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CONTACT Head Projectionists Chris Barker; Ad Creations: Lucas Sheridan, Printer; award-winning Indigenous Always: The Wisconsin Film Festival Joe Beres; Roch Gersbach; Erik Barb Schultz, Film’s & Imposition Legend of La Malinche and the Contents Gunneson; Matt Rockwell; David Storlie; Burne Photo Imaging: Barry Burne; Conquest of Mexico. UW-Madison Arts Institute and Mark Verstegen Gary Larson 821 University Ave., Haggar Audio Production Kevin Fulk BECKY BANKS: A Wisconsin native, Schedule at a Glance ...... 29 Madison, WI 53706 Volunteers (PARTIAL LIST) Becky Banks worked her way up the Film Guide & Program film totem pole in New York, on big (877) 963-FILM Venue and Logistics Management: The Films ...... 7-18 Meg Hamel For Isthmus: Ellen J. Meany, creative budget and independent films, and [email protected] Filmmaker and Guest Liaison: director; Heather Lim, Eric Rank, David scripted her first feature, Still Life, Talks ...... 19 www.wifilmfest.org Vanessa Shipley Michael Miller, production design which she returned to Wisconsin to Kristin Anderson; Cathy Atkinson; Josh artists; and the entire sales staff produce and direct. Still Life won a Parties ...... 20 DURING THE FESTIVAL Bennett; Michael Bouldern; Michelle Special Jury Prize for Best Narrative See the website or call Bright-O’Russa; Nanci Calamari; David Festival Jurors Feature in the Wisconsin’s Own Film Series Essays (877) 963-FILM for updates. Eisenberg; Reuben Foat; Jennifer Competition, 2001 Wisconsin Film Wisconsin’s Own Competition: Festival. For additional questions or Garrett; Toni Halverson; Deb Amos Gitaï: Images of Exile ...... 21 Henderson-Guenther; Violet Ilic; Matt TAMARA GOLDSWORTHY: emergencies, call (608) 265-2933. Johnson; Michael Knutsen; Mark Cinematographer Tamara Goldsworthy MIKE MAGGIORE: Since 1994, Mike Cinema at the Crossroads: Knutson; Christina Kruger; Timothy has built her career shooting Maggiore has been Programming & CREDITS & THANKS Lapp; David Lepak; Ellen Lippincott; Jon independent documentaries. Her Publicity Associate of Film Forum, a 3- Film in the New Europe ...... 22 Miller; Nicole Mitchell; Robert Morel; credits include Big Mama, which won screen, independent, nonprofit cinema About Us The Wisconsin Film Festival Alan Paberzs; Dave Photenhauer; Ben the 2000 Academy Award for specializing in New York premieres of New Wave North: is Wisconsin’s premier independent film Price; Michelle Reed; Jenny Rim; Documentary Short Subject. Born and foreign arthouse films, American Recent Films from Québec ...... 23 event and only major film festival. A Christina Ruggiero; Janet Ryan; Dennis raised in Monroe, WI, Goldsworthy got independents, and documentaries. public program of the University of Shaffer; Amy Sloper; Charmaine Tryon- her start shooting documentaries with Wisconsin’s Own Filmmakers ...... 24 Wisconsin-Madison Arts Institute, it is a Petith; David Villar; Kelly Warren; Linda the acclaimed veríte cinematographer Festival Advisory Board (2002): four-day annual festival that takes Witkowski; Kaela Wohl; Fung Wong; and Joan Churchill in Los Angeles. David Bordwell (Professor, Other Film Series place each spring in campus and Nahoko Yoshino Communication Arts, University of downtown Madison venues. The Festival BARRY POLTERMANN: Barry Wisconsin-Madison); Ben Brewster After Dark; Experimental & New Media; presents the best new independent film Marketing Campaign Poltermann is Chief Executive Officer of (Assistant Director, Wisconsin Center (feature, documentary, experimental), Planet Propaganda: Festival identity, Civilian Pictures, Inc., the parent for Film and Theater Research); Lisa and Contemporary World Cinema ...... 21 world cinema and new media; cultivates web site, print advertising, posters, TV company of Civilian Capital, an on-line Heller (Director of Original Documentary; Premieres; discovery through talks, panels, spots, in-theater trailers and other brokerage firm offering motion picture Programming, Documentaries, HBO); performances and coffeehouse materials. projects as IPOs to retail investors. Sarah Klavas (Acting Director, Restorations & Revivals; discussions with filmmakers; and Planeteers: Dana Lytle, Creative Poltermann edited and co-executive Wisconsin Film Office, and Director, showcases the work of Wisconsin Director; Michael Byzewski, Lead produced the feature film American Marketing Services, Wisconsin Special Presentations; and Insider ...... 22 filmmakers through juried Designer; James Breen, Copywriter; Movie, and founded Purple Onion Department of Tourism); Jeffrey Kurz competitions. The Festival is committed Nathan Theis, TV Director; Travis Ott, Entertainment (a commercial (Producer / Consultant, Belle City Print Sources ...... 25 to independent film culture, quality Account Manager; Ann Eisenberg, Asst. production company), where he served Pictures); Jennifer Montgomery programming, community involvement, Account Manager; Ben Hirby, Senior as President until 1996. He is a (Filmmaker, Visiting Assistant Venues, Parking & Lodging ...... 26 and a filmmaker-friendly environment. Desinger/Active Media; Brian Wilson, Wisconsin native and UW-Madison Professor, Northwestern University); Active Media Developer; David Huyck, alumnus. J.J. Murphy (Filmmaker, Professor, Sponsors & Partners ...... 27 People Mary Carbine, Director, Active Media Developer; Kristin Girvin Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin Film Festival; Tino Balio, Redman, Active Media Producer; Angie SCOTT TOBIAS: Scott Tobias is a film Wisconsin-Madison); Noel Radomski Ticket Order Form ...... 29 Executive Director, UW-Madison Arts Medenwaldt, Production Designer; Jen and book critic for the A.V. Club section (Director, UW-Madison Office of Visitor Institute; Joanne Au-Yeung, Project Monahan, Production Designer; Ann of The Onion. His work has also Services); James Schamus (Writer / Assistant; Matthew Binetti, Project Sweeney, Production Manager; Julie appeared in The Nashville Scene and Producer, Good Machine: Sense & Jason Salus, Best Western Inn on the Park Jessica Rosner, Kino International Assistant; and Carrie Uutala, Project Kimmell, Vendor Coordinator; Rob Sax, City Pages. He is a member of the Sensibility; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Nancy Streckert, Bongo Video William Ney, Latin American, Caribbean Assistant Lazy Guy; Lori Wilson, Public Relations Chicago Film Critics Association. Dragon); Laurie Scheer (Writer / Ana Martin, British Film Institute & Iberian Studies Additional Design: Emily Kilsdonk Producer / Professor); Susan Schmitz Barry Burne, Burne Photo Imaging Jeff Lipsky and Martin Wendel, Lot 47 Programmers Mary Carbine; Joe TV Spot Mastering and Film Recording: Student Competition: (President, Downtown Madison Inc.); Cornelius Moore, California Newsreel Films Beres (Cinematheque); Sandy Lucas i-cubed: Boris Seagraves, File DAN BANDA: Wisconsin filmmaker Dan Matt Solomon (Writer / Producer, John Pascale Ramonda, Celluloid Dreams Susan Crofton, Madison Civic Center (WUD Film Committee); Eija Niskanen Conversions for Broadcast Ads; Alex Banda’s current projects include the Roach Projects); Mike Verveer Patrick Rumble, Interim Director, Center Cal Worrell and Steve Zanoni, Madison (Communication Arts Department) Scudiero, Digital Color Timing; Heather PBS documentary After the Immigrant (Alderperson, City of Madison) for European Studies Concourse Hotel Ray Privett, Guest Curator, Jones-Pryor, Graphic Production; Boris and A Day With the Dead, both Steven Nadler and Joan Strasbaugh, Neil