MAY / JUNE 2010 Cinematheque PROGRAM New World Documentaries | Canadian Shorts, Artist Talks & Live Film Performances Cinema Lounge: Critical Dialogue on Canadian Cinema | THE WORK OF PAULA KELLY Canadian + International Feature Films

BLACK FIELD DIR. DANISHKA ESTERHAZY | 2009 | CANADA | 80 MIN. Starring Sara Canning, Mathieu Bourguet, Ferron Guerreiro Winner: Best Canadian Feature Film, 2010 Female Eye Film Festival *Fri May 28 Opening Night Q & A with cast and crew *Fri Jun 4 Introduction by the director ››Fri May 28–7 & 9 PM ››Sat May 29 to Sun May 30–7 PM ››Wed Jun 2 to Sun Jun 6–7 PM ››Wed Jun 9 to Thu Jun 10–7 PM Winnipeg director Danishka Esterhazy’s debut feature film, Black Field, is a historical drama set in 19th century Manitoba about two sisters and the man who comes between them. Inspired by the gothic novels of the Brontë sisters, Black Field is the story of Maggie McGregor and her sister Rose, who find themselves left without any help to support their farm following the death of their father. The young sisters’ lives are forever changed when a mysterious and charming man, David Latouche, arrives at their isolated farm. As the mesmerizing French Canadian trapper starts to win the sisters over, love, lust, desperation, and – finally – tragedy unfold, all surrounded within the stunning cinematography of Winnipeg’s Paul Suderman. “A gothic love letter to the prairies…Esterhazy’s tale of romance and betrayal is a striking period piece.” – Uptown Magazine

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ANTICHRIST THE ROOM “What’s miraculous about Xavier encounter along the way.” This low- Dolan’s feature debut, I Killed My budget independent miracle, created Mother (J’ai tué ma mère) — is for a mere $16,000, was accepted into that he did it while he was still a the prestigious Berlin Film Festival, teenager. To see an incandescent and would serve as a preview of the talent captured in all its raw, capacity of the filmmakers that would youthful vitality is rare… come to emerge from Winnipeg against a remarkably assured work.” all odds, inspired by the achievement of DIR. TOMMY WISEAU | 2003 | USA | 99 MIN. Hanec and following in his footsteps. DIR. LARS VON TRIER | 2009 | DENMARK, – Brian Johnson / MacLeans FRANCE, SWEDEN & ITALY | 104 MIN. Starring Tommy Wiseau, Juliette Danielle, Plays with the shorts: with Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg Greg Sestero warning: This film contains Explicit Violence and Sexual Content › ››Fri May 7 to Sat May 8 – 9 PM SNAKE RIVER › FM YOUTH (Dir. Stéphane Oystryk, 2009, Canada, 2 MIN.) –Young, bored ››Wed May 5 to Thu May 6 – 9 PM ››Wed May 12 to Thu May 13 – 9 PM DIR. JOE NOVAK | 2009 | CANADA 94 MIN. and Franco-Manitoban. Lars von Trier is back with the beautiful, An emerging cult classic, director Starring Milton Bruchanski, Kimberly Rampersad terrifying and altogether engrossing ›› NIGHT MAYOR (Dir. Guy Maddin, Tommy Wiseau’s The Room is the ››Wed May 19 – 8:30 PM Antichrist. Following the death of their melodramatic story of a love triangle 2009, Canada, 10 MIN.) child, a grieving couple retreat to their between a man, his fiancée and his Winnipeg director Joe Novak’s debut – A fantastical film about the night isolated cabin in the woods in hopes best friend. First released in 2003, The feature film, Snake River, is a late mayor of Winnipeg, an inventor of of repairing their broken hearts and Room is overtaking The Rocky Horror 1800’s western that follows a Civil Bosnian descent who harnesses the troubled marriage. But nature takes Picture Show as a camp masterpiece War veteran in his search for meaning power of aurora borealis to transmit it course, and things go from bad to and Ed Wood’s Plan Nine from Outer after the atrocities he has experienced. distinctly Canadian images across worse. Space as possibly the worst movie ever Violence follows him and the only