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MADISON WI COURTESY OF FURNITURE This festival program was produced by Isthmus, Madison’s Weekly Newspaper GIFTS ©2007 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 5 6 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ✿ MADISON ✿ APRIL 12-15, 2007 ✿ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ✿ 877.963.FILM who enjoystheater. foranyonememorable experience from many sourceswillmake thisa Wilson’s salvaged stageproductions century. Exquisitearchivalclipsof ofthetwentieth opera productions some ofthemosthistorictheatreand vision,creating breaking aesthetic ships ultimatelyshapedhisground- poignant howWilson’s earlyhard- rhythms, makingitallthemore full ofimpressions,colorsand the late1960’s. 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Whenacoupleofguys PRESENTED BY: UW AsianAmerican Studies SERIES: DiasporaMelancholy:AsianAmerican Film Crane, David“C-Diddy”Jung MUSIC: DanCrane;CAST: Türoque” Dan“Björn RAPHER: AnthonySacco;EDITOR:ConorO’Neil; DUCER: Kriston Rucker, Cedric Devitt;CINEMATOG- forth, JaneLipsitz,AnnaBarber;EXECUTIVEPRO- DIRECTOR: AlexandraLipsitz;PRODUCER:DanCut- 35mm •81min documentary feature •USA,2006,color, Stage Door SAT, APR14•5PM Stage Door THU, APR12•10:45PM Air GuitarNation The Cutler Colish;MUSIC:MiriamSaladyga; EDITOR:Bernadine Katharina CINEMATOGRAPHER: Otto-Bernstein; Ian PRODUCTION CO:FilmManufacturers Inc.;WRITER: Katharina PennyCMStankiewicz; Otto-Bernstein, DIRECTOR: KatharinaPRODUCER: Otto-Bernstein; 35mm •105min documentary feature •USA,2006,color, MMoCA SAT, APR14•11AM Absolute Wilson on the rivalry between thestraight- between on therivalry trifying finale inFinland.Focusing regional playoff, throughtotheelec- and tearsofthefirst New York there tocapturetheblood,sweat, filmmaker Lipsitzwas Alexandra movie wasn’tfarbehind.Fortunately, New York Times is arichlyprovoca- RE CODE ORDER RE CODE ORDER CODE ORDER has described know : : AIRGU12 : AIRGU14 ABSOL14 that a Air GuitarNationdeliversabattle-of-the-bandsthrowdown. alternating flashbacks whichgradu- friendship, toldmostlythrough oftheir that showtheevolution inepisodes butnot cutesy ing cute Kern (Wes) draw smartly aline,stay- HoldenAlexandra (Alison)andJoey inthisimpressivedebut. ented actors other, two tal- Dompierredirects two of, peopleattracted, toeach sort effectively capturesthepush-pullof With aterrific screenplay thatso François Dompierre’s first feature. friendship iselegantlywritten into sizzle, orfizzle, throughaplatonic thatcan complicated electricity The RichardHolden, JoeyKern, Roundtree Tara Samat;MUSIC:Ceiri Torjussen; CAST: Alexandra RAPHER: GavinKelly;EDITOR:FrançoisDompierre, FILMS; WRITER:FrançoisDompierre; CINEMATOG- Serge Dompierre; PRODUCTIONCO:KANGOO Maria Svanström, MichaelO’Connor, ElanGlasser, Leydon, FrançoisDompierre; EXECUTIVEPRODUCER: DIRECTOR: FrançoisDompierre; PRODUCER:Kevin 35mm •100minMidwestPremiere dramatic feature •USA,2006,color, MMoCA SAT, APR14•7:45PM Tomorrow All theDaysBefore SEE: All AbouttheIllusion SEE: “Unconfirmed Reports” Akatombo South BySouthwestFilmFestival. Beats Per SecondAudienceAward, Winner, AudienceAward, 200624 cally hilariousfreaky experience. tars, butwhybother?It’s afantasti- that theseguysdon’thave realgui- You may keep remindingyourself both having event, workedcompetitive on about capturingthetensionofa knowsathingortwo Conor O’Neill of-the-bands throwdown.Editor ers athoroughlycompellingbattle- breastplate, Jung“C-Diddy” inhisHello Kitty Van-Halenesque ofDavid virtuosity “Björn Türoque”Craneandtheloopy up skinny-tie powerpunkofDan rated. MPAA ratingsprovided parental discretion isadvised. where available. Viewerand Most festivalfilmsare not Jim &Joe’s Experimental Shorts short.times.three Murderball Air Guitar NationAir Guitar ✿ and RE CODE ORDER Word Wars. : ALLTH14 deliv- SAT, APR14•5:30PM Americanese SEE: The Artof Effort SEE: Architecture SEE: and SpecialEffects Animation Film Festival. Award, 2006 South bySouthwest Winner, Narrative Feature Audience America. and raceincontemporary oflove,sex, tive andfrankportrait last year’s Festival) paintsaprovoca- up. Byler(whose film ond-guessing theirdecisiontosplit romantic pasts,whichhasthemsec- and haunted bytheircultural male, thetwo find themselves begins datingayoungerCaucasian co-worker hisownage,andAurora relationshipwithaVietnamese new Raymondtionship. As embarksona recently endedtheirtwo-year rela- this caseJapanese) photographer, in much youngerhapa(halfAsian, college professor, andAurora,a American year olddivorcedChinese out ofthebedroom.Raymond, a40- racialpoliticsbothinand explores 1995 novelAmericanKnees of Shawn Wong’s highlyacclaimed Eric Byler’s sophisticatedadaptation PRESENTED BY: UWAsianAmerican Studies SERIES: DiasporaMelancholy:AsianAmerican Films mono, MichaelPaulChan Sie, JoanChen,KellyHu,BenShenkman,SabShi- MUSIC: MichaelBrook; CAST: Chris Tashima, Allison Humphreys, StacyToyama; EDITOR:Kenn Kashima; Shawn Wong; CINEMATOGRAPHER: Robert CO: American KneesProductions; WRITER:Eric Byler, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER:AllisonSie;PRODUCTION DIRECTOR: Eric Byler;PRODUCER:LisaOnodera; dramatic feature •USA,2006,color, 35mm•110min MMoCA SUN, APR15•5:15PM MMoCA sequences. Roundtree inthesurrealdream telling. 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Absolute Wilson SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own Monona Terrace SUN, APR15•1:15PM Monona Terrace FRI, APR13•9:30PM Ball Saved+Sportsfan SEE: An American Pastime Ball Saved:Preserving Ball Saved+Sportsfan RE CODE ORDER CODE ORDER is aportraitofvisionaryartistRobertWilson. : BALLS15 : BALLS13 pinball machines intheworld. making new is thelastmanufacturer SternPinball Chicago-based before. machines toplay better even than age ofvideogamesbyrestoringold ing alivethepinballtraditioninan An affectionate lookatthefanskeep- Criterion Collection PRESENTED BY: TravelWisconsin.com, Kodak, Consumers Productions DIRECTOR: BenOlson;PRODUCTIONCO:Superior Premierevideo •19minWisconsin documentary short•USA,2006,color, * BallSaved:Preserving An American Pastime In MANDARIN with English subtitles The Bird House is an intelligent and beautiful first feature by Malaysian director Khoo Eng Yow. Two brothers disagree on plans for their lovely but crumbling house in a historic neighborhood in Melaka. Keat works abroad, but returns to preserve the home and its furnishings as an antique shop. Hua believes in a more lucrative scheme to let it decay into a derelict space for the swallows that create birds’ nests for soup. Their father takes no sides, but he quietly reminds us of the dignity and loss that can come with age and history. With exquisite attention to detail, Eng Yow delicately unfolds his story with great control, making the damp walls and creaking boards of this house as much a character as the family within. The Festival is extremely pleased to present this film, which should not be missed by fans of past favorites Last Life in the Two people are attracted to each other, sort of, in All the Days Before Tomorrow. Universe by Penek Ratanaruang and The World by Zhang Ke Jia. Official selection, 2006 Tokyo International Film Festival; 2007 Bangkok Inter- national Film Festival. The Bird of Night SEE: Wisconsin Student Short Films Black Box SEE: Wisconsin Student Short Films Black Sun FRI, APR 13 • 10 PM Bartell Theater ORDER CODE: BLACK13 SAT, APR 14 • 1:45 PM Bartell Theater ORDER CODE: BLACK14 documentary feature • UK, 2005, color, WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL video • 70 min • Midwest Premiere DIRECTOR: Gary Tarn; PRODUCER: Gary Tarn, John Battsek; EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Alfonso Cuarón, Frida Torresblanco, Andrew Ruhemann, Nick Fraser; PRODUCTION CO: Land Media, Passion Pictures; WRITER: Hugues De Montalembert; CINEMATOG- RAPHER: Gary Tarn; EDITOR: Gary Tarn; MUSIC: Gary Ball Saved is an affectionate look at the pinball tradition. The World Bank and the IMF are put on trial in Bamako. Tarn; CAST: Hugues de Montalembert SERIES: Film·Able: Disabilities on Screen PRESENTED BY: UW Department of Rehabilitation, * Sportsfan Bamako neighbors who adjoin the courtyard surreal setting. “A strong candidate Psychology and Special Education ✿ documentary short • USA, 2006, color, come and go during the proceedings, for African film of the year, Bamako Black Sun is an inventive and mov- MADISON video • 66 min • Wisconsin Premiere SUN, APR 15 • 11 AM dying cloth and tending to family. In brilliantly rises to the challenge of ing collaboration between an artist DIRECTOR: Aaron Lubarsky; PRODUCER: Rich Kor- Capitol Theater ORDER CODE: BAMAK15 this remarkable film by Abderrah- presenting a serious discussion of son, Chris McShane; EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Jon who unexpectedly lost his sight, and dramatic feature • Mali/France/USA, 2006, mane Sissako (Waiting for Happi- globalization, African debt and the Stewart, Ben Karlin; PRODUCTION CO: Busboy Pro- color, 35mm • 118 min a filmmaker who creates the images ✿ ductions, Spike TV; CINEMATOGRAPHER: Aaron DIRECTOR: Abderrahmane Sissako; PRODUCER: ness, WFF 2003), the subject of the World Bank in a lively, entertaining to tell that story. Hugues de Mon- APRIL 12-15, 2007 Lubarsky, Damian Kussian; EDITOR: Aaron Lubarsky; Denis Freyd, Abderrahmane Sissako; EXECUTIVE trial is the World Bank and the IMF, feature film. Rather miraculously, MUSIC: Gary Meister talembert recounts the experience of PRODUCER: Danny Glover, Joslyn Barnes; PRODUC- with African society represented by [it] succeeds in painlessly educating violent injury that makes him blind, Welcome to the world of the Min- TION CO: Louverture Films; WRITER: Abderrahmane the many citizens who come to pas- its viewers about global politics and Sissako; CINEMATOGRAPHER: Jacques Bresse; EDI- and the adventures that follow as he nesota Vikings superfans. Superme- sionately speak about how interna- economics while it describes contem- gafans. The kind that paint their TOR: Nadia Ben Rachid; CAST: Aïssa Maïga, Tiécoura regains independence and travels Traoré, Hélène Diarra, Habib Dembélé, Djénéba Koné, tional financial institutions have porary Africa with freshness and around the world. Filmmaker Gary faces, wear horned hats, and banish Hamadoun Kassogué, Hamèye Mahalmadane, Aïs- ✿ caused great harm to Africa. It’s a clarity.” — Deborah Young, Variety. Tarn creates the imagery — and bril- their family from the TV room when sata Tall Sall, William Bourdon, Roland Rappaport, WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG Mamadou Konaté, Mamadou Savadogo striking story, with the arguments of liant music — to accompany de Mon- the game is on. Bravely facing a full the defendants interweaving with The Bird House season of purple insanity, director In FRENCH, BAMBARA with English subtitles talembert’s narration. “Black Sun is the daily activities of the residents. FRI, APR 13 • 5 PM Aaron Lubarsky follows fans (includ- SERIES: African Action Figures one of the most remarkable British PRESENTED BY: UW African Studies Program and UW Sissako grew up in that very court- Play Circle ORDER CODE: BIRDH13 ing the mild-mannered high school films to appear for a long time. Global Studies Program yard, and hired real lawyers to create SUN, APR 15 • 8 PM Scratch that: it’s one of the boldest, counselor who plays the wild In a courtyard in Bamako, the capital an authentic feel in this otherwise bearded Vikings mascot Ragnar) Play Circle ORDER CODE: BIRDH15 most beautiful and haunting films to city of Mali, a trial is taking place. dramatic feature • Malaysia, 2006, color, have appeared from anywhere.…part through the agony that comes from The judges sit at a long table in the video • 93 min • North America Premiere being so fiercely devoted. A great ✿ survivor’s testimony, part philosophi- ✿ open air, their thick stacks of court DIRECTOR: Khoo Eng Yow; PRODUCER: Khoo Eng cal meditation on the nature of per- 877.963.FILM opportunity to see this species in documents barely touched by the Festival programs and schedule Yow; EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Lina Tan; PRODUC- TION CO: Red Films; WRITER: Khoo Eng Yow, Chen ception.” — The Telegraph. Winner, their natural habitat: here in Wis- breeze from a small electric fan. Wit- are subject to change. Check consin, we would never act so silly. Long Wen; CINEMATOGRAPHER: Albert Hue; EDI- Gran Prix, 2006 Copenhagen Inter- nesses are assembled in rows of TOR: Khoo Eng Yow; MUSIC: Faith Tay; CAST: Lee national Documentary Film Festival. Executive producers are Jon Stewart chairs, and prosecutors in formal www.WiFilmFest.org Kiat Lee, Loh Bok Lai, Lim Eng Beng, Sellapan Vira- and UW grad Ben Karlin. pan, Mardiana Ismail, Lai Thai, Tan Deh Hua black robes present evidence. The for latest updates. 7 8 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ✿ MADISON ✿ APRIL 12-15, 2007 ✿ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ✿ 877.963.FILM pany, buyer andtheprospective But nowRavn wantstosellthecom- that Ravn couldn’tdoface-to-face. notes) (andflirtatious instructions emailing thestaff withorders and hasbeenanabsenteeboss, “Svend” alter ego,namedSvend.For years manager Ravn invented afictitious in thecompany, therealownerand master. 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Hilarity ensues.Von Trier shot himself Methodically tohischarac- ham, ishiredtoplay Svend,devoting Kristoffer, aleanpieceofDanish boss ofitall.Second-rateactor withSvend,the sign thecontract Fridrik Fridricksson) Thor willonly (played byfamedIcelandic director Escape Velocity +Braindamadj’d award-winning RE CODE ORDER CODE ORDER commercials: : BRITV15 : BRITV14 racist attacks onAmerican Muslims coverageofthe he thinkofthenews and apermanent home? Whatdoes benefits hisSocialSecurity him get so resistanttoherattempts tohelp gradually learnshisstory. Whyishe Linda invited Jimmy tostay, and lapse filled with debris, thestreets theWorldAfter Trade Center col- and catsinWashington Square Park. ofmountainsandgoldfishsketches Japanese-American mancreating anelderly the localcharacters, would unfold.Jimmy wasjustoneof Mirikitani, that unaware ofthestory and filmedJimmy artist localstreet through herNew York neighborhood Linda Hattendorf tookhercamera PRESENTED BY: UW AsianAmerican Studies SERIES: DiasporaMelancholy:AsianAmerican Film. In ENGLISH,JAPANESE withEnglishsubtitles Mirikitani, RogerShimomura Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani, LindaHattendorf,Janice Linda Hattendorf;MUSIC:JoelGoodman;CAST: tendorf, MasaYoshikawa; EDITOR:KeikoDeguchi, Lucid Dreaming; CINEMATOGRAPHER: LindaHat- Yoshikawa, LindaHattendorf; PRODUCTIONCO: DIRECTOR: LindaHattendorf;PRODUCER:Masa video •74minMidwestPremiere documentary feature •USA,2006,color, Bartell Theater SUN, APR15•6PM Bartell Theater THU, APR12•5:30PM The CatsofMirikitani SEE: Carrotlegs SEE: Carlos (mynameisnot) SEE: The Captain&Me SEE: Buzzsaw Wisconsin StudentShortFilms short.times.ten short.times.six Wisconsin StudentShortFilms RE CODE ORDER CODE ORDER : CATSO15 : CATSO12 The defenseoftheMexican-U.S.boundaryisexaminedin ously painful exploration ofthefrus- ously painful exploration is aglori- track ofhischalk? This keep year teacherwho can’teven Lowrey, ineptfirst- thecompletely find romance—could itbewithMr. stickler forrules,wondersifshe’ll Teacher” award. CoachWebb, a his way tothe“Most Popular Mr. toout-hip Stroop,determined teachers. Mass plays overconfident drawnare even from their childhood names as teachers—thecharacter ontheirownexperiences grade, drew Mass,Chris bestfriendssinceeighth depth. Filmmakers Mike Akel and high schoolstaff way outoftheir win youoverwiththeirportrayalof core,theensemblecastwill mentary of reality TVaroundafauxdocu- improvisational style thatwrapsa bit rookie teachersatHarrison. In an the Festival, outayear of sketching Chalk non Haragan Troy Schremmer, Chris Mass,JanelleSchremmer, Shan- EDITOR: BobPerkins;MUSIC:Chris Jagich;CAST: Chris Mass;CINEMATOGRAPHER: StevenSchaefer; CO: SomeDaySoonProductions; WRITER:MikeAkel, Michael McAlister, DavidGonzales;PRODUCTION Alvarez, GrahamDavidson;EXECUTIVEPRODUCER: DIRECTOR: MikeAkel;PRODUCER:Akel,Angie dramatic feature •USA,2006,color, video•86min Wis UnionTheater THU, APR12•7PM Chalk at dozensoffestivalssince. Festival onitsdebut,andhasplayed Audience Award attheTribeca Film intensely personalfilm wonthe tender, 9/11?This after moving,and is oneofthewittiest films at RE CODE ORDER : CHALK12 Cinematographer Style Cinematographer Style Christian Bischoff MUSIC: Florian Schlagbauer, ThomasSchlagbauer, Fauer ASC,DavidMorgan; EDITOR:MatthewBlute; CINEMATOGRAPHER: Jeff Laszlo,Brian Heller, Jon duction, theAmerican Society ofCinematographers; ston, RobertHoffman; PRODUCTION CO:T-Stop Pro- UTIVE PRODUCER:Volker Bahnemann,JohnW. John- DIRECTOR: JonFauer;PRODUCER:EXEC- 35mm •90min documentary feature •USA, 2006,color, Cinematheque SAT, APR14 •1:30PM Cinematographer Style dent FilmFestival OfBoston. Festival; GrandJury Prize, Indepen- FloridaFilm Best EnsembleActing, Film Festival; SpecialJury Award for 2006 AudienceAward, Cinequest and crew. Plus,it’s hoot.Winner, byaclose-knitcast loving respect preciated profession,createdwith trations ofAmerica’s mostunderap- RE CODE ORDER is about the : CINEM14 Border . Collector + Kiss My Wheels SAT, APR 14 • 11:15 AM Play Circle ORDER CODE: COLLE14 SERIES: Film·Able: Disabilities on Screen PRESENTED BY: UW Department of Rehabilitation, Psychology and Special Education * The Collector of Bedford Street documentary short • USA, 2003, color, video • 34 min • Wisconsin Premiere DIRECTOR: Alice Elliott; PRODUCER: Alice Elliot, Vicky Kenny; PRODUCTION CO: Welcome Change Productions; CINEMATOGRAPHER: Cynthia Wade; EDITOR: Melissa Hacker; MUSIC: Joel Goodman; CAST: Larry Selman, Murray Schaul The Collector of Bedford Street is an award-winning (and Oscar-nominated) documentary short about Larry Selman, Alice’s neighbor, a community activist and a fundraiser who has developmental disabilities. When Larry’s caregiver becomes unable to care for him, his New York City neighborhood community rallies together to protect his lifestyle as The relationship between middle-aged professor and his younger girlfriend brutally implodes in Climates. a man living independently with developmental disabilities. Close to Home * Kiss My Wheels (Karov La Bayit) documentary short • USA, 2003, color, video • 56 min DIRECTOR: Miguel Grunstein, Dale Kruzic; PRO- FRI, APR 13 • 5 PM DUCER: Miguel Grunstein, Dale Kruzic MMoCA ORDER CODE: CLOSE13 Before Murderball there was Kiss SUN, APR 15 • 3:15 PM My Wheels, following the Zia Hot MMoCA ORDER CODE: CLOSE15 Shots, a nationally ranked junior dramatic feature • Israel, 2005, color, 35mm • 94 min wheelchair basketball team, through DIRECTOR: Vidi Bilu, Dalia Hager; PRODUCER: Marek a season of training and tournament Rozenbaum, Itai Tamir; PRODUCTION CO: Transfax Film Productions; WRITER: Vardit Bilu, Dalia Hagar; competition. This spunky, diverse, CINEMATOGRAPHER: Yaron Scharf; EDITOR: Joelle co-ed group of adolescent athletes Alexis; MUSIC: Yonathan Bar-Giora; CAST: Smadar bring a special meaning to the idea Sayar, Naama Schendar, Danny Geva, Sharon Regini- ano, Sandra Schonwald, Irit Suki, Ami Weinberg, Katia of teamwork. “This is the one place Zinbris they go where they have wings” says In HEBREW with English subtitles their coach. “Whether it’s a flat tire PRESENTED BY: Mosse/Weinstein Center or a leaking catheter, whatever it is,

for Jewish Studies we can deal with it.” WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL Compelling and controversial, Close to Home, has been celebrated by fes- The Confession tival audiences worldwide as it SEE: Young Visions chronicles the day-to-day life of two young Israeli women, Smadar and Cork n’ Bottle Mirit, during their compulsory mili- String Band: tary service. They are paired together, despite their differences, to The Ken’s Bar Story

Chalk sketches a year in the life of a high school staff way out of their depth. ✿ patrol the streets of Jerusalem. Mirit SAT, APR 14 • 8:45 PM MADISON is respectful of her superiors, while Wis Hist Society ORDER CODE: CORKN14 art of how and why films look the mide Films, NBC Film, IMAJ; WRITER: Nuri Bilge Cey- Ceylan, Ceylan’s real-life wife) bru- Smadar barely conceals her desire to documentary feature • USA, 2006, color, way they do. It is about the influence lan; CINEMATOGRAPHER: Gökhan Tiryaki; EDITOR: tally implodes. Back in Istanbul that video • 89 min Ayhan Ergürsel, Nuri Bilge Ceylan; CAST: Ebru Cey- rebel. When a tragic event occurs, of style, technique and technology — fall, Isa rekindles a torrid affair with a DIRECTOR: Greg Dierks, Jeremy Gotcher; PRODUC- ✿ lan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Nazan Kesal, Mehmet Eryil- they are quickly reminded of their TION CO: Lido Deck/Redcat the art and craft of filmmaking. maz, Arif Asçi, Can Özbatur previous lover. But when he learns APRIL 12-15, 2007 surroundings and must learn to SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own Director Jon Fauer visited with 110 In TURKISH with English subtitles that Bahar has left the city for a job in overcome their differences. Close to PRESENTED BY: TravelWisconsin.com, Kodak, cinematographers from 15 countries, Winner of the Fipresci Award at the the snowy East, he follows her there Home honestly portrays the obstacles Criterion Collection who have worked in all sectors of the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, Climates to win her back. With subtly powerful these young women face, set against Relive the smoky bluegrass glory of industry, including feature films, tel- is acclaimed writer-director Nuri performances, stunning cinematog- the backdrop of the decisions made Wednesday evenings at Ken’s Bar, evision, documentaries, commercials Bilge Ceylan’s sublime follow-up to raphy, and densely textured sound by political and religious leaders,

