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Film Festival Preview Welcome to your 2009 With Festival director Meg Hamel Wisconsin Film Festival sPM&RIDAY -ARCH sPM3ATURDAY -ARCH Of the many I’ve watched as part of the selection process for the Festival, it’s been sPM&RIDAY !PRIL satisfying to work on the series called “THE CREAM AND THE CROP: FARMING sPM3ATURDAY !PRIL AND THE LAND ON FILM.” The reason is simply that Wisconsin’s farming heritage has been an inspiration this year. With this series of films, we want to give a voice New Season Starts April 11 of support and encouragement to all the farming families around Wisconsin. The University of Wisconsin, which presents the Festival, continues to be a major Meet the filmmakers. source for research and development in areas related to agriculture and food science. See their films. The UW Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, working with local farmers on sPM3ATURDAYS sustainable agricultural programs, is co-presenting some of the films in this series, as is the Nelson Institute’s Center for Culture, History, and Environment. That center created the Madison “Tales from Planet Earth” in 2007, and will return in November 2009 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM with a second edition. wpt.org (Somewhere in the planning of this year’s Wisconsin Film Festival, chickens became a kind of informal theme — there are an awful lot of them. As you watch your films this year, make a wish whenever you see a chicken.) Thank you to everyone who has helped make this Festival happen. — Meg Hamel, director, Wisconsin Film Festival

CONTENTS About the Festival ...... 4 Alphabetical List of Films ...... 5-33 Schedule Chart, Party Details, and Audience Award information ...... 18-19 Tickets, Venues, Parking and Lodging ...... 34 Film Series Lists The Cream and the Crop: Farming and the Land on Film ...... 20 Disparate Voices: Asian American Film ...... 20 Film•Able: Disabilities on Screen...... 17 Focus on South Korea...... 20 Inside Islam...... 20 Restorations and Revivals ...... 20 Chazen Museum of Art UW–Madison Wisconsin’s Own ...... 20 800 University Avenue Madison, WI 53706 Tickets: WiFilmFest.org For print sources, see WiFilmFest.org 608.263.2246 chazen.wisc.edu

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-EMORIAL5NIONs,ANGDON3TREETs&IRST&LOOR MONDAY - FRIDAY: 7:30 am – Midnight SATURDAY: 9:00 am – 10:00 pm s SUNDAY: 9:00 am – 11:00 pm WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 • WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • APRIL 2-5, 2009 WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • MADISON FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN 4 32A Afterschool ground-level oral history catalogues the authentic details of dialogue, costume, and frustrated, often unable to express out to fix the pipe, restore peace, and transition with the human intimacy, and music are woven throughout this his emotions. He’s also loyal and brash embrace his true love. Absurdistan is social scope, and tragicomic candor of accomplished first feature from direc- and all the things women are so often nearly wordless, but is rich in comic a Studs Terkel project. Jia Zhang-ke (The tor Marian Quinn, winner of the Best drawn to in the midst of young love. escapades. 2008 Sundance Film Fes- World, WFF05; Still Life, WFF08), film- First Film at the Galway Film Fleadh. Zooey is a natural as the object of his tival; winner, Best Production Design, MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 maker laureate of China’s ever-shift- In addition to established actors Aiden affection. Tom sees in her only the per- 2008 German Film Awards. www.wifilmfest.org ing economic landscape, weaves docu- Quinn (the director’s brother) and Orla fect girl, but Deschanel does an amaz- mentary and narrative techniques to Brady, “the young cast give lively, unaf- ing job of projecting something hidden Afterschool create a multifaceted portrait of a pop- fected performances taken, no doubt, underneath what he sees.… 500 Days FRI, APR 3 • 10:00 PM ulation in flux. Fictional monologues of Summer is unlikely to reinvent the from their own recent experiences. As UW Cinematheque ORDER CODE: AFTER03 delivered by actresses Joan Chen (The Maeve, newcomer Ailish McCarthy is a romance genre, in fact it’s not even inter- Last Emperor, Twin Peaks) and Zhao real find; beautifully expressing the ested in being that kind of film. If it’s SAT, APR 4 • 11:00 PM Tao share screen time with genuine tes- excitement of discovery through a big romantic (and it is), it achieves that as UW Cinematheque ORDER CODE: AFTER04 timonials from factory employees, imply- pair of blue eyes and later, nimbly find- only a byproduct of something else, WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • USA, 2008, ing, as in Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg, ing the faces required to express frus- something deeper, something bigger, color, 35mm • 106 MIN Director: Antonio Campos that the fictions a location inspires are tration and disappointment without let- something even more beautiful than the Director of photography: Jody Lee Lipes; editor: as valuable as its truth. At once an idio- ting anyone other than the camera standard boy meets girl tale. It’s creative, Antonio Campos; production sound: Micah syncratic eulogy for China’s past and a know.” — John Maguire, Confessions of surprising, insightful, and a must see Bloomberg; production designer: Kris Moran; skeptical forecast of its future, a Film Critic. for any lover of great film.” — Josh Tyler, costume designer: Catherine Akana; executive powerfully illustrates that even as the cinemablend.com. 2009 Sundance, producer: Andrew Renzi, Victor Aaron, Susan 24 City (Er shi si cheng ji) Shopmaker, Rose Ganguzza; producer: Josh Mond game shifts from communism to capi- South by Southwest Film Festival. And Sean Durkin; co-producer: Jesse Ozeri; talism, the pawns remain the same. THU, APR 2 • 6:00 PM associate producer: Andrew Corkin; production 2008 Cannes; Toronto; Film 76% Chance company: Borderline Films, Hidden St. Orpheum Main ORDER CODE: 500DA02 Festival. SEE: Shorts: Sunday @ Chazen Productions; production company: Borderline WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • USA, 2009, Films; cast: Ezra Miller, Jeremy White, Emory color, 35mm • 95 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A Cohen, Michael Stuhlbarg, Addison Timlin, 32A Director: Marc Webb Absurdistan Rosemarie Dewitt, Lee Wilkof, Paul Sparks, Bill WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM Raymond, Gary Wilmes, Christopher McCann FRI, APR 3 • 7:30 PM Writer: Scott Neustadter & Michael Weber; director THU, APR 2 • 9:30 PM At a New England boarding school, Rob Orpheum Main ORDER CODE: 32AAA03 of photography: Eric Steelberg; editor: Alan Chazen Museum ORDER CODE: ABSUR02 Edward Bell; music: Mychael Danna, Rob passes the time obsessively watching WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • , Narrative • Ireland, 2007, color, 35mm • 89 MIN Simonsen; production designer: Laura Fox; 2007, color, digital video • 88 MIN viral videos, downing prescription med- Director: Marian Quinn costume designer: Hope Hanafin; producer: Mark ication, and quietly avoiding his guid- Writer: Marian Quinn; director of photography: PJ Waters, Jessica Tuchinsky, Mason Novick, Steven Director: Veit Helmer Dillon; editor: Rune Schweitzer; sound designer: J. Wolfe; cast: Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon- Writer: Gordan Mihic, Zaza Buadze, Ahmet Golbol, ance counselor. Too withdrawn to even Lars Ginzel; composer: Gerry Leonard; production Levitt, Clark Gregg, Minka Kelly, Matthew Gray Veit Helmer; director of photography: George qualify as a nerd, he winds up in the AV designer: Paki Smith; costume designer: Driscoll Gubler, Rachel Boston, Geoffrey Arend, Chloe Beridze; editor: Vincent Assmann; sound mix: club, where he can explore his fledgling 500 Days of Summer Calder; executive producer: James Flynn, Line Moritz Robert Jäger; sound design: Martin Frühmorgen, fascination with video. It is an explo- Producer Adrian Devane; producer: Tommy Weir; Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. Immo Trümpelmann; music: Shigeru Umebayashi; production design: Erwin Prib, Vaja Djalaghania; ration of teenage angst in the YouTube #1 (Fall, Winter 08) co-producer: Roshanak Behesht Nedjad; “If you want to be whacked around the production company: Janey Pictures / Flying Moon costume design: Mehriban Efendiyeva, Serap generation, isolated from their distant SEE: Shorts: Sunday @ Bartell Production, Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, head by whimsy then this is certainly Bahadir; make up: Madona Chanturia; producer: families but routinely witnessing Medienboard -Brandenburg, Mitteldeutsche the film for you.” — Amber Wilkinson, Linda Kornemann; cast: Kristyna Malérová, moments of intense violence or intimacy Medienförderung, RTÉ, Media Programme of the eyeforfilm.co.uk. Summer (Zoey Maximilian Mauff, Nino Chkheidze, Ivane 24 City (Er shi si cheng ji) Ivantbelidze, Ani Amiridze, lko Stefanovski, Assun by total strangers online. This film cap- European Union, Bord Scannán na hÉireann/Irish Deschanel) and Tom (Joseph Gordon- THU, APR 2 • 9:15 PM Film Board; cast: Ailish McCarthy, Sophie Jo Planas tures the queasy awkwardness of high Wasson, Orla Long, Riona Smith, with Aidan Quinn, Levitt) chart the course of their relation- IN RUSSIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES school with excruciating accuracy — you MMOCA ORDER CODE: 24CIT02 Orla Brady, Jared Harris ship in the feature film debut of Marc Presented with UW Center for European Studies. won’t find The Breakfast Club roaming SAT, APR 4 • 4:15 PM Presented with UW Center for European Studies Webb, who grew up in Madison. This Inspired by a real-life event in a small these halls. This is the first feature-length MMOCA ORDER CODE: 24CIT04 If you have ever been a 13-year-old girl, post-modern love story is never what Turkish village, director Veit Helmer film from wunderkind Antonio Cam- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • China, you may find something familiar about we expect it to be — it’s thorny yet exhil- (Tuvalu) creates a truly whimsical pos, who is already a three time Cannes 2008, color, 35mm • 112 MIN Maeve. No matter that this is 1979 arating, funny and sad, a twisted jour- world where the laws of gravity have veteran at 25. With the slow-burn pac- Director: Jia Zhang-Ke Dublin — everything at this age is equal ney of that doesn’t quite been bent. Aya and Temelko were pre- ing of , pointed social cri- Writer: Zhai Yongming, Signe Baumane, Jia Zhang- parts brave adventure and agonizing go where we think it will. When Tom, a destined to share their childhoods, tique of , and confident ke; director of photography: Yu Lik-wai, Wang Yu; frustration. Maeve and her three best greeting-card copywriter and hopeless their hearts, and once the stars align widescreen framing, this remarkably editor: Lin xudong, Kong Jinlei; music: Lim Giong; pals are inseparable, until a hunky older romantic, is blindsided after his girl- perfectly, their first night of passion. sound design: Zhang Yang; production design: Liu assured debut establishes Campos as a Qiang; executive producers: Chow Keung, Ren (16!) boy warms up to Maeve and invites friend Summer dumps him, he shifts Aya insists that she must take a rit- director to watch. “Combines the time- Zhonglun, Tang Yong; producers: Jia Zhang-ke, her to parties at the Grove disco where back and forth through various periods ual bath before consummating their less bewilderment of adolescence with Shozo Ichiyama, Wang Hong; cast: Joan Chen, the kids drink beer and listen to Elvis of their 500 days “together” to try to fig- love. And in this dusty, obsure moun- a very contemporary recognition that Zhao Tao, Chen Jianbin, Lu Liping Costello. Brian is the spitting image of ure out where things went wrong. His tain town, the central water pipe has for many of us — not least adolescents IN MANDARIN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES a young Roger Daltry and has the cool reflections ultimately lead him to finally fallen into disrepair, now only a trickle. — reality is now largely a virtual expe- In the Chengdu province of China, mas- to go along with it. No question that rediscover his true passions in life. Fed up with the laziness of the village rience.” — Dennis Lim, New York Times. sive munitions plant Factory 420 is Maeve, possibly a little baffled by the “Levitt is utterly brilliant at Tom, a hope- men and led by Aya, the women strike No ordinary coming-of-age film, After- being reduced to rubble, making way attention, wants to grow a little, but this less romantic who believes he has at long — no sex until the water supply school demonstrates with disturbing for a luxury apartment complex called means pulling away from the tight-knit last found the perfect girl. We’re with returns. Frankly, most of the men take clarity that the kids aren’t alright. Nom- 24 City. Thousands of Chinese were dis- friendships she shares with Ruth, Orla, him as he struggles to get up the nerve this in boorish, slapstick stride, but inated for the 2009 Independent Spirit placed to work at Factory 420, and the and Claire. These girls are coping with to ask her out, makes a fool of himself Temelko, with the fire of youth burn- Award for Best First Feature. 2008 de facto community that arose around their own agonizing changes, and begin at karaoke, and gets punched in the nose ing inside him and with six days to go Cannes and New York Film Festivals. it is 24 City’s unsung casualty. This to bristle at Maeve’s distractions. Fine defending her honor…. Tom is awkward before the constellations change, sets Viewer discretion advised. 5 All That Jazz Atelier K lously high standards of excellence and Anvil! can also be surprisingly touch- found impact on American culture. Fea- Montréal, le Lendemain he plunges into a crisis in which he finds ing. Even audiences who know little turing rare interviews with the afore- U.S. PREMIERE • Narrative • Canada, 2008, himself playing psychological case study about heavy-metal and care less may mentioned industry legends, the film color, digital video • 17 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A with the Angel of Death (Jessica Lange). find themselves engaged and engrossed. seeks to identify the elements that trans- Director: Jules Saulnier Fosse might owe a lot to Fellini’s plunge All the way, indeed, up to a genuinely form a slogan into a pop culture catch Writer, editor: Jules Saulnier; director of MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 into self-obsession, but the pungent tex- suspenseful climax involving an unlikely phrases. 2009 Sundance, Cleveland, AFI photography: Sébastien Trahan; sound design: ture of showbiz grime and sweaty, return to something approaching the Dallas Film Festivals. Mathieu Morin; soundman: Marc-Philippe www.wifilmfest.org Desaulniers; original music: Pierre Bundock; thrusting body geometry are completely big-time.…An affectionate paean to the production design: Justine Tourville-Blanchet; first his own. In powerhouse numbers like persistence and commitment of a cou- Atelier K assistant-director: Sophie Goyette; cast: Jean- “Take Off With Us” and the infamous ple of old-school blokes who refuse to SAT, APR 4 • 6:00 PM Robert Quirion, Charles-Olivier Bleau, Marie-Claude “Bye-Bye Love” (easily the longest on- accept that their time has passed and Saint-Laurent Play Circle ORDER CODE: ATELI04 screen death rattle of all time), Fosse the world has moved on.” — Neil Young, IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES brings his own unique style of rhythmic, jigsawlounge.co.uk. Nominated, Truer SUN, APR 5 • 3:45 PM Dominic and his buddy Félix spend their dance-like film editing that he initiated Than Fiction Award, 2009 Independent Play Circle ORDER CODE: ATELI05 slacker time zipping through a parallel with Cabaret to its apotheosis. Never Spirit Awards; winner, Best Film, 2008 TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 120 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A dimension of Montreal, in a game they content to cut on a beat, instead he Chicago; winner, Audience Award, 2008 Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. call “Intervalle.” As they map the entry makes razor-sharp edits at the change Film Festival. Atelier K (literally: The K Workshop) is points for the complex metaphysical net- of a dancer’s direction, or as an exten- Aprop the first collaborative production effort work, Dominic also starts to realize that put into motion by Kino. Kino, you say? the time come for him to clean up the sion of his combination moves. In SEE: Dancescapes essence, he turns the art of the edit into Kino is a filmmaking movement born empty beer bottles and the pizza boxes its own form of choreography. All That in Montreal in 1999, created with the and dedicate more attention to his girl- Jazz may be Fosse’s finest cinematic intent to promote, encourage and dis- friend. This highly inventive story (keep achievement.” Also nominated for nine tribute independent, creative and low- an eye on the arrows!) comes from Jules Oscars, winner of four. cost films made possible by the advent Saulnier, whose film Kompetenz played of digital video. 10 years later, the con- Annie Lloyd at the 2007 Wisconsin Film Festival. cept has spread its wings throughout Le Long Week-end SEE: Shorts: Sat @ Monona Terrace the globe, with the Kino name spanning Anvil! The Story of Anvil over 50 cities in 14 countries — there’s (The Long Weekend) Anvil! even a Kino chapter in Madison, Wis- U.S. PREMIERE • Narrative • Canada, 2008, All That Jazz consin, called Wis-Kino! With Atelier color, digital video • 12 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A The Story of Anvil K, Kino takes its first step toward pro- Director: Kim St-Pierre FRI, APR 3 • 7:30 PM THU, APR 2 • 8:45 PM fessional film production. Over the Writer: Kim St-Pierre; director of photography: François Delagrave; editor: Guillaume Marin-Lafond; MMOCA ORDER CODE: ALLTH03 Orpheum Main ORDER CODE: ANVIL02 Art & Copy course of 9 months, six members of Kino sound: Hugo Gauvreau, Jean-Sébastien Beaudoin- Narrative • USA, 1979, color, 35mm • 122 MIN WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, Montreal (or kinoïtes, as we call them) Gagnon; composer: Louis Asselin; art director: Director: 2008, color, 35mm • 80 MIN worked closely together to write and Maude-Éloïse Furness; cast: Mathieu Dufresne, Writer: Robert Alan Aurthur, Bob Fosse; executive Director: Sascha Gervasi Art & Copy direct one short film each, with the cru- Monelle Guertin, André Matteau, Michèle Sirrois producer: Daniel Melnick; producer: Robert Alan Cinematographer: Christopher Soos; editor: Jeff THU, APR 2 • 6:45 PM cial help of local partners who con- IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Aurthur; associate producer: Wolfgang Glattes; Renfroe, Andrew Dickler; music: David Torn; At first it seems like quite a tempting associate producer: Kenneth Utt; cast: Roy producer: Rebecca Yeldham Wis Union Theatre ORDER CODE: ARTCO02 tributed high-tech filming equipment, Scheider, Jessica Lange, Leland Palmer, Ann MIDWEST PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, 2009, professional sound design, and color- offer: dinner at the boss’s posh country Reinking, Cliff Gorman, Ben Vereen More real than what it first seems, it’s house. Benoit is eager to take advantage hard to shake the feeling that this true color, digital video • 88 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A ing services. The result? Six wildly dif- SERIES: Restorations and Revivals Director: Doug Pray of this opportunity to climb the ladder story of an aging Canadian heavy-metal ferent short films who do have one thing In 1980, All That Jazz tied with Kuro- Original concept: Gregory Beauchamp, Kirk Souder; a bit. Pregnant Judith is tolerant, but band is another faux documentary in in common: they come from the guts sawa’s (also playing at this director of photography: Peter Nelson; editor: Philip and the hard work of six young aspiring before long gets the itch to leave. Why the style of Christopher Guest. Is it the Owens; original music: Jeff Martin; executive year’s festival) for the Palm d’Or. Eric does it seem, then, that the boss and his pantheon of demi-god rockers like Slash, producer: David Baldwin, Mary Warlick, Gregory filmmakers, who couldn’t have pulled it Henderson of Slant describes the film: Beauchamp, Kirk Souder; producer: Jimmy wife aren’t going to let that happen? Lemmy, and Lars testifying about the off without the support of their teams “There’s something a little perverse Greenway, Michael Nadeau — all of them volunteers. L’Entrevue (The Job Interview) about a director who models his own greatness of Anvil? Is it the goofy friend- Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. Temps Plein (Full Time) U.S. PREMIERE • Narrative • Canada, 2008, ego trip completely after someone else’s liness of leader “Lips” Kudlow, strug- Art & Copy reveals the stories behind gling for success and now working in a U.S. PREMIERE • Narrative • Canada, 2008, color, digital video • 14 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A movie. Such is the case with Bob Fosse’s and the personal odysseys of some of color, digital video • 21 MIN Director: Jean-François Robichaud 8 1/2, more popularly known as All That school-lunch distribution center? Is it the most influential advertising vision- the improbable ancient footage of Anvil Director: Jéricho Jeudy Writer, editor: Jean-François Robichaud; director Jazz. In it, Fosse’s alter ego Joe Gideon aries of our time and their campaigns, Producer, writer: Jéricho Jeudy; director of of photography: Marco Bentz; music: Maxime (Roy Scheider) juggles simultaneous performing at a 1980s Japanese rock including Lee Clow (Apple Computer photography: Philippe Roy, Thomas Sicotte; sound Dupuis; producer: François Toussaint; cast: Robert film and stage productions, as well as festival which looks totally CGI’ed — 1984, and iPod); Dan Wieden (“Just Do engineer: Kyle Stanfield, Julia Innes, Felipe Voyer, Joseph Bellerose, Elisabeth Locas, Hélène his broken home life, multiple affairs, but wait, that really is a much-younger It”); Phyllis K. Robinson (who invented Cordova; music: Simon Bellefleur; production Roy Lips and his pal Robb Reiner, laced with designer: Sophie Arshoun, Anabelle Gosselin; IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES and his own failing health (one of Jazz’s the “me generation” with Clairol); Hal producer: François Toussaint; line producer: Karine many parallels to real life is how it eerily leather harnesses strutting on the stage Riney (who helped President Reagan Dubois; first assistant director: Sinan Saber; cast: Martin Simard is both divorced and predicted Fosse’s own death by heart for a cheering crowd of headbangers. get re-elected); and George Lois (who Martin Laroche, Isabelle A. Dupont unemployed. Summoning all his attack). Gideon’s newest film, The Come- The directing debut of Sascha Gervasi, saved MTV and launched Tommy Hil- IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES courage, he applies for a new job. Excru- dian (obviously a riff on Fosse’s own a former teen Anvil roadie now a Hol- figer overnight). Directed by former Etienne is a life coach, intent on shav- ciating in its surreal discomfort, Mar- Lenny) has been in the editing suite for lywood , Anvil! follows the Madisonian Doug Pray (Scratch, Big ing away the wasted minutes of people’s tin’s job interview is led by a machi- months past its original deadline. Mean- band as they continue their quest for Rig, Surfwise), Art & Copy captures the lives. So when his birthday party is cel- avelian boss and transforms into a real while, he’s helming a vanity project for respect, gigs, honest metal, and their creative energy and passion behind the ebrating a year too old, he tries to under- nightmare. Simard must not only defend WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 • WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • APRIL 2-5, 2009 WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • MADISON FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN his ex-wife, to make amends of a sort. next album, This is Thirteen. “For such iconic campaigns that have had a pro- stand what happened to all those for- his competence, but also his value as a 6 Neither project is passing his own ridicu- an amusing — often hilarious — movie, gotten memories. human being. The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) The Beetle (Hachipusheet) Beauty of the Fight L’Éblouissement Mariinski Theatre, formerly known as The Beast That Swallows Its got to go. So when Yishai decides to send sin-Madison during the 2007–2008 U.S. PREMIERE • Narrative • Canada, 2008, the Kirov. Behind any great ballerina Young off his car by interviewing the previ- school year. Director grew lies the discipline and rigour that comes ous owners, things get complicated. He up in Madison. color, digital video • 23 MIN SEE: Shorts: Animations Director: Olivier Gilbert from decades of training and practice; learns of the loves and lives that this lit- Assistant director: Kim St-Pierre; writer: Olivier and Russia’s pre-eminent dancers — tle Beetle has seen — perhaps these are The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) Gilbert; director of photography: Gabriele Kislat; Beauty of the Fight superstars such as Nijinsky, Baryshnikov paternal rustlings growing a little more SAT, APR 4 • 11:30 AM sound: Christophe Motte; music: Geneviève and Pavlova — established the reputa- intense now that he’s anticipating his Levasseur; art direction: Martine Asselin; producer: SAT, APR 4 • 6:00 PM Majestic Theatre ORDER CODE: BETRA04 tion of Russian dancers as the best in Wis Union Theatre ORDER CODE: BEAUT04 own child. Try as he must, and as his François Toussaint; cast: Vincent Bilodeau, Hélène SUN, APR 5 • 6:00 PM Bourgeois-Leclerc the world. The dancers profiled in Bal- MIDWEST PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, 2008, wife demands, he cannot get bear to part IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES lerina are uniquely individual — tough, color, b&w, digital video • 70 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A with his wheels. The only way to save Majestic Theatre ORDER CODE: BETRA05 Detective Sergeant Claude is investigat- insightful and exceptionally talented; Director: John Urbano this car — which stalls out even on its WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, ing a disappearance. Aging and heavy- onstage they reveal no hint of the sweat, Script consultant: Rick Clark; camera: John Urbano; emissions test — is a complete overhaul. 2008, color, 35mm • 96 MIN set, he spends a lot of time in his car nip- pain and hard work of the rehearsal stu- consulting editor: Reynaldo Herrera; music Winner, Audience Award, 2008 Hot Director: Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath dio. From to Romeo and consultant: Mike Brewer; original music: Matt Docs; IDFA, Big Sky film festivals. Co-director: Thavisouk Phrasavath; writer: Ellen ping a little brandy between interviews. Morton; production manager: Jefferson Winkler; Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath; cinematographer: And then the trail of clues leads to Nina, Juliet, from the backstage studio to per- first assistant: Thanis Maretis Ellen Kuras; editor: Thavisouk Phrasavath; music a torch singer in the local nightclub. forming on stages around the world, IN ENGLISH, SPANISH WITH ENGLISH composed and conducted: ; executive Ballerina captures the sublime beauty SUBTITLES producer: Cara Mertes; producer: Ellen Kuras, Flora La Queue du Train Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. Fernandez-Marengo; co-producer: Wilder W. Knight of ballet, in all its resplendent glory. II, Gini Reticker, Chiemi Karasawa (The Train Goes By) When John Urbano, a photographer for U.S. PREMIERE • Narrative • Canada, 2008, IN ENGLISH, LAO WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES The Beaches of Agnès Abercrombie & Fitch, traveled to Panama SERIES: Disparate Voices: Asian American Film color, digital video • 23 MIN for the first time, he discovered neigh- Director: François Jacob (Les Plages d’Agnès) Presented with the UW Asian American Studies borhoods struggling to survive after the Program. Writer: François Jacob; cinematographer: Marco THU, APR 2 • 5:00 PM Bentz; editor: Cyril Lochon; sound design: Hélène U.S. military invasion in 1989. Now, gang Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath’s Magne, Luc Préfontaine; music: Kleztory; executive MMOCA ORDER CODE: BEACH02 wars and encroaching gentrification debut film tells the story of a family’s producer: François Toussaint; producer: Microstellae SUN, APR 5 • 1:00 PM threaten the life of these communities. epic journey from war-torn Laos to the Films, Kino’00; production manager: Jean-

John says: “As I spent more time in Bar- WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM Sébastien Lalumière; cast: Julien Elia, Marina Eva, MMOCA ORDER CODE: BEACH05 mean streets of New York. Filmed over Sasha Samar Documentary • , 2008, color, 35mm raza and El Chorrillo, I started to see the course of 23 years, The Betrayal IN FRENCH, ENGLISH, RUSSIAN WITH ENGLISH • 109 MIN things I hadn’t noticed at first. I walked chronicles the family’s struggle to under- SUBTITLES Director: Agnès Varda past a building many times before I real- stand what was left behind while forg- Xavier Mainville lives a dull office exec- Cinematographer: Helene Louvart; editor: Jean ized that it was a boxing gym and that it Being Bucky ing a new and difficult life in a foreign utive life, in contrast with his recent past. Baptiste Morain, Baptiste Filloux; sound: Emmanuel stood next to the church and that, next Soland; production designer: Daniel Cerny; land. Thavisouk gives a first-hand When he leams about the death of for- producer: Agnès Varda; production company: Ciné to the church, stood the cock fighting account of his own boyhood survival mer roommate Yurri Chiterian, he Tamaris sheds. Slowly, I began to see the fight Being Bucky of war, his later escape from persecu- undertakes a nostalgic joumey into his IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES in Barraza: The boxer’s fight to become SAT, APR 4 • 6:15 PM tion and arrest in Laos, his miraculous Presented with UW Center for European Studies. world champion. The cock fighter’s fight memory to rekindle his appetite for life. Monona Terrace ORDER CODE: BEING04 reunion with his family and their jour- Accomplished French director visited to train a match-winning rooster. The Atlantis Unbound WORLD PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, 2008, ney to America, and the second war they Madison a few years ago for a retrospec- gang banger’s fight to survive the streets color, digital video • 80 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A had to fight on the streets of New York SEE: Shorts: Animations tive of her films presented by the UW and feed his family. The family’s fight to Director: Scott Smith City. Thavisouk’s mother also gives pow- Audience Award Winner Cinematheque. In her new documen- hang on to their home.” Through gor- Director of photography: John Fromstein; additional erful testimony of her unflagging efforts tary, she “walks backwards” through her geous images that express more than photography: Lisa Clauson, Filip Dvorak, Jason to single-handedly raise and shepherd SEE: Shorts: Saturday @ Chazen films, her friendships, and her deep words ever could, The Beauty of the Fight Koehl, Brad Johnson.; editor: Sara Evans; executive producer: John Fromstein; producer: Sophia Sheikh a family of ten amidst almost constant attachment to her deceased husband, is a luminous memoir. Avocat Dos SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own danger. Director Kuras, a cinematogra- Jacques Demy. More a playful wander- SEE: Shorts: Sunday @ Chazen Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. pher known for her work with Michel ing through a life well-lived than an Beelin’ When you are Bucky, you are forbidden Gondry, Jonathan Demme, Harold encyclopedia of the French New Wave, SEE: Shorts: Sunday @ Chazen to tell anyone. You do not get paid. You Ramis, , and more, says: “I’ve Ballerina even viewers unfamiliar with her work do it for the privilege of upholding a been working on The Betrayal longer, may find Agnès delightful. “A lyrical, The Beetle (Hachipusheet) FRI, APR 3 • 5:00 PM time-honored tradition. The time com- in fact, than I’ve been a cinematogra- ORDER CODE restlessly inventive memory film… in Chazen Museum : BALLE03 THU, APR 2 • 5:15 PM mitment is grueling enough. The smell pher.… From the beginning, I envisioned which the octogenarian nouvelle-vague WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • Russia, Play Circle ORDER CODE: BEETL02 of the head is worse. You never know [it] as a combination of cinema verité, 2006, color, digital video • 80 MIN vet revisits hallmark locations from her SUN, APR 5 • 6:30 PM when you’ll get to use a bathroom, but rephotographed archival footage and Director: Bertrand Normand life and career, including the small fish- other elements that could enable me to Play Circle ORDER CODE: BEETL05 it doesn’t matter because you sweat so Camera: Bertrand Normand, Franck Laniel, Isabelle ing village where she directed her first much. You can’t talk and you can barely get closer to the idea of a very personal Saunois, Edward Oleschak, Igor Yurov, Alexandre feature, La Pointe Courte, in 1954. It’s MIDWEST PREMIERE • Documentary • Israel, point of view of memory. I tried to imag- Filipov, Frédéric Podetti, Dominique Collin, Thierry 2008, color, digital video • 70 MIN see. When you are Bucky, everyone there, in perhaps the film’s loveliest Maisonnave; editor: Antonela Bevenja; sound editor: Director: Yishai Orian wants to shake your hand. All the girls ine that the point of view of the film sequence, that Varda tracks down the Sandrine Henchoz; producer: Frédéric Podetti, Writer, producer: Yishai Orian; cinematographer: want to hug you, and children are in would be as if I was shooting from the Yann Brolli; production company: Les Films du two young boys — now old men — seen Yair Sagi; editor: Shiri Brchard; original score: Tal awe. When you are being Bucky for the perspective of a character, and then that Tamarin / Adésif Productions; voice over: Alain pushing a hand-cart in one sequence Yardeni character walks into their own point Ghazal; cast: Ulyana Lopatkina, Diana Vishneva, first time, you’re confused and disori- from the earlier film and has them re- IN HEBREW, ARABIC WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES , Alina Somova, Svetlana ented and wondering why you ever got of view. The film could then be told in enact that scene, while a projector sit- There’s just no way Yishai is going to be Zakharova yourself into this. By the time you’re a very personal voice and, at the same uated on the handcart broadcasts those able to keep his beloved Volkswagen IN RUSSIAN, ENGLISH, FRENCH WITH ENGLISH done, you don’t ever want to stop. Being time, be observant of that person in the SUBTITLES half-century-old images onto a Beetle, now that his wife is pregnant. Bucky changes you forever. Meet the world around.” Nominated, 2008 Inde- In the grand tradition of the Ballets makeshift screen.” — Scott Foundas, Vil- It’s a 40-year-old piece of junk, really. seven students who play Bucky Badger, pendent Spirit and ; Russes comes Bertrand Normand’s por- lage Voice. 2008 Venice, Toronto film Totally unsafe to drive around the streets the mascot at the University of Wiscon- winner, Spectrum Award, 2008 Full trait of five Russian ballerinas from the festivals. of Tel Aviv, even without a baby seat. It’s Frame Documentary film festival. 7 Between the Folds Chef’s Special Bunnyland being unnoticed by the busy people liv- blind people and their need for love. the stakes get higher for the man-boy nearby Dollywood. But deep in the heart ing in that city. Her only friends are the Elena and her husband are expecting to stand up for his beliefs against the of the Ozarks we get to know Johnny, cats who, like her, live on the street. One a child, and she admits that sometimes comic tyranny of real estate mogul James an avid rock collector who has plenty of day a small girl notices her, and the old she hopes that the baby might also be Paddington and off-kilter Officer Scar, stories to share. When he insists that a woman creates folded paper animals for born blind. Zuzana is a teenager who Caleb finds all his stability pulled out handful of minerals were carved by MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 the young girl. paints her nails and works the online from under him, the questions of his members of an ancient civilization, you www.wifilmfest.org Papiroflexia chats with her friends — in short, not existence diminished to those of friend- might think that this is one of those doc- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Animated • USA, 2007, unlike most teenage girls. But perhaps ship, loyalty and righteousness. umentaries: a tame story of a quirky fella Between the Folds color, digital video • 3 MIN the most memorable and affecting are and his obsessions. But then there’s the Director: Joaquin Baldwin Miro and Monika. Miro is an Roma, and Brent Coughenour story of the mini-golf course that he co- Between the Folds is followed by Presented with UW Center for the Humanities. Monika’s parents (for both sweethearts Live Video Performance owned with a friend. (Bunnyland was Insight, then Papiroflexia Papiroflexia (Spanish for “origami”) is still live at home) disapprove of his eth- SEE: Visible Forces named for the dozens of rabbits that SAT, APR 4 • 4:30 PM the animated tale of Fred, a skilful paper nicity. But big, rangy (and randy) Miro hopped and pooped on the plastic turf.) is not so easily dissuaded, and dedicates Chazen Museum ORDER CODE: BETWE04 folder who could shape the world with British Television Things took a macabre turn, and the himself to winning Monika’s hand. 2008 SUN, APR 5 • 11:00 AM his hands. Created at the UCLA Anima- Advertising Awards friends had a falling out. Most of tion Workshop, with music by Nick Cannes, Karlovy Vary, Toronto, Rotter- Johnny’s one-time friends, it seems, have Chazen Museum ORDER CODE: BETWE05 Fevola. dam festivals. SAT, APR 4 • 1:15 PM had legal battles and other entangle- TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 70 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A Monona Terrace ORDER CODE: BTAAA04 ments with him, and he presents his side WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, Bill and Art SUN, APR 5 • 7:45 PM of the story with a memorable flair. 2008, color, digital video • 56 MIN SEE: Shorts: Sat @ Monona Terrace Director: Vanessa Gould Monona Terrace ORDER CODE: BTAAA05 Casse Tête Writer, producer, narrator: Vanessa Gould; Birthdate WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • United SEE: Shorts: Sunday @ Bartell cinematographer: Melissa R. Donovan, Philippe Kingdom, 2008, color, b&w, digibeta • 98 MIN SEE: Shorts: Sunday @ Chazen Belliache; editor: Kristin Barlow; composer: Gil For the third year, we present the win- Talmi; animation: Todd Sines; associate producer: Check Date: Ariel Friedman Black and White Trypps ning commercials, er, short films, from An Underdog Love Story the 2008 British Television Advertising Presented with the ‘What Is Human?’ Initiative Number Three SEE: Shorts: Sunday @ Chazen of the UW Center for the Humanities. SEE: Jim’s Experimental Shorts Awards (or, outtakes from the Queen’s Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. Tivo). Some ads are straight-forward, Cheese Wars Between The Folds chronicles the sto- (Slepé Lásky) some enigmatic, some deathly hilarious. SEE: Shorts: Saturday @ Bartell ries of 10 fine artists, theoretical math- Blind Loves Pair up a ticket to the BTAA show with ematicians, and intrepid scientists who SAT, APR 4 • 1:45 PM one of two other festival films about the Chef’s Special have abandoned conventional jobs and Majestic Theatre ORDER CODE: BLIND04 people who create the most successful scoffed at hard-earned graduate degrees SUN, APR 5 • 4:00 PM advertising concepts: Art & Copy and (Fuerta de Carta) — all to forge lives as modern-day paper- Majestic Theatre ORDER CODE: BLIND05 Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight. SAT, APR 4 • 10:15 PM folders. As these offbeat and varied char- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • Slovakia, Special thanks to: Peter Bigg, British Bartell Theatre ORDER CODE: CHEFS04 acters converge on the unusual medium 2008, color, 35mm • 77 MIN The Book of Caleb Television Advertising Association; Dean SUN, APR 5 • 6:30 PM of origami, they reinvent an ancient art, Director: Juraj Lehotský Otto, Walker Art Center; Joe Beres, Chazen Museum ORDER CODE: CHEFS05 and illustrate the innumerable ways that Writer: Marek LešŁák, Juraj Lehotský; cinema- Walker Art Center. tographer: Juraj Chlpík; editor: František Krähenbiel; WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • , 2008, creativity and ingenuity come to bear in The Book of Caleb color, digital video • 111 MIN the age-old effort to understand and producer: Marko Škop, Ján Meliš, František Krähenbiel, Juraj Chlpík, Juraj Lehotsk ; cast: Peter Bunnyland Director: Nacho G. Velilla honor the world around us. With beau- ý FRI, APR 3 • 9:30 PM Kolesár, Iveta Koprdová, Moro Daniel, Monika Monona Terrace ORDER CODE: BOOKC03 SAT, APR 4 • 3:30 PM Writer: Nacho G. Velilla, Oriol Capel, Antonio tiful cinematography, animation and an Brabcová, Jolana Danielová, Anna Brabcová, Zuzana Sánchez, David Sánchez; cinematographer: David Play Circle Theatre ORDER CODE: BUNNY04 original score featuring the Budapest Pohánková, Radoslava Badinková, Elena, Laco, WORLD PREMIERE • Narrative • USA, 2008, Omedes; editor: Ángel Hernández Zoido; music: color, digital video • 108 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A Symphony Orchestra, the film paints an Gabika SUN, APR 5 • 1:15PM Juanjo Javierre; producer: Nacho Velilla; cast: Javier Director: Matthew Von Manahan IN SLOVAKIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Play Circle Theatre ORDER CODE: BUNNY05 Cámara, Lola Dueñas, Fernando Tejero, Benjamín arresting portrait of the mysterious artis- Writer: Matthew Von Manahan; director of Vicuña tic and scientific threads that fuel these SERIES: Film·Able: Disabilities on Screen MIDWEST PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, Presented with UW Department of Rehabilitation photography: Michael Gioulakis; editor: Adele IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Romanski; production designer: Morgan Hanner; 2008, color, digibeta • 87 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A remarkable minds, bringing forth a rich Psychology and Special Education; UW Center Presented with UW Center for European Studies. producer: Grant Fenster; line producer: John Taylor Director: Brett Hanover mix of sensibilities towards art, abstrac- for European Studies. This festival, it must be acknowledged, tion, science, creativity, and meaning. Feltner; cast: Jeremy Luno, Mackenzie Firgens, Assistant directors: Morgan Jon Fox, Katherine “When they see a blind person, every- Michael Hampton, Nikitas Manikatos, Jeff Berg, Dohan; production company: Sawed-Off has been neglectful of one the great cin- A open, hands-on origami workshop body thinks it’s just darkness, obscu- Paul Gleason Collaboratory Pictures ema genres of all time: the Spanish sex with director Vanessa Gould and WPR's rity.... But many people don’t realize one SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. comedy. Making up for lost time is Chef ’s Ruthanne Bessman will be held at the thing: blind people can hear, can touch Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. “Of course it makes sense to start from Special, a gay cooking romantic com- Steep & Brew coffee shop (544 State St.) and have other senses to perceive this A bittersweet fairytale “hangover of the the beginning…. I always picture myself edy starring the sublimely hilarious on Sunday, April 5 at 2 pm. world through.” So says Peter, a music coming of age” story, The Book of Caleb as actually the last Indian, that got put Javier Cámara (Talk to Her), winner of Insight teacher at a school for the blind, in the plays as a quirky and tender study of the on the Trail of Tears, ‘cause that’s what the Best Actor honors at the Málaga WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Animated • Spain, segment that opens this truly cinematic quarter-life crisis. When unfocused wan- it was…. I had a great life. As a matter Spanish Film Festival (where the film 2006, color, digital video • 7 MIN documentary debut by Juraj Lehotský. derer Caleb Callahan returns home to of fact, I used to say ‘Why is my life so also won the Audience Award). It all Director: Salvador Simó Busom Peter and his wife, also blind, let the suburban Bucks County, Pennsylvania good?” And then it changed, literally, starts at Xantarella, a top restaurant in Writer, editor, animator, sound: Salvador Simó camera into their home to observe their and reunites with childhood friends changed. I should’ve never said that.” the gay-friendly neighborhood of Busom; producer: The Animation Workshop; music: Montag and Swank, he finds himself Frederic Chopin; layout: Bahadir Tosun, Ferran domestic routine: she knits away at Thus begins Johnny Tesar’s — call him Chueca. Owner and chef Maxi is aided Casas and Laia Alomar Peter’s Christmas sweater while he nar- swept into a dangerous anti-adulthood Johnny Rock — “road through life, take by a kitchen full of over-the-top char- Presented with UW Center for the Humanities. rates a sea-going musical adventure highlighted with overblown enemies one.” Pigeon Forge is a Tennessee moun- acters, including Alex the maître d’, and

WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 • WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • APRIL 2-5, 2009 WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • MADISON FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN A homeless old woman lives in a card- played out on his portable piano key- and high concept pranks. Love interest tain resort town, one that most of us sous-chef Ramiro. The madcap action 8 board box in a small alley of a big city, board. Each of the four stories portrays Cole somewhat grounds Caleb, but as would ever know through a visit to begins when Maxi’s kids from an earlier The Country Teacher (Venkovský Uèitel) Cherry Blossoms marriage arrive unexpectedly after their quited love hurts no matter where you a soundtrack by Jivan Gasparyan with mother dies, and Maxi is left to cope live, whatever your geographical loca- the hypnotic voice of Surma Hamid, an with parenthood and a surly teen son tion, it hurts the same everywhere. In Iraqi exile now living in , the who wants nothing to do with his gay this story, there are three main charac- bodies betray a serene violence, travel- dad. A hunky young Argentinian soccer ters, each of whom has a fissure in their ling as though released from conscious- star moves into the next-door flat, and lives, a fissure to do with love.” — direc- ness or gravity, falling and recuperat- sexy Alex thinks she’s finally found the tor Bohdan Sláma. A gifted young man ing, haunted by an irrepressible past. man of her dreams. Heating up this boil- (known only as Teacher) takes a job Aprop ing pot is Maxi’s quest for a Michelin teaching natural sciences at a grammar WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Experimental • Spain, star: rumors fly that the reviewer will school in the country. Here he makes 2007, color, digital video • 6 MIN be dining at Xantarella soon, so every- the acquaintance of a woman and her Director: Aitor Echeverria one needs to be on their best behavior… troubled 17-year old son. The teacher Sleep interrupted by the brush of a has no romantic interest in the woman familiar touch. The sigh of that voice Cherry Blossoms but they quickly form a strong friend- inviting you to play. The most everyday (Kirschbluten: Hanami) ship, each recognizing the other’s uncer- gestures become, at close range, an tainties, hopes, and longing for love. extraordinary dance. SAT, APR 4 • 7:30 PM When the ex-boyfriend of the teacher Terrain Bartell Theatre ORDER CODE: CHERR04 comes to visit from the city, he quickly WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Experimental • USA, WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • Germany, realizes that nobody in the village knows 2006, color, digital video • 20 MIN France, 2008, color, digital video • 127 MIN that the teacher is gay, and sets events Director: Douglas Rosenberg and Allen Kaeja Director: Doris Dörrie in motion by his jealous actions. Set in Terrain is a site-specific dance film shot Writer: Dorris Dörrie; producer: David Groenewold, Dancescapes: A Landscape of Movement a bucolic village, with an outdoor fes- on location in rural Wisconsin. Each Harald Kugler, Molly von Furstenberg, Patrick Zorer; tival, Marie’s rambling ancient barn by vignette is created in and of the land- cast: Elmar Wepper, Hannelore Elsner, Aya Irizuki, Chicken of God iting his disturbing early pieces. A still Maximilian Brückner, Nadja Uhl the river, and towering haystacks just scape and speaks to metaphors of the SEE: Shorts: Animations shot of Close lounging between two gray- IN GERMAN, ENGLISH, JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH toned paintings, which creepily mime perfect for an afternoon nap, The Coun- senses, relationships, and the changing SUBTITLES the uber-realism of photography, brings try Teacher is a beautifully shot, power- of the seasons. Terrain features chore- WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM Presented with UW Center for European Studies. Chuck Close home the visceral shockwaves these fully acted, profoundly moving story ography and performances by acclaimed Cherry Blossoms is a movie that unfolds SAT, APR 4 • 1:00 PM works must have sent through the art of desire, responsibility, forgiveness and contemporary dance artists including Karen Kaeja, Li Chiao-Ping, David Dorf- in two parts. To begin, Trudi and Rudi Wis Union Theatre ORDER CODE: CHUCK04 world of the time. Cajori also eschews the need to belong, from the director of Something Like Happiness (WFF07) man, and Heidi Latsky. are a long-married couple who may be WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, any My Left Foot vision of the artist as no longer really listening to each other. 2007, color, digital video • 116 MIN heroic survivor: Whatever the method, and Wild Bees. 2008 Venice, Toronto La Vie Est Belle Their habits get disrupted with Trudi Director: Marion Cajori from airbrushing to meticulous thumb- festivals’ Winner, Audience Award, 2008 WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Experimental • France, learns that her husband has a life-threat- Cinematographer: Mead Hunt, Ken Kobland, David printing, Close’s vision remains remark- Cottbus Film Festival. 2004, color, digital video • 3 MIN ening condition. This is kept a secret Leitner; editor: Marion Cajori; fine cut editor: Ken Director: Tristan Duhamel Kobland; producer: Marion Cajori; associate ably, inventively consistent, in and out from the frumpy Rudi, who establishes of a wheelchair.” — Ronnie Scheib, Vari- Dancescapes: A character of street-art painted by producer: Kipjaz Savoie; production company: The Jérôme Mesnager is dancing and run- himself as someone who likes his Ger- Art Kaleidoscope Foundation; cast: Leslie Close, ety. A Landscape man sausage and doesn’t like anything Janet Fish, Mark Greenwold, Philip Glass, Arne ning on the walls of Paris. new. They travel to Berlin to visit some Glimcher, Alex Katz, Klaus Kertess, Brice Marden, of Movement Nora Elizabeth Murray Robert Rauschenberg, Dorothea The Country Teacher of their children, who are too impatiently SAT, APR 4 • 11:00 AM (100 MIN) WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Experimental • USA, Rockburne, Lucas Samara, Kiki Smith, Robert (Venkovský Uèitel) wrapped up in kids and careers, in their Storr, Kirk Varnedoe, Joe Zucker Play Circle ORDER CODE: DANCE04 , Mozambique, 2008, color, digital video • 35 MIN own things, to extend much of a wel- SUN, APR 5 • 11:00 AM TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 100 MIN SERIES: Film·Able: Disabilities on Screen Director: Alla Kovgan, David Hinton come to their parents. It’s at this point Presented with UW Department of Rehabilitation Orpheum Main ORDER CODE: COUNT05 Award-winning dance films from Writer: Alla Kovgan, David Hinton, Nora Chipaumire; Psychology and Special Education. that the film is transformed: it’s Trudy WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • Czech Republic, around the world, use gesture, move- cinematographer: Mkrtich Malkhasyan; editor: Alla who dies, leaving Rudi surprisingly The details of creating a massive por- France, Germany, 2008, color, 35mm • 113 MIN ment and rhythm to create narrative. Kovgan; original score: Thomas Mapfumo; bewildered. Comprehending what a loss trait painting are exquisitely rendered Director: Bohdan Sláma This program of films was selected for choreographer: Nora Chipaumire; producer: Joan this is, Rudi vows to honor her long- Writer: Bohdan Sláma; director of photography: Frosch; production company: Movement Revolution on screen in this documentary of famed the Festival by UW-Milwaukee MFA Productions; performers: Nora Chipaumire, standing desire to travel to to see painter Chuck Close. His best-known Diviš Marek; cinematographer: Martin Špelda; editor: Jan Danhel; music composer: Vladimír student Jessica Vokoun. Souleymane Badolo their expatriate son. It is revealed that works are very technique-driven, and Godár; production designer: Václav Novák, Petr Mysteries of Nature Nora is based on true stories of the Trudi admired Butoh, a kind of modern this film captures the process very effec- Pištek; costume designer: Zuzana Krejzková; WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Experimental • South dancer Nora Chipaumire, who was born expressionist dance movement. Rudi tively. First is the photo session of his makeup artist: Veronika Riehs; producer: Pavel Korea, 2008, color, digital video • 10 MIN in Zimbabwe in 1965. In the film, Nora takes the trip to Japan, during Hanami subject. Then a grid of squares is laid Strnad, Petr Oukropec, Karl Baumgartner, Thanassis Karathanos; production manager: Pavel Cechák; Director: Dahci Ma returns to the landscape of her child- (“cherry blossom watching”). Under the over the photo, each square to be trans- cast: Pavel Liška, Zuzana Bydžovská, Ladislav “Torn into bits and gone with the wind.” hood and takes a journey through some pink blossoms, with the lingering grief ferred to the full-size canvas. But Close, Šedivý, Marek Daniel, Tereza Voríšková, Miloš 2009 Jury Prize Winner, Dance on Cam- vivid memories of her youth. Using per- and disconnection of the foreign place, who relies on aides since a spinal injury Cernoušek, Zuzana Kronerová, Miroslav Krobot, era Festival. formance and dance, she brings her his- he discovers Butoh. Culminating with 20 years ago, resists a strict realism in Zdena Kucerová, Miloslav Vokatý, Jaroslav Vlcek, František Prošek, Josef Prošek, Anna Vladyková, Horizon of Exile tory to life in a swiftly-moving poem a pilgrimage to the iconic fog-shrouded recreating the photographic images. As Pavel Vladyka WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Experimental • United of sound and image. Shot entirely on Mount Fuji, Cherry Blossoms is a his brush hits the canvas he fills each IN CZECH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Kingdom, Spain, 2007, color, digital video • location in Southern Africa, Nora poignant celebration of beauty, new square with odd colored marks: utterly SERIES: The Cream and the Crop: Farming and 22 MIN includes a multitude of local perform- beginnings, and the ultimate metaphor mystifying close up; brilliantly forming the Land on : Isabel Rocamora ers and dancers of all ages, from young for the impermanence of life. Winner, a recognizable face from a distance. Presented with UW Center for European Studies. Presented with UW Center for European Studies. schoolchildren to ancient grandmoth- Best Film, 2008 Seattle Film Festival; “[Director] Cajori signally refuses to “Looking for love is a never-ending bat- A journey of two women across time- ers, and much of the music is specially Outstanding Feature Film and Best ascribe to a one-way artistic progression tle which defines and forms man, an less desert landscapes is punctuated by composed by a legend of Zimbabwean Actor, 2008 German Film Awards. in Close’s career output — often revis- essence within every story, and unre- voice testimonies of Iraqi exiles. Set to music, Thomas Mapfumo. 9 Daytime Drinking (Not Sool)

Eldorado Eleven Minutes Empty Nest (El Nido Vacio) hangover, get back to Seoul, and end his daughter live in a shack that barely has Earth Day, and to its status as a major drunken odyssey. 2008 Toronto Film a roof, struggling to get by. Camelia is a political force in America. Drawing heav- Festival. tough cookie, and is determined to per- ily on eyewitness testimony and a wealth severe. But Andrea is tired of being poor, of never-before-seen archival footage, Dirty Pictures and longs for some independence. She Stone examines the revolutionary SEE: Jim’s Experimental Shorts must be there to push her mother in the achievements — and missed opportu- child’s stroller, to fix her hair, even carry nities — of a decade of groundbreaking Dolls / her up the steep rock path that leads activism. The result is both a poetic med- + Jumate / Jumate to their hut. This extraordinary story itation on man’s complex relationship combines the exotic theatricality of with nature and a probing analysis of FRI, APR 3 • 7:00 PM Barcelona’s street scene with the diffi- past responses to environmental cri- Bartell Theatre ORDER CODE: DOLLS03 culties of being immigrants. sis. The interviewees represent a diverse TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 90 MIN cross section of American life and pol- dot com itics. Among them are former Secretary Dolls: A Woman From SEE: Shorts: Animations Damascus of the Interior Stewart Udall, renewable energy pioneer Hunter Lovins, biolo- NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE • Documentary • , Dry Rain gist Paul Ehrlich, former Republican Denmark, 2008, color, digital video • 53 MIN SEE: Shorts: Sun @ Cinematheque when imperfect, is always worth the ride. Director: Diana El Jeiroudi congressman Pete McCloskey, Earth Day Winner of more than 12 Audience Production company: Proaction Film and Final Cut organizer Denis Hayes, and Nine Choice awards at film festivals. Film Productions astronaut Rusty Schweickart. Each IN ARABIC WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES reflects on their personal awakening to Daytime Drinking SERIES: Inside Islam an environmental crisis, and the MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 (Not Sool) Presented with the UW Inside Islam Project. unprecedented movement that grew out www.wifilmfest.org In a traditional Damascus household, of their response to that crisis. Mark SUN, APR 5 • 3:15 PM Manal is expected to cherish her excel- Samels, executive producer for this film Darius Goes West Wis Union Theatre ORDER CODE: DAYTI05 lence as a housewife. Still, she holds a for PBS’ “American Experience,” is also MIDWEST PREMIERE • Narrative • South Korea, personal goal of returning to work full- a UW-Madison graduate. THU, APR 2 • 5:00 PM 2008, color, 35mm • 116 MIN time in an office. Her two precocious Monona Terrace ORDER CODE: DARIU02 Director: Young-Seok Noh daughters are filling her time for now, The Earth’s Extent and the WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, Writer, producer, music, cinematographer, film Sky’s Depth editor: Young-Seok Noh; producer: Moon Hay-sook; and both of them are absorbed by the 2007, color, digital video • 92 MIN constant advertising images of Fulla on SEE: Shorts: Sunday @ Bartell Director: Logan Smalley cast: Sam-dong Song, Sang-yeup Yuk, Kang-hee Kim, Sueng-jun Tak, Lan-hee Lee, Un-seop Sin, children’s TV. Fulla is the ideal Arab Cinematographer: John Hadden, Dylan Wilson; still L’Éblouissement Soo-an Yoon, Seung-yeon Lee Muslim ‘Barbie’ doll, a virgin, decent, photography: Kevin Wier; sound: Jason Hees IN KOREAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES SEE: Atelier K SERIES: Film·Able: Disabilities on Screen covered, who is raised up to become a SERIES: Focus on South Korea respectful, obedient wife, and to live the Presented with UW Department of Rehabilitation Presented with UW Center for East Asian Stud- Ecstatic Vessels Psychology and Special Education. ies. grace of family’s and society’s approval. SEE: Shorts: Sat @ Cinematheque Plus, she gets to carry her prayer rug in Meet 15-year-old Darius Weems from This debut film introduces a filmmaker a hot-pink sparkly bag. The complexity Athens, Ga. He was born with Duchenne with a natural, impeccable sense of of Damascene society traditions are Eldorado Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), the most comic timing. Okay, maybe not every Earth Days revealed as Manal’s family discourages SAT, APR 4 • 11:00 AM common fatal genetic disorder to affect scene is in focus, but let’ s forgive: film- her from pursuing her dream. Orpheum Main ORDER CODE: ELDOR04 children worldwide. His older brother maker Young-seok Noh wrote, filmed, Mario passed away from the same dis- Jumate / Jumate Earth Days WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • , editing, and directed the entire film. And France, 2008, color, 35mm • 80 MIN ease at age 19. Soon after, Darius lost wrote the music. After breaking up with NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE • Documentary THU, APR 2 • 9:15 PM • Spain, 2007, color, digital video • 35 MIN Director: Bouli Lanners use of the muscles in his legs and had his girlfriend, Hyuk-jin hits a bar in Wis Union Theatre ORDER CODE: EARTH02 Director: Diogo Costa Amarante Writer: Bouli Lanners; cinematographer: Jean-Paul to begin using a wheelchair. A group Seoul with his friends. They decide to MIDWEST PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, 2009, De Zaeytijd; editor: Ewin Ryckaert; sound engineer: of Darius’s friends decided there was no Director of photography: Rinio Dragasaki, Diogo color, digital video • 100 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A Olivier Hespel; set designer: Paul Rouschop; take a trip to a festival in the Korean Costa Amarante; editor: Diogo Costa Amarante; need for his quality of life to disintegrate Director: Robert Stone costumes: Elise Ancion; producer: Jacques-Henri; countryside to console Hyuk-jin’s bro- music: Amad Araújo; sound: Paloma García; co-producer: Jérôme Vidal, Lazennec & Associates; along with his muscles. In the summer production company: Esac; producer: Dalia Reyes, Writer, producer: Robert Stone; cinematographer: ken heart. Totally drunk, they plan to Howard Shack; editor: Don Kleszy; sound design: production manager: Philippe Groff; cast: Bouli of 2005, they rented a wheelchair-acces- rendezvous at the village the next day. Rinio Dragasaki, Paloma García; cast: Camelia Lanners, Fabrice Adde, , Didier Virginia Miron, Andrea Nikolai Alexandra Coll Anderson; music: Michael Giacchino; executive sible RV and took Darius, who had never However, when Hyuk-Jin gets off the producer: Mark Samels; line producer: Hazel Toupy, Françoise Chichéry, Stefan Liberski, Baptiste IN SPANISH, ROMANIAN WITH ENGLISH Gurland Isaïa, Jean-Jacques Rausin, Renaud Rutten, Jean- seen mountains, the ocean, or even bus in Jeongseon, he finds out he’s the SUBTITLES Luc Meekers crossed the Georgia state line, on the only one that made the trip. Over the SERIES: The Cream and the Crop: Farming and SERIES: Film·Able: Disabilities on Screen the Land on Film IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES adventure of a lifetime. The ultimate next few days, Hyuk-jin finds himself in Presented with UW Center for European Studies. Presented with UW Department of Rehabilitation Presented with the Tales from Planet Earth, goal of their 7,000-mile cross-country a series of increasingly bizarre and hilar- Psychology and Special Education. a program of The Nelson Institute Center for “Small but damn-near perfectly formed,” journey was to reach Los Angeles and ious situations, most of them aided by Camelia grew up in her father’s travel- Culture, History, and Environment. (Variety), this road trip through the flat convince MTV’s hit show “Pimp My the fact that, due to his respect for the ing circus, back in Romania. Now she Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. Walloonian countryside mismatches two Ride” to customize Darius’s wheelchair. etiquette of Korean drinking culture, works as a street busker in Barcelona, Acclaimed director (and UW-Madison unlikely travelers. Yvan is a quick-tem- Along the way, they evaluated wheel- Hyuk-jin finds it difficult to refuse a having been indentured to bosses that graduate) Robert Stone traces the ori- pered rotund, 40-year-old dealer in vin- chair accessibility in America, celebrated drink when someone offers him one. traffick in such things. Camelia is a lit- gins of the modern environmental move- tage cars. He comes home to find a bur- the 15th anniversary of the Americans With his friends still saying they’ll come, tle person, dressed as the Queen from ment through the eyes of nine Ameri- glar hiding under his bed, too scared to With Disabilities Act and raised aware- but not showing up, and his wallet gone, Alice in Wonderland, flipping cards from cans who propelled the movement from come out. After a comically absurd con- WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 • WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • APRIL 2-5, 2009 WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • MADISON FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN ness of DMD. They also found joy, broth- Hyuk-jin has to figure out how get out her sidewalk perch to get a few coins its beginnings in the 1950s to its moment versation with Yvan guarding the door 10 erhood and the knowledge that life, even of what must surely be the world’s worst from the tourists. She and her grown of triumph in 1970 with the original and the plainly ineffectual Elie still cow- Food, Inc. Jumate / Jumate Fear Me Not (Den du Frygter) ering under the bed, they strike a deal. Henry is one of London’s foremost brain brother-in-law Frederik a doctor manag- ful bacteria that causes illness for an esti- Yvan doesn’t call the cops, and agrees to Empty Nest (El Nido Vacio) surgeons, but despite being a pioneer in ing the trials of a new experimental drug. mated 73,000 Americans annually. We drive Elie back to his parents place, on SAT, APR 4 • 6:00 PM his field he stills rides an old pushbike to Mikael signs up to participate in the trial, are riddled with widespread obesity, par- the French border. Thus begins the jour- Majestic Theatre ORDER CODE: EMPTY04 work and worries about the damage he and the results are soon evident. He feels ticularly among children, and an epi- ney (rather short, by American roadtrip MIDWEST PREMIERE • Narrative • Argentina, Spain, can inflict on his patients. “When push terrific. He also withdraws a little, con- demic level of diabetes among adults. standards) that unspools a series of odd- France, Italy, 2008, color, 35mm • 91 MIN comes to shove we can afford to lose an fusing his family who don’t quite recog- Featuring interviews with such experts ball events where the flat Walloonian Director: arm or a leg, but I am operating on peo- nize him. Escalating the psychological as (Fast Food Nation), landscape and the beat-up Chevy are Writer: Daniel Burman; cinematography: Hugo ple’s thoughts and feelings...and if some- tension is the uncertainty about whether Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilem- Colace; editor: Alejandro Brodersohn; music: Nico always key. Ranging from clever to Cota, Santiago Rios; costumes: Roberta Pesci; thing goes wrong I can destroy that per- the drugs are causing changes in Mikael’s ma) along with forward thinking social melancholy, Eldorado bears similarities producer: Daniel Burman, Diego Dubcovsky; co- son’s character… forever.” Driven by the behavior, or whether he just thinks that entrepreneurs like Stonyfield Farms’ Gary to (WFF06), another mismatched producer: José María Morales, Marc Sillam, Amadeo need to help others where he can, Henry they are having an effect on him. Either Hirschberg and Polyface Farms’ Joe Belgian road trip where the directors Pagani; production company: BD Cine, Wanda has been going out to Kiev for over 15 years way, it’s maddening. Fear Me Not marks Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising Vision, Classic, Paradis; cast: Oscar Martínez, played the lead characters. Winner, Best Cecilia Roth, Arturo Goetz, Inés Efron, Eugenia to help improve upon the medieval brain the sixth year in a row that the Wiscon- truths about what we eat, how it’s pro- European Film, Director’s Fortnight, Capizzano, Osmar Nuñez, Ron Ritcher, Carlos surgery he witnessed there during his first sin Film Festival has presented a film writ- duced, who we have become as a nation, 2008 ; 2008 War- Bermejo, Jean Pierre Noher visit in 1992. Today the patients see him ten by Danish screenwriter/director and where we are going from here. saw, London, Thessaloniki film festivals. IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES as the great savior from the West, desper- Anders Thomas Jensen. Starting with The Cultured, prosperous, blessed with three ate parents want him to save their child, Green Butchers in 2004, with Anders him- Football Under Cover children and many friends, Leonardo and and his Ukrainian colleague Igor Kurilets Eleven Minutes self attended the Festival, audiences have FRI, APR 3 • 5:00 PM Martha are a truly enviable example of a sees him as a guru and a benefactor. But enjoyed his dark stories. Fear Me Not stars THU, APR 2 • 9:15 PM Orpheum Main ORDER CODE: FOOTB03 married couple. Leonardo is an author of for all the direct satisfaction he gets from Ulrich Thompson, a remarkable and ver- Monona Terrace ORDER CODE: ELEVE02 considerable repute; Martha, an energetic going, Henry also sees grossly misdiag- satile actor who also starred in two of our WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • Germany, SUN, APR 5 • 5:30 PM housewife with academic interests. But nosed patients, children who he can’t save, 2008, color, 35mm • 86 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A Audience Award-winning films, Brothers Director: Ayat Najafi, David Assmann Monona Terrace ORDER CODE: ELEVE05 they both begin to question their happi- and a lack of equipment and trained sup- and Adam’s Apples (both also written by Director of photography: Anne Misselwitz, Niclas WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, ness when Julia, their youngest, marries porting staff. It is this dilemma however, Jensen). It’s a small country, but they make Reed Middleton; editor: Sylke Rohrlach; com- 2008, color, digital video • 103 MIN and leaves Buenos Aires. The house is a dilemma of his own making that is big movies. missioning editor: Dagmar Mielke, Jens