home the Great White North. made. Made for over $7 million, and he knows is destroyed by the ambitions COOKING WITH STELLA independently financed, word of mouth of a childhood friend, but his life is ZOOEY & ADAM about this film is spreading like wildfire. changed when he meets Mya, a widow It has been described by one critic as and freed slave, and her son. Together, being “compelled by madness so strong they seem to find a level of peace, that it leaks into the real world,” and but Jacob’s past eventually catches has earned the acknowledgement that up with him and it will forever affect “cinematic travesties this complete only their future. Snake River was shot in happen once in a generation.” Is this Birds Hill Park, the Manitoba Museum, DIR. DILIP MEHTA | 2009 | CANADA | 103 MIN. film worthy of its increasing recognition Fort Gibraltar and in the RM’s around English with Hindi as a cult classic? You decide. Winnipeg. * May 9 Mother’s Day Special – bring your mother (or somebody who is like a mother to you) and DOWNTIME receive 2 for 1 admission I KILLED MY MOTHER ››Fri May 7 to Sun May 9–7 PM (J’AI TUÉ MA MÈRE) DIR. SEAN GARRITY | 2009 | CANADA 85 MIN. ››Wed May 12 – 7 PM DIR. XAVIER DOLAN | 2009 | CANADA 96 MIN. Starring Tom Keenan, Daria Puttaert Cooking with Stella is a comedy about ››Thu May 20 – 8:30 PM a Canadian diplomat, her husband and French, with English subtitles their cook – Stella. Stella is as brilliant ››Fri May 21 to Sat May 22 – 8:30 PM One of Canada’s most imaginative as a cook as she is at creatively padding ››Sun May 23 – 7 PM independent filmmakers, Winnipeg’s her salary–with a few pilfered items, ››Wed May 26 to Thu May 27– 7 & 9 PM DIR. GREG HANEC | 1986 | CANADA | 66 MIN. Sean Garrity (Inertia, Lucid) has created some minor overcharging, and a special ››Thu May 20 – 7 PM a controversial new feature which has The debut feature film of 20 year old phone-order duty free business. She split audiences everywhere. Adam Québec director Xavier Dolan, I Killed One of the first feature films ever to agrees to teach the husband South and Zooey have been trying to have a My Mother is a semi-autobiographical have been completed in Manitoba, Indian cuisine, but her cozy domestic baby for several months, only to end film about a gay teenager at odds with Downtime captures the dark and set-up implodes when Tannu, an up pregnant after a rape. Unsure of the his mother, a divorced lower-middle mysterious world of Winnipeg as honest nanny, joins the household and patronage of their child, they decide to class suburban mom who seems to be grim, grimy and gruesome, where threatens to expose Stella’s deceptions. have the baby anyway. Haunting and doing the best that she can. I Killed 20-somethings scrape by in dead-end Eventually Stella wins Tannu’s full emotionally devastating, some festivals My Mother made its stunning debut jobs. Downtime is reflective of director cooperation and this unlikely partnership have refused to screen the film on the at the Cannes Film Festival, where it Greg Hanec’s unique “cinema of embarks on a much grander, riskier grounds that it is too contentious, yet took home four awards, and went on to awkward” style, where his works are scam. An unexpected kind of justice it has sparked an incredible debate become Canada’s official nomination for – according to critic Caelum Vatnsdal is found and Michael learns many everywhere it has played. Best Foreign Language Film at the 2010 – “less about artistic process than important lessons from his teacher, Academy Awards. about the speed bumps, hurdles and including glorious traditional South unbreachable walls that artists Indian cooking. And Stella? Well... let’s just say dreams sometimes come true in unexpected ways.

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ME AND New World ORSON WELLES Dir. RICHARD LINKLATER | 2009 | USA Documentaries 109 MIN.