when the Cork n’ Bottle String Band ✿ and music videos. It’s a marvelous his award winner Distant. Beautifully design, Climates is the Turkish film- that directly affect their lives. For packed the tiny tavern with fans. Ken’s WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG film both for those familiar with the drawn and meticulously observed, maker’s most gorgeous rumination Smadar and Mirit, compulsory army is no more, but the experience has cinematic arts, and for those festival- the film vividly recalls the cinema of yet on the fragility and complexity of service is another challenge to been preserved in this exuberant doc- goers intrigued by the people behind Italian master Michelangelo Anto- human relationships. endure in order to start adulthood. umentary, with field production and the scenes who make the extraordi- nioni with its poetic use of landscape Winner, C.I.C.A.E. Award, Berlin interviews by Jamie Thomas and nary images that we love. and the incisive, exquisitely visual Clone Appetit International Film Festival. Best Laura Kalinowski. The off-kilter band rendering of loneliness, loss and the SEE: short.times.six Screenplay, Jerusalem Film Festival. is named for the Johnson Street liquor Climates (Iklimler) often-elusive nature of happiness. store where many of the musicians SUN, APR 15 • 6:15 PM During a sweltering summer vacation ✿ Coconut worked, and early practices were held ✿ Capitol Theater ORDER CODE: CLIMA15 on the Aegean coast, the relationship Most festival films are not SEE: short.times.ten in the store’s basement among barrels 877.963.FILM dramatic feature • Turkey/France, 2006, between middle-aged professor Isa rated. MPAA ratings provided of beer. A bit of Madison music history color, 35mm • 101 min (played by Ceylan himself ) and his The Collector is captured here, and this premiere DIRECTOR: Nuri Bilge Ceylan; PRODUCER: Zeynep younger, television producer girl- where available. Viewer and Özbatur, Fabienne Vonier, Cemal Noyan, Nuri Bilge of Bedford Street screening will doubtless have Cork n’ friend Bahar (the luminous Ebru Bottle fans stomping their feet. Ceylan; PRODUCTION CO: Co Production LTD, Pyra- parental discretion is advised. SEE: Collector + Kiss My Wheels 9 10 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ✿ MADISON ✿ APRIL 12-15, 2007 ✿ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ✿ 877.963.FILM Cecilia Aldarondo, FilmThreat unreconciled.”contradictions — film’s strength isthatitleaves these the company ofswinetohumans.The cal—an animalhoarderwhoprefers vivor, butontheothershe’s pathologi- us thatontheonehand,sheisasur- born attachment totheanimalstells can count.Orcarefor. “Lory’s stub- arebeingbornfasterthanshe piglets infiltrated byawildhogandthe the carefullyneuteredherdhasbeen with choresinthemucky pens,and ofdubiousfarmhandshelpout crew ers’ compensationchecks,arotating fromhermonthlywork- what shegets of commonsense:feedcostsmost committed toherpigspastthepoint doing sofromawheelchair. Sheis doned pigs,despitethedifficulties of foraban- chosen toopenasanctuary she wasworkingasatrucker, has Lory the mud.Injured inanaccidentwhen Yazurloagile, Lory isliterallystuckin dancer withnolegs,isnimbleand WhereCost’sspectrum. David Toole, a two films representoppositeendsofa Paired withTheCostofLiving MUSIC: Terri Binion PHER: Cameron Roberts;EDITOR:Greg S.Jones; TION CO:Breitred Productions; CINEMATOGRA- DUCER: Eric Breitenbach, PhyllisRedman;PRODUC- DIRECTOR: Eric Breitenbach, PhyllisRedman;PRO- video •62minMidwestPremiere documentary short•USA,2006,color, * WhenPigsFly inDance,London. Achievement Time OutLiveAward forOutstanding FilmFestival This 2006 Picture and awards, includingBestofFestival, special.Winnerofmultiple something rhythms. Watch thetrailer—thisis ways, withotherdancersmirroringhis incredible mobility inastonishing much ofthemovementuseshis hasnolegs,and performers street stage play. Most remarkably, oneofthe raphy inthisworkadaptedfroma away bytheunconventional choreog- beblown series ofvignettes, butyou’ll a a bitofthreadlinkingtogether tion hangsoverthetown.Yes, thereis toanendandairofdeser- petered thesummerseasonhas seaside resort, In anold-fashionedandfadedEnglish Thorpe, DavidToole, Wood Vivien Tanja Liedtke,EddieNixon,Kareena Oates,Rowan Castillo, RobinDingemans,Tom Hodgson,EddieKay, Jonathan Cooper;CAST: JoseMaria Alves,Gabriel art Briggs; MUSIC:NickHooper, PaulCharlier, EMATOGRAPHER: Cameron Bennett;EDITOR:Stu- PRODUCTION CO:DV8,Channel4Television; CIN- DIRECTOR: LloydNewson;PRODUCER:NikkiWeston; dramatic short•UK,2004,color, video•35min * TheCostofLiving Psychology andSpecialEducation PRESENTED BY: UWDepartmentofRehabilitation, SERIES: Film·Able:DisabilitiesonScreen Monona Terrace FRI, APR13•7:30PM + WhenPigsFly Cost ofLiving SEE: The CostofLiving SEE: Corners Cost ofLiving+WhenPigsFly Wisconsin StudentShortFilms RE CODE ORDER : COSTO13 , these In ENGLISH,LITHUANIANwithEnglishsubtitles MUSIC: ShaunWilliams Kybartas, Yoni Goldstein;EDITOR:Yoni Goldstein; DIRECTOR: StashuKybartas;PRODUCER: video •29min documentary short•USA/Lithuania,2006,color, * CousinKasyte Wis HistSociety SUN, APR15•4:30PM + Untyings Cousin Kasyte SEE: Cousin Kasyte SEE: Counterfeit Toys clam beds thatarethelivelihood of Island,shore ofLong homeofthe soaked withsaltwater fromthesouth Diggers Hamilton, SarahPaulson,KenMarino, MauraTierney CAST: Paul Rudd,Lauren Ambrose, RonEldard, Josh mann, MalcolmJamieson;MUSIC:DavidMansfield; PHER: MichaelMcDonough;EDITOR:Sabine Hoff- HDNet Films;WRITER:KenMarino; CINEMATOGRA- David Wain; PRODUCTIONCO:DirtyRicePictures, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER:MarkCuban,Todd Wagner, Chaisson, JasonKliot,KenMarino, JoanaVicente; DIRECTOR: Katherine Dieckmann; PRODUCER:Anne dramatic feature •USA,2006,color, 35mm•87min Orpheum Main SAT, APR14•7PM Diggers SEE: The DetentionTeacher SEE: A DayintheArboretum SEE: Cut: Teens andSelfInjury SEE: A CovenantAdam Feature, 2007Wisconsin Film Festival Winner, BestWisconsinDocumentary that isbothtouchingandhumorous. Romi’s ofself-awareness journey filmbeautiful andpoetic follows rid themoftheirbadspirits.This formed withacrowdedcongrationto per- witnesses theweeklyexorcism leader, healer, Romi andexorcist. Pintea, seenbymany asaspiritual nun’s death,andthestoriesofFather background, thetruthbehind moreofhisown answers, heexplores lookingfor vanian countryside, RomitravelsAs throughtheTransyl- Romanian nunshocksthecountry. ing hisvisit,thedeathofayoung whenhewas18.Dur- him exorcized had unwilling whythey toexplain begins withhisparents,whoare Romi’s hometoRomania journey Criterion Collection PRESENTED BY: TravelWisconsin.com, Kodak, SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own In ROMANIAN,ENGLISHwithEnglishsubtitles RAPHER: RomiChiorean; EDITOR:Katherine Leggett Romi Chiorean; WRITER:Jorge Aguirre; CINEMATOG- DUCER: Todd Wider, JeddWider, Katherine Leggett, DIRECTOR: RomiChiorean &Katherine Leggett;PRO- video •62minWorld Premiere documentary short•Romania,2007,color, * TheUntyings itage. who teachesStashuabouthisher- father’s cousin,aspiritedoldwoman Kastye, his came. Butthenhemeets farms collective before theSoviet tants ofthatplace,thrived ther lived.Few remembertheinhabi- forgotten villagewherehisgrandfa- travels backtoLithuaniafind the filmmaker,The StashuKybartas, short.times.four Young Visions Long Shadows+Cut short.times.ten Cousin Kasyte+Untyings Young Visions is aniftydramatic comedy RE CODE ORDER RE CODE ORDER : DIGGE14 : COUSI15 Time-traveling kids,andHungarian hip-hop,inhabitTheDistrict! swagger, four-letter words,andabig with unabashednostalgia, macho the endofanAmerican way oflife tic Pizza.“Diggers Diggers sort of cross between Diner ofcrossbetween sort bring thisperiodpiecetolife,ina just keep getting hunkierorwhat?) Hamilton, andRon Eldard(doeshe Tierney, Ambrose,Josh Lauren Performancesor beyond. byMaura pack upandheadtotheBigApple, that’s takingoveralltheterritory, or ging, despitethemegacorporation keep thefamilytraditionofclamdig- It’s timeforHunt todecidehispath: andraunchygoodhumor.accuracy screenplay thatcrackleswith70’s-era terrific ensemblecast,wrotethe plays oneofHunt’s loserbuddiesina ness byPaul Rudd. KenMarino, who Hunt, played withblue-collarcute- is adramaticcomedysoakedwithsaltwaterfrom thesouthshore ofLongIsland. winningly charts and Mys- International FilmFestival. heart.” —Michèle Maheux, Toronto Sound implausible? In thisrobust, oil depositinthe presenttime. mammoths inapit, creatingarich traveling backthroughtimetotrap have aplantomake somedoughby garian hip-hophoodof animated kidswholiveintheHun- Ingenious andfoul-mouthed, the In HUNGARIANwithEnglishsubtitles cafe Zsolt Hammer, ÁdámJávorka,AlexHunyadi,Space- Nagy,László JakabOrsós,Viktor Damage;MUSIC: PRODUCTION CO:LichthofProductions; WRITER: DIRECTOR: Áron Gauder;PRODUCER:Erik Novák; 35mm •90min dramatic feature •Hungary, 2004,color, Orpheum Main THU, APR12•10:30PM The District! RE CODE ORDER (Nyócker!) The District! : DISTR12 feinated andcome toTheDistrict! Lounge), whizbyquickly, caf- soget coherent musical forages”(Jigsaw andmostorganically the “niftiest for therapsongs,whichmake this subtitles this timewemeanit.The see,” ever “unlike anything you’ll but val films arefrequently describedas rage thesedays. Yeah, weknow festi- from thePixarmodelingthat’s allthe incredibly realisticbutmilesaway mation style isafascinatingriot, sepia-tonedani- and gangsters.The with pimpsandhos,gangbangers filledneighborhood anchorthestory crossed loversintheraciallymixed of Bush,Blair, Star- andBinLaden. limits, includingpiercinglampoons musical extravaganza, nothingisoff busty, (SouthParkian?) high-octane Kiss My Wheels Braindamadj’d...Take II The Collector of Bedford Street

When Pigs Fly Escape Velocity The Cost of Living

FILM•ABLE: DISABILITIES ON SCREEN WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL Shattering clichés, films embrace humanity o be considered for the disability-relat- because they help or befriend a person with a insider to disability and initially his words of and disabled. ed strand of the Wisconsin Film Festi- disability. We develop a righteous indignation support and his calls to action appeal to the As the only non-documentary in the series, val, films had to meet one criterion: about the treatment of people with disabilities young players. As the players interact with one Cost of Living is most adept at making disabil-

challenge our thinking about the range and vow to act on their behalf. another, aspects of youth culture become more ity secondary to humanity. We immediately ✿

T MADISON of personal circumstances and characteristics These predictable plots and themes tell us prominent than disability status. become involved in the artful features, feeling that we call disability. Clichés and formulas more about how people without disabilities These films, however, are not made to gloss curious about the people, not the disabilities. can be exhaustingly boring. People with dis- form opinions that allay fears about acquiring over the real challenges of By eschewing formulaic abilities are often represented in various media and living with adversity. While the films in the living with a disability. FILM•ABLE: DISABILITIES films that massage surface-lev- ✿ in one of several predictable scenarios. Film·Able series have little in common with one When Pigs Fly, madness ON SCREEN el emotions, Film·Able APRIL 12-15, 2007 In the “pathetic victim” scenario, people another, they all challenge these stereotypical results not from losing one’s presented by the UW Department includes a wealth of creative with disabilities are terribly unlucky and mud- portrayals. ability to walk, nor from of Rehabilitation, Psychology and thought-provoking movies dle through life with insufferable conditions Some of the films present first-person physical pain, but from and Special Education that happen to engage disabil- while they face numerous obstacles. We, the accounts. In Black Sun, blind filmmaker Gary worker compensation poli- ✿ Black Sun ity issues, either as centrifugal viewers, are happy that our lives are less com- Tarn narrates his story of an assault that left cies that are arbitrarily or ✿ Braindamadj’d...Take II forces in the lives of the pro- plicated and more fulfilling, more normal. him with limited vision. While Tarn’s grief over unjustly enforced. Resis- ✿ The Collector of Bedford Street tagonists, or as tangential to ✿ In a closely related formula, people with becoming blind is apparent, he speaks of the tance to policy is also one of ✿ Escape Velocity their existences. About abili- WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG disabilities are portrayed as heroes. We bear richness and change in perspective that the the themes of The Collector ✿ The Cost of Living ty, however, a common mes- witness to extreme limitations only to learn that experience has contributed to his life. of Bedford Street. This film ✿ Heart of an Empire sage is easier to identify: lim- people with disabilities have superhuman abil- Braindamadj’d…Take II and Escape Veloc- juxtaposes ideals of self- ✿ Kiss My Wheels itation associated with ities to overcome adversity. In the face of chal- ity, paired together for this program, are also determination and belong- disability is quite often a ✿ When Pigs Fly lenges they come through smiling. We feel films by people with disabilities, providing view- ing, rejecting the notion that byproduct of perception. What relieved to know suffering has a silver lining, ers with images, sounds, and words that almost these are mutually exclu- will it take for people without or some great life-lesson to impart. simulate traumatic brain injury and attention sive. disabilities to change course and embrace the ✿

In yet a third boilerplate narrative, people deficits, providing a point of entry into other Other films in the Film·Able series chal- variety and richness in human development 877.963.FILM with disabilities are kind-hearted, witty, and worlds and other ways of thinking. lenge the significance of disability. In Heart of and lived lives? wise, deserving of rescue by their able-bodied Kiss My Wheels, a film about wheelchair an Empire the issue surfaces and disappears — Audrey Trainor family and friends. The rescuers tend to have a basketball, illustrates some underlying cultur- with an almost rhythmic quality, begging ques- UW Department of Rehabilitation, critical flaw that is somehow eliminated or fixed al beliefs about disability. The team’s coach is an tions about the relationship between different Psychology and Special Education 11 12 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ✿ MADISON ✿ APRIL 12-15, 2007 ✿ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ✿ 877.963.FILM that way. or,injury frankly, hewasjustborn his cantankerousness isrelatedtohis family andfriends,debatingwhether trait ofamansurroundedbydevoted damadj’d Everybody Promenade zling videomanipulation, graphiceffectseye-popping anddaz- and psychological.Saturatedwith process ofrecovery, bothphysical lifetracingtheexcruciating previous toregainhis manic determination film Nadler’s documents gutsy, brain injury. autobiographical This car accidentandsuffered traumatic edgy, talented—whenhewasina year-old creativemaverick —active, Montrealer Paul Nadler wasa30- PHER: BillKerrigan; EDITOR:ZsoltLuka Jonathan Finkelstein,PaulNadler;CINEMATOGRA- stein; PRODUCTIONCO:Apartment11;WRITER: DIRECTOR: PaulNadler;PRODUCER:JonathanFinkel- video •50minMidwestPremiere documentary feature •Canada,2006,color, * Braindamadj’d...Take II Film, 2006USA FilmFestival. A.D.D. Winner, BestExperimental with ofanartist the dailyexperience into tobringviewers personal history Ligon usesanimation,humor, and Scottwoven narratives,director asinter- life, andpersonalhistory Using trip,family across-country DIRECTOR: ScottLigon Premierevideo •28minWisconsin experimental/animated short•USA,2005,color, * EscapeVelocity Psychology andSpecialEducation PRESENTED BY: UWDepartmentofRehabilitation, SERIES: Film·Able:DisabilitiesonScreen Play Circle THU, APR12•7:15PM + Braindamadj’d Escape Velocity SEE: Escape Velocity SEE: Errata SEE: Enid’s Idyll SEE: Anger Emotions, Part1: SEE: Ema •EmakiII SEE: ManchuriaEastern SEE: Dragon SEE: Do NotGoGently SEE: Promenade It’s InTheBlood + Everybody Escape Velocity +Braindamadj’d Jim &Joe’s AnimatedShorts Jim &Joe’s AnimatedShorts Young Visions Jim &Joe’s AnimatedShorts Jim &Joe’s AnimatedShorts Jim &Joe’s AnimatedShorts Kyoko +DoNotGoGently presents ahumorouspor- RE CODE ORDER Brain- : ESCAP12 indie bands. featuring afullslateofCanadian is polishedbyadynamitesoundtrack boyfriend. masterminded byMing’s no-good scheme swept intoamoney-making Ryan’s him gets connections lottery shotonlocationinthatcity.ductions dresser forsomeofthemany TVpro- Mingmeets (StephSong),aset couver coloraboundswhenRyan intheirbasement.Van-something Ryan’s parents,growingalittle economy,loonie, inthenew even Everyone’s tomake abuck,er, trying winners foragovernmentmagazine. ajobwritingprofilesgets oflottery young cast.Ryan (Paul Costanzo) byatop-notch witperformed dry framedby created amodernstory Canadianlivinghas of contemporary Coupland’s forsharpobservation gift Pocky sticks)intoiconicartworks, Dinner, (Kraft lar urbanculture ofpopu- capable ofturningartifacts ster loveinanIkea world.Uniquely screenplay aboutfinding hip- earthy glas Coupland’s (GenerationX) City ofVancouverThe starsinDou- AidanDevine Paulo Costanzo,StephSong,JRBourne, PHER: DavidFrazee;EDITOR:Gareth C.Scales;CAST: Films; WRITER:DouglasCoupland;CINEMATOGRA- Ruskin; PRODUCTIONCO:RadkeFilms,True West Michael Baker, DanLyon, ScottMackenzie,Morris Nanos, ElizabethYake; EXECUTIVEPRODUCER: DIRECTOR: PaulFox;PRODUCER:Henrik Meyer, Chris 35mm •85min dramatic feature •Canada,2006,color, MMoCA SAT, APR14•1:15PM Everything’s GoneGreen actors withassuranceandgrace. actors acastofveteran and hedirects Exiled impeccable choreographymakes ing agunatit.Stylish anddark,To’s might becoveringyourback,oraim- knowwho clock ticks,andyounever asthe boss. 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(Fong Juk) Everything’s Gone Green Everything’s Gone ✿ RE CODE ORDER Hollywood RE CODE ORDER serves todis- serves : EVERY14 : EXILE13 Vancouver isthesettingforEverything’s GoneGreen, aboutfindingearthyloveinanIkeaworld. Ghosts ofCitéSoleilisanintimateportraittwobrothers whobattleforsurvivalinHaiti. portrait ofayoung manmakingthe portrait Family Law,awitty and touching after DanielHendlerand actor reunite DanielBurman Argentine director Studies PRESENTED BY: Mosse/Weinstein CenterforJewish In SPANISH withEnglishsubtitles ana Aizenberg Hendler, ArturoJulietaDíaz,Adri- Goetz,EloyBurman, Alejandro CAST: Parysow;MUSIC:César Lerner; Daniel man; CINEMATOGRAPHER: Ramiro Civita;EDITOR: adis Films,Classic,Wanda WRITER:DanielBur- Vision; Diego Dubcovsky;PRODUCTIONCO:BDCine,Par- covsky, EXECUTIVEPRODUCER: DanielBurman; PRODUCER:DiegoDub- DIRECTOR: DanielBurman; 35mm •102min dramatic feature •Argentina, 2006,color, Stage Door SUN, APR15•1PM Stage Door THU, APR12•8:15PM (Derecho deFamilia) Family Law Lost Embrace RE CODE ORDER CODE ORDER (WFF 2005)for : FAMIL15 : FAMIL12 ton, know thescore.” —Mike Wilming- talk andwho,like the Perelmans, for peoplewhothink,like smart isacomedymade fascinating. “This written is thatthesmallestexchange and acted and sonsaresoperfectly fathers between subtle interactions to learnaboutbeingafamily. The need each otherwithhowmuchthey generations ofPerelmans confound three and hasachildofhisown.The marries alovelyPilatesinstructor affectionate changeswhen he detail, in ofwhichareobserved the details Ariel’slawyer Goetz). (Arturo life, the sonofagenialandlegendary Perelman, whohasbigshoestofill as neurotic anduptightlawyer Ariel into adulthood.Hendler plays the passage fromdelayed adolescence Film Festival. ence Award, 2006Mar delPlata Chicago Tribune . Winner, Audi- notebooks, the“Confessions,” contain playing at thisyear’s Festival). These toHalsorts Hartley’s bestfilm (also Yes, it’s aten-year-later sequelof written by herhusband,HenryFool. ofnotebooks aset the CIAtocollect racingagainstcrooksand character thriller, withParker Posey asthetitle Fay Grim Harald Schrott Ryan, sohn, LeoFitzpatrick, ChuckMontgomery,Thomas Jay Urbaniak, Saffron Burrows, LiamAiken,ElinaLöwen- Hal Hartley;CAST: ParkerPosey, Jeff Goldblum,James PHER: SarahCawley;EDITOR:HalHartley;MUSIC: Film GmbH;WRITER:HalHartley;CINEMATOGRA- Films, PossibleThisisThatProductions, Zero Hope, Todd Wagner; PRODUCTIONCO:HDNet EXECUTIVEPRODUCER:MarkCuban,TedVicente; mann, HalHartley, Joana Jason Kliot,MikeS.Ryan, DIRECTOR: HalHartley;PRODUCER:MartinHage- 35mm •118min dramatic feature •USA/Germany, 2006,color, Orpheum Main FRI, APR13•7:15PM Fay Grim is aripeandrollicking RE CODE ORDER : FAYGR13 as chimères (ghosts) that President Jean-Bertrand Aristide employed to maintain power. Shot during the tumultuous months surrounding Aristide’s fall from power in 2004, Ghosts of Cité Soleil is an enthralling and intimate portrait of the brothers as they battle for survival, fall in love with the same French aid worker, and eventually try to extricate themselves from the city’s violence. Produced by Wyclef Jean (a Haitian native and 2pac’s hero), who also appears in the film and collaborated on its haunting score, the film is one of those rare documentaries that seems almost too incredible to be true. As Variety so aptly put it, “there has never been anything quite like Leth’s film; it’s amazing it even exists and that the director is still alive.” Save a spot at the end of Sunday night for this one. Go Back West SEE: Young Visions Gods and Monsters SAT, APR 14 • 5:30 PM Cinematheque ORDER CODE: GODSA14 dramatic feature • USA, 1998, color, 35mm • 105 min DIRECTOR: Bill Condon; PRODUCER: Paul Colich- man, Gregg Fienberg, Mark R. Harris; EXECUTIVE Revenge comes calling when Johnny To is Exiled. Jeff Goldblum and Parker Posey star in Fay Grim. PRODUCER: Clive Barker, Stephen P. Jarchow; PRO- DUCTION CO: Regent Entertainment, Lions Gate Films; WRITER: Bill Condon; CINEMATOGRAPHER: Stephen M. Katz; EDITOR: Virginia Katz; MUSIC: Carter Burwell; CAST: Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave, Lolita Davidovich SERIES: Restorations and Revivals Back in 1998, a director without much of a track record — a couple of iffy TV thrillers — adapted a novel about an expatriate gay filmmaker, who died in 1957 of apparent suicide.

The result was Gods and Monsters, a WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL tender, chilling, and intelligent film about James Whale, the director of the famed 1931 Frankenstein. The director, Bill Condon, collected an Academy Award for his screenplay, and later directed Kinsey and Finishing the Game skewers kung fu cinema of the 1970s. Dreamgirls. The story imagines the later years of Whale, out of favor

