May / June 2018
special events NEW WORLD DOCUMENTARIES Ask the Sexpert Difficult Viewing Canadian & International Features and Listening: The Green Fog An Experimental Animation Retrospective www.winnipegcinematheque.com May 2018 WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY
2 3 4 5 6 Ask the Sexpert / 7 pm Ask the Sexpert / 7 pm African Movie Festival: African Movie Festival: Ask the Sexpert / 3 pm Jane / 9 pm Ben & Ara / 7 pm Congo! The Silence of Jane / 5 pm & 7 pm the Forgotten Crimes / 11 am Uprize / 2 pm Greetings from Moruroa / 6:30 pm The Lucky Specials / 8:30 pm
9 10 11 12 13 Ask the Sexpert / 7 pm Jane / 7 pm Transformation: Terril Calder’s Ask the Sexpert / 3 pm Ask the Sexpert / 3 pm Ask the Sexpert / 9 pm Animated Shorts / 7 pm Jane / 5 pm Metric: Dreams So Real / 5 pm & 7 pm Ask the Sexpert / 9 pm Transformation: The Lodge / 7 pm Metric: Dreams So Real / 9 pm
16 17 18 19 20 Ask the Sexpert / 7 pm Difficult Viewing and Punjabi Cinema: The Young Karl Marx / 3 pm & 9 pm The Young Karl Marx / / 3 pm & 7 pm Listening / 7 pm Bhaji on the Beach / 7 pm Boom For Real / 5 pm & 7 pm Boom For Real / 5:15 pm Boom For Real / 9 pm The Young Karl Marx / 9 pm
23 24 25 26 27 Loveless / 7 pm Loveless / 7 pm The Young Karl Marx / 7 pm The Young Karl Marx / 3 pm Loveless / 3 pm The Young Karl Marx / 9:30 pm Star Robot / 9:15 pm Loveless / 6 pm Boom For Real / 7 pm Boom For Real / 9 pm
30 31 Loveless / 7 pm McDonald at the Movies: Being John Malkovich / 7 pm Boom For Real / 9:15 pm June 2018 WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY
1 2 3 Loveless / 7 pm Winnipeg Underground Winnipeg Underground Boom For Real / 9:15 pm Film Festival / winnipeguff.com Film Festival / winnipeguff.com
6 7 8 9 10 Loveless / 7 pm blackspace: Ganja and Hess / 7 pm The Green Fog / 7 pm Kusama–Infinity/ 3 pm wndx: Denis Côté Masterclass / 12 pm The Green Fog / 9:15 pm Kusama–Infinity/ 9 pm The Green Fog / 5 pm & 9:30 pm Kusama–Infinity/ 3 pm & 5 pm wndx: A Skin So Soft / 7 pm The Green Fog / 7 pm
13 14 15 16 17 Kusama–Infinity/ 7 pm Kusama–Infinity/ 7 pm Kusama–Infinity/ 7 pm Kusama–Infinity/ 3 pm & 7 pm The Green Fog / 3 pm & 5 pm The Green Fog / 9 pm The Green Fog / 9 pm The Green Fog / 5 pm & 9 pm Kusama–Infinity/ 7 pm
20 21 22 23 24 Jazz Film Fest: The Digital Lodge / 7 pm Jazz Film Fest: Jazz Film Fest: Jazz Film Fest: Lady Be Good / 7 pm Jazz Film Fest: Bill Evans: Time Remembered / 7 pm Lady Be Good / 3 pm Lady Be Good / 3 pm Rain the Color of Blue with The Flaming Lips: The Fearless Rain the Color of Blue with Bill Evans: Time Remembered / a Little Red in It / 9 pm Freaks / 9 pm a Little Red in It / 5 pm 5 pm & 7 pm Fanquest: The Cube / 7 pm Manborg / 9 pm The Void / 10:30 pm
27 28 29 30 Jazz Film Fest: Jazz Film Fest: Wonderstruck / 7 pm The Great Silence / 3 pm & 9:30 pm Rain the Color of Blue with Bill Evans: Time Remembered / 7 pm The Great Silence / 9:30 pm Wonderstruck / 5 pm & 7 pm a Little Red in It / 7 pm The Flaming Lips: The Fearless Freaks / 9 pm Canadian & International Features
The Young Karl Marx Ganja & Hess The Great Silence
The Young Karl Marx Ganja & Hess Wonderstruck Directed by Raoul Peck Directed by Bill Gunn 2017, USA, 117 min 2017, Germany, 118 min 1973, USA, 110 min Directed by Todd Haynes French, German and English with subtitles Thursday, June 7 / 7 pm Friday, June 29 / 7 pm Friday, May 18 / 9 pm Saturday, June 30 / 5 pm & 7 pm Special event pricing: $10 all admissions. No passes. Saturday, May 19 / 3 pm & 9 pm Todd Haynes (Carol, Far From Heaven) returns with a marvelous Sunday, May 20 / 3 pm & 7 pm Flirting with the conventions of blaxploitation and horror cinema, time-travelling tale that—as so many have already said—will, Thursday, May 24 / 9:30 pm Bill Gunn’s revolutionary independent film is a highly stylized indeed, leave you feeling what the title suggests. Based on The Friday, May 25 / 7 pm and utterly original treatise on sex, religion, and African American Invention of Hugo Cabret author Brian Selznick’s YA novel, Saturday, May 26 / 3 pm identity. Duane Jones (Night of the Living Dead) stars as