Director: Michael Selditch, Robert Tate empty, the children scattered all over the what’s so interesting about Henry, what Stubenrauch; sound: Hanna Weißgerber; sound, WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM Camera: Alex Wolfe, Rob Tate, Michael Selditch; world. For Leonardo and Martha, there lets his troubled and compassionate Fishin’ for Tradition: 2nd unit: Antje Volkmann; art design: Valerie editor: Rob Tate; producer: Michael Selditch, Rob are no more excuses for not addressing humanity through, and what is the uni- The Lutefisk Saga Assmann; producer: Patrick Merkle, Roshanak Tate; field producer: Alex Wolfe; production Behesht Nedjad, Helge Albers; co-producer: company: Maximum Vacuum, Ostrow & Company, all those little grievances and annoyances versal theme at the centre of the film; the SEE: Shorts: Fri @ Monona Terrace Corinna and Marlene Assmann Zero Point Zero Productions; cast: Jay McCarroll, that have piled up over the years. Martha struggle to do good things in a selfish and IN GERMAN, ENGLISH, FARSI WITH ENGLISH Kelly Cutrone, Nancy Kane, Carson Kressley, Jason seeks release by going back to the univer- flawed world. Winner, Best International Food, Inc. SUBTITLES Low, Omahyra, Michael Rucker, Ève Salvail, Michael sity and surrounding herself with people. Feature Documentary, 2008 HotDocs SERIES: Inside Islam. Presented with the UW Selditch, George Whipple III Leonardo takes refuge in fantasies touched and SilverDocs festivals. FRI, APR 3 • 9:45 PM Inside Islam Project; UW Language Institute; Designer Jay McCarroll is creating his with magic realism — not everything he Orpheum Main ORDER CODE: FOODI03 UW Center for European Studies. Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. first collection, destined as an independ- sees is real. With strong performances L’Entrevue (The Job Interview) WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, ent runway show at New York’s Fashion from Cecilia Roth (All About My Mother) SEE: Atelier K 2008, color, 35mm • 93 MIN A German young women’s club soccer Director: Robert Kenner teams learns that the Iranian National Week in Bryant Park. The goal of this and Oscar Martinez and directed by The Farmhouse documentary was to focus on the work Daniel Burman (Family Law, WFF07; Cinematographer: Richard Pearce; editors: Kim Women’s Team (yes, there is one) has SEE: The Lie of the Land Roberts; music: Mark Adler; executive producer: — the daily trials of designing a line of , WFF05), “Empty Nest is a never played against another team, that William Pohlad, Robin Schorr, Jeff Skoll, Diane it is only permitted for them to train clothing, putting together a fashion very mature, intensely emotional and Fate Scores Weyermann; producer: Robert Kenner, Elise show, and selling the line to stores. All Pearlstein; co-producer: Eric Schlosser, Richard indoors, and that even women are not heartfelt story about any parents or fathers SEE: Shorts: Sunday @ Chazen this is told through the eyes of the artic- who project themselves into the time after Pearce, Melissa Robledo; cast: Michael Pollan, allowed to watch them in the stadium. Eric Schlosser, Gary Hirshberg, Joel Salatin ulate and entertaining Jay McCarroll, the children are gone… In its intelligent, Many of the women on BSV AL-Dersim- SERIES: The Cream and the Crop: Farming and the whose experience exposes us not only witty, and profound dialogue, it clearly Fear Me Not (Den du Frygter) por in Kreuzberg, Germany, are them- Land on Film. selves Muslim, but they still can’t imag- to the inner workings of the fashion resembles the best work of , SUN, APR 5 • 6:00 PM Presented with the UW Center for Integrated Agri- industry and his love/hate relationship but it is an absolutely accomplished and Wis Union Theatre ORDER CODE: FEARM05 cultural Systems; Tales from Planet Earth, a pro- ine what it is like to play soccer wearing to it, but the creative process in general. unique work and a masterpiece in its own WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • Denmark, gram of The Nelson Institute Center for Culture, a headscarf. They dedicate themselves to It’s also a study in , right.” — Bavaria Film International. 2008 2008, color, digital video • 95 MIN History, and Environment. getting to to play a friendly match. where Jay’s fame began as a winner on Toronto, Rio de Janeiro, San Sebastián, Director: Kristian Levring In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner In a film as much about red-tape bureau- “.” Much of the filmmak- São Paulo festivals. Writer: Kristian Levring, Anders Thomas Jensen; lifts the veil on our nation’s food indus- cracies both East and West as it is about director of photography: Jens Schlosser; editor: try, exposing the highly mechanized the sport — long-sleeved shirts are ing team first worked on an hour-long Pernille Bech Christensen; sound engineer: Mick piece about Jay, after he won. In Eleven The English Surgeon Raaschou; production designer: Jette Lehmann; underbelly that’s been hidden from the required, but since it is summer in Iran Minutes, Jay works to convert his TV FRI, APR 3 • 9:30 PM producer: Sisse Graum Jørgensen; production American consumer with the consent of none of the shops have them — we learn successes into real credibility in the fash- company: Zentropa Productions; cast: Ulrich our government’s regulatory agencies, the stories of several of the players. Cul- Stage Door Theatre ORDER CODE: ENGLI03 Thomsen, Lars Brygmann, Bjarne Henriksen, Emma ion industry — not surprisingly, a hard Sehsted Høeg, Paprika Steen, Stine Stengade, USDA and FDA. Our nation’s food sup- minating at the stadium filled with cheer- thing to do. “Evincing a likeable mix of SUN, APR 5 • 7:45 PM Bodil Udsen ply is now controlled by a handful of cor- ing women while the male German nervous vulnerability and youthful arro- Stage Door Theatre ORDER CODE: ENGLI05 IN DANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES porations that often put profit ahead of coaches, not allowed inside, pace outside gance, the designer proves to be a com- MIDWEST PREMIERE • Documentary • United Presented with UW Center for European Studies. consumer health, the livelihood of the like expectant fathers, Football Under pelling guide for this frank, funny tour Kingdom, 2008, color, 35mm • 93 MIN Mikael and Sigrid are a successful mar- American farmer, the safety of workers Cover shows us that the desire for self- of the fashion world.” — Jason Ander- Director: Geoffrey Smith ried couple, with a fantastic house on a and our own environment. We have big- determination and equality is here, and Director of photography: Graham Day; editor: Kathy that change is possible. Winner, Teddy son, Eye Weekly. O’Shea; executive producer: Greg Sanderson, Nick lake and a lovely teenage daughter. ger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork Fraser, Sally Jo Fifer; producer: Geoffrey Smith; Mikael’s a tightly wound workaholic, and chop, insecticide-resistant soybean seeds, and Audience Award, Berlin Film Festi- Emanations co-producer: Rachel Wexler; production company: can’t quite figure out how to relax. He even tomatoes that won’t go bad, but we val; winner, Freedom Award, L.A. Out- SEE: Shorts: Sunday @ Bartell Eyeline Films, Bungalow Town takes up rowing on the lake with his also have new strains of e. coli, the harm- fest; 2008 Tribeca, Silverdocs festivals. 11 Goodbye Solo The Greening of Southie extremely hellish. There’s a grittiness advisor: Howard Zinn; archival researcher: Polly with nonprofessional actors. Played by and deliberate artlessness to the film Ghajini Pettit, Lewanne Jones Souléymane Sy Savané, Solo is based on reminiscent of the DIY look and style SAT, APR 4 • 10:30 PM SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own a cab driver that Bahrani met in his home Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. and skewed world view of early punk Orpheum Main ORDER CODE: GHAJI04 town of Winston-Salem. Savané, who is The Good Soldier follows the lives of five films. Rather than an industry calling Narrative • , 2008, color, 35mm • 183 MIN from Senegal, says: “In my country, there card, the film really feels like a highly Director: A.R. Murugadoss men of different generations, from enlist- is an old saying: ‘an elder that dies is like MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 ment to combat to the aftermath of war. www.wifilmfest.org eccentric labor of love. Bronstein has Writer: A.R. Murugadoss; cinematographers: Ravi a library that burns.’ When I moved to described Frownland as “an overripe K. Chandran; editors: Anthony; original music: A.R. The passage from civilian to soldier goes America I was always shocked by West- tomato lobbed with spazmo inaccuracy Rahman; art directors: Samir Chanda; costume quickly as the men undergo basic train- ern culture’s lack of interest in the elderly. designers: Arjun Bhasin; producer:; producer: Allu ing and march off to war, whether it is at the spotless surface of the silver screen Aravind, Madhu B, Madhu Mantena Varma; co- In Africa, we would never abandon an and a mad valentine to the craggy tra- producer: Allu Sirish; line producer: Harish Amin; 1944, 1966, 1991, or 2003. Once in coun- elder like William, stranger or not.” dition of unadulterated cheapo-inde- cast: Aamir Khan, Asin, Tinnu Anand, Vibha try, the veterans tell of their alien sur- “Bahrani is a filmmaker with a specific Chhibber, Sunil Grover, Jiah Khan, Riyaz Khan, roundings, their connection to their com- pendent expression.” The New York Anjum Rajabali vision for the kinds of films he wants to Times calls Frownland “personal cin- rades, and the ghastliness of their real- create, and he excels at making decep- IN HINDI WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES ity. Some were wounded, some lost their ema at its most uncompromising and tively minimalist, character-focused films; Presented with the UW Center for South Asia buddies, some lost their sanity as they fierce.” Winner of a Special Jury Award he’s a firm believer in simplicity in film- “For those who thought Memento would tried to quench their intense thirst for at 2007 SXSW Film Festival. have been a better movie with a few making, and doesn’t rely on tricksy con- revenge by killing the enemy and killing ceits, convoluted plots, or funky camera more songs and a lot more ass-kick- civilians. Smartly edited by Sikay Tang, angles to make his point.… the emotions Full Battle Rattle ing, writer-director A.R. Murugadoss these stories are accessible, engaging, and he evokes with his latest effort are stronger SAT, APR 4 • 11:00 AM offers Ghajini, an exuberantly excessive honest. One of the main soldiers inter- and more compelling, and this is my Wis Union Theatre ORDER CODE: FULLB04 and unreasonably entertaining mash- viewed is Staff Sargeant Will Williams, favorite of his films to date.” — Kim Voy- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, up of musical-comedy romance, action- a 2nd Battalion vet of Vietnam, who lives nar, Cinematical. Winner, FIPRESCI 2008, color, digital video • 85 MIN movie mayhem and psycho-thriller sus- in De Forest, Wis. and is now active in Prize, Venice Film Festival. Director: Tony Gerber, Jesse Moss pense. Even auds accustomed to the any- the Madison Area Peace Coalition. Cinematography: Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss; thing-goes outrageousness of many Bol- Williams says: “Peace is the only thing editor: Alex Hall, Pax Wassermann; original music: lywood multi-genre masalas may be left that will save this earth. Peace and jus- Grain in Ear (Mang Zhong) Paul Brill; executive producer: Britton Fisher, Pascal slack-jawed and breathless after expe- Demko; producer: Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss; tice. The ‘greatest generation’ is yet to SUN, APR 5 • 1:30 PM co-producer: Tamas Bojtor; associate producer: riencing this singularly wild ride.” — Joe come. It won’t be the World War II vets, Majestic Theatre ORDER CODE: GRAIN05 Natalie Chavoya Leydon, Variety. Aamir Khan (Rang de but it’ll be the people who take away all Narrative • China, South Korea, 2005, color, IN ENGLISH, ARABIC WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Basanti, WFF07) stars as Sanjay, the the reasons behind us going to war. 35mm • 110 MIN Ghajini SERIES: Inside Islam rich and popular owner of a telecom- Director: Zhang Lu Presented with the UW Inside Islam Project. munications company. With storylines Goodbye Solo Writer: Zhang Lu; editor: Kim Sun-Min; cinema- Plagued by political assassinations and layered over each other, the story tographer: Liu Yong Hong; producer: Choi Doo- Free Lunch an organized insurgency, the U.S. Army’s unfolds. With a shaved head and notes THU, APR 2 • 9:45 PM Young, Guan Qin, Liu Yonghong, Gao Hongnu; Cast: Stage Door ORDER CODE: GOODB02 Liu Lian Ji, Jin Bo, Zhu Guangxuan, Wang Tong- SEE: Shorts: Sun @ Cinematheque occupation of tiny Iraqi village Med- scrawled across his very, very buff six- Hui ina Wasl is a borderline disaster. Fortu- pack, Sanjay has lost his memory and is FRI, APR 3 • 5:15 PM IN KOREAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Frownland nately, these soldiers will get a second desperately trying to piece things Stage Door ORDER CODE: GOODB03 SERIES: Focus on South Korea chance at bringing the peace: Median together: all he knows is that he wants WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • USA, 2008, Presented with UW Center for East Asian Stud- THU, APR 2 • 8:30 PM Wasl is part of a military training com- to kill someone named Ghajini. A young color, 35mm • 91 MIN ies. UW Cinematheque ORDER CODE: FROWN02 pound located deep in the Mojave medical student learns of Sanjay’s case, Director: Ramin Bahrani Cui sells homemade kimchee from an ille- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • USA, 2007, Desert. Designed to give cadets an and tries to intervene to help him regain Writer: Bahareh Azimi, Ramin Bahrani; director of gal food cart in a northern Chinese indus- color, 35mm • 106 MIN immersive preview of the war experi- his memory. Flashback to Sanjay falling photography: Michael Simmonds; sound supervisor: trial town. Like many working outside the Director: Tom Efinger; production designer: Chad Keith; co- ence, the base is a functional model of for Kalpana, the snappy working-class official system (she’s of Korean ethnicity, Writer, editor: Ronald Bronstein; producer: Marc executive producer: Stephen Bannatyne; executive Raybin; camera: Sean Williams; sound: Ignacio an Iraqi town, and employs refugee actress. They meet cute when Kalpana producer: Brian Devine, Brooke Devine; executive and her husband is out of the picture in Carballo; art direction: Mary Bronstein; cast: Dore Iraqis to portray its citizens with doesn’t realize he’s a billionaire business producer: Sally Jo Fifer; producer: Jason Orans, jail), she barely scrapes by to create a home Mann, Mary Wall, Paul Grimstad, David Sandholm, tycoon and mistakes him for a wannabe Ramin Bahrani; cast: Souléymane Sy Savané, Red Method-like dedication. Like a massive West, Diana Franco Galindo, Lane ‘Roc’ Williams, for herself and her son, on a concrete hut Carmine Marino, Paul Grant role-playing game, it’s all heavily orches- actor. Ricocheting between this ultra- Mamadou Lam, Darmen Leyva; director of by the railroad tracks. The local police- Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. trated, with elaborate backstories and syrupy, stylish romance and Sanjay’s photography: Taylor Gentry man takes a fancy to her, as do other men One of the most idiosyncratic American shocking plot twists, but the specter of deeply disturbing quest for revenge, this Solo is a Senegalese taxi driver in Win- who stop to buy her pickled vegetables. indie films of the past year, Ronald Bron- deployment looms large. At once a front- film is indeed a wild ride. The perfect ston-Salem, N.C. One day he picks up a “Director Zhang Lu uses all the tools of stein’s Frownland — the title comes from line combat doc and behind-the-scenes date movie! Includes short intermission. fare: a tough old codger who also hires minimalist filmmaking — long, static a Captain Beefheart song — is a disturb- glimpse at one of the oddest theatrical Ghost Conversations Solo for a specific trip happening in two scenes alternated with occasional, lyrical ing character study of a dysfunctional productions going, Full Battle Rattle weeks. Gregarious, generous, and hard to tracking shots, little dialogue, allusive sto- young man named Keith Sontag (Dore portrays a “big expensive Laser Tag SEE: Shorts: Animations ignore, Solo tries to get the prickly William rytelling — and adds welcome humor. Mann), who just happens to resemble game” with impossibly high stakes. “An to open up. He’s worried that something The characters are clearly defined by their David Berkowitz, the notorious Son of indelible vision of modern war… freaky, The Good Soldier is wrong, for it seems like Williams has actions, and it’s difficult not to fall in love Sam. Keith is more or less harmless, but amusing and sickening in equal meas- FRI, APR 3 • 9:00 PM no friends or family. He takes William with Cui and her little boy. Cui is strug- with his overly baggy clothes, grimac- ures.” — David Edelstein, New York. Spe- Bartell Theatre ORDER CODE: GOODS03 home to meet his wife and daughter, but gling to maintain her ethnic identity. She ing facial tics, and obsessive-compul- cial Jury Award, 2008 SXSW Film Fes- SPECIAL PRESENTATION PREMIERE • Documentary after an argument at home Solo moves is presented as a woman with a past, but sive gestures, he seems to be a walking tival. • USA, 2008, color, digital video • 80 MIN into William’s motel room, and the two her personal history is only hinted at.... time bomb. Shot on 16mm, Frownland Director: Lexy Lovell, Michael Uys men continue their unlikely friendship. Other characters are sharply drawn, either

WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 • WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • APRIL 2-5, 2009 WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • MADISON FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN has the overall feel and texture of an The Garden Director of photography: Sam Henriques; editor: Bahrani has made beautiful films (Chop with sympathy — as with the prostitutes 12 underground comic — dark and SEE: Shorts: Sunday @ Bartell Sikay Tang; producer: Lexy Lovell, Michael Uys; Shop, WFF08; Man Push Cart, WFF07) next door, who range from petty selfish- Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 Handmade Nation In A Dream ness to wistful desperation — or scorn — threatens the old moral order. On the surely be possible with such a unique Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. as with the hen-pecked Korean husband Handmade Nation campus of America’s oldest private col- feature. Although physiologically it does- On the shores of Lake Koshkonong, near or the Chinese policeman resisting the FRI, APR 3 • 5:00 PM lege, a ’68 Harvard Crimson football n’t feel right to say these wings have a Fort Atkinson, lived Lorine Neidecker limitations of his impending marriage. Play Circle ORDER CODE: HANDM03 team that had been written off by its mind of their own, they do cause the man a poet who wrote concise, economical The picture never wallows in pity. It’s filled SAT, APR 4 • 8:45 PM own coaches in the preseason has gone to do good acts against his will. Mostly verses about nature. Already the sub- with disarming warmth toward Cui and Play Circle ORDER CODE: HANDM04 undefeated. Player interviews reveal the set in the dank saloon where he spends ject of a film (My Life By Water, her son, and even acknowledges the pres- Harvard team’s unique combination of his time lusting after the barkeeper’s wife, MADISON PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, WFF04), Niedecker’s life and work is sures that fall upon those heinous men 2009, color, digital video • 65 MIN working and middle-class athletes, the film assuredly keeps an arm’s length explored in this inventive documentary. who makes their lives so difficult. Highly Director: Faythe Levine vehemently antiwar SDS members, from any whiff of redemption or salva- The birds in the marshes, the wind in recommended.” — Peter Martin, Twitch. Director of photography: Micaela O’Herlihy; ROTC candidates, and a decorated tion. Plympton draws each animation the trees are the material from which additional camera & sound: Andrew Rosas; editor: young Marine Corps combat hero all cell by hand and had set up a webcam she drew inspiration, producing her best Cris Siqueira; assistant editor: Joe Wong, Billy setting aside politics and ideology to over his desk during production so view- work in the 1960s. The natural world Terrill, Chris Thompson; producer: Faythe Levine; assistant producer: Pat Buckley, Cortney Heimerl triumph on the gridiron. On Yale’s ers around the world could watch him also forms these film, in which Wiscon- Today’s crafters are a completely new serene New Haven campus, the athlet- sketch. Winner, Best Feature Film, 2008 sin native (now living in Maryland) breed. Not content to merely cross-stitch ically impeccable, socially elite Yale team Cinanima; 2008 Tribeca, Athens, Mar Cathy Cook combines sounds, archival sofa pillows (although that’s still fun), enjoyed a parallel undefeated season. del Plata film festivals. footage, poetry on screen, and other they are embracing new media, new Quarterback Brian Dowling’s (BD) cam- impressionistic touches. Winner, 2009 inventiveness, and new markets. The pus-wide celebrity was targeted in Garry Illegal Use of Joe Zopp Wisconsin’s Own Jury Award. DIY movement has been chronicled by Trudeau’s cartoons. A Yale fullback SAT, APR 4 • 11:00 PM recalls dating a shy Vassar undergrad Milwaukeans Faythe Levine and Cort- Play Circle ORDER CODE: ILLEGA04 In A Dream ney Heimerl in a book called Handmade named . His teammate Idiots and Angels remembers roomie George W. Bush, MADISON PREMIERE • Narrative • USA, 2008, FRI, APR 3 • 5:00 PM Nation, and their new documentary color, digital video • 110 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A Wis Union Theatre ORDER CODE: INADR03 brings us into the workshops of crafters while Harvard lineman and future Director: Sarah Rykal Oscar winner Tommy Lee Jones talks WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, across the country. First-time director Writer: Sarah Rykal; writer, editor, producer: Nick 2008, color, digital video • 78 MIN The Greening of about his campus roommate Al Gore. Holle; cinematographer: Colleen Lindl, Ian Lindl; Levine (crafters are always willing to Director: Jeremiah Zagar

executive producer: Paul Hogseth, Emery Skolfield; WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM Southie try something new) documents a move- Yale was heavily favored in the match, Editor: Keiko Deguchi & Jeremiah Zagar; executive and the players recount play-for-play assistant director, producer, writer: Scott Brown; SUN, APR 5 • 1:30 PM ment of artists with a punk aesthetic, producer: Seth Hedrington; co-producer: Joe Ott; producer: Ross Kauffman; executive producer: that amazing game. “Preposterously Geralyn White Dreyfous, Pamela Tanner Boll; ORDER CODE combining traditional techniques with cast: Nick Holle, Andre Egli, Corey Walton, Chris Monona Terrace : GREEN05 producer: Jeremy Yaches bold, modern twists. Aided in large part entertaining…. pulses with the artful, Schutz, Matthew Glover, Mike Cook, Donna WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, Davidson, Emerson Connelly, Lorna Anderson, Rod SERIES: Film·Able: Disabilities on Screen. 2008, color, digital video • 73 MIN + Q&A by the Internet, with sales sites like exciting beats of a thriller. What’s most surprising about this consistently sur- Brunzlick, Haley Chamberlain, Daniel Fredric, Terry Presented with the UW Department of Rehabil- Director: Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis etsy.com and buyolympia.com, and by Hedrington, Emery Rallond Skolfield, Jr, A. Jaeb, itation Psychology and Special Education. Editor: Ian Cheney; music: Force Theory; producer: community-building sites like ravelry. prising movie is how forcefully those Tim Foley, Matt Tinberg, Eric Bertrand, Jaime Curt Ellis; animation: Claire Cheney beats resonate, even though you know Helgeson In the vibrant, bohemian neighborhood com, crafters are finding new ways to of South Philadelphia, 50,000-square SERIES: The Cream and the Crop: Farming and the reach out to customers. Boutiques, how the story ends from the start.” — SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own Land on Film. Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. feet of concrete are covered with tile and gallery, craft fairs, and conferences are Manohla Dargis, New York Times. Presented with the Tales from Planet Earth, a pro- A team of filmmakers from Chippewa mirrors — mosaics that were created by gram of The Nelson Institute Center for Culture, strengthening awareness, promoting Horizon of Exile Isaiah Zagar, an eccentric, tormented History, and Environment. feminism, and developing their art. Fea- Falls and Eau Claire bring life into Ille- SEE: Dancescapes gal Use of Joe Zopp, a boisterous, foul- artist. These are sparking, gorgeous Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. turing Jenny Hart, The Little Friends of walls, rich with biographical details as Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, who knocked Printmaking, The Dirt Palace, Susan Horizontal Boundaries mouthed comedy. The convoluted plot involves young Zopp getting fed up with Isiah chronicles his love for his wife, one out of the park with King Corn Beal, Nikki McClure, Deb Dormondy, SEE: Jim’s Experimental Shorts his parents, quitting town, then meet- Julia, and subtly hint at the darker cor- (WFF07) are back with The Greening of Mandy Greer, Stephanie Syjuco, and ners of an extraordinary imagination. Southie, the story of a LEED-certified, more. Ichthyopolis ing a high-school classmate who reveals that in the five years since he left, every- Where Isaiah is obsessive and narcissis- environmentally sensitive condominium SEE: Jim’s Experimental Shorts tic — a former Peace Corps volunteer built in South Boston. Just as they did Harvard Beats Yale one thinks he’s dead. Really. Funeral and everything. Zopp can’t resist going home who has become an icon in South Philly’s in their earlier film, they succeed at 29-29 Idiots and Angels art community — Julia is gracious and explaining the techie stuff behind what to Plainwater to find out what really FRI, APR 3 • 9:00 PM SAT, APR 4 • 10:15 PM happened. Laced with racy jokes, sight warm. For decades, their opposing it means to be a Green building: essen- natures complemented one another per- Wis Union Theatre ORDER CODE: HARVA03 Wis Union Theatre ORDER CODE: IDIOT04 gags, and just plain goofiness, Zopp tially a points system where certain com- fectly. But then: a few hours before pick- ponents — getting materials from nearby WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Animated • USA, 2008, shows off the skills of a huge number of color, digital video • 78 MIN ing up his oldest son from a rehabilita- sources; using recycled parts; minimiz- 2008, color, digital video • 105 MIN contributors to this film. Director: Kevin Rafferty Director: Bill Plympton tion center, Isaiah declares to the cam- ing waste — all get scored. But the real Editor: Kevin Palmer; sound designer: Greg Sextro; era, “As people get older they have less center of this film are the construction Producer, cinematographer, film editor: Kevin Immortal Cupboard: Raffery musician: Nicole Renaud, Corey Allen Jackson, and less passion.” He then spirals into a workers on the site, all proud Union Rachelle Garniez, Hank Bones, Didier Carmier; Four decades after the game was In Search of Lorine debilitating, suicidal depression. A fas- members who scratch their heads at this producer, writer, animator: Bill Plympton; producer, decided, members of Yale University’s artist: Biljana Labovic; artist: Lisa LaBracio, Kerri cinating portrait of love and betrayal, fancy-pants system. The cabinetry made Niedecker 1968 football team continue to express Allegretta family bonds, and the intimacy of dys- of pressed wheat stalks absorbs too much SAT, APR 4 • 6:30 PM disbelief at the outcome of the season- A bawdy, twisted fable about good and function. Winner, Artistic Vision, 2009 moisture and swells. They have to replant Chazen Museum ORDER CODE: IMMOR04 ending November 22, 1968 contest evil (but mostly evil), Bill Plympton’s new Big Sky Documentary; winner, Charles the succulents on the roof. The two-but- MADISON PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, 2009, between archrivals the Yale Bulldogs animated feature imagines what hap- E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award, ton toilets? One for rinse and one for, color, b&w, digital video • 76 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A and Harvard Crimson. The Vietnam pens when a pair of wings unexpectedly 2008 Full Frame; winner, Audience well, it’s all rather comic. The Macallen Director: Cathy C. Cook War was raging. Nixon was in the White (obviously) on the back of a not-very- Award and Emerging Visions, 2008 Building was filmed over a two-year Editor, cinematographer: Cathy Cook; assistant House, both Bobby Kennedy and Mar- nice man. At first he tries to hack off the editorial director: Stefanie Koseff; cast: Julie SXSW; Best Documentary Feature, period, and there’s plenty of really quite tin Luther King, Jr. have been assassi- freakish things, but then fantasizes about Lindemann, Arthur Techlow III 2008 Woodstock Film Festival, and exquisite time-lapse photography. nated, and a new sexual permissiveness the power, fame, and money that must SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own more. 13 The Last Lullaby Jerichow relationship problems that in a more denominator action pictures Jean conventional documentary would have Claude Van Damme has just made a Jim’s Experimental been the focus. Here, Johannsen helps truly great film. No matter what crite- Shorts the rest of us get a better sense of the ria you may use to judge it — script- SUN, APR 5 • 3:45 PM powerful commitment to beauty and ing, cinematography, humour, action, UW Cinematheque ORDER CODE: JIMEX05 openness that defined the Family. even dramatic performance — JCVD is MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 100 MIN www.wifilmfest.org one remarkable piece of work. Yes, I flat It Will Die Out in the Mind out love this film…. Funny without rely- These recent experimental films and SEE: Visible Forces ing on punchlines, clever, insightful, videos utilize a wide range of subjects neatly balancing action with drama, and techniques, transforming everyday JCVD impeccably crafted and blessed with a simplicity into sublime complexity and FRI, APR 3 • 11:59 PM charismatic star willing to simply lay it forcing the viewer to reevaluate his or The Jester (Der Purimspiler) her own assumptions and viewpoints. Orpheum Main ORDER CODE: JCVDD03 all out there and let things fall where Familiar images ranging from natural Narrative • France, Luxembourg, Belgium, they may, JCVD is a revelation.” — Todd (Der Purimspiler) 2008, color, 35mm • 93 MIN Brown, Twitch. 2008 Toronto, Fantas- The Jester landscapes to hotel rooms to television Director: Mabrouk El Mechri tic Fest, Rotterdam, Mar del Plata fes- SUN, APR 5 • 1:15 PM sitcoms to the geography of the human Writer: Mabrouk El Mechri, Frederic Benudis; tivals. UW Cinematheque ORDER CODE: JESTE05 body provide the means for aesthetic cinematographer: Pierre-Yves Bastard; editor: Kako WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • Poland, 1937, contemplation, social and political analy- Kelber; sound: Philippe Kohn, Patrice Grisolet, b&w with tint, 35mm • 90 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A sis, and formal exploration. Curated by Thomas Gauder; music: Gast Waltzing; production Jerichow Director: Joseph Green & Jan Nowina- James Kreul, PhD graduate of the UW- designer: François Dickes; executive producer: THU, APR 2 • 7:15 PM Marc Fiszman, Jani Thiltgespatrick Quinet, Arlette Przybylski Madison Department of Communica- Zylberberg; producer: Sidonie Dumas; production MMOCA ORDER CODE: JERIC02 Writer: Joseph Green & Chaver-Paver (Gershon tion Arts. Viewer discretion advised. company: Gaumont / Samsa Films / Artemis SUN, APR 5 • 11:00 AM Einbinder); dialogue & lyrics: Itzik Manger; music: Productions / RTBF; cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Nicholas Brodsky; cast: Miriam Kressyn, Hymie Dirty Pictures François Damiens, Zinedine Soualem, Karim MMOCA ORDER CODE: JERIC05 Jacobson, Zygmunt Turkow, Isaac Samberg, Max WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Experimental Belkhadra WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • Germany, Bozyk; 2008 film restoration & new English • United Kingdom, 2007, digital video • 14 MIN IN FRENCH, ENGLISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES 2008, color, 35mm • 93 MIN subtitles: The National Center for Jewish Film Director: John Smith Presented with UW Center for European Studies. Director: Christian Petzold IN YIDDISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES As part of his on-going project record- Presented with the UW Arts Institute. An action-hero actor, now just tipping Writer: Christian Petzold; cinematographer: Hans ing hotel rooms around the world, Smith past his prime, has gone home to Fromm; editor: Bettina Böhler; sound: Dirk Jacob; Set in a Galician shtetl before World music: Stefan Will; production designer: Kade moves from one in Bethlehem to another JCVD Europe. He’s been working in Los Ange- War I, this musical comedy is rich with in East Jerusalem. He encounters prob- Gruber; production company: Scharmm Film itinerant performers and starcrossed les for a while now, but losing a bruis- Koerner & Weber/BR/ARTE; producer: Florian lems involving a ceiling, a video camera Insight ing custody battle to his ex has demor- Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber; cast: Benno lovers. Negotiating the romantic rapids and the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Fürmann, Nina Hoss, Hilmi Sözer are a lonely jester, a circus performer, SEE: Between the Folds alized him. Time to return to the quiet, Light is Waiting cultured life in Brussels, and nurse his IN GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES and Esther, the shoemaker’s daughter, Experimental • USA, 2007, color, digital video emotional wounds. In the city he stops Presented with UW Center for European Studies. whose poor father tries to marry her into It Takes a Cult A handsome, cash-strapped drifter, a a prominent family. The intrigue cli- • 11 MIN at a bank to get some cash, and BANG Director: Michael Robinson bored housewife, and a jealous husband, maxes with a Purim shpil (Purim play) SAT, APR 4 • 5:15 PM — A shot is fired, the hostages are taken, The girls think that carrying the living Bartell Theatre ORDER CODE: ITTAK04 the cops are called, and everyone thinks all working together in the close quar- and its parade of costumes, buffoonery, ters. It doesn’t take a crystal ball to see and music. The Jester was co-directed room television up to their room is a good SPECIAL PRESENTATION PREMIERE • Documentary that he, Jean-Claude Van Damme, did idea, but once they drop it off of the stairs • USA, 2008, color, digital video where this backwoods noir is headed, by Joseph Green and Jan Nowina-Przy- it. (WWJCVDD?) Yes, the real Jean- all bets are off. A very special episode • 80 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A Claude plays this too-close-to-be-coin- but the pleasure lies in watching it bylsk in 1937, following the great suc- of television’s “Full House” devours itself Director: Eric Johannsen cidence character, directed by a very tal- unfold so expertly. Thomas is unem- cess of their film Yiddle with His Fid- from the inside out, excavating a hyp- Producer: Eric Johannsen; editor: Kamila ented newcomer, Mabrouk El Mechri. ployed with few prospects, but a chance dle the previous year. Green who had notic nightmare of a culture lost at sea. Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. In Brussels, Van Damme is a national meeting with well-to-do Ali, a Turkish emigrated from Poland to the United Director Eric Johannsen was born in hero. Elsewhere, he is a bit of a joke, immigrant and owner of a fleet of snack States in 1924, returned to Poland with Speechless Wisconsin but grew up as part of the making genre pictures that are all mus- bars, opens up possibilities for the future. the American Yiddish theater stars (and WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Experimental • USA, Love Family, a communal tribe of as cle. The real burglars are flustered when Ali hires Thomas to be his driver and then married couple) Miriam Kressyn 2008, color, 16mm • 13 MIN many as 300 people based in Washing- they realize who he is. Everyone wants they begin to find each other useful. and Hymie Jacobson for the production. Director: Scott Stark ton State. Combining wonderful home his autograph, or to see him do a round- Transplanting the setup of James M. The Jester’s lively circus and vaudeville Following up on his interest in 3D pho- movie footage (much of it shot by his house kick — probably just what the real Cain’s hardboiled The Postman Always music and set pieces provide a glimpse tography (Angel Beach, WFF 02), Stark father, filmmaker Charles Johannsen, Van Damme gets all the time. For there Rings Twice to rural Germany, of Warsaw’s then-thriving Yiddish revues contrasts various surfaces and textures whose film Bill and Art is also playing boils up complications inside the bank writer/director Christian Petzold (Yella, and cabarets, which were destroyed soon with clinical images of human vulvae at this year’s Festival) with modern con- ad the noose tightens. Flashbacks to Van WFF08, and this film also stars Nina after. Many of the film’s Polish-Jewish taken from a Viewmaster reel that versations about what it was like to raise Damme’s time in make lib- Hoss from Yella) detonates several clever crew and actors were killed during the accompanied a medical textbook enti- kids, and to be raised, in a family eral use of real-life problems that the updates, while keeping the original’s Holocaust, giving the film’s touches of tled The Clitoris. Viewer discretion arrangement like no other. Members star had, including money trouble and smoldering tension firmly intact. A har- melancholy an even more profound advised. were given names that represented drug abuse. “That JCVD is able to show rowing commentary on the extent to reading for today’s audiences. The film Ichthyopolis admirable qualities (Humility, Noble, you a new face to its star and subject which jealousy, economics, and circum- has been restored by The National Cen- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Experimental • USA, Consolation, etc.) and shared the same at all makes it a major accomplishment. stance guide our romantic relationships, ter for Jewish Film, which has gener- 2008, digital video • 10 MIN surname: Israel. This film isn’t a repu- That it does so with such an incredible Jerichow might make you a little uneasy ously provided this print. Henry Director: Andre Silva diation of the Love Family, but an sense of style, insight, and pure enter- around your date — or hold a little Sapoznik, klezmer musician and UW A very fishy short film combining a wide insider’s view of what drew the clan tainment value makes it a revelation. tighter. Named best film of 2008 by the Artist in Residence, will introduce the range of live-action and animation tech-

WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 • WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • APRIL 2-5, 2009 WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • MADISON FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN together. The charismatic leader, Love Ladies and gentlemen, after spending German Film Critics Association. 2008 film. The film has been restored by The niques, set in a realm where high camp, 14 Israel, may have had some financial and decades turning out lowest-common- Venice and Toronto Film Festivals. National Center for Jewish Film. the absurd, and the esoteric interact. Kagemusha Lads and Jockeys Lake Tahoe She Used to See Him Most Kinnunen Moulin à Vent in Chantilly, the board- auto parts shop and wants to be lead Weekends ing school and training center for future singer in a punk band. And then there’s THU, APR 2 • 5:15 PM stable-lads and jockeys. For these young the teenage mechanic obsessed with WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Experimental • USA, 2007, color, digital video • 4 MIN Bartell Theatre ORDER CODE: KINNU02 pupils, the shock is often intense. They martial arts and Kung Fu philosophy. Director: Penny Lane SAT, APR 4 • 11:00 AM leave their family cocoon for the hard The absurd and bewildering worlds of reality of a world of long hours and these characters drag Juan into a one- Picture book simplicity conveys emo- Bartell Theatre ORDER CODE: KINNU04 where the comfort of the horse is more day journey in which he will come to tional complexity as a memories of child- NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE • Narrative • Estonia, hood are scrambled by time and loss. 2008, color, digital video • 85 MIN important than their own. The film fol- accept what he was escaping from in the When Worlds Collude Director: Andri Luup lows three boys in the class of first year: first place. Starring Diego Cataño, who Writer: Andri Luup; director of photography: Meelis Steve, Flavien, and Florian. In the dorm was also in Eimbcke’s perfect and witty MIDWEST PREMIERE • Experimental • USA, Veeremets; editor: Margo Siimon; sound: Mario rooms they have posters of famous jock- debut feature, Duck Season. 2008 Berlin, 2008, color, digital video • 13 MIN Narbekov; composer: Tõnis Leemets; art eys on the wall instead of rock stars. San Sebastian, Karlovy Vary, Helsinki, Director: Fred Worden director/production designer: Laura Pählapuu; costume designer: Laura Pählapuu; producer: Artur They hang out at the bookies’ in town, and Tokyo film festivals. A montage of seemingly banal material placing bets on the horses that they tries to escape its representational duties, Talvik; production company: Eetriüksus; cast: Sesa- Petteri Lehto, Maria Peterson know will win. Completely submerged but can it escape the idiom of popular The Last Lullaby IN ESTONIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES in the world of racing, the film at times FRI, APR 3 • 10:00 PM culture? “When worlds collude, some- Presented with the UW Center for the Study of reaches the kind of quiet contempla- MMOCA ORDER CODE: LASTL03 thing outside of description is always Upper Midwestern Cultures. tion shown in Into Great Silence just about to happen.” — Fred Worden. Kinnunen is a Finnish man who arrives MIDWEST PREMIERE • Narrative • USA, 2008, (WFF07), an insider’s view of the rou- color, 35mm • 93 MIN Black and White Trypps in Estonia by falling off the ferry. (You tines of a place not normally open. The might think that the Estonians have a Director: Jeffrey Goodman Number Three most moving scenes are those on the Writer: Max Allan Collins and Peter Biegen; director WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Experimental • USA, somewhat dim view of the Finns.) Tall, gallops. With cameras set on speed rigs of photography: Richard Rutkowski; editor: Phillip 2007, color, 35mm • 12 MIN blond, and daffy, he’s here to find a wife, that keep up with the racehorses, the Harrison; music supervisor: Linda Cohen; music: Director: Ben Russell although he’s coy about admitting for footage is exhilarating. These tiny boys Ben Lovett; production designer: Elizabeth Mickle; producer: David Koplan; co-producer: Matthew A collective freak-out at a performance whom he’s looking. It’s clear his Eston- hurtle along on these massive beasts, ian language could use some improve- Leonetti, Jr.; associate producer: Josh Beane; by noise band Lightning Bolt is trans- unable to rein them in. Coming to terms assistant director: Yann Sobezynski, Emily Sullivan; WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM forms into a trance ritual of the highest Jim’s Experimental Shorts: ment, so he signs up for a night class to with the skills need to be a jockey is only cast: Tom Sizemore, Kenneth Wayne Bradley, Paul spiritual order. practice his conversational skills. Good part of the story. These teens flirt and Rae, Jacob Wood, Edrick Browne, Sprague Grayden, Light is Waiting thing his instructor, a sweet-natured Bill Smitrovich, Omid Abtahi, Mary Thoma, Jason toy with budding romances, contend- Konopisos, Ray McKinnon, Ritchie Montgomery, Horizontal Boundaries young woman named Õie, is willing to WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Experimental • USA, ing with the usual difficulties that come Sasha Alexander, Smith Cho, Randall Batinkoff, bears a strong resemblance to the leader help him with his search. In the world at this age. Steve Krieger, Jerry Hardin 2008, 35mm • 23 MIN is forced to impersonate Shingen to con- Director: Pat O’Neill of romantic comedies, there’s no mys- Tom Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan, vince both his own troops and his ene- tery how things will end up — the fun Legendary experimental filmmaker Pat Lake Tahoe Black Hawk Down) presents a remark- mies that all is well. This is far more part is going along for the ride. Õie O’Neill (whose feature The Decay of Fic- ably nuanced portrait of a man weighed complicated than anyone imagined, as patiently explains to him the important (¿Te Acuerdas de Lake Tahoe?) tion was featured at WFF2003) explores down by the choices he’s made. It’s destinies begin to change once the illu- parts of Estonian culture, like kama (a SAT, APR 4 • 1:00 PM the formal properties of California geog- comes with the territory, since he was sion takes hold. Shingen’s double (kage- hot drink made with roasted grain and Orpheum Main ORDER CODE: LAKET04 raphy and the compositional properties a gun for hire (his name is Price), some- musha) has respect and power as long curdled milk), and the music of com- of the frameline. WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • Mexico, one who had made a living being paid as he stays masked; on his own he’s use- poser Arvo Pärt. The cross-cultural gags 2008, color, 35mm • 81 MIN to make other people’s problems go Jon Wos: less. He must continue to pretend to are droll and charming, as Õie and Kin- Director: Fernando Eimbcke away. His problem now is that he can’t Evolution of an Artist keep the clan together, even if it means nunen gradually come to know each Writer: Fernando Eimbcke, Paula Markovitch; sleep, he’s restless, and uneasy about never being himself. “There are great other. director of photography: Alexis Zabé; editor: Mariana SEE: Shorts: Sat @ Monona Terrace Rodríguez; sound designer: Lena Esquenazi; sound what to do next. When some thugs images in this film: of a breathless Ladies of the Land mixer: Antonio Diego; art director: Diana Quiroz; cross his path in a convenience store, Jumate / Jumate courier clattering down countless steps, costume design and make up: Mariana Watson; it turns out that being a killer comes SEE: Shorts: Fri @ Monona Terrace executive producer: Jaime Bernardo Ramos; SEE: Dolls / Damascus of men passing in front of a blood-red back just like riding a bicycle. The sunset, of a dying horse on a battlefield. producer: Christian Valdelièvre; cast: Diego Cataño, Lads and Jockeys Hector Herrera, Daniela Valentine, Juan Carlos events bring him to the attention of a Kagemusha But Kurosawa’s last image — of the Lara, Yemil Sefami wealthy businessman named Lennox dying kagemusha floating in the sea, THU, APR 2 • 5:00 PM IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES who needs his services. Apparently THU, APR 2 • 5:00 PM swept by tidal currents past the fallen Stage Door Theatre ORDER CODE: LADSA02 An understated comic vision runs there’s someone who holds some evi- UW Cinematheque ORDER CODE: KAGEM02 standard of the Takeda clan — summa- SAT, APR 4 • 1:15 PM through this story set in a dusty Mexi- dence that doesn’t make Lennox look Narrative • Japan, 1980, color, 35mm • 180 MIN rizes everything: ideas and men are car- can town, bearing a kinship to Daytime so good, evidence of a personal nature. Stage Door Theatre ORDER CODE: LADSA04 Director: ried along heedlessly by the currents of Drinking, also at this festival. It’s the Price takes the job, but isn’t prepared Writer: Masato Ide, Akira Kurosawa; executive time, and historical meaning seems to MIDWEST PREMIERE • Documentary • France, tiny things that people say and do, the for what happens when he meets his producer: , George Lucas, 2008, color, 35mm • 100 MIN Tomoyuki Tanaka; assistant producer: Audie Bock; emerge when both happen to be swept Director: Benjamin Marquet pauses between sentences, the timing target: a librarian named Sarah. Writ- cast: , Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kenichi in the same way at the same time.” — Cinematographer: Sébastien Buchmann, Laurent of reactions, that make both films so sat- ten by Max Allan Collins (Road to Hagiwara, Jinpachi Nezu, Hideji Otaki , Chicago Sun-Times. Shared Chalet, Benjamin Marquet; editor: Isabelle Devinck, isfying. Juan has crashed this family’s Perdition) and directed by newcomer IN JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES the Palm d’Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Emmanuelle Joly; sound: Benjamin Laurent; car into a pole just outside of town, and Jeffrey Goodman, the story maintains SERIES: Restorations and Revivals producer: Daniel Marquet; associate producer: Festival with All That Jazz, also playing Monika Weibel, Daniel Treichler, Jay Kim; is on the hunt for a repairman. It’s sort a balance between a gripping thriller An epic like no other, Akira Kurosawa’s at this festival. Nominated for two production company: Léo Vision Jean-Louis Burgat, of a mini-road trip, as his quest keeps that employs some of the best traits of Kagemusha is as much a story of iden- Oscars and winner of the BAFTA, César, Sofica Uni Étoile 4 him on the move as he tries to get the the genre, and a reflection of a weary, tity and longing as it is a tale of war. But David, Hochi film awards. IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES right parts. He meets Don Heber, an old gruff man who has seen and done it all. there is plenty of battle. Set during As schoolchildren return to classes in paranoid mechanic whose only compan- Winner, Best Actress and Audience Japan’s Warring States era, Shingen the Kai’s Place September, a select group of 14-year- ion is Sica, his beloved boxer dog. Lucía Award, 2008 San Diego; Special Jury warlord is dying. A two-bit criminal who SEE: Shorts: Sun @ Cinematheque olds is passing through the doors of Le is a teenage mother who works at an Prize, 2008 Temecula Valley. 15 Made in China The Lie of the Land Lion’s Den (Leonera) The Farmhouse Mr. Peepers | Episode 18 NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE • Documentary USA, 1952 • 30 MIN • Director: Hal Keith • United Kingdom, 2008, digital video • 8 MIN Wally Cox positively incarnates meek Director: Danny Lomax in this early sitcom about a junior high Radio travel presenter: Mike Henfield; music composition: Mike Glenister; camera: Yingyue Wang; school science teacher. In episode 18, he MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 editor, sound: Sarah Glenister; production meets his girlfriend’s parents for the first www.wifilmfest.org coordinator: Dave Rigby; executive producer: Erik time and weighs advice from the Don Knudsen; producer: Shahid Khan Khatak Juan of the history department, played The Last Page SERIES: The Cream and the Crop: Farming and by a surprisingly butch Tony Randall. SEE: Shorts: Saturday @ Chazen the Land on Film Stott Hall Farm is nestled on a patch of E.S.P. | Pilot land between the two lanes of the M62 USA, 1958 • 30 MIN • Director: Lou Sposa The Lie of the Land hosts this short-lived game The Farmhouse precedes motorway on Rishworth Moor, near Manchester, England. Director Danny show. Cancelled after just two episodes, The Lie of the Land Lomax interviewed the resident farmer, E.S.P. was known for its painfully rig- THU, APR 2 • 9:15 PM Paul Thorp, and made this lovely film orous protections against contestant fraud. Vincent Price does his best to keep Bartell Theatre ORDER CODE: LIEOF02 as a student at the University of Salford. the ball rolling, but unfortunately, no TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 85 MIN Light is Waiting one seems to actually have extra-sen- MIDWEST PREMIERE • Documentary • United Kingdom, 2007, digital video • 75 MIN SEE: Jim’s Experimental Shorts sory perception. Director: Molly Dineen Le Long Week-end Editor: Justin Krish; original music: Charlie Mole, Lightbulb Lightbulb Eliza Thompson; producer: Molly Dineen; associate (The Long Weekend) SAT, APR 4 • 8:15 PM man (married to director Trapero), Julia producer: Catherine Bailey, Mark Frith Lion’s Den (Leonera) SEE: Atelier K SERIES: The Cream and the Crop: Farming and Wis Union Theatre ORDER CODE: LIGHT04 is constantly surprising: beautiful, bru- the Land on Film. WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • USA, 2008, SAT, APR 4 • 3:00 PM tal, and determined to come out of this Lost World (Letûnt világ) Presented with the UW Center for Integrated color, digital video • 88 MIN Orpheum Main ORDER CODE: LIONS04 and give Tomás a future. 2008 Cannes, SEE: Shorts: Sat @ Cinematheque Agricultural Systems Director: Jeff Balsmeyer WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • Argentina, Karlovy Vary, Toronto festivals. It started with the fox hunts. Or, rather, Writer, producer: Mike Cram; cinematographer: Korea, Brazil, 2008, color, 35mm • 113 MIN Made in China the protesters gathered in London Geoffrey Hall; film editor: Suresh Ayyar, Marcus Director: Pablo Trapero D’Arcy; executive producer: Gregory Goodell; line Live from New York… THU, APR 2 • 7:15 PM demanding an end to this country tradi- producer: Michael Bederman; cast: Dallas Roberts, Writer: Alejandro Fadel, Martín Mauregui, Santiago 1950s Television from the tion. Documentary filmmaker Molly Jeremy Renner, Ayelet Zurer Mitre, Pablo Trapero; cinematographer and camera: Bartell Theatre ORDER CODE: MADEI02 Guillermo Nieto; editor: Ezequiel Borovinsky, Pablo Wisconsin Center for Film MIDWEST PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, Dineen takes her camera out to a kennel Two best friends, Matt and Sam, are cre- Trapero; sound: Federico Esquerro; art direction: 2007, color, b&w, digital video • 70 MIN where the hunt dogs are raised, to learn ators of novelty gift items like the wrist- Coca Oderigo; production director: Agustina Llambi and Theater Research Director: John Helde more about how a hunting ban could watch that spins random lottery num- Campbell; costume design: Marisa Urruti; executive FRI, APR 3 • 5:00 PM affect the livelihood of the people who producer: Martina Gusman; producer: Pablo Writer, editor, producer: John Helde; director of bers. Their company isn’t exactly suc- Trapero, Youngjoo Suh; coproducer: Walter Salles; Bartell Theatre ORDER CODE: LIVEF03 photography: Joseph Hudson, Tanya Hughes; sound support these events. But the picture is cessful, and the financial strain is being associate producer: Juan Pablo Galli, Alejandro TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 90 MIN design and mix: Dave Howe; production sound: far more complicated, and Dineen is felt in Matt’s marriage to Gina (who has Cacetta, Juan Vera SERIES: Restorations and Revivals Adam Singer, Paul Rusnak, Tom Helde, Jr.; original introduced to the farmers who supply the IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES music: Erik Aho; co-producer: Adam Singer, Karen been remarkably tolerant of Sam’s get- In the beginning, there was live televi- Helde; associate producer: AJ Eptstein large quantities of meat needed to feed Julia wakes up in her Buenos Aires apart- rich-quick schemes, but has a limit.) sion. From the first major broadcasts in IN MANDARIN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES the dog packs. It turns out that there’s a Written by Mike Cram, an inventor who ment, blood on her hands. Oblivious to 1948 into the 1960s, most shows were SERIES: Disparate Voices: Asian American Film regular trade in calf carcasses: young male lived the life that provides the loose the significance, she showers and heads telecast live from . Never Presented with UW Asian American Studies offspring of cows bred specifically for inspiration for the story, Lightbulb is a out to work. When she returns she finally filmed in the proper sense of the word, Program. milking. There’s no commercial use for richly atmospheric comedy that absorbs notices the bodies of two men crumpled many episodes from the 1950s have been When director John Helde opened a book them, so they are put down and hauled the color and character of Tucson. The on the floor. One of her flatmates is dead; lost to posterity. Those that have sur- from his parents’ bookshelf and found a off to the kennel. Raising them to full size three-member central cast is succeeds both were her lovers. Strung out and vived document a forgotten art. These heart-wrenching description of his father’s just wouldn’t justify the cost given the in a balance of the bittersweet frustra- trashy, she doesn’t at first seem like the three treasures from the collections of birth in the summer of 1920 on a beauti- demand for inexpensive consumer beef. tion of delayed dreams, and the effer- kind of feminist hero that viewers side the Wisconsin Center for Film and The- ful Sichuan mountaintop called Behludin, The global economic pressure of imported vescent hopefulness that ultimately with. But as she strips for the cops when ater Research are theatrical in the best he didn’t realize he was beginning a new meat, especially in the wake of the mad drives each of them forward. “A terrific she’s charged with murder, we see she’s possible way — and still feature their film — and a five-year journey bridging cow issues, has made the hard job of being little yarn about pluck, perseverance and pregnant. Sent to the special cellblock for original commercials! Program curated continents and family silences. His father, an English farmer even harder. At first friendship overcoming the odds, Light- mothers, she turns to Marta, a fellow by Heather Heckman (UW Cinemath- Tom Helde, grew up in China for most of it’s somewhat shocking to see what hap- bulb is exactly what’s needed in these inmate who has raised two children in eque). Special thanks to Maxine Ducey the first 15 years of his life, the son of pens on the farm, in the sense of the troubled times…. What sets [it] apart, prison. Marta takes Julia under her wing, and Dorinda Hartmann (both WCFTR). YMCA missionaries. It was this part of frankness with which the farmers have and what keeps it aloft, is its tone, which helping her find ways to cope. Tomás is Danger | “Death his life that John realized he knew the had to deal with life and death. These are privileges populist wit and wisdom over born, and Julia realizes that for her there least about — and now, as his dad entered dedicated families who have been farm- sappy self-indulgence. It’s a seriocomic is no future life beyond her son, and and the Family ” his eighties, it was also the part that John ing for generations, and it’s part of their story in which ill-advised actions can becomes completely dedicated to him. USA, 1953 • 30 MIN • Director: Sidney Lumet most wanted to understand. Eventually daily routine. In fact, the documentary and do have dire consequences, but per- Her feelings are compounded by her Gary Merrill stars as wise-cracking John discovered the network of Ameri- raises the question of how easy it is for sistence, humility and good humor ulti- strained relationship with her own detective alongside a young Cloris cans who grew up in China — a commu- city folk to pass judgment and pass laws mately find their own reward; a lean, mother; she wants to do better. But her Leachman in this episode of the anthol- nity of thousands, it turned out. John jour- protecting wildlife (like foxes) but not economical indie film that, in the end, time with Tomás is limited, for he’ll be ogy crime-drama Danger. The real star, neys to China, to find Bailuding moun- WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 • WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • APRIL 2-5, 2009 WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • MADISON FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN changing the food regulations to make it is its own best example.” — Lael Lowen- removed from the prison when he turns though, is Lumet’s camera, which runs tain where his father was born. 16 better for the traditional farmers. stein, Variety. four. Played with ferocity by Martina Gus- circles around the live performers. CONTINUED ON PAGE 21 FILM•ABLE: DISABILITIES ON SCREEN Empathy and spectacle By Audrey A. Trainor In the documentary, In a Dream, Films in this series: does. Perspective gives pause LOBBY RESTAURANT and Shane A. Smith director Jeremiah Zagar considers Bill and Art to how we define (dis)ability. the life of Isaiah, his father and The relationship between UW Department of Rehabilitation Psychology Blind Loves artist, who has spent the last several disability and artistic expres- and Special Education Chuck Close decades covering more than 50,000 Darius Goes West sion runs throughout square feet of Philadelphia with In A Dream Film•Able. In two additional Common wisdom dictates that a person’s great- mosaic murals. Isaiah is obsessive Jon Wos: Evolution documentaries, Jumate / est weakness is also his greatest strength. In and he has bouts of debilitating of an Artist Jumate and Vincent: A Life in Movie Buffs light of this, our societal predilection for and depression yet his larger-than-life Jumate / Jumate Color, the audience is forced obsession with pathologizing (dis)abilities seems creations are fantastical and awe- Rare Chicken Rescue to consider the notion of curious. Over time, we have advanced compli- inspiring to those who make the Special People spectacle. Is it unprincipled cated and intricate systems of naming and diag- journey to see his art. As he docu- Summer or somehow a little low for nosing disabilities. We spend copious amounts ments the destruction of his parents’ Vincent: A Life in Color people without disabilities to marriage and the self- More film series lists be entertained by those who indulgent, egotistical have been labeled as dis- whims of his father, are found on page 20 abled? How do people who (director/son) Zagar deli- For more information about film have been labeled retain their LUNCH — TUE-FRI 11:30AM - 2PM series, see www.wifilmfest.org cately balances these self-determination and dig- DINNER — TUE-THUR 5 -9PM / FRI-SAT 5 - 10PM imperfections with images nity? In these films we learn SATURDAY BREAKFAST — 9AM - 1PM of the talents his creative and imagi- as much about the street performers Camelia SUNDAY BRUNCH — 10AM - 2PM native dad shares with others. The (an ex-circus performer in Barcelona) and Vin- 216 State St. N 255-2594 N orpheumtheatre.net film also focuses on Julia, Isaiah’s cent (a Chicago personality and computer ana- longtime wife and muse without lyst with a penchant for loud suits) as we do by whose acceptance Isaiah’s art might studying the reactions of passers-by who become not exist at all. As relationships enrapt by their shtick. How disabling is our Authentic unfold, the film challenges the viewer inability to empathize with those who are differ- to distinguish between crazy or sane, ent? Mexican and to question categorization of Not all of the films in the series are docu- Restaurant virtue and vice. mentaries. The narrative, Special People, is a The burden or the privilege of hilarious romp about an all-too-serious artist Established in 1982 having different insight and perspec- who has a distinctly disabling condition of ego- tive into the human experience mania. Fortunately for Jasper, the protagonist STOP IN FOR A remains central to two additional with an inflated sense of self, a group of youth Vincent: A Life in Color: See page 32 documentaries, both about Wiscon- with “disabilities” helps him unravel his debili- QUICK MEAL sin-born artists. tating and stodgy sense of “talented filmmaker.” BETWEEN SHOWS! In the short film by Mark Each film forces us to rethink how we define of money on technologies designed to remediate Röethke, Jon Wos: Evolution of an Artist, Wos and view “normalcy.” Each demands that we or normalize people, eradicating any hint of dif- explains how his transformation from self-pity accord fluency to perception and that we recog- ference that, to us (usually those of us without and anger helped him channel his creativity into nize the inherent diversity underscoring the sum disabilities), is indicative of too little or too pleasure and resilience. Yet, with dual portraits of us. Indeed, conceptualizations of (dis)ability much of something. Much less time seems to be that simultaneously show a range of experience that we ascribe to ourselves and others are often devoted to increasing our acceptance or toler- and emotion Wos also reminds viewers that one misleading, limiting, and ill-fitting. The films do ance for difference. Could this oversight lead us state does not exist without the other. In the fea- not dress up the real limitations and inconven- to discount the cardinal contributions of those ture length documentary, Chuck Close, the iences of living in an ableist society, nor do they Show Your WFF ticket during the among us who have been labeled as disabled? viewer comes to understand how the artist’s deny the existence of disability. The films do month of April for 10% OFF This very question is at the heart of several of paralysis contributed to changes in his portrai- leave us with enduring questions about the WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM the films in Film•Able, the second such strand of ture from what one art critic calls “raw and shaky dichotomy of gift versus curse. These films Upstairs at 341 State St. movies supported through collaboration gritty” to “lush and brilliant.” The Close film serve as a good catalyst for persons with and between the University of Wisconsin’s Depart- (608)251-7200 takes the audience to the canvas and places the without disabilities to renew the conversation Mon-Thurs: 11am-9pm, Fri-Sat: 11am-10pm, Sun: 11am-8pm ment of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special paintbrush, adapted to strap to Close’s hand, in about the challenges and opportunities in defin- www. .net Education and the Wisconsin Film Festival. our mind’s eye, allowing us to see as the artist ing what it is to be different. ◆ CasadeLara

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PLEASE NOTE! Some program lengths Thursday, April 2 Saturday, April 4 include time for Q&A with filmmakers. 5 P.M. 6 P.M. 7 P.M. 8 P.M. 9 P.M. 10 P.M. 11 P.M. 11 A.M. 12 NOON 1 P.M. 2 P.M. 3 P.M. 4 P.M. 5 P.M. 6 P.M. 7 P.M. 8 P.M. 9 P.M. 10 P.M. 11 P.M. 12 MIDNITE VOTE Wis Union On a Tightrope Art & Copy Earth Days Wis Union Full Battle Rattle Chuck Close New Year Parade Beauty of the Fight Lightbulb Idiots and Angels Theater 5 pm * 70 min 6:45 pm * 88 min+Q&A 9:15 pm * 100 min+Q&A Theater 11 am * 85 min 1 pm * 116 min 3:45 pm * 85 min 6 pm * 70 min+Q&A 8:15 pm * 88 min 10:15 pm * 78 min for your favorite films! Winners of the 2009 Play Circle Beetle Milk in the Land Razzle Dazzle Sonic Youth Play Circle Dancescapes Nyab Siab Zoo Bunnyland Atelier K Handmade Who Is KK Downey 5:15 pm * 70 min 7 pm * 75 min 8:45 pm * 92 min 10:45 pm * 84 min 11 am * 100 min 1:15 pm 3:30 pm * 87 min+Q&A 6 pm * 120 min+Q&A Nation 10:30 pm * 87 min Steep & Brew Wis Union Wis Union * 75 min+Q&A 8:45 pm * 65 min

Chazen Song of Sparrows Absurdistan Chazen Silent Light Shorts Sat Chazen Between the Folds Immortal Cupboard Song of Sparrows Audience Award 5 pm * 119 min 7:30 pm * 96 min 9:30 pm * 88 min 11 am * 136 min 1:45 pm * 80 min+Q&A 4:30 pm 6:30 pm * 76 min+Q&A 9:30 pm * 96 min will be announced Museum Museum * 70 min+Q&A Monday, April 6 at WiFilmFest.org UW Cine- Kagemusha Frownland Three Monkeys UW Cine- Shorts Sat Animations Shorts Sat Visible Forces Nazuna Taking of Pelham Afterschool 5 pm * 180 min 8:30 pm * 106 min+Q&A 11 pm * 105 min 11 am * 100 min+Q&A Cinematheque 3:45 pm * 90 min+Q&A 6:15 pm * 90 min+Q&A 8:45 pm * 104 min 11 pm * 106 min matheque matheque 1:30 pm * 85 min+ Q&A

MMoCA Beaches of Agnès Jerichow 24 City MMoCA Our Beloved Month of August Treeless Mountain 24 City Stroszek Show Must Go On 5 pm * 109 min 7:15 pm * 93 min 9:15 pm * 112 min 11 am * 147 min 2 pm * 89 min 4:15 pm * 112 min 6:45 pm * 108 min 9 pm * 110 min Museum Museum Audience Award Ballot Wisconsin Film Festival 500 Days of Summer Anvil Not Quite Hollywood Eldorado Lake Tahoe Lions Den Sparrow Ghajini Orpheum Orpheum Thanks for voting! Main 6 pm * 95 min+Q&A 8:45 pm * 80 min 11 pm * 100 min Main 11 am * 80 min 1 pm * 81 min 3 pm * 113 min 5:30 pm * 142 min 8:30 pm * 87 min 10:30 pm * 183 min 5 Stage Door Lads & Jockeys Goodbye Solo Stage Door Summer Lads and Jockeys Somers Town Vogelfrei Tulpan Revanche Orpheum 5 pm * 100 min 7:15 pm * 100 min 9:45 pm * 91 min Orpheum 11:15 am * 80 min 1:15 pm * 100 min 3:30 pm * 70 min 5:15 pm * 95 min 7:30 pm * 100 min 9:45 pm * 121 min How much did you like the film? 4 Bartell Kinnunen Made in China Lie of the Land Rockafire Bartell Kinnunen Way We Get By Shorts Sat Bartell It Takes a Cult Cherry Blossoms Chefs Special : 5:15 pm * 85 min 7:15 pm * 70 min 9:15 pm * 85 min Explosion 11 am * 85 min 1 pm * 85 min 3 pm * 70 min+Q&A 5:15 pm * 80 min+Q&A 7:30 pm * 127 min 10:15 pm * 111 min Theater 11:15 pm * 71 min Theater Making a tear through one Monona Darius Goes West Win or Lose Eleven Minutes Monona Shorts Sat Monona British TV Ad Awards Vincent Being Bucky Winter of Frozen Dreams of the sections 3 5 pm * 92 min 7:15 pm * 9:15 pm * 103 min 11 am * 1:15 pm * 98 min 3:30 pm * 96 min+Q&A 6:15 pm * 80 min+Q&A 8:45 pm * 92 min+Q&A : Terrace 58 min+Q&A Terrace 75 min+Q&A “5” is best “1” is least Majestic Majestic Betrayal Blind Loves My Marlon & Brando Empty Nest Mommas Man 2 Theater Theater 11:30 am * 96 min 1:45 pm * 77 min 3:45 pm * 92 min 6 pm * 91 min 8:15 pm * 94 min 1 Friday, April 3 Sunday, April 5 TICKET POLICIES 5 P.M. 6 P.M. 7 P.M. 8 P.M. 9 P.M. 10 P.M. 11 P.M. 12 MIDNITE 11 A.M. 12 NOON 1 P.M. 2 P.M. 3 P.M. 4 P.M. 5 P.M. 6 P.M. 7 P.M. 8 P.M. 9 P.M. See Tickets, page 34, for more details. WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM All ticket sales are final. No refunds or replacements for lost tickets. In a Dream Pachamama Harvard Beats Yale Trap Join us Paper or Plastic Visual Acoustics Daytime Drinking Fear Me Not Sons of Wis Union Wis Union Individual film tickets can be exchanged in person only 5 pm * 78 min 6:45 pm * 104 min 9 pm * 105 min 11:15 pm * 115 min 11 am * 80 min+Q&A 1:15 pm * 83 min 3:15 pm * 116 min 6 pm * 95 min Sakhnin United Theater FOR THE Theater 8:15 pm * 84 min through April 1 at the Festival Box Office, 2nd floor, 800 Langdon Street, Madison, (608) 265-2933. Play Circle Handmade Milk in the Land Rhythmic Uprising Illegal Use of Joe Zopp Wisconsin Play Circle Nyab Siab Zoo Bunnyland Atelier K Beetle Who Is KK Downey Absolutely no tickets can be exchanged after April 1. Nation 6:30 pm * 75 min 8:15 pm * 10:15 pm * 110 min+Q&A 11 am * 75 min+Q&A 1:15 pm * 87 min+Q&A 3:45 pm * 120 min+Q&A 6:30 pm * 70 min 8:15 pm * 87 min Vouchers must be exchanged for a ticket printed with the name Wis Union 5 pm * 65 min 65 min+Q&A Wis Union and date of a specific film before they can be used for entry to a Film Festival theater. You can exchange vouchers for film tickets, if available, Ballerina Tokyo Sonata Wink and a Smile Between the Shorts Sun Chazen Silent Light Chefs Special at the Festival Box Office through April 1, or at the individual Chazen Chazen theater box offices during the festival dates: April 2 to 5. Museum 5 pm * 80 min 7 pm * 119 min 9:30 pm * 91 min Museum Folds 11 am 1 pm * 80 min+Q&A 3:30 pm * 136 min 6:30 pm * 111 min PARTIES * 70 min+Q&A THEATER POLICIES Please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes before the start of a show UW Cine- RR Three Monkeys Afterschool 9 P.M. UW Cine- Shorts Sun Jester Jim’s Experimental Shorts Tractors to guarantee admittance. At curtain time, any available seats 5 pm * 117 min 7:30 pm * 105 min 10 pm * 106 min Cinematheque 1:15 pm * 90 min+Q&A 3:45 pm * 100 min 6 pm * 56 min 7:30 pm * 84 min may be filled by people waiting for rush tickets. matheque matheque 11 am * 80 min+Q&A FRIDAY, APRIL 3 Latecomers with tickets are not guaranteed admittance. Treeless Mountain All That Jazz Last Lullaby Jerichow Beaches of Agnes Stroszek Our Beloved Month of August Theaters will be cleared between shows. All patrons must please MMoCA MMoCA exit theaters between shows to allow the projectionist to set up 5:15 pm * 89 min 7:30 pm * 122 min 10 pm * 93 min 9 P.M. 11 am * 93 min 1 pm * 109 min 3:30 pm * 108 min 6:15 pm * 147 min Museum Museum the next film. SATURDAY, APRIL 4 No cameras or recording devices are permitted. No filming or taping Football Under Cover 32A Food Inc JCVD Country Teacher Special People Mermaid Youssou Ndour Sita Sings the Blues allowed during screenings. Tapes or film are subject to confiscation. Orpheum Orpheum Festival patron bags and belongings are subject to search. 5 pm * 86 min+Q&A 7:30 pm * 89 min 9:45 pm * 93 min 11:59 pm * 93 min BOTH AT 11 am * 113 min 1:30 pm * 80 min 3:30 pm * 114 min 6 pm * 102 min 8:15 pm * 82 min Main Main No outside food, beverages, or restaurant takeout containers are CAFE MONTMARTRE permitted in the theaters. No food or drink of any kind is allowed Goodbye Solo Of Time & the City English Surgeon Summer Revanche Somers Town Of Time & the City Vogelfrei English Surgeon in the Chazen Museum of Art; the UW Cinematheque allows Stage Door 127 E MIFFLIN Stage Door bottled water but nothing else. Orpheum 5:15 pm * 91 min 7:30 pm * 74 min 9:30 pm * 93 min 11:45 pm * 80 min Orpheum 11:15 am * 121 min 2 pm * 70 min 3:45 pm * 74 min 5:30 pm * 95 min 7:45 pm * 93 min $10 AT DOOR / 21 & OVER Please turn off ringers on all cell phones, pagers, watches, etc., during screenings. Bartell Live from New York Dolls Damascus Good Soldier Serbis CHECK WIFILMFEST.ORG Bartell Wings of Defeat Shorts Sun Bartell Prince of Broadway Rockafire Serbis Any patron who fails to follow these policies, causes 5 pm * 90 min 7 pm * 90 min 9 pm * 80 min+Q&A 11:15 pm * 93 min FOR DETAILS 11 am * 89 min 1 pm * 85 min+Q&A 3:30 pm * 102 min Explosion 7:30 pm * 93 min Theater Theater 5:45 pm * 71 min a disturbance, or obstructs others’ Stand Up Mus- Shorts Fri Monona Book of Caleb Tracks Greening of Southie Milton Glaser Eleven Minutes British TV Ad Awards view may be asked Monona Monona to cease, move lim Comics 7 pm * 85 min+Q&A 9:30 pm * 108 min+Q&A 11:15 am * 78 min+Q&A 1:30 pm 3:45 pm * 73 min 5:30 pm * 103 min 7:45 pm * 98 min Terrace 5:30 pm * 54 min Terrace * 73 min+Q&A to another seat, or leave. Majestic Majestic Momma’s Man Grain in Ear Blind Loves Betrayal My Marlon & Brando Theater Theater 11:15 am * 94 min 1:30 pm * 110 min 4 pm * 77 min 6 pm * 96 min 8 pm * 92 min WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 • WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • APRIL 2-5, 2009 WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • MADISON FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN 18 19 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL — APRIL 2-5, 2009 FILM SERIES LISTS Great Shades of Spring For essays and other information about film series, please see www.wifilmfest.org The Cream and Inside Islam Wisconsin’s Own the Crop: Farming Dolls. A Woman * Winner, 2009 Wisconsin’s Own and the Land from Damascus Jury Prize Cheese Wars Football Under Cover #1 (Fall, Winter 08) Earth Days Full Battle Rattle 76% Chance The Farmhouse My Marlon and Brando Annie Lloyd Food Inc. On a Tightrope Audience Award Winner The Greening of Southie The Song of Sparrows Beelin’ * Tractors! International Sons of Sakhnin United Being Bucky Harvester Sponsored Stand Up: Bill and Art Films from the Wisconsin Muslim American Birthdate Historical Society Comics Come Home The Book of Caleb Ladies of the Land Youssou Ndour: Casse Tête Lie of the Land I Bring What I Love Cheese Wars Michael Schmidt: Organic The Earth's Extent and the Sky’s Depth Hero or Bioterrorist Restorations Ecstatic Vessels Milk in the Land & Revivals Emanations Rare Chicken Rescue All That Jazz Fishin’ for Tradition: The Lutefisk Saga Live from New York…: The Garden Disparate Voices: 1950s Television Ghost Conversations Asian American Film from the Wisconsin Good Soldier The Betrayal Center for Film and Illegal Use of Joe Zopp Fate Scores Theater Research Immortal Cupboard: Kai’s Place Night Tide In Search of Lorine Niedecker * Made In China Stroszek Jon Wos: Evolution of an Artist Nazuna The Taking of Pelham The Odyssey of the Average American Nyab Siab Zoo One Two Three in the Last Half-Century Sita Sings the Blues Tractors! International One Last Time Treeless Mountain Harvester Sponsored Paradoxes and Oxymorons Wings of Defeat Films from the Small Comforts Focus on South Korea Wisconsin Historical This is Umberto. Daytime Drinking Society Thus Spake John Kai’s Place Kagemusha Tracks * Secret Sunshine Vincent: A Life in Color Treeless Mountain Win or Lose: A Summer Camp Story * Winter of Frozen Dreams