with the Hollywood studios and in ✿

existed of the real martial arts star MADISON Family Law is a comedy about delayed adolescence and adulthood. Ghosts of Cité Soleil declining health, with his maid and (like his fight with Kareem Abdul- gardener for company. The acting SUN, APR 15 • 7:45 PM Jabar, in the yellow catsuit that team of the immaculate Ian McK- secrets that would get many a foreign inspired the costume design for Uma Orpheum Main ORDER CODE: GHOST15 ellen, Brendan Fraser, and Lynn ✿ Finishing the Game documentary feature • USA, Denmark, 2007, color, government into hot water, and Fay’s Thurman in Kill Bill). That actually Redgrave were nominated for and APRIL 12-15, 2007 SAT, APR 14 • 11 PM 35mm • 85 min been cornered into helping find them happened. What Lin invents is his DIRECTOR: Asger Leth; PRODUCER: Mikael Chr. Rieks, won many recognitions of their own. Orpheum Main ORDER CODE: FINIS14 by a snakey CIA operative played own take on the ludicrous world of Tomas Radoor, Seth Kanegis; EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: As Jonathan Lethem wrote about dramatic feature • USA, 2007, color, 35mm • 88 min with acerbic delight by Jeff Gold- mid-1970s kung fu cinema, where Kim Magnusson, Cary Woods, Jorgen Leth, Wyclef McKellen in 1998, “throughout this blum. Simultaneously playing it DIRECTOR: Justin Lin; PRODUCER: Julie Asato, Sal anyone of color is pigeonholed into Jean, Jerry “Wonda” Duplessis; PRODUCTION CO: Gatdula, Justin Lin; EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Joan Nordisk Film, Sak Pasé Films, Sunset Productions, film he unearths bemusement, dis- straight and hamming it up, the cast Huang, Jeff Gou; WRITER: Josh Diamond, Justin Lin; ridiculous acting stereotypes. Many Independent Pictures; CINEMATOGRAPHER: Milos cord, loss and real eroticism from (including James Urbaniak as Fay’s CINEMATOGRAPHER: Tom Clancey; EDITOR: Greg of his Better Luck Tomorrow actors Loncarevic, Asger Leth, Frederik Jacobi; EDITOR: Whale’s attentions to his hunky gar- ✿ brother Simon and Liam Aiken as Louie; MUSIC: Brian Tyler; CAST: Roger Fan, Sung return to play the hopeless hopefuls Adam Nielsen; MUSIC: Wyclef Jean, Jerry “Wonda” WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG Kang, Dustin Nguyen, McCaleb Burnett dener, often simultaneously. For her son) bullets through the offbeat, auditioning for the stand-in role. Duplessis SERIES: Diaspora Melancholy: Asian American Films In HAITIAN, ENGLISH, FRENCH with English subtitles moviegoers in search of greatness in witty script filled with double- PRESENTED BY: UW Asian American Studies Finishing the Game, which pre- screen performances, consider this crosses, plot twists, and Cold War- miered at this year’s Sundance Film Amazing. It’s how we describe Asger Justin Lin, who brought his debut Leth’s documentary that follows two recommendation enough.” The Wis- worthy espionage. The scenes are film Better Luck Tomorrow to the Festival, is an ace pick for a midnight consin Film Festival is pleased to shot at odd angles that could either movie: a send-up of the Hollywood Haitian brothers in Cité Soleil, a slum 2003 Wisconsin Film Festival, imag- outside Port-au-Prince. This is a present Gods and Monsters as part of pull you into the quirky velocity of ines a hilarious and irreverent fan- movie business, lots of loopy comedy, an informal trio of films with Young Fay’s caper or drive you nuts. Hart- and plenty of cameo appearances place deemed by the U.N. as “the tasy. Lee shot some scenes for The most dangerous place on Earth.” Frankenstein and The Spirit of the ✿ ley’s “dexterous literary voice is pres- Game of Death in 1972, but died (including porn star Ron Jeremy; Beehive. We are particularly indebted 877.963.FILM ent in force.” — Variety you have been warned). Leth, son of Danish director Jørgen before anything was completed. A Leth (The Five Obstructions, WFF to the film’s executive producer Filthy Food few years later, a stand-in was hired Free Geek Olympia 2005), achieves amazing — nearly Stephen P. Jarchow, a graduate of the for footage that was combined to odd unbelievable — access to 2pac and University of Wisconsin, for provid- SEE: Jim & Joe’s Experimental Shorts SEE: short.times.four effect with the few minutes that Bily, leaders of armed gangs known ing a newly struck print especially for this screening. 13 14 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ✿ MADISON ✿ APRIL 12-15, 2007 ✿ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ✿ 877.963.FILM Festival. Prize, 2006BerlinInternational Film Film Award, Jury and Ecumenical survived.” Winner, Bear, Golden Peace lived throughitand,atleastphysically, if ever, thewarwillendforthosewho inour mouth,wonderingwhen, heart “ Alansar, MohamedHassan CAST: AhmedAlansar, AttibouAboubacar, Tano Rozas, RaquelTorres; MUSIC:MartinMeissonnier; RAPHER: Gerardo Olivares; EDITOR: Rori Sainzde Chema Rodriguez, Gerardo Olivares; CINEMATOG- Morales; PRODUCTION CO:Wanda WRITER: Vision; DIRECTOR: Gerardo Olivares; PRODUCER:JoséMaria 35mm •88minMidwestPremiere dramatic feature •Spain/Germany, 2006,color, Stage Door SUN, APR15•11AM Stage Door SAT, APR14 •6:45PM (La GranFinal) The Great Match Turan ofthe of Esma’spicture world.” AndKenneth goodsound letters giveavery tractive pronounce, Ithoughtthattheseunat- hump.’ Althoughitisabitdifficult to word Grbavica means‘womanwitha heroes, belongto.Etymologically, the is amicrocosmosthatEsma,andother harder. Says thefilmmaker: “Grbavica ter whichis,quitepossibly, even mother andhercoming-of-agedaugh- asingle and therelationshipbetween hosted anOlympicsadecadebefore?) (how iswarpossibleinacity that ing throughawarinyourowncity personal sacrificeoverwhelming ofliv- herself, boththe explores survivor story,missed. The written byZbanic,a portrayal ofEsmashouldnotbe the year, Mirjana Karanovic’s brave of ing andaccomplishedperformances Sara knowing.Oneofthemostmov- tofindstruggles without themoney fromherdaughter,painful secret without costs,butEsma,keeping a that Saracanattend aclassfield trip paid tothefamiliesofshaheedsmeans like Sara’s. government benefits The just (a“shaheed”), heroic warmartyr Samir, aclassmatewhosefatherwas a rebellion. Sarabecomesfriendswith through tomboyyouthintoteenage daughter Saraisrapidlymoving uniform atthelocalnightclub.Her middle-aged bosomintoacocktail bybuttoningmake endsmeet her to borhood. Esmaisamothertrying neigh- ba-vitza), namedforaSarajevo feature, math unfoldsinJasmila Zbanic’s first of war’s story after- An extraordinary In SERBO-CROATIAN withEnglishsubtitles Hadzihafizbegovic Berry,Ornela DejanAcimovic,BogdanDiklic,Emir novic, LunaMijovic,LeonLucev, KenanCatic,Jasna Maier; EDITOR:NikiMossböck;CAST: MirjanaKara- Jasmila Zbanic;CINEMATOGRAPHER: Christine A. Albert, DamirIbrahimovic,BrunoWagner; WRITER: DIRECTOR: JasmilaZbanic;PRODUCER:Barbara Premiere• Wisconsin Germany/Croatia, 2006,color, 35mm•90min dramatic feature •Austria/Bosnia-Herzegovina/ Orpheum Main SAT, APR14•4:45PM of MyDreams Grbavica: TheLand Grbavica Grbavica is afilm wewatchwithour Los AngelesTimes (pronounced GER- RE CODE ORDER RE CODE ORDER CODE ORDER : GRBAV14 : GREAT15 : GREAT14 : von meinerMutter) In KAZAJO,TAMASHEK,TUPÍ withEnglishsubtitles performing groups with performing seriesoffiveconcert aboutatraveling tary invigorating documen- delightful tracedin this of greatGypsymusicis far-flung ancestry The subtitles MARWARI withEnglish MACEDONIAN, HINDI, SPANISH, ROMANIAN, In ENGLISH,ROMANI, Ensemble, George Eli El PipaFlamenco Maharaja, Anotion Fanfaire Ciocarlia, Esma Redzepova, Taraf deHaïdouks, Angelo Corrao;CAST: Dellal, RokoBelic, Mary Myers,Jasmine de Halleux;EDITOR: Albert Maysles,Alain MATOGRAPHER: Jasmine Dellal;CINE- Fu Works; WRITER: ITVS, FortissimoFilms, Little DustProductions, J. Werner;PRODUCTIONCO: Barendrecht, SanFuMaltha,Michael EXECUTIVE PRODUCER:Wouter Jasmine Dellal,SaraPortoNolan; DIRECTOR: JasmineDellal;PRODUCER: color, 35mm•110min documentary feature •USA/UK/Netherlands,2006, MMoCA SAT, APR14•3:15PM MMoCA FRI, APR13•9:30PM Tales ofaGypsyCaravan) (When theRoadBends: Gypsy Caravan SEE: my Mother The Greeting from SEE: Green ManDreaming over Germany, natch). Indians (predisposedtofavor Brazil in theSahara,andagroupofAmazon lian nomads,aTuareg camelcaravan sport’s Mongo- event: mostimportant ofthreetribestowatchthe exertions tionate comedyfollowstheingenious andaffec- colorful Ronaldo is?This the Mongolian steppesknowwho living inthemostdistantcornersof Final. How isitpossiblethatchildren 2002Worldsee thetelevised Cup will gotogreatlengths —literallyto ries thatmake up The Cup,thepeopleinparallelsto- Norbu’sBuddhist monksinKhyentse in thefestivalfilm besides outside moderncivilization(Imean communitiesliving of underdeveloped canplaypower thatsport inthelives Few Americansmay understandthe Tour withtheGypsyCaravan short.times.three Young Visions the Minnesota Vikingmaniacs The Great MatchThe Great Sportsfan (Der Gruß RE CODE ORDER CODE ORDER ). Like the : GYPSY14 : GYPSY13 . In Wis UnionTheater male dancer who performs araretra- male dancerwhoperforms When Maharaja, leadbyHarish, a with eachpassingweekontheroad. toeachother guages) becomedevoted formers (speakingdifferent lan- Andalucía, weseethesediverseper- nio elPipaFlamencoEnsemblefrom Fanfare Ciocarlia;andSpain’s Anto- Redzepova; Romanianbrassband “Queen oftheGypsies”Esma douks. WithMacedonian divaand Tarafstars ofviolinwizardry deHaï- bytheearningsofsuper- ported Romanina villagealmostentirelysup- like the nating theirowncultures, musicians intheirhomelands,illumi- storiesofthe States, withexquisite ances asthetourcrossesUnited footagetaken fromperform- together folk groupMaharaja. film The weaves sented herebythetraditionalIndian people originatedinIndia, repre- nic group.We learnthattheRomani ofafamously outcasteth- the history show: it’s afascinatingcelebrationof much morethanarecordoftheroad- Caravan Roma roots.Gypsy documentary feature •USA,2007,color, THU, APR12•9:30PM ductions; WRITER: JayThompson;CINEMATOGRA- Heart ofanEmpire SEE: Hallucii SEE: Haggadah video •110min Grbavica, asinglemotherandhercoming-of-agedaughterstruggleinpost-warSarajevo. Clarance; PRODUCTION CO:Forsaken SunPro- Thompson; EXECUTIVE PRODUCER:Leon DIRECTOR: JayThompson; PRODUCER:Jay ders International FilmFestival. short.times.ten celebrated photographerAlbert the audienceaward attheFlan- Maysles Gardens),itwon (Grey short.times.twelve to standupandapplaudwith musical styles —it’s hardnot the cinematicaudience.Also Bends” andfilmed by inpart the Spanishflamenco trio— skirt, collaboratewith skirt, in femininemake-up and known as “When theRoad known as“When ditional Rajasthanidance blending together thetwo blending together RE CODE ORDER (The Story) : HEART12 is so Mongolian nomadsawaittheWorld Cupfinalin ment to helping others. This home- ment tohelping others.This thatestablishedacommit- network around theworld, creatingasocial quickly spawned membershipgroups Fighting501st The Legion acters. char- tumes ofthemovies’“badguy” asts whoenjoyedcreatingreplicacos- identity forenthusi- vide acollective created aStarWars fangrouptopro- away, amannamed Albin Johnson Once uponatime,ingalaxyfar, far Psychology andSpecialEducation PRESENTED BY: UW DepartmentofRehabilitation, SERIES: Film·Able:DisabilitiesonScreen Clarance aker, RickStafford, Lauri Comley, SeanComley, Leon Sansweet, AlbinJohnson,PeterMayhew, DeanOver- Tim Brown; CAST: BenBurtt,Jeremy Bulloch,Steve PHER: DavidFinleyson;EDITOR:JustinBrown; MUSIC: you’re moreofaSiththanIthought. alittledon’t get moist then,dang, enough tohelpeach other, ifyoureyes be sharedbystrangers whocare and seewhatstrength and hopecan people intimatelyaffected bysickness movesinclosertothelivesof story cooler willdisappear. Andwhenthe doubts youmay have aboutwho’s turned outforacharity benefit, any members ofaunitwhohaveridicule teflon newscasters Empire regalia.As and visitchildren’s hospitalsinfull fund-raising marathonsincostume of membersthe501st run asthey son followsthecharitablegoodworks byJaygrown documentary Thomp- The Great Match. The Holy Mountain

The Holy Mountain SAT, APR 14 • 9:45 PM Cinematheque ORDER CODE: HOLYM14 Aspiring rap artists develop their craft in The Hip Hop Project. SUN, APR 15 • 7:45 PM Cinematheque ORDER CODE: HOLYM15 dramatic feature • Mexico, 1973, color, Here is Always The Hip Hop Project 35mm • 114 min DIRECTOR: Alejandro Jodorowsky; PRODUCER: Ale- Somewhere Else FRI, APR 13 • 7:15 PM gandro Jodorowsky, Allen Klein, Robert Taicher, Robert Cinematheque ORDER CODE: HIPHO13 Viskin; PRODUCTION CO: Abkco Films; WRITER: Ale- FRI, APR 13 • 9:15 PM jandro Jodorowsky; CINEMATOGRAPHER: Rafael Cinematheque ORDER CODE: HEREI13 SAT, APR 14 • 7:45 PM Corteidi; EDITOR: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Federico documentary feature • USA/Netherlands, 2006, Cinematheque ORDER CODE: HIPHO14 Landeros; MUSIC: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Don Cherry, color, video, 16mm • 86 min documentary feature • USA, 2007, color, Ronald Franjipane; CAST: Alejandro Jodorowsky, DIRECTOR: Rene Dalder; PRODUCER: Rene Dalder, 35mm • 88 min Zamira Saunders, Juan Ferrara, Adriana Page, Burt Aaron Ohlmann; WRITER: Rene Dalder; CINEMATOG- DIRECTOR: Matt Ruskin, Scott K. Rosenburg; PRO- Kleiner, Valerie Jodorowsky, Nicky Nichols, Richard RAPHER: Nils Post, Aaron Ohlmann; EDITOR: Aaron DUCER: Scott K. Rosenberg; EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Rutowski, Luis Loveli Ohlmann, Rene Dalder; MUSIC: Broadway Project Bruce Willis and Queen Latifah; PRODUCTION CO: SERIES: Restorations and Revivals SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own Pressure Point Films; CINEMATOGRAPHER: Ari Issler; In his follow up to the underground EDITOR: Matt Ruskin; CAST: Chris “Kazi” Rolle, Diana

A film about the life and work of WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL “Princess” Lemon, Christopher “Cannon” Mapp, Rus- hit El Topo, we find Jodorosky play- Dutch/Californian conceptual artist sell Simmons, Bruce Willis, Sway, Doug E. Fresh ing the alchemist, a cult leader of Bas Jan Ader, who in 1975 disap- It’s rare these days that the media sorts, who lures the Christ-like thief peared under mysterious circum- reports on the positive effects of hip to round out a group of nine people stances at sea in the smallest boat hop music, but in Matt Ruskin’s who will trek to the holy mountain. ever to cross the Atlantic. As seen compelling and inspirational docu- Jodorowsky’s unique, surreal vision through the eyes of fellow emigrant mentary we follow Chris “Kazi” Role, remains the true star. Packed with filmmaker Rene Daalder, the picture a once homeless teenager, over the Christian iconography, new age Parker Posey falls hard for Henry Fool. becomes a sweeping overview of concourse of four years as he works to imagery, and scenes of sheer horror, temporary art films as well as an epic inspire a group of New York City The Holy Mountain could be an ✿ saga of the transformative powers of teens to use hip hop as a vehicle for intense critique of Christianity, colo- MADISON Henry Fool Henry (Thomas Jay Ryan) barges the ocean. Featuring artists Tacita self discovery and redemption. nialism, and the western world, but into the life (and basement apart- Dean, Rodney Graham, Rem Kool- Under auspices of the educational it opens other doors that may reveal

FRI, APR 13 • 4:15 PM ment) of a garbage man (James haas, Jan de Bont, Richard Serra, group Art Start, Kazi founds the Hip deeper and more complex questions. ✿ Stage Door ORDER CODE: HENRY13 Urbaniak), his tarty sister (Parker Marcel Broodthaers, Ger van Elk, Hop Project to help teenagers inter- Often shocking, sometimes disturb- APRIL 12-15, 2007 dramatic feature • USA, 1998, color, 35mm • 137 min Posey), and their addled mother Charles Ray, Wim T. Schippers, Chris ested in hip hop music reach their ing, but incredibly transfixing, this DIRECTOR: Hal Hartley; PRODUCER: Hal Hartley; Burden, Fiona Tan, Pipilotti Rist and film offers an experience unlike any- EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Larry Meistrich, Daniel J. (Maria Porter). As Janet Maslin creative potential through encourag- Victor, Keith Abell; PRODUCTION CO: True Fiction wrote in the New York Times, “Even many others. Co-produced and edited ing them to eschew gangsta clichés thing seen before or since in cinema. Pictures, The Shooting Gallery; WRITER: Hal Hartley; more than its story of private genius by Appleton native and University of and instead rap about the real issues Caught up in legal flux since its com- CINEMATOGRAPHER: Michael Spiller; EDITOR: Steve and public opinion, the dialogue Wisconsin–Madison graduate Aaron affecting their lives. The film deftly pletion in the 1970s, this new Hamilton; MUSIC: Hal Hartley; CAST: Thomas Jay Ohlmann. As part of this presenta- restoration is finally giving The Holy ✿ Ryan, James Urbaniak, Parker Posey, Kevin Corrigan, itself offers proof that every word weaves the stories of several of the WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG Miho Nikaido matters. All the film’s characters tion (and included in the running teenage rappers with that of Kazi’s Mountain the release it never had. SERIES: Restorations and Revivals speak with utter honesty about mat- time) six of Bas Jan Ader’s films from own inspiring journey to confront his Viewer discretion advised. With the opportunity to present ters both large and small, and some- 1970 and 1971 will be shown from past. Touching without being sappy director Hal Hartley’s new film Fay times make a major virtue of under- fully restored 16mm prints. and inspirational without being A House On Grim at this year’s Festival, we wel- statement. As in: ‘Look, Simon, I preachy, The Hip Hop Project is a Jungmannova comed the chance to bring Henry made love to your mother about half Hidden Window wonderful story of hope, healing, and SEE: short.times.three Fool to the big screen. The characters an hour ago, and I’m beginning to SEE: Young Visions the realization of dreams. established in Henry Fool, which think it wasn’t such a good idea.’” ✿ I Wonder ✿ 877.963.FILM won Best Screenplay at the 1998 Most festival films are not Holding the Pilots / SEE: Young Visions Cannes Film Festival, continue their Her Heart is Washed in rated. MPAA ratings provided Holding the Facts adventures in Fay Grim. It’s a liter- Water and then Weighed SEE: short.times.twelve Insect ary story of outsiders, art, fame, SEE: Jim & Joe’s Experimental Shorts where available. Viewer and poetry, and antiheroes. Ex-con SEE: short.times.ten parental discretion is advised. 15 16 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ✿ MADISON ✿ APRIL 12-15, 2007 ✿ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ✿ 877.963.FILM program guideandcome to theshow. put abigredcircle arounditinyour state’s greatmusical traditions:just ofour about apart documentary andaccomplished the state.Asmart tor withthelargeststashofvinyl in GregDurst,arecordcollec- and meet for acommunaldown-in-onetoast), to fit fourJagermeister shotglasses polka off ashotski(anoldskidrilled festival anddrinktothehealthof and anaccordion;tailgateatapolka the difference aconcertina between Altenburg’s barandlearn concertina who lovethem.You’ll visitArt consin polkabandsandthewomen gems like this:amovieaboutWis- thrill ofafilmThe festivalisseeing Criterion Collection PRESENTED BY: TravelWisconsin.com, Kodak, SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own Marie Bergum Rink,Vi Altenburg, Greg Drust,JimmySturr, JohnPinter, Lynn- Michael Slavens;MUSIC:AfshinToufighian; CAST: Art EMATOGRAPHER: RossRiege;EDITOR:Brian Goetz, ductions; PRODUCTIONCO:StunProductions; CIN- ase, Timm Gable;EXECUTIVE PRODUCER:StunPro- DIRECTOR: CraigDiBiase;PRODUCER:DiBi- video •85minMadisonPremiere documentary feature •USA,2006,color, Wis HistSociety SAT, APR14•6:30PM A PolkaDocumentary It’s Happiness: 2006 SundanceFilmFestival. Awards; winner, SpecialJury Prize, Documentary, 2006EuropeanFilm Bavarian FilmAwards; winner, Best Winner, BestDocumentary, 2006 transformative theatricalexperience. Zidane: A21stCenturyPortrait, asa mon withanotherFestival film, ity created,ithasmuchincom- ever chroniclesofspiritual- ing andpoetic and light.Oneofthemostmesmeriz- stunningly elemental:time,space archival footage.Whatremainsis no score,voiceover, andno one—ithas rather thansimplydepict film seekstoembodyamonastery, transcendent,closelyobserved This uals andrareoutdoorexcursions. filming theirdailyprayers, tasks,rit- forsixmonths— monks’ quarters wereready.they Gröninglivedinthe backtohim.Sixteenyearslater,get would saidthey about them.They permission tomake adocumentary orderfor wrote totheCarthusian man filmmaker PhilipGröning monasteries.Inascetic 1984,Ger- is consideredoneoftheworld’s most French Alps,theGrandeChartreuse Nestled deepinthepostcard-perfect In FRENCH,LATIN withEnglishsubtitles TOR: PhilipGröning Gröning; CINEMATOGRAPHER: PhilipGröning; EDI- ARTE/ZDF, BR,FilmstiftungNRW, FFA; WRITER:Philip tion, Bavaria Film,venturafilmsa,TSI,cineplus tion; PRODUCTIONCO:PhilipGröning Filmproduk- EXECUTIVE PRODUCER:PhilipGröning Filmproduk- ing, MichaelWeber, Andres Pfaeffli, EldaGuidinetti; DIRECTOR: PhilipGröning; PRODUCER:PhilipGrön- 35mm •162min documentary feature •Germany, 2006,color, Orpheum Main SAT, APR14•11AM (Die Große Stille) Into Great Silence RE CODE ORDER RE CODE ORDER : INTOG14 : ITSHA14 found outwhy.” intheFarmallskirt Promenade and skinny legs,thenheworehisfirst gavewondered whyGod himsuch nearly 50yearsthisIowa farmer known as“Mrs. DeKalb, says: “For RussAs Davis, driver thetractor with flair, on locallymadetractors. celebrates thefarmingtraditions Based inIowa, the Farmall group square dancesintightformation. performing group ofvintagetractors (four ofthemdressedasladies) the Farmall Promenade, aeight-man Ericksonbringsus LeAnn Director son, CamilleSeaman DIRECTOR: LeAnnErickson; PRODUCER:LeAnnErick- documentary short•USA,2006,color, video•27min * EverybodyPromenade formed. picked uphisfiddle, hewastrans- comefrom.WhenLeo where they to: it’s areand ofwhothey part Cajun Bandplay have becausethey Abshire&theOldeTimers Leo onthetraditions. it meanstocarry ofCajunmusicandwhat and context who helpusunderstandtheculture shaw, D.L. Menard, Riley, andSteve CajunlegendsDougKer- interviews Olympic athletes. played forpresidents,royalty, and Abshire, agentlemanmusicianwho ton ofCajunfiddling withLeo Celebrate theuniqueregionaltradi- Criterion Collection PRESENTED BY: TravelWisconsin.com, Kodak, SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own Richard, ZulaAbshire Steve Riley, BarryAncelet,Rayfred Hebert,Allan Abshire, RayAbshire, DougKershaw, D.L.Menard, TION CO:AmalgamatedMediaworks;CAST: Leo DIRECTOR: Eric SchollandCyndiMoran;PRODUC- min •World Premiere documentary shortoUSA,2007,color, videoo58 * It’s IntheBlood:LeoAbshire MMoCA FRI, APR13•5PM Everybody Promenade It’s InTheBlood + SEE: & theCajunTradition Leo Abshire It’s IntheBlood: Promenade & theCajunTradition It’s IntheBlood:LeoAbshire grass Independent FilmFestival. Winner, BestDocumentary, Blue- & theCajunTradition It’s InTheBlood+Everybody It’s In the Blood the In It’s RE CODE ORDER : ITSIN13 Jim &Joe’s Experimental Shorts An honestportayalofthestruggleslifeiscreated intheclassicKillerofSheep. DIRECTOR: Takashi Ishida experimental/animated short•16mm7min * Ema•Emaki II about aroboticbear. A streamofconsciousnessanimation DIRECTOR: Aaron Anderson experimental/animated short •video4min Manchuria* Eastern visions. fiery where shebeginssketching a younggirlissenttoanorphanage herparents dieinatragicfire,After DIRECTOR: Troy Morgan experimental/animated short•video8min * Dragon Cinematheque SAT, APR14•3:30PM Animated Shorts Jim &Joe’s SEE: Twineman JFK: Dumpman/ SEE: IV.6 Wisconsin StudentShortFilms short.times.twelve RE CODE ORDER : JIMAN14 returns withtheinventiveWestern to aplace oftangiblenostalgia. worldsoflightandshadow between the viewer Angeles, transporting A meditationon solitude inLos DIRECTOR: KateMcCabe experimental/animated short •16mm17min * MilkandHoney contortionist. cus recalls hisaffair withabeautifulcir- A first loveiscorrupted asaman DIRECTOR: ChelWhite experimental/animated short•35mm6min * Magda Rorschach testofbleedinginkspots. dozen copiersproduceamoving ofcopiesmadeona Thousands DIRECTOR: AlexanderStewart experimental/animated short•16mm7min * Errata fighting foes. archetypal withher,sometimes away sometimes and castlekeeps; herchampionis Our heroineisseenindeepforests DIRECTOR: LarryJordon experimental/animated short•16mm17min * Enid’s Idyll beautiful penandinkanimations. A seriesofminute-long,meditativeand books. utes thanthreevolumes oftravel that tellstellyou more inthreemin- pornography andpopularculture collageofpoliticians, A high-octane DIRECTOR: MarthaColburn experimental/animated short •video3min * XXXAmsterdam ofthefilminto thetexture itself. woman’s body, thewoman devouring with therepeatedimageofa Images ofimpendingdisastercollide DIRECTOR: JanieGeiser experimental/animated short•16mm5min * Terrace 49 follow, butforhowlong? the stomachofarabbit,greatriches When aboyandgirlfind anidolin DIRECTOR: RunWrake experimental/animated short•video9min * Rabbit contagion. eclectic bles, throughedifices offorestand poet’sThe dreams,amaiden’s bub- DIRECTOR: LarryJordon experimental/animated short•16mm5min * Poet’s Dream Ringo. Made With Love: A Story of Emergency Communities

Made With Love Café. Part of the It’s Happiness: Wisconsin polka bands and the women who love them. Festival’s Wisconsin Student Shorts Program. Tift and Fadaak are students at Lawrence University. Killer of Sheep THU, APR 12 • 5 PM Cinematheque ORDER CODE: KILLE12 SUN, APR 15 • 3:30 PM Cinematheque ORDER CODE: KILLE15 dramatic feature • USA, 1977, b/w, 35mm • 81 min • Midwest Premiere DIRECTOR: Charles Burnett; PRODUCER: Charles Burnett; PRODUCTION CO: Milestone; WRITER: Charles Burnett; CINEMATOGRAPHER: Charles Bur- nett; EDITOR: Charles Burnett; CAST: Henry Gayle Sanders, Kaycee Moore, Charles Bracy, Angela Bur- nett, Eugene Cherry, Jack Drummond SERIES: Restorations and Revivals Charles Burnett’s (To Sleep with Anger, The Glass Shield) Killer of

