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Explore San Francisco and Bay Area culture through theater reviews, film, contemporary art, and creative events. Featuring original artwork by Loni Stark, film reviews by Jeanne Powell, and insights by ATCA member Clinton Stark.

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk documentary film featuring Sepideh Farsi and Fatma Hassona Gaza photojournalist
Film Reviews

‘Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk’: Documenting Life in Gaza

BY JEANNE POWELL — 11.19.2025
Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi and Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona forge an extraordinary bond through video calls, documenting life under siege in Gaz
Abstract glacial ice formations in blue and white showing melting patterns from MELT documentary
Film Reviews

‘MELT: The Memory of Ice’: A Haunting Arctic Elegy

BY JEANNE POWELL — 11.04.2025
Betsey Biggs' Documentary Captures the Greenland Ice Sheet's Fragile Beauty
Scene from The President’s Cake — Lamia (Baneen Ahmad Neyyef) speaks with a vendor while holding a rooster in an Iraqi market.
Independent Film

The President’s Cake — a haunting portrait of Iraq’s marshlands

BY JEANNE POWELL — 10.27.2025
Hasan Hadi’s award-winning debut captures a lost world through the eyes of a young girl and her grandmother.
A drawing of a man in motion in multiple stages, jumping over a pool of spilled milk.
Atelier Stark

Drawing Dialogues: Jony Ive, Charlie Mackesy and Tim Marlow on the Art of Seeing

BY LONI STARK — 09.12.2025
Royal Drawing School marks 25 years with a conversation on why drawing remains a vital act of seeing and being.
Esau Carabali standing in a rice field in Colombia, from the documentary ‘Will They Ever Come Back?’
Film Reviews

Echoes of Absence: Will They Ever Come Back?

BY JEANNE POWELL — 08.01.2025
A dream-led journey through family, memory, and disappearance
CellarChat AI wine-pairing interface on a mobile phone, showing prompts like ‘What should I open for dinner with lamb?’ and ‘Which of my wines are ready to drink?’
Culture

CellarTracker Launches AI-Powered Wine Recommendations with CellarChat

BY CLINTON STARK — 07.31.2025
Ask your cellar what to drink tonight.
Porcelain sculpture titled To Train a Minotaur by Loni Stark. Abstract, mythological figure with intertwined limbs and contorted forms, rendered in raw, textured porcelain against a dark background.
Atelier Stark

When Minds Meet: An Unexpected Journey into AI and Human Authenticity

BY LONI STARK — 07.31.2025
Consciousness, authenticity, and what it means to exist
Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman prepares a meal in real time in her minimalist kitchen
Cameras & Filmmaking

Will Generative AI Kill Slow Cinema?

BY CLINTON STARK — 07.14.2025
Why long takes endure in the Age of Algorithms.
Bronze sculpture featuring a large pair of scissors embedded in abstract loops and curves, displayed in a minimalist gallery with floor-to-ceiling windows.
Atelier Stark

When the Lineage Breaks: Six Ways AI Disrupts How I Work as an Artist

BY LONI STARK — 07.05.2025
What once extended us now remakes us.
A tender moment during a tea ceremony between a man and woman, from the film Black Tea
Film Reviews

Black Tea Film Review – Sissako’s Lyrical Exploration of Place

BY JEANNE POWELL — 06.16.2025
In Black Tea, Abderrahmane Sissako weaves a meditative journey from Ivory Coast to China. Our Cannes review explores its poetic beauty and quiet power.

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