Friedman, Menemsha “Amos Gitaï: Images of Exile” Seagraves, Film Recording for in- produced in cooperation with the SPECIAL THANKS Center for the Humanities Entertainment Additional assistance from Ethan de theater trailer; Alex Scudiero, Digital Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Orpheum & Majestic Theatres: Henry Bob Skloot and Anita Lightfoot, Center Dan Wilson, Milwaukee Independent Seife, Carrie Uutala, Maya Gutiérrez, Color Timing Chicago. Banda recently produced Doane, Owner, Orpheum Theatre for Jewish Studies Film Society Erik Gunneson, James Kreul, Jennifer Film Processing and Printing: CineFilm Mexicanidad, a mini-docu/drama for an Project; Merijoy Endrizzi Ray, Directing Bruce McNeill, Charter Media, and Bob Weinstein, Miramax Films Cook, Colin Cameron, Amy Yu, Brad Laboratory installation at the Mexican Fine Arts Manager; Mel Trudeau, Restaurant Sarah Stone, Charter Communications Jonathan Howell, New Yorker Films Schauer, Joshua Feng, Daniel Mahoney Center Museum (April 2001). Banda Manager Jim Ogburn, CineFilm Laboratories Michie Itoh, PIA Corporation and Curran Osenton. also wrote, produced and narrated the Bartell Theatre: Judith F. Karofsky, Phillip R. Certain, Dean, Joe Lusson, Preserve the Orpheum Managing Director College of Letters and Sciences Ritt Deitz, Professional French Masters Madison Art Center: Steve Fleischman, Noah Cowan and Jeff Reichart, Cowboy Program THE FINE PRINT: Yes, even you need to read this! Director; Sheri Castelnuovo, Curator of Pictures Tim Rogus, Québec Delegation Chicago All advance ticket sales are final. No refunds for tickets or packages. Education; Michael Grant, Publicist; Lynne Eich, Dane County Cultural Steve Jarchow, Regent Entertainment Mark Verstegen, Technical Services Affairs Commission Tim Reilly No replacements for lost tickets. 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Package holder vouchers can be exchanged Advisor, Film and Contemporary Issues; Amy Adrion, First Run Features Catherine Nelson and Dusti Ferguson, for tickets if available at the box office through April 3 or at the door April 4 – 7. and all the Film Festival Committee Diane Eberhardt, French Cultural Shepherd-Express members Services in Chicago Tom Bernard and Tom Prassis, Sony Original ticket package and receipt must be presented for exchange of tickets or vouchers. UW-Cinematheque: Ben Brewster Pennie Maclean, Rose Budig and Beth Pictures Classics To guarantee admittance, ticket holders must arrive 15 minutes prior to show. Wisconsin Union Theater: Bruce Walsh, School of Education Business Marcus Hu and Steve Buck, Strand Ehlinger, Theater Operations Manager; Office Releasing Available seats will be filled at curtain time. Fred Fisher, Technical Director; Ted Stephanie Sabo and Joe Way, UW Mark Ballering and Sarah Zillmer, Steep Latecomers with tickets are not guaranteed admittance. Harks, Box Office Manager Extension Conference Centers & Brew UW-Madison Communication Arts: Sara Bensman, Film Society of Lincoln Jon Soo, Tai Seng Video Marketing Sold Out Screenings: For some sold out screenings “rush” tickets will be released just before Paddy Rourke; Boyd Hillestad; Chris Center Janice Simsohn, Program Director, curtain time, available only on a first come basis. Lineup begins a half hour before program start Hoover; and Brian Deith (Journalism) Ariane Giroux-Dallaire, Film Tonic Temple Beth El Wisconsin Film Office: Sarah Klavas, Sahra Imchal, Films Distribution Tom Teuber, Jonathan Suttin, Kitty time. Ticketholders please note: Theaters will be cleared between shows. All patrons must exit Acting Director; Mary Idso, Assistant John Rieben, Professor, Graphics Dunn and Melissa Meyer, 105.5 Triple M theaters between shows to allow for setup for next program. No exceptions. Director; Scott Thom, Film Office Program, Department of Art John Malicsi, University Bookstore Operations Krista Flanagan and Janna Lenz, Tim Kelley, Jeff Miller, Nick Weaver, Festival programs and schedule are subject to change. Greg Beal, Academy of Motion Picture Greater Madison Convention and Patrick Strickler and Barbara Wolff, Check the website (www.wifilmfest.org) and the April 4 Isthmus for latest updates. Arts and Sciences Visitors Bureau University Communications Most festival films are not rated. MPAA ratings provided where available. Marion de Marcillac, Alliance Atlantis Bruni Burres and John Anderson, John Wiley, Chancellor, University of Mike Broder, Arrow Releasing Human Rights Watch International Film Wisconsin-Madison Viewer and parental discretion is advised. Michelle Coe, Association of Festival Wren Singer and Sara Jung, Visitor Independent Video and Filmmakers Dave Gersbach, IATSE Local 251 Services, UW-Madison Projection Business Agent Bob Gitt, UCLA Film and Television UW-Madison Arts Institute: Tino Balio, Executive Director; Mary Carbine, Director, Wisconsin Film Festival; Bryndis Johannsdottirm, Icelandic Film Archive Coordinator, Arts Residency Program; Ken Chraca, Administrator; Sarah Schaffer, Coordinator, School of Music Fund Cis Bierinckx, Dean Otto and Sheryl Recordings Project Carol Schaffner, i-cubed Mousley, Walker Art Center Executive Committee (2001-02): Aris Georgiades, Associate Professor, Department of Art; Jim Escalante, Bob Berney, Beth English and Greg Suzanne Fedak and Rodney Hill, Chair, Department of Art; Michael Goldberg, Director, Wisconsin Union Theater; Claudia Melrose, Professor, Forston, IFC Films Wellspring Media Dance Program; James Moy, Chair, Department of Theatre & Drama; J.J. Murphy, Chair, Communication Arts Kim Arnold and Carole Kolb, IMS Dulce Bella Whinfrey Department; Russell Panczenko, Director, Elvehjem Museum of Art; John Schaffer, Director, School of Music; Created in 1998, the UW Arts Institute is an intercollege unit of the Leslie Luehring, Independent Film Maxine Fleckner Ducey, Wisconsin Diane Sheehan, Professor, Department of Environment, Textiles and Design; H. Harv Thompson, Chair, Channel Center for Film and Theater Research College of Letters and Science, the School of Education and the Department of Liberal Studies and the Arts School of Human Ecology at the UW-Madison. Governed by the Alyssa Bailey and all Independent Film Peggy Williams, Chris DeSmet and Jo arts faculty and staff, its mission is to develop, promote and admin- Deans’ Council: Phillip R. Certain, Dean, College of Letters & Science; Robin Douthitt, Dean, School of Human and Video Collaborative members Garrett, Wisconsin Screenwriters Forum ister interdisciplinary artist residencies, fellowships and awards, Ecology; Charles Read (Chair), Dean, School of Education Ronnie Hess, Director of . . . and all the people, named and public programming, and outreach activities for the benefit of the Communications, International Institute university and the public. The Arts Institute’s Interdisciplinary Arts UW-Madison Arts Institute 5542 Humanities Building, 455 N. Park St., Madison, WI 53706 unnamed, who contributed to the Linda Baldwin, Bob Ansheles Residency Program is made possible by the University’s Cluster (608) 263-4086 • [email protected] • www.arts.wisc.edu success of the Wisconsin Film Festival. Hire Initiative. and Ellen J. Meany, Isthmus WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • APRIL 4-7, 2002 • MADISON • WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM 5 DIRECTOR’S CUT