Sheep offers one of the most honest WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL portrayals of the struggles of life in the inner-city. It focuses its gaze on Stan, a slaughterhouse worker fighting to support his family while trying Industrial decay is art in All About the Illusion. Come Into Great Silence at the Chartreuse monastery. to maintain his own humanity and identity despite his bloody occupa- tion and the lures of paths taken by Jim & Joe’s neither can sustain themselves * Song and Solitude Criterion Collection those around him. Despite its bleak against time and age. experimental/animated short • 16mm • 21 min A sacred Native American panther underpinnings, Killer of Sheep is ✿ Experimental Shorts MADISON DIRECTOR: Nathaniel Dorsky spirit mound, hidden in the heart of peppered with a tender humor and THU, APR 12 • 9 PM * Kristall experimental/animated short • 35mm • 15 min An inner landscape, or what it feels Mauston, is restored and preserved profound warmth. Burnett shot the Cinematheque ORDER CODE: JIMEX12 DIRECTOR: Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller like to be, rather than an exploration by a diverse group of middle-school film in a verité documentary style A mesmerizing found-footage rumi- of the external visual world as such. students, teachers, townspeople, with a non-professional cast, giving ✿ * All About the Illusion archeologists, and members of the APRIL 12-15, 2007 experimental/animated short • video • 8 min nation on mirrors and what they it a gritty believability never before Keeping the Spirit Ho Chunk nation. Napier, a high- DIRECTOR: Scott Stark reveal. seen in a film depicting African- Synchronized cameras explore an SEE: Keeping the Spirit + Made With Love school student in Mauston, was rec- American life. Despite winning * Nachtstück ognized by the History Channel’s awards and acclaim following its abandoned train repair yard, a site of experimental/animated short • 35mm • 1 min industrial decay, toxicity and new Keeping the Spirit + Save Our History Foundation for his 1977 debut, this incredible film has DIRECTOR: Peter Tscherkassky work on this film. growth. been left largely unseen by the Amer- ✿ An elaborate hand-contact-printed Made With Love SUN, APR 15 • 11:30 AM * Made With Love: A Story of ican audience due to the daunting WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG * Filthy Food film commemorating Mozart. problem of clearing music rights for experimental/animated short • video • 5 min Wis Hist Society ORDER CODE: KEEPI15 Emergency Communities documentary short • USA, 2006, color, all of the remarkable music (includ- DIRECTOR: T. Arthur Cottham * Ringo experimental/animated short • video • 6 min * Keeping the Spirit video • 50 min • Madison Premiere ing songs by Etta James, Dinah A short film for everyone who has DIRECTOR: Dave Monahan documentary short • USA, 2006, color, DIRECTOR: Madison Tift, Raad Fadaak; PRODUCER: Washington, Paul Robeson, and ever left lipstick on a banana, or video • 44 min • Madison Premiere Madison Tift, Raad Fadaak; EDITOR: Gretta Wing Earth, Wind & Fire) used in the film. Lawman saves Outlaw, Lawman Miller wanted to. DIRECTOR: Andrew Thomas Napier; PRODUCER: Killer of Sheep has been painstak- loses Outlaw, Lawman becomes Out- Chloris Lowe Jr., Ellsworth Brown, Robert “Ernie” SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own * Her Heart is Washed in Water law. Boszhardt, Leslie Eisenberg, Tom Reisenauer, Margie PRESENTED BY: TravelWisconsin.com, Kodak, ingly restored by the UCLA Film and and then Weighed Hylkema, Jean Dowiasch, Armund Bartz, Jay Toth, Criterion Collection Television Archive, and Milestone ✿ experimental/animated short • 16mm • 13 min * site specific_LAS VEGAS Adam Heinrich, Brad Kastner, Willard Lonetree; PRO- Films has managed to clear all of the 877.963.FILM experimental/animated short • 35mm • 13 min DUCTION CO: Napier Films LLC; WRITER: Andrew In St. Bernard Parish after Hurri- DIRECTOR: Sasha Waters DIRECTOR: Olivo Barbieri Napier, Margie Hylkema; CINEMATOGRAPHER: cane Katrina, volunteers (including necessary rights to finally properly Subtle juxtapositions evoke parallels Andrew Napier; EDITOR: Andrew Napier offer this landmark work to U.S. A revealing aerial portrait of Sin City. students from Lawrence University) between static monuments and liv- SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own and residents come together for filmgoers in conjunction with its ing families to suggest the ways that PRESENTED BY: TravelWisconsin.com, Kodak, 30th anniversary. comfort and nourishment at the 17 18 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ✿ MADISON ✿ APRIL 12-15, 2007 ✿ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ✿ 877.963.FILM that popcorn. And itmightjustmake youputdown the Americanindustrialfoodsystem. aboutmodern farmingand mentary film program. recent graduateofUW-Milwaukee’s teacher.tary-school isa Thompson elemen- charmingly eccentricretired ofanoutspoken and A portrait DIRECTOR: Chris Thompson; CAST: Kyoko video •14minMadisonPremiere documentary short•USA,2006,color, * KyokoNaturally Criterion Collection PRESENTED BY: TravelWisconsin.com, Kodak, SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own Bartell Theater SUN, APR15•3:45PM Do NotGoGently Kyoko + SEE: Kyoko Naturally SEE: Kristall SEE: Kompetenz SEE: Kiss MyWheels King Corn byAaronWoolf,farm toys.Directed concepts usinganimatedFisher-Price illustrate complicatedsupply-chain delightful andclear, takingcareto South bySouthwestFilmFestival, is Corn, whichpremieredatthisyear’s ment subsidiesalongtheway. andgovern- learning aboutfertilizer nation’s cheapfoodproduction, ofour style cornthatisamajorpart somehelpplantingtheindustrial- get year. Ellis ButIan andCurt Cheney quantity ofIowaeach cornharvested about theplan,givenmassive locals are,notsurprisingly, skeptical little cornerpatchinahugefield. The and buyonesingleacreofcorn—a supply, two BostoniansmovetoIowa intoourfood how somuchcorngets Curiousabout syrup inyourketchup. beef cattle corn tothehighfructose processed corn,fromthecornfedto alotof packaged foodreveal ingredientslistonmany kindsof The PRESENTED BY: St.Co-op Willy Curt Ellis frey K.Miller;MUSIC:TheWowz; CAST: IanCheney, Sam Cullman,IanCheney, Aaron Woolf; EDITOR:Jef- Ian Cheney, Jeffrey K.Miller;CINEMATOGRAPHER: Television Service;WRITER:Aaron Woolf, CurtEllis, PRODUCTION CO:MosaicFilmsInc.,Independent DIRECTOR: Aaron Woolf; PRODUCER:Aaron Woolf; video •92min documentary feature •USA,2006,color, Bartell Theater SAT, APR14•3:30PM Bartell Theater FRI, APR13•7:30PM King Corn DIRECTOR: MelissaGodoy;PRODUCER: Melissa Premierevideo •57minWisconsin documentary short•USA, 2006,color, * DoNotGoGently Kyoko +DoNotGoGently Jim &Joe’s Experimental Shorts short.times.ten Collector +KissMyWheels is aplayful andwitty docu- RE CODE ORDER RE CODE ORDER CODE ORDER : KYOKO15 : KINGC14 : KINGC13 King McLaughlin Frederic Franklin,GeneD.Cohen,LoloSarnoff,Donal TOR: Jeff Glaza;CAST: ArlonziaPettway, LeoOrnstein, MATOGRAPHER: MikeBizzarri, MarkStucker;EDI- Littig; PRODUCTIONCO:NEWIST/CESA7;CINE- Godoy, EXECUTIVEPRODUCER:Eileen MattArnett; bizarre roleslike theBic Bananain A lifeontheBroadway stage plus Jason McQueen. Robards,andSteve Hackman,with classmateslike Gene underUta Hagen,studied acting Hollywood Squares,”and “The Reilly the 70sgameshows“Match Game” best knownforhisappearanceson Poltermann.Barry perhaps Though by Frank AndersonandUWgraduate man stageshow, filmed forthescreen in“Save ItForstory theStage,” aone- son Reillyrecountshisimprobable Nel-and agenerationalicon?Charles Tony winner, astapleoftelevision, the oddswouldbethatyou’d endupa kid ontheblock,whatdoyouthink racist mother, andweretheonlygay aunt, aninstitutionalizedfather, a If, in1940,youhadalobotomized SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own MUSIC: FrankAnderson;CAST: CharlesNelsonReilly Anthony Balderrama;EDITOR:BarryPoltermann; Linke, CharlesNelsonReilly;CINEMATOGRAPHER: CO: L’Orange Films,CivilianPictures; WRITER:Paul Murphy, DavidDahlman,SteveFarr;PRODUCTION DUCER: Carrie Heckman,PeterMcDonnell,JohnLyons DUCER: RobertFagan,Wrye Martin;EXECUTIVEPRO- FrankAnderson;PRO- DIRECTOR: BarryPoltermann, video •87minMadisonPremiere documentary feature •USA,2005,color, Bartell Theater SUN, APR15•7:45PM Bartell Theater SAT, APR14•7:45PM The LifeofReilly SEE: The LastStain the mindthatislivingalongfulllife. creativityrelationship between and film helpsusbetter understandingthe Alabama. Withwitandpanache,the quilterinGee’seldest active Bend, andArlonziaPettwayballet; (82),the dancer whointroducedAmericato Franklin Russes (90),theBallets godfather ofmodernmusic;Frederick Ornstein(109),the the livesofLeo ative personality. We aretaken into ric oflifelongcreativity andthecre- Gently Go Narrated byWalter Cronkite, Creativity andagingcometogetherinDoNotGoGently. rated. MPAA ratingsprovided parental discretion isadvised. where available. Viewerand Most festivalfilmsare not short.times.four is an exploration ofthefab- is anexploration ✿ RE CODE ORDER CODE ORDER Do Not : : LREIL15 LREIL14 one, and together theirreminis- one, and together some ofhisformer studentsoneby thisstory.stitch together He looks up threadto anecdotes arethe perfect 1970s, andMarzynski’s good-natured want fromatime-capsuleoftheearly cross-dressing, andnudity asyou’d haveclass projects asmuchboozing, sprinkled throughoutthepiece.The vaged clipsofhisstudents’films compelling, thankstothemany sal- spirit ofnostalgiathatissurprisingly Poland atthetime,hasaninfectious who wasarecentimmigrantfrom yearsago.Marzynski,Design thirty job attheRhodeIsland Schoolof Here ishisfirst hissubject teaching cal film abouthislifeasafilmmaker. funny autobiographi- warm andvery of Focus, WFF2005)bringsusa Marian Marzynski (AnyaInandOut Nino Rota RAPHER: JasonLongo;EDITOR:BenHoward; MUSIC: Marzynski; WRITER:Marian Marzynski;CINEMATOG- DIRECTOR: Marian Marzynski;PRODUCER:Marian video •80min documentary feature •UK,2006,color, Play Circle SUN, APR15•11AM Play Circle THU, APR12•5:30PM of aFilmTeacher Life onMarz:AMemoir A highschooltalentshowisready torock inLindaLinda. der, andzinger-filled show. ten- material forathrilling,energetic, TV commercialsgave Reillyample RE CODE ORDER CODE ORDER : LMARZ15 : LMARZ12 mand Like pastNordic festivalfilms Kina- In FINNISHwithEnglishsubtitles Koivula Hyytiäinen, Maria Järvenhelmi,Maria Heiskanen,Ilkka Timo Salminen;EDITOR: AkiKaurismäki; CAST: Janne mäki; WRITER:AkiKaurismäki; CINEMATOGRAPHER: DIRECTOR: AkiKaurismäki; PRODUCER:AkiKauris- color, 35mm•80min dramatic feature2006, •Finland/Germany/France, Stage Door SUN, APR15•5:15PM Stage Door SAT, APR14•3:15PM (Laitakaupungin Valot) Lights intheDusk author of thefilm hasareputation of “Luckily forourprotagonist, the says: But,asthedirector characters. heist plannedby some pretty rough drawntrue, andKoistinengets intoa ema, she’s ofcoursetoogoodtobe ways?life inmoredevious It’s cin- that heneeds,orwillshechangehis him thecompassionandwarmth uesque andblonde:willsheshow has dealt.He Mirja, stat- meets ically acceptingthehandthatFate scorned byhiscoworkers andsto- Here, guard, Koistinenisasecurity enjoys asimilarkindofdarkhumor. fromhiscommunity,detached and the Dusk Aki Kaurismaki’sdirector ful additiontothefestivalprogram. schoolmake adelight- cences ofart and . A cropinKingCorn isborn is astudyoflonelyguy, Noi Albinoi RE CODE ORDER CODE ORDER , Finnish Lights in : LIGHT15 : LIGHT14 plan to learn a few poptunesintime plan tolearn afew talent show, andfourfriends hatcha In threedays ShibaHigh isholdinga In JAPANESE, KOREANwithEnglishsubtitles Maeda, Yu Kashii,Shiori Sekine Miyajima; MUSIC:JamesIha;CAST: DoonaBae,Aki MATOGRAPHER: Yoshihiro Ikeuchi;EDITOR:Ryuji Wakako MiyashitaI,Nobuhiro Yamashita; CINE- Covers &Co.,Vap/Cave; WRITER:KosukeMukai, Bitters End,Inc.;PRODUCTIONCO:End Inc., Hiroyuki Negishi,Yuji Sasai;EXECUTIVEPRODUCER: DIRECTOR: Nobuhiro Yamashita; PRODUCER: 35mm •114min dramatic feature •Japan,2005,color, Capitol Theater SUN, APR15•3:45PM Linda Andrew, FilmFestival. London enriching glimmerofhope.” —Geoff genuine warmthandasmallbut ofafilmthis darkjewel glowswith inourworld, emotional ‘have-nots’ poignant reminderofthelot deadpan mordanthumour….A blend ofhumanecompassionand low-key with acharacteristically nightmare ofdeceitandviolence hero’s descentintoanunforeseen hisunassuming fablecharts tionary rismäki’s delightfullydelicate cau- Mastango andCarlosGardel.“Kau- Jakoila andtango mastersEnsemble Finnish guitarist-songwriterAntero brilliant soundtrackincluding illuminating thefinal scene.” Witha can assumethereisasparkofhope old man,sowe being asoft-hearted RE CODE ORDER : LINDA15 Lion in Winter is a huge, intelligent, emotional period picture about a feud- ing family who have countries to rule. Peter O’Toole and Katherine Hepburn own the screen as King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, whom Henry has locked up across the Channel to prevent her from meddling in his affairs of state, and affairs of another kind. But it’s Christmas, and the family has gathered to celebrate the warmth of the holiday — and fight over who shall be named heir to Henry’s throne. Also starring Anthony Hopkins, Timothy Dalton, John Cas- Lights in the Dusk shines with dark Finnish humor. The Life of Reilly is a wild one. tle, and Nigel Terry, The Lion in Win- ter comes to us in a beautifully for the concert. But crisis looms one of The Host is screening anywhere near ate naturalness the American teenage WRITER: James Goldman; CINEMATOGRAPHER: restored print courtesy of UW grad the girls, the only one who knows how you, go see that film now), proves that movie rarely achieves.” — Jeannette Douglas Slocombe; EDITOR: John Bloom; MUSIC: Michael Pogorzelski, director of the John Barry; CAST: Peter O’Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Academy Film Archive. play, has to drop out. The only replace- she’s one of the band, and the plucky Catsoulis, New York Times. Anthony Hopkins, Timothy Dalton ment available is Son, a Korean foursome battle through minor set- In ENGLISH with English subtitles exchange student, which makes her a backs to get ready for the Big Day. The Lion in Winter SERIES: Restorations and Revivals Little Spirits bit of an outsider and a pretty bad can- “One of this year’s most unexpected FRI, APR 13 • 4:30 PM Nominated for seven Oscars, winning SEE: short.times.twelve didate as lead singer. Son, played by pleasures...The irritations and tedium Cinematheque ORDER CODE: LIONI13 Best Actress, Best Music, and Best the immensely talented and appealing of high school life are staged with dramatic feature • USA, 1968, b/w, 35mm • 134 min Screenplay adapted from another Lloyd Ormorod Wants young actress Bae Doo-na as Son (if refreshing simplicity, while the per- DIRECTOR: Anthony Harvey; PRODUCER: Martin Poll; source (James Goldman’s own script His Face Back you’re reading this and Bong Joon-ho’s formers interact with an age-appropri- EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Joseph E. Levine; PRODUC- TION CO: AVCO Embassy, Haworth Productions; from his dramatic stage play), The SEE: short.times.ten WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL

Son of Man U-Carmen eKhayelitsha Wrestling Ground

AFRICAN ACTION FIGURES ✿ Confrontational films from motivated people MADISON frica on African terms” is the soldiers, victims of machete-wielding rebels, across the country convene in a dusty courtyard betrayal, and death. U-Carmen refuses to fear ✿ experience that accompanies the and dictators. to testify about surviving atrocities perpetrated men in a world-dominated by men. Jesus refus- APRIL 12-15, 2007 four films the UW-Madison The African films featured in this year’s fes- by the World Bank, pharmaceuticals, and other es to fear the oppressors in a world-dominated “A African Studies Program helped tival do not use tragedy to evoke feelings. They benevolent profiteers. The film focuses on the by war. Both are from Khayelitsha, the township select for the Wisconsin Film Festival. Wrestling are confrontational films: movies impact the modern capi- outside Cape Town. Their fearlessness leads to Grounds from Senegal, U-Carmen eKhayelitsha about ordinary people in extraordi- AFRICAN talist culture has upon destruction.

and Son of Man from South Africa, and Bamako nary circumstances who do what the one family, and the Wrestling Grounds, by Cheikh NDiaye, is a ✿

from Mali are films about ordinary people West has demanded of Africans for ACTION FIGURES demands and tolls it coming-of-age tale set in modern Dakar. Nal- WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG prompted to action by the world around them. years: take responsibility for Africa. presented by the UW African enacts upon their physical la, a 19-year-old, 98-pound weakling, finds a These films tell stories in which the protago- The protagonists take over in Studies Program and mental well-being. protector and a new identity while escaping a nists seize control. delightfully unexpected ways and ✿ Bamako U-Carmen eKhaye- group of thugs. He enters a world of wrestling: As westerners, many of our defining cine- present African circumstances in a ✿ Son of Man litsha and Son of Man, a world of spirituality and connectivity with the matic experiences about Africa are voyeuristic, new and African-defined light. ✿ U-Carmen eKhayelitsha both by Mark Dornford- past. The film is a process of discovery and filmed from a documentarian’s point of view. In Bamako, the film by Abderrah- ✿ Wrestling Grounds May in collaboration enlightenment for both Nalla and the audience. They come with exotic landscapes decimated mane Sissako presented in coopera- with Di Dimpho Di Ko- The most important thing to remember by encroaching development, elephants and tion with the UW Global Studies Pro- pane Artistic produc- when watching these films is that they are not ✿ lions facing extinction, people who survive gram, the citizens of Mali take responsibility for tions, are more than reimaginings of Bizet’s leg- films about Africa, rather they are films from 877.963.FILM drought by drinking cattle blood only to be the course of their lives by putting the west and its endary opera and the New Testament. They are Africa, of Africans, in real-world situations. forced to leave their homeland, unemployment, debt-inducing, natural resource-draining, pover- distinctly South African renditions of the famil- — John Stafford Anderson, strip mines, environmental devastation, child ty-rendering institutions on trial. People from iar cautionary tales. They are stories of love, African Studies Program 19 20 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ✿ MADISON ✿ APRIL 12-15, 2007 ✿ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ✿ 877.963.FILM Friday, April 13 Thursday, April 12 Terrace Monona Theater Bartell Stage Door Orpheum Main Orpheum Theater Capitol Museum MMoCA theque Cinema- Society Wi Historic Play Circle Fr March Theater Wi Union Terrace Monona Theater Bartell Stage Door Orpheum Main Orpheum Theater Capitol Museum MMoCA theque Cinema- Society Wi Historic Play Circle Fr March Theater Wi Union 5 pm*81min Killer of Sheep 4 5 4 pm*171min Rang deBasanti P.M. P.M. 4:15 pm*137min Fool Henry 5:30 pm*74min Cats ofMirikitani 5:30 pm*80min Life onMarz 4:30 pm*134min Lion in Winter 5 pm*94min Close to Home 5 pm*93min Bird House 5 pm*115totalmin It’s in Blood + Everybody 5 pm*117min Rape ofEuropa 5 6 P.M. P.M. 6:15 pm*85min Toots 6:30 pm*87min Man Push Cart 7 pm*98min Spirit ofthe Beehive 7 pm*115totalmin Chalk 6 7 P.M. P.M. 7:15 pm*76min Sentenced Home 7:15 pm*110totalmin Escape +Braindamadj’d 7 pm*106min Young Frankenstein 7 8 P.M. P.M. 7:15 pm*88min The Hip HopProject 8:15 pm*102min Family Law 7:15 pm*99min The Boss ofIt All 7:15 pm*103min Retribution 7:15 pm*118min Fay Grim 7:15 pm*105min Muxes: Authentic 8:30 pm*90min Manufact’d Landscapes 7:30 pm*100totalmin Cost of Living+Pigs Fly 7:30 pm*120totalmin King Corn 9 pm*85min J & J’s Experimental 9 pm*87min Tibet inExile 8 9 pm*135totalmin War/Dance +Tree ofGuns 9 P.M. P.M. 9:30 pm*140totalmin Heart ofan Empire 9 10 P.M. 9:15 pm*120totalmin Here isAlways P.M. 9:30 pm*85min Tim’s Island 10:30 pm*90min The District! 9:30 pm*86min Son ofMan 9:30 pm*89min 12:08 East ofBucharest 9:30 pm*115totalmin Ball Saved +Sportsfan 9:30 pm*110min Gypsy Caravan 10:45 pm*81min Air GuitarNation 9:45 pm*92min Ten Canoes 10:45 pm*102min Radio On 10 pm*70min Black Sun 10 11 P.M. P.M. 11 12 P.M. MIDNITE 11:30 pm*91min Wristcutters 11:45 pm*100min Exiled 11:45 pm*125min El Topo 12 MIDNITE Saturday, April 14 Terrace Monona Theater Bartell Stage Door Orpheum Main Orpheum Theater Capitol Museum MMoCA theque Cinema- Society Wi Historic Play Circle Fr March Theater Wi Union 1 A.M. 11 am*86min Son ofMan 11 am*105min Absolute Wilson 11 11 am*135totalmin War/Dance +Tree ofGuns 11 am*162min Into Great Silence 11:15 am*90totalmin Collector +KissMy A.M. 11:30 am*100totalmin Short.Times.Ten Sunday, April 15 Terrace Monona Theater Bartell Stage Door Orpheum Main Orpheum Theater Capitol Museum MMoCA theque Cinema- Society Wi Historic Play Circle Fr March Theater Wi Union 12 NOON 11 am*75min Volevo SoloVivere 1 11 am*90min Young Visions 11 am*88min The Great Match 11 am*100totalmin Short.Times.Ten 11 am*111min Vanaja 11 11 am*110totalmin Life on Marz 11 am*118min Bamako P.M. 11:15 am*80min Paper Dolls 1:15 pm*91min Wristcutters 1:15 pm*85min Everything’s GoneGrn 1:15 pm*105totalmin Short.Times.Twelve A.M. 11:30 am*120totalmin Keeping Spirit+Made 1:30 pm*90min Cinematographer Style 1:45 pm*70min Black Sun 2 pm*100totalmin Short.Times.Four 2 12 P.M. 2:15 pm*120min U-Carmen eKhayelitsha NOON 1 pm*102min Family Law 1 pm*105min Wrestling Grounds 3 1 P.M. P.M. 3:15 pm*80min Lights intheDusk 3:15 pm*110min Gypsy Caravan 1:15 pm*100min Something LikeHappiness 1:15 pm*100min Short.Times.Three 1:15 pm*102min Radio On 1:15 pm*115totalmin Ball Saved +Sportsfan 1:15 pm*117min Rape ofEuropa 1:30 pm*100min Madeinusa 3:30 pm*85min J & J’s Animated 3:30 pm*92min King Corn 3:30 pm*100totalmin Short.Times.Three 4 2 P.M. P.M. 4:15 pm*70min British TVAds 2:15 pm*110totalmin Long Shadows + Cut 4:45 pm*90min Grbavica 5 pm*81min Air GuitarNation 5 3 P.M. P.M. 3:15 pm*85min Toots 3:15 pm*94min Close to Home 3:30 pm*81min Killer ofSheep 3:30 pm*92min Zidane: 21stCPortrait 3:30 pm*105totalmin Short.Times.Twelve 5:30 pm*105min Gods andMonsters 5:30 pm*110min Americanese 5:30 pm*110totalmin Manhattan, Kansas 3:45 pm*70min British TVAds 3:45 pm*100totalmin Kyoko +DoNotGoGently 3:45 pm*114min Linda Linda Linda 5:45 pm*87min Tibet inExile 6 pm*95totalmin Wi Student Shorts 6 4 P.M. P.M. 4:30 pm*120totalmin Cousin Kasyte+Untyings 6:30 pm*115totalmin It’s Happiness: Polka 6:45 pm*88min Great Match 7 pm*87min Diggers 7 5 P.M. P.M. 5:15 pm*80min Lights intheDusk 5:15 pm*110min Americanese 5:15 pm*125min El Topo 5:30 pm*100totalmin Short.Times.Six 5:30 pm*107min Poison Friends 7:45 pm*85min Tim’s Island 7:45 pm*88min Hip Hop Project 7:45 pm*100min All DaysBefore 7:45 pm*120totalmin Life of Reilly 5:45 pm*105min Muxes: Authentic 6 pm*74min Cats ofMirikitani 8 pm*86min Radiant City 8 6 P.M. P.M. 6:15 pm*101min Climates 8:45 pm*113min Red Road 8:45 pm*120totalmin Cork n’Bottle:Ken’s Bar 7 pm*135totalmin Border 9 pm*90min Severance 9 7 P.M. P.M. 7:15 pm*113min Red Road 7:30 pm*99min Boss ofItAll 7:45 pm*85min Ghosts ofCité Soleil 7:45 pm*86min Radiant City 9:45 pm*60min Slanted Screen 7:45 pm*120totalmin Life of Reilly 7:45 pm*114min Holy Mountain 9:45 pm*114min Holy Mountain 10 pm*83min Punching at the Sun 8 pm*93min Bird House 10 pm*95min Punk’s NotDead 10 8 P.M. 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877.963.FILM WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG 2007 12-15, APRIL MADISON FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN ✿ ✿ ✿ 21 ✿ 22 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ✿ MADISON ✿ APRIL 12-15, 2007 ✿ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ✿ 877.963.FILM about self-harm. and understandingtheirchoices found andcandidstoriesofcutting power liesintheteens’ownpro- cutting andself-injury, butthefilm’s sharetheirinsightson Arbuckle Lee Manson, GinaYoung, andTiffany their families,andfriends.Shirley lem thataffects thousandsofteens, at alargelyunacknowledgedprob- of theirlives,Cut tomake sense of youngpeopletrying Madeinusa In SPANISH withEnglishsubtitles Carlos delaTorre, Yilian Chong Blasi;MUSIC: SelmaMutal;CAST:Ernest MagalySolier, CINEMATOGRAPHER: RaúlPérez Ureta; EDITOR: TION CO:Wanda S.A.;WRITER:ClaudiaLlosa; Visión Morales, AntonioChavarrías,ClaudiaLlosa;PRODUC- DIRECTOR: ClaudiaLlosa;PRODUCER:JoséMaria dramatic feature •Peru,2006,color, 35mm•100min Capitol Theater SUN, APR15•1:30PM Madeinusa SEE: KeepingtheSpirit +Made WithLove Communities A StoryofEmergency Made WithLove: Conterio, Tiffany ArbuckleLee Schneider; CAST: ShirleyManson,GinaYoung, Karen DIRECTOR: Wendy Schneider;PRODUCER:Wendy video •50minWorld Premiere documentary short•USA,2007,color, * Cut:Teens andSelfInjury ofwar.of thefutility anddestruction Yet, eachechoesthesharedmessage with theirindividualperspective. in Iraq, eachtellsapersonalstory War, war ofthecurrent toaveteran Brigade duringtheSpanishCivil eran oftheAbrahamLincoln Beginningwithavet- peace activism. involvement to paths frommilitary their whocandidlydiscuss veterans with of19interviews A collection Patrick Wilcox marano, FrancesWiedenhoeft, MikeBoehm,JosephCam- Williams, Kimbrough, Will Babler; CAST: Clarence Kailin,SidneyPodell,Robert DIRECTOR: Luciano;PRODUCER:DavidGiffey, Linda documentary short•USA,2006,color, video•30min * LongShadows:Veterans’ Criterion Collection,andtheCommunityPharmacy PRESENTED BY: TravelWisconsin.com, Kodak, SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own Wis HistSociety SUN, APR15•2:15PM Long Shadows+Cut SEE: Veterans’ PathstoPeace Long Shadows: SEE: The LongShadow involving the church’s statueofJesus emony, aseries ofbizarrerites celebrating itsannual Holy Days cer- the wrongsideof themountainsis year. Asmallvillagetucked away on seenonscreenthis costumes you’ll most lushlybrilliantanddecorative in AndeanPeru, wrappedupin the innocence, sin,loyalty, andbetrayal With the words, artwork, andmusic With thewords,artwork, Paths toPeace Long Shadows+Cut Wisconsin StudentShortFilms is an exquisite taleof is anexquisite is anintimatelook RE CODE ORDER RE CODE ORDER : LONGS15 : MADEI15 American Cinema Award. don FilmFestival; winner, New Winner, FIPRESCIPrice, 2005Lon- tion andhopeinpost-9/11New York. Cart hours justbeforedawn, three weeks,mostlyduringthedark little side-workforcash.Filmedover Pakistani whohiresAhmadtodoa nearby, andMohammad, afellow Spanish womanrunninganewsstand AhmadandNoemi, between evolve a Relationships make endsmeet. working Pakistani, to justtrying ask hislastone.” Ahmadisahard- thinkto wouldnever although they tomers callhimbyhisfirst name earns hisdailybread….many cus- bles thehardworkbywhichitshero drama andphony suspense,itenno- neo-realism. Free ofcontrivedmelo- soulofItalian and embodiesthevery and anAmericanborninPakistan, hattan byanAmericanborninIran “ in hisOverlooked FilmFestival: whofeaturedthisfilmRoger Ebert, describedby oflife.As uncertainties ous: takingthetimetochronicle make independentcinemasovigor- Man PushCart PRESENTED BY: UWAsianAmerican Studies SERIES: DiasporaMelancholy:AsianAmerican Films In ENGLISH,URDUwithEnglishsubtitles CAST: AhmadRazvi,LeticiaDolera EDITOR: RaminBahrani;MUSIC:PeymanYazdanian; Bahrani; CINEMATOGRAPHER: MichaelSimmonds; TION CO:FlipSideFilm,NoruzFilms;WRITER:Ramin jay Motwani,LisaMuskat,SteveSabba;PRODUC- Jayaram,San- UTIVE PRODUCER:ScottBooth,Vinay Bahrani, PradipGhosh,Bedford T. Bentley III;EXEC- DIRECTOR: RaminBahrani;PRODUCER: dramatic feature •USA,2005,color, 35mm•87min Orpheum Main THU, APR12•6:30PM Man PushCart SEE: Magda Veterans becomepeaceactivistsinLongShadows. Mar delPlataFilmFestival. AmericanFeatureLatin Film,2006 Maria Vargas Llosa.Winner, Best Llosa, nieceofPeruvian novelist debutfromClaudia and exciting and silvertears,thisisastunning and bloodcrownshearts with richlysymbolicimagesofstars Romeo toMadeinusa’s Juliet. Filled andperhapsasa the surrealevents, of bothasanoutsideobserver acts both Westerns tales,who andfairy some stranger, in aclassiccharacter mayor. Into townwandersahand- ownfather,Days byhervery the marked forconquestduringHoly mother ranoff toLima,hasbeen beautyan exquisite who,sinceher nusa (pronouncedma-din-OO-sa), girlisMadei-the virginQueen.The ofavillagegirlas and theselection Man PushCart Jim &Joe’s AnimatedShorts is a luminous portrait ofisola- is aluminousportrait distills whatcan was filmed inMan- RE CODE ORDER Man Push : MANPU12 The Parisian literaryscene isaseductiveplaceforPoisonFriends. the United States,which Evie has nearby pointmeasuring thecenterof longstanding wish todiscoverthe anolivebranch,TaraAs fulfills Evie’s over themapandcan’tbepredicted? mom’s chaoticpersonality slidesall can youdothatsafelywhenyour That’s whatgoodgirlsdo.Buthow want toloveyourmother, right? into hermother’s life.Ofcourseyou in asmallway Tara’s tentativerentry filmunstable. The simplydocuments she isopinionated,inconsistent,and hermotheris,thoughsurely exactly and painfullybaffledsweetly atwho hera from housetohasleft Tara’s moved upbringingasthey Jonathan Caouette of the brashandthrill-seeking push-pullrelationship.Unlikeplex understand theirastonishinglycom- to tan, Kansaswithacameratotry her mom,Tara to Manhat- returns New York mostofthetiesto andcut in hertwenties whohasmovedto ing andsuffocating. Now, asanadult ence oneachotherwasbothsustain- eccentric motherEvie: theirdepend- Tara Wray wasraised alonebyher Bell; EDITOR:CindyLee;MUSIC:JasonZumpano derpony Productions; CINEMATOGRAPHER: Randy ponte, AlanOxman;PRODUCTIONCO:L.B.Thun- DIRECTOR: Tara Wray; PRODUCER:Michel Negro- video •79min documentary feature •USA,2006,color, Bartell Theater SAT, APR14•5:30PM Manhattan, Kansas RE CODE ORDER Tarnation, : MANHA14 grounds of itswaste.In the spiritof industrial endeavor andthedumping and witnessboth theepicentersof on theplanet meditate onourimpact tynsky’s photographs,allowingusto thenarratives ofBur- ers alsoextend almost endlessfactory, thefilmmak- opening trackingshotthroughan breathtaking sequences,suchasthe With massive industrialrevolution. dence andeffects ofthatcountry’s asheshootstheevi- through China, filmrials anddebris.The followshim fromcivilization’sbeautiful art mate- dams—Burtynsky createsstunningly minesand cling yards,factories, landscapes”—quarries,factured recy- large-scale photographsof“manu- Internationally acclaimedforhis EDITOR: RolandSchlimme;CAST: Edward Burtynsky Foundry Films;CINEMATOGRAPHER: PeterMettler; CO: Mercury Films,NationalFilmBoard ofCanada, Pencier, DanielIron, JenniferBaichwal;PRODUCTION DIRECTOR: JenniferBaichwal;PRODUCER:Nickde 35mm •90min documentary feature •Canada,2006,color, Orpheum Main THU, APR12•8:30PM Landscapes Manufactured what itmeanstobeafamily. of scape, isafascinatingexploration wide horizonsoftheKansasland- ing foranswers.Filledwiththefresh both Evie andTara stilllook- areleft center isjustabrassmarker, and post ofsomekind.Butthegeodetic dreamed aboutasaspiritualguide- RE CODE ORDER : MANUF12 CAST: Mística, EliBartolo,Kika, Chente“LaIrma,” DIRECTOR: AlejandraIslas; WRITER:AlejandraIslas; video •105min documentary feature •Mexico,2005,color, Play Circle SUN, APR15•5:45PM Play Circle FRI, APR13•7:15PM of Danger Intrepid Seekers Muxes: Authentic, SEE: Milk andHoney SEE: Midway SEE: Meniere’s Disease SEE: Meaningful Touches SEE: Me andJeanPierre mentary, Awards. 2007Genie way weliveinit.Winner, BestDocu- sciousness abouttheworldand scapes (WFF 2003),Manufactured Land- WorkingGoldworthy WithTime films like RiversandTides:Andy y buscadorasdepeligro) Auténticas, intrépidas Jim &Joe’s AnimatedShorts short.times.twelve Wisconsin StudentShortFilms short.times.six Wisconsin StudentShortFilms powerfully shifts our con- shifts powerfully (Muxes: RE CODE ORDER CODE ORDER : MUXES15 : MUXES13 come to look upon them as substitute children. On their nights off, the workers perform as a drag queen ensemble, the Paper Dolls, in Tel Aviv bars. Sally, Jan, Chiqui, and the others wrestle with the grind of performing as a group—can they get a gig in an upscale nightclub?—while they deal with the difficulties of living in a place where culture, religion, language, and, well, everything, is different. Origi- nally broadcast as a six-part series on Israeli television, Paper Dolls shows us a beautiful portrait of tolerance: “if these disparate personalities can achieve harmony, you wonder what’s wrong with the rest of the human race.” — G. Allen Johnson, San Fran- cisco Chronicle. The Patients SEE: Young Visions Pinmonkey SEE: Wisconsin Student Short Films Poet’s Dream SEE: Jim & Joe’s Animated Shorts Explore the industrial terrain of Manufactured Landscapes. Poison Friends (Les Amitiés Maléfiques) SUN, APR 15 • 5:30 PM Orpheum Main ORDER CODE: POISO15 dramatic feature • France, 2006, color, 35mm • 107 min DIRECTOR: Emmanuel Bourdieu; PRODUCER: Mani Martazavi, David Mathieu-Mahias, Yorick Le Saux; PRODUCTION CO: 4 A 4 Productions; WRITER: Emmanuel Bourdieu, Marcia Romano; CINEMATOG- RAPHER: Yorick Le Saux; EDITOR: Benoit Quinon; MUSIC: Grégoire Hetzel; CAST: Malik Zidi, Thibault Vinçon, Alexandre Steiger, Thomas Blanchard, Dominique Blanc, Natacha Régnier, Jacques Bonnaffé In FRENCH with English subtitles