››Wed Jun 2 to Sat Jun 5 – 9 PM CLUB NATIVE their 10th Anniversary show AND THIS IS MY Richard Linklater’s Me and Orson Welles in Nova Scotia. The concert footage is is one of the best movies about theatre electrifying and captures “one of the GARDEN I’ve ever seen. most feverishly intense and exciting live bands on the planet.” The film involves the Mercury’s (the company of Orson Welles) first production, a Julius Caesar set in OUR NEON CITY Mussolini’s Italy. It sees this enterprise through the eyes of Richard Samuels (Zac Efron) a young actor who is hired DIR. TRACEY DEER | 2008 | CANADA | 78 MIN. DIR. KATHARINA STIEFFENHOFER | 2010 CANADA | 60 MIN. as a mascot by Orson Welles, and * Presented in conjunction with the Mayworks ››Fri May 21 to Sat May 22 – 7 PM somehow rises to a speaking role. He is Festival of Labour and the Arts ››Sun May 23 – 4 PM star struck and yet self possessed and ››Wed May 5 to Thu May 6 – 7 PM emboldened by a sudden romance that Set in the small community of Waboden, In Club Native, filmmaker Tracey Deer overtakes him with a Mercury cohort, Manitoba, And This Is My Garden uses Kahnawake, her hometown, Sonja Jones (Clare Danes). The film is explores an innovative school gardening as a lens to probe deeply into the steeped in theatre lore. The impossible program that is breaking new ground history and contemporary reality of DIR. KEVIN NIKKEL | 2009 | CANADA | 41 MIN. hours, the rehearsals, the gossip, the in education and literally growing a Aboriginal identity. Club Native is a *Introduced By Kevin Nikkel intrigue, the hazards of stage trap doors, healthier community in the process. candid and deeply moving look at the ››Wed May 19 – 7 PM the quirks of personalities, the egos… Schoolteacher Eleanor Woitowicz is pain, confusion and frustration suffered – Roger Ebert Through Our Neon City, Winnipeg spearheading an education-based by many First Nations people as they filmmaker Kevin Nikkel has created sustainable food movement called struggle for the most important right of portraits of five Winnipeg institutions the Mel Johnson School Gardening LESLIE, MY all: the right to belong. On the Mohawk based on the neon signs which marked Project. Woitowicz teaches students reserve of Kahnawake, located just NAME IS EVIL their existence: Winnipeg’s Turkish Baths how to take care of their own backyard outside the city of Montreal, there are was a luxury spa that disappeared when vegetable gardens and reap the rewards two firm but unspoken rules drummed the Royal Alexandra Hotel was torn of growing their own organic foods. The into every member of the community: down in 1971, and which had served Mel Johnson project has caught the Do not marry a white person and do travellers who wanted a steam and a eye of many influential organizations not have a child with a white person. soak for 60 years; Dojack’s Winnipeg including the David Suzuki Foundation, Following the stories of four women, she Musical Supply which began with a Manitoba Conservation and even the reveals the exclusionary attitudes that horse-drawn cart on Main Street and United Nations. divide the community and many others closed in 1982; The legendary Blue Note like it across Canada. DIR. REG HARKEMA | 2009 | CANADA Café where accomplished performers send+receive: 85 MIN. would commonly drop in for guest 10 YEARS OF SOUND ››Fri Jun 25 – 9 PM THE WHITE STRIPES: sets; Cliffords, which kept women stylish for 70 years; and The Bell Hotel, ››Sat Jun 26 – 9:30 PM UNDER GREAT WHITE which offered beds to rail roaders and ››Wed Jun 30 to Thu Jul 1 – 9 PM NORTHERN LIGHTS bar hoppers down on their luck. Our Leslie, My Name is Evil is loosely-based DIR. EMMETT MALLOY | 2010 | USA | 93 MIN. Neon City features interviews and rare on the trial of Charles Manson and his * Sat May 15 Opening Performance by Cannon archival photographs. followers. Perry, a sheltered chemical Bros – Cole Woods and Alannah Walker Plays with the shorts: engineer, falls in love with Leslie, a ››Fri May 14 to Sat May 15 – 9:30 PM DIR. CAELUM VATNSDAL | 2009 | CANADA | former homecoming princess, when he ››Sun May 16 – 7 PM ›› SAVE THE ALPHABET HOUSE 83 MIN. is selected to be a jury member at her (Dirs. Ed and Brandon Ackerman, In the summer of 2007, shortly after the death cult murder trial. Perry has always 2009, Canada, 3 MIN.) – An assembly *Introduced by crys cole release of their 6th album, Icky Thump, done what is expected of him: he was a of stop motion animation that was ››Sat