anthropologist this dazzlingly inventive drama runs on parallel tracks while Hess Green, who is stabbed with an ancient ceremonial dagger Fresh off the success of his James Baldwin documentary, I Am Not following the fortunes of two deaf 12-year-olds: Ben (Oakes by his unstable assistant (director Bill Gunn), endowing him with Your Negro, Haitian-born director Raoul Peck tackles the early days Fegley), a lad in 1977 Michigan who loses his mother (Michelle the blessing of immortality and the curse of an unquenchable of the friendship between the legendary Karl Marx and Friedrich Williams), and Rose (luminous newcomer Millicent Simmonds), thirst for blood. When the assistant’s beautiful and outspoken Engels as they struggled to establish the Communist Party and a girl in 1927 New Jersey obsessed with silent screen star Lillian wife Ganja comes searching for her vanished husband, she and complete the Communist Manifesto. Together, between censorship Mayhew (Julianne Moore, channeling Lillian Gish). Hess form an unexpected partnership. Together, they explore and police raids, riots and political upheavals, they presided over just how much power there is in the blood. the birth of the labor movement, which until then had been mostly The Great Silence makeshift and unorganized. Presented in partnership with Black Space Winnipeg. Directed by Sergio Corbucci Sponsored by Mayworks. 1968, Italy, 105 mins Italian with English subtitles The Green Fog Loveless (Nelyubov) Directed by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson Friday, June 29 / 9:30 pm Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev 2017, USA / Canada, 63 min Saturday, June 30 / 3pm & 9:30 pm 2017, Russia / France / Belgium / Germany, 127 min Russian with English subtitles On an unforgiving, snow swept frontier, a group of bloodthirsty Thursday, June 7 / 9:15 pm bounty hunters led by the vicious Loco (Klaus Kinski, Nosferatu) Friday, June 8 / 7 pm Wednesday & Thursday, May 23 & 24 / 7 pm prey on a band of persecuted outlaws who have taken to the Saturday, June 9 / 5 pm & 9:30 pm Saturday, May 26 / 6 pm hills. As the price on each head is collected one-by-one, only Sunday, June 10 / 7 pm Sunday, May 27 / 3 pm a mute gunslinger named Silence (Jean-Louis Trintignant, The Thursday & Friday / June 14 & 15 / 9 pm Wednesday, May 30 / 7 pm Conformist) stands between the innocent refugees and the greed Saturday, June 16 / 5 pm & 9 pm Friday, June 1 / 7 pm and corruption of the bounty hunters. In this harsh, brutal world, Sunday, June 17 / 3 pm & 5 pm Wednesday, June 6 / 7 pm the lines between right and wrong aren’t always clear and good The Green Fog pays homage to Alfred Hitchcock’s spellbinding doesn’t always triumph. This new 2K restoration features superb Winner of the Jury Prize at last year’s Cannes, the new film from classic Vertigo. Inventive and invigorating, this “San Francisco photography and a haunting score from maestro Ennio Morricone. Russian master Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan) is an intense study Fantasia” is lauded by the New York Times as “a marvel of Director Sergio Corbucci’s bleak, brilliant and violent vision of an of a family torn apart by divorce, in which the former husband film scholarship.” It’s also a lot of fun. Maddin, working with immoral, honorless west is widely considered to be among the and wife are each more interested in starting their lives over with his Forbidden Room collaborators, set himself the challenge to very best and most influential Euro-Westerns ever made. their respective new partners than in tending to their 12-year-old remake Vertigo without using footage from the Hitchcock classic, son—until the boy suddenly goes missing without a trace. creating a “parallel-universe version,” in his words. Using Bay Area footage from a variety of sources—studio classics, ‘50s noir, Star Robot: Back to the Markus experimental films, and ‘70s prime-time TV—and employing Directed by Greg Roth Maddin’s mastery of assemblage, the result exerts the inexorable 2015, Canada, 100 min pull of Hitchcock’s tale of