On the first day of a graduate litera- WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ture program at the Sorbonne, Eloi and Alexandre meet André, a hand- some and impossibly brilliant new student who captures the attention of nearly everybody. Seduced by his intelligence and charisma, the aspiring writers quickly fall under his influence and allow him to dominate their ✿

every action. André manipulates their MADISON fortunes with a touch of malicious- ness worthy of Les Liaisons Dan- Meet Mexican Zapotecs in the Muxes community. Play with the Paper Dolls. gereuses. A taut psychological thriller that would make Hitchcock proud, ✿ Poison Friends combines intrigue and APRIL 12-15, 2007 Felina, Angel, Armando López, Pitufina, La Jarocha, close-knit friendships to increase Nachtstück MATOGRAPHER: Itai Raziel; EDITOR: Lavi Ben Gal; academia in this razor-sharp explo- Henoc López, Gema, Clara Chagoya AIDS awareness. Many wear not just MUSIC: Eli Soorani; CAST: Sally Comatoy, Chiqui Dio- kno, Giorgio Diokno, Troan Jacob Libas, Efrenito Man- ration of the pretentious Parisian lit- In SPANISH with English subtitles women’s clothing but traditional SEE: Jim & Joe’s Experimental Shorts PRESENTED BY: UW International Student Services alili, Jose Neil T Datinguinoo, Francisco P Ortiz Jr., erary scene. Deliciously sinister, gor- woven hair braids and the brilliant Eduardo Javar, Chaim Amir, Noa Heymann geous, and “unrepentantly French” Among the Zapotec Indians of Oax- Zapotec folk dresses that they have The Nautical Education In HEBREW, ENGLISH, TAGALOG with English sub-

(Variety). Director Emmanuel Bour- ✿ aca, Mexico, some little boys who pre- embroidered themselves. Like the SEE: short.times.ten titles dieu, no stranger to academia himself WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG fer to play with girls are raised as Israeli film Paper Dolls, also playing PRESENTED BY: Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies as a former Philosophy professor and women, and become known as muxes at the Festival and sharing a similar Les Pages (pronounced moo-shays). In the town After closing the border to Palestinian son of eminent sociologist Pierre salty sense of humor, Muxes looks at SEE: short.times.twelve Bourdieu, won the International Crit- of Juchitán, the muxes have an the homosexual experience as a path workers, Israeli authorities sought to important role to play in the life of fill gaps in the job market by enticing ics Week’s Grand Prize at the 2006 to defining nationality, heritage, and Paper Dolls (Bubot Niyar) Cannes Film Festival. the community. Filling traditional faith, as well as sexuality and gender. workers from other parts of the world. roles of cooking, cleaning, sewing, SUN, APR 15 • 11:15 AM Among those who answered the call and caring for elders, the muxes MMoCA ORDER CODE: PAPER15 were Filipinos in various stages of Muybridge in Motion ✿ documentary feature • Israel, 2006, color, ✿

gender transition. These individuals 877.963.FILM sometimes also provide sexual release SEE: short.times.twelve for young straight men—important 35mm • 80 min who see themselves in a female per- Festival programs and schedule DIRECTOR: Tomer Heymann; PRODUCER: Claudia sona, shunned by their families and are subject to change. Check in a culture that expects brides to be My Little Sis Levin (Cala), Stanley Buchthal, Tomer Heymann; EXEC- virgins. The muxes in this film are UTIVE PRODUCER: Maja Hoffmann; PRODUCTION communities at home, build new lives vivacious, generous, and fiercely loyal SEE: Young Visions CO: Claudius Films Ltd., Heymann Brothers Films, LM in Israel as caregivers for elderly, www.WiFilmFest.org Media GmbH; WRITER: Tomer Heymann; CINE- smart-alecks who are using their orthodox Jewish men, many of whom for latest updates. 23 24 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ✿ MADISON ✿ APRIL 12-15, 2007 ✿ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ✿ 877.963.FILM Asian AmericanFilmFestival.Asian 2006 SanFrancisco International Winner, BestNarrative Feature, and restorefeelingstohisheart. with hisfamily, envision thefuture, natural talentifheistoreconnect balance hisangerandgriefwith dreams ofhisfriends,Mameet must shell. Exasperatedbythedead-end just crackthroughMameet’s angry bright andgroundedoutlookmight hood girlnamedShawni, whose lonebrightspotisaneighbor- The ofhisfamiliarlife. was onceapart that he bristlesagainsteverything tional unraveling ofayoungman,as trackstheemo- tering days, thestory friend. Overthecourseoffourswel- and Mameet losesamentorandbest family losesadutifulfirst-born son, in thefamilyconvenience store,the WhenSanjaycourts. isgunneddown the legendoflocalbasketball shadowed byhisbigbrotherSanjay, a headstrongimmigrantteenover- ofMameetthrough theeyes Nayak: a taleofrageandredemptionasseen ofElmhurst,Queens.Itis the streets emotionally chargedridethrough tious and smartly editedfilm,tious and smartly with answer, intheform ofthisrambuc- bringsusthe maker SusanDynner today’s culture? UWgradandfilm- formist punkspirit stillliveonin sands ofteens.Canthetrue,noncon- still markariteofpassageforthou- vodka, anddyedhairpiercings fromcarsto cept toselleverything con- “punk” hasbecomeamarketing immediate sound.Meanwhile, thetorchforpunk’sthat carry raw, too youngtodriveareformingbands have foundsuccessonMTV, andkids crowds thanever, “pop-punk”bands isdrawing bigger band inhistory killing rock,thelongestlastingpunk with theirhard,fast,status-quo- Pistolsshockedthe Sex thesystem theRamonesand yearsafter Thirty SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own Patrick NelsonBarnes Dynner, MarkusKaeppell, EmmaPantall;EDITOR: Not DeadProductions; CINEMATOGRAPHER: Susan Kaeppell, PanosNicolaou;PRODUCTIONCO:Punk’s ner, Todd Traina; EXECUTIVEPRODUCER:Markus DIRECTOR: SusanDynner;PRODUCER:Dyn- video •95min documentary feature •USA,2007,color, Bartell Theater SAT, APR14•10PM Punk’s NotDead Punching attheSun PRESENTED BY: UWAsianAmerican Studies SERIES: DiasporaMelancholy:AsianAmerican Films Singh Hassan el-gendi,Ferdusy Dia,KaziRahman,Taran Nishant Verma; CAST: MisuKhan,NinaEdmonds, Kam; EDITOR:JoeMurphy;MUSIC:DevinderSahota, Chopra, HartEddy;CINEMATOGRAPHER: Milton PRODUCTION CO:ChopsFilms;WRITER:Tanuj DIRECTOR: Tanuj Chopra;PRODUCER:Tanuj Chopra; Premierevideo •83minWisconsin dramatic feature •USA,2006,color, Monona Terrace SAT, APR14•10PM Punching attheSun SEE: Professor’s Daughter short.times.six RE CODE ORDER RE CODE ORDER is acrackling, : PUNCH14 : PUNKS14 Film Festival. Jesse Wente, Toronto International allure anddisenchanting realities.” — him tocapturebothitsseductive familiarity withthelandscapeallows his suburban lifestyle andaesthetic; withthe confrontationyet direct hilarious. film that’s informative,insightfuland his witty, a satiricaledge,crafting the family. “Burnslendsthemovie in may notbethedreamofeveryone nothing withinwalkingdistance, sacs withfacelessidenticalmansions, the impressionthatlivingoncul-de- ties. Butallisnotbliss,andweget andactivi- sports, pools, after-school scheduleofcar map outthecomplex kitchen,andmorespaceto bigger ment tofind asaferneighborhood, moved intothishalf-builtdevelop- Mosstown, WFF2002).The family Burns(Waydown-Brown andGary home’snew doortofilmmakers Jim one Canadianfamilywhoopenstheir through the super-suburbisexplored ofurbangrowth,andthelure part Suburbs have becomeaninevitable saitis; MUSIC:JoeySantiago PHER: Patrick McLaughlin;EDITOR:JonathanBaltru- JimBrown;WRITER: GaryBurns, CINEMATOGRA- FilmLtd.,NationalBoardBurns ofCanada; PRODUCER: GraydonMcCrea; PRODUCTIONCO: Shirley Vercruysse, BonnieThompson;EXECUTIVE JimBrown;DIRECTOR: GaryBurns, PRODUCER: video •86min documentary feature •Canada,2006,color, Monona Terrace SUN, APR15•7:45PM Monona Terrace SAT, APR14•8PM Radiant City SEE: Racism SEE: Rabbit more, dozensmore. Offspring, UKSubs,The Flag, The Rancid,Black Germs, long: The Who’s inthefilm? listisinsanely The and thefanswhokeep punkalive. bands, labels,undergroundpress, withthe behind-the-scenes journeys and performances, interviews, The spirit livesoninPunk’s NotDead. Young Visions Jim &Joe’s AnimatedShorts Radiant City RE CODE ORDER CODE ORDER is hismost : RCITY15 : RCITY14 on questions ofnationalpride. A the Bollywoodenvelope andfocuses more), IanLovich, Dury, Wreckless Ericand soundtrack (Bowie,Kraftwerk, Lene new-wave driven byastartling ematographer ofWimWenders), and by Martin Schaefer(thebrilliantcin- tographed inluminousmonochrome Stunninglypho- frame ofthepicture. nook andgloomy cranny ofeach tocrammusicintoevery a excuse became Prime Minister). Butit’s also ern Britain(theyearthatThatcher buildings andsignsofdecay inmod- dilapidated cityscapes ofabandoned mythichaps even one,capturingthe it’s aroadmovie,anurbanandper- mysterious deathofhisbrother. Yes, don toBrightoninvestigate the On SERIES: RestorationsandRevivals Kreuzer, SandyRatcliff, Andrew Byatt Smal, StuartdeJong;CAST: DavidBeames,Lisa Martin Schäfer;EDITOR:AnthonySloman,Stefna WRITER: Christopher Petit;CINEMATOGRAPHER: Institute, RoadMoviesFilmproduktion GmbH; Peter Sainsbury;PRODUCTIONCO:TheBritish Film fiths; EXECUTIVEPRODUCER:ReneeGundelach, DIRECTOR: Christopher Petit;PRODUCER:KeithGrif- 35mm •102min dramatic feature •UK/Germany, 1979,b/w, Cinematheque SUN, APR15•1:15PM Cinematheque THU, APR12•10:45PM Radio On ( throb ofHindi cinema,AamirKhan A biggloriousfilm starringtheheart- In HINDI,ENGLISHwithEnglishsubtitles Siddharth Narayan,AlicePatten Kapoor, Joshi,LekhTandon, Sharman SohaAli Khan, Puri, Kiron Kher, AnupamKher, Kunal AtulKulkarni, Rahman; CAST: AamirKhan,Waheeda Rehman,Om Binod Pradhan;EDITOR:P.S. Bharathi;MUSIC:AR lesh Pandey, RensilD’Silva;CINEMATOGRAPHER: DUCTION CO:UTVMotionPictures; WRITER:Kam- Ronnie Screwvala, RakeyshOmprakashMehra;PRO- DIRECTOR: RakeyshOmprakashMehra;PRODUCER: 35mm •171min dramatic feature •India,2006,color, Orpheum Main FRI, APR13•4PM Rang deBasanti 1979Britishfilm extraordinary Both luminousandmelancholy, the understatement. Amasterpiece. attuned byviewers toitsdramatic ery Lagaan), follows amandrivingfromLon- Radio On Rang deBasanti is ripeforrediscov- RE CODE ORDER RE CODE ORDER CODE ORDER : RANGD13 pushes : RADIO15 : RADIO12 Radio Fare Awards (India). Best Director, BestActor, 2006Film- ner, five awards includingBestFilm, ofanger.”engrossing expression Win- Mehra’s and immenselyentertaining formances embellishRakeysh “Taut, witty per- writingandheartfelt tragedy andarecalledtoaction. toa asthefriendsreact the picture romances,carry and theinevitable man, agreatdealofclowningaround, terrific Rah- songsbythegreatA.R. some buddies,combinedwith youthful outlookofDJandhishand- their MBAs andberich.The to get dump andwanttorunoff toAmerica thinkIndia’sof therebels.They a identifywiththepatriotism can’t they ful collegeboystostarinherfilm, but Sue triestopursuadeagroupofplay- grandfather describedinhisjournals. tionaries thatherBritishofficer aboutsome 1920srevolu- mentary docu- Delhi tomake areenactment young Britishfilmmaker comesto A NewYork teenisPunchingattheSun. A businessretreat goeshorribly wrong in video •117min documentary feature •USA,2006,color, Bartell Theater SUN, APR15•1:15 PM Bartell Theater FRI, APR13•5PM Rape ofEuropa RE CODE ORDER CODE ORDER : RAPEO15 : RAPEO13 Studies PRESENTED BY: Mosse/Weinstein CenterforJewish TOR: JoshPeterson;CAST: Marco D’Ambrosio Bonni Cohen;CINEMATOGRAPHER: JonShenk;EDI- Cohen; WRITER:Richard Berge, NicoleNewnham, ham, BonniCohen;EXECUTIVEPRODUCER: Newnham; PRODUCER:Richard Berge, NicoleNewn- DIRECTOR: Richard Berge, BonniCohen,Nicole to createwhat totheHolocaust perspective and new this year’s Festival) bringanengaging SentencedHomealso codirected Cohen, Berge,andNewnham (who archival footage,documentarians andrarelyseen interviews porary ond World War. Relyingoncontem- ReichandtheSec- during theThird ofEurope’slous survival treasures art andmiracu- deliberate destruction, Europa book ofthesamename, Based onLynn Nicholas’bestselling tion between art andpolitics. art tion between oftheintersec- and fascinatingstory The RapeofEuropa hunted downmissing worksofart, the Allies’Monuments Men, who fought overtoday, aswelltheroleof thatarestillbeing ular worksofart the Hermitage),ofpartic- the history and museums including(theLouvre plundered someofEurope’s greatest private agendasofNazi leaderswho merizing morality play.” Exploringthe traces thesystematictheft, Severence Variety tells anintricate called “ames- . The Rapeof at Script Cops SEE: short.times.six Sentenced Home THU, APR 12 • 7:15 PM Bartell Theater ORDER CODE: SENTE12 documentary feature • USA, 2006, color, video • 76 min DIRECTOR: David Grabias, Nicole Newnham; PRO- DUCER: David Grabias, Nicole Newnham; PRODUC- TION CO: Sentenced Home Productions; WRITER: David Grabias, Nicole Newnham; CINEMATOGRA- PHER: Howard Shack; EDITOR: Amy Young; MUSIC: Travel from London to Brighton with your Radio On. In this ghost story, who is seeking Retribution? B. Quincy Griffin; CAST: Loeun Lun, Kim Ho Ma, Many Uch SERIES: Diaspora Melancholy: Asian American Films PRESENTED BY: UW Asian American Studies Program This is the story of three men with families, jobs, friends, and a place in their Seattle community. They are Cambodian, and came to the United States in the late 1980s as part of a wave of immigrants escaping the Killing Fields and violence of their home country. Now, they are being sent back to Cambodia, forced to leave behind their children to go to a strange country they haven’t known since they were babies themselves. Why? A U.S. government law author- ized the enforced deportation of convicted felons — even though these men served their time long ago when they were brash teenagers getting in Scottish thriller Red Road. gang trouble. “Thoughtful, visually strong documentary…persuasive.” — DIRECTOR: Kiyoshi Kurosawa; PRODUCER: Takashige Variety. Winner, Audience Award, Ichise; EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Kazuya Hamana; 2006 San Francisco International PRODUCTION CO: OZ co.; WRITER: Kiyoshi Kuro- Asian American Film Festival. sawa; CINEMATOGRAPHER: Ashizawa Akiko; EDI- TOR: Takahashi Nobuyuki; MUSIC: Haishima Kuniaki; CAST: Koji Yakusho, Konishi Manami, Ihara Tsuyoshi, Severance Hirayama Hiroyuki, Joe Odagiri, Kase Ryo SAT, APR 14 • 9 PM Nazi art collectors embark on The Rape of Europa. In JAPANESE with English subtitles Orpheum Main ORDER CODE: SEVER14 A woman is found sprawled face- dramatic feature • UK, 2006, color, 35mm • 90 min

down in a puddle, her brilliant red DIRECTOR: Christopher Smith; PRODUCER: Michael WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL agency that monitors the dingy streets, dress glowing against the queasy Kuhn, Jason Newmark; EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: alerting the copper to criminal behav- mud. You’re the cop investigating the Steve Christian; PRODUCTION CO: Magnolia Pic- ior happening in the neighborhood. tures; WRITER: James Moran, Christopher Smith; crime scene. Casting around for clues, CINEMATOGRAPHER: Ed Wild; EDITOR: Stuart Gaz- This electronic surveillance seems to you find a metal button glinting in the zard; MUSIC: Christian Henson; CAST: Danny Dyer, be the closest Jackie gets in relation- mud. It matches a button you lost Laura Harris, Tim McInnerny, Toby Stephens, Claudie Blakley ships, which makes it all the more baf- from a coat not long ago. Welcome to fling when she drops everything to the nightmare of Yoshioka, a weary A perfectly cast team of office mates trail someone she’s seen on her video cop played by Koji Yakusho (Shall We from a UK arms manufacturer have screen. As she gets closer to Clyde, the Dance, The Eel), the best actor in been packed off to the Hungarian ✿ MADISON story becomes unflinching and tense, Japan today. Evidence mounts that countryside (fatefully, the location of a as Jackie’s actions (including a sexually suggests he’s the murderer, but fair number of their own weapons explicit encounter) become more risky stranger things are happening, sales) to the company’s new luxury and vengeful. Arnold wrote the screen- ghostly things, things with a touch of lodge for a weekend of team building ✿ play based on characters sketched by Lynch. Earthquake tremors add to the and bonding. Led by their insanely APRIL 12-15, 2007 Danish filmmakers Anders Thomas tension as Yoshioka trys to settle the chipper dolt of a boss (Tim McIn- Jensen (Adam’s Apples, WFF 2006; mystery: guilt, suspicion, and the nerny from Blackadder), the group The Green Butchers, WFF 2004) and hauntings of the past are given Kuro- manages to find shelter after their bus Lone Scherfig (Wilbur Wants to Kill sawa’s confident flourish in this won- breaks down, but nasty things are Himself, WFF 2004). Two more films lurking in the woods around them.

derfully dark and inventive thriller. ✿ by other directors are planned, using With a wicked sense of pace, director WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG the same actors playing these charac- Revenge Smith uses the cast’s superb chemistry Seattle Cambodians are Sentenced Home. and his own script laced with exceed- ters, including Martin Compston SEE: Young Visions (Sweet Sixteen and Natalie Press (My ingly funny dialogue to concoct a truly Red Road Lenny Crooks, David M Thompson; PRODUCTION Summer of Love). Viewer discretion is scary, truly witty masterpiece. “Sever- CO: Advanced Party Scheme, Sigma Films, Zentropa advised. Ringo ance is certainly destined to become SAT, APR 14 • 8:45 PM Entertainments; WRITER: Andrea Arnold; CINE- SEE: Jim & Joe’s Experimental Shorts MATOGRAPHER: Robbie Ryan; EDITOR: Nicolas an instant cult classic. Smartly written Stage Door ORDER CODE: REDRO14 Chaudeurge; CAST: Kate Dickie, Tony Curran, Martin Retribution (Sakebi) with a crackling pace and engaging