May 29 – 9 PM The White Stripes headed north of straight-A student who got a good job used at a recent Committee meeting their hometown of Detroit to embark on For 12 years, Winnipeg has hosted and proposed to his Christian girlfriend, at City Hall. an ambitious journey across Canada. send+receive, an internationally Dorothy. Leslie took a different path The plan was to play a show in every acclaimed festival of sound art. after she was traumatized by Kennedy’s ›› THE MCINTYRE BLOCK (Dir. Bob province and territory in Canada. The assassination, an abortion and the Lower, 1977, Canada, 20 MIN.) – A film captures intimate moments of Jack Continued on page 4 ➔ divorce of her parents. She took LSD, portrait of the tenants of a once great and Meg both on and off stage as they joined a hippie death cult and helped Main Street building (built in 1898) travelled to the most remote parts of the murder a God-fearing citizen in her own which lost out to the wrecker’s ball. Yukon Territory and to bowling alleys, on home. When Perry and Leslie lock eyes a city bus in Winnipeg and to in court, Perry is forced to confront the darkest parts of him and by extension, society. 3 | CINEMAThEQUE MAy / june 2010 New World

Documentaries LAST TRAIN HO M E

Artists and audiences alike have come FOR THE NEXT CHARLIE HADEN: ONE FAST MOVE OR to Winnipeg and performed, participated and listened. At the same time, there 7 GENERATIONS RAMBLING BOY I’M GONE: KEROUAC’S is still a degree of mystery within the BIG SUR community about just what exactly send DIR. CURT WORDEN | 2009 | USA | 98 MIN. +receive is all about. To commemorate *Sat June 26 performance by Triunfo do Gato the history of this important Canadian ››Fri Jun 25 to *Sat Jun 26 – 7 PM festival, Winnipeg filmmaker Caelum ››Wed Jun 30 to Thu Jul 1 – 7 PM Vatnsdal has created a feature length documentary tracing its history with One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s footage of past festival events alongside Big Sur examines beat poet Jack Kerouac’s escape from post ‘On The interviews with past and present Artistic DIR. CAROLE HART | 2009 | USA | 90 MIN. DIR. RETO CADUFF | 2009 | SWITZERLAND Directors Steve Bates and crys cole. 84 MIN. Road’ fame to his dream of an isolated ››Fri Jun 18 to Sun Jun 20 – 7 PM Performance excerpts featured include * Introduction by Steve Kirby retreat in a cabin at Big Sur, where he searches for inner peace. His road comes local and international artists Lee In 2004, 13 Indigenous Grandmothers ››Thu Jun 24 – 7 PM Ranaldo, Ken Gregory, Blunderspublik from all four corners, moved by their full circle with this self-exploration, and many more. concern for our planet, came together at Charlie Haden: Rambling Boy is an resulting in an alcohol-fueled paranoia a historic gathering, where they decided intimate look at the music and life of one and a plunge into madness. The story LAST TRAIN HOME to form an alliance: The International of jazz’s most inspiring and influential unfolds in several synchronous ways: Council of Thirteen Indigenous musicians, legendary jazz bassist through the narrative arc of Kerouac’s DIR. LIXIN FAN | 2009 | CANADA | 85 MIN. Charlie Haden. The director had access prose, told in voice-over by actor and Mandarin and Sichuan, with English subtitles Grandmothers. This is their story. Four years in-the-making and shot on location to Haden’s own personal archive, film Kerouac interpreter John Ventimiglia (of ››Fri Jun 11 – 9 PM in the Amazon rainforest, the mountains sequences shot during concerts and HBO’s The Sopranos); through first-hand ››Sat Jun 12 – 9:15 PM of Mexico, North America, and at a recording sessions, interviews with accounts and recollections of Kerouac’s ››Sun Jun 13 –7 PM private meeting with the Dalai Lama in an incredible selection of friends and contemporaries, whom many of the › ›Wed Jun 16 to Thu Jun 17 – 7 PM India, For the Next 7 Generations follows collaborators. Featuring historic footage characters in the book are based on ››Sat Jun 19 – 9 PM what happens when these wise women of the Haden Family Band and Ornette such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Carolyn Coleman in Portugal, this documentary Cassady, Joyce Johnson and Michael Every spring, China’s cities are plunged unite. Facing a world in crisis, they share will please seasoned jazz fans as well McClure; by the interpretations and into chaos, as all at once, a tidal wave with us their visions of healing and a call as the newly