Monthly Video Screenings

The Great Wall of Oakland will host the Oakland Internet Cat Video Festival benefiting the East Bay SPCA with the Bay Area premiere of the Walker Art Center‘s highly acclaimed (#catvidfest) on Saturday, May 11, 2013, 3-10pm.

Visit the website for all the de-tails!

Cadavre Exquis with Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró, Max Morise and Man Ray

It’s time for our “Exquisite Corpse” showing on the Great Wall of Oakland.

In case you’re not familiar or missed last year’s show with the same theme, “Exquisite Corpse” refers the parlor game the Surealists used to expand their creative capacity. One artist would start with a sketch, fold up the paper leaving only a bit of the drawing visible and pass it to the next artist who would continue the drawing (see “Nude” to the right).

The Great Wall’s curators have expanded upon this idea by stringing together several disparate, but outstanding, video pieces by finding a visual thread that links the before and after.

Join us, Friday!

The Great Wall of Oakland presented a holiday spectacular “Oakland: Home for the Holidays!”, complete with the world’s largest digital tree lighting, holiday short films, and a few special guests including the Bandaloop aerial dancers and students at the Downtown Oakland YMCA.

The Great Wall is seeking submissions for the 2nd Annual About Oakland By Oakland

Who Can Submit: Short-film makers / video artists living or working in Oakland (and the surrounding areas) OR short-film makers / video artists who have created a film about our town 

What We’re Looking For: Dynamic, short films or video pieces (moving imagery only) from the talented artists in our communities. The subject of the film does not need to be specifically about Oakland. We’re interested in what the artists of Oakland are creating, observing and saying through beautiful moving imagery.

How to Submit: Send a link to your film on the web to thegreatwallofoakland@gmail.com. Include your name, location, title of the film and running time of the film.

Other Specs: All submissions must be under 7 minutes in length, contain moving imagery (no still images) and be appropriate for all ages (no sex, violence, political propaganda, advertising, or any derogatory images / words). Please send one film per email. Entire websites will NOT be reviewed. Note: If you recently submitted your film to Homegrown, it will be automatically reviewed for this screening. Please do not resubmit the same film.

Very Important Submission Deadline: Monday, October 22, 2012 at 5pm

Show Date: November 2, 2012 from 8-11pm on the Great Wall of Oakland

Looking forward to seeing what you’ve got!

We’ve teamed up with our neighbor, the internet-radio sensation, Pandora, to create a home-grown extravaganza of music and film.

“Homegrown” will debut Pandora’s hand-crafed Oakland Mixtape, featuring 8 hours of local music which will play alongside cutting-edge visuals on the Great Wall. You and the rest of the world, will be able to listen live on Pandora after the show!

Not only that, but the GWO is featuring the video work of 10 local artists to be announced very soon….

We are so pumped for this show! What could be better than featuring all of the talented people who live, work and start awesome new companies in Oakland?

You don’t want to miss this celebration of Oakland-based art and music.

And if you’re a filmmaker / video artist – you don’t want to miss this opportunity to be featured with your neighbors. Submit your short film by Aug. 28 at 5pm.

We are very pleased to announce that the August Show on the Great Wall of Oakland will be a collaborative event with the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, the first and largest festival of it’s kind. We’ll be screening some amazing shorts – don’t miss it!

From computer-generated art to hand-drawn motion graphics, this next show will be a celebration of all things animation. But, if you’re expecting to see your everyday cartoons, you’ll be sorely dissapointed or maybe blown-away.

Don’t miss this opportunity to see the latest in animation!

Also, if you happen to be in Uptown during the day, you might catch Project Bandaloop rehearsing on the Wall!

Project Bandaloop

For the second July in a row, the Great Wall will be screening a collection of awe-inspiring films entitled “Projects of Summertime”. As the title suggests, these short documentary-style shorts capture the creative, whimsical, fantastic and far-out projects people find the time to do when the whole world slows down for the blissful summer months.

In this hour-long show, there’s something for everyone – from DIY projects like couture knitting to thrill-chasing sports like free running – don’t miss out!

"Apex Predators" by Sarosh G. Jacob

The title of this show says it all. This month on the Wall, watch as predators discover their prey and find adventure within the hunt. Don’t be fooled  - this is not a screening of films one would expect to see on a nature channel but a series of artistic takes on what happens between those doing the chasing and those being sought.

All eleven films differ wildly in their stylistic approach, as well as, the natural realms they explore. It’s a non-violent screening perfect for the whole family.

Last month, we presented “About Oakland, By Oakland”, an entire show dedicated to this great city and the artists who live and work here.

This month, we’re bouncing off the theme of “place” and taking you on a “Tour of the World” stopping off in such places as Kenya, India, France, Iceland and maybe a stop or two around home.

"Bachna Ae Haseeno" by Anne Marsen

"Kakenya" by Blacklist

And you don’t even have to pack any luggage!