erotic obsession while paying tribute to the city of San Francisco. Featuring a score by composer Jacob Friday, May 25 / 9:15 pm Garchik and Kronos Quartet. Join us for a very special evening of sci-fi B-movie madness as we celebrate the work of local independent filmmaker Greg Roth of Star Robot fame. The epitome of independent—Greg writes, directs, shoots, distributes, and creates the effects (both “digital” and practical) for his films—he belongs to a long line of handmade Winnipeg filmmakers who eschew the traditional modes of production and distribution in favour of their own idiosyncratic brand of movie making. Come explore Greg’s world with us as we watch Star Robot: Back to the Markus, and host the filmmaker himself in what will undoubtedly be an illuminating and unprecedented peek in to the singular mind of Greg Roth. New World Documentaries
Ask the Sexpert Boom for Real Kusama–Infinity
Ask the Sexpert Metric: Dreams So Real Kusama – Infinity Directed by Vaishali Sinha Directed by Jeff Rogers & T. Edward Martin Directed by Heather Lenz 2017, USA, 80 min 2018, Canada, 110 min 2018, USA, 80 min Japanese with English subtitles Wednesday & Thursday, May 2 & 3 / 7 pm Saturday, May 12 / 9 pm Sunday, May 6 / 3 pm Sunday, May 13 / 5 pm & 7 pm Friday, June 8 / 9 pm Wednesday, May 9 / 7 pm Saturday, June 9 / 3 pm SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $10 ALL ADMISSIONS. NO PASSES. Thursday & Friday, May 10 & 11 / 9 pm Sunday, June 10 / 3 pm & 5 pm Saturday, May 12 / 3 pm This stunning feature-length concert documentary captures Wednesday – Friday, June 13 - 15 / 7 pm Sunday, May 13 / 3 pm Canadian rock group Metric’s last live performance of a year- Saturday, June 16 / 3 pm & 7 pm Wednesday, May 16 / 7 pm long sold-out world tour. The show in Vancouver, BC was the Sunday, June 17 / 7 pm culmination of a year’s work by the band and their dedicated Acclaimed at film festivals around the world, Ask the Sexpert is a Kusama – Infinity explores trailblazing Japanese artist Yayoi crew. Their performance was recorded by 26 cameras, finished charming and hilarious portrait of 90-year-old Dr. Mahinder Kusama’s journey from a conservative upbringing in Japan in 4K with audio mixed by multi-Grammy winner David Bottrill. Watsa, a widower who writes a sex advice column for a newspaper to her brush with fame in America during the 1960s and The film features fan favourites from over five albums including in India. Highly taboo in India, sex remains unfit for public discussion concludes with the international fame she finally achieved indelible hits “Breathing Underwater”, “Gold Girls Guns” and let alone promotion. To millions of Mumbai newspaper readers, within the art world. When she was younger she wrote a “Help I’m Alive”. his sex advice column is as much of an institution as it is a lifeline. letter to Georgia O’Keeffe, who invited her to visit in New With a non-moralistic approach and generous doses of humour, Mexico and encouraged her to go to New York. She fought he emboldens men and women to write in and change their lives. Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of for respect in the male dominated art world and the film Jean-Michel Basquiat maintains that Lucas Samaras, Claes Oldenburg, and Andy Plays With “The Talk” True Stories about the Birds & Directed by Sara Driver Warhol copied her work. Now at the age of 88 Yayoi Kusama the Bees / Dir. Alain Delannoy, 2016, Canada, 8:50 min / A 2017, USA, 78 min is currently one of the most popular and successful artists hilarious award-winning Winnipeg film where adults share stories of in the world. Her recent New York gallery exhibition, “Yayoi when their parents first tried to explain sex to them. Thursday, May 17 / 9 pm Kusama: Festival of Life”—featuring her signature “Infinity Saturday, May 19 / 5 pm & 7 pm Mirror Rooms,” with brightly colored mirror balls in a space Jane Sunday, May 20 / 5:15 pm with mirrored walls—drew many thousands of visitors, with Directed by Brett Morgen Saturday, May 26 / 9 pm lines stretching around the block, and up to six-hour waits to 