initiated. Haden’s deep reflections of writers, poets, actors of humanity attempts to return home for change now, before it’s too late. This resonance and rich melodicism helped and musicians who have been deeply by train. It is the Chinese New Year. film documents their unparalleled journey Ornette Coleman introduce free jazz in influenced by Kerouac’s unique gifts like The wave is made up of millions of and timely perspectives on a timeless the ‘60s. And it is his collaboration with Tom Waits, Sam Shepard, Robert Hunter, migrant factory workers. Last Train Home wisdom. Coleman that has put Haden on the map Patti Smith, Aram Saroyan, Donal Logue draws us into the fractured lives of a The film is presented in solidarity with ever since. and S.E. Hinton. single migrant family caught up in this the first community event of the Truth desperate annual migration. Sixteen and Reconciliation Commission of Special Thanks to Paul Nolin Triunfo do Gato (‘triumph of the cat’ years ago, the Zhangs abandoned their Canada, June 16 to 19 in Winnipeg, near Steve Kirby is the Artistic Director translated in Portuguese) is the band young children to find work in the city, The Forks. The Truth and Reconciliation of Jazz Studies at the University of project of Julia Ryckman and Rob consoled by the hope that their wages Commission is mandated to create a Manitoba Faculty of Music. Performing Vilar. Their mission is to create a form would lift their children into a better complete historical record and to collect extensively and recording with some of of Winnipeg-based pop music that life. In a bitter irony, the Zhangs’ hopes individual statements about residential the most high profile jazz artists working encompasses elements of localized for the future are undone by their very school experiences and impacts. today, he acts as Artistic Director of story, atmosphere and decay. absence. Intimate and candid, the film the Izzy Asper Jazz performances, is paints a human portrait of the dramatic creator and editor of dig! Magazine and changes sweeping China. is Artistic Director of Jazz on Wheels, an inner-city jazz education program.

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PRAIRIE TALES 11: NEW at Cinematheque, in celebration of PANEL DISCUSSION: Manitoban Asian Heritage Month. The WORKS BY ALBERTA program is a selection of the Toronto THE ESSENTIALS OF FILMMAKERS festival’s best shorts, including Winnipeg BEING A FILMMAKER IN animator Leslie Supnet’s A Small WINNIPEG Misunderstanding. Other works featured include Ali Kazimi, John Greyson, and * FREE ADMISSION Richard Fung’s unique interpretation of ››Wed June 23 – 7 PM history, Rex vs. Singh, Randall Okita’s Winnipeggers Deco Dawson, Jeffrey innovative Fish in Barrel and Paramita Erbach, Danishka Esterhazy, Sean Nath’s haunting and miraculous new Garrity and Paula Kelly have all built * TEAM ENTRY FEE: $10 work Found, about Toronto-based Lao accomplished careers as independent poet Souvankham Thammavongsa. filmmakers, achieving a level of * Admission to final screening: $5 Leslie Supnet is a visual artist and recognition for their work that only a very ››Sun Jun 27 – 7:30 PM few in Winnipeg have attained. While Curated by Ian Leung animator from Winnipeg whose Ever wanted to make a film? Like a any successful career as an independent * FREE ADMISSION whimsical reproductions of everyday challenge? Now’s your chance! It’s experience enter into the key of the filmmaker is founded in making ‘good’ th ››Sun May 2 – 7 PM the 6 annual 48 Hour Film Contest! films, there are also a lot of experiences surreal. Teams must register on FRIDAY, JUNE The Prairie Tales touring program of new – and lessons learned – that can take a 25 between 5:30 – 6:30 PM in the Alberta short films breaks in its second filmmaker into the realm of national and EVEN FLOWERS WAKE Cinematheque lobby. For the first time decade with a strong collection of 16 international recognition. In this panel ever, teams will randomly draw a sub- new works on film and video. Featured in UP IN THE MORNING: discussion that is targeted at aspiring genre, line of dialogue / text and a prop this program include Ben Charleton and and emerging filmmakers, these five NEW FEMINIST SHORTS / item to include in their film. The only Jessica McCarrel’s Transient Bodies, an directors will provide insight into the Curated by Brenda Longfellow two rules are (1) you must shoot and abstract representation of the internet process of evolving from aspiring to * FREE ADMISSION edit your entire film in the designated as a fog of linguistic confusion, and be a filmmaker, to becoming one – and ››Sat May 15 – 7 PM 48-hours using the randomly chosen award-winning queer filmmaker Trevor then how to sustain this career. Among objects, and (2) your film must be a Anderson’s The Island, the story of what Brenda Longfellow will introduce a the topics to be discussed include how maximum of 4 minutes. Completed films would happen if gay people had their series of exceptional short films she has to successfully bridge the gap between must be dropped off at Cinematheque on own place in the world. curated, based on feminist filmmaking art and industry, and the role played by SUNDAY, JUNE 27 between 5:30 – 6:30 practices. Works featured include Kara the conscious awareness of a unique PM (playable, non-looped DVD; miniDV; Blake’s The Delian Mode, Alexandra voice. A screening of a selection of short SENSE OF WONDER: 16mm; 35mm). All films will premiere on Grimanis’ Lucky Girl, Althea Arnaquq- films by each of the filmmakers will BEST OF THE REEL ASIAN SUNDAY, JUNE 27 at 7:30 PM. All are Baril’s Inuit High Kick, and Shazia Javed’s complement the discussion. welcome! CANADIAN SHORTS Namrtaa. This 80-minute program of The Winnipeg Film Group acknowledges the generous support Introduced by Leslie Supnet shorts reveals the excellent independent of On Screen Manitoba More information on the 48 Hour Film * FREE ADMISSION work being accomplished by women Contest is available at ››Thu May 13 – 7 PM filmmakers in Canada. www.winnipegfilmgroup.com The Best of Asian Canadian Shorts, Sense of Wonder marks the Reel Asian Film Festival’s first cross-Canada tour and its second curated program presented

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Shadows and light, the arrangement THE NOTORIOUS Plays with the trio of short films, APPASSIONATA: THE of objects in space, relationships Souvenirs, created through the between people and their worlds are MRS. ARMSTRONG Winnipeg Arts Council’s Public Art EXTRAORDINARY LIFE the stuff of filmmaking. Paula Kelly’s Program during an artist residency at & MUSIC OF SONIA strength as a filmmaker lies in her the City of Winnipeg Archives, and her ECKHARDT-GRAMATTÉ ability to imagine, and define and newest short film,B log Winnipeg: DIR. PAULA KELLY | 2006 | CANADA | 95 MIN. reshape, compelling stories. Central to ›› SAND & STONE (Dir. Paula Kelly, * Introduced by Paula Kelly her filmic storytelling is a dedication 2008, Canada, 6 MIN.) * FREE ADMISSION to, and love for, comprehensive – Sand and Stone digs up the ››Sat Jun 12 – 7 PM research. Resisting limits to both her DIR. PAULA KELLY | 2001 | CANADA | 44 MIN. history of hard labour and the urban inspiration and her form of expression, * FREE ADMISSION landscape — the workers who In this documentary portrait, we explore she works in the experimental, the passionate spirit of Sophie-Carmen * Introduced by Paula Kelly sweated its surfaces and shapes, and documentary and dramatic genres... the primary materials they used to (Sonia) Eckhardt-Gramatté who defied ››Fri June 11 – 7 PM Paula’s varied background as a history construct a city. all barriers to become one of the most student, reporter and writer, and her intriguing and contemporary composers The Notorious Mrs. Armstrong follows sensitivity to the visual aesthetic, of the 20th century. In an unusual twist the political career of a lesser known yet ›› WATERMARKS (Dir. Paula Kelly, surface in the subjects she explores of fate, Sonia’s epic artistic odyssey extremely important figure in Winnipeg 2008, Canada, 11 MIN.) and how she brings the stories to would eventually take her from the great and Canadian history, Helen Armstrong. – Watermarks travels the emotional European capitals of Paris, Berlin and the screen. Her films have screened Armstrong, a working class mother, was currents evoked by the experience of Vienna all the way to Winnipeg, a raw around the world and a number well known in Winnipeg in the early flooding in the lives of city dwellers, new cultural outpost of western Canada of awards and honours have been 1900s where she was described as a and looks for imprints left behind in 1953. With dramatic sequences, bestowed upon the filmmaker and her radical agitator and often ended up in after the waters recede. interviews, and performances of Sonia’s projects. jail for her endeavours. “Outraged and ›› WAITING FOR THE PARADE (Dir. works complementing the