SUN, APR 15 • 7:15 PM Compston, Natalie Press FRI, APR 13 • 7:15 PM ✿ cast the film manages to be bloody, ✿ Stage Door ORDER CODE: REDRO15 This crackling feature debut by horrific, tragic, and hysterically funny 877.963.FILM Stage Door ORDER CODE: RETRI13 Most festival films are not dramatic feature • UK/Denmark, 2006, color, all in one package.” — Twitch.com. Andrea Arnold is an exceedingly dark SAT, APR 14 • 11:15 PM 35mm • 113 min thriller set in the chilly concrete hous- rated. MPAA ratings provided DIRECTOR: Andrea Arnold; PRODUCER: Carrie Com- Stage Door ORDER CODE: RETRI14 Shaman Dad erford; EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Gillian Berrie, Sissie ing estates on the edges of Glasgow. dramatic feature • Japan, 2006, color, where available. Viewer and Graum Joergensen, Paul Trijbits, Claire Chapman, Jackie (the astonishing Kate Dickie) 35mm • 103 min parental discretion is advised. SEE: Young Visions works for the closed-circuit security 25 26 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ✿ MADISON ✿ APRIL 12-15, 2007 ✿ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ✿ 877.963.FILM SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own PRODUCTION CO:Double SixProductions DIRECTOR: MikeDeChant andDougGritzmacher; video •22minMidwest Premiere documentary short•USA, 2005,color, * BoneMixers introubleinsidetheschool. who get comedic dramaabouthighschoolkids anda in troubleonthestreets; drama abouthighschoolkidsgetting atthedominoestable;aserious apart obsessive friendswhotake eachother about computers; adocumentary old obsessive mindwhotakes apart Four aboutan films: adocumentary Monona Terrace SAT, APR14•2PM short.times.four tion andwhatisacodeviolation. installa- whatis an art line between elements ofthehouse,blurring People anddeconstruct construct itself.becomes astandingworkofart and formed intoahabitatforart Days inMotion Festival, andistrans- A Prague househoststhe4+4+4 Criterion Collection PRESENTED BY: TravelWisconsin.com, Kodak, SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own DIRECTOR: DanSenn video •37minWorld Premiere documentary short•USA,2006,color, * AHouseOnJungmannova playing inthisyear’s Festival. Straub’s film combined inacollageofimages. faith andthepassageoftime,are reminiscences,withnotesof Lovely In GERMANwithEnglishsubtitles DIRECTOR: KatjaStraub video •13minUSAPremiere documentary short•USA/Germany, 2006, color, * TheGreeting from myMother cian. McClure isaGreenBay native. by Kirk,aScottish andmusi- artist flashing lights,arepairedwithmusic andradiotowers architecture life inthecity, ofpeopleintransit, spring, inHiroshima. Scenesofdaily fromwinterthroughtolate ney musicalandvisualjour- a multipart Visually inventive andsurreal,thisis Criterion Collection PRESENTED BY: TravelWisconsin.com, Kodak, SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own PRODUCTION CO:SodenoshitaPictures DIRECTOR: PaulThomsenKirkandChadMcClure; Premierevideo •22minWisconsin experimental/animated short•Japan,2006,color, * Akatombo the world,short.times.three filmmakers withothersfromaround combining theworksofWisconsin short-filmOne ofseveral programs Play Circle SUN, APR15•1:15PM Play Circle SAT, APR14•3:30PM short.times.three between peopleandtimeplace. between gram bybalancingtherelationships make satisfyingpro- anextremely films instyle andtone,but aredistinct internationalflair.tinct three These ( “Unconfirmed Reports” Der GrußvonmeinerMutter The WhiteBunny RE CODE ORDER CODE ORDER RE CODE ORDER has adis- : SH03T15 : SH03T14 : SH04T14 is also ) Hiroshima playsinAkatambo. The DetentionTeacher Criterion Collection PRESENTED BY: TravelWisconsin.com, Kodak, SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own Surgery Room;EDITOR:Andrew Rosas DIRECTOR: Andrew Rosas;PRODUCTION CO:The video •4minWorld Premiere documentary short•USA,2006,color, * Free GeekOlympia a 2007StudentEmmy Award. two. Terrifically funny, thisfilm won each otherteachsTerry athingor girl, buttheirability toreachout opposite: ageeky guyandapopular couldn’t bemore two students.They soul, hedecidestoplay nicewiththe dole outisstealingaway someofhis Feeling thedisciplinehe’s requiredto feelshislifeisgetting dull. detention, Terry, theteacher whosupervises Alex Brown, Erika Rankin,DebbieDiVerde, RaviBatista Phil Klein;CAST: Chauntrell W. Wright, LindsayRathert, Pedro Padilla;EDITOR:Andrew Bloustein;MUSIC: tions; WRITER:BenWeeks; CINEMATOGRAPHER: Kunal Savkur;PRODUCTIONCO:Studio22Produc- DIRECTOR: BenWeeks; PRODUCER:EllieBurrows, Premierevideo •25minWisconsin dramatic short•USA,2006,color, * TheDetentionTeacher Short Film,2007WisconsinFilmFestival Winner, BestWisconsinDocumentary beat. withathumpingreggae portrait down abone,makinguniquefamily with arequiredbottle ofwinetoslap showup ent generationsandcultures dominoes club.Friends fromdiffer- formed intoaraucousinternational home inSilverSpring,Md., istrans- Each Wednesday, Ed’s suburban Criterion Collection PRESENTED BY: TravelWisconsin.com, Kodak, learns alesson. learns and theirfriendshipistested. wanttopullinbigmoney,when they Smitty, have tomake toughdecisions two youngmen, Brodskystreets, and hustle-tough feeloftheChicago work totheFestival. Capturingthe Jason Schumacher; PRODUCTION CO:Warehouse Blomker,DIRECTOR: MasonHill; PRODUCER:Will video •17minWorld Premiere dramatic short•USA,2007, b/w, * TheCaptain& Me to yourFestival Sunday schedule. addition to laid-on-thick:theperfect of absurdity rangesfromjust-a-whiff a playful,level humorousspirit. The sixWisconsin-madefilmsThese share Criterion Collection PRESENTED BY: TravelWisconsin.com, Kodak, SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own Monona Terrace SUN, APR15•5:30PM short.times.six winner that createdlastyear’s Festival award VocationalChicago CareerAcademy filmmakingThe teamfromthe derson, PamMack,Tracey Bonner CraigJ.Harris,Antione D.Kernaghan, SimeonHen- Blackamore; MUSIC:LennelDavis;CAST: JohnHill, WRITER: Tracey Preacely; CINEMATOGRAPHER: Evan son; EXECUTIVEPRODUCER:JohnMossman; DIRECTOR: JamalEasley;PRODUCER:Jheri John- video •17minWorld Premiere dramatic short•USA,2006,color, * TheLastStain and worksinMilwaukee. Olympia, Washington. Rosaslives centerin is acomputerrecycling Come insidethecluttered homethat Scream atMe Get yourselfsomeMeaningfulTouches. RE CODE ORDER brings anew : SH06T15 A HouseOnJungmannovabecomesanartspace. Sarah Whelan man, Lauren Tartaglia, RachelRenee, SarahClark, McGuire, SeamusDooley, Drew DanaOster- Vidal, Hamblin, AdamBlumberg,Michael MelissaNearman, Mason Hill,JasonSchumacher, Blomker, Will James Seth Lind;MUSIC:KevinDenton,AJStrauss;CAST: MATOGRAPHER: Brian Levin;EDITOR:JoshMoise, District Productions; WRITER:MasonHill;CINE- James Brad Fisher, RachelStyle,Wayne Roberts,JeanSt. CAST:EDITOR: LukeR.Pebler; MUSIC: AustinWintory; R. Pebler;CINEMATOGRAPHER: CharlesDeRosa; aghy, MichelleReed,LukeR.Pebler;WRITER: Luke DIRECTOR: LukeR.Pebler;PRODUCER:Nora Don- video •18minMidwestPremiere dramatic short•USA,2006,color, * Professor’s Daughter be withyouinaminute. seat, fillandwe’ll outthepaperwork, health clinicofthefuture.Take a A quirky little pieceaboutaspecialty TOR: MadeleineAllen;MUSIC:AlexisGrivas MATOGRAPHER: RebeccaLorrimer, KaraBaird; EDI- WRITER: JoshuaGrover, DavidPatterson;CINE- DIRECTOR: SarahSteel;PRODUCER:PiotrBozym; video •8minMadisonPremiere dramatic short•USA,2006,color, * MeaningfulTouches venience ofyourownkitchen. “you”fromscratch,inthecon- new Never hasitbeensoeasy to conjurea Eric K.C. Norman, J.Nelson Kipp Norman, PHER: Eric J.Nelson;CAST: ArthurSpragueNelson, Ericman, KippNorman, J.Nelson;CINEMATOGRA- StoryboardVisuals, Productions; WRITER:K.C.Nor- DIRECTOR: Eric J.Nelson;PRODUCTIONCO:Heavy dramatic short•USA,2006,color, video•4min * CloneAppetit andforgiveness. revenge, adventureofgrog,damsels, timey son, inMadi-Filmed aroundStateStreet The CaptainandMe Dominoes rulewithBoneMixers. is aolde men inbluewhoslapthecuffs on’em. edy aboutbadscreenwriters andthe work outtheway heplans. but thatdoesn’tmean thingswon’t whotoldhim todoit, it wasaturtle source tobuildhimself anark.Okay, fromamysterious instructions A simplechurch-goingmanreceives Roe, JanieCastilla Jenna Evans,Brittany Benjamin, JimWestcott, Vanessa rington; CAST: Tim Meinke,Corey Walton, PeterRivers, EMATOGRAPHER: Aaron Gelperin; MUSIC:Chris Har- CIN- man, DamianKussian;WRITER:MattOsterman; PRODUCER:MattOster- DIRECTOR: MattOsterman; video •20minMadisonPremiere dramatic short•USA,2006,color, * Turtle Festival, Quite possiblythefunniestfilm inthe Menges RAPHER: RickDiaz,RobertGarcia; EDITOR:Austen WRITER: AustenMenges,ScottRice;CINEMATOG- Pictures, GloryCreative, Morning GiantPictures; Menges, ScottRice;PRODUCTIONCO:Wolf River Chad Darbyshire; EXECUTIVEPRODUCER:Austen DIRECTOR: ScottRice;PRODUCER:CharlesMulford, video •6minMidwestPremiere dramatic short•USA,2007,color, * Script Cops Film, 2007WisconsinFilmFestival Winner, BestWisconsinNarrativeShort FilmFestival.ence Fiction Best oftheFestival, 2007BostonSci- flesh-and-blood daughter. Winner, reconsider hisrelationshipwith with hiscomputer-childforcehimto lenging personality. His struggles achal- gent programthatdevelops science professorcreatesanintelli- A brilliantbutawkward computer- Script Cops is aspot-oncom- MUSIC: The Foundry Field Recordings A firefly finds a flower to call its own, and the flower can shine again. * IV.6 experimental/animated short • USA, 2006, color, video • 4 min • World Premiere DIRECTOR: Mike Winkelmann; PRODUCER: Mike Winkelmann; WRITER: Mike Winkelmann; CINE- MATOGRAPHER: Mike Winkelmann Watcha gonna do when the Script Cops come for you? Coconut plays games. An inventive video where every note in the music is represented visually. * Little Spirits dramatic short • USA, 2005, color, video • 9 min • Madison Premiere DIRECTOR: Cecilia Condit; MUSIC: Stephen Vogel; CAST: Annie Ela, Madeleine Herisson-Leplae The mysteries of childhood friendships, the pull of adventure, and the impact of the young girl’s decision. Winner, Special Jury Prize, 2007 Wisconsin Film Festival * Midway experimental/animated short • USA, 2006, color, video • 2 min • World Premiere DIRECTOR: Brian L. Dehler; CINEMATOGRAPHER: Brian Dehler A kaleidoscopic reconstruction of the whirling images from a fairground. * Muybridge in Motion experimental/animated short • USA, 2006, color, video • 6 min • World Premiere DIRECTOR: Alexander André A firefly glows in Holding the Pilots. Little Spirits are hard to hold. Hand-drawn animation of horses, cats, and monkeys on different media is a whimsical experiment in short.times.ten Super-8 home movies, Incredible sniffing glue, and obsessing over the short.times.twelve movement. Hulk ink transfers, and fragmented past wrongs that have hurt him. The SAT, APR 14 • 11:30 AM texts float across the screen in a calmness and assured control of the SAT, APR 14 • 1:15 PM * Les Pages Cinematheque ORDER CODE: SH10T14 reflection of childhood and family. camera are a lovely contrast to the Play Circle ORDER CODE: SH12T14 dramatic short • USA, 2006, color, video • 5 min • Madison Premiere SUN, APR 15 • 11 AM turmoil of the central character, and SUN, APR 15 • 3:30 PM DIRECTOR: Charles McGuire Cinematheque ORDER CODE: SH10T15 * Hallucii Play Circle ORDER CODE: SH12T15 experimental/animated short • USA, 2006, color, the score is sensational. In FRENCH with English subtitles SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own This program leans slightly to the video • 4 min • Midwest Premiere * The Nautical Education PRESENTED BY: TravelWisconsin.com, Kodak, A stylized and spooky story illustrat- experimental side, with films from the DIRECTOR: Goo-Shun Wang dramatic short • Canada, 2006, color, video • 3 min Criterion Collection ing the ancient proverb that “ghosts United States, Australia, and Canada An endless Escher-like staircase con- DIRECTOR: Christian Laurence; PRODUCTION CO: A superb collection of some of the fear men more than men fear ghosts.” WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL that underscore the separation, dis- Kino00/Off-courts Trouville; WRITER: Christian Lau- founds a salaryman who rallies to best of the Wisconsin’s Own films this tance, or difference of one character find the mystery behind it all. rence; CINEMATOGRAPHER: Geneviève Perron; EDI- * Something Against You from others. As a group, these films TOR: Christian Laurence; MUSIC: Sébastien Schuller; year and illustrated with filmmaking experimental/animated short • USA, 2006, color, CAST: Armand Cadet complement each other beautifully. * Insect techniques that sometimes manipu- video • 2 min • World Premiere In FRENCH with English subtitles The animations are compelling; the experimental/animated short • Australia, 2006, late or alter the film itself. The pro- DIRECTOR: Alexander André color, video • 4 min • Midwest Premiere live-action films are enchanting. Christian Laurence will be familiar gram reflect themes of art and style Footage salvaged from student film DIRECTOR: Magda Matwiejew to audiences who know his role in and mystery showcasing exceptional projects is assembled in a rhythmic * Carlos (my name is not) Winged creatures transform a the Kino film collective, which work by Wisconsin filmmakers. montage set to music by the Pixies. experimental/animated short • Canada, 2006, woman into one of their own, and spawned the Wis-Kino group in color, video • 4 min • Midwest Premiere she takes flight away from her gilded Madison. Here, he presents a film * The Art of Effort * Tops ✿ DIRECTOR: Maxime Robin, Pascal Blanchet; MUSIC: mansion into the wild. documentary short • Israel, 2005, color, experimental/animated short • USA, 2005, color, MADISON Maxime Robin about a boy training for life at sea, video • 3 min • Midwest Premiere video • 6 min • Midwest Premiere shot on an ancient 16mm camera. A slinky, jazzy animation drawn with * Kompetenz DIRECTOR: Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson; CINEMATOG- DIRECTOR: Brian D. Nelson a cool, retro style, Carlos tells the dramatic short • Canada, 2005, color, * Startle Pattern RAPHER: Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson; EDITOR: Jason Spinning wooden tops create a tense Damien Morgan ✿ story of the doomed stranger who video • 5 min • USA Premiere experimental/animated short • USA, 2005, color, energy in this hypnotic film. A elegant picture of art therapy for APRIL 12-15, 2007 strides into Carlostown one day. DIRECTOR: Jules Saulnier-Lemieux; WRITER: Jules 16mm • 13 min • Midwest Premiere Winner, Kodak Opportunity Film Stock Saulnier-Lemieux; CINEMATOGRAPHER: Ianic Math- disabled Bedouin children in Israel. DIRECTOR: Eric Patrick Grant, 2007 Wisconsin Film Festival ieu; EDITOR: Jules Saulnier-Lemieux; MUSIC: François In their culture, these children are * Coconut Côté; CAST: Uta Krüger, Saro Emirze Stop-motion animation is exquisitely experimental/animated short • USA, 2006, b/w, regarded as taboo and their parents * Walk into Hell / Purgatorio In GERMAN with English subtitles employed here in the story of a man 16 mm • 2 min • Madison Premiere experimental/animated short • USA, 2006, color, in a room that changes constantly. requested that faces not be revealed. DIRECTOR: Chris Hoag; CAST: Second-grade class A young couple on a stroll through Kristjansson-Nelson is a graduate of video • 15 min • World Premiere of Heyer Elementary He absorbs and reflects back the ✿ the park picks about fight about UW-Milwaukee. DIRECTOR: Dal Lazlo and Charles Johannsen SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own rock-skipping on the lake. An inven- actions around him (water dripping Two films, shot exactly 30 years and 10 WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG PRESENTED BY: TravelWisconsin.com, Kodak, tory of valuable skills and talents is down the wall, car lights through the * Haggadah (The Story) miles apart, with the same actors (two Criterion Collection taken: who will win? window) in virtuoso clay style. experimental/animated short • USA, 2005, color, brothers), directors, and composers — Duck. Duck. Goose. Hoag is a film video • 15 min • Midwest Premiere one follows the other in a surreal, * Lloyd Ormerod Wants His * White Bunny DIRECTOR: Brian DeLevie student at the UW-Milwaukee. humorous, bizarre, and warm story. Face Back (Häschen in der Grube) At a family’s Passover Seder, Holo- dramatic short • USA/Germany, 2005, color, Winner, Best Wisconsin Experimental * A Covenant Adam dramatic short • Australia, 2006, color, caust history, memory, and survival experimental/animated short • USA, 2005, b/w, video • 14 min • Midwest Premiere video • 7 min • Midwest Premiere Short Film, 2007 Wisconsin Film Festival are juxtaposed with the younger gen- 16 mm • 15 min • Madison Premiere DIRECTOR: Jonathan Kable; PRODUCER: Jonathan DIRECTOR: Katja Straub DIRECTOR: Ariana Hamidi Blackman, Jonathan Kable; PRODUCTION CO: Lin- In GERMAN with English subtitles eration’s modern experience. * Who Me Was ✿ experimental/animated short • USA, 2006, color, 877.963.FILM SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own ear North; WRITER: Jonathan Kable; CINEMATOG- A fairy tale with the requisite dark * Holding the Pilots / video • 3 min • World Premiere PRESENTED BY: TravelWisconsin.com, Kodak, RAPHER: Jonathan Blackman; EDITOR: Jonathan (sinister?) side, a young boy with a DIRECTOR: Anne Killelea Criterion Collection Blackman; MUSIC: Paul Mylecharane, Matt Nichol- Holding the Facts son; CAST: Mark Bishop bandaged arm, a girl in a red dress, experimental/animated short • USA, 2006, color, An expression of memory and its loss, Don’t change who you are. Change In a lyrical and lonely film from Aus- and a woman with a secret past share video • 5 min the way you see yourself. An anony- navigated through a family history. DIRECTOR: Shelby Floyd; tralia, Lloyd wastes away his days a railway journey. mous woman tells her story of love. 27 28 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ✿ MADISON ✿ APRIL 12-15, 2007 ✿ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ✿ 877.963.FILM playing their mother, andadopted would naturallybond withtheactress orphanage fortheir roles,sothey casttwo youngboysfroman director when theirmotherfinally cracks.(The steps intotake careof Dasha’s boys long carriedatorchforMonika, who a hot-tubsalesman.Tonik (Liska),has ing acrazygoing-nowhereaffair with with hertwo youngsons,andishav- America. Dashacan’tquitekeep up in who hasgonetomake hisfortune Monika herboyfriend, ispiningafter Pavel Liska(Up andDown , fromtalentedactor able performance Czech film, anchoredbyasolid,love- ers’ emotionallivesinthisstunning adult friendsshareineachoth- Three In CZECHwithEnglishsubtitles Krónerová AnnaGeislerová,Vilhelmova, Marek Daniel,Zuzana MUSIC: LeonidSoybelman;CAST: PavelLiška,Tatiana EMATOGRAPHER: DivišMarek; EDITOR:JanDanhel; vize, PallasFilmGmbH;WRITER:BohdanSláma;CIN- nad; PRODUCTIONCO:Negativs.r.o., Ceskátele- DIRECTOR: BohdanSláma;PRODUCER:PavelStr- color, 35mm•100min dramatic feature •CzechRepublic/Germany, 2005, Orpheum Main SUN, APR15•1:15PM Happiness Something Like SEE: Something AgainstYou Cajayon andEricByler. Frank Gene anddirectors Chin, Heidicasting director Levitt,writer producerTerenceBobby Lee, Chang, Tzi Ma, Jason Scott comedian Lee, Nguyen, PhillipRhee,WillYun Lee, Tagawa, James Dustin Shigeta, Mako,with actors Cary-Hiroyuki includesinterviews Screen, directed spanning acentury. TheSlanted fascinating paradeoffifty film clips image-making machine,througha ofHollywood’scritical examination filmand limitingroles.The presentsa stereotyping againstethnic struggle whohave ofactors hadto experiences in Americancinema,chroniclingthe men theportrayalsofAsian explores White Castle Hayakawa to From silentfilm starSessue PRESENTED BY: UWAsianAmerican Studies SERIES: DiasporaMelancholy:AsianAmerican Films Cajayon, Eric Byler Lee, bobbyTerence Chang,HeidiLevitt,Gene YunShigeta, DustinNguyen,PhillipRhee,TziMa,Will Sean Dana;CAST: Mako,Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, James Kaneko; EDITOR:AlexYeung; MUSIC:MichaelBecker, WRITER: Jeff Adachi;CINEMATOGRAPHER: Ann PRODUCTION CO:AsianAmerican MediaMafia; Alex Yeung; EXECUTIVEPRODUCER:RobertChan; DIRECTOR: Jeff Adachi;PRODUCER:Jeff Adachi, video •60min documentary feature •USA,2006,color, Play Circle SAT, APR14•9:45PM The SlantedScreen SEE: Skeletonizer SEE: site specific_LASVEGAS short.times.twelve Wisconsin StudentShortFilms Jim &Joe’s Experimental Shorts , Harold &Kumar to Go The SlantedScreen (Stestí) RE CODE ORDER RE CODE ORDER Lunacy). : SOMET15 : SLANT14 PRESENTED BY: UWAfrican StudiesProgram SERIES: African ActionFigures In XHOSA,ENGLISHwithEnglishsubtitles Joel Mthethwa Kosi, Andries Mbali,PaulineMalefane,JamesAnthony, wood, PaulineMalefane,SibuleleMjali;CAST: Andile Anne Sopel,RonelleLoots;MUSIC:CharlesHazle- fane; CINEMATOGRAPHER: GiulioBiccari; EDITOR: Mark Dornford-MayAndiswaKedama,PaulineMale- PRODUCTION CO:FilmandMusicLtd.;WRITER: Daldry, MikeDowney, PaulineMalefane,SamTaylor; Dornford-May; EXECUTIVEPRODUCER:Stephen DIRECTOR: MarkDornford-May;PRODUCER: 35mm •86min dramatic feature •SouthAfrica, 2006,color, Stage Door SAT, APR14•11AM Stage Door FRI, APR13•9:30PM Son ofMan Whale’s a smallCastilianvillagetoseeJames sisters, travel toamakeshifttheaterin war, AnaandIsabel, two lovelyyoung the wake ofSpain’s civil devastating young girl’s in hauntedinnerlife.Set Beehive made,TheSpiritofthe movies ever One ofthemostvisuallyarresting SERIES: RestorationsandRevivals In SPANISH withEnglishsubtitles ladante Torrent, IsabelTelleria, KetydelaCamara,JoséVil- CAST: Gomez,Teresa Fernan Fernando Gimpera,Ana EDITOR: PabloG.DelAmo;MUSIC:LuisdePablo; tos, V. Erice; CINEMATOGRAPHER: LuisCuadrado; Cinematogricias San- S.L.;WRITER:AngelFernando jeta; PRODUCTIONCO:EliasQuerejeta Producciones Erice;DIRECTOR: Victor PRODUCER:EliasQuere- dramatic feature •Spain,1973,color, 35mm•98min Cinematheque THU, APR12•7PM (El Espíritu delaColmena) The Spirit oftheBeehive SEE: Song andSolitude Ebert, andpowerful.”ordinary —Roger “Extra- intensely dynamiccharacters. ing aplausiblyrealsetting with present- approach, forthemostpart May’s takes anunderstated story The Passion oftheChrist tations as Unlike suchlarger-than-lifeinterpre- and effective. andrelevant made new spirited reinvention ofaclassicstory, isanother freshand val, thisstory eKhaylitsha, alsoplaying attheFesti- ance groupthatmade Created bythesamemusicperform- to thegovernment’s abusiveways. tolerance andnonviolent resistance of ayoungAfricanmanwhopreaches Testament, translatedintothestory bold andinventive tellingoftheNew SouthAfricaisthesetting fora rary continuingturmoilofcontempo- The Spanish films fromthe1970s. as masterpieceand oneofthegreatest nal luster, thefilm iswidelyregarded mystery.” Recentlyrestoredtoitsorigi- ema’s reallifewith capacity toinfect essayhood…and astartling onthecin- bestfilms“one ofthevery aboutchild- monster. VillageVoice The calledit dier, shethinksshe’s conjuredupthe she finds amysterious wounded sol- him.When outtomeet barn, shesets creaturelivesinanearby immortal and whenhersisterclaimsthatthe haunted andobsessedbythemonster national film awards. major categories,CzechLions Best Film,Director, andsixother International FilmFestival; Winner, Seashell,2005SanSebastián Golden theproduction.)them after Winner, Jim &Joe’s Experimental Shorts Chicago Sun-Times. is the spellbinding portrait ofa is thespellbindingportrait Frankenstein. Anabecomes Jesus ChristSuperstar RE CODE ORDER CODE ORDER RE CODE ORDER U-Carmen , Dornford- : SONOF14 : SONOF13 : SPIRI12 and Czech friendships flourish becauseSomeLikeHappiness. Australia are reflected herethrough Australia arereflected oraltraditionsofAboriginal ner. The seenTheFastyou willifyou’ve Run- when Itellyouit’s fantastic.Maybe me other hand,youwon’tbelieve moreinterestingplace.Onthe even about trulyinterestingpeopleinan superbly written, divinelyfilmed tale tival’s inventive, dream:acleverly On theonehand,Ten Canoes In ENGLISH,GANALBINGUwithEnglishsubtitles Gulpilil, PeterDjigirr Birrinbirrin, FrancesDjulibing,PeterMinygululu,David Nehme; CAST: CrusoeKurddal, JamieGulpilil,Richard Heer; CINEMATOGRAPHER: IanJones;EDITOR:Tania CO: FandangoAustraliaPty. Ltd.;WRITER:RolfDe Domenico Procacci, BryceMenzies;PRODUCTION EXECUTIVEPRODUCER:SueMurray,Julie Ryan; DIRECTOR: RolfDeHeer;PRODUCER:deHeer, 35mm •92min dramatic feature •Australia,2006,color, Orpheum Main FRI, APR13•9:45PM Ten Canoes SEE: Stop MotionAnimation SEE: Startle Pattern SEE: Sportsfan Hollywood historyleansinto Young Visions short.times.ten Ball Saved+Sportsfan RE CODE ORDER : TENCA13 is afes- The SlantedScreen SEE: Terrace 49 Australian FilmInstitute. ing BestFilmandDirection, Festival; winner, sixawards includ- 2006 FlandersInternational Film Film Festival; winner, GrandPrix, Un Regard,2006Cannes Certain unmissable oneofakind.” Winner, guilelessly enchantingfilm isan without beingpreachy,respect this narrative,showing entertaining with detail combines “ethnographic to liveaproperlife),Ten Canoes one oftheolderbrother’s wives,how ing ayoungerbrother, whocovets taleinstruct- ries (oneacautionary tray thetribalmembersofbothsto- using mostlyfirst-time topor- actors gluttony, Cast kidnapping,sorcery). brow humor(allthegoodbits:sex, way thousand yearsago,andtheother a stories,one set into two interwoven a gentlyteasingnarratorguidingus Festival programs andschedule are subject tochange.Check www.WiFilmFest.org Jim &Joe’s AnimatedShorts before that,spiked withlow- for latest updates. . ✿ El Topo is acult-classicspectacle. Tibetan people. Tibetan accesstotheworldof nary the filmmakers aregivenextraordi- astrology, religion,dance,football: medicine, tered acrosstheglobe.Art, areincreasinglymorescat- Tibetans sense ofnationalidentity, as even astrong that itmeanscultivating two Hungarian journalists, wesee by In thisfascinatingdocumentary geographic bordersofthehomeland? asmallone,outsidethe ment, even mean torunanorganizedgovern- inDharamsala.Whatdoesit in exile, established theofficial government nation,fled toIndia,the Tibetan and leaderof later theyoungDalaiLama, Ten Tibet. tion Army occupied years In People’s 1949theChinese Libera- sang Tenzin, NgawangYeshi, NgawangWoebar TOR: GáborSzobonya;CAST: NgawangDorjee,Kun- tor Janzsó;CINEMATOGRAPHER: AttilaPoór;EDI- TION CO:Madridiak Film;WRITER:RóbertIzing,Vic- Janzsó;PRODUC- DIRECTOR: RóbertIzing,Viktor video •87minNorthAmerica Premiere documentary feature •Hungary, 2006,color, Play Circle SAT, APR14•5:45PM Play Circle THU, APR12•9PM Tibet: ACountryinExile RE CODE ORDER CODE ORDER : TIBET14 : TIBET12 Parker Posey in Henry Fool RESTORATIONS AND REVIVALS ✿ Gods and Monsters ✿ Henry Fool ✿ An extraordinary pair of Aborignal stories are told in Ten Canoes. The Holy Mountain ✿ Killer of Sheep ✿ The Lion in Winter ✿ Radio On ✿ The Spirit of the Beehive (El Espíritu de la Colmena) ✿ El Topo ✿ Young Frankenstein

hit cinema screens, El Topo (“the mole”) made a huge splash in Amer- ica and is often credited for igniting the midnight movie phenomenon WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL with its run in New York City. Part spaghetti Western, part religious epic, El Topo follows its eponymous character, played by Jodorowsky himself, on a violent quest to prove his dominance that ultimately leads to his unexpected enlightenment. Riddled with metaphors and packed

with stunning spectacle and bizarre ✿

characters (and disembowelments MADISON The Spirit of the Beehive mystifies a young girl. Toots welcomes you to America’s greatest saloon. and boilings), this film has become one of the most sought-after cult

germs, death), but they don’t. Filmed CAST: Walter Cronkite way to Toots’ eponymous saloon on classics for good reason. Due to a dis- ✿