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101 Reykjavík struggles with immigration, assimilation and genera- Narrative Feature > Iceland > 2000 > 90 min > Color PART OF tional conflict. After fleeing from Algeria on the verge THE SERIES > Cinema at the Crossroads: Film in the New of civil war, Ahmed Kasmi and his family are now one Europe week away from Canadian citizenship. Ahmed’s nin- LANGUAGE > In Icelandic and English with English subti- teen-year-old son, Hafid, joins a political group and tles FORMAT > 35mm, 1.85 PRODUCTION COMPANY > 101 breaks into an immigration office to delete computer Limited, Icelandic Film Fund DIRECTOR > Baltasar Kormákur files as a protest against deportations. Caught on sur- PRODUCER > Baltasar Kormákur, Thorfinnur Omarsson, veillance camera, Hafid’s image is broadcast nation- Ingvar Thordarson SCREENPLAY BY > Hallgrímur Helga- son, Baltasar Kormákur CAST > Hilmir Snær Gunason, Vic- wide, and he goes underground. Ahmed forges an toria Abril, Hanna María Karlsdóttir, Baltasar Kormákur, unlikely partnership with Hafid’s radical French-Cana- Ólafur Darri Ólafsson dian girlfriend in a search for his son. “A compelling (Madison Premiere) Hylnur, though he’s pushing 30, is tale of two cultures clashing and two generations at unemployed and still lives with his mother in their odds.”—Liz Czach, 2001 Toronto Film Festival. Winner, Reykjavík flat, piddling away the hours by surfing the Prize of the Churches of the Ecumenical Jury,Panora- web for porn or ogling the women in his mother’s exer- ma, Berlin International Film Festival, 2002. cise videos. Despite his cynical charm, scruffy good Print courtesy of Alliance Atlantis. — MARY CARBINE looks, and impossibly hip wardrobe, Hylnur is inept SCREENINGS L’ Ange de goudron > Fri, Apr 5 > 7:00 with women, though that doesn’t stop him from hitting pm > 1h30 > Majestic > ORDER CODE: ANG > Introduction by the pub every night in search of a drunken fling. But Ritt Deitz, Executive Director, UW-Madison Professional when his mother invites her sultry Flamenco teacher French Masters Program. SPONSOR > Ministère des Rela- (the magnificent Victoria Abril) over for dinner, Hyl- tions internationales du Québec, Québec Delegation Chica- go, UW-Madison Professional French Masters Program. nur finds himself attracted to her fiery,no-nonsense Thanks also to the Canadian Embassy, Dublin, and the attitude and, in the film’s central twist, so does his moth- Canadian Consulate, Chicago. er.“Filled with all sorts of quirky characters and set in an exotic, if frigid, locale, director Baltasar Kormákur Angel Beach has crafted a slyly comical, deliciously wry coming-of- Please see PERCEPTIONS OF PERCEPTION: SCOTT STARK. Big Bad Love age much-too-late story. 101 Reykjavík is simply a hoot.” Art and Community in Wisconsin —Merle Bertrand, Film Threat. Winner, Discovery Documentary Short, Animated Short > USA > 73 min > Award, 2000 Toronto International Film Festival. PART OF THE SERIES > Wisconsin’s Own Filmmakers, Doc- rent Truchot EXECUTIVE PRODUCER > Amos Gitaï, Gudie — SANDY LUCAS umentary ders a move to California. Three single mothers strug- Lawaetz CAST > Lisa Kreuzer, Rivka Neuman, Markus Stock- SCREENINGS 101 Reykjavík > Thu, Apr 4 > 9:30pm > 1h45 SPONSOR > Wisconsin Film Office FORMAT > Mini DV gle to hold on to their own identities and dreams despite familial tensions. The film blurs the distinctions hausen, Benjamin Levy, Vernon Dobtcheff > Orpheum - Main > ORDER CODE: 101 SPONSOR > The Cen- Documentaries that explore art and community in between narrative and documentary work, and plays (Wisconsin Premiere) This momentous historical epic ter for European Studies, the European Studies Alliance, Madison and Milwaukee, plus an animated short. and the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the UW- on your expectations of both forms. In a blend of direct about the emigration of European Jews to British Man- Madison, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, — MARY CARBINE address, interviews and dramatic scenes, At Home and date-era Palestine won the Critics’ Prize at the Venice Chicago. Venus de Milo Asea meditates on displacement and isolation in the Film Festival. Else Lasker-Schuler, a German Expres- 71 West Broadway Animated Short > USA > 2000 > 2 min > Color modern landscape.Beloit, WI, native Mark Street has sionist poet, and Tania Shohat, a Russian Revolutionary, Please see SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH: EYEWITNESSES. FORMAT > Mini DV Art and Community in Wisconsin PRO- shown his work at the Museum of Modern Art, Mille- meet in Berlin then make their separate ways to DUCTION COMPANY > David Lee Hendrickson, Ltd. DIREC- Jerusalem. En route they encounter many of the major 9.11 nium, the San Francisco Cinematheque, and the Toron- TOR > David Lee Hendrickson SCREENPLAY BY > David Lee to International and Sundance Film Festivals. historical movements of the period, including Com- Please see SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH: EYEWITNESSES. Hendrickson — JOE BERES munism and Nazism as well as many different forms (World Premiere) An antagonistic fly pesters a great work of Amos Gitaï: Images of Exile SCREENINGS > At Home and Asea > Sat, Apr 6 > 7:00 of Zionism. Henri Alékan and Gitaï’s frequent collabo- art—until Venus shows her true colors. Milwaukee-area Documentary Short > USA, France > 2002 > 32 min > Color pm > 2h00 > Madison Art Center - Auditorium, 3rd rator Nurith Aviv (Field Diary) were directors of pho- filmmaker David Lee Hendrickson also has a feature film PART OF THE SERIES > Amos Gitaï: Images of Exile Floor > ORDER CODE: AHA > PRECEDED BY > SLIDING OFF tography.Musicians Simon and Markus Stockhausen in post-production. A Wisconsin’s Own Competition entry. LANGUAGE > In English, French and Hebrew with English sub- THE EDGE OF THE WORLD > Filmmaker Mark Street in per- and producer Laurent Truchot began their ongoing col- SCREENINGS Sat, Apr 6 > 1:00pm > 1h45 > Madison Art Cen- titles FORMAT > DV Cam PRODUCTION COMPANY > Facets son. laboration with Gitaï on Berlin Jerusalem. ter - Auditorium, 3rd Floor > ORDER CODE: ACW > Film- Multimedia, Agav Hafakot, Pitcher Pictures PRODUC- makers David Lee Hendrickson, Brooke Maroldi and Gret- Aüs Blue Print courtesy of Kino International. — RAY PRIVETT ER > Kevin Gallagher, Erik Gunneson, Ray Privett, Laurent ta Wing Miller in person. SPONSOR > Wisconsin Film Office Please see WISCONSIN SHORTS II. Truchot EXECUTIVE PRODUCER > Amos Gitaï, Milos Stehlik SCREENINGS Berlin Jerusalem > Sun, Apr 7 > 1:00 pm > Stating the Arts in Milwaukee Baklava 1h30 > Orpheum - Stage Door > ORDER CODE: BEJ > Intro- (World Premiere) Prolific and controversial Amos Gitaï duction by guest curator Ray Privett. SPONSOR > Conney Documentary Short > USA > 2001 > 30 min > Color Please see STUDENT SHORTS II: MIDWESTERN LIFE. himself discusses his evolution as a filmmaker in this Family Fund, UW-Madison Center for Jewish Studies humorous short documentary.The video features clips SPONSOR > Wisconsin Film Office LANGUAGE > English FOR- The Bear Garden MAT > Mini DV PRODUCTION COMPANY > Magpie Media, Inc. from about a dozen films, Gitaï himself discussing them, Please see WISCONSIN SHORTS I. Big Bad Love and offbeat moments of Gitaï mugging for the camera. DIRECTOR > Brooke Maroldi PRODUCER > Brooke Maroldi Narrative Feature > USA > 2001 > 111 min > Color PART OF (Madison Premiere) With the opening of the Calatrava wing — RAY PRIVETT The Beaver Trilogy THE SERIES > American Cinema, Premieres of the Milwaukee Art Museum last spring, the city’s face SCREENINGS Pineapple > Thu, Apr 4 > 7:00pm > 2h00 > Cin- Experimental Feature, Documentary Feature > USA > 2001 FORMAT > 35mm, 2.35 PRODUCTION COMPANY > Big Bad has changed