2017, USA, 90 min Sunday, May 27 / 7 pm enter the gallery. Thursday & Friday, May 31 & June 1 / 9:15 pm Sponsored by Thursday, May 3 / 9 pm “A vivid and beautifully meditative memory piece on the Mentoring Artists Sunday, May 6 / 5 pm & 7 pm downtown New York art and music scene of the late 1970s and for Women’s Art. Thursday, May 10 / 7 pm early ‘80s. Jean-Michel Basquiat, an inquisitive and ambitious Saturday, May 12 / 5 pm teenager from Brooklyn, appeared on the scene and quickly National Geographic handed filmmaker Brett Morgen over made it his own. He was a charmer with a knack for drama and 140 hours of 16mm color footage shot in the 1960s and the mysterious. From hip-hop pioneer Fab Five Freddy to graffiti previously unseen, detailing the work of Jane Goodall studying legend Lee Quiñones and Jim Jarmusch each interview adds to chimpanzees in the wild in Africa, which will likely stand as the the picture. New music like the Talking Heads was churning definitive portrait. Set to an almost overwhelmingly emotional at the Mudd Club, performance art was ripping up audience original score by Philip Glass, this is a wondrous and moving expectations at Club 57, and artists were defying the white- account of a remarkable life that puts us right there with Goodall wall gallery establishment. — Chris Barsanti, the Playlist sharing directly in her discoveries. African Movie Festival in Manitoba The African Movie Festival in Manitoba (AM-FM) is a non- Congo! The Silence of the Forgotten Crimes Greetings from Moruroa profit organization devoted to African themes and issues, (Congo! Les Silence des crimes oubliés) (Bons baisers de Moruroa) especially as they relate to Manitoba, Canada and the world. Directed by Gilbert Balufu Directed by Larbi Benchiha The Festival will showcase African talents and will generate 2015, DR Congo, 78 min 2016, Algérie, 53 min social, political and economic issues for discourse, and of course, provide entertainment value. Full details available at Saturday, May 5 / 11 am Saturday, May 5 / 6:30 pm www.am-fm.ca Under the watch and negligent eye of the international Between 1966 and 1996, France conducted 193 nuclear tests Special event pricing — No passes. community, the people of Eastern Congo continue to suffer in Polynesia. During this period, many civilian and military all kinds of atrocities, crimes, massacres, rapes, looting and personnel from Paris and Polynesia stayed on islands. Years Ben & Ara (Ben et Ara) other humiliations. What have they done to deserve all these later some of them have recurrent cancers. wars of aggression? Wars that are supported and sponsored Directed by Nnegest Likké by neighboring countries backed by some multinationals 2015, USA / Cameroon, 87 min The Lucky Specials (Les speciaux chanceux) because of the mineral resources in the Eastern Congo. Directed by Rea Rangaka Friday, May 4 / 7 pm 2017, South Africa, 108 min Preceeded by an opening reception in the lobby at 5 pm. Uprize! Directed by Sifiso Khanyile Saturday, May 5 / 8:30 pm Ben Johnson is a struggling PhD candidate in the school of 2017, South Africa, 57 min The Lucky Specials are a small-time cover band in a dusty philosophy. It is his seventh year and this is the semester mining town in Southern Africa. Mandla works as a miner that he must finish his dissertation or all his work will be Saturday, May 5 / 2 pm by day, but is passionate about playing guitar and dreams for nothing. He takes a break and visits a local art gallery On the morning of June 16, 1976, a group of school children of making it big in the music industry. When tragedy strikes, opening where he runs into a fellow PhD candidate named in Soweto gathered peacefully to protest the mandatory Mandla, his friend and the band must find the strength to Ara. From this first meeting, the winds of fate set in and what inclusion of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction. By nightfall make their dreams a reality. follows is an unlikely romance between two people from over 200 of them lay dead, mowed down by Apartheid different worlds. armed forces. Forty years later, this film looks at the world Plays With The Bicycle Man (L’homme à la bicyclette) / that made these kids, and how in the absence of political Directed by Twiggy Matiwana, 2016, South Africa, 29 min leadership, they stood up to the might of an oppressive State. Plays With A Place for Myself / Dir. Marie Clémentine Dusabejambo, 2016, Rwanda, 21 min Transformations: Difficult Terril Calder’s Viewing and Listening: Animated Worlds An Experimental