impressive (Tricia Wasney, excerpted from her essay With outrageous” was one way to describe Paula Kelly, 2008, Canada, 7 MIN.) archival components, documentary Abundant Curiosity: The Films of Paula Kelly) the woman who was notorious for her – Waiting for the Parade transforms maker Paula Kelly has created a fight for equality for women in the work SIFTING HISTORY: THE WORK OF the 75th anniversary celebration of sympathetic and revealing portrait of a place. Her indestructible optimism PAULA KELLY is a retrospective look at Winnipeg in 1948 into a provocative unique love triangle. carried her through very difficult times. Winnipeg filmmaker Paula Kelly’s career discourse on decades of progress and She was one of the organizers of the in conjunction with her recent award, regress, cynicism and hope. Featuring a special live performance historic 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, the Manitoba Film Hothouse Award by musical guest by Oleg Pokhanovski which saw 35,000 workers on the picket for Creative Development. This award, ›› BLOG WINNIPEG (Dir. Paula Kelly, performing Violin Caprice # 7: The line for six weeks, until it ended in a designed to provide recognition to the 2010, Canada, 12 MIN.) Departing Train (Le depart d’un train). volatile confrontation known as Bloody depth of local directing talent Manitoba – A unique, irreverent and funny short Oleg Pokhanovski, Associate Professor Saturday. Armstrong’s continued actions has right here at home, is funded with documentary about the love/hate of Violin at the University of Manitoba, as a union organizer helped persuade the the generous support of the Province of relationship we have with our city. will perform a short violin work of government of Manitoba to institute the Manitoba. astonishing virtuosity composed by Minimum Wage Act and give liveable S. C. Eckhardt-Gramatté prior to the wages to women. screening of the film Appassionata. He is presently working on recording the We additionally acknowledge the generosity On Screen complete works for violin and piano by Manitoba for sponsoring this retrospective series. S.C. Eckhardt-Gramatté.

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The Cinema Lounge: Critical Dialogue Brenda Longfellow introduces Luc Bourdon and his editor have ABOUT BRENDA on Canadian Cinema free-admission THE MEMORY OF created a stunning film look at the city LONGFELLOW series was created to spark a dialogue of Montreal from the archives of the about Canadian cinema and help ANGELS (La Mémoire past. Memories of Angels recalls Wim Writer and filmmaker Brenda combat the onslaught of Hollywood des Angels) Wenders’ Wings of Desire in which Longfellow has published articles on publicity that saturates all film media DIR. LUC BOURDON | 2008 | CANADA angels flew over and watched the city feminist film theory and Canadian coverage in Canada. Through this 80 MIN. of Berlin. It has the same dream like cinema. She is a co-editor of the series, the Winnipeg Film Group invites French, with English subtitles quality allowing us to fly from Place anthology Gendering the Nation: renowned Canadian filmmakers to * FREE ADMISSION Ville Marie under construction to Canadian Women Filmmakers and is an award winning documentary filmmaker, select and write about a work or ››Fri May 14 – 7 PM the workers in a textile factory. Like works from the vast and rich body of today’s DJ’s and VJ’s who energize receiving a Genie for Gwendolyn Canadian cinema that have impacted One of the most beautifully composed contemporary music and art, Luc MacEwen, ShadowMaker and the them as artists. This unique series experimental documentaries in recent Bourdon draws from the fertile source Oberhausen Award for Our Marilyn. contributes to a larger awareness and years, The Memories of Angels will of great Quebec cinema and recycles Longfellow is currently the Chair of the understanding of Canadian cinema. charm audiences of all ages. Comprised the sights and sounds of the past, Department of Film at York University. entirely of an assembly of rare film lending them a new and unexpected Her research interest includes scenes from classic NFB films of the texture. The Memories of Angels also Feminist film theory; gender and 1950’s and 1960’s, Quebec director showcases the singular beauty of national identity; women and cinema; Montreal, its architectural and human film-making; women and culture, wealth and the grandeur of its setting. environmentalism and globalization.