dramatically.But how has this dramatic struc- ematheque > ORDER CODE: PIN > PRECEDED BY > AMOS > 85 min > Color and B/W PART OF THE SERIES > After Dark Love LLC, Pieface Productions, Rocking S DIRECTOR > Arliss ture affected the local arts scene: the galleries and other GITAÏ: IMAGES OF EXILE > Introduction by guest curator FORMAT > Beta SP DIRECTOR > Trent Harris PRODUC- Howard PRODUCER > Debra Winger EXECUTIVE PRODUC- Ray Privett. SPONSOR > Conney Family Fund, UW-Madison museums, the artists who live and work there, and the peo- ER > Elisabeth Grey Cloud, Trent Harris EXECUTIVE PRO- ER > Manfred Wilde, Barry Navidi, Arliss Howard, Debra Center for Jewish Studies. ple who love art? This video looks at these issues through DUCER > Walter Hart SCREENPLAY BY > Trent Harris Winger SCREENPLAY BY > James Howard, Arliss Howard the eyes of Milwaukeans themselves. The candid and spon- CAST > Groovin’ Gary , Sean Penn, Crispin Glover CAST > Arliss Howard, Debra Winger, Paul Le Mat, Rosan- taneous interviews reveal a Milwaukee that is looking for- (Wisconsin Premiere) The Beaver Trilogy is a strange, na Arquette, Angie Dickinson, Michael Parks ward to a new era for the visual arts. A Wisconsin’s Own funny,and poignant story of a true outsider as well as (Wisconsin Premiere) Based on the short-story collec- Competition entry. inquiry into documentary,celebrity,and obsession. tion by acclaimed Mississippi writer Larry Brown, Big The Sid Boyum Sculpture Project Director Trent Harris, behind such cult classics as Bad Love stars Arliss Howard (Full Metal Jacket, A Map Documentary Feature > USA > 2002 > 55 min > Color Rubin and Ed and Plan 10 From Outer Space, began the of the World), Debra Winger (Terms of Endearment, An SPONSOR > Wisconsin Film Office LANGUAGE > English FOR- project in 1979 by taping The Beaver Kid, an earnest, Officer and a Gentleman), Paul Le Mat (American Graf- MAT > Mini DV DIRECTOR > Gretta Wing Miller small-town dreamer from Beaver, Utah, giving a drag fiti), Rosanna Arquette (Desperately Seeking Susan) and (World Premiere) This documentary follows the course of performance as Olivia Newton John. In 1981, Harris Angie Dickinson (Dressed to Kill). This intense and inti- a public art project on Madison’s near east side, where res- created a dramatic piece, Beaver Kid 2, shot for $100 on mate portrait of a struggling writer (Howard), a failed idents became curators for a collection of concrete sculp- home video and featuring a young Sean Penn reenact- marriage and life in the American south harks back to tures by artist Sid Boyum. After Boyum’s death, his son ing the same scenario. Still possessed, Harris then the cinema of Hollywood’s early-seventies golden Steven gave thirteen pieces to the community in the largest rewrote the script in 1985, cast Crispin Glover in the age.The Academy Award-nominated Winger (who also Venus de Milo single donation of public sculpture in the city’s history. lead, and shot the final segment, Orkly Kid. “By far the produced the film) returns to the screen after a six-year Madison filmmaker Gretta Wing Miller worked for nearly most exciting and heart-breaking piece of cinema this hiatus as the ex-wife no man could ever forget, and deliv- 20 years as an editor and teacher in New York City.A Wis- critic has seen in years.”—Aaron Krach, IndieWIRE. ers a performance to be reckoned with. Co-writer/direc- consin’s Own Competition entry. tor Howard crafts a film that is funny,perceptive, mys- Print courtesy of Strand Releasing. — MARY CARBINE terious and ultimately,profoundly moving. The sound- At Home and Asea SCREENINGS The Beaver Trilogy > Sat, Apr 6 > 11:00 pm > L’ Ange de goudron (Tar Angel) track features hill country blues artists from the Experimental Feature > USA > 2002 > 70 min > Color PART 1h30 > Cinematheque > ORDER CODE: BVT > Campus late Narrative Feature > Canada > 2001 > 90 min > Color PART OF acclaimed Fat Possum label including R.L. Burnside THE SERIES > New Wave North: Recent Films from Québec OF THE SERIES > Experimental and New Media, Wiscon- night movies made possible in part by The RWJ Project, The and T-Model Ford, as well as Tom Waits, Tom Verlaine, LANGUAGE > In French with English subtitles FOR- sin’s Own Filmmakers Chancellor’s Office and the Wisconsin Union at the UW- MAT > 35mm, 1.85 PRODUCTION COMPANY > Max Films LANGUAGE > English FORMAT > Beta SP DIRECTOR > Mark Madison. Kronos Quartet and Steve Earle. “Big Bad Love loves DIRECTOR > Denis Chouinard PRODUCER > Roger Frappier, Street CAST > Teresa Altoz, Charlene Harris, Brian Mackey, Berlin Jerusalem life; like a good novel, it has heart, guts and soul.”— Luc Vandal SCREENPLAY BY > Denis Chouinard CAST > Zine- Jeorge Watson Matt Zoller Seitz, New York Press. Rating: R Narrative Feature > France, Israel > 1989 > 83 min > Color dine Soualem, Hiam Abbass, Rabah Aït Ouyahia, Cather- At Home and Asea follows five characters as they work PART OF THE SERIES > Amos Gitaï: Images of Exile Print courtesy of IFC Films. — MARY CARBINE ine Trudeau, Kenza Abiabdillah, Marc Beaupré through and try to understand their lives. An African- LANGUAGE > In German, Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian, and SCREENINGS Big Bad Love > Fri, Apr 5 > 7:00pm > 2h 30 > (Midwest Premiere) This second feature from Denis American man tries to understand his father as he sifts Arabic with English subtitles FORMAT > 35mm PRODUC- Orpheum - Stage Door > ORDER CODE: BBL > With Debra Chouinard (Clandestines) is a taut drama of the uncer- through his house and belongings after his death. A TION COMPANY > Agav Hafakot, Channel Four, La Sept, Winger and Arliss Howard in person. SPONSOR > Charter tain lives of Algerian immigrants in Montréal, and their floundering college graduate wanders the city and pon- Nova Films, RAI2 DIRECTOR > Amos Gitaï PRODUCER > Lau- Communications, Independent Film Channel WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • APRIL 4-7, 2002 • MADISON • WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM 7 Films: Bob-Dee

Bomba-Dancing Bob the Slob The City Aloud Its story of two childhood friends turned into political the Drum Please see WISCONSIN SHORTS I. Please see STUDENT SHORTS I: VARIATIONS ON YOUTH. foes personalizes the terrible costs of internecine strife. Chad’s civil war is one of Africa’s oldest. Its pre-colo- Bomba-Dancing the Drum Claudette Who? Please see WISCONSIN SHORTS I. nial roots reflect a geopolitical division between an Documentary Feature > Puerto Rico > 2000 > 60 min > Col- Islamic, pastoralist North and a Christian or animist or PART OF THE SERIES > Documentary Cool and Crazy (Heftig og begeistret) agrarian South. After three decades of civil war Chad LANGUAGE > In Spanish with English subtitles FORMAT > Documentary Feature > Norway, Sweden > 2001 > 105 min is one of the poorest countries in the world with a per DVD PRODUCTION COMPANY > Searchlight Films DIREC- > Color PART OF THE SERIES > Cinema at the Crossroads: capita GDP of only $600; in the Spring of 2001 a new TOR > Ashley James PRODUCER > Roberta Singer Film in the New Europe, Documentary rebellion broke out in the north. Daresalam begins in (Midwest Premiere) A lively and moving portrait of La LANGUAGE > In Norweigan with English subtitles FOR- the 1970s with two young men, Koni and Djimi, start- Familia Cepeda, know as the “patriarch family” of bom- MAT > 35mm, 1.66 PRODUCTION COMPANY > Norsk Film, ing adult life in a prosperous village. Their lives are dis- ba, Puerto Rico’s electrifying dance tradition. Like Barentsfilm DIRECTOR > Erik Knut Jensen PRODUCER > Tom rupted when