Terril Calder’s Animated Shorts The Lodge Animation Directed by Terril Calder Friday, May 11 / 7 pm 2014, Canada, 73 min Introduced by Terril Calder. Retrospective Saturday, May 12 / 7 pm Terril Calder is a hugely talented Métis artist and stop motion Introduced by Terril Calder. animator now based in Toronto. Her films have won awards Thursday, May 17 / 7 pm and played at festivals around the world from Sundance to The Lodge is a stop-frame animated fairy tale set in the imagineNATIVE and Berlin. A former student at the University Canadian wild. War bride, Pearl Simpson, born in the slums Curated and introduced by Murray Toews. of Manitoba’s School of Fine Art, she was also a member of of England, yearns to rise up from the Animals that co- Independent animators are driven to express themselves the notorious Winnipeg art collective, the Student Bolshevik inhabit her new world to reign as their Queen. However the in bold and experimental ways in a world of conventional group. Calder creates gorgeous hand crafted stop motion Manitous have something else in mind. and standardized norms. Difficult Viewing and Listening: An animated shorts expressing strong First Nations thematic The Lodge weaves together an English fairy tale, “The (Original) Experimental Animation Retrospective is a testament to that spirit concerns. Her work has strongly influenced many Indigenous Three Bears” and the Anishinaabe story of the Dandelion. of experimental individualism. In this retrospective, we will filmmakers and a new generation in film; Spotted Fawn (aka The lead character Pearl Simpson was inspired by Canada’s dive into the Winnipeg Film Group’s rich archive of animation Amanda Strong) and Michelle Latimer were both mentored “Little Emperor”, George Simpson (1787–1860) as both and experience selected works that will reignite your passion and/or assisted by Terril in their animated work. longed for power and control. Unfortunately their damaged for experimental animation and sound. The evening will also perspective needlessly brought suffering to many Indigenous feature a spontaneous combustible sound experience by people around them. AUOH (Chris MAMA Bauer). Bhaji on the Beach PUNJABI CINEMA Directed by Gurinder Chadha 1993, India, 101 min Presented in partnership with the Winnipeg- English and Punjabi with subtitles based Kohinoor Collective, formed by Noor Bhangu and Gurpreet Sehra. Through the Friday, May 18 / 7 PM showcasing of film and video, Kohinoor uses a Celebrated British director Gurinder Chadda’s first feature film critical postcolonial lens to examine historical centers on a busload of Punjabi-British women and a day at and contemporary topics impacting diasporic the beach in Blackpool. Troubles between the women arise on communities. The collective aims to grow into a the topics of feminism, tradition, and modernity set against the strong network of artists and critical thinkers. backdrop of the persistent, old-world racism of a small British coastal town. Billed as a comedy-drama, Bhaji on the Beach offers everything from nosy aunties and Bollywood mania to interracial relationships and surviving domestic violence. Bhaji on the Beach
Being John Malkovich Directed by Spike Jonze 1999, USA, 112 min