Tim’s Island APRIL 12-15, 2007 with a camcorder as a record of a PRESENTED BY: Mosse/Weinstein Center New York’s West 51st Street for food pute between Jodorowsky and the for Jewish Studies FRI, APR 13 • 9:30 PM funky friendly gathering, Tim’s Island and drink, served up with a heaping film’s producer, El Topo has been Play Circle ORDER CODE: TIMSI13 becomes an epic of how sixteen peo- “Toots Shor is many things to many side of insults and put downs. largely absent from North American SAT, APR 14 • 7:45 PM ple, seven dogs, and eight cats try to people,” said Edward R. Murrow of screens and shelves for decades. The the legendary Manhattan saloon- film has been meticulously restored Play Circle ORDER CODE: TIMSI14 survive the disaster. Quite possibly El Topo documentary feature • USA, 2006, color, the only film in the festival that didn’t keeper in 1955. A friend to the FRI, APR 13 • 11:45 PM and will be screened from a brand- video • 85 min famous, a crook to the feds, father, new print. Viewer discretion advised. ✿

expect to be made, this story will stay Cinematheque ORDER CODE: TOPOO13 WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG DIRECTOR: Wickes Helmboldt, Laszlo Fulop; PRO- with you for a very long time. brother, gambler, bum: but most of all DUCER: Laszlo Fulop, Wickes Helmbolt; WRITER: Toots Shor was the owner of Amer- SUN, APR 15 • 5:15 PM Tops Wickes Helmboldt Cinematheque ORDER CODE: TOPOO15 Toots ica’s greatest saloon. Directed by his SEE: short.times.twelve The weather guy says that there’s a granddaughter, Toots is a provocative, dramatic feature • Mexico/Spain, 1970, color, hurricane coming, so Tim invites a THU, APR 12 • 6:15 PM 35mm • 125 min loving, and unmistakably authentic DIRECTOR: Alejandro Jodorowsky; PRODUCER: Juan Trash: A Documentary bunch of his friends over to his home Stage Door ORDER CODE: TOOTS12 portrait of the self-made, unapolo- López Moctezuma, Moshe Rosemberg, Roberto Viskin; SEE: Young Visions in a converted dairy building in cen- SUN, APR 15 • 3:15 PM getic, and quintessentially American PRODUCTION CO: Producciones Panic; WRITER: Ale- tral New Orleans. It’s a big concrete Stage Door ORDER CODE: TOOTS15 jandro Jodorowsky; CINEMATOGRAPHER: Rafael

man who became the unlikely den- ✿ thing, perfect for a great Katrina documentary feature • USA, 2006, color, Corkidi; EDITOR: Federico Landeros; MUSIC: Alejan- Tree of Guns mother to the heroes of America’s dro Jodorowsky, Nacho Méndez; CAST: Alejandro 877.963.FILM 35mm • 85 min SEE: War/Dance + Tree of Guns party and a safe overnight refuge for golden age. Politicians and gangsters, Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, José Legarreta, DIRECTOR: Kristi Jacobson; PRODUCER: Kristi friends with cats and dogs who might sports heroes and movie stars — Sina- Alfonso Arau get freaked out by the storm. Okay, Jacobson, Whitney Dow, Alicia Sams; EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: James MacGilvray, Mattone Brothers; tra, Gleason, Dimaggio, Ruth, In SPANISH with English subtitles Turtle we know what happens in New CINEMATOGRAPHER: Daniel B. Gold; EDITOR: Costello, Eisenhower, Nixon, Warren SERIES: Restorations and Revivals SEE: short.times.six Lewis Erskine, Penelope Falk; MUSIC: Mark Suozzo; Orleans (flooding, looting, isolation, — for 30 years, they all found their One of the most bizarre films to ever 29 30 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ✿ MADISON ✿ APRIL 12-15, 2007 ✿ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ✿ 877.963.FILM pendent SpiritAwards. nee, BestForeign Film,2007Inde- 2006 CannesFilmFestival; nomi- forbestdebutfeature, Caméra d’Or A Festival staff favorite. Winner, intherevolution. their participation challenging theguests’accountsof dio duringtheshow, withcallers takes placeinrealtimetheTVstu- 22, 1989.) secondhalfofthefilm The abdicatedpoweronDec. Ceausescu title referstothehourNicolae timeinthe fall ofCommunism.(The TV call-inshowcommemoratingthe have beenasked toappearonalocal two men forhire.The a SantaClaus byworkingas who makes endsmeet teacher, andPisconi,alonelyretiree melancholy, hard-drinkinghistory aroundlivesofManescu,revolves a ered withwicked humor. film The critique ofpost-communistlifedeliv- 12:08 EastofBucharest Romanian cinemaistherealdeal. Lazarescu Festival hitTheDeathofMr. film (thetitleispronouncedoo-car- val ishonoredto present boththis Festi-about theuniversal truths.The notion thatopera reallydoesspeak ting forthestory, reinforcing the dusty shacksmake aneffective set- and jealousymadness.The another… andthencomesthelove Jongikhaya, belongsto whoseheart tempts thenobleSergeant ing withtheaffections ofmen.She men worksinacigarette factory, toy- company. BoldandheadstrongCar- Dimpho DiKopanelyrictheater in Xhosawithlusty powerbythe township ofCapeTown, andissung intotheKhayelitsha transported tragic lovestoriesofalltime)is time (which equalsoneofthemost One ofthegrandestoperasall PRESENTED BY: UW African StudiesProgram SERIES: African ActionFigures In XHOSAwithEnglishsubtitles Lungelwa Blou,Zorro Sidloyl,Andries Mbali Georges Bizet;CAST: PaulineMalefane,AndileTshoni, Giullio Biccari; EDITOR:RonelleLoots;MUSIC: Malefane, AndiswaKedama;CINEMATOGRAPHER: Spier Films;WRITER:MarkDornford-May, Pauline TIVE PRODUCER:RossGarland;PRODUCTIONCO: Dornford-May, CamillaDriver, RossGarland;EXECU- DIRECTOR: MarkDornford-May;PRODUCER: 35mm •120min dramatic feature •SouthAfrica, 2005,color, Orpheum Main SAT, APR14•2:15PM U-Carmen eKhayelitsha Bucharest debut feature Corneliu Porumboiu’s wonderful In ROMANIANwithEnglishsubtitles CAST: Mircea Andreescu, Teodor Corban,IonSapdaru duru; EDITOR:RoxanaSzel;MUSIC:Rotaria Group; neliu Porumboiu;CINEMATOGRAPHER: Marius Pan- Burlac; PRODUCTIONCO:42KmFilm;WRITER:Cor- neliu Porumboiu;EXECUTIVEPRODUCER:Daniel Porumboiu;PRODUCER:Cor- DIRECTOR: Corneliu color, 35mm•89min dramatic feature •Romania,2006, Capitol Theater FRI, APRIL13•9:30PM (A fostsaun-afost?) 12:08 EastofBucharest confirms whatlastyear’s hinted at:contemporary 12:08 Eastof RE CODE ORDER RE CODE ORDER is abiting : UCARM14 : TWELV13 12:08 EastofBucharest Starting withMussolini’sStarting racial laws vivors.” —Jay Weissberg, Variety. storiesofthe sur- heartbreaking always be aneedfortheindividual, made,there will umentaries get “No matter howmany Holocaust doc- for JewishStudies PRESENTED BY: Mosse/Weinstein Center In ITALIAN withEnglishsubtitles Quintarelli; MUSIC:Federico Badaloni Ventura Film;EDITOR:MassimoFiocchi,Valerio Gagé Produzioni, RaiCinema, ShoahFoundation, Calopresti, Laurence Hoffman; PRODUCTIONCO: DIRECTOR: MimmoCalopresti; PRODUCER:Mimmo 2006, color, video• 75min documentary feature •Italy/USA/Switzerland, Bartell Theater SUN, APR15•11AM (I OnlyWanted To Live) Volevo SoloVivere Berlin International FilmFestival. Winner, BestDebutFilm,2007 who clearlyrelishtheirroles. actors University, usingmostlyfirst-time for hismaster’s thesisatColumbia DomalpallicreatedthisfilmDirector film. rewarding and exceedingly presence, make Vanaja screen combined withhermagnetic to trainformonthslearnthisstyle, Bhukaya, whohad ruin everything. intimidating)sonmight sexually Rama Devi’s policallyambitious(and Vanaja gainsfavor withthelady, andmischievous Although thesmart ing dancewhileearningakeep. inhopesoflearn- lady ,RamaDevi, work inthehouseoflocalland- she willbeagreatdancer, shegoesto debt. Whenasooth-sayer predicts dwindling catchesandmounting caste fisherman with struggling year-old daughterofapoor, low Vanaja (Mamatha Bhukya) isthe14- In TELUGUwithEnglishsubtitles Garlapati, PrabhuGarlapati Gundimalla, KaranSingh,BhavaniRenukunta,Krishna Dammannagari, Ramachandriah Marikanti, Krishnamma Bhaskara S.Narayanan;CAST: MamathaBhukya,Urmila EDITOR: RajneshDomalpalli,RobertQ.Lovett;MUSIC: nesh Domalpalli;CINEMATOGRAPHER: MiltonKam; PRODUCTION CO:Varija FilmsPvt.Ltd.;WRITER:Raj- R. Domalapalli;EXECUTIVEPRODUCER:Andrew Lund; DIRECTOR: RajneshDomalpalli;PRODUCER:Latha 35mm •111min dramatic feature •India/USA,2006,color, Orpheum Main SUN, APR15•11AM Vanaja SEE: The Untyings SEE: Untitled International FilmFestival. Winner, Bear, Golden 2005Berlin Man men ee-ky-LEET-shah) andSonof Cousin Kasyte+Untyings Wisconsin StudentShortFilms , bothbyMark Dornford-May. RE CODE ORDER RE CODE ORDER an engaging : VANAJ15 : VOLEV15 Holocaust memories haunt Volevo SoloVivere. Vanaja Bartell Theater SAT, APR14•11AM Bartell Theater THU, APR12•9PM + Tree ofGuns War/Dance SEE: War/Dance SEE: Walk the Line SEE: Purgatorio Walk into Hell/ the 2006CannesFilmFestival. Spielberg,playedduced bySteven at Volevo SoloVivere people associatewithitsvictims. Holocaust thattoofew inacountry reignite awareness ofthescope men whosharetheirtestimony judicious editing,thewomenand Withclarity enhancedby survivors. invasion arerememberedbyItalian in thelate1930s,accountsofNazi War/Dance +Tree ofGuns Young Visions short.times.twelve dances herwaytoloveandadulthood. RE CODE ORDER CODE ORDER , executive pro- , executive : WARDA14 : WARDA12 In ACHOLI,ENGLISHwith Englishsubtitles Spencer Sean Fine;EDITOR:Jeff Consiglio;MUSIC:Asche& CO: FineFilms,ShineGlobal; CINEMATOGRAPHER: MacLaury, DanielKatz;PRODUCTION MarkUrman, Albie Hecht;EXECUTIVEPRODUCER:Susan DIRECTOR: SeanFine,Andrea NixFine;PRODUCER: video •105min documentary feature •USA, 2007,color, * War/Dance case, asymboloflife. swords intoplowsharesor, inthis aswellturning tional project, significancecultural ofaninterna- thecross- onajointproject, together working challenges offourartists film The African art. addressesthe on commemorate anexhibition missioned bytheBritishMuseum to piecewascom- The of Lifesculpture. from their1992civilwarintoaTree Mozambique culled weldgunparts Here,flict. in fourmetalworkers triumphingovercon- val theme:art thatrecountsafrequentFesti-story Howitt bringstousacompelling withEnglish subtitles In ENGLISH,PORTUGUESE Productions; CINEMATOGRAPHER: AlistairWaterson DIRECTOR: DylanHowitt;PRODUCTIONCO:Rooftop video •29minUSAPremiere documentary short•Mozambique/UK,2005,color, * Tree ofGuns Ugandan schoolkidscompeteinWar/Dance. 2007 SundanceFilm Festival. time. Winner, Award, Directing Rose willstay withyouforalong rable storiesofNancy, Dominic,and forWar/Dancea ticket considergetting strife, youmightyet all thesefestivalfilms aboutwarand you’re notgenerallytemptedtosee share abouttheirfuture,too.If havetheir lives,andthey dreamsto tales totellabouttheviolencein teenagers haveThese wrenching Uganda.from acivilwarinnorthern to adisplacedcommunity suffering arefugeecamp,home lage isactually vil- themtowin.Their one expects resent theirvillageinacontestno phonist), andRose:alleagertorep- dents Nancy, Dominic(thexylo- gorgeously shotinHD, stu- wemeet this beautifullymadedocumentary, the final polishontheirdances.In big-city musiciansvisittohelpput nottobetooshywhenthe and trying rehearsing songs,makingcostumes, preparing forthecompetition: championships! Everyoneisbusy pate inthenationalmusicanddance School have beeninvited topartici- studentsatthePatongoThe Primary — thememo- Americanese The Cats of Mirikitani

DIASPORA MELANCHOLY: ASIAN AMERICAN FILM Finding security, love, and a space beyond grief n the streets of New York, a home- At the center of some of these films is a self- At first glance, for Jimmy Mirikitani, it Sessue Hayakawa and James Shigeta. Their less man draws swirling dragons, conscious question about how Asian American would appear to be a net loss. Mirikitani is a positive conceptions of Asian masculinity are glorious landscapes, and cats—hun- men are represented in American culture; at fixture on a Manhattan corner where filmmak- countered by the long tradition of yellowface— O dreds of curious, vibrant cats. When the center of others lies a more subtle render- er Linda Hattendorf finds him in the wake of white actors playing “Orientals”—and the Fu she takes him in, filmmaker Linda Hattendorf ing of the similar queries: How can an Asian 9/11. She takes him in and follows a weak paper- Man Chu / Mr. Moto / Charlie Chan dirty tricks discovers this Japanese American artist has a “be a man” in the United States? How can one trail to uncover his identity. The Cats of Mirik- of the silver screen. Using fascinating historical backstory. Punctuated by uprooting, incarcer- “be a man” if mourning loss; how can anyone itani is the story of a family annihilated in footage of racial imagery, the film lets you be ation, abandonment, and nuclear annihilation, simply get over it? Hiroshima, the injustice of Japanese American the judge. Mortal Kombat: positive image of a Mirikitani’s past could be both a warning and Tanuj Chopra’s Punching at the Sun internment and, in a compelling narrative, how powerful Asian villain “with balls” or just anoth- a reproach, but instead it is an affirmation of approaches these questions with lyricism and to get a talented but stubborn homeless man er trucked-up Fu Man Chu? Harold and Kumar commitment and of art. grace. Focusing on a desi youth’s attempts to off Hattendorf’s sofa and out of her apartment. Go to White Castle? What’s up with that, son? On the same streets, the man come to terms with his Mirikitani initiates a narrative of history and Air Guitar Nation offers another set of ques- who sells coffee and bagels from the DIASPORA brother’s violent death, the its cautionary lessons, and of community, tions about masculinity, racialization, and laugh- WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL corner pushcart also has a past. His MELANCHOLY: ASIAN film reaches beyond melo- resilience, and charity. ing “at” or “with” Asian American protagonists. former identity as a Pakistani rock AMERICAN FILM drama to provide a medita- A cautionary tale lies at the heart of the doc- A second-generation Korean American, the star, the “Bono of Lahore,” is one he tion on South Asian Amer- umentary film, Sentenced Home, in which direc- self-styled “C-Diddy,” aspires to be the “Air Gui- presented by the UW Asian chooses to disavow, only to find that ican street culture. The tors David Grabias and Nicole Newnham pro- tar World Champion.” Can C-Diddy represent others won’t let it go. American Studies Program youth, Mameet, faces a file three Cambodian refugees. Fleeing the his country—America—in the battle for air gui- In post-9/11 Seattle, a Cambo- ✿ Air Guitar Nation world where brown cannot Khmer Rouge and settling in the United States tar global supremacy? And is his Hello Kitty- dian family man is deported as his ✿ Americanese signify between black and as youths, the three men have one thing in com- clad presence a shattering of stereotypes or one

former life as an urban gang mem- ✿ The Cats of Mirikitani white, where he is neither mon: they were convicted of gang-related more example for Jeff Adachi’s hall of shame? ✿ ber comes back to haunt him. Sep- ✿ Finishing the Game a child nor yet a man, and felonies as teens. The story begins, however, Alexandra Lipsitz’s documentary embraces the MADISON arated from his wife and children, ✿ Man Push Cart where he is not really a after 9/11, when the United States put pressure recent tradition of loving, yet ironic portrayals he finds himself making life anew ✿ Punching at the Sun lover nor a simply a friend. on Cambodia to accept deportees. Despite hav- of American subcultures and the committed— and alone, in a rice field outside Eric Byler’s Americanese, ing served their time in American prison as obsessed?—folk who populate them. ✿ Sentenced Home ✿

Phnom Penh. based on Shawn Wong’s teenagers years before, the men face deportation Whether subtle or covert, the films in this APRIL 12-15, 2007 ✿ The Slanted Screen These are three of the stories novel American Knees, also to a “home” they can no longer recall. series pose questions about social justice, the told in this year’s Asian American poses provocative questions In both The Cats of Mirikitani and Sen- privileges of American citizenship, and the vul- series at the Wisconsin Film Festival. The cumu- about masculinity, race, politics, and desire. In it, tenced Home, the individual story is enmeshed nerability of communities of color to the state lative narrative of these films is even when a Raymond is a Chinese American man in mid- with history—and made to bear the brunt of it. intrusion. They do so by asking us to witness new life is sought, the old one—and the people life who searches for intimacy in a culture that At times of domestic crisis, who is the enemy the search for security, fulfillment, love, a space we were within it—is never wholly discarded divides Asian American men from Asian Amer- going to be? What will he look like? beyond grief, and for a home. ✿ or lost. The past in these films lingers as a haunt- ican women. Ghosts of past relationships and Even in death, a body can be resurrected— Humorous or hauntingly melancholic, WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ing, unburied presence, striking a melancholy individual histories compromise the present. if it is useful. Justin Lin’s new film, Finishing the uplifting or cautionary, the films in Diaspora note, but a hopeful one as well. Melancholia is likewise the subject of Ramin Game, demonstrates this to comic effect by Melancholy are populated by protagonists who The films in Diaspora Melancholy depict Bahrani’s Man Push Cart, which tells the story spoofing Hollywood’s attempts to exploit Bruce are, in the words of novelist Bharati Mukherjee, the rough moments of transition: from Asia to of Ahmad, a former Pakistani singer now Lee’s image. Reuniting the cast of the 2003 “greedy with wants and reckless from hope.” the United States, from old world to new, from reduced to selling coffee and bagels, and hawk- Wisconsin Film Festival feature Better Luck — Leslie Bow, Director boy to man, from wannabe to world champi- ing porn on the side. It is not only the memo- Tomorrow, Lin imagines the attempts to replace Asian American Studies Program on, from death to resurrection. At stake is mas- ry of past glory that he must overcome, but also the “real” Bruce as farce, lampooning the nar- The Asian American Film Series is funded in part by the ✿

culinity and manhood, whether it is represent- the death of his wife. As the instruments of row box into which the dominant culture places Anonymous Fund and the Asian American Studies Program 877.963.FILM ed as a crisis between stoicism and feeling; of change symbolically appear, the film poses a Asian American men. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Special thanks go providing for one’s family or the risk of its loss; fundamental question about immigration, Hollywood’s bias against Asian Americans to Lisa Bu. For more information about Asian American of virility and fulfilled desire; of symbolic impo- whether it represents a net loss, or the possi- is the subject of Jeff Adachi’s documentary, The Studies at UW, a listing of film holdings on Asian Americans, tence or empowerment. bility of renewal. Slanted Screen, tracing the careers of actors and a downloadable list of film showing dates and times, go to http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/aasp/. 31 32 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ✿ MADISON ✿ APRIL 12-15, 2007 ✿ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ✿ 877.963.FILM CAST: LukeBrown McGlennen, AmySheppell; EDITOR:LukeBrown; DIRECTOR: LukeBrown; PRODUCER:Matthew video •3minMidwestPremiere dramatic short•USA,2006,color, * Buzzsaw Madison Media Institute. software. Dave Kiehlisstudentatthe techniques ofthepastwithmodern turescape combininganimation A candy-colored,whimsicaladven- DIRECTOR: DaveKiehl;MUSIC:ColeHaman video •3minMadisonPremiere experimental/animated short•USA,2006,color, * Bloom Stock Grant,2007WisconsinFilmFestival Winner, KodakOpportunityStudentFilm UW-Milwaukee. seen.Joenever Saccoisastudentat someoneshe’sthe darktocomfort One woman’s endlesssearchthrough Sacco; EDITOR:JoeCAST: Kaori Suzuki DIRECTOR: JoeSacco;CINEMATOGRAPHER: Joe video •3minMadisonPremiere experimental/animated short•USA,2006,b/w, * BlackBox Film Festival Experimental ShortFilm, 2007 Wisconsin Winner, BestWisconsinStudent Milwaukee. BFA attheUW- studentindigitalart dall Jarrell. AlanSchoenburgisa BirdofNight,”“The apoembyRan- A motiongraphicspiecebasedon DIRECTOR: AlanSchoenburg video •1minWorld Premiere experimental/animated short•USA,2005,color, * TheBird ofNight Coconut Thompson, Chris the program:Kyoko Naturally in same poolareincludedelsewhere three otherstudentfilms fromthis titlesincludedhere, the thirteen lege inotherstates.In additionto or Wisconsinnativeattending col- Wisconsin collegesanduniversities, filmsselected madebystudentsat Each yeartheFestival presentsjury- Criterion Collection PRESENTED BY: TravelWisconsin.com, Kodak, SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own Monona Terrace SAT, APR14•6PM Short Films Wisconsin Student SEE: Wicked Harvest SEE: Who MeWas SEE: (Häschen inderGrube) White Bunny SEE: When PigsFly SEE: Welcome toWisconsin who investigates thenoisein about aman A chillinghorror short andRaadFadaak.son Tift of EmergencyCommunities Hoag, andMade WithLove:AStory Young Visions short.times.twelve short.times.ten Cost ofLiving+WhenPigsFly Young Visions RE CODE ORDER by Chris by Madi- : WISSS14 by Skeletonizer Buzzsaw video •7min documentary short•USA, 2006,color, * JFK:Dumpman/Twineman Madison. worksatUW-versity andcurrently degreefromDennisonUni-duction Nealisfrom Lacrosse, hasafilm pro- guage orcommunication.Originally him asbeautifulimages,notlan- letters andwords,whichappearto ofaman’sA portrait perceptionsof Nealis; CAST: Chris Seigel EMATOGRAPHER: Daron Nealis;EDITOR:Daron DIRECTOR: Daron Nealis;WRITER:Daron Nealis;CIN- Premierevideo •10minWisconsin dramatic short•USA,2005,b/w, * Corners Design. Milwaukee Institute and ofArt maker. Mulder isastudentatthe ofthefilm- each areflection acters, A dreamlike narrativewithtwo char- DIRECTOR: RachelMulder video •1minWorld Premiere dramatic short•USA,2006,b/w, * Carrotlegs Diego StateUniversity. graduate studentinfilm atSan garage. APortage native,Brownisa is achillinghorror short. explores theinnerworkings ofasleepyman. DIRECTOR: DavidResha;CAST: JamesFrankKotera Film Festival Animated ShortFilm,2007Wisconsin Winner, BestWisconsinStudent atUW-Mscupture verse. Isaac ispursuingherMFA in Maia dogintheuni- thesmartest endurance ofmemory, starringthe nature ofhappinessandthepainful video thatcomtemplatesthefleeting A hybridanimationandlive-action DIRECTOR: CheleIsaac;CAST: MaiatheDog video •3minWorld Premiere experimental/animated short•USA,2005,color, * TheLongShadow son. student infilm studiesatUW-Madi- his inspirations.Reshaisagraduate string),and life, hiswork(collecting James Frank onhis Koterareflects rated. MPAA ratingsprovided parental discretion isadvised. where available. Viewerand Most festivalfilmsare not ✿ adison. Wristcutters: ALoveStoryissetintheafterlife. Peter BoyleisthemonsterinYoung Frankenstein . native, Ziegler livesinNew York. Filmed inOshkosh. AWisconsin pinsetter finds loveinasadbarfly. In adecaying bowlingalley, alonely Gary Zurbuchen,MikeVan Ryzin Lynn; CAST: AdamBriesemeister, Maria Bartholdi, MATOGRAPHER: LukeKalteux; EDITOR:Meredith Lynn, AdamHaas;WRITER:Timothy Ziegler;CINE- DIRECTOR: Timothy Ziegler;PRODUCER:Meredith video •16minMadisonPremiere dramatic short•USA,2006,color, * Pinmonkey theater studentatUW-Milwaukee. Where togo? Williamsisafilm and Inner ear. In yourear. Vertigo. DIRECTOR: JasonWilliams b/w, video•3minMadisonPremiere experimental/animated short•USA,2006, * Meniere’s Disease Wisconsin FilmFestival Winner, SpecialJuryPrize, 2007 kee. Krutzik isajunioratUW-Milwau- horses, justlike people,canchange. plastic horse.Shediscoversthat andbefriendsalittleA girlmeets TOR: AnnaKrutzik;MUSIC:BenKrutzik DIRECTOR: AnnaKrutzik;WRITER:EDI- video •7minMadisonPremiere dramatic short•USA,2006,color, * MeandJeanPierre In WOLOF, FRENCH withEnglishsubtitles Diop, Mouss Nasr Djepa;EDITOR:Franck Cotelle;MUSIC:Ibrahima gado; WRITER:CheikhNDiaye; CINEMATOGRAPHER: aye; EXECUTIVEPRODUCER: Clarence ThomasDel- DIRECTOR: CheikhNDiaye;PRODUCER: NDi- 35mm •105minMidwestPremiere dramatic feature •Senegal, 2005, color, MMoCA SUN, APR15•1PM (L’Appel desArènes) Wrestling Grounds film program atUW-Mil space. Zavada isintheexperimental Bodyshape andlightmovingthrough DIRECTOR: KippZavada video •2minWorld Premiere dramatic short•USA,2006,color, * Untitled Milwaukee’s f Kastelic isarecentgraduateofUW- the innerworkingsofasleepyman. A stop-motionanimationexploring DIRECTOR: Caroline Kastelic video •4minMadisonPremiere experimental/animated short•USA,2006,color, * Skeletonizer Short Film,2007WisconsinFilmFestival Winner, BestWisconsinStudentNarrative ilm program. RE CODE ORDER waukee. : WREST15 Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait is a real-time view of a match played by Zinédine Zidane. Young Visions: The Patients