the central government browbeats vil- American tap dancing and Cuban rumba, the bomba Remlov CAST > The Berlevåg Men’s Choir lagers to pay not only taxes but also a national loan to sprang from the culture of enslaved Africans and their (Wisconsin Premiere) A box-office smash in its native help fight the guerilla war.The government ministers music and dance traditions. Bomba-Dancing the Drum Norway,this “docu-musical” transports its audience to speak French, the language of the former colonial gives us an in-depth look at Don Rafael Cepeda, who the remote fishing village of Berlevåg, where the local oppressors, because they don’t know the indigenous with his extended family has spent a lifetime dancing, male choir’s members range in age from 29 to 96. These language. When an official attempts to arrest the vil- drumming, singing and teaching the bomba. The film eccentric singers are the closest you’ll ever get to an lage elder, Koni impulsively spears him; in retaliation is also a testament to the struggle to keep folk art alive Arctic Buena Vista Social Club—a motley crew of stal- the government burns the village and massacres the in contemporary commercial culture. “A remarkable wart, rugged men who bare their souls through song. inhabitants, forcing Koni and Djimi to make difficult film”—New York Times. “A marvel”—Village Voice. The diverse group ranges from the chain-smoking con- choices about the courses of their lives. “A poignant ductor to the old-school Communist, who engages in — MARY CARBINE essay on civil war in modern-day Chad . . . so achingly frequent debates with his follow choir members about SCREENINGS Bomba-Dancing the Drum > Sat, Apr 6 > beautiful and sad I watched with tears in my eyes.”—LA 1:00pm > 1h30 > Orpheum - Stage Door > ORDER CODE: their opposing political views. “Thanks to his obvious Weekly. “Spectacularly photographed . . . brilliantly BOM > admiration for the self-effacing choir’s dedication, not weaves memory,hope and despair.”—San Francisco The Book and the Rose to mention their considerable talent, director Erik Knut The Days Between (In den Tag Hinein) Weekly. — MARY CARBINE Please see WISCONSIN SHORTS III. Jensen has created a film that is—like the songs them- Narrative Feature > Germany > 2001 > 118 min > Color PART Print courtesy of California Newsreel. build UP: BREAK down: selves—amusing, moving, patriotic, and powerful.” - OF THE SERIES > Cinema at the Crossroads: Film in the Chris Wiegand, Edinburgh Reviews. Winner,Best Doc- SCREENINGS Daresalam > Thu, Apr 4 > 7:00pm > 1h45 > New Europe Please see STUDENT SHORTS I: VARIATIONS ON YOUTH. umentary,2001 Chicago International Film Festival. Majestic > ORDER CODE: DAR > SPONSOR > The Center for LANGUAGE > In German and English with English subtitles Cat Lady European Studies, the European Studies Alliance, UW- Print courtesy of First Run Features. — SANDY LUCAS FORMAT > 35mm, 1.85 PRODUCTION COMPANY > Novem- Please see WISCONSIN SHORTS I. Madison, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, ber Film DIRECTOR > Maria Speth PRODUCER > Holger SCREENINGS Cool and Crazy > Sat, Apr 6 > 8:30pm > 2h00 Chicago. Lochau, Klaus Salge SCREENPLAY BY > Maria Speth China Diary (911) > Majestic > ORDER CODE: CC1 > Introduction by Mike Wilm- CAST > Sabine Timoteo, Hiroki Mano, Florian Müller-Mohrun- Please see SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH: EYEWITNESSES. ington, Film Critic, Chicago Tribune. Cool and Crazy > Sun, Daughter From Danang gen, Sabina Riedel, Nicole Marischka Chocolate-Coffee-Nicotine Apr 7 > 1:00pm > 1h30 > Majestic > ORDER CODE: CC2 SPON- Documentary Feature > USA > 2002 > 80 min > Color PART SOR > Center for European Studies, the European Studies OF THE SERIES > Documentary (Wisconsin Premiere) Maria Speth’s debut feature is an Please see STUDENT SHORTS I: VARIATIONS ON YOUTH. engrossing and well-crafted love story about Lynn, 22, Alliance, the Department of Scandinavian Studies, and the LANGUAGE > In English and Vietnamese with English sub- Cultural Services of the French Embassy, Chicago. titles FORMAT > Beta SP PRODUCTION COMPANY > Interfaze an aimless yet charismatic young woman, and Koji, the Japanese student whom she befriends. Though Koji La Ciénaga The Cufflink Productions, American Experience, Independent Televi- Please see WISCONSIN SHORTS III. sion Service, National Asian American Communication speaks little English and even less German, his rela- Association DIRECTOR > Gail Dolgin, Vincente Franco PRO- tionship with Lynn is able to transcend linguistic Cure (Kyua) DUCER > Gail Dolgin boundaries, lending meaning and tenderness to each Narrative Feature > Japan > 1998 > 115 min > Color PART (Wisconsin Premiere) Winner of the Documentary Grand of their otherwise isolated lives. Electric performances OF THE SERIES > After Dark Jury Prize at Sundance, the intensely moving Daugh- by the two leads and the luminous production design LANGUAGE > In Japanese with English subtitles FOR- ter from Danang tells the story of a woman who left her are among the film’s numerous charms. “This film is of MAT > 35mm, 1.85 PRODUCTION COMPANY > Code Red, Daiei family in Vietnam as a child in 1975 as part of “Opera- a formal control that’s never suffocating . . . Delicately Studios DIRECTOR > Kurosawa Kiyoshi PRODUCER > Ikeda tion Babylift” in which thousands of “orphans” and rough, The Days Between grasps what its moving situ- Tetsuya, Kanno Satoshi, Tsuchikawa Tsutomu , Shimoda Amerasian children were brought to the United States Atsuyuki EXECUTIVE PRODUCER > Kato Hiroyui SCREEN- ations provoke. For the director,everything seems wor- PLAY BY > Kurosawa Kiyoshi CAST > Yakusho Koji, Hagi- to be raised in American homes. After 22 years of sep- thy of filming. Every moment becomes precious.”— wara Masato, Anna Nakagawa, Ujiki Tsuyoshi, Osugi Ren aration, Heidi Bub, aka Mai Thi Hiep, now living in Erwan Higuinen, Cahiers du Cinema. Winner, Tiger (Madison Premiere) Police detective Takabe (Yakusho Tennessee, journeys to Vietnam and is reunited with Award, 2001 Rotterdam Film Festival. Winner, Grand Koji from Shall We Dance) is confronted by a bizarre her mother—a complicated experience that brings both Prix, 2001 Créteil International Women’s Film Festival. mystery: a series of bodies are found, each one with an joy and pain to Heidi and her family.This extraordinary — SANDY LUCAS X slashed on their chest. Each time the killer is a dif- film takes us on an intimate journey,fraught with high SCREENINGS The Days Between > Sat, Apr 6 > 1:00pm ferent person, with no memory of what happened. Tak- expectations, intense emotion, and the wrenching dif- > 2h00 > Majestic > ORDER CODE: DB1 > The Days Between abe and police psychiatrist Sakuma try to find a com- ficulties of trying to make blood ties bridge immense > Sun, Apr 7 > 6:00pm > 2h00 > Majestic > ORDER CODE: cultural and personal divides.Daughter from Danang DB2 > SPONSOR > Center for European Studies, the Euro- mon denominator behind the events. Meanwhile a pean Studies Alliance, the Department of Scandinavian young man suffering from memory loss wanders to the will be broadcast on PBS as part of The American Expe- rience in 2003. Studies, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, site, and things start hitting close to Takabe’s — MARY CARBINE Chicago. SCREENINGS Daughter From Danang > Sun, Apr 7 > 7:30 home.Kurosawa Kiyoshi delves skillfully into the sub- The Deer and the Antelope La Ciénaga conscious of human psyche and the alienation of con- pm > 1h30 > Orpheum - Stage Door > ORDER CODE: DFD > Narrative Feature > Argentina, Spain > 2000 > 102 min > Please see WISCONSIN SHORTS II. temporary society in this horror/psychothriller sur- SPONSOR > Wisconsin Public Television Color PART OF THE SERIES > Contemporary World Cinema prise from Japan. Cure creeps under the viewer’s skin, LANGUAGE > In Spanish with English subtitles FORMAT > and won’t let us loose easily,even in the ending. “Creates 35mm, 1.85 PRODUCTION COMPANY > 4K Films Production Daughter From DIRECTOR > Lucrecia Martel PRODUCER > Lita Stantic excitement with pulp elements while playing games SCREENPLAY BY > Lucrecia Martel CAST > Martín Adjemi- with genre expectations, pushing at the boundaries of Danang an, Diego Baenas, Leonora Balcarce, Silvia Bayle, Sofia narrative convention—not to mention your mind.”