Thursday, May 31 / 7 pm In music video maestro Spike Jonze’s crazily inventive feature McDonald debut, down-on-his-luck puppeteer Craig Schwartz discovers at the Movies a mysterious portal that allows him to enter the head of John Malkovich (here sportingly playing himself) for 15 minutes at a time. Soon, he and his cynical co-worker Maxine are charging Once a month, comedian and co-founder of other people for the pleasure of ‘being’ the famously intense actor. Kids in the Hall, Kevin McDonald will present Charlie Kaufman’s ingenious tail-chasing script overflows with all a film handpicked film from the archives of kinds of philosophical questions but, above all, never forgets to be comic history. extremely funny. Introduced by Kevin McDonald. Being John Malkovich Bill Evans: Time Remembered Rain the Colour of Blue with a Little Red in It JAZZ FILM FESTIVAL Directed by Bruce Spiegel (Akounak tedalat taha tazoughai) 2015, USA, 84 min Directed by Christopher Kirkley From one of the most comprehensive docs 2015, Niger, 75 min on women jazz instrumentalists in USA, Kay Friday, June 22 / 7 pm Tamashek with English subtitles Ray’s Lady Be Good, to the intimate, dynamic, Sunday, June 24 / 5 pm & 7 pm portrait of the Flaming Lips, The Fearless Freaks, the Thursday, June 28 / 7 pm Thursday, June 21 / 9 pm Saturday, June 23 / 5 pm stunning desert blues guitar playing of Mdou This film explores the rich history of jazz pianist Bill Evans’ Wednesday, June 27 / 7 pm Moctar in Rain the Colour of Blue with a Little Red in turbulent life and his contribution to jazz music. A deeply It, and lastly don’t miss the eight years-in-the- creative musician Evans was playing professionally by the age Tuareg guitarist Mdou Moctar stars in his first film, a making portrait of the legendary jazz pianist of 13 and later in New York worked as a sideman with Charles revolutionary story of guitars, motorcycles, cellphones — Bill Evans in Bill Evans: Time Remembered. Mingus and Art Farmer. Featuring rare archival footage and the music of a new generation. An homage to Prince’s Sponsored by including his first TV recording, playing Come Rain or Come legendary rock-u-drama Purple Rain, this spirited Niger-set Jazz Winnipeg. Shine, which appeared on CBS Look Up and Live in April 1958, remake is the first ever fictional film made in the Tamashek this compelling story includes interviews with 40 people language. Riding into Agadez on his purple motorcycle, including Tony Bennett, Dr. Billy Taylor, singer Jon Hendricks, real life Tuareg guitarist Mdou Moctar must battle fierce Jim Hall, Gene Lees, and jazz pianist Bill Charlap. competition from jealous musicians, handle family conflicts, endure the trials of love, and overcome his biggest rival — himself. Based on Moctar’s own personal experiences as a The Flaming Lips: The Fearless Freaks Lady Be Good: “desert blues” musician, his stunning guitar performances Directed by Bradley Beesley Instrumental Women in Jazz will leave you breathless. Directed by Kay D. Ray 2005, USA, 103 min 2014, USA, 80 min Friday, June 22 / 9 pm Wednesday, June 20 / 7 pm Thursday, June 28 / 9 pm Saturday & Sunday, June 23 & 24 / 3 pm “ The Fearless Freaks is the most intimate portrait of a band Opening night introduced by Winnipeg jazz vocalist Grace Hrabi. you’re likely to see… as heartwarming and heartbreaking as the band’s music itself,” said Bill Crandall of Rolling Stone. Lady Be Good captures the lost stories of female jazz musicians Beesley captures the Flaming Lips’ deep-set Oklahoma roots (instrumentalists in jazz from the early 1920s to the 1970s) with never-before-seen home movie footage and Coyne with provocative and often humorous interviews with women family photographs. At any given Flaming Lips concert, there musicians, big band leaders, jazz authors and historians. may be puppets and light shows, animal suits and theatrical blood, balloons and confetti, or even a gigantic, Coyne- inhabited plastic ball, and all are represented in Beesley’s film. FanQuest FanQuest, a new fan convention, returns for their second year to Red River College June 23 & 24. In a special co-presentation Cinematheque and FanQuest present a sci-fi evening with Steven Kostankski, the special FX genius from Astron 6 who will introduce his classics Manborg and The Void, (co-directed with Jeremy Gillespie) , along with actress Nicole de Boer who will introduce the cult sci-fi classic Cube. www.fanquestcon.com Sponsored by Fanquest.