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Why not give us a try? 20 Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight Mermaid (Rusalka) Milk in the Land: Ballad of an American Drink Mite (Milbe) Montréal, le Lendemain SEE: Shorts: Animations SEE: Atelier K Momma’s Man Muto SEE: Visible Forces MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 SAT, APR 4 • 8:15 PM www.wifilmfest.org Majestic Theatre ORDER CODE: MOMMA04 My Marlon and Brando SUN, APR 5 • 11:15 AM SAT, APR 4 • 3:45 PM CONTINUED FROM PAGE 16 Majestic Theatre ORDER CODE: MOMMA05 Majestic Theatre ORDER CODE: MYMAR04 WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • USA, 2008, Magnetic Movie color, 35mm • 94 MIN SUN, APR 5 • 8:00 PM SEE: Visible Forces Director: Azazel Jacobs Majestic Theatre ORDER CODE: MYMAR05 Writer: Azazel Jacobs; cinematographer: Tobias WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • United (Rusalka) Datum; editor: Darrin Navarro; composer: Mandy Kingdom, Netherlands, Turkey, 2008, color, Mermaid Hoffman; music supervisor: Joe Rudge; executive 35mm • 92 MIN SUN, APR 5 • 3:30 PM producer: Paul Mezey; producer: Hunter Gray, Alex Director: Hüseyin Karabey Orlovsky; cast: Matt Boren, Flo Jacobs, Ken Jacobs, Orpheum Main ORDER CODE: MERMA05 My Marlon and Brando Writer: Ayca Damgaci, Hüseyin Karabey; Richard Edson, Dana Varon, Nan Arcilesi, Eleanor cinematographer: Emre Tanyildiz; editor: Mary WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • Russia, Hutchins, Piero Arcilesi 2008, color, 35mm • 114 MIN beautiful and resonant in every way.” — fight you get out of him,” one bit of prop- Stephen; production company: A-si Film Yapim, Edinburgh Film Festival. Winner, 2008 aganda promises), milk has long shoul- They say you can never go home again, Motel Films, Spier Films, Merchant Loup; cast: Director: Anna Melikian Ayca Damgaci, Hama Ali Kahn, Nesrin Cavadzade, Writer: Anna Melikian ; director of photography: FIPRESCI Prize, Berlin; 2008 Indepen- dered heavy social responsibilities. Along but for thirtysomething Mikey (Matt Boren), it’s not for lack of trying. After Emrah Ozdemir, Cengiz Bozkurt, Mahir Gunsiray Oleg Kirichenko ; artistic director: Ulyana Ryabova; dent Camera, Karlovy Vary; 2008 World the way, detours are allotted for plastic IN TURKISH, ENGLISH, KURDISH WITH ENGLISH composer: Igor Vdovin; producer: Ruben Cinema Dramatic Directing Award, nipple collectors, raw-milk diehards, a canceled flight forces Mikey to extend SUBTITLES Dishdishian; production company: Magnum his stay at his bohemian parents’ New Studios, Central Partnership; cast: Masha Shalaeva, Sundance Film Festival. and cow beauty pageants, bookended SERIES: Inside Islam Yevgeniy Tsyganov, Maria Sokova, Nastya Dontsova, by milk-centric quotes from everyone York loft, and he finds himself in less Presented with the UW Inside Islam Project. Irina Skrinichenko, Veronica Skugina Michael Schmidt: Organic from Groucho Marx to Richard Nixon. and less of a hurry to get back to his wife Several superb films at the festival blur IN RUSSIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Hero or Bioterrorist? Co-directors Monteith McCollum and son in Los Angeles. Cloistered the lines between reality and fiction. Our WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM Written especially for young Russian SEE: Shorts: Saturday @ Bartell (Hybrid) and Ariana Gerstein’s wonder- among his childhood effects, Mikey Beloved Month of August and 24 City actress Masha Shalayeva, Mermaid con- fully tactile sensibility infuses every recedes into adolescence. He spends his stand out, joined by My Marlon and jures up a seaside fairy tale mixed with Milk in the Land: frame, uncovering beautiful imagery in days idly perusing long-lost love letters Brando. In real life, Hama Ali, a larger- the darker elements of an unrequited everything from grazing to pasteuriza- and comic books, reconnecting with old than-life Kurdish actor from Iraq famous urban romance. The story starts with Ballad of an tion. friends, mouthing off to his parents, and locally for his performance as Iraq’s ver- Alisa as a small tot, growing up on the American Drink avoiding his adult responsibilities at all sion of Superman, met Ayça on a film shores of the Black Sea. With only her THU, APR 2 • 7:00 PM Milton Glaser: To costs. A midlife crisis film that acknowl- set. He and Ayça, a fiery young actress raunchy, man-chasing mother and her edges the more legitimate crisis of old Play Circle ORDER CODE: MILKI02 from Turkey, had a brief but passionate feeble grandma for companions, she Inform and Delight age, this is a funny, awkward dispatch love affair before returning to their grows up adventurous and independ- FRI, APR 3 • 6:30 PM SUN, APR 5 • 3:45 PM from the precipice of adulthood. For respective homes in Istanbul and North- ent, but stubborn to the point of refus- Play Circle ORDER CODE: MILKI03 Monona Terrace ORDER CODE: MILTO05 maximum catharsis, writer/director ern Iraq. Hama Ali sent Ayça charm- ing to speak for a decade after her WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, Azazel Jacobs cast his real-life parents ing video love letters, which describe the mother denied her ballet lessons. She 2008, color, b&w, digital video • 75 MIN 2008, color, digital video • 73 MIN and shot the film in their labyrinthine hellish violence engulfing his country as Director: Ariana Gerstein, Monteith Director: Wendy Keys loft, a humungous space overcrowded discovers, however, the possibility that McCollum well as his tender affection towards her. she can make her wishes come true with Cinematographer: David W. Leitner; editor: Tom with toys, books, and who knows what Writer: Ariana Gerstein; cinematographer: Monteith Piper; original music: Hayes Greenfield; executive He also sends her clips from comedy a kind of telekinesis. Finally fed up with McCollum; additional cinematography: Ariana producer: Edgar B. Howard; producer: Wendy Keys; else. The extratextual wrinkle is nepo- films in which he has starred. Increas- her mother, she causes their beachfront Gerstein, Christian Carson, Mike Jarmon.; editor: associate producer: Muffie Dunn tism: Azazel is the son of experimental ingly lonely in her own city and misun- shack to blow down in a storm, and the Ariana Gerstein; original music soundtrack: For many, Milton Glaser is the person- film legend Ken Jacobs (whose new film derstood by those around her, Ayça sets Montieith McCollum, select songs with Marc Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World also plays family moves from the picturesque fan- Hadsell; producer: Ariana Gerstein and Monteith ification of American graphic design. off on a harrowing trip as troops are gath- tasy of the sea to the dreariness of a con- McCollum; animation (film): Monteith McCollum; Best known for co-founding New York this year’s WFF), who gives a remark- ering on the Iraqi border. Playing her- crete high-rise in the city. It is there that animation (digital): Ariana Gerstein; cast: Rozz Magazine and creating the enduring ably nuanced performance despite hav- self and using material from the real the teenager meets a young, stylish busi- Berman, Daniel R. Block, Jinny Brodesky, Melanie I♥NY campaign, the full breadth of ing devoted his career to defying con- video letters, Ayça is unique and mem- Dupuis, Ron Schmid N.D., Rob and Pam Moore, nessman (he sells, or tries to sell, plots Noelle Foster Feliciano, Jim Sheppard, Robert Glaser’s remarkable artistic output is ventional cinema. But if Azazel is tak- orable as she makes the journey from on the moon) whose own despair and Cohen, John Powers revealed in this documentary portrait. ing over the family business, he’s taking cosmopolitan Istanbul, where she smokes loneliness proves compelling to Alisa. SERIES: The Cream and the Crop: Farming and From newspapers and magazine designs, it in a new, more classical direction. and drinks and spends her time at the Laced with magical realism and “a won- the Land on Film to interior spaces, logos, and brand iden- Rounding out the great performances community theater, to the increasingly derfully oddball sensibility, happily lost Milk in the Land is no ordinary con- tities, to his celebrated prints, drawings, is an appearance by 1980s indie favorite more conservative and rural parts of in reverie, faultlessly embodied by an templation of Wisconsin’s favorite (non- posters and paintings, the documentary Richard Edson (Stranger Than Paradise, Turkey. At a time when many people outstanding mîse-en-scene, and of alcoholic) beverage. A curious alchemy offers audiences a much richer appre- Do The Right Thing). “Cluttered with were fleeing from East to West in search course by the luminous Masha Sha- of stop-motion animation, vintage com- ciation for one of the great modern ren- beautiful junk and crammed to the of safety, Ayça makes the opposite jour- layeva…. Certainly a level of tenable mercials, contemporary interviews, and aissance men. Artfully directed by first- rafters with feeling, Momma’s Man is a ney, in search of love. The journey takes comparison can — and has to — be lots and lots of cows, this experimental time filmmaker Wendy Keys, the film touchingly true film, part weepie, part her through breathtaking landscapes, made to Amélie; however, make no mis- documentary traces milk’s surprisingly glances into everyday moments of comedy, about the agonies of navigat- strange encounters and traumatic times. take: here Melikian carves a darker tale odd cultural history. Once a 19th cen- Glaser’s personal life and captures his ing that slippery slope called adulthood. Winner, FIPRESCI Prize, 2008 Jeru- of whimsy, rippled by a distinct under- tury wonder drug, then a post-WWII immense warmth and humanity, and This is independent cinema defined.” — salem; winner, Best Actress, 2008 Sara- current of melancholy not seen in its symbol of American heroism (“The more the boundless depth of his intelligence Manohla Dargis, New York Times. 2008 jevo; winner, Best New Narrative Film- French counterpart. The results are milk you put into a soldier, the more and creativity. Sundance Film Festival. maker, 2008 Tribeca Film Festival. 21 The New Year Parade Night Tide Not Quite Hollywood of South Philadelphia have paraded on behavior. Who is the strange Woman in New Year’s Day. Jack is a banjo player Black who mutters in an indecipherable in the South Philadelphia String Band, tongue and seems to taunt Mora with where his dad is captain. After a crush- memories of an earlier aquatic exis- ing defeat in the New Year parade, the tence? Why does Mora share such an MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 stress wears everyone thin with Jack try- affinity with the local, what really hap- www.wifilmfest.org ing to look after his younger sister. Just pened between Mora and her two pre- as fidelity is central issue in their divorce, vious boyfriends, the ones whose Mysteries of Nature Jack contemplates an almost greater drowned bodies wash up on a lonely SEE: Dancescapes transgression: moving to another club. stretch of beach? Will Johnny find out Written with great tenderness and sen- the answers before it’s too late, or will Naomi & Irving sitivity and cast with a combination of the siren song of an ancient race lure SEE: Shorts: Sat @ Monona Terrace professional and first-time actors him into the sea and the night tide of a (including the majority of the actual watery death? Night Tide was restored Nazuna South Philadelphia String Band), this in 2008 by Film Archive film authentically captures the heritage with support from The Film Founda- SAT, APR 4 • 6:15 PM tion and . UW Cinematheque ORDER CODE: NAZUN04 of the Irish and Italian neighborhoods where fathers and sons pass on the tra- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Experimental • USA, 2007, Nora ditions that define their culture. Win- color, 35mm slides • 90 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A SEE: Dancescapes Director: Hitoshi Toyoda ner, Best Narrative Grand Jury Prize, SERIES: Disparate Voices: Asian American Film 2008 Slamdance; 2008 South by South- On a Tightrope Presented with the UW Asian American Studies west; Philadelphia film festivals. Not Quite Hollywood Program. THU, APR 2 • 11:00 PM ventions. Audiences applauded the draws the eye of both the handsome Pao homegrown marauding revheads in Choua and an older village elder, who Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. Orpheum Main ORDER CODE: NOTQU02 Night Tide brutish cars, spunky well-stacked hero- decides to marry the nyab himself. Lady A special live presentation of Hitoshi SUN, APR 5 • 7:30 PM WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary Toyoda’s 580-piece slideshow. His pho- • Australia, 2008, color, 35mm • 100 MIN ines, and the amazing stunts, unparal- Va Cha must intervene into the patriar- UW Cinematheque ORDER CODE: NIGHT05 tographic works reflect the details of Director: Mark Hartley leled in their quality and extreme dan- chal village politics to determine the fate everyday life, arranged in sequences that Narrative • USA, 1961, b&w, 35mm • 84 MIN Writer: Mark Hartley; cinematographer: Karl von ger! Viewer discretion advised. of her daughter-in-law. Working with Director: Curtis Harrington Moller; editor: Jamie Blanks, Sara Edwards, Mark what must be assumed to be first-time suggest music or poetry (although the Hartley; composer: Stephen Cummings and Billy show itself is silent). The result is both Writer: Curtis Harrington; cinematographer: Vilis Nyab Siab Zoo actors, director Abel Vang presents an Lapenieks; editor: Jodie Copelan; composer: David Miller; executive producer: Bruno Charlesworth, assured and nuanced story of Hmong invigorating and beautifully meditative. Raksin; choreography: Benjamin Zemach; executive Jonathan Shteinman, Paul Weigard and Nick (The Good-Hearted Daughter) culture, set in the recent past. Director The artist says: “It begins with my back- producer: Jules Schwartz; producer: Aram Batzias; producer: Michael Lynch and Craig Griffin; SAT, APR 4 • 1:15 PM yard garden in Brooklyn / one early sum- Kantarian; associate producer: H. Duane Weaver; line producer: Roslyn Walker Abel Vang is a Hmong-American cur- Play Circle ORDER CODE: NYABS04 mer day / Tokyo in the fall after eleven cast: , Linda Lawson, Luana Anders, Free-wheelin’ sex romps! Blood-soaked rently earning his MFA at USC’s School Gavin Muir terror tales! High-octane action extrav- SUN, APR 5 • 11:00 AM of Cinematic Arts. years / visiting a Japanese Amish village SERIES: Restorations and Revivals / bombing over Afghanistan continues aganzas! They’re the main ingredients Play Circle ORDER CODE: NYABS05 The Odyssey of the The late Curtis Harrington started out of Not Quite Hollywood, the first and MIDWEST PREMIERE • Narrative • Thailand, / it was just a mirror / days in a Buddhist after graduating from UCLA film school Average American in the monastery deep in the mountains / only detailed examination and celebra- USA, 2008, color, digital video as one of the best of the avant-garde tion of Australian genre cinema of the • 75 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A Last Half-Century spring has come / like a thin razor blade filmmakers of the 1950s. His short films Director: Abel Vang / that invisible sound / time at home / 70s and 80s. With interviews of Barry SEE: Shorts: Sunday @ Bartell were original, inventive and highly emo- Humphries (Dame Edna); stuntman Writer: Mee Y. Vang; story: Mee Y. Vang, Naoshoua Tokyo / once / things I photographed, tive of the Los Angeles of his youth. With Vang, Burlee Vang; director of photography: Abel Grant Page; Susanna York; Dennis Hop- Vang; editor: Abel Vang, Mee Y. Vang; sound editors: Of Time and the City the things I did not, the things I could Night Tide, he combined his experimen- not.” Presented by the Media Embassy. per; George Lazenby; Jamie Lee Cur- Abel Vang, Mee Y. Vang; music: Ko Yang; producer: tal background with a love for the hor- tis; dozens of directors, cinematogra- Brenda Thao, Albert Thao; first assistant director: FRI, APR 3 • 7:30 PM ror/mystery genre of his youth exempli- phers, and writers; and the biggest Khoua Zheng Yang; voice overs: Mary Yang, Mee Stage Door Theatre ORDER CODE: OFTIM03 The New Year Parade fied by the films of the great Val Lew- genre-film geek of them all, Quentin Y. Vang; cast: Ia Lee, Mee Her, Pha Thao, Ha Vang, SUN, APR 5 • 3:45 PM SAT, APR 4 • 3:45 PM Chue Vang, Mee Vang, Ma Yang ton. Dennis Hopper, in his first starring Tarantino (who explains how he bor- IN HMONG WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Stage Door Theatre ORDER CODE: OFTIM05 Wis Union Theatre ORDER CODE: NEWYE04 role, proves himself to be years ahead rowed scenes from Aussie films for SERIES: Disparate Voices: Asian American Film WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • United WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • USA, 2008, of his contemporary actors with this sub- Death Proof and Kill Bill). In 1971, with Presented with the UW Asian American Studies Kingdom, 2008, color, b&w, 35mm • 74 MIN color, digital video • 85 MIN tle, cool performance with an edgy sense the introduction of the R-certificate, Program. Director: Terence Davies Director: Tom Quinn of danger. Johnny Drake, a young sailor Australia’s censorship regime went from Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. Writer: Terence Davies; director of photography: Writer, producer, dp, editor: Tom Quinn; assistant on leave and at loose ends, wanders the repressive to progressive virtually Lady Va Cha returns to the northern Tim Pollard; editor: Liza Ryan-Carter; executive editor, gaffer, audio: Mark Doyle; producer: Steve producer: Christopher Moll and Lisa Marie Russo; Beal; cast: Andrew Conway, Irene Longshore, Greg ramshackle amusement piers of a sea- overnight. This cultural explosion gave lands of her husband’s clan, after the producer: Solon Papadopoulous and Roy Boulter; Lyons, Maryann McDonald, Tobias Segal, Jennifer side community. Shyly, he strikes up a birth to arthouse classics, such as Pic- death of him and their two sons. Trav- archive producer: Jim Anderson Welsh, South Philadelphia String Band conversation with a dark-haired girl lis- nic At Hanging Rock and My Brilliant eling with her is her daughter-in-law Presented with UW Center for European Studies. The New Year Parade follows Jack and tening to jazz at the local coffee shop. Career, but also spawned a group of (nyab), now also a widow who has made Acclaimed director Terence Davies (Long Kat McMonogul over the course of a This is Mora, a lovely, ethereal young demon-children: maverick filmmakers the decision to look after the elderly Lady Day Closes) guides this deeply personal year as their parents separate and strug- woman who turns out to be one of the who braved assault from all quarters to Va Cha even though it means going to tour of his native Liverpool. Comprised gle with their decisions as past indiscre- piers’ prize exhibits — a living mermaid! bring films like Alvin Purple, The Man a village that is not her own. With great mostly of vintage found footage and poet- tions are exposed. The family break- Naturally, Johnny doesn’t buy the old From , Patrick, Turkey Shoot, tenderness, the nyab cares for the aging ically narrated by Davies himself, this down is set against the backdrop of fish tale that this troubled girl is a true and Mad Max to the big screen. As woman, spending the days working in evocation of a lost time is refracted Philadelphia’s Mummery, one of the old- denizen of the deep, but disturbing and explicit, violent, and energetic as those the rice fields of the other villages, for through two deep-seated influences of WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 • WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • APRIL 2-5, 2009 WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • MADISON FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN est American folk traditions. Since pre- tantalizing clues start to hint at a super- from the U.S., Aussie genre movies pre- they have no fields of their own. As a the director’s youth: his burgeoning 22 revolutionary times, the working class natural explanation for her otherworldly sented a unique take on established con- young, dutiful woman she eventually homosexuality and the Church. But this Nyab Siab Zoo (The Good-Hearted Daughter) Of Time and the City walker ever. Maybe some day they can family. It’s not surprising that they take this baby is his. Levon is supportive but be as good as Adil? For now, just getting Pachamama pride in their work, even if that’s sim- is coping with his own domestic turmoil. the courage walk the rope is enough. (El Regalo de la Pachamama) ply packing the bag so that the eggs don’t Filmed in the seedy warehouse district, Some of them have been abandoned by FRI, APR 3 • 6:45 PM get crushed. What is surprising is that the film is a collaborative project that their families who have too many Wis Union Theatre ORDER CODE: PACHA03 the National Grocers Association’s Best involved a lot of improvisation, in part Bagger competition turns out to be a to get the right street feel and to let mouths to feed, and with the tightrope MIDWEST PREMIERE • Narrative • Bolivia, Japan, these youngsters are learning confidence, USA, 2008, color, digital video • 104 MIN thoroughly entertaining subject for a Prince be a real presence in the film. independence, and accomplishment. Director: Toshifumi Matsushita documentary. The free trip to Las Vegas Nominated, John Cassavetes Award, Producer, writer, editor: Toshifumi Matsushita; for the finals is certainly motivation for 2009 Independent Spirit Awards; win- One Last Time camera: Gustavo Soto Nuñez, Guillermo Ruiz, some state champs, as Vegas remains ner, Best Dramatic Feature, 2008 Los SEE: Shorts: Sunday @ Chazen Carlos Crespo, César Pérez Hurtado; music: Luzmila a kind of Mecca for America’s working Angeles; Best Feature Film, 2008 Wood- Pachamama Carpio; executive producer: Keiko Komori; cast: Christian Huaygua, Luis Mamani, Faniy Mosques, class. The rules are very specific: a fixed stock festival. is no “good ol’ days” reminiscence — Our Beloved Month Francisco Gutíerrez, Hilaria Cabrera assortment of grocery products is assem- bled and weighed. Contestants are La Queue du Train Davies’s love of Liverpool is too profound of August IN QUECHUA WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES (The Train Goes By) At Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni (salt lake), scored on speed and technique, mean- to be blind, and his nostalgia is laced (Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto) SEE: Atelier K with dry humor and crackling observa- where many families work to cut salt ing how securely and safely all the pieces tions. Extinct landmarks are lovingly cat- SAT, APR 4 • 11:00 AM blocks, a 13-year-old boy named Kunturi are packed (bread on top!). The teams Rare Chicken Rescue MMOCA ORDER CODE: OURBE04 cheering on their representatives also alogued, memories are vividly relayed, lives a traditional Quechua life with his SEE: Shorts: Fri @ Monona Terrace and particular scorn is reserved for the SUN, APR 5 • 6:15 PM family. One spring he joins his father on show how grocery store culture has changed: the ladies from the small-town opulent coronation of Queen Elizabeth MMOCA ORDER CODE: OURBE05 the grueling but life-changing caravan Rawhide! IGA who know everyone in their town, II and the town’s most famous export, WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • Portugal, journey that for many months will bring SEE: Visible Forces the Beatles (in Davies’s Liverpool, the 2008, color, 35mm • 147 MIN salt to villages in the mountains. They pitted against the youthful clerks from teenyboppers shimmy to Mahler). Director: Miguel Gomes wrap salt blocks in straw and strap them the high-end, organic superstore. Razzle Dazzle: Throughout it all, Davies flexes his Writer: Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo; onto the backs of llamas, who wear bright Papiroflexia cinematographer: Rui Poças; editor: Miguel Gomes, pink and green tassels in their ears. On The Lost World uncanny ability to squeeze transcenden- Churro, Miguel Gomes; art director: Bruno Duarte; SEE: Between the Folds tal power from milquetoast pop: you’ve costume designer: Mariana Ricardo; producer: the Ruta de la Sal (salt road), the good- THU, APR 2 • 8:45 PM WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM never heard “He Aint Heavy, He’s My Sandro Aguilar , Luís Urbano; production company: natured and inquisitive Kunturi discov- Paradoxes and Oxymorons Play Circle ORDER CODE: RAZZL02 Brother” quite like this. Even if you O Som E A Fúria, Shellac; cast: Sónia Bandeira, ers many new things, including his first SEE: Shorts: Sunday @ Chazen WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Experimental • USA, haven’t been to Liverpool, by the time Fábio Oliveira, Joaquim Carvalho armadillo. Salt is traded for other goods 2006, color, digital video • 92 MIN IN PORTUGUESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES which will come home with them when Passage Director: Ken Jacobs Of Time and the City draws to a close Presented with UW Center for European Studies. you’ll feel the pang of homesickness. their journey is done. Kunturi discovers SEE: Shorts: Sat @ Cinematheque Cinematographer: A.C. Abadie (8 July 1903); In a remote Portuguese mountain town, assistance: Erik Nelson, Flo Jacobs 2008 Cannes, Karlovy Vary, Toronto, what it means to be Quechua when he is a music festival is under way. Karaoke- Mar de Plata Film Festival. visited by spirits from the natural world Pink Dot Ken Jacobs writes: “Razzle Dazzle is an sounding bands play to nearly empty during the Tinku Festival in the town of SEE: Visible Forces early Edison shot cut off at its head and On a Tightrope fields, village elders swap tall tales, teens Macha. The “Pachamama” is a universal tail and along its four sides from the con- sunbathe and flirt, and a procrastinat- mother goddess of the Incas, and this film Prince of Broadway tinuity of events like any camera-shot THU, APR 2 • 5:00 PM ing film crew lazes about, collecting doc- from a bygone day; no, like any camera- indeed absorbs its strength from the stun- SUN, APR 5 • 3:30 PM Wis Union Theatre ORDER CODE: ONATI02 umentary footage with no clear end in ning landscape. “Portrays a vanishing way shot, immediately producing an abstrac- Bartell Theatre ORDER CODE: PRINC05 WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • Norway, sight. But as the film edges along, a nar- of life yet emerges as a delightful celebra- tion. This abstraction pictures a great Canada, 2007, color, digital video • 70 MIN rative slowly blossoms, and the puzzle tion of it….director Toshifumi Mat- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • USA, 2008, spinning maypole-like device lined with Director: Petr Lom pieces begin falling into place. Locations, color, digital video • 102 MIN young passengers dipping and lifting as sushita’s feature debut merges documen- Director: Sean Baker Coproducer, camera, editor: Petr Lom; music: songs, and characters from the docu- tary know-how with a charmingly loose it circles through space. They look out Reshide Dawut; executive producer: Anna mentary are recast as echoes of their for- Writer: Sean Baker, Darren Dean; cinematographer: Contomitros, Torstein Grude, Therese Jebsen, Jan road odyssey….Unpretentious and warm.” Sean Baker; editor: Sean Baker; producer: Darren — from their place at the start of the Rofekamp, Jan Ramstad; producer: Torstein Grude; mer selves: townspeople are reincarnated — Dennis Harvey, Variety. 2008 Mon- Dean; cast: Prince Adu, Karren Karagulian, Aiden 20th century — with a remarkable vari- associate producer: Bjarte Mørner Tveit as members of a family band, incestu- treal, Vancouver, Cleveland festivals. Noesi, Keyali Mayaga, Kat Sanchez, Victoria Tate ety of expressions, giddy to pensive. We IN UYGHUR, MANDARIN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES ous subplots emerge. Was the first half On the streets of New York it’s easy to observe them but of course they see SERIES: Inside Islam research for the second half? Is truth a Paper or Plastic? buy knock-off Louis Vuitton bags or Nike nothing of this, our America, hopelessly Presented with the UW Inside Islam Project. rehearsal for fiction — or is it the other shoes. Just find Lucky, an immigrant gone to rot, its mountaintops leveled for There’s an orphanage in the Chinese way around? This one-of-a-kind diptych SUN, APR 5 • 11:00 AM from Ghana who can show you where extraction of coal, rivers and air pol- province of Xinjiang where the children probes the intersection of documentary Wis Union Theatre ORDER CODE: PAPER05 to find the best. He works for Levon, luted, crisscrossed everywhere with study tightrope walking along with their and narrative, suggesting that story and WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, 2008, who runs a shop with a room in back property-lines; they don’t see its pris- math and reading. The region is home reality are actually parallel echoes of one color, digital video • 80 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A filled with jackets and other counterfeit ons or the corporations leaning in from Director: Alex D. da Silva, Justine Jacob to ethnic Uyghurs, the largest Muslim another. Ravishingly photographed and gear. Lucky is cool, not quite a hustler their off-shore tax-bases to see what Cinematographer: Alex D. da Silva; editor: Andrew minority in China, and tightrope walk- brilliantly assembled, Our Beloved Month Gersh, Garret Savage; original music: Marco but certainly an outgoing, friendly kind more they can take. Early stereopticon ing (dawaz) is a very old tradition here. of August is a travelogue to get lost in, D’Ambrosio; executive producer: Oren Jacob, of guy. One day his cool gets ruffled when images also appear, digitally manipu- Continuing this tradition is a way to an indigenous film created by tourists. Graham Walters; producer: Justine Jacob one of his former girlfriends shows up lated to reveal their depths. A digital maintain their identity in a nation where It’s also a fascinating window into the Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. with a toddler in tow, claiming he’s shadow falls upon the scene and yet, their quest for religious and political filmmaking process that you’ll continue When politicians in national campaigns Lucky’s son. She’s at the end of her tether, grim as things get, as our crimes and autonomy is crushed by the government. to unlock long after the credits roll. talk about the “real America,” this is who needs a few weeks to chill out. Lucky failures then and now commingle, the But for the kids, four of whom are fea- “Absolutely the best film of 2008” — they mean. Men and women who earn is left holding the bag: the diaper bag. movie proceeds with a cubist/abstract- tured, the tightrope is an exciting chal- Adrian Martin, Rouge. 2008 Cannes; their living as grocery-store cashiers and He’s got to figure out how to take care expressionist zest.” lenge and a reason to hope for some- winner, Critics Award, 2008 São Paulo; baggers. Sure, some are teenagers just of baby Prince (who really is the star of thing good in the future. They all know winner, Critics Award and Best Film, earning some supplemental cash, but this film), track down the mother who Return of the Black Tower the fame of Adil, the greatest tightrope Valdivia International Film Festival. for others it’s how they support their has disappeared, and he’s not even sure SEE: Visible Forces 23 Serbis

Revanche Rhythmic Uprising (Insurreição Rítmica) eye. This variation on a thematic struc- ture, a hallmark of Benning’s most recent films, enlivens the senses as we eagerly await the next train, each building a suc- cessive rhythm, pictorial depth and sense of vibrating illusionism. Filmed in six- teen states — through the sun-soaked, arid fields of Caliente, California, the RR panoramic salt flats in Utah, the lus- quite some time. And if you need cious greens of the kudzu in Mississippi, another endorsement, know this: and then over the Hudson River — RR Revanche is the first film to receive the- reveals the astonishing diversity of the atrical distribution by tastemaking DVD land. The American pastoral tradition boutique The Criterion Collection, in contains its own fabled history. Benning conjunction with old-school titans Janus peppers his synch-sound recording with MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 excerpts and songs that provide a clever www.wifilmfest.org Films. “Spielman has achieved a major artistic breakthrough…it’s clear that counterpoint to the images, obliquely Revanche Revanche marks something crucial to invoking past events including the Viet- European film at this time.” — Cinema nam War…. RR can be seen as a medi- SAT, APR 4 • 9:45 PM Scope. Winner, Best European Film, tation on nostalgia, the unadulterated Stage Door Theatre ORDER CODE: REVAN04 2008 Berlin Film Festival; Best Foreign Secret Sunshine (Miryang) joys of waiting, Western over-consump- SUN, APR 5 • 11:15 AM Language Film, 2009 Palm Springs Film tion, and the cinema itself. Train-spot- Stage Door ORDER CODE: REVAN05 Festival. Viewer discretion advised. sions named Circo Picolino, a theater came YouTube. A small but persistent ting has never been so rewarding.” WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • , group that portrays African myths fan group has been restoring the good Sapsucker 2008, color, 35mm • 121 MIN named Bejé Eró, and a Capoeira Angola Rhythmic Uprising name of the Rock-afire Explosion, sal- SEE: Shorts: Sunday @ Chazen Director: Götz Spielmann (Insurreição Rítmica) association named ACANNE. Histori- vaging parts and rebuilding complete Writer: Götz Spielmann; cinematographer: Martin cal Afro-Brazilian cultural conventions band installations. The animals are Sebastian’s Voodoo Gschlacht; editor: Karina Ressler; sound: Heinz FRI, APR 3 • 8:15 PM featured in the film include capoeira, reprogrammed to sing along to contem- Ebner; sound editor: Bernhard Bamberger; SEE: Shorts: Animations Play Circle ORDER CODE: RHYTH03 costumes: Monika Buttinger; producer: Mathias candomblé, quilombos, afoxês, and blo- porary songs, and these have become Forberg, Heinz Stussak, Götz Spielmann, Sandra U.S. PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, Brazil, 2008, cos afros. online hits. At the heart of this effort is Secret Sunshine (Miryang) Bohle; line producer: Stephanie Wagner; cast: color, digital video • 65 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A Chris Thrash, a car salesman from Johannes Krisch, Ursula Strauss, Andreas Lust, Director: Benjamin Watkins River Lines SAT, APR 4 • 5:30 PM Irina Potapenko, Hannes Thanheiser, Hanno Pöschl Phenix City, Alabama who purchased a Art director: Andy Taray; executive producer: Gregory SEE: Shorts: Sunday @ Bartell Orpheum Main ORDER CODE: SECRE04 IN GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Swingle; co-producer: Eliciana Nascimento, Paulo Rock-afire Explosion, which is now Presented with UW Center for European Studies. Rogério Nunes; research coordinator: Keiko Tamura housed in its own air-conditioned trailer WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • South Korea, 2007, color, 35mm • 142 MIN IN PORTUGUESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES The Rock-afire in his back yard. In this film, you’ll also Nominated for the 2009 Academy Director: Lee Chang-dong Award for Best Foreign Film, this Aus- Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. Explosion meet Aaron Fechter, the inventor who The celebrated Afro-Brazilian region of created the animatronics and once had Executive producer: Kim In-Soo, Lee Chang-Dong; trian thriller is divided between chaotic THU, APR 2 • 11:15 PM producer: Hanna Lee; writer: Lee Chang-Dong; infinity of the city and the deceptive tran- Bahia is known for its vibrant dance and over 300 employees making rubber original story: Yi Chong-Jun; cinematographer: Cho Bartell Theatre ORDER CODE: ROCKA02 quility of the woods. Reduced to pros- music groups. This film is a look behind molds, airbrushing faces, and soldering Yong-Kyu; editor: Kim Hyun; lighting: Chu In-Sik; titution in a seedy Vienna brothel, the scenes of those carnaval spectacles SUN, APR 5 • 5:30 PM the electronics that keep these animals recording: Yoon Hai-Jin; sound: Steve R. Seo; art: Sihn Jeom-Hui; costumes: Cha Sun-Young; make- Bartell Theatre ORDER CODE: ROCKA05 Ukranian immigrant Tamara isn’t a to see how local cultural leaders utilize singing. Go ahead, check out the up: Song Jong-Hee; cast: Jeon Do-Yeon, Song Kang- woman with loads of options. So when these arts to change lives. Bahia is home WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, YouTube clips and you too might be con- Ho, Seon Jung-yeop hired helper Alex offers to rescue her to the largest concentration of African 2009, color, digital video • 71 MIN verted. IN KOREAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES and flee together to a better (or at least descendants outside of Africa. Brazil’s Director: Brett Whitcomb SERIES: Focus on South Korea different) life, she’s inclined to take him blacks have used Afro-Brazilian cultural Writer: Brad Thomason; producer: Brett Whitcomb RR Presented with UW Center for East Asian up on it, no matter how farfetched his conventions to maintain their African The world can be divided into two kinds FRI, APR 3 • 5:00 PM Studies. heritage and to resolve poverty, racism, of people: those for whom animatronic While driving to her dead husband’s plan might seem. Yes, it involves a bank UW Cinematheque ORDER CODE: RRRRR03 robbery, but this is no simple genre pic- and oppression over the last four cen- musical bands are a source of great sat- hometown of Miryang, Shin-ae and her WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Experimental • USA, ture: Tamara doesn’t have a heart of turies. As freed-slave communities called isfaction and delight, and everyone else. 2007, color, 16mm • 117 MIN young son Jun have broken down on the gold, and their lovers-on-the run saga quilombos did during the time of slav- With The Rock-afire Explosion, we can Director: James Benning side of a road. It’s not clear to us, and gets derailed well before she and Alex ery, cultural leaders featured in the film all come together and either indulge our Cinematographer, editor, sound, producer: James maybe not even to Shin-ae, why she wants can become Austria’s answer to Bonnie are rejecting the racist, unbalanced secret passion, or see how the other half Benning; production company: James Benning / to move to this provincial backwater. A and Clyde. Their fates are intertwined power structures of modern Brazilian lives. At the high point, Showbiz Pizza Westdeutscher Rundfunk stage of grief, perhaps. Jong-chan, the guy with a parallel couple, a policeman and society by organizing their own commu- restaurants had almost 200 installations Milwaukee native James Benning from the local car repair place, gives her housewife living on the outskirts of town. nities. They cultivate social institutions of this cartoon animal band of Fats brought several of his landscape films a tow. Being the kind of good-natured fel- As the setting moves from Vienna’s red based on equality and African heritage Geronimo, Mitzi Mozzerella, Dook to WFF05. This recent work assembles low who likes to help people, he offers to light district to Austria’s sparsely pop- that function as a refuge for at-risk black Larue, Beach Bear, and more. A spec- 43 shots of trains sliding across the help her get settled into the community. ulated countryside, the characters trade youth. In contrast to larger Brazilian tacular corporate demise during chang- American landscape. Andréa Picard of Shin-ae opens a piano school, and grad- the anonymity of urban crime for the society, these groups empower and ing times (the Showbiz restaurants got the Toronto Film Festival described the ually tries to make a home here for her- deep-seated motivations of revenge. Bril- encourage their youth to pursue brighter converted into Chuck E. Cheese) threat- film beautifully: “The near-classically self and Jun. Sweet, clueless Jong-chan liantly constructed and exactingly lensed, futures. Featured in this film are a female ened the memory of the motley musi- composed shots in RR are determined persists in tagging along after her, atten-

WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 • WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • APRIL 2-5, 2009 WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • MADISON FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN this is one of the boldest Oscar nomi- drum corps named DiDá, a circus troupe cal crew that brought joy to the hearts by the length and speed of the trains that tion she’s not encouraging. Things start 24 nees in any category to come along in heavily rooted in Afro-Brazilian expres- of so many pizza-eating kids. And then he observes with his mathematician’s to go wrong for Shin-ae as an indirect Rare Chicken Rescue Sebastian’s Voodoo Ladies of the Land result of her trying to fit in; she portrays “Superb… teems with vitality, humor, and women. Although women have always technology to create new persona. An herself as someone she’s not, and this gets anguish.” — Los Angeles Times. Winner, been involved in farming, it has long agoraphobic young women descends rumors circulating that lead to a terrible, Golden Kinnaree Award, 2008 Bangkok; been thought of as a “man’s job.” Tra- into a fragile inner world. To encourage terrible tragedy. Shin-ae is unable to cope 2008 Cannes, Toronto, and New York ditionally, farm women have often iden- her confidence, she visits an online until she accepts the invitation of the phar- Film Festivals. Viewer discretion advised. tified themselves as something other matchmaking site where she starts a macist’s wife to come to church and come than the “farmer.” That’s all changing. cyber-romance, and she can imagine to Jesus. Shin-ae throws herself into con- She Used to See Him Most This film introduces us to several women herself as anyone she wants to be. version with zealotry, seeking relief from Weekends who running their own agricultural Matwiejew’s film Insect played at the the burdens of loss and loneliness and SEE: Jim’s Experimental Shorts enterprises, ranging from modest gar- 2007 Wisconsin Film Festival. anger. (Jeon Do-yeon earned the Best dens to CSA farms to organic pastured Ghost Conversations Actress honors at the 2007 Cannes Film Shorts: Friday beef herds. Included in the interviews Yard Work is Hard Work WORLD PREMIERE • Animated • USA, 2008, Festival). Complex, riveting, patient, and @ Monona Terrace is Rebecca Claypool, a student in the color, digital video • 9 MIN intense. 2007 Cannes, New York, Tel- UW-Madison Agroecology program. Director: Jeremy Bessoff FRI, APR 3 • 7:00 PM stop-motion wonderland is utterly luride, London film festivals. Print cour- Fishin’ for Tradition: unique. If only real-life problems were Puppeteers: Lynn Kuhlman, Bonie Montgomery; tesy of the Korean Film Council. Print Monona Terrace ORDER CODE: SFRMO03 music: Aziola Cry; additional sounds and audio The Lutefisk Saga so charming. Jodie Mack is a Chicago- mastering: Jeff Konrad courtesy of the Korean Film Council. TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 85 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A based artist working in various forms of Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. WORLD PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, 2009, SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own color, digital video • 30 MIN cut-out and stop-motion animation. Heartbreak and loss becomes a charac- Serbis Rare Chicken Rescue Director: Eric J. Nelson The Song of the Mermaid ter itself as a woman pines for the return MIDWEST PREMIERE • Documentary • Australia, FRI, APR 3 • 11:15 PM Cinematographer: Eric J. Nelson; editor/producer: WORLD PREMIERE • Animated • USA, 2009, 2008, color, digital video • 26 MIN of her husband lost somewhere in World Kipp Norman; animator/producer: K.C. Norman; color, digital video • 12 MIN Bartell Theatre ORDER CODE: SERBI03 producer: Kristin Larson War II. This dream conjures the ghost Director: Randall Wood Director: Troy Morgan SUN, APR 5 • 7:30 PM Writer: Randall Wood; cinematographer: Randall SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own of a Flying Ace and traps him between Writer: Troy Morgan, Jason Adair; music: Dean Wood; editor: Scott Walton; sound: Greg Docwra; two inescapable landscapes: the deso- Bartell Theatre ORDER CODE: SERBI05 The joy of lutefisk, the Norwegian cod Harada; producer: Troy Morgan; cast: Jason Adair, composer: Brett Aplin; executive producer: Trish Heather Bursch lation of war and the safety of domes- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • , Lake, Mark Hamlyn; producer: Vickie Gest treat preserved with caustic soda, is cap- 2008, color, digital video • 93 MIN ticity. Puppeteers Lynn Kuhlman and SERIES: Film·Able: Disabilities on Screen; The Cream tured here, through interviews with In one of the most richly fantastic set- Director: Brillante Ma. Mendoza Bonie Blachley live in Milwaukee, where and the Crop: Farming and the Land on Film. dozens of diners at Sons of Norway tings of any film in this festival, Song of WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM Writer: Armando Lao, Boots Agbayani Pastor; Presented with the UW Department of Rehabil- lodges, church suppers, and other gath- the Mermaid tells the haunting tale of the film was shot. director of photography: Odyssey Flores; editor: itation Psychology and Special Education; Cen- erings. Madison, Minn., the lutefisk cap- a lighthouse keeper and his sweetheart, Sebastian’s Voodoo Claire Villa-Real; sound: Emmanual Nolet Clemente; ter for Integrated Agricultural Systems. music: Gian Gianan; production design: Benjamin ital of the U.S. (the mayor says that no who is drawn to the sound of the sea. WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Animated • USA, 2008, Padero, Carlo Tabije; art direction: Harley Alcasid, Queensland rare-chicken breeder Mark one else was challenging for that title so Troy Morgan’s film Dragon played at the color, digital video • 4 MIN Deans Habal; executive producer: Didier Costet; Tully is now on a mission to protect her- they just took it), holds a lutefisk-eat- 2006 Wisconsin Film Festival. Director: Joaquin Baldwin producer: Ferdinand Lapuz; associate producer: itage poultry breeds before they are gone ing contest each year. You know you’re A voodoo doll must find the courage to Renato Esguerra; supervising producer: Antonio forever. In Australia, chicken species Chicken of God save his friends from being pinned to Del Rosario, JC Nigado; cast: Gina Pareño, Jaclyn in the heart of the Lutheran Upper Mid- MIDWEST PREMIERE • Australia, 2008, digital Jose, , Coco Martin, Kristofer King, Dan such as the Sumatran, the Phoenix, the west when squeezable bottles of “I Can’t video • 9 MIN death. Created at the UCLA Animation Alvaro, Mercedes Cabral, Roxanne Jordan Transylvanian Naked Neck, the Span- Believe It’s Not Butter” are the official Director: Frank Woodley Workshop, with music by Nick Fevola. IN TAGALOG WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES ish, the Azeel and even the humble condiment. The history of this noble fish Writer: Frank Woodley, Clem Stamation; animation: Atlantis Unbound Welcome to a warm and sunny day in the Leghorn are just some of the breeds is told with animation, music and enthu- Clem Stamation; music: Mal Webb; sound design: MADISON PREMIERE • Animated • USA, 2007, life of a dilapidated adult movie theater under threat. One of Australia’s many siasm. Director Eric J. Nelson is a Madi- Erin McKimm; sound mixer: Brian Laurence; b&w, 16mm • 14 MIN in the bustling Filipino Angeles City, for- “poultry fanciers,” Tully embarks on a producer: Jodi Satya, Frank Woodley; consultant Director: Lori Hiris son resident, a frequent collaborator producer: Philippa Campey; cast: Frank Woodley, mer home to a US Air Force base whose “chicken chase” that covers 10,000 kilo- with Kipp and KC Norman, and has Irene Guzowski Animation: Lori Hiris; music: Natalie Farr cadets once made up its clientele. Incon- metres and spans five Australian states worked on several films shown at past When the last chicken on the farm Loosely inspired by the utopian novel gruously named the Family, the theater as he tracks down rare heritage breeds Wisconsin Film Festivals. appears to have miraculous powers, the The New Atlantis, written by Sir Francis is operated by a large extended family and meets others who share his passion. farmer and his wife bet their lucky stars Bacon in 1627. Bacon, the philosopher whose matriarch maintains a tenuous While Tully spends his days rescuing Shorts: Animations that he’ll bring them good fortune. of the new science of progress and tech- control over their future. While the Fam- poultry, he reveals that the uncondi- nology, sets the stage for the main char- ily teems with illicit behavior — thieves tional love of his large collection of SAT, APR 4 • 11:00 AM The Beast That Swallows Its acter Francis Galton to ponder the secrets are on the prowl, transsexual hustlers pop- turkeys, chooks and other birds — and UW Cinematheque ORDER CODE: SANIM04 Young of heredity. Myth and history are inter- ulate its corridors, and even the projec- the serenity he finds in their company TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 100 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • USA, 2008, woven in the act of drawing and erasing tionist gets some action — the family run- — has helped save his own life after a Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. color, digital video • 5 MIN and the metamorphosis of images. ning it deals with far less exotic troubles: long battle with mental illness. Yard Work is Hard Work Director: Matt Kresling The director of The Milk Can (WFF06), Mite (Milbe) unwanted pregnancies, bills, estrange- Ladies of the Land WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Animated • USA, 2008, MIDWEST PREMIERE • Animated • Germany, ments, court cases. The connections WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, color, 16mm • 29 MIN returns with a witty musical number 2008, color, 35mm • 6 MIN between the family members are almost 2007, color, digital video • 29 MIN Director: Jodie Mack about the burden of student loans. Director: Karl Tebbe as labyrinthine as the movie house itself, Director: Megan Thompson Almost certainly the only stop-motion dot com Writer: Karl Tebbe; cinematographer: Jaime Barrios; which is riddled with hideaways for Cast: Lyn Garling, Kim Tait, Elly Hushour, Suzy musical about the housing crisis, Jodie NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE • Animated • Australia, editor: Ivan Morales, Jr.; sound design: Florian Essig; quickie hookups and massive stairwells Chavie, Rebecca Claypool, Amy Trauger, Carolyn Mack’s handcrafted animation will speak 2008, color, digital video • 7 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A music: Boris Joens, Ole Wulfers; set and puppet Sachs Director: Magda Matwiejew design: Frances Soeder, Miriam Gröber; producer: for chaotic chase sequences. The place SERIES: The Cream and the Crop: Farming and the to anyone who’s ever tried to get their feet Marjorie Bendeck; animation: Marjorie Bendeck; rivals Tsai Ming-Liang’s theater in Good- on the ground. Young newlyweds pour Live footage: Nick Black; sound design, assistant cast: Helga Uthmann, Alexander Maria Schmidt Land on Film. editor: Paul Fletcher; dot com song: lemonade bye Dragon Inn (WFF04) as an embod- Presented with the UW Center for Integrated Agri- their heart and souls into their starter Lamarr; producer, animation: Magda Matwiejew; IN GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES iment of the evocative memories of cin- cultural Systems. home, but find the cold reality of bills cast: Lemonade Lamarr, Angelo Ainalidis; voice The dust mites are taking over his grand- emas that turn young viewers into inno- As small, family farms disappear, and interfering with their nascent domestic over: Lyn Mcleod mother’s house, and all she can say is vative filmmakers. Graphic and frank but large, mechanized farms dominate bliss. A welcome respite from the com- Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. “Wa wa wa.” Karl Tebbe’s film Infinite never tawdry, Serbis defies categorization American agriculture, a new kind of puter animated monotony clotting our This short film is an experimental ani- Justice played at the 2008 Wisconsin at every turn — it’s a skin flick with a brain. farmer is sprouting up across the land: multiplexes, Mack’s vision of suburbia as mation exploring the use of modern Film Festival. 25 Cheese Wars

Michael Schmidt: Organic Hero or Bioterrorist?

Audience Award Winner Naomi & Irving The Last Page Bill and Art Shorts: Saturday searching for the brilliant final line that These technical dinosaurs become a Annie Lloyd will sum up everything noble in his novel. document and an allegory of Wie- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, @ Chazen Stepping out for a coffee to clear his head, singer’s timeless imagination of travel. 2008, color, digital video • 18 MIN SAT, APR 4 • 1:45 PM he gets swept up in a bizarre series of Ecstatic Vessels Director: Cecelia Condit events that make for one of the funniest Cinematographer, producer, screenwriter, performer: Chazen Museum ORDER CODE: SSACH04 WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Experimental • USA, films in this festival. Showing off a cast 2007, color, 16mm • 21 MIN Cecelia Condit; music: Christopher Burns MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 80 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A of superb character actors, director Kevin Director: Diane Kitchen SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own www.wifilmfest.org Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. Acevedo made this film as his MFA the- SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own Annie Lloyd is an unflinching valentine Shorts: Saturday Audience Award Winner sis project for Chapman University. With Light and color shake and stream through to Condit’s mother in her last years. WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • USA, 2008, his collaborators Matt Akey and Yash the Wisconsin woods. Diane Kitchen is Focusing on a very sturdy present tense @ Bartell color, digital video • 15 MIN Bhatt, he’s someone to watch. a professor of film at UW-Milwaukee. and a past that is forgiving, mother and SAT, APR 4 • 3:00 PM Director: KC Norman, Kipp Norman daughter come together to form a new Writer, producer, editor: KC & Kipp Norman; sound Lost World (Letûnt világ) relationship that may only have been Bartell Theatre ORDER CODE: SSABA04 Shorts: Saturday editor: Maya Kuper; sound recordist: Jesse McAlpin; WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • Hungary, possible during her mother’s final years. TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 70 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A composer: Ryan O’Cotmor; music: Las Malas @ Cinematheque Finland, 2008, color, b&w, 35mm • 22 MIN Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. Amistades & Crispus Attucks; art director: Ryan Director: Nemes Gyula Director Cecilia Condit is a film profes- Van Ert; cast: Katie Enright, Brendan Donaldson, SAT, APR 4 • 1:30 PM sor at UW-Milwaukee. Cheese Wars Director of photography: Dobóczi Balázs; editor: Anne Jaques, Tom Bateman UW Cinematheque ORDER CODE: SSACI03 Martin BlažíŁek; producer: Nemes Gyula, Sari Naomi & Irving WORLD PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, 2008, SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own Volanen; production company: Absolut Film Studio, color, digital video • 24 MIN TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 85 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, Morgan was an actor in her friend’s short YLE 2007, b&w, digital video • 4 MIN Director: Taylor Pipes Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. film, now showing at a local film festi- In his latest film, director Gyula Nemes Director: Laura Bouza Director of photography: Duane Moles; editor, Somewhere Between Here follows on from his previous visual producer, sound: Taylor Pipes; music: Roy A. Baril val. A comical dispute erupts when her In Boyton Beach, Fla., Naomi (age 80) and There study The Dike of Transience with a SERIES: The Cream and the Crop: Farming and boyfriend, who thinks the film’s direc- and Irving (90) share the exercise rou- the Land on Film; Wisconsin’s Own tor is an idiot, doesn’t want to go to the MIDWEST PREMIERE • Experimental • Canada, USA, film of related theme and form. In raw tines that keep them mobile and ener- 2008, color, b&w, digital video • 11 MIN screening. The real filmmakers, Wis- black-and-white images, we encounter getic. Director Laura Bouza is a recent As California’s milk and cheese produc- Director: Liss Platt tion has skyrocketed, is has changed consin brothers Kipp and KC Norman, the inhabitants of the houseboats and graduate of the California Institute of Writer, editor, camera: Liss Platt; additional camera: tin shacks close to Budapest’s Kopaszi Wisconsin’s position as America’s Dairy- now work in Chicago. Kyle Kuchmey, Emile Devereaux; sound design: the Arts Program in Film/Video. land. This documentary compares the A Song Without a Name Mary Feaster dam. Eventually, all is pushed aside to Bill and Art make way for modern new riverfront standard dairies out west (5000-cow MIDWEST PREMIERE • Narrative • USA, 2008, Comprised of images of Brooklyn, N.Y., WORLD PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, 2008, operations milked on metal carousels) color, digital video • 17 MIN Hamilton, Ont., and the roadways that homes. The fading melancholic ambi- color, digital video • 23 MIN with our own local farms (small herds Director: Chris Newberry connect these cities, Somewhere Between ence and the specific poetic quality of Director: Chuck Johannsen, Dal Lazlo with more pasture). Both claim advan- Camera, editor: Chris Newberry; grip, electric, Here and There is a rumination on the location are intensified by the On-screen artist: Dal Lazlo; editor assistant: Bill tages that the other doesn’t have — so sound: Mike Forstein; cast: Kimbery Joy Morgan, soundtrack performed by members of Bedford; producer, camera operator, editor: Chuck Kermit Carter places we call home. It explores the Johannsen; crew: Jack Sweeney; cast: Bill Sweeney which is better? Higher yields per cow, complexities of coming and going, and Dunakeszi Railway Band. Winner, Best Two friends spend a night camping in SERIES: Film·Able: Disabilities on Screen; Wis- or better tasting cheese made with tra- how you lose a new place when you Short Film, 2008 Karlovy Vary, Navarre the woods. The actors perfectly capture consin’s Own. dition? Go Wisconsin! Director Taylor return to the old. festivals. the sweet humor and awkwardness of Presented with UW Department of Rehabilitation Pipes, a broadcast journalism graduate Passage Psychology & Special Education. from UW-Milwaukee, now lives in San two friends who know each through a Shorts: Saturday Bill Sweeney was paralyzed in a car acci- larger social circle, and are now hang- Experimental • Germany, 2008, b&w, 16mm Francisco. • 28 MIN dent. The only movement he has below ing out together, just the two of them. @ Monona Terrace Director: Telemach Wiesinger the neck is a little control of one hand, Michael Schmidt: Organic Director Chris Newberry is from Min- SAT, APR 4 • 11:00 AM Camera, editor, producer: Telemach Wiesinger; enough to operate a computer mouse. Hero or Bioterrorist? neapolis. music: Tobias Schwab; production company: MfG Monona Terrace ORDER CODE: SSAMO04 U.S. PREMIERE • Documentary • Canada, 2008, After his accident, two of his old friends, Una y Otra Vez Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg; cast: Elke Baur, TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 75 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A the artist Dal Lazlo and filmmaker Chuck color, digital video • 45 MIN Félix Csajka, Markus Dörner, Marina & Steven Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. Director: Norman Lofts (Time and Again) Foxley, Andreas Gogol, Georgios Kokolatos, Dieter Johannsen, made two videos with Bill, Writer, narrator: Lisa Wood; camera: Adam Finley, WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • USA, 2008, Krauss, Wolfgang Lehmann, Robert Messner, Jon Wos: Evolution of an Artist one about how a paralyzed guy improves Norman Lofts, Paul Vaculik; editor: Adam Finley, color, digital video • 27 MIN Barbara Müller-Wiesinger, Gabriele Röthemeyer, WORLD PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, 2008, his life and happiness by his interest in Norman Lofts; production company: Snowy Owl Director: Antonio Mendez Ben Russel, Tobias Schwab, Christoph Stierle, color, digital video • 6 MIN art. After that film, Bill started doing his Productions Michael Wiesinger, Ulrich Zaiser IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Director: Mark Röethke own art with Photoshop, reinventing SERIES: The Cream and the Crop: Farming and Presented with the UW Department of German; Director: Mark Röethke; subject: Jon Wos the Land on Film Pedro works in a wire basket factory, Madison-Freiburg Sister City Committee. himself by placing his image in the art where someone else is always ready to SERIES: Film·Able: Disabilities on Screen; Wis- masterworks of western civilization. The Milk Act of 1938 made it illegal to Passage is both a subjective report of consin’s Own take his job. He meets a girl, falls in love, sell raw (unpasteurized) milk in Canada. a journey and a film about movable Presented with the UW Department of Rehabil- Thus Spake John In November 2006, twenty-five armed and follows his dreams. bridges. Telemach Wiesinger visited itation Psychology and Special Education. WORLD PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, 2008, officers staged a raid at Michael The Last Page waterfronts in France, Germany, Eng- “People need to have more pride. Noth- color, digital video • 23 MIN Schmidt’s farm, confiscating milk, equip- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • USA, 2008, land, Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands ing’s going to change until people feel Director: Andreas Burgess ment, computers and files. This film fol- color, digital video • 22 MIN and the to record mov- better about themselves.” In one com- Camera: Andreas Burgess, Jim Isler; editor, Director: Kevin Acevedo producer: Andreas Burgess; post-production audio: lows an activist farmer as he struggles ing images of historic swing- and lift pact film, painter Jon Wos explains his Austin Storms; composer: Marla Hansen; performer: to continue providing his “farm fresh Writer: Kevin Acevedo; cinematographer: Yash bridges, the last hovercrafts, and gigan- transformation as he came to under- John Basinger Bhatt; producer, writer: Matt Akey; cast: Andrew milk” while battling authorities, prepar- Burlinson, Mekenna Melvin, Megan Cavanagh, tic ship hoists. Many masterpieces of stand the value of art. Born in Dodgeville SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own ing for his trial, and attempting to find Mark Decarlo, Emily Rose, Wilton Godfrey, bridge construction from the heyday and now living in Oskosh, director Mark In 1993, a retired theatre professor, sto- WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 • WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • APRIL 2-5, 2009 WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • MADISON FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN a political solution to legally provide raw Michael Rivkin of ship and railway constructions are Röethke is also a graduate of the UW- ryteller, and sign language actor in Con- 26 milk in Canada. Writer’s block is hitting hard. Jason is nowadays dismantled or fall into ruins. Oshkosh Radio/TV/Film program. necticut named John Basinger started #1 (Fall, Winter 08) Small Comforts Birthdate Fate Scores