— Bertolotto, Juan Cruz Bordeu Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times. “Unsettling and (Madison Premiere) In this impressive first feature, deeply enigmatic.”—Scott Tobias, The Onion. director Lucrecia Martel delivers a gorgeously surreal Print courtesy of Cowboy Pictures. — EIJA NISKANEN vision of bourgeous decadence, set in the the dripping, SCREENINGS Cure > Fri, Apr 5 > Midnight > 1h45 > Cine- humid countryside of northwest Argentina. Recalling matheque > ORDER CODE: CU1 > Campus late night movies Buñuel in its “steamy,drugged-out feel,” La Ciénaga made possible in part by The RWJ Project, The Chancellor’s follows the twisted relationships in a monumentally Office and the Wisconsin Union at the UW-Madison. dysfunctional family (an alcoholic matriach, her indif- ferent husband, and their four unfortunate teenagers) Daresalam as storms disrupt their summer respite—afternoons Narrative Feature > Chad, Burkina Faso > 2000 > 105 min > Color PART OF THE SERIES > Cinema at the Crossroads: spent drinking beside a murky pool in their crumbling Film in the New Europe, Contemporary World Cinema estate. Repressed tensions threaten to erupt into vio- LANGUAGE > In Arabic and French with English subtitles lence under uneasy skies, with near-constant thunder FORMAT > 35mm, 1.85 PRODUCTION COMPANY > A La Sept in the distance. “The suspense and foreboding are pal- Arte, Pierre Javaux Productions DIRECTOR > Issa Serge pable. This finely made film establishes Martel as a tal- Coelo PRODUCER > Pierre Javaux SCREENPLAY BY > Issa ent to watch.”—Ramiro Puerto, Toronto Film Festival, Serge Coelo, Ismael Ben Cherrif, Pierre Guillaume CAST > Haikail Zakaria, Abdoulaye Ahmat, Youssouf Djaoro, 2001. Rated R. — MARY CARBINE Gerard Essomba, Sidiki Bakaba, Baba Hassan Fatime Print courtesy of Cowboy Pictures. (Wisconsin Premiere) Daresalam is the first African fea- SCREENINGS La Ciénaga > Sat, Apr 6 > 3:15pm > 1h 45 > ture film to focus on the civil wars convulsing the con- Orpheum - Main > ORDER CODE: LC1 > La Ciénaga > Sun, Apr 7 > 5:00pm > 1h45 > Orpheum - Main > ORDER CODE: LC2 tinent, as well as one of the first feature films from Chad. 8 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • APRIL 4-7, 2002 • MADISON • WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM Films: Dis-Fie

Disability Culture Rap Facing Arthur Documentary Short > USA > 2000 > 23 min > Color PART OF Documentary Feature > USA > 2001 > 60 min > Color THE SERIES > Documentary The Fast Runner PART OF THE SERIES > Documentary FORMAT > VHS DIRECTOR > Jerry Smith PRODUCER > Jer- (Atanarjuat) FORMAT > Beta SP PRODUCTION COMPANY > Camera Plan- ry Smith, Cheryl Marie Wade SCREENPLAY BY > Cheryl et Pictures DIRECTOR > Stefan Knerrich, Michael Rey, Amy Marie Wade Rubin PRODUCER > Stefan Knerrich, Michael Rey, Amy (Madison Premiere) This bold and energetic documen- Rubin EXECUTIVE PRODUCER > Steven Rosenbaum tary takes a fresh look at what it means to be disabled (Midwest Premiere) Facing Arthur follows the extraor- in America. “This is disability in our own words: who dinary relationship between a young German, grandson we say we are.” Featuring writer/co-producer Cheryl of a soldier in Hitler’s Wehrmacht, and a 101-year-old Marie Wade, an award winning writer-performer, Polish Jew in New York City.Before he was forced to activist and the “Queen Mother of Gnarly” herself, Dis- leave his native Poland in 1938, Arthur Lederman was ability Culture Rap mixes artistic expression, politics a renowned concert violinist. Christoph Erbsloeh is a and humor to move audiences to a deeper understand- budding cellist who is in America working for a Jew- ing of disability culture. — MARY CARBINE ish social service agency as an alternative to military SCREENINGS Disability Culture Rap > Sun, Apr 7 > 1:00pm service. Arthur and Christoph’s complex and unex- > 4h00 > Madison Civic Center - Marquee Room > PRICE pected camaraderie becomes a metaphor for examin- NOTE > Free > Film will screen regularly between 1pm and ing atonement and reconciliation between Holocaust 5pm. The Marquee Room (level 3F) can be accessed via survivors and a new generation of Germans. the Madison Civic Center elevator located in the rear of — MARY CARBINE the building; patrons may enter the Civic Center from State SCREENINGS Facing Arthur > Sun, Apr 7 > 3:30pm > 1h30 > Street or from North Henry Street (both entrances at Bartell - Drury > ORDER CODE: FAC > PRECEDED BY > IMPROB- street level with ramps to elevator). Marquee Room seat- ABLE PAIRS ing will be set up with plenty of free floor space to accom- modate patrons using wheelchairs. The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat) Narrative Feature > Canada > 2001 > 172 min > Color PART Djomeh OF THE SERIES > Contemporary World Cinema, Premieres Narrative Feature > Iran, France > 2000 > 94 min > Color LANGUAGE > In Inuktitut with English subtitles FOR- PART OF THE SERIES > Contemporary World Cinema MAT > 35mm, 1.85 PRODUCTION COMPANY > Igloolik Isuma LANGUAGE > In Farsi with English subtitles FORMAT > 35mm, Productions, National Film Board of Canada DIREC- 1.85 PRODUCTION COMPANY > Behneghar, Lumen Films TOR > Zacharias Kunuk PRODUCER > Paul Apak Angilirq, DIRECTOR > Hassan Yektapahah PRODUCER > Ahmad Mous- Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk, Germaine Ying Gee Wong sazadeh, Mehran Haguigui SCREENPLAY BY > Hassan Yek- The Duke EXECUTIVE PRODUCER > Sally Bochner SCREENPLAY tapanah CAST > Jalil Nazari, Mahmoud Behraznia, Rashid BY > Paul Apak Angilirq CAST > Natar Ungalaaq, Sylvia Ivalu, Akbari, Mahbobeh Khalili Please see STUDENT SHORTS I: VARIATIONS ON YOUTH. Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq, Lucy Tulugarjuk, Madeline Ivalu, (Wisconsin Premiere) This quietly profound portrait of Pauloosie Qulitalik a sweet young Afghan man (Djomeh) working on a small E-Day! Narrative Short > USA > 3 min > Color PART OF THE SERIES > (Midwest Premiere) Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) is dairy farm in the remote Iranian countryside won the Wisconsin’s Own Filmmakers, After Dark Canada’s first feature-length fiction film written, pro- Camera d’Or for best first feature at the Cannes Inter- LANGUAGE > English FORMAT > Beta SP DIRECTOR > Scott duced, directed and acted by Inuit. “An astonishing epic national Film Festival, 2000. Despite being given the Dikkers PRODUCER > Andy Aaron SCREENPLAY BY > Scott film . . . telling a story of a crime that ruptures the trust cold shoulder by local villagers, Djomeh tries to inte- Dikkers CAST > Chevy Chase, Jay Rath, Pete Barker, Scott within a closely knit group, and how justice is achieved grate himself into his new world. He opens up to his Dikkers and healing begins. Director Zacharias Kunuk and his employer about his troubled past in Afghanistan and Chevy Chase stars as President Horace Lumley,stuck writer, Paul Apak Angilirq, collected oral versions of his feeling for a local girl, and enlists his employer’s with the task of calming the American public as the an Inuit legend from several elders, collated them into support in trying to win her hand. Hassan Yektapanah threat of an Eskimo military invasion looms. Written a story,submitted the story to the elders for suggestions employs a contemplative neo-realism and austere sense and directed by Scott Dikkers, former Editor-in-Chief of and then filmed it as a collaborative expression of the of landscape. “A film that gives you the illusion of eaves- The Onion. – CARRIE UUTALA group’s memory.The ‘fast runner’ of the title is a man dropping on life as it’s actually lived, on people as they SCREENINGS Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell > Fri, Apr 5 > 11:00pm > who must run naked through the snow and is presumed actually behave.”