Cube Manborg The Void Directed by Vincenzo Natali Directed by Steven Kostanski Directed by Steven Kostanski & Jeremy Gillespie 1997, Canada, 90 min 2011, Canada, 60 min 2016, Canada, 90 min
Saturday, June 23 / 7 pm Saturday, June 23 / 9 pm Saturday, June 23 / 10:30 pm Introduced by Nicole de Boer. Introduced by Steven Kostanski. Introduced by Steven Kostanski. Winner of Best Canadian Feature at the 1997 TIFF Festival, Former Winnipegger FX genius Steven Kostanski and his “Nightmarish… the results recall beasts from films as diverse Cube is one of the best sci-fi cult films ever made in Canada. fellow Father‘s Day Astron-6 members collaborated on a fast as John Carpenter’s The Thing, Stuart Gordon’s From Beyond, and Seven strangers wake up in a prison constructed of cube paced science fiction tale set in the future. The Gates of Hell Clive Barker’s Hellraiser… fantastic effects make for horrific fun.“ like cells which seem to be constantly reconfiguring in some have been opened and the Earth is engaged in worldwide — Rob Hunter, Film School Rejects mysterious pattern. They try to figure out why they are there, battle with Draculon and his army. A young soldier, killed in In the middle of a routine patrol, Officer Daniel Carter happens what exactly the cube structure is and then eventually how battle is pulled from the battlefield and rebuilt with an array upon a blood-soaked figure limping down a deserted stretch to get out. It transpires that some of the cubes contain of cybernetic parts and weapons. He awakens as Manborg of road. He rushes the young man to a nearby rural hospital nasty booby traps but as the tension rises it is clear that in a future ruled by Draculon and his evil henchmen, the Baron which is staffed by a skeleton crew, only to discover that patients the greatest danger to them is each other. This is a brilliant, and Shadow Mega, and teams up with a rag tag group of and personnel are transforming into something inhuman. As the claustrophobic horror film which shows just what you can freedom fighters. For an incredible out of pocket cost of $1,000 horror intensifies, Carter leads the other survivors on a hellish achieve with a low budget, a simple set and a great script. or so, Kostanski has created an entertaining homage to 1980s voyage into the subterranean depths of the hospital. —Simon Hill, Eat Horror VHS classics and films like Guyver 2, Tron, and The Eliminators.
THE The WINNIPEG Digital UNDERGROUND Lodge FILM FESTIVAL
Saturday & Sunday, June 2 & 3 SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $10 ALL ADMISSIONS. NO PASSES.
“The Winnipeg Underground Film Festival seeks new and engaging moving-image works which deviate from traditional cinematic forms (whatever that means).” That’s how we framed our international open call for submissions heading into our sixth year, and now WUFF is back this June 1–3 with another stacked lineup of the best experimental film and video from Canada and around the world! This year for the first time WUFF is teaming up with the Winnipeg Film Group to screen seven programs on Saturday June 2nd and Sunday June 3rd, in their iconic Cinematheque theatre. Highlights from our sixth edition include new films by Mike Hoolboom Thursday, June 21 / 7 pm (Canada), Ben Edelberg (Canada), Henning Frederick Malz and Leslie Supnet (Canada), Michael Q&A with the student filmmakers to follow the screening. Robinson (USA), Ryan Betschart & Rachel Nakawatase (USA), and Grace Mitchell (USA). In addition to screenings at the Cinematheque, WUFF will be kicking things off at Forth (171 McDermot Ave) on In honour of National Indigenous People’s Day, students Friday, June 1st, with our annual 90 Second screening and a collection of multiple-projector films and from Thompson, Manitoba and the Digital Lodge project are performances, including Kristin Reeves’ (USA) 9x16mm piece What Is Nothing (After What Is Nothing). screening a selection of their film work. Working with various Manitoba filmmakers and artists, the students, now in grade 11, Full festival passes are available for sale now at the WFG online store. Full program details will be announced at www.winnipeguff.com on the have spent the last 5 years creating animation, documentary, first of May—Stay tuned! music videos and non-fiction films. They have curated a WUFF is presented in association with the Winnipeg Film Group. selection of their work to share with Winnipeg audiences. May/June Staff Picks