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* Stop Motion Animation DIRECTOR: UW-Madison Extension College for Kids Students * Trash: A Documentary DIRECTOR: New Century School Students * Walk the Line CAST: Jacob Kelly * Welcome to Wisconsin DIRECTOR: David Treinen, Ximi Asani, Andrew Hahn Young Visions: Walk the Line Young Visions: Revenge * Wicked Harvest DIRECTOR: Shabbaz High School Students SERIES: African Action Figures fact that all the people there have tle, where he’s tempted to recreate * Animation and Special Effects PRESENTED BY: UW African Studies Program committed suicide, you’ll enjoy one his grandfather’s famous experi- DIRECTOR: Fitchburg Area Community Television Zidane: A 21st Century After escaping from a gang of street of the most inventive and upbeat fea- ments. The comic timing of the Portrait (Zidane, un thugs, 17-year-old Nalla befriends tures at the Festival. When Zia entire cast (Gene Wilder, Teri Garr, * Architecture DIRECTOR: Avery Johnson portrait du 21e siècle) André, a champion in Senegal’s pop- (played by Patrick Fugit), a new Madeleine Kahn, Chloris Leachman, SUN, APR 15 • 3:30 PM ular sport. Nalla is welcomed into arrival, learns that his former girl- Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle, and * The Confession Orpheum Main ORDER CODE: ZIDAN15 the fraternity of wrestlers, training friend Desiree has been sighted others) is impeccable and the bawdy DIRECTOR: Rachel Hunderdosse documentary feature • France/Iceland, 2006, color, with them and enjoying the admira- recently somewhere in this world, he jokes are sheer genius. Loosely con- 35mm • 92 min • Wisconsin Premiere tion of others. Nalla’s relatively well- sets off to find her with Russian nut nected to two other restorations in * Counterfeit Toys DIRECTOR: Douglas Gordon, Philippe Parreno; PRO- WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR: Chris Kuech to-do family is a contrast to Sory, a case Eugene for company. Unex- this year’s Festival with Frankenstein DUCER; Joni Sighvatsson, Anna-Lena Vaney, Victo- petty gambler who spends his girl- rien Vaney; PRODUCTION CO: Anna Lena Films, pected whimsical touches and lots of themes (The Spirit of the Beehive and * A Day in the Arboretum Naflastrengir; CINEMATOGRAPHER: Darius Khondji; friend’s money and can’t quite keep smart in-jokes (the jukebox in their Gods and Monsters), this film will be DIRECTOR: Sullivan Sweet EDITOR: Hervé Schneid up with the gang. The music of local bar plays Joy Division), keep a huge treat to see on the big screen Zidane: a 21st Century Portrait is Dakar weaves a rhythm through this the story brisk as Eugene and Zia in the vintage Capitol Theater. Nom- * Emotions, Part 1: Anger DIRECTOR: Jamaro Blue, LaVassar Falls one of the most invigorating and picture as the men of the wrestling have their weird adventures. “What inated for Best Adapted Screenplay, mesmerizing films you will see all grounds, and their shamans, teach follows is a wonderfully offbeat road 1974 Academy Awards. * Go Back West year. The international soccer super- Nalla the traditions of the arena. It’s movie that never stops finding ways DIRECTOR: Packer Community Learning Center

star Zinédine Zidane is the subject, ✿ a story of class and society, of her- to make you fall in love with it.” — Young Visions Students but this is not a conventional docu- MADISON itage and ritual, of respect and skill. Alastair Harkness, The Scotsman. SUN, APR 15 • 11 AM–12:30 PM * Green Man Dreaming mentary of an athlete. It’s an “African cinema is building its own Monona Terrace DIRECTOR: Anna Stephens entrancing real-time view of a match niche, ever more impressively, and XXX Amsterdam FREE (FIRST COME, FIRST SEATED) by training the camera (actually, 17 Wrestling Grounds is one of the SEE: Jim & Joe’s Animated Shorts SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own * Hidden Window ✿

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from third grade through high WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG Stage Door ORDER CODE: WRIST13 Gruskoff; PRODUCTION CO: 20th Century Fox, Cross- * The Patients television announcers. A dream team bow Productions, Gruskoff/Venture Films, Jouer Lim- school; independently, in video pro- DIRECTOR: UW-Madison Extension Technology and of Tom Johnson (Oscar winner for SAT, APR 14 • 1:15 PM ited; WRITER: Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks; CINEMATOG- grams at school, at community tele- Arts Students Titanic’s sound) and Hervé Schneid Stage Door ORDER CODE: WRIST14 RAPHER: Gerald Hirschfeld; EDITOR: John C. Howard; vision stations, and in summer video dramatic feature • USA, 2006, color, MUSIC: John Morris, William Steffe; CAST: Gene (editor, Amélie) and cinematogra- Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman workshops. They portray, in a variety * Racism 35mm • 91 min • Wisconsin Premiere DIRECTOR: Packer Community Learning Center pher Darius Khondji (Evita) have SERIES: Restorations and Revivals of ways, how young people today use DIRECTOR: Goran Dukic; PRODUCER: Tatiana Kelly, Students updated the filmed portraiture seen Mikal P. Lazarev, Chris Coen, Adam Sherman; EXEC- One of the funniest films by a man video as a medium to express them- 35 years ago in Hellmuth Costard’s UTIVE PRODUCER: Jonathan Schwartz; PRODUC- who made some damn funny films, selves in the language of motion pic- * Revenge Football As Never Before, where leg-

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Appealing to both Patrick Fugit, Shannyn Sossamon, Shea Whigham, umentary to drama, comedy, sus- 30 years, especially in this restored DIRECTOR: Xeng Vang the soccer fan as well as the struc- Tom Waits, Will Arnett, Cameron Bowen, John pense, animation, lyrical music Hawkes, Leslie Bibb, Abraham Benrubi print courtesy of 20th Century Fox. turalist avant-garde film lover, The grandson of Baron von Franken- video, fantasy, and socially conscious It’s a love story set in the afterlife, Zidane is a compelling picture of one stein is drawn back to the family cas- investigative reporting. and if you don’t get hung up on the of the sport’s true legends. ✿ 33 FREE EVENTS THANK YOU The Hollywood Badgers Panel Hundreds of people contribute to the success SATURDAY, APRIL 14 • 1-3 PM of the Wisconsin Film Festival. Please join the Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. Festival Team in thanking our sponsors, partners, Thinking about moving to LA after graduation to work volunteers, and supporters. in the entertainment industry? THE FESTIVAL TEAM Jess Main Would you like to talk with a recent grad about how Meg Hamel volunteer coordinator they found an internship or a job or an apartment? director, Wisconsin Karin Kolb Please join the Hollywood Badgers in a panel full of Film Festival programmer, UW information, advice, and Isaac Walters Cinematheque networking opportunities! Jesse Overman Stew Fyfe 2007 Wisconsin Film Festival Competition student festival assistants programmer, UW Dept. of The Hollywood Badgers are University of Wiscon- Communication Arts presented by TravelWisconsin.com, Kodak, The Criterion Collection, sin alumni—all recent graduates—in a variety of areas Erik Gunneson technical advisor Joe Beres and the Wisconsin Historical Society within the Hollywood’s entertainment industry. Audi- film/video assistant, Walker Art Jared Lewis Center The Bird of Night The Professor’s Daughter ence members can expect a lively conversation with technical director insights into the business, and get a better understand- Dr. James Kreul Director: Alan Schoenburg Director: Luke R. Pebler Tim Romano assistant professor of film ing of just how vast the industry really is. technical advisor Best Wisconsin Student Experimental Best Wisconsin Narrative Short Film studies, University of North Carolina–Wilmington Short Film Tom Yoshikami The Untyings Come Play CINEPLEXITY! programmer, UW Andy Schlactenhaufen Cinematheque Black Box Director: Romi Chiorean and Katherine Leggett SATURDAY, APRIL 14 • 3-5 PM print traffic Director: Joe Sacco Best Wisconsin Documentary Feature Film Steep & Brew Coffee Shop, 544 State St. THE UW FESTIVAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE Kodak Opportunity Student Film Walk Into Hell/Purgatorio Can you name a movie filmed in black and white and set Susan C. 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35 36 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ✿ MADISON ✿ APRIL 12-15, 2007 ✿ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ✿ 877.963.FILM A W cash bar, 21andolder. Theseeventsare $10atthedoor. 14 10 12 15 16 13 11 8 4 2 5 9 6 3 7 1 K K METHOD OFPAYMENT Signature Exp Date Card # dvance ticketsalesbeginSaturday, March 17&endWednesday, April 11 Madison, WI53706 800 LangdonSt., UW MemorialUnion Wisconsin UnionTheaterBoxOffice BOX OFFICE/WILLCALL Friday andSaturday partiesatCafeMontmartre are FILM NAME 1ST CHOICEFILM required —butstrictly first-come,first-seated. ISCONSIN FILMFESTIVAL TICKETORDERFORM Cash Check Enclosed “Young program Visions” isfree —notickets ______See thefilmprogram formore details. M/Y_____ /______(MM/YY)______a ______Email______Fax ______EveningPhone ______Daytime Phone City/State/Zip______Mailing Address Company (ifapplicable)______Name K VISA (PAYABLE TOWISCONSINUNIONTHEATER) PLEASE CHECKONE K www.WiFilmFest.org Phone: (608) 265-2933 Annex Room,2ndFloor MasterCard www.WiFilmFest.org OEDT FILMNAME DATE CODE TOTAL COST FOR ALLTICKETSORDERED SERVICE FEE: K K K STUDENTPRICEPERTICKET K GENERALPRICEPERTICKET CHECK TOTAL#OFTICKETS TOTAL NUMBEROFFILMTICKETSORDERED o1 55 $3.50 $3.75 $5.25 $5.50 13 to16 $6.00 9 to12 $7.00 5 to8 1 to4 sure tolista2ndchoiceforeachfilm.Thereis4-ticketlimitperfilm,order. Coffeeshops use aneworderform. You maypurchaseupto16ticketsinasingleorder.Tomore,please PLEASE NOTE! 2ND CHOICEFILM $4.00 2-for-1 drinkcouponandafreevideorentalfrom PER ORDERFORALLPHONE, FAX,ONLINEANDMAILORDERS Every orderof4ormoreticketsreceivesa EACH $3.25 $4.00 OE AETICKETS DATE CODE K K I AMASTUDENT! with youwhenpickthemup. the FestivalBoxOffice.BringyourID and mailorders,ticketswillbeheldat time ofpurchase. must presentcurrentstudentIDatthe To receivethestudentdiscount,you EACH te ______Other ID#______UW-Madison For phone,fax,online TOTAL Bongo Video! Steep &Brew # OF $ $ $ Be tickets. No refunds forvouchers. No returns, refunds, orreplacements forlost at theBoxOffice through April 11). (although individual ticketscanbeexchanged MasterCard) accepted.Allsalesare final 5. Cash,check,orcredit card follow theinstructionsforordering tickets. 4. Online:Gotowww.WiFilmFest.org and enter alltheinformation! form isincomplete,sopleasetakecare to sold-out films.We can’t fillyour order ifyour WiFilmFest.org hasup-to-dateinformationon sold out,youwillreceive ticketvouchers. second choiceforeach.Ifyourchoicesare pletely. Selectupto4ticketsperfilmplusa 3. Inperson: (see “What’s aVoucher?” below). the BoxOffice willsubstitutevouchers are nolongeravailableforyourselections, You may sendanorder bymail, butiftickets not beabletoacceptphoneorders. At busytimes,theFestivalBoxOffice may Fax orders havebeendiscontinued. Office, oronlineatwww.WiFilmFest.org. be placedinpersonattheFestivalBox through April 11,5pm. (noon) onSaturday, March 17,andcontinue 2. Advanceticketsalesbeginat12pm or onlineatwww.WiFilmFest.org. 1. PickyourfilmsusingthisProgram Guide, ORDERING TICKETS is subjecttoverification. student IDattimeofpickup.Studentstatus at theFestivalBoxOffice; youmustpresent For onlineorders, we’llhold yourtickets when youplaceyourorder. student ID.Bring yourID totheboxoffice high school,college,etc.)withvalid,current is availabletoanystudent(gradeschool, STUDENT PRICE: at-the-door covercharge of$10perperson. purchase. Instead,there’s amore convenient val partyticketsare notavailable foradvance PARTIES (21&OVERONLY): during thefourdaysof Festival. for instructionsonhowtobuytickets April 11.See“Day-of-Show TicketSales” March 17,andcontinuethrough Wednesday, Advance TicketSalesbeginSaturday, ADVANCE TICKETSALES PER ORDER. THERE ISA4-TICKETLIMITPERFILM, order foronline,phone,or mailorders. (no ticketrequired). Servicefeeis$4per $5.25/$3.25. Young Voices &Visions isfree 9 to12tickets,$5.50/$3.50;1316 $4 eachstudent;5to8tickets,$6/$3.75; 1 to4totaltickets,$7eachgeneral/ TICKET PRICES Sunday, April 15:Noonto6pm Saturday, April 14:10amto6pm; Friday, April 13:noonto9pm Thursday, April 12:noonto9pm; WILL-CALL HOURSDURINGTHEFESTIVAL: at theBoxOffice insteadofbeingmailed. April 6-11willbeheldforpick-up customer’s address. Web orders received Tickets ordered onlineare mailedtothe the day-of-show, dependingonavailability. are onlyattheFestivaltheaters,andon during theFestival,April 12-15,whensales No filmticketsare soldattheBoxOffice open forWillCallticketpick-upsonly. During theFestival,BoxOffice willbe WILL CALL: noon to5pm;Sundays:Closed Wednesday through Saturday: Monday &Tuesday: noonto8pm; Saturday, March 17-Wednesday, April 11 BOX OFFICEHOURS: www.WiFilmFest.org (608) 265-2933forinformation 800 LangdonSt.,Madison,WI53706. Annex Room,2ndFloor, Memorial Union, BOX OFFICE/WILL-CALLLOCATION: TICKETS Fill outtheorder formcom- The studentdiscount Ticket orders may This year, Festi- (Visa or 6. Online orders placed by 8 pm, Thursday, VENUES April 5 will be mailed. Orders received April 6 to 11 will be held for Will Call pick up at the Festival Box Office. WHAT’S A VOUCHER?

A voucher is like a coupon that can be Wisconsin Ave. Butler St. Blair St. exchanged for a film ticket. You may get Public parking One way streets vouchers if the first- and second-choice films on Franklin St. your order form are sold out when your order Wisconsin Lake Mendota N. Carroll St. E. Gorham St. was placed. No refunds are given for vouchers, Unionon MEMORIAL Hancock St. but you may give them to family and friends! E. Mifflin St. UNION E. Johnson St. Theaterheaterh Langdon St. E. Washington Ave. Vouchers can be exchanged for “real” tickets, N. Hamilton St. Bartell printed for a specific date and time of a film N. Henry St. E. Dayton St. program. You can make an exchange at the Frederic Marcha h Theatre Festival Box Office through Wednesday, April Play Circle Concourse 11, or the box offices of the Festival theaters Pinckney St. LaLLangdon St. Hotelo N Webster St.E. Main St. during the Festival (April 12 to 15). Vouchers Orpheum themselves are not good for entry into a theater, Wisconsin Orpheum nor do they guarantee you a seat – you must Historical Stage Door Theatre Park St. first exchange them for a real ticket. Societyoc y STATE STREET. WEKing St. Madison Capitol Carroll St. STATE DAY-OF-SHOW TICKET SALES Museum of Theatre CAPITOL Main St. Yes! You can get tickets to films on the day Contemporary Art S MLKing Jr. Blvd. of the show! (Usually.) During the Festival, Gorham St. Doty St. W. Gilman St. tickets are only sold at the individual theaters, Lake St. W. University Ave. not at the Festival Box Office in the Memorial Fairchild St. Union (that’s open for Will Call pick-ups only). UW Broom St. Tickets are available at the theater where the CinemathequeC atheqh q Mononao o a film will be shown, only on the day of the show. W. Johnson St. Terrace For example, if you want a ticket to a Saturday W. Johnson St. night film at the Bartell Theatre, you can buy W. Dayton St. that ticket at the Bartell only, on Saturday only Henry St. (not at the Orpheum, and not on Friday). S. Hamilton St. The individual theater box offices open an hour Marion St. W. Mifflin St. W. Dayton St. Bassett St. before the first film of the day at that theater: check www.WiFilmFest.org for exact hours. W. Washington Ave.

Cash or vouchers are accepted for at-the-door W. Doty St. John Nolen Dr. N. Frances St. Lake Monona ticket sales (sorry, no checks or credit cards). W. Main St. W. Wilson St. Quantity depends on availability. RUSH TICKETS FESTIVAL THEATERS CAPITOL THEATER: All spaces within the Overture Center are MONONA TERRACE Want to see a sold-out show? You can! (Usually.) Starting at the farthest point east, here’s the chain of Festival theaters: wheelchair accessible. Assisted-listening headsets available Entrances: John Nolen Drive (from the west). Carroll Street A film is sold out when all of the tickets allotted upon request from theater staff. (from the east on West Wilson St.). for advance purchase have sold. We set aside ORPHEUM: Both the Main Theatre floor and Stage Door The- Wisconsin Union Theater (Memorial Union) CITY RAMPS a few tickets for filmmakers and these might atre are accessible via street level lobby entrances. The Stage 800 Langdon Street $3 MAX AFTER 6 P.M. WEEKDAYS AND WEEKENDS, Door can accommodate two to three persons using wheel- not all get used. Many people buy tickets and EXCEPT FOR DESIGNATED SPECIAL EVENTS WHEN Play Circle (Memorial Union) chairs; at least ten designated preferred seating spaces will be may be unable to come to the show. This means A $4 PAY-ON-ENTRY FEE IS CHARGED. VISA/MASTER- 800 Langdon Street, second floor reserved on the floor of the Main Theatre. Please note: Wheel- CARD ACCEPTED. LOTS METERED OR PAYSTATION. an open seat that can be filled right before Wisconsin Historical Society chair-accessible restroom is in the Main Theatre lobby; for the http://www.ci.madison.wi.us/parking/parking.html the start of the film. (This is why ticket-holders 816 State Street Festival, the Main and Stage Door lobbies will be closed off must arrive at least 15 minutes before a show from each other. Stage Door patrons needing ground level UW Cinematheque LOWER CAMPUS restroom should alert volunteer / theatre staff for assistance. to have a guaranteed seat.) Room 4070, Vilas Hall, State St Campus 415 N. Lake St.; 430 N. Frances St. Assisted-listening headsets available upon request from the- Each theater has a rush-ticket line that is sepa- 821 University Avenue (corner of University & Park) A pedestrian bridge across University Avenue links Vilas Hall and ater staff. rate from the ticket-holders line. If you would DOWNTOWN AREA Humanities. The Cinematheque is on the 4-floor outdoor plaza, BARTELL THEATRE: All space in the Bartell building is wheel- Overture Center 318 West Mifflin St. WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL like to see a film and no tickets are available at on the level where the bridge connects. chair accessible. The Drury Theatre has 4 spaces for wheel- State St Capitol 214 North Carroll St. that theater’s box office, join the rush-ticket line Madison Museum of Contemporary Art — chairs. Access is through the main lobby; Bartell Staffwill assist Capitol Square North 218 East Mifflin St. (ask a volunteer where to stand). It’s wise to MMoCA with operating lift. Buckeye Lot 214 West Gorham St. come about a half-hour before the start of the 227 State Street MONONA TERRACE: A Greeter is stationed at the Level Four show, but it depends on how popular that film main entrance of Monona Terrace to assist guests. There are KING STREET AREA Capitol Theater (inside the Overture Center) power-assisted doors at all Monona Terrace entrances (Level Government East 215 South Pinckney St. is. When all the ticket holders have been seated, 201 State Street Brayton Lot 1 South Butler St. we’ll count up how many empty seats there are Three, Four, and Five). Wheelchairs are available free of charge Orpheum Main and Stage Door Theatre at the Information Booth on Level Four. All rooms in Monona in the theater, and start selling last-minute seats 216 State Street Terrace are accessible to patrons with wheelchairs and can be to those people waiting in the rush-ticket line. Normally this operates as one establishment, but during the Fes- adjusted to accommodate wheelchair accessibility. Assisted lis- FESTIVAL HOTEL tival the Orpheum Main and Stage Door Theatres have separate tening device capability is available in the Lecture Hall; con- Madison Concourse Hotel Cash or vouchers may be used to buy rush entrances. The Stage Door entrance is on Johnson Street, one- tact the Monona Terrace Administration office at 608/261-4000 ✿ tickets. Having a voucher is not a guarantee half block north-east of State Street. or TTY 608/261-4150 in advance for assistance. & Governor’s Club MADISON of a seat or preference in line; it’s just used in Bartell Theatre 1 West Dayton Street, Madison BUS ROUTES & SCHEDULES www.concoursehotel.com lieu of cash. The number of rush tickets available 113 East Mifflin Street Get away to Madison’s premier downtown depends on the number of empty seats. Limit Monona Terrace Community For more information, call Metro Transit at (608) 266-4466; destination, just steps away from the two tickets per patron. First come, first seated. & Convention Center TTY (608) 267-1143, or visit www.mymetrobus.com Wisconsin Film Festival theaters. Soak up the fun in the ✿ (Lecture Hall) One John Nolen Drive indoor pool, hot tub, and fitness center. Enjoy live jazz APRIL 12-15, 2007 All tickets sold at the individual theaters, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday night in The Bar. including rush tickets, are $7 general and $4 PARKING Please call (800) 356-8293 or (608) 257-6000 and ask student. Students should bring their school ID. VENUE ACCESSIBILITY UW-MADISON CAMPUS for the Spring Getaway/Wisconsin Film Festival rate! Please allow plenty of time to find parking on campus! BOX OFFICE: The second-floor Annex Room (festival ticket sales) Metered parking: $1/hr. Attended lot rates vary. ADDITIONAL LODGING: Search for hotels on the IMPORTANT DETAILS is accessible via elevator. Enter from Terrace or Commons (east) See: http://www2.fpm.wisc.edu/trans/ Greater Madison Convention & Visitors Bureau web site: entrance, go to center of the building to elevator near the video To guarantee admittance, ticket holders must www.VisitMadison.com.

game room on the first floor. Contact the manager (608-262-1771) Fluno Center (Lot 83) ✿ arrive 15 minutes prior to show. Available seats 601 University Ave., enter off Frances St.. ATTENDANT: if accessibility issues prevent you from buying tickets in person. WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG will be filled at curtain time. Latecomers with THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY; CLOSED SUNDAYS tickets are not guaranteed admittance. MEMORIAL UNION: The second-floor Play Circle is accessible via VISITING MADISON elevator. Enter from Terrace or Commons (east) entrance, go to Grainger Hall (Lot 7) All tickets sales are final. center of the building to elevator near the video game room on 975 University Ave., enter off of Brooks St. between Universi- & WISCONSIN No refunds or replacements for lost tickets. the first floor. The Play Circle has one seating space for those using ty and West Johnson. METERED PARKING AND/OR ATTEN- For additional information on what to see and do while in DANT No refunds for vouchers. wheelchairs. For other locations in the Union, use the elevator by the Madison, please contact: Essentials Shop. Helen C. White Hall (Lot 6) Greater Madison Convention & Visitors Bureau, Specific film tickets can be exchanged WISCONSIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: A entrance ramp is located 600 North Park St. STAFFED OR METERED (800) 373-6376, in person only through April 11 at the Festival on the Langdon Street side of the building. Memorial Union (Lot 1) [email protected] or www.VisitMadison.com Box Office at the Wisconsin Union. Absolutely UW CINEMATHEQUE: Patrons using wheelchairs should enter Vilas 800 Langdon St. METERED PARKING University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus Information ✿ no film ticket exchanges after April 11. Hall via the ramp off University Ave. near the corner of Park Street. Southeast Ramp (Lot 46) and Visitor Center, 1st Floor Red Gym, 877.963.FILM Many festival films are not rated. Take elevator to the 4th floor. Exit to open terrace; theater (Rm. Johnson and Lake St. THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY: 716 Langdon Street, (608) 263-2400, 4070) is in center of terrace. Please alert volunteer staff at door to 10-HOUR METERS, LOWER LEVEL or www.Visit.Wisc.edu. Viewer and parental discretion advised. assist with entering via south theater entrance. The Cinematheque Wisconsin Department of Tourism, has two spaces for those using wheelchairs. University Square Parking (Lot 47) Festival programs and schedule 800 block of East Johnson between (800) 432-TRIP (8747) are subject to change. MADISON MUSEUM OF COMPORARY ART: There are two wheel- Park St. and Lake St. METERED PARKING or www.TravelWisconsin.com Check www.WiFilmFest.org for updates. chair spaces in the Lecture Hall. 37 38 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ✿ MADISON ✿ APRIL 12-15, 2007 ✿ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ✿ 877.963.FILM Your ticket to downtown...starring more than than more downtown...starring to ticket Your Indie Lifestyle Indie Magazines Indie Music Indie Films to weararingsetwithgorgeousSpringcoloredgemstones! MARKET www.mocomarket.com • 804 Williamson Streetwww.mocomarket.comWilliamson 804 • A Nexus ofIndependence 300 shops, restaurants and night spots night and restaurants shops, 300 please contactJulieatpinkjules.comor608-232-1445. I visitdowntownmadison.com D Spring isjustaroundthecorner—intime O Choose betweenPeridot surroundedbyPink Tourmalines WNT For furtherinformationabouttherings, Gemologist &jewelrydesignerJulieFoster willbeexhibiting or MexicanFire OpalsurroundedbyEmeralds. O these ringsalongwithmanyotherpiecesofherjewelry WN M Both ringsaremadeof18Kwhitegold. A PS at theMidwestJewelryExpo. Opening April2nd I P A RKING I N FO I G I FT C E RT I FIC A TES For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius! archived reviews from award-winning critics all themovies Madison’s most complete movie listings all thetimes of the Arts in Wisconsin the Arts of on all things film-fest, in real time! observations from Isthmus wags A proud supporter A proud the latest Mad Videos PLUS ne loves a bargain, so enjoy th Everyone these... DDISCOUNTISCOUNT DDEALSEALS Bring in your Film Fest ticket stub to any of these businesses to receive their special offer!

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