—Mike Wilmington, Chicago Tribune. 2h15 > Play Circle > ORDER CODE: DOA > PRECEDED BY > MY to be dead, but survives; the three-hour film was entire- “Among the most formally accomplished new Iranian OLD HOUSE, E-DAY! > Filmmakers Scott Dikkers, Doug Miles, ly shot on location, and shows the tenacity and cre- films.”—J. Hoberman, Village Voice. — MARY CARBINE Aaron Yonda and Benson Gardner in person. ativity of a people making a home of a frigid wilder- Print courtesy of New Yorker Films. Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter > Sat, Apr 6 > 11:00pm > ness.”—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times. “Nothing less SCREENINGS Djomeh > Fri, Apr 5 > 5:00pm > 1h30 > Orpheum 1h45 > Play Circle > ORDER CODE: JVH > PRECEDED BY > E- than a complete revelation and reinvention of cinematic - Main > ORDER CODE: DJ1 > Djomeh > Sat, Apr 6 > 5:15pm DAY! > Filmmaker Scott Dikkers (E-Day!) in person. Cam- form.”—Katherine Monk, Vancouver Sun. Winner, Cam- pus late night movies made possible in part by The RWJ Pro- > 1h30 > Orpheum - Main > ORDER CODE: DJ2 > era d’Or for best first feature at Cannes, 2001; Guardian ject, The Chancellor’s Office and the Wisconsin Union at the The Dogs of El Niño UW-Madison. Award for First Directors, Edinburgh, 2001, and City Please see STORIES FROM UP NORTH. Award for Best Canadian Feature Film, Toronto, 2001. Esther — MARY CARBINE Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Print courtesy of Lot 47 Films. Narrative Feature > Israel, England > 1985 > 97 min > Color SCREENINGS The Fast Runner > Fri, Apr 5 > 7:00pm > 3h00 Narrative Feature > USA > 2001 > 74 min > B/W PART OF THE PART OF THE SERIES > Amos Gitaï: Images of Exile > Orpheum - Main > ORDER CODE: FST SERIES > After Dark LANGUAGE > In Hebrew and Arabic with English subtitles FORMAT > 35mm, 1.66 PRODUCTION COMPANY > Click IV FORMAT > 35mm PRODUCTION COMPANY > Agav Hafakot, Field Diary Entertainment DIRECTOR > Doug Miles PRODUCER > Tex Channel Four, ORF, Ikon, United Studios DIRECTOR > Amos Existo Documentary Feature > Israel, France > 1983 > 83 min > Col- Hauser, Jackie Eagan, Doug Miles EXECUTIVE PRODUC- Gitaï PRODUCER > Amos Gitaï, Edgard Tenembaum EXEC- Narrative Feature > USA > 1999 > 94 min > Color PART OF or PART OF THE SERIES > Amos Gitaï: Images of Exile ER > Doug Miles SCREENPLAY BY > Tex Hauser CAST > Lloyd UTIVE PRODUCER > Ruben Korenfeld SCREENPLAY BY > THE SERIES > After Dark LANGUAGE > In Hebrew and Arabic with English subtitles Floyd, Rosa Rugosa, Erik Frandsen, Mike McCurry Amos Gitaï, Stéphane Levine CAST > Simona Benjamini, FORMAT > 35mm, 1.66 PRODUCTION COMPANY > Hometown PRODUCTION COMPANY > AG Productions, Les films d’ici Shmuel Wolf, Zari Varturian, Juliano Merr, Mohammed (Midwest Premiere) “They came from outer space to Productions DIRECTOR > Coke Sams PRODUCER > Clarke DIRECTOR > Amos Gitaï PRODUCER > Amos Gitaï, Richard Bakri take over the world . . . And they’re fabulous!” A gov- Gallivan, Peter Kurland SCREENPLAY BY > Bruce Arntson, Copans SCREENPLAY BY > Amos Gitaï ernment operation named Project Manhole aims to (Wisconsin Premiere) This rapturously beautiful adap- Coke Sams CAST > Bruce Arntson, Jackie Welch, Jim Var- (Wisconsin Premiere) This shocking, front-lines depic- destroy all homosexuals, and thereby institute a return tation of the biblical book of Esther was the first “fic- ney, Gailard Sartain tion of the Occupation of the West Bank and the Israeli to morality in the United States. The plan goes awry tion” film Gitaï directed. Shot in the abandoned Arab It’s the future. Fundamentalist family values fanatics invasion of Lebanon is possibly the greatest film Gitaï when a bomb (carried by the Enola Gaydar) intended to quarter of Haifa, with brilliant use of sound and non-tra- have taken over the country.Artists, gays and labor has ever directed, and surely one of the greatest docu- hit a crowd of gay men accidentally demolishes the ditional casting, Esther boldly comments on contem- unions have been driven underground. The state-run mentaries of all time. In 1982, as the Israeli / Palestinian northwest side of Inbred, Texas instead. Military woes porary events by resituating an ancient story of people TV admonishes, “If you have to go out and you see art, conflict was intensifying, Gitaï and a small crew set out continue when the stridently heterosexual copilot of who are persecuted becoming new persecutors into a do not—I repeat—do not attempt to interpret it your- on a daily journey across the West Bank, examining the Enola Gaydar is abducted and comes back a little, modern context. The great cinematographer Henri self. Call 911 and let the art squad diffuse it.” Only one the subtle and not so subtle ways Israeli occupation well, queer. Director Doug Miles uses re-dubbed film Alékan (Beauty and the Beast, Wings of Desire) began man arises to fight for individual freedom, artistic manifests itself. One day they come across Prime Min- footage from the ‘50s to bring to life this hilarious and his collaboration with Gitaï on this film. Presented in license, and personal excess—Existo! A once-great rev- ister Menachem Begin, several soldiers, and several politically biting story of homophobia and other great the Cannes Film Festival’s Semaine de la critique. olutionary leader, now chemically lobotomized after Rabbis burying the bones of an ancient Jewish hero. American values. Winner of the coveted Baccus Demon- Print courtesy of Kino International. — RAY PRIVETT ten years in a “re-training” camp, Existo is an unsta- Soon after,the war with Lebanon—orchestrated by cur- ic Vibrating Bunny Award for the best narrative fea- SCREENINGS Esther > Sat, Apr 6 > 3:30pm > 1h45 > Majes- ble poet-anarchist on a pogo stick—and the savior of rent Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon—begins. The ture length film at the 2002 Boston Underground Film tic > ORDER CODE: EST > Introduction by guest curator Ray the free world. “Imagine the Bader-Meinhoff gang led by violent reaction to this stunning film directly led to Privett. SPONSOR > Conney Family Fund, UW-Madison Cen- Festival. – CARRIE UUTALA Mickey Rooney and you get an idea of Existo, a raunchy, Gitaï’s blacklisting in and (partially self-)exile from ter for Jewish Studies SCREENINGS Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell > Fri, Apr 5 > 11:00pm > rollicking musical comedy . . . think early John Waters Israel. Nurith Aviv is director of the unforgettable cin- 2h15 > Play Circle > ORDER CODE: DOA > PRECEDED BY > MY Evermor, Forevermor by way of Rocky Horror Picture Show.”—Ann Horna- ematography. — RAY PRIVETT OLD HOUSE, E-DAY! > Filmmakers Scott Dikkers, Doug Miles, Please see STUDENT SHORTS II: MIDWESTERN LIFE. day, The Baltimore Sun. — MARY CARBINE Print courtesy of the British Film Institute. Aaron Yonda and Benson Gardner in person. Campus late Everyone’s a Hypocrite SCREENINGS Existo > Fri, Apr 5 > 11:30pm > 2h00 > Majes- SCREENINGS Field Diary > Fri, Apr 5 > 5:00pm > 1h30 > Cin- night movies made possible in part by The RWJ Project, The tic > ORDER CODE: EXI > Filmmaker Coke Sams in person. Chancellor’s Office and the Wisconsin Union at the UW- Please see WISCONSIN SHORTS I. ematheque > ORDER CODE: FDY > Introduction by guest Madison. curator Ray Privett. SPONSOR > Conney Family Fund, UW- Madison Center for Jewish Studies WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • APRIL 4-7, 2002 • MADISON • WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM 9 Films: Fis-Ice