ANNUAL WINE + CHOCOLATE GALA: PROFILING MICHAEL DRABOT * Single tickets $55, with a $40 tax receipt

››Sat May 1 – 7 PM The Winnipeg Film Group acknowledges the generous support of the sponsors of our fundraising gala: This year, the Winnipeg Film Group’s annual fundraising Wine + Chocolate Gala will honour Michael Drabot and his contribution to Manitoba film and video making over several decades. This event will include a screening of some Drabot’s own films and videos, created in the 80s, and a discussion by Drabot himself. Funds raised through this event are used to provide vital support for the Winnipeg Film Group and our Cinematheque. The screening and presentation will be followed by a wine and chocolate reception.

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MAY 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 7:00 PM Annual Wine and Chocolate Gala - Profiling Michael Drabot 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 7:00 PM Prairie Tales 11 (FREE ADMISSION) 7:00 PM Club Native 7:00 PM Club Native 7:00 PM Cooking with Stella 7:00 PM Cooking with Stella 9:00 PM Antichrist 9:00 PM Antichrist 9:00 PM The Room 9:00 PM The Room 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 7:00 PM Cooking with Stella 7:00 PM Cooking with Stella 7:00 PM Best of Reel Asian Festival 7:00 PM The Memory of Angels 7:00 PM Even Flowers Wake Up In 9:00 PM The Room (FREE ADMISSION) (FREE ADMISSION) The Morning (FREE ADMISSION) 9:00 PM The Room 9:30 PM under Great White Northern Lights 9:30 PM under Great White Northern Lights 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 7:00 PM under Great White Northern Lights 7:00 PM Our Neon City 7:00 PM Downtime 7:00 PM And This Is My Garden 7:00 PM And This Is My Garden 8:30 PM Snake River 8:30 PM Zooey & Adam 8:30 PM I Killed My Mother 8:30 PM I Killed My Mother 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 4:00 PM And This Is My Garden 7:00 PM I Killed My Mother 7:00 PM I Killed My Mother 7:00 PM Black Field 7:00 PM Black Field 7:00 PM I Killed My Mother 9:00 PM I Killed My Mother 9:00 PM I Killed My Mother 9:00 PM Black Field 9:00 PM 10 Years of send+receive 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 7:00 PM Black Field

SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 June 7:00 PM Black Field 7:00 PM Black Field 7:00 PM Black Field 7:00 PM Black Field 9:00 PM Me and Orson Welles 9:00 PM Me and Orson Welles 9:00 PM Me and Orson Welles 9:00 PM Me and Orson Welles 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 7:00 PM Black Field 7:00 PM Black Field 7:00 PM Black Field 7:00 PM Paula Kelly Films - Notorious Mrs 7:00 PM Paula Kelly Films - Appassionata Armstrong (FREE ADMISSION) (FREE ADMISSION) 9:00 PM Last Train Home 9:15 PM Last Train Home 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 7:00 PM Last Train Home 7:00 PM Last Train Home 7:00 PM Last Train Home 7:00 PM For The Next 7 Generations 7:00 PM For The Next 7 Generations 9:00 PM Last Train Home 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 7:00 PM For The Next 7 Generations 7:00 PM The Essentials of being a filmmaker 7:00 PM Charlie Haden - Rambling Boy 7:00 PM One Fast Move - Kerouac 7:00 PM One Fast Move - Kerouac Panel Discussion (FREE ADMISSION) 9:00 PM Leslie, My Name Is Evil 9:30 PM Leslie, My Name Is Evil 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 7:30 PM 48 Hour Film Contest 7:00 PM One Fast Move - Kerouac 7:00 PM One Fast Move - Kerouac 9:00 PM Leslie, My Name Is Evil 9:00 PM Leslie, My Name Is Evil

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CARDHOLDERS SIGNATURE: T-SHIRT DESIGN CONTEST WINNER We are proud to announce that James Culleton is the winner of this year’s PLEASE MAKE CHEQUE OR MONEY ORDER TO: Cinematheque T-shirt Design Contest. Culleton received his BFA Honors in Winnipeg Film Group, 304-100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg, MB, R3B 1H3 1997 from the U Of M School of Art. His winning T shirt design depicts a MEMBERSHIP SERVICES: membership@winnipeg– lmgroup.com | 925.3456 movie audience watching a film, wearing 3-D glasses and can be purchased TO SIGN UP ONLINE: WINNIPEGCINEMATHEQUE.COM at the WFG Gala or at winnipegcinematheque.com.