Sapsucker Beelin’ 76% Chance memorizing all 12 books of John Mil- National Park. Brian (UW-Madison Shorts: Sunday Fate Scores Sapsucker ton’s Paradise Lost to memory. Eight BFA grad) and Isshaela live in Den- WORLD PREMIERE • Narrative • USA, 2008, MIDWEST PREMIERE • Narrative • USA, 2008, and half years larer, he performed the ver, Colo. @ Chazen color, digital video • 12 MIN color, digital video • 12 MIN entire poem in a fully staged one-man The Garden SUN, APR 5 • 1:00 PM Director: Albert M. Chan Director: Christopher Holmes show. Using interviews, verité rehearsal Assistant directors: Alecia Batson, Richard Producer, writer, cinematographer, editor: WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • USA, 2009, Chazen Museum ORDER CODE: SSUCH05 and preparation footage, and notes and color, digital video • 40 MIN Possemato; writer, producer: Albert M. Chan; Christopher Holmes; composer: Benjamin Kamen; TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 80 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A director of photography: Aaron Howland; editor: cast: Phillip Ward text from Basinger’s dog-eared copy Director: Ryan Philippi Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. Aaron Howland; associate producer: Aaron Howland, One man’s determination to track down of the epic, Thus Spake John tells the Video, sound, editor: Ryan Philippi; cast: Brian Seth Howland; cast: Albert M. Chan, Heidi Rhodes, story of how and why this unique man Flavin, Theresa & Ralph Bernardi Small Comforts Mary Niederkorn, Jonathan Vittum, Angela Gunn, a woodpecker which has been wreaking took on and executed this unique feat. SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • USA, 2008, Brian D. Evans, Ben Katz, Kandace Cummings, havoc on his house puts him on the Filmmaker Andreas Burgess is origi- In the vast inland wasteland surround- color, digital video • 10 MIN Katrina Morhacova, Roxanne Y. Morse warpath. What he discovers in his pur- SERIES: Disparate Voices: Asian American Film nally from Madison. ing Los Angeles, at a point where the Director: Hannah Dallman suit is an ecology of sight and sound that Presented with the UW Asian American Studies accelerating expanse of suburban Writer, producer: Hannah Dallman; composer, is far more surreal than he’d bargained original score, executive producer: Matthew Program. for. Sapsucker uses footage from the Shorts: Sunday sprawl meets the Mojave Desert, The Dallman; producer: Luz Agudelo; production A city park bench becomes a place where University of Cornell’s Lab of Ornithol- Garden observes the inner life of a manager: Nassoma Vernon; assistant director: Ryan strangers sit, react to each other, and @ Bartell young man as he labors anonymously Longfellow; cast: Emma Chanen, Kim Dildine, Luke ogy to forge a delirious vision of ulti- Renn, Marrakesh Glasspool-Frugia find humor and harmony in every day SUN, APR 5 • 1:00 PM in tract housing developments. With mate justice. SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own situations. An experienced actor, this is Bartell Theatre ORDER CODE: SSUBA05 slow and sensuous precision, the evo- Paradoxes and Oxymorons Moira’s mom works at a local pizza Albert’s first film as director. TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 85 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A lution of the landscape is played out MADISON PREMIERE • Experimental • USA, restaurant, scraping together enough Avocat Dos Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. upon the face of this young worker — 2008, color, digital video • 2 MIN change to pay the bills. When Moira U.S. PREMIERE • Narrative • Canada, 2008, Director: Kate Raney #1 (Fall, Winter 08) a face arrested by loneliness and appre- starts to feel the loss of some attention, color, digital video • 5 MIN hension. In the mundane and in fleet- Animator: Kate Raney; poet: John Ashbery; narrator: WORLD PREMIERE • Narrative • USA, 2008, due to both her mom’s job and her new Director: Jules Saulnier DJ Spooky; celloist: Ray Chi WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM color, digital video • 2 MIN ing glimpses of radiant beauty, we wit- boyfriend, she dreams of a way to bring Cinematographer: Lawrence Côtè-Collins; sound SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own Director: Dannon Raith ness this man and the world he creates coziness back into their lives. Combin- mix: François Lafrenière; cast: Jules Saulnier An animated version of John Ashbery’s SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES bind together, each half-formed and ing live action filmed in Chicago with poem “Paradoxes and Oxymorons,” fea- Crisp editing of rapidly shot still pho- In a clever homage to existential French resting upon the Earth. Filmmaker clever animated sequences, Dallman cre- turing narration by DJ Spooky. Kate tos of leaves, pears, hornets, fish, waves, cinema, the narrator explores the inner Ryan Philippi was born in Madison and ates a story of childhood resourcefulness Raney received her MFA from UW-Mil- and snow suggest the changing of the life of the humble avocado. “He stops now lives in Minnesota. and love. Hannah Dallman, a Wiscon- waukee. seasons and small-scale wonders. Dan- River Lines sin native and a new mom, is an MFA the intrusion, using his heart as a shield.” non is originally from Rhinelander, Wis., Director Jules Saulnier also created Beelin’ WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Experimental • United candidate at Columbia College, Chicago. WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • USA, 2008, and is a student at UW-Milwaukee. Kingdom, 2007, color, digital video • 4 MIN Montréal, le Lendemain, a short film in Birthdate the Atelier K program playing at this color, digital video • 4 MIN The Earth’s Extent Director: Andrew Payne Director: Dan WiersGalla MIDWEST PREMIERE • Narrative • USA, 2008, year’s festival. and the Sky’s Depth River Lines is a video comprised of color, digital video • 11 MIN Crew: Sunshine Day, Joe Evans, Elizabeth Day, MADISON PREMIERE • Experimental • USA, views of the surface of the River Great Director: Jeremy Brunjes 76% Chance Michelle Wiersgalla; cast: Becky Olson, Molly 2008, b&w, digital video • 11 MIN Ouse as it flows through the town of Director of photography: Michael Reyes; editor: WORLD PREMIERE • Experimental • USA, 2008, Jeatran, Jelena Tosovic, Jason Misik, Andrew Director: Evan Hanson Bedford, England. The water’s move- Josiah Signor; cast: Jennifer Mercein, Christ color, digital video • 4 MIN Toutant, Joe Song SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own Producer: Evan Hanson; cast: Jack Schnable ment is slowed down but the speed of Wendelken Director: Sally Velleux, Nick Meyer SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own Editor, producer: Sally Velleux; editor, director of Choreographed snowmobilers break it the soundtrack, remains the same, pro- photography: Nick Meyer; crew: Bob Grady, Tom Evocative mood piece shot in black ducing a dislocation between the ambi- A mother searches for the son she never down on frozen Little Lac Courte Meyer, John Meyer, Shawna Pratt, Gil Pratt Oreilles. Director Dan WeirsGalla, orig- and white, capturing the night sounds ent sounds from the landscape adjacent knew, given up for adoption a long time SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own inally from Burlington, Wis., now lives of water and wind. Inspired by Henry to the river, and the images of the river ago. When she finds him, the complex- A bathtub. In a field. Birds chirping. Sun in Minneapolis. Winner, 2009 Wiscon- David Thoreau’s essay “Walking.” itself. ities of her emotions are explored here with great sensitivity and bravery. Direc- shining. Along comes...well, see this sin’s Own Jury Prize. Director Evan Hanson is a recent grad- The Odyssey of the eccentric delight for yourself. Sally uate of the UW-Milwaukee film pro- tor Jeremy Brunjes is in the MFA film This is Umberto. Average American in the program at NYU-Tisch, and producer Velleux was born in Ladysmith, Wis., duction program. and is a recent graduate of UW-Stout. MADISON PREMIERE • Narrative • USA, 2008, Last Half-Century Douglas Choi is formerly from Neenah, color, digital video • 6 MIN Emanations Nick Meyer is a graduate of UW-Eau Experimental • USA, 2008, color, digital video Wis. Director: Anna Krutzik MIDWEST PREMIERE • Experimental • USA, • 15 MIN Claire and is the editor and publisher of 2008, color, digital video • 10 MIN One Last Time SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own Director: Chele Isaac Eau Claire’s Volume One Magazine. Director: Brian DeLevie, Isshaela Ingham MADISON PREMIERE • Narrative • USA, 2007, We learn much about Umberto, the Cinematography, editor, producer: Brian DeLevie Cast: BA Harrington, Bri Deyo color, digital video • 5 MIN Check Date: An Underdog plastic doll. Krutzik’s distinctive and and Isshaela Ingham SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own Director: Kelly Bronikowski Love Story humorous style combines an oddball SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own Originally created as a two-channel Editor: Kelly Bronikowski MIDWEST PREMIERE • Animated • USA, 2008, narration and curiously positioned Emanations is a collaborative experi- (two different screens) piece, Odyssey SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own color, digital video • 5 MIN found objects and plastic zoo creatures mental video with a a delicately layered illustrates ideas of displacement and The childhood longing for siblings to Director: Esther Casas — plus a guest appearance by Paprika sea-like atmosphere analogous to the identity through a rich landscape of play with is elegantly captured in this Writer: Juan Bissone; editor: Christian Palma; the cat. Krutzik, a graduate of UW-Mil- original music and sound effects: Casa Nova fluid and fluctuating state of memory. pink blossoms, a moss-filled house, and black-and-white film. Can’t we just play studios; intro and closing credits animation: waukee’s film program, has also shown This film uses footage from three tinted snow boulders. Director Chele one more game together? Director Kelly Aardvark Brigade studios; producer, animator, her films This is Paprika and Me and UNESCO World Heritage sites: the Isaac created this piece as her MFA the- Bronikowski, a student in UW-Milwau- character and set design: Esther Casas Jean-Pierre (winner of a Wisconsin’s Dorset and East Devon coasts, U.K.; sis in the UW-Madison Department of kee’s film department, shot this film in In this charming animation, a lowly pawn Own Special Jury Prize) at past Wis- the New Forest, U.K.; and Yellowstone Art. her own home. finds a way to get the queen of his dreams. consin Film Festivals. 27 Silent Light (Stellet Licht) Somers Town Sita Sings the Blues make sense of the world.” Their own So-eun, Min Do-kee, Lee Jong-kwan, Lee Jang-hun Mexico, Silent Light is the first film to style. Nina’s husband has temporary story is quite the opposite. Casse Tête is IN KOREAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES be shot in the ancient language of Plaut- moved to India for a work project, but a project made by German, Canadian, SERIES: Focus on South Korea dietsch. Fittingly, its premise turns on the distance becomes permanent when and Ukrainian filmmakers who came Presented with UW Center for East Asian that simplest and most timeless of prem- he extends his assignment for a year and Studies. together for the Off-Courts Film Festi- ises, the love triangle. Father to a pla- then dumps her via email. Roger Ebert There are certain actors on the interna- val in Trouville, France. Filip lives in toon of blonde farm kids, Johan loves says: “No ex-husband has inspired a MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 tional stage whose work is so consis- Germany. While Kate was living in Aus- his wife Esther dearly, yet is helplessly greater cultural contribution since www.wifilmfest.org tently superb, we want to see everything tralia, she met and married a Wiscon- drawn to Marianne. Is his marriage a Michael Huffington.” For in Nina’s they do. Among them are Ulrich Thom- sin member of the Kino group, and now mistake, and, worse, is it the kind of mis- despair, she picks up a copy of the lives in Madison. sen (Fear Me Not), Robert Carlyle (Sum- mer), (Sparrow), and Song take one can conceivably correct? Ramayana and reads about Sita, a Free Lunch Kang-ho. Song was in Korean hits like Despite the familiarity of the dilemma, Hindu goddess who is put through many MIDWEST PREMIERE • Narrative • USA, 2008, The Host, Memories of Murder, The Foul this is no shopworn melodrama of tests of fidelity to her husband Rama. color, digital video • 35 MIN King (WFF01), and this year appears in scorned lovers and slamming doors. Paley tells Sita’s story through three Director: Rick Curnutt two films at this festival: Secret Sunshine Beholden to a problem that is both strands, the main adventure unfolding Writer, producer: Rick Curnutt; writer: Bubba Murray; deeply personal and hopelessly ordinary, as Sita dutifully follows Rama on a 14- cinematographer: John Honore; editor: Bettina and The Show Must Go On. Gangster Zachariah; sound designer: Sean Oakley; producer: life is not easy. When you’re middle man- these are characters too pious for year exile to a forest. As Sita laments her Xavier O’Ryan; associate producer: Josh Virnick; agement, you have to keep everyone in vengeance, and from their travails direc- fate, the animation style shifts and Sita cast: Joe Hendrix, Charlie Pecoraro, Brooke Stone, line and sometimes that means wind- tor Carlos Reygadas extrapolates a pro- becomes a brightly rounded Betty Boop, Kikey Castillo, Ricardo de Castro, Frantz Delsoin, found meditation on destiny. Comple- singing with the voice of 1920s jazz singer Mike Cavalero, Katherine M O’Connor, Ryan Keating ing up in the emergency room. He’s a menting the complex characterizations, Annette Hanshaw (songs like “What Running a taco lunch cart is tough, even caring father and wants to do right by his family (think Soprano) but the job Reygadas’s direction is austere yet sen- Wouldn’t I Do For My Man,” “Why Are for a privileged young man who is try- sitive — expansive wide shots empha- You So Mean To Me?”). Most hilarious ing to make it on his own. Walter and messes with your family life. The upside? In-gu gets along pretty well with a leader size both the characters’ relationships is a third, no, fourth strand: a Greek cho- his friend Casey set up business serving to each other as well as God and the nat- rus of three witty Indonesian shadow lunch to the workers of Los Angeles, but of a rival gang, as they’ve been best ural world. Brilliantly photographed and puppets who narrate the storyline of Sita, have a hard time fitting in. Walter’s ide- friends since school. And it’s a profes- Dry Rain exquisitely paced, Silent Light tackles forgetting parts, disagreeing about what alistic “going green” approach doesn’t sion where he may be able to make spiritual issues with arresting human- happens next. Paley, a native of Urbana, pay the bills, and he lacks the street-cred enough money to buy a nice house. ity. “I was amazed by Silent Light — the Ill., wrote and drew the entire film her- Shorts: Sunday @ of the experienced hash-slingers. Keep- “Much of the drama and humor in setting, the language, the delicacy of the self. Debuting at the Berlin Film Festi- ing a business together is hard on his [Song’s] performance comes from the Cinematheque interactions between the people on val last year, Sita is a brilliant adventure, friendship with Casey, played with scene- way he exposes his character’s underly- SUN, APR 5 • 11:00 AM an astonishing technical achievement, stealing flair by Charlie Pecoraro. Will ing vulnerability and incompetence, all screen, the drama of redemption. And UW Cinematheque ORDER CODE: SSUCI05 and evidence that 2D animation is Walter succeed at the American Dream? the while covering it up with macho most of all by Carlos Reygadas’s extraor- TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 80 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A bluster.... The jokes and quips have a dinarily rich sense of cinema, evident in robust, energetic, and satisfying when Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. Dry Rain pathos which sticks in the memory.... every frame. A surprising picture, and drawn with enough heartache. MIDWEST PREMIERE • Narrative • USA, 2008, color, another memorable effort by an intrigu- a very moving one as well.” — Martin Kai’s Place 35mm • 23 MIN Small Comforts ing young director and one of Korean Scorsese. Winner, Jury Prize, 2007 MIDWEST PREMIERE • Narrative • Canada/ South Director: Matthew J. Clark SEE: Shorts: Sunday @ Chazen Korea, 2008, color, 35mm • 17 MIN Writer: Pete Fromm; cinematographer: Doug cinema’s very top actors.” — Darcy Cannes Film Festival. Named one of the Director: Albert Shin Hostetter; editor: Lee Gardner; composer: Chris Paquet, koreanfilm.org. Print courtesy top ten films of 2008 by J. Hoberman Writer: Albert Shin; director of photography: White; production designer: Jason Pucinelli; of the Korean Film Council. (Villlage Voice), Scott Foundas (L.A. Somers Town Roland Echavarria; editor: Pearl Ball-Harding; costume design: Christine McBride; producer: Brian Weekly), and A.O. Scott and Manhola SAT, APR 4 • 3:30 PM sound design and mix: Donald Quan, Steve Homman; cast: James Le Gros, Nathan Gamble (Stellet Licht) Dargis (New York Times). ORDER CODE Cupani, Gary Honess; music: Paul Carroll; songs: On the high plains of Montana, a man Silent Light Stage Door : SOMER04 Jeffrey Blankenship; producer: Hyun Chan Yoon; and his son are driving across the Cana- SAT, APR 4 • 11:00 AM SUN, APR 5 • 2:00 PM cast: Ryan Krickow, Ji-Soo Sita Sings the Blues dian border. He’s crossing a line of another Chazen Museum ORDER CODE: SILEN04 Stage Door ORDER CODE: SOMER05 IN ENGLISH, KOREAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES kind, for his ex-wife doesn’t yet know that SUN, APR 5 • 8:15 PM SERIES: Focus on South Korea; Disparate SUN, APR 5 • 3:30 PM WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • United Orpheum Main ORDER CODE: SITAS05 Kingdom, 2008, b&w, 35mm • 70 MIN Voices: Asian American Film he’s taking their son out of the country. Chazen Museum ORDER CODE: SILEN05 Director: Shane Meadows Presented with the UW Center for East Asian Played with roguish scruffiness by James WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • Mexico, WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Animated • USA, 2008, Studies; UW Asian American Studies Program. Le Gros (Vantage Point), with veteran 11- France, The Netherlands, 2007, color, digital color, 35mm • 82 MIN Writer: Paul Fraser; director of photography: Natasha Braier; editor: Richard Grahm; production designer: Kai, a young Westerner teaching English year-old actor Nathan Gamble (The Dark video • 136 MIN Director: Nina Paley Sound design and audio engineering: Greg Sextro; Lisa Marie Hall; costume: Designer Jo Thompson; in Korea finds himself feeling lost and Knight, Marley & Me), Stil gradually finds Director: Carlos Reygadas producer: Barnaby Spurrier; cast: Thomas Turgoose, Writer: Carlos Reygadas; director of photography: cast: Reena Shah, Manish Acharya, Nina Paley, isolated in his urban surroundings. He a way to reconnect with his son. Debargo Sanyal, Aseem Chhabra, Deepti Gupta, Piotr Jagiello, Elisa Lasowski, Kate Dickie, Ireneusz Alexis Zabé; assistant director of photography: Czop, Perry Benson reaches out to a girl in his class, who Daniel Valdés; editor: Natalia López; sound: Raúl Sanjiv Jhaveri, Pooja Kumar, Bhavana Nagulapally, IN ENGLISH, POLISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES shows him a special place in the country. The Show Must Go On Locatelli; production designer: Gerardo Tagle; Aladdin Ullah, Nitya Vidyasagar (Wooahan segye) producer: Jaime Romandia, Carlos Reygadas; SERIES: Disparate Voices: Asian American Film Presented with UW Center for European Studies. Casse Tête production: Luisa Blanco, Fernando de la Peza, Presented with the UW Asian American Studies Two teenagers, both newcomers to Lon- U.S. PREMIERE • Experimental • USA, 2007, SAT, APR 4 • 9:00 PM Marcia Seeman; associate producer: Jean Labadie; Program; UW Center for South Asia. don, forge an unlikely friendship over color, digital video • 4 MIN assistant director: Alex Ezpeleta; production MMOCA ORDER CODE: SHOWM04 “A delightfully subversive feminist musi- the course of a hot summer. Tomo is a Director: Kate Sprecher, Filip Piskorzynski coordinator: Fiorella Moretti; production company: Narrative • South Korea, 2007, color, 35mm Nodream Cinema, Mantarraya Productions, Bac cal version of the Ramayana, spans con- runaway from Nottingham; Marek, a Writer, director, sound: Kate Sprecher, Filip • 110 MIN Films; cast: Cornelio Wall Fehr, Miriam Toews, Piskorzynski; camera, editor: Filip Piskorzynski; tinents and millennia in parallel sto- Polish immigrant, lives in the district of Director: Han Jae-rim Maria Pankratz, Peter Wall, Elisabeth Fehr, Jacobo ries of two wives being unfairly dumped, Somers Town, between King’s Cross and cast: Carol Courchesne, Valerie Labbe, Marina Eva, Klassen, Irma Thiessen, Alfredo Thiessen, Daniel Benedicte Leclerc Writer: Han Jae-rim; camera: Park Yong-soo; editor: Kim Sun-min; music: Kanno Yoko; production Thiessen, Autghe Loewen, Jackob Loewen, one in the American autobiographical Euston stations, where his dad is work- SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own designer: Lee Min-bok; art director: Kim Gu-mi; Elisabeth Fehr, Gerardo Thiessen, Alex Thiessen present, the other in the mythical Indian ing on a new rail link. When Marek WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 • WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • APRIL 2-5, 2009 WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • MADISON FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN The directors describe their film suc- sound: Lee Sang-wook; cast: Song Kang-ho, Park Ji- IN PLAUTDIETSCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES past.” It starts with Nina, an artist in San agrees to let homeless Tomo move into 28 cinctly: “Unlucky in love, a man tries to young, Oh Dal-su, Yoon Jae-moon, Choi Il-hwa, Kim Set in a Mennonite community in rural Francisco, drawn in a squiggly modern his room, unbeknownst to his father, The Song of Sparrows (Avaze gonjeshk-ha) Sonic Youth: Sleeping Nights Awake Sparrow (Man jeuk) the pair forms a strong bond, as they quickly in the bustling city: he inadver- full-bore Sonic Youth, a band distin- work odd jobs for an eccentric neighbor tently gives a man a ride on the back guished by a rare gift for blending pop and compete for the attention of Maria, of his motorbike in return for a fee, a attitude with avant-garde taste and dar- a beautiful young French waitress. relatively good sum which prompts him ing. Albright, having trained under “There have been very few more mov- to continue his taxi service on a regular Albert Maysles, shows that he’s learned ing films from any director since Mead- basis. Every day Karim rides into town, (and imparted to his talented students) ows’ own Dead Man’s Shoes — though bringing back home all kinds of rum- Maysles’ central documaking lesson, in this instance it’s very much a case of mage — old furniture, car parts, etc. — which is to always be ready to cover the joyful rather than sorrowful tears. This and soon finds himself entangled in a moment with one’s camera and to do so is a delightful, quietly topical, decep- world of hustle, materialism, and greed. without visual or narrative trickery.” — tively slight miniature about teenage The people and material goods start to Robert Koehler, Variety. friendship and first love — scarcely transform Karim’s generous and hon- new subjects for cinema, but handled est nature, much to the distress of his Sons of Sakhnin United with sufficient sensitivity, humour and wife and children. It is up to those clos- SUN, APR 5 • 8:15 PM spirit to emphatically justify such a est to him to restore the values that he Wis Union Theatre ORDER CODE: SONSO05 choice of material. Meadows and his had once cherished, and Karim must WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, scriptwriter Paul Fraser, meanwhile, find a way to reconcile his new life with 2007, color, digital video • 84 MIN deserve particular credit for so deftly the old. But director never Director: Christopher Browne, maintaining such a delicate balance strays far from appreciating the humor Alexander H. Browne between the bouncily engaging story in Karim’s situation, and the film main- Co-director, Alexander H. Browne; camera: Eitan Special People Riklis; editor: Patrick Gambuti Jr.; co-editor: Rachel and its sad, even tragic subtexts.” — Neil tains a buoyant sense of hope. This Shuman; sound: Dan Shaiovich, Shimshon Yanai; Young, jigsawlounge.co.uk. 2008 Berlin, comes in large part from Karim’s son, sound editor: Andrew Netboy; music: Pier Bucci; mosity that has become a daily feature Karlovy Vary, Tribeca, Helsinki festivals. who is determined to muck out the old music supervisor: Damian Lazarus; executive of their lives? Director Christopher Special People covered well and raise fish for sale. And producer: Barry Tatleman, Danzansky Investment Browne’s first film, A League of Ordi- SUN, APR 5 • 1:30 PM Partners; producer: Roger Bennett, Alexander H. Somewhere Between Here Orpheum Main ORDER CODE: SPECI05 there’s still an ostrich on the loose… Browne, Michael Cohen; co-producer: Patrick nary Gentlemen played at the 2005 Wis- and There Gambuti Jr.; associate producer: Nir Weiss, Dan consin Film Festival. MIDWEST PREMIERE • Narrative • United WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM SEE: Shorts: Sat @ Cinematheque The Song of the Mermaid Shaiovich; production company: Deaf, Dumb + Kingdom, 2007, color, 35mm • 80 MIN SEE: Shorts: Animations Blind, Dionysian Films, Reboot Films Sparrow (Man jeuk) Director: Justin Edgar IN ENGLISH, HEBREW, ARABIC WITH ENGLISH Writer: Kielder Kids, Justin Edgar; cinematographer: The Song of Sparrows A Song Without a Name SUBTITLES SAT, APR 4 • 8:30 PM Zac Nicholson; editor: Mark Burgess, Jamie McKay; (Avaze gonjeshk-ha) SEE: Shorts: Saturday @ Chazen SERIES: Inside Islam Orpheum Main ORDER CODE: SPARR04 music: Kim Humphrey; producer: Kielder Kids, Presented with the UW Inside Islam Project. Justin Edgar; cast: Dominic Coleman, Robyn THU, APR 2 • 7:30 PM WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • Hong Kong, Frampton, Jamie McKay, Tally Annie Pears A sporting moment only to be found in 2008, color, 35mm • 87 MIN Chazen Museum ORDER CODE: SONGO02 Sonic Youth: Sleeping SERIES: Film·Able: Disabilities on Screen. the Middle East: soccer fans chanting Director: Presented with the UW Department of Rehabil- SAT, APR 4 • 9:30 PM Nights Awake “Allah Akhbar” in Palestinian Arabic Camera: Cheng Siu-keung; editor: David itation Psychology and Special Education Chazen Museum ORDER CODE: SONGO04 THU, APR 2 • 10:45 PM when their star scored the against-the- Richardson; sound: Martin Chappell; music: Xavier Special People follows the struggles of a Jamaux, Fred Avril; art director: Tony Yu; costume WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • Iran, 2008, Play Circle ORDER CODE: SONIC02 odds winning goal in the Israeli Cup filmmaker who hopes the film he is mak- color, digital video • 96 MIN final — and the goal scorer was an Israeli designer: Stanley Cheung; cast: Simon Yam, Kelly WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, Lin, Lam Ka-Tung, Lam Suet, Kate Tsui ing with a group of disabled teenagers will Director: Majid Majidi Jew. Sons of Sakhnin United covers the 2008, b&w, digital video • 84 MIN IN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES bring him stardom. Dominic Coleman Writer: Majid Majidi, Mehran Kashani; Director: Michael Albright journey of B’Nai Sakhnin, the first cinematographer: Tooraj Mansoouri; editor: Hassan In (WFF07), director Johnnie To stars as Jasper, a pretentious, patronizing mostly Arab soccer team to become Hassandoost; sound: Yadollah Najafi; music: Director of photography: Project Moonshine; cast: focused on a ex-gangster, backed by two filmmaker with his heart in the right place. Sonic Youth champions of Israel, in the year after ; costumes/production designer: groups of hitmen pitted against each Proud of his social-realist short Koncrete Asghar Nezhad-Imani; executive producer: Javad Avant-rock pioneers Sonic Youth finally they win the Cup. Now they have to Dreamz, he eagerly accepts the challenge Norouzbeigi; producer: Majid Majidi; production receive a concert film worthy of their prove that wasn’t a fluke, but more other, using the distinct rhythms of each company: Majidi Film Production; cast: , of helping a group of three disabled incendiary live shows, courtesy of seven importantly it’s the year where atten- squad to create a stylish, dark thriller. Maryam Akbari, Kamran Dehghan, Hamed Aghazi, Sparrow now moves a foursome pick- teenagers to make their own film. Surly Shabnam Aklaghi, Neshat Nazari high school students working with Reno tion is focused on them, and they can pockets front and center. Led by the Jess, aspiring auteur Scott, and curmud- IN FARSI WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES nonprofit Project Moonshine. It may be use that position to speak about peace geonly delinquent Dave regard Jasper SERIES: Inside Islam shot by teenagers, but this is far from and unity. As the Arab Israeli conflict charismatic Kei (Simon Yam), they make a comfortable living in the streets of with a mixture of pity and resentment, Presented with the UW Inside Islam Project. an amateur production — in crisp black swirls around them, as Israel discusses especially when it becomes clear that the Hong Kong. Each heist is a delicate cho- The gently comic film opens in simple and white, Sleeping Nights Awake cap- plans to withdraw from Gaza, and Pales- project is more about furthering his ambi- reography of theft, transfer, and disap- but stunning pastoral Iran, where an tures the raw energy of a Sonic Youth tinians come to terms with the death of tions than serving their needs. Events pearance. Each day begins with break- unassuming ostrich farmer, Karim show with you-are-there immediacy. Yasir Arafat, this mixed team from a come to a head during a chaotic trip to (Berlin Film Festival Best Actor Win- Off-the-cuff backstage interviews find small, poor town in the Galilee plays on fast at the little diner with birdcages the countryside to shoot their mini-mas- ner Reza Naji), struggles to support his the teens getting closer to Thurston, with the weight of symbolism and expec- hanging from the ceiling. A mysterious terpiece. Special People is based on Edgar’s family, leading a simple and contented Kim, Lee, and Steve than countless “pro- tation on their shoulders. Can the team woman crosses their path, literally, as short of the same name and is the first life in a small house. In a string of bad fessional” hagiographers ever have. For stand together under the spotlight of she flees down an alleyway dressed in British film in which every disabled char- luck, Karim’s daughter loses her expen- their part, the band burns through a the world’s media? Can their captain stylish clothes. The brothers become acter is played by a disabled actor. There sive hearing aid, and an ostrich runs career-spanning setlist ranging from play for the Israeli national team with- entranced by this femme fatale, appar- are strong elements of true-life experi- away from the farm, which causes Karim highlights off the recent Rather Ripped out being heckled by the team’s right- ently under the control of an aging mob ences, attitudes and prejudices (also sat- to be fired. However, his financial woes to fan favorites like “Tom Violence.” “This wing Jewish fans? Can a team playing boss, and the jazzy, joyful game is afoot. irizing the self-important film industry) are short-lived when Karim, who had is one of the most engaging and sin- a game with no more actual consequence Sublime in its setting of the old streets incorporated into a very funny film. traveled to Teheran in order to repair gle-minded film studies of a band since than an ending with one winner and one of Hong Kong, this is a fascinating story his daughter’s hearing aid, stumbles Instrument, Jem Cohen’s 1999 film on loser, bring people together for 90 min- where everything — wallets, hearts — Speechless upon an easy way to make money Fugazi… The music is uncompromised, utes and suspend the hatred and ani- can be stolen by sleight-of-hand. SEE: Jim’s Experimental Shorts 29 Stand-Up: Muslim American Comics Tokyo Sonata Tracks for their inclusion in the American pub- opment. We watch with a kind of fas- The Taking of Pelham This is Umberto. lic square. Their stories offer unique cination, because Herzog cuts loose SEE: Shorts: Sunday @ Chazen insights into an alternate take on the from narrative and follows his charac- One Two Three American Dream; but mostly they’ll ters through the relentless logic of their SAT, APR 4 • 8:45 PM make you laugh.” Three Monkeys adventure. Then there is the haunting UW Cinematheque ORDER CODE: TAKIN04 impact of the performance by Bruno (Üç maymun) MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 Stranger Comes to Town Narrative • USA, 1974, color, 35mm • 104 MIN S., who is at every moment playing THU, APR 2 • 11:00 PM www.wifilmfest.org SEE: Visible Forces Director: Joseph Sargent himself.” With music by Chet Atkins Writer: Peter Stone; cinematographers: Owen UW Cinematheque ORDER CODE: THREE02 and Sonny Terry. Winner, Best Film, Roizman; editors: Gerald Greenberg, Robert Q. FRI, APR 3 • 7:30 PM Stroszek Lovett; music: David Shire; art directors: Gene 1978 German Film Critics Award. UW Cinematheque ORDER CODE: THREE03 Thank you to Werner Herzog Films for Rudolf; set decorators: Herb Mulligan; costume SAT, APR 4 • 6:45 PM designers: Anna Hill Johnstone; make-up: Irving Narrative • Turkey, 2008, color, 35mm • 105 MIN MMOCA ORDER CODE: STROS04 providing this print. Buchman; producer: Gabriel Katzka, Stephen F. Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan Kesten, Edgar J. Scherick; cast: , SUN, APR 5 • 3:30 PM Robert Shaw, , Hector Elizondo, Earl Writer: Ebru Ceylan, Ercan Kesal, Nuri Bilge Ceylan; MMOCA ORDER CODE: STROS05 Summer Hindman, James Broderick, Dick O’neill, Lee director of photography: Gökhan Tiryaki; editors: Wallace Ayhan Ergürsel, Bora Gök ingöl, Nuri Bilge Ceylan; Narrative • Germany, 1977, color, 35mm FRI, APR 3 • 11:45 PM art director: Ebru Ceylan; sound engineer: Murat • 108 MIN Stage Door Theatre ORDER CODE: SUMME03 SERIES: Restorations and Revivals enürkmez; producer: Zeynep Özbatur; copro- Director: Werner Herzog SAT, APR 4 • 11:15 AM Now destined for a summer remake star- ducers: Fabienne Vonier, Valerio De Paolis, Cemal Writer: Werner Herzog; cinematographer: Thomas ring John Travolta, , Noyan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan; cast: Yavuz Bingöl, Hatice Mauch; editor: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus; original Stage Door ORDER CODE: SUMME04 and half the cast of The Sopranos, Pel- Aslan, Ahmet Rýfat ungar, Ercan Kesal, Cafer Summer music: Chet Atkins, Sonny Terry; sound: Haymo MIDWEST PREMIERE • Narrative • United Köse, Gürkan Aydýn Heyder, Peter van Anft; production manager: Walter ham also inspired the color-coded nick- IN TURKISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Kingdom, 2008, 35mm • 80 MIN names in Tarentino’s Reservoir Dogs. In Stand-Up: Muslim Saxer; producer: Willi Segler; cast: Bruno S., Eva Director: Kenny Glanaan Several films at this year’s festival are Mattes, Clemens Scheitz, Clayton Szalpinski, Ely 1974, Nora Sayre of the New York Times Writer: Hugh Ellis; cinematographer: Tony Slater- laced with the noir themes of guilt, American Comics Rodriguez, Alfred Edel, Scott McKain, Ralph Wade, wrote: “Four highly efficient hoods hijack Ling; editor: Kristina Hetherington; composer: entrapment, and sacrifice. Revanche, Michael Gahr an IRT subway car and hold eighteen Come of Age IN GERMAN, ENGLISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Stephen McKeon; production designer: Jane Levick; from Austria, follows a pair of lovers after producer: Camilla Bray people hostage for a million dollars; if FRI, APR 3 • 5:30 PM SERIES: Restorations and Revivals they rob a bank and have to deal with SERIES: Film·Able: Disabilities on Screen the city doesn’t pay within an hour, one Presented with UW Center for European Studies. the unexpected consequences. Serbia’s Monona Terrace ORDER CODE: STAND03 Presented with the UW Department of Rehabil- hostage will be shot a minute. The Tran- Bruno S., newly released from German The Trap explores the inner struggle of Documentary • USA, 2007, color, digital video itation Psychology and Special Education sit Authority, the Police Department, the • 54 MIN prison, seeks out his friend Eva, a curvy a man who must commit an unspeak- Shaun and Darren are have been best Mayor and his colleagues all go into fren- Director: Glenn Baker, Omar Naim and earnest prostitute who keeps get- able crime to pay his son’s hospital bills. friends since they were kids. Indeed, zied but coordinated action, while the Co-director: Omar Naim; director of photography: ting in trouble with her handlers. Bruno And in Jerichow, an already rocky mar- through layered flashbacks the story is film cuts most expertly between the Neil Barrett; editor: Sam Green; music: Lenny is unlike anyone you’ve seen on screen riage is threatened by a drifter who grows told of how the two boys tore up the stalled car and its passengers, the T.A. Williams; executive producer: Sally Jo Fifer; before: a genuinely complex and curi- close to the couple. Nuri Bilge Ceylan producer: Glenn Baker; co-producer: Lauren town, hung out on the lake pier (with Command Center, Gracie Mansion, and ous street musician cast by Herzog in (Climates, WFF07) contributes this film Cardillo; associate producer: Sujata Thomas; cast: Shaun’s best girl friend Katy) and gen- the city streets. Of course the subway sys- Ahmed Ahmed, Tissa Hami, Dean Obeidallah, Azhar his earlier film The Enigma of Kaspar named for the monkeys who know no erally misspent their youth. But Dar- tem is soon backed up to the Bronx. Wal- Usman, Maysoon Zayid Hauser. Eva’s pimps keep hassling the evil. After an ambitious politician’s hit- ren has been in a wheelchair for years, ter Matthau’s best caustic energies erupt SERIES: Inside Islam defenseless Bruno, until he and his eld- and-run accident, he asks his driver to Presented with the UW Inside Islam Project. and is disintegrating into an alcoholic as a Transit Authority lieutenant, and erly neighbor, Mr. Scheitz, decide that Peter Stone’s script abounds with dia- take the blame. Eyüp (played by Yavuz Stand Up: Muslim American Comics the trio (plus Bruno’s mynah bird, Beo) fog. Shaun has been his caregiver for Bingöl, a well-known Turkish singer) Come of Age explores the emergence of years, sticking by his friend and doing logue that’s just right for this actor’s should look for, well, not quite the benign bad temper. (Surely no one can agrees to go to prison in exchange for a five comedians in the wake of 9/11, American dream but at least a little his best to keep themselves glued little financial security for his family. But showing how they use humor to take together. “It’s a simple tale of loss and say ‘Gesundheit!’ to a sneezer quite so peace. Scheitz’s nephew, is turns out, aggressively as Mr. Matthau.) Martin Eyüp’s teenage son, defiant and sulky, is on stereotypes about Muslims and ter- regret for a life that’s been frittered is living in a place called Wisconsin: Balsam and Robert Shaw — one glazed getting roughed up by the local gangs. rorism. At a time when people of Mid- away, but is filled with excellent natu- they need to look it up in the atlas. with a sleazy regret, the other endowed Trying to hold everything together is dle Eastern origin were advised to lay ral performances from all the leads, Roger Ebert wrote about Stroszek in with a calm brutality — are all too likely Hacer, the wife who desperately wants low, they all chose to stand up and crack especially from Carlyle who gives his 2002: “Who else but Werner Herzog as your typical rush-hour hijackers…. to protect her family. “Throughout, Cey- jokes. From false arrests to death best performance since Trainspotting.... would make a film about a retarded ex- Throughout, there’s a skillful balance lan and his co-writers — his wife Ebru threats, the comics face challenges from The true reason for the strength of the prisoner, a little old man and a pros- between the vulnerability of New York- Ceylan and actor Kesal — systematically both majority America and within the titute, who leave Germany to begin a bonds between the central characters withhold key information, keeping us as remains hidden until near the end, a ers and the drastic, provocative sense of Muslim community. Loaded with new life in a house trailer in Wiscon- comedy that thrives all over our side- much out of the loop as his characters secret that makes the film exception- provocative performance footage, Stand sin? Who else would shoot the film in walks. And the hijacking seems like a often are. Much of the film, crucially, ally compelling. It also allows plenty Up provides an inspiring chronicle of the hometown of Ed Gein, the mur- perfectly probable event for this town. revolves round the suspicions and anx- of time for the characters’ relationships these artists’ struggle to enter the derer who inspired Psycho? Who else (Perhaps the only element of fantasy is ieties of both father and son. Like pre- American comic mainstream. Direc- would cast all the local roles with past and present to be fully examined the implication that the city’s depart- vious Ceylan films, this one looks long tor Glenn Baker says: “Ranging from locals? Who else would end the movie and understood — making the conclu- ments could function so smoothly and hard into the mysteries and self- devout Muslims to secular provoca- with a policeman radioing, ‘We’ve got sion’s emotional payload all the more together.) “ destructive contradictions of the human teurs, these comics embody the diver- a truck on fire, can’t find the switch affecting.... This film further cements heart, but the film’s sombre, arguably sity of America’s large Middle Eastern to turn the ski lift off, and can’t stop Kenny Glenaan as one of the best young Temps Plein (Full Time) pessimistic bent also finds room for Cey- population. Following in the footsteps the dancing chicken. Send an electri- British directors working today. Sum- SEE: Atelier K lan’s blackly sardonic humour, embod- of , Richard Pryor, George cian.’ Stroszek is one of the oddest films mer is sublime. Winner, Best Direc- ied here by a running gag about an unin-

WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 • WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • APRIL 2-5, 2009 WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • MADISON FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN Lopez, and Margaret Cho, they are ever made. It is impossible for the audi- tor and Best Feature, 2008 BAFTA Terrain tentionally eloquent cellphone ringtone.” 30 using stand-up comedy to make a case ence to anticipate a single shot or devel- Awards. SEE: Dancescapes — Jonathan Romney, Screen Interna- The Trap (Klopka) Treeless Mountain tional. Winner, Best Director, 2008 this story probes the dark side of human Director: Srdan Golubovic Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy, So Yong Kim; cast: Hee- Cannes Film Festival. nature and the social problems that con- Tractors! Writer: Srdan Koljevic, Melina Pota Koljevic; based Yeon Kim, Song-Hee Kim, Soo-Ah Lee, Mi-Hyang Kim, Boon-Tak Park front contemporary Japan. Kurosawa’s International Harvester on the novel by: Nenad Teofilovic; director of Thus Spake John photography: Aleksandar Ilic; editor: Marko Glušac, IN KOREAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES portrayal of the breakdown and redemp- Sponsored Films from the Dejan Uroševic; producer: Jelena Mitrovic, Nataša SEE: Shorts: Sat @ Monona Terrace SERIES: Focus on South Korea; Disparate Voices: tion of Japan’s “ordinary family” is every Wisconsin Historical Society Ninkovic, Alexander Ris, Jörg Rothe, Laslo Kantor; Asian American Film. costume designer: Ljiljana Petrovic; music by: bit as gripping as his previous works. SUN, APR 5 • 6:00 PM Presented with the UW Center for East Asian Stud- Tokyo Sonata Winner, Jury Prize, Mario Schneider; sound designer: Sebastian ies; UW Asian American Studies Program. UW Cinematheque ORDER CODE: TRACT05 Schmidt, Erik Mischijew; sound recordist: Branko 2008 Cannes; Best Director, 2008 Mar Dordevic; executive producer: Igor Kecman; A latchkey kid in a Seoul tenement, Jin THU, APR 2 • 5:00 PM TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 56 MIN Chazen Museum ORDER CODE: TOKYO02 del Plata festival. production designer: Goran Joksimovic; cast: is already remarkably self-reliant for a SERIES: Revivals and Restorations; The Cream Nebojša Glogovac, Nataša Ninkovic, Anica Dobra, and the Crop: Farming and the Land on Film six-year-old. When a sudden eviction FRI, APR 3 • 7:00 PM Miki Manojlovic, Marko Durovic forces her mother to go off in search of Tracks Presented with the Wisconsin Historical Society; IN SERBO-CROATIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Chazen Museum ORDER CODE: TOKYO03 their absent father, Jin and her younger SUN, APR 05 • 11:15 AM UW Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems Presented with UW Center for European Studies. WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • Japan, 2008, sister Bin are shunted into the negli- color, digital video • 119 MIN Monona Terrace ORDER CODE: TRACK05 Last year, we brought a program of spon- What who you do to save your child’s gent care of a distant aunt. With no Director: sored films to the Festival from the life? In this Serb thriller, Mladen gets WORLD PREMIERE • Narrative • USA, 2008, guardians to count on, the girls must Writer: Max Mannix, Kiyoshi Kurosawa & Sachiko color, digital video • 78 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A Prelinger Archives. This year, we’re stay- pushed to the limit to get the money Tanaka; cinematographer: Akiko Ashizawa; lighting Director: Josh Rosenberg ing local — and what could be more needed to provide medical care for his fend for themselves: they explore the designer: Tokuju Ichikawa; editor: Koichi Takahashi; Writer: Josh Rosenberg; director of photography: “Wisconsin” than tractors? Created to neighborhood, catch and sell grasshop- sound mixer: Masayuki Iwakura; music: Kazumasa son. Mladen and his wife Marija are Scott Foley; editor: Josh Rosenberg, Scott Foley; promote the products of the Interna- live in grey , which looks eter- pers, and patiently wait for their Hashimoto; production designers: Tomoyuki Maruo sound: Jonah Whipp, Topher Farrell; original mother to return. So Yong Kim, an & Tomoe Matsumoto; visual effects supervisor: tional Harvester Company, these films nally grey and damp as photographed music: Doveman; production design: Billie American who grew up in South Korea, Shuji Asano; executive producer: Yasushi Kotani Harrison; executive producer: Mark Beirl; from the vaults of the Wisconsin His- by cinematographer Aleksandar Iliæ. & Michael J. Werner; producer: Yukie Kito & Wouter producer: Kurt Mueller, Niels Mueller, Josh torical Society feature gorgeous color When the only procedure that can cure has described her semiautobiographi- Barendrecht; co-producer: Hirohisa Mukuju; Rosenberg; co-producer: Scott Foley, Kevin photography, delightfully wooden per- cal second feature as “a letter to my associate producer: Raymond Phathanavirangoon; their son costs far more than their mod- Kennedy; associate producer: Michael Cotey, formances, unlikely narrative frame- mother.” But Treeless Mountain is no cast: , Kyoko Koizumi, Yu Laura Lynn MacDonald; assistant director: Kaija est salaries can handle, they follow a Koyanagi, Kai Inowaki, Haruka Igawa, Kanji Tsuda, works, and lots of farm machinery. In vindictive memoir, à la Augusten Bur- Rayne; cast: Amanda J. Hull, Rebecca Rose not-uncommon path of placing an ad WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM Koji Yakusho Phillips, Evelyn Kelly, Sam Kieffer, Katie short, they are industrial filmmaking at in the paper, a call for contributions to roughs — Kim is after the more elusive IN JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Whittaker, Sarah Stashek, Laura Lynn MacDonald, its best. Program curated by Heather help someone in need. A mysterious goal of understanding, and her depic- Jim Tasse, Alex Grindeland, John Filmanowicz, Tokyo Sonata is a story of an ordinary Heckman (UW Cinematheque) and Kris caller responds to the ad, and offers the tion of emotional abandonment is Japanese family of four. The father, Lee E. Ernst, Jenny Wanasek, Angela Ianone, Bronstad (WHS). Special thanks to Lee uncommonly quiet, observational, and Kathy Taxis, Raeleen McMillion, Laura Gordon, full sum needed in exchange for, well, Ryuhei Sasaki, like any other Japanese Michael Cotey, Kevin Kennedy, Michael Stewart, Grady (WHS) and Jeff Calfa (Navistar). in exchange for a little service that understated. Many films have businessman, is faithfully devoted to his Lisa Ring, Lindsey Gagliano, Kaija Rayne, Laura IH at the Century of Progress Mladen can provide. He can’t accept, attempted a child’s eye perspective, but Ring, David Bohn work. His wife Megumi manages the USA, 1934, b&w, digital video • 12 MIN but can’t refuse either, and gets trapped Kim achieves it — the camera rarely SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own house and struggles to retain a bond in a series of escalating plot twists that elevates above the heads of the young Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. Shot at the International Harvester with Takashi, her oldest son who is in pavilion at Chicago’s Century of Progress tear apart his marriage and his self- protagonists, and the motives defining college, and the youngest, Kenji, a sen- Cat’s a fairly average student at Milwau- exhibition, this short captures the won- control. Set within a framework where the plot shifts are as enigmatic to the sitive boy in elementary school. The kee’s Shorewood High School. Her fam- ders of the early 20th century World’s Mladen is confessing something to an audience as to the kids. In Jin and Bin’s quiet unraveling of the family begins ily is a typical suburban one: no hard- Fair, from mechanical cows to remote- unseen person, it is a Balkan Crime and world, adults are a spectral presence, when Ryuhei unexpectedly loses his job. ships, but there is a lack of vitality and controlled tractors. Punishment. “Touches highlight the disembodied voices and limbs whose Facing completely unfamiliar circum- real understanding. She’s a little inno- Honeymoon for Harriet bizarre social universe of Belgrade, mysterious whims dictate the girls’ stances, he decides not to tell his fam- cent, and when an older student reaches future with indisputable authority. The USA, 1949, color, digital video • 22 MIN where expensive SUVs roam the streets ily and begins his lonely sojourn into the out to befriend her, she jumps at the child stars give incredibly naturalistic Poor Harriet — she wants a honeymoon, beside rusty tin cans from the Social- world of the secretly unemployed. Along chance to experiment with something ist era, and where one little boy begs performances, perhaps because Kim with many other businessmen that save new. Claire is much more of a free spirit, but her husband always blows their sav- kept them as much in the dark about ings on the latest farm equipment…or his parents for a mobile phone on his face by concealing their shameful real- left to fend for herself most days. She’s way to school, while a child his age begs the plot as the characters — amazingly, ity from family and friends, Ryuhei pre- daring and confident and a getting a bit so the local mailman tells us, in this early the two young actors didn’t read the effort by . for money at traffic lights. These acutely tends to go to work each day, when, in of a raunchy reputation at school. She observed details beam a sharp image script, or even know much about the fact, he kills time in libraries and parks. sets the bar pretty high with her inde- Frozen Treasure of life in today’s Serbia.” — Deborah story. Exploring the connection His lies and torment go unnoticed by pendence, and it leads Cat into some USA, 1950, color, digital video • 22 MIN Young, Variety. between rural and urban environments Takashi, who becomes increasingly precarious territory. There may be no Though it’s kept in a cold storage vault with a childlike naiveté, Kim’s keenly despondent and alienated from his fam- one as lonely as a teenager, and this film rather than a true freezer, this film is cer- Treeless Mountain felt memories have earned critical com- ily, and Megumi, who can no longer explores many of the issues that high tainly a treasure. When the money from parisons to Terence Malick. “Her cam- summon the will to keep her family school students grapple with: drugs, a bank robbery finds its way into a farm FRI, APR 3 • 5:15 PM era hovering gently and unobtrusively together. Meanwhile, Kenji’s journey sex, self-injury, family violence. A thor- family’s freezer and then gets delivered MMOCA ORDER CODE: TREEL03 around the girls as they play, quarrel begins to mirror his father’s solitary oughly Milwaukee production, Tracks all over town with Ma’s famous fruit, it’s SAT, APR 4 • 2:00 PM and daydream, (Kim) turns their inti- plight. Although his father vehemently relies on the talents of many local actors up to the high school marching band MMOCA ORDER CODE: TREEL04 mate moments into a quiet, poignant refuses to allow Kenji to play the piano, and crew, including UW-Milwaukee to save the day — atop tractors, of course. MIDWEST PREMIERE • Narrative • USA, South drama of abandonment and resilience. the boy uses his school lunch money to professor Scott Foley as director of pho- Korea, 2008, color, 35mm • 89 MIN Her lens seems to be absorbing life pay for clandestine lessons. What began tography, and producer Niels Mueller The Trap (Klopka) Director: So Young Kim rather than just recording it.” — A.O. as lies created as means to survive, grad- (The Assassination of Richard Nixon). FRI, APR 3 • 11:15 PM Writer: So Yong Kim; director of photography: Anne Scott, New York Times. 2008 Toronto Misawa; editors: So Yong Kim, Bradley Rust Gray; ually leads the family into unforesee- Director and writer Josh Rosenberg is Wis Union Theatre ORDER CODE: TRAPP03 sound: Eric Offin/Tandem Sound; composer: Asobi Film Festival; winner, 2008 Prize of able destruction. In the hands of direc- a 2006 graduate of UW-Milwaukee. WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • Serbia, Seksu; production designer: See Hee Kim; executive the Ecumenical Jury, Berlin; nomi- tor Kiyoshi Kurosawa, renowned for his Winner, 2009 Wisconsin’s Own Jury Germany, Hungary, 2007, color, digital video producer: Ian McGloin, Jamie Mai, Charlie Ledley; nated 2009 Independent Spirit suspenseful films (Retribution, WFF07), Prize. • 115 MIN producer: Bradley Rust Gray, Ben Howe, Lars Awards. 31 Tulpan