I am most excited to see Boom for Real, which follows Jean- tribute with Star Robot: Back to the Markus. Cinematheque is some sci-fi like Manborg and Star Robot: Back to the Markus. Michel Basquiat as a teen during the early 80’s. If you do not only as good as its community partnerships and this program — Sam Sarty, Cinematheque Box Office & Projection know the artist or his work, please come see this. On top of presents an exciting new series of Punjabi films—kicking off that, Raoul Peck, the acclaimed director of I Am Not Your with Bhaji on the Beach—in partnership with the Kohinoor Don’t miss the stop motion works of the amazing Métis Negro, returns with The Young Karl Marx, which I have very collective of Winnipeg. Black Space Winnipeg returns with animator Terril Calder, whose films have played at festivals high hopes for. Also be sure to check out the African Movie Ganja & Hess, an intelligent and genre-busting alternative to around the world from Sundance to Berlin; or the incredibly Festival in Manitoba and the Punjabi Cinema night for some the rush of Blaxploitation films of the 70s. Speaking of the 70s imaginative dream world of Guy Maddin and Galen & Evan beautifully stimulating masterworks from around the globe. (my favourite decade of film), I am pleased to present the new Johnson in their mysterious new film Green Fog. MAWA and — Omid Moterassed, Cinematheque Box Office & Projection restoration of Sergio Corbucci’s landmark Euro-western The Cinematheque present a wonderful portrait of the pioneering Great Silence, starring Herzog’s best fiend Klaus Kinski. Japanese artist Kusama who is stunning the art world with her Kusama – Infinity really stood out to me because of my love — David Knipe, Cinematheque Operations Manager Infinity Room installation. You’ll also love the hilarious portrait of sculptural contemporary art. Yayoi Kusama is the top selling of the incredibly popular Indian sex advice columnist in Ask the female artist in the world, and I am looking forward to learning This program is filled with great stuff including the Winnipeg Sexpert. Finally, watch for some of the best new contemporary more about her journey through this documentary. Additionally Underground Film Festival! WUFF is always a great time that jazz docs in Jazz Film Fest—Bill Evans: Time Remembered, Lady Loveless (Nelyubov) is high on my list of films to see this spring. promises to challenge its audience with new and inventive work Be Good and Rain: The Color of Blue with a Little Red in It. The tone and vibe promise a thrilling, suspenseful ride that I from some of the world’s most cutting edge artists. I strongly — Dave Barber, Cinematheque Programming Coordinator really don’t want to miss. Andrey Zvyagintsev has many highly suggest you check out the short The Talk directed by Winnipeg praised films under his belt and Loveless is just another chance filmmaker Alain Delannoy, which plays with the doc Ask the Years ago, when I was working in a different job at the WFG, a to experience his talented filmmaking.— Thomas Hanan, Sexpert. The animated film played at a wide variety of film very young man came into the office looking for someone to Cinematheque Box Office festivals including Tribeca Film Festival. If there is one film you help him make some video copies of his new animated short need to watch this program, it’s The Talk! — Milos Mitrovic, film. I helped him out and half expected to see some kind of cute I saw Jane when we screened it this past February. I found Cinematheque Technical Liaison school project—but wow, was I way off! This film had to be one myself completely overjoyed with the dazzling beauty of its of the most fantastic, sophisticated and visually exciting stop- archival footage! My eyes were just shimmering with the I’m looking forward to seeing Vaishali Sinha’s Ask the Sexpert, motion films I’d seen come out of Winnipeg in quite some time, gorgeous emerald greens and sapphire blues. It has an engaging a doc about a 90-year old sex columnist in India. It’s always maybe ever, and it was made by a 15-year-old! This kid’s name score, stunning visuals, and a great story of a woman we know fun to have conversations around “taboos” and to challenge was Steven Kostanski. I knew then to expect great things from and love. I’m very excited to see this beautiful documentary perceptions of norms—like in Heather Lenz’ Kusama—Infinity, him. I can’t tell you how pleased I am that this has now come return! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. where we’ll experience Yayoi Kusama’s immersive art world full circle with us hosting Steven for a special screening of his — Stephanie Poruchnyk-Butler, Cinematheque Box Office bending and twisting reality as we know it. Another one that two feature films Manborg and The Void as part of FanQuest. moves through alternate realms is Guy Maddin’s The Green Fog. — Jaimz Asmundson, Cinematheque Programming Director Winnipeg cult film devotees rejoice! The chance to finally see a And anything with the Winnipeg Underground Film Fest will Greg Roth film on the big screen is coming this May when we pay have you feeling extra transported. I’m also interested in seeing We acknowledge that Cinematheque isonTreaty One landand on thehomelandof Métis. [email protected] Executive Director Greg Klymkiw STAFF LIST Cinematheque Programming Coordinator Dave Barber [email protected] Cinematheque Programming Director Jaimz Asmundson CINEMATHEQUE Cinematheque Technical Liaison Milos Mitrovic Cinematheque Operations Manager David Knipe Distribution Coordinator Stephanie Berrington [email protected] Distribution Director Monica Lowe DISTRIBUTION CENTRE Program Coordinator Milos Mitrovic Technical Coordinator Dylan Baillie [email protected] Production Centre Director Ben Williams PRODUCTION CENTRE
Left to right: Jaimz Asmundson, David Knipe, Steph Berrington, Milos Mitrovic, Eric Peterson, Dylan Baillie, Sam Sarty, Monica Lowe, Dave Barber, and Thomas Hanan. Photo by Travis Ross.