimental films in the collection of the SFAI Legacy Foundation and Archives.

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…

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…

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…

Poetry reading by Joni Prince, Maria Malinovskaya & Jean Day.

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

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-…

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…

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…

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…

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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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.…

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…

MARK BOSWELL’s LOST AND FOUND BUREAU + JOHN DAVIS’ LISTEN! SUN AND STARS + ALEX MILLER’s INCUBATE + Our second Archive Fever set serves as a ‘release’ of ultra-rare ph…

It’s time to kickstart another Unnamed Footage Festival and we’re diving in with a special screening of an “EARLY CUT” of INVOKING SCREAM by Patricio Valladares (Invoking Yell). After uncovering a …

CARL DIEHL: PAINLESS MAGIC + STAGE MAGICAN NGUYEN + In person, Carl Diehl’s kaleidoscopic account of creativity, camaraderie, and curiosity begins with the life and times of the late, great m…