Who is KK Downey? Vogelfrei Visual Acoustics: Modernism of Julius Shulman Magnetic Movie Writer: Janis Kalejs, Gatis Smits, Janis Putnins, Vincent: A Life Visual Acoustics: Anna Viduleja; cinematographer: Anrij Parekh, Sam WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Experimental • United Moon, Gints Berzins; editor: Armands Blumbergs, in Color Kingdom, 2007, digital video • 5 MIN The Modernism Liene Balina, Jekabs Dimiters; sound design: SAT, APR 4 • 3:30 PM Director: Semiconductor Aleksandrs Vaicahovskis, Petr Kapeller; producer: of Julius Shulman Sergejs Berdicevskis, Kaspars Rolsteins, Jurgis Monona Terrace ORDER CODE: VINCE04 The secret lives of invisible magnetic SUN, APR 5 • 1:15 PM Liepnieks, Alise Gelze; cast: Igors Suhoverhovs, MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 fields are revealed as chaotic ever-chang- Karlis Spravniks, Ints Teterovskis, Liubomiras WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, 2008, Wis Union Theatre ORDER CODE: VISUA05 www.wifilmfest.org color, digital video • 96 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A ing geometries by the UK new media Lauciavicius, Emilija Leiskalne, Irena Tjunina, Director: Jennifer Burns WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, Tatjana Jansone-Nazarova, Armands Reinfelds, duo Semiconductor. All action takes 2008, color, b&w, digital video • 83 MIN Girts Krumins Tulpan Director of photography: Patrick Russo; visual place around NASA’s Space Sciences effects: Sarah Cortese; editor: Christine Gilliland; Director: Eric Bricker IN LATVIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES THU, APR 2 • 7:15 PM online editor: Danielle Woods; post production Laboratories at UC Berkeley. Writer: Eric Bricker, Phil Ethington, Jessica Presented with the UW Center for the Study of Hundley; cinematographer: Aiken Weiss, Dante Stage Door ORDER CODE: TULPA02 sound: John Binder, Another Country; score: Craig Rawhide! Upper Midwestern Cultures. Calvert; producer: Jennifer Burns Spinotti; editor: Charlton McMillan; composer: WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Experimental • USA, Charlie Campagna; executive producer: Lisa Divided into four parts, with different SAT, APR 4 • 7:30 PM SERIES: Film·Able: Disabilities on Screen; Wis- 2008, digital video • 2 MIN Hughes, Michelle Oliver; producer: Eric Bricker, directors and actors, four days in the life Stage Door ORDER CODE: TULPA04 consin’s Own. Babette Zilch; co-producer: Will Paice, Frederic of Teodors are illuminated in this Presented with the UW Department of Rehabil- Director: Sabine Gruffat, Bill Brown WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • Kazakhstan, Liebert; associate producer: Rose Nielsen; remarkable Latvian film. It can be seen 2008, color, 35mm • 100 MIN itation Psychology and Special Education An experimental karaoke hoedown! production consultant: Karen Lee Arbeeny; design as four connected parts that inform the Director: Sergey Dvortsevoy Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. and animation: Trollback + Company Muto evolving character of this introspective Writer: Sergey Dvortsevoy, Gennady Ostrovskiy; Vincent is a man who has chosen to Animated • Argentina, 2008, digital video • 8 MIN Narrated by , Visual director of photography: Jola Dylewska; editor: man, or as four more allegorical films make Chicago’s famous bridges his own Director: Blu Acoustics explores the monumental Isabel Meier, Petar Markovic; production designer: personal stage. Throughout boat sea- career of 98-year-old architectural pho- that define the ages of man. “The film Roger Martin; producer: Pandora Film, Karl Argentine street artist Blu uses the city’s son, Vincent can be seen, in his bright tographer, Julius Shulman. Populat- succeeds in allowing each director their Baumgartner; cast: Askhat Kuchinchirekov, Samal sidewalks and walls as a vast outdoor own voice too, no small feat, and in the Yeslyamova, Ondasyn Besikbasov, Tulepbergen technicolor suits, on the various bridges ing his photos with human models and Baisakalov, Bereke Turganbayev, Nurzhigit around town waving, spinning and canvas for an animated film. striking landscapes, Shulman combined process, demonstrates that there is some Zhapabayev, Mahabbat Turganbayeva, Amangeldi twirling his jacket over his head to the It Will Die Out in the Mind the organic with the synthetic, melding very promising talent coming out of Nurzhanbayev, Tazhyban Khalykulova, Zhappas delight and confusion of the tour boats WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Experimental • USA, nature with revolutionary urban design. Latvia…. The film plays with dicho- Zhailaubaev, Esentai Tulendiev that cruise the Chicago River. He’s an 2006, digital video • 4 MIN The resulting images helped to shape tomies — rural/urban (the first and last IN KAZAKH, RUSSIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES icon, a regular in the audience crowd Director: Deborah Stratman the careers of some of the greatest archi- scenes are pastoral, while the middle Winner of the Prix Un Certain Regard outside the TV news studios, a figure A short inquisition of science by the tects of the 20th Century, with Shulman two scenes are coldly alienating in its at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, instantly recognizable to those who live paranormal. On-screen texts are lifted documenting the work of Richard Neu- cityscapes), young/old (the children play acclaimed Kazakh documentarian as adults, the adults play as children) in the city. Vincent was also born legally from Tarkovsky’s film “Stalker” in which tra, Rudolph Schindler, Pierre Koenig, Sergey Dvortsevoy’s first narrative fea- and loneliness/human communica- blind, and has spent a rich life finding something more expansive and less John Lautner, and many others. Taking ture is a gorgeous mélange of tender tion…. Vogelfrei is beautiful filmmak- his way in the world. As a computer pro- explicable than logic or technology is its aesthetic cues from Shulman’s own comedy, ethnographic drama and grammer, as a disco DJ, and as Fashion sensual and nuanced photography, the ing, each story told with a compelling wildlife extravaganza. Following his offered as the conceptual pillar of the visual and narrative sense, and ulti- Man, Vincent reminds us that everyone human spirit. film’s narrative is built from a blend of Russian naval service, young dreamer has a story to tell. This playful documen- Shulman’s images as well as in-depth mately achieves that rare thing: a multi- Asa returns to his sister’s nomadic brood tary matches Vincent’s humor and Stranger Comes to Town interviews with architect Frank Gehry, directed film coalescing together well.” on the desolate Hunger Steppe to begin delightfulness. Director Jennifer Burns WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Experimental • USA, designer Tom Ford, artist Ed Ruscha, — Brannavan Gnanalingam, The a hardscrabble career as a shepherd. But is a graduate of the UW-Madison Polit- 2007, digital video • 28 MIN actress Kelly Lynch and writer Mitch Lumiere Reader. before he can tend a flock of his own, ical Science and Latin American depart- Director: Jacqueline Gross Glazer, publisher Benedikt Taschen, Asa must win the hand of the only eli- ments. Stranger Comes to Town re-works ani- Academy Award-nominated cinematog- The Way We Get By gible bachelorette for miles — his allur- mations from the Department of Home- rapher Dante Spinotti, and a host of oth- SAT, APR 4 • 1:00 PM ingly mysterious neighbor Tulpan. Visible Forces: land Security — combining them with ers. By offering unprecedented and Bartell Theatre ORDER CODE: WAYWE04 stories from the border, impressions exclusive access to his amazing photo- Accompanied by his girlie mag-reading Dispatches from WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, sidekick Boni (and a menagerie of from the on-line game “World of War- graphic archive and his day-to-day life, 2009, color, digital video • 85 MIN adorable lambs, stampeding camels, the Media Embassy craft,” and journeys via Google Earth to Shulman’s dedicated involvement in the Director: Aron Gaudet mewling kittens and mischievous chil- SAT, APR 4 • 3:45 PM tell a tale of bodies moving through lands process afforded an incalculable bene- Director of photography: Aron Gaudet, Dan Ferrigan; fit to the film. Through the exploration editor: Aron Gaudet; executive producer: Warren dren), Asa will stop at nothing to prove UW Cinematheque ORDER CODE: VISIB04 familiar and strange. of both Shulman’s art and uniquely indi- Cook; producer, interviewer: Gita Pullapilly; he is a worthy husband and herder. In TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 90 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A Return of the Black Tower vidualistic life, Visual Acoustics offers associate producer: Jessica Barnthouse the tradition of such travelogues as The Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Experimental • United an unforgettable portrait of Modernism’s At an airport in Maine, thousands of U.S. Story of the Weeping Camel (WFF04), Pink Dot Kingdom, 2008, digital video • 15 MIN military troops board planes for deploy- Tulpan’s gentle humor and stunning most eloquent ambassador. Winner, WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Experimental • 2006, Director: Jennet Thomas ment overseas. For some, it’s the last time photography transport audiences to this Audience Award, 2008 Austin, Palm digital video • 5 MIN Return of the Black Tower was conceived Springs festivals. they’ll see America. For those who return singular, harshly beautiful region and Director: Takeshi Murata as a ‘response’ film to John Smith’s 1987 through this airport’s doors, it’s marks a its rapidly vanishing way of life. 2008 In Untitled (Pink Dot), Murata trans- classic short experimental film, The Vogelfrei grateful and safe return to their families Cannes, Karlovy Vary, Toronto, New forms footage from the 1982 Sylvester Black Tower. and their non-service lives. And in this York, and London film festivals. Stallone film Rambo: First Blood into a SAT, APR 4 • 5:15 PM Maine community, a handful of local sen- Brent Coughenour Live Stage Door Theatre ORDER CODE: VOGEL04 Una y Otra Vez morass of seething electronic abstrac- ior citizens have given themselves the tion. Subjected to Murata’s meticulous Video Performance SUN, APR 5 • 5:30 PM assignment of staffing the welcome cen- (Time and Again) Experimental • USA, 2009, digital video • 15 MIN digital reprocessing, the action scenes Stage Door Theatre ORDER CODE: VOGEL05 ter and greeting these returning soldiers. Director: Brent Coughenour SEE: Shorts: Saturday @ Chazen decompose and are subsumed into an WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • Latvia, Bill, Joan, and Jerry don’t live easy lives almost palpable, cascading digital Brent, director of I Pity the Fool 2007, color, 35mm • 95 MIN themselves. Money is tight, the joints are

WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 • WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • APRIL 2-5, 2009 WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • MADISON FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN La Vie Est Belle sludge, presided over by a hypnotically (WFF08), caps off the Visual Forces pro- Director: Janis Kalejs, Gatis Smits, Janis getting stiff. Loneliness is always near. 32 SEE: Dancescapes pulsating pink dot. gram with a live video performance. Putnins, Anna Viduleja But they overcome their personal bat- Winter of Frozen Dreams

A Wink and a Smile Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love tell-alls, this hysterical comedy is loaded Fumiko Hattori, Terao/Levine Family Fund with gleeful one-liners and ridiculous IN JAPANESE, ENGLISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES twists. Silly and smart, Who is KK SERIES: Disparate Voices: Asian American Film Downey? positions the Kidnapper gang Presented with the UW Asian American Studies as the heirs apparent to Canadian sketch Program. legends The Kids in the Hall. “Touch- What could be a better example of a ing, hilarious, and vulgar.” — Film strongly entrenched sterotype than that Threat. Audience Award, 2008 Boston of a kamikaze pilot? Single-minded Underground; New Vision Award, 2008 assassins, right? Fanatics. When Risa Win or Lose: A Summer Camp Story Cinequest Film Festival. Morimoto discovered that her mild- mannered Japanese uncle had trained formance art and showgirl spectacle, Yard Work is Hard Work as a kamikaze pilot, she retraced his foot- Win or Lose: A music, theater and sensuality crash into SEE: Shorts: Animations steps, asking surviving pilots about their over-the-top glamour. Like last year’s Summer Camp Story provocative experiences. In Japan, they Naked on the Inside and Pageant, this THU, APR 2 • 7:15 PM are largely revered for their selfless sac- film is a very personal revelation about Youssou Ndour: Monona Terrace ORDER CODE: WINOR02 rifice. Yet few outside Japan know that self-discovery and accepting our bod- I Bring What I Love WORLD PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, 2009, hundreds of kamikaze pilots survived ies, and a very impressive debut feature. SUN, APR 5 • 6:00 PM color, digital video • 58 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A the war. Through rare interviews with Orpheum Main ORDER CODE: YOUSS05 Director: Louis Lapat surviving kamikaze pilots, we learn that Winter Producer, writer, editor, camera: Louis Lapat; the military demanded pilots “volun- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, 2008, color, 35mm • 102 MIN assistant writer: Eric Taylor; supervising editor: teer” to give up their lives. The Emperor’s of Frozen Dreams Flavia Fontes; consultation: Eric Mendelsohn, Director: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Christopher White, Kurt Engfer ordered this to be so, and becoming a SAT, APR 4 • 8:45 PM Cinematographer: Nick Doob, JoJo Pennebaker; Wings of Defeat SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own tokkotai (an abbreviation of “Tokubetsu Monona Terrace ORDER CODE: WINTE04 cinematographer/co-producer: Scott Duncan, Hugo Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. Kogeki-tai” or Special Attack Squadron) WORLD PREMIERE • Narrative • USA, 2008, Berkeley; editors: Jonathan Oppenheim, Fernando meant being venerated as a god. Retrac- color, digital video • 92 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A Villena; editor consultant/mentor: Craig McKay; The last week at Camp Ojibwa, in Eagle original score composers: James Newton Howard, ing their journeys from teenagers to Director: Eric Mandelbaum tles to find camaraderie and a sense of River, Wis., is Collegiate Week. The kids Martin Davich; original score instrumentals: Jean- WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM purpose in being there for the soldiers. — all boys — divide into teams named doomed pilots, a complex history of bru- Writer: Michael Caughill, Michael Graf, John Philippe Rykiel; executive producer: Edward Tyler tal training and ambivalent sacrifice is Besmer, Eric Mandelbaum; based on the book by: Nahem, Patrick Morris, Jennifer Millstone, Jack after colleges, and compete in an extrav- Karl Harter; director of photography: Brian O’Carroll; When Worlds Collude revealed. These elderly gentlemen are Turner, Kathryn Tucker, Miklos C. Vasarhelyi; aganza that includes almost anything editor: Egon Kirincic; sound design: John D’Aquino; producer: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi; co-producer: SEE: Jim’s Experimental Shorts that can be reduced to a contest: bas- all speak with wit and humor, making music: Kenneth Lampl; production design: Mary Sarah Price; production company: 57th & Irving ketball, hockey, playwriting. It is intense, a thoroughly entertaining if bittersweet Frederickson; costume design: Lisa Padovani; Productions; cast: Youssou Ndour, Fathy Salama, documentary. Winner, Audience Award, executive producer: Omar Peraza; producer: Milka Kabou Gueye, Le Super Etoile de Dakar, The Fathy Who is KK Downey? obsessive, and challenging, and starts Stanisic, Anthony J. Vorhies, Millie Stanisic; cast: 2008 Asian American Film Festival. Salama Cairo Orchestra, Moustapha Mbaye, Peter SAT, APR 4 • 10:30 PM with a draft pick of the campers. The Thora Birch, Keith Carradine, Brendan Sexton III, Gabriel, Neneh Cherry ultra-competitive coach Andrew Robin- Leo Fitzpatrick, Dean Winters, Dan Moran Play Circle ORDER CODE: WHOIS04 IN ENGLISH, FRENCH, WOLOF, ARABIC WITH son (“A-rob”) gets the worst number in A Wink and a Smile SERIES: Wisconsin’s Own ENGLISH SUBTITLES SUN, APR 5 • 8:15 PM the draft: the 12. No one in the history FRI, APR 3 • 9:30 PM Filmmaker(s) scheduled to attend. SERIES: Inside Islam Play Circle ORDER CODE: WHOIS05 A movie based on a novel based on a Presented with the UW Inside Islam Project. of Camp Ojibwa was ever won with the Chazen Museum ORDER CODE: WINKA03 WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • Canada, 2008, true crime tale, which happened right 12. Nobody wants to be on his team. WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, Senegalese pop sensation Youssou Ndour digital video • 87 MIN Adam Korn isn’t the most popular coun- 2008, color, digital video • 91 MIN here in Madison. On a frigid Christmas has spent the last 20 years in the spot- Director: Darren Curtis, Pat Kiely selor, but puts some effort into draft Director: Dierdre Timmons morning in 1977, Barbara Hoffman’s dis- light as a world-renowned musician and Writer: Darren Curtis, Pat Kiely, Matt Silver; strategy to build a contending team. And Director of photography: Peter Waweru, Marie Joëlle traught young fiancé, Jerry Davies, led iconic “voice of Africa.” At the height of cinematographer: Bobby Shore; editor: Jared Curtis; thus embarks the saga of another Col- Rizk; editors: Deirdre Allen Timmons, Peter Waweru; police investigators to a corpse, which his career, Youssou became frustrated by executive producer: Paul Renaud, Jade Healy, John producer: Jack Timmons, Deirdre Allen Timmons; Lameray, David Fruchter, Charles D’Angelo, John legiate Week in Northern Wisconsin, only hours before he had buried in a the negative perception of his Muslim associate producer: Abigail Carter; cast: The snow bank. Detective Lulling (Keith Webb, Katye Stevens, Trevor Barnes; producer: where scrawny kids and gangly teens, Shanghai Pearl, Diane Bruch, Casey Ellison, Janie faith and composed Egypt, a deeply spir- Kieran Crilly, Brandi-Ann Milbradt, Darren Curtis, with testosterone fairly dripping off their Hanson, Megan Keller, Amy Klar, Vicky R. Moczi, Carradine) and the police investigators itual album dedicated to a more toler- Pat Kiely; cast: Darren Curtis, Kristin Adams, Matt shoes, discovers what it means to win, Christi Jo Petrucelli, Sara Robinson, Rachel Shimp, uncover the naked and brutally bludg- ant view of Islam. It was a critical and Silver, Pat Kiely, Dan Haber and to lose. Director Louis Lapat Tami Veralund eoned body of Harry Berge. Turns out career-defining moment. Ndour’s brave This riotous first feature by Montreal’s attended Beloit College and now lives An intoxicating mix of private thoughts that Harry was a customer of Barbara’s musical message was wholeheartedly Kidnapper comedy troupe spoofs lit- in New York City. Winner, 2009 Wis- and public behavior, A Wink and a Smile at the massage parlor where she worked, embraced by Western audiences but erary fakers JT LeRoy and James Frey, consin’s Own Jury Prize. exposes more than the human body by and that Barbara (Thora Birch) was ignited serious religious controversy in as well as the public who bought into putting gender, power, sexuality, and leading a double life. As investigators his homeland of Senegal. Combining their lowlife chic. When Theo’s sordid Wings of Defeat social identity under the glittery spot- get closer to solving the crime, Jerry unprecedented images of Senegal’s most novel Truck Stop Hustler is deemed SUN, APR 5 • 11:00 AM light, as it follows the lives of ten ordi- Davies is found dead, but it is murder sacred Muslim rituals, vibrant concert unpublishable, he decides to bring his nary women who do something extraor- or suicide? In 1980, young Jim Doyle Bartell Theatre ORDER CODE: WINGS05 performances filmed around the world drug-addled fictional protagonist KK dinary — learn the art of burlesque (now governor) prosecuted Hoffman in and intimate access to Ndour and his Downey to life in the form of his band- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • USA, 2007, color, b&w, digital video • 89 MIN dancing and striptease. This isn’t pole- the first televised trial in U.S. history. family, I Bring What I Love chronicles mate Terrance (played with gusto by co- Director: Risa Morimoto dancing, it’s theater like that practiced Ten years after that, Karl Harter, the the difficult journey Youssou must under- director Darren Curtis, channeling a bit Cinematographer: Francisco Aliwalas; additional by Madison’s Cherry Pop Burlesque. We owner of Movin’ Shoes on Park Street, take to assume his true calling. Youssou of Alan Cumming here). Repitched as camera: Tetsuhiro Kato, Eric Lin, Risa Morimoto; see how a homemaker, a reporter, a doc- wrote the novel that this film is based Ndour is a voice of hope and tolerance, KK’s sleazy autobiography, the book is editor: Maya Stark; rough cut editor: Nicholas Rucka; tor, an opera singer, a taxidermist and on. (Although some of the names are a modern day moral and political leader a massive hit, its author is a cause célèbre, assistant editor: Masako Tsumura; assistant sound editor: Hekiro Matsuoka; sound design: Tom Lino; a college student, join the American cul- familiar, the film was actually shot in whose message transcends music but and things get very out of hand very, consultant: Bill Gordon; composer: Hekiro Matsuoka; tural revival of burlesque, as it moves Schenectady, so don’t be surprised if remains grounded in the universality of very quickly. Ridiculing the literary art director: Jef Castro; producer: Risa Morimoto; from fringe fascination to mainstream Madison circa 1977 looks a little dif- faith. Co-produced by Milwaukee film- world’s creepy infatuation with junkie producer: Linda Hoaglund; associate producer: obsession, engaging a world where per- ferent than you remember). maker Sarah Price (American Movie). 33 Wisconsin Ave. Butler St. Public parking One way streets Blair St.

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Marion St. W. Mifflin St. March 7 - April 1: W. Dayton St. Bassett St. Monday through Friday: 11:30 am to 8 pm; W. Washington Ave. Saturdays: 11:30 am to 5 pm; Sundays: Closed; W. Doty St. John Nolen Dr. N. Frances St. Lake Monona Wednesday, April 1 only: 11:30 am to 5 pm W. Main St. W. Wilson St. Online orders placed by 8 p.m. Thursday, March 26 will be mailed. THEATERS PARKING INFORMATION Orders received March 27-April 1 will be held for will- Wisconsin Union Theater IN THE MEMORIAL UNION, 800 LANGDON STREET UW-Madison Campus WWW2.FPM.WISC.EDU/TRANS/PARKING/VISITORPARKING.HTM call pick up at the Festival Box Office. Will-call tickets Monona Terrace are ONLY available at the Festival Box Office, NOT at Frederic March Play Circle IN THE MEMORIAL UNION, 800 LANGDON STREET, 2ND FLOOR Entrances: eastbound John Nolen Drive, or Carroll Street (at West Wilson Street) individual theaters. Chazen Museum of Art 800 UNIVERSITY AVENUE, LOWER LEVEL. City Ramps CI.MADISON.WI.US/PARKING/PARKING.HTML Will-call details: Enter from north side of building facing Library Mall. No food or drink in the building. During the festival, the Festival Box Office, in the UW Cinematheque ROOM 4070, VILAS HALL, 821 UNIVERSITY AVENUE FESTIVAL HOTEL Memorial Union, is open for will-call pick-ups only. (Corner of University & Park). The Cinematheque entrance is on the 4th-floor plaza, Madison Concourse Hotel & Governor’s Club During the festival, tickets are sold only at the theater 1 W. DAYTON ST., MADISON • CONCOURSEHOTEL.COM where that film plays, only on the day-of-show, and only the same level of the pedestrian bridge that crosses University Ave. Madison’s premier downtown destination is just steps away from the festival if available. MMoCA — Madison Museum of Contemporary Art 227 STATE STREET theaters. Soak up the fun in the indoor pool, hot tub, and fitness center. Box office hours for will-call Enter through the Rotunda between Overture Center and MMoCA Enjoy live jazz Wednesday, Friday and Saturday night in The Bar. during the festival, April 2-5: Please call (800)356-8293 or (608)257-6000 and ask for the Wisconsin Film Festival rate! Orpheum and Stage Door Theatres 216 STATE STREET Thursday & Friday: noon to 9 pm; For the festival, the Orpheum Main and Stage Door theatres have separate entrances. VISITING MADISON & WISCONSIN Saturday: 10 am to 9 pm; Sunday: 10 am to 6 pm The Stage Door entrance is on Johnson Street, northeast of State. Greater Madison Convention & Visitors Bureau Ticket-holders must arrive at least 15 minutes Bartell Theatre 113 EAST MIFFLIN STREET (800)373-6376, VISITMADISON.COM before a show to be guaranteed a seat. Majestic Theatre 115 KING STREET UW-Madison Campus Visitor Center RED GYM, 716 LANGDON ST., TICKET PRICES (608)263-2400, OR VISIT.WISC.EDU. Monona Terrace LECTURE HALL, LEVEL 4 You can buy up to eight tickets per film. Enter from West Wilson Street, at the intersection of Martin Luther King Drive. Wisconsin Department of Tourism (800)432-TRIP (8747), OR 1 to 4 total tickets, price per ticket: TRAVELWISCONSIN.COM $7 general / $4 student 5 to 8 total tickets, price per ticket: for your selections, the Box Office will substitute nor do they guarantee you a seat – you must first EACH THEATER HAS A RUSH-TICKET LINE, vouchers (see “What’s a Voucher?” below). exchange them for a real ticket. No refunds are given for $6 general / $3.75 student AND A TICKET-HOLDERS LINE. If no tickets are 3. AT THE BOX OFFICE: Please choose your films vouchers, but you may give them to family and friends. available at that theater’s box office, join the rush-ticket 9 to 12 total tickets, price per ticket: ahead of time. Check at the box office for the list of DAY-OF-SHOW SALES line. It’s wise to come 30 minutes before the show, but $5.50 general / $3.50 student films that may be sold-out. it depends on how popular the film is. When ticket- 4. ONLINE: Follow the instructions for ordering tickets YES! YOU CAN GET TICKETS TO FILMS holders have been seated, we’ll sell open seats to people 13 or more total tickets, price per ticket: at wifilmfest.org. ON THE DAY OF THE SHOW! (USUALLY.) in the rush-ticket line. Cash or vouchers may be used to $5.25 general / $3.25 student 5. ONLINE ORDERS placed by 8 p.m. Thursday, During the Festival, tickets are ONLY sold at the buy rush tickets. Having a voucher is not a guarantee of March 26 will be mailed. Orders received March 27- theaters, NOT at the Festival Box Office, which is open a seat or preference in line; it’s just used in lieu of cash. Service fee is $4 per order April 1 will be held for will-call pick up at the Festival for will-call pick-ups only. Tickets are available at the Limit two tickets per patron. First in line, first seated. for online, phone, or mail orders. Box Office. Will-call tickets are ONLY available at the theater where the film will be shown, only on the day of All tickets sold at the individual theaters during the STUDENT DISCOUNT: Available to any student (grade Festival Box Office, NOT at individual theaters. the show. For example, if you want a ticket to a Saturday festival are $7 general and $4 student, cash only. school, high school, college, etc.) with valid, current student 6. CASH, CHECK, OR VISA / MASTERCARD night film at the Bartell, you can buy that ticket at the Students should bring their school ID. ID. Bring your ID to the box office when you place your accepted. All sales are final (although individual tickets Bartell only, on Saturday only. The individual theater box order. For online and phone orders, we’ll hold your tickets can be exchanged at the Festival Box Office through offices open an hour before the first film of the day at MORE IMPORTANT DETAILS at the Festival Box Office; you must present student ID at April 1). No returns, refunds, or replacements for lost that theater. Check wifilmfest.org for exact hours. Cash ARRIVE EARLY: To guarantee admittance, time of pickup. Subject to verification. tickets. No refunds for vouchers. or ticket vouchers are accepted for sales during the ticket-holders must arrive 15 minutes before the show. Festival (no checks or credit cards). PARTIES: 21 & over only. $10 online and at the door. WHAT’S A VOUCHER? Latecomers with tickets are not guaranteed admittance. RUSH TICKETS ALL TICKETS SALES ARE FINAL. No refunds or A VOUCHER IS A COUPON you can exchange for a replacements for lost tickets. No refunds for vouchers. ORDERING TICKETS ticket. You can order vouchers just like regular tickets WANT TO SEE A SOLD-OUT SHOW? FILM TICKETS CAN BE EXCHANGED in person (look under “V” in the film guide), and exchange them YOU CAN! (USUALLY.) 1. PICK YOUR FILMS using this guide, or online at only through April 1 at the Festival Box Office at the later. Sometimes vouchers are issued if the Box Office “Sold out” means tickets allotted for advance purchase wifilmfest.org. Memorial Union. Absolutely no film-ticket exchanges needs to resolve a problem with your order and tickets have sold. As tickets go on sale, we set aside a handful 2. ADVANCE TICKET SALES begin at noon after April 1. for your preferred film are no longer available. of tickets for filmmakers to share with their crew, to on Saturday, March 7, and end at 5 p.m. Wednesday, MANY FESTIVAL FILMS ARE NOT RATED. Vouchers need to be exchanged for a “real” ticket anticipate any changes in theater capacity, and to April 1. Orders may be placed in person at the Box Viewer and parental discretion advised. printed for a specific film program. You can make an resolve any Box Office errors. Also, some people buy Office, or online. At busy times, the Festival Box Office exchange at the Festival Box Office through Wednesday, tickets to a film but are not able to make it to the show. Festival schedule is subject may not be able to accept phone orders. You may send April 1, or at the theaters during the festival. Vouchers Open seats can be filled right before the start of the film. an order by mail, but if tickets are no longer available to change. on their own are not good for entry into a theater, Ticket-holders must arrive at least 15 minutes before a WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 2-5, 2009 • WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • APRIL 2-5, 2009 WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • MADISON FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN show to be guaranteed a seat. 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