sources to present-day Paris, the contemporary city of modate their many felines. Smith opens a window onto Home Movie exile. Legendary sound technician Antoine Bonfanti these extraordinary,often oddball folks with both curios- (Band of Outsiders, Day for Night) began his collabo- ity and respect, letting them tell their stories with ration with Gitaï on this film. — RAY PRIVETT warmth, humor and intelligence. “Watching these Print courtesy of Kino International. eccentrics is both inspiring and pure joy.”—Chris Gore, SCREENINGS Golem: The Spirit of Exile > Sat, Apr 6 > 7:45pm Film Threat. — MARY CARBINE > 2h00 > Orpheum - Stage Door > ORDER CODE: GOL > Intro- Print courtesy of Cowboy Pictures. duction by guest curator Ray Privett. SPONSOR > Conney SCREENINGS Home Movie > Fri, Apr 5 > 10:00pm > 1h15 Family Fund, UW-Madison Center for Jewish Studies > Orpheum - Stage Door > ORDER CODE: HMV High Fidelity Hospital at Ground Zero Narrative Feature > USA > 2000 > 113 min > Color Please see SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH: EYEWITNESSES. PART OF THE SERIES > Special Presentations FORMAT > 35mm PRODUCTION COMPANY > Working Title Hybrid Films, Dogstar Films, New Crime Productions, Touchstone Pictures DIRECTOR > Stephen Frears PRODUCER > Tim Bevan, Rudd Simmons, John Cusack, D.V. DeVincentis, Steve Pink EXECUTIVE PRODUCER > Mike Newell, Alan Greenspan, Liza Chasin SCREENPLAY BY > D.V. DeVincentis, Steve Pink, John Cusack, Scott Rosenberg, based upon the book by Nick Hornby. CAST > John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Todd Louiso, Jack Black, Lisa Bonet, Joan Cusack “Do I listen to pop music because I’m miserable? Or am I miserable because I listen to pop music?”—Rob (John Cusack), High Fidelity.In a biting romantic comedy directed by Stephen Frears, based on Nick Hornby’s cult novel, Rob Gordon (John Cusack) is the owner of a Hybrid semi-failing record store in Chicago, where he sells Documentary Feature, Experimental Feature > USA > music the old-fashioned way—on vinyl. He’s a self-pro- 2000 > 92 min > B/W PART OF THE SERIES > Documentary, fessed music junkie who spends his days at Champi- Fishing Has No Boundaries Experimental and New Media The Goddaughter onship Vinyl with his two employees, Dick (Todd LANGUAGE > English DIRECTOR > Monteith McCollum Please see STORIES FROM UP NORTH. Documentary Short > USA > 2001 > 8 min > Color Louiso) and Barry (the irrepressible Jack Black). Hybrid uses beautiful cinematography,experimental PART OF THE SERIES > Wisconsin’s Own Filmmakers, Doc- Although they have an encyclopedic knowledge of pop The Flaming Lips Have Landed umentary techniques, stop-motion animations and interviews to music and are consumed by the music scene, it’s of no Documentary Short > USA > 30 min > Color PART OF THE FORMAT > Mini DV DIRECTOR > Sandy Lucas SCREENPLAY BY tell the life story of the filmmaker’s grandfather, Iowa SERIES > Documentary > Sandy Lucas help to Rob, whose needle skips the love groove when his corn breeder Milford Beeghly. The story is traced long-time girlfriend, Laura (Iben Hjejle), walks out on LANGUAGE > English FORMAT > Beta SP DIRECTOR > Bradley A humorous autobiographical documentary about the through conversations with the family and the patri- Beesley him. As he examines his failed attempts at romance filmmaker’s “relationship” (or is it obsession?) with arch himself. In the beginning of the film, McCollum’s and happiness, the process finds him being dragged, The Flaming Lips Have Landed chronicles the Flaming “the greatest film ever made.” Filmmaker Sandy Lucas grandfather appears to be the sterotypical, stoic farmer, kicking and screaming, into adulthood.High Fidelity Lips from their earliest punk origins through their com- is pursuing a film degree from the UW-Madison. Her alienating his family with his dedication to his busi- garnered not only critical acclaim but a devoted audi- mercial successes, parking lot and boombox experi- credits include the narrative short The Two Abrahams. ness, but as the film unfolds we learn about the man’s ence following, not only at theaters but also with $7.5 ments, to their Soft Bulletin Tour.Bradley Beesley uses (The Goddaughter is programmed out of competition.) history,his passion for experimentation with hybrid their music videos, personal interviews, and countless million in video rentals (and still counting). This special — MARY CARBINE corn, his love of song and women, and the depth of his photographs to examine the band’s evolution and his- screening is preceded by “The Lowdown on High Fideli- SCREENINGS Man Hunt > Sat, Apr 6 > 5:45pm > 2h00 > character. Hybrid won the Best Documentary prize at ty,” a conversation in which the film’s screenwriter and tory. — JOE BERES Bartell - Drury > ORDER CODE: MHT > PRECEDED BY > THE the South by Southwest Film Festival, Best Film at the SCREENINGS Okie Noodling > Sat, Apr 6 > 3:00pm > 2h00 GODDAUGHTER > With filmmakers Melanie Middien, Alia producer Steve Pink will unravel the complex process Ann Arbor International Film Festival, and the New > Orpheum - Stage Door > ORDER CODE: OKI > PRECEDED Yunis, Matt Rader and editor Zach Fine (Man Hunt) and of turning the best-selling novel by Nick Hornby into York Times New Vision Award.“A tricky and tremen- BY > THE FLAMING LIPS HAVE LANDED > Filmmaker Bradley Sandy Lucas (The Goddaughter) in person. SPONSOR > Wis- a hit movie. “Movies this wry and likable hardly ever get dous film that examines what work means to the soul: Beesley in person. SPONSOR > Association of Independent consin Film Office made.”—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times. “It’s hard to a topic that is particularly American.”—Elvis Mitchell, Video and Filmmakers remember the last time guys were nailed so percep- The Golden Smile The New York Times. — JOE BERES tively and dragged into adulthood so warmly and enter- Friday Fry-Day Please see WISCONSIN SHORTS I. SCREENINGS Hybrid > Sat, Apr 6 > 9:00pm > 1h45 > Cine- Please see STUDENT SHORTS II: MIDWESTERN LIFE. tainingly.”—Jay Carr, Boston Globe.“High Fidelity,like Golem: The Spirit of Exile matheque > ORDER CODE: HYB > PRECEDED BY > THE LAST from chaos comes grace the book it’s based on, is essentially a story about the DAY OF NOVEMBER > Filmmaker Bill Basquin (The Last Day overwhelming power of pop culture—not just the way Please see THE VIEW FROM HERE: A POETIC RESPONSE TO (Golem, l’esprit de l’exil) of November) in person. Campus late night movies made THE ATTACKS ON THE WORLD TRADE CENTER for details. Narrative Feature > France, Italy > 1992 > 105 min > Color it can illuminate every element of our existence but possible in part by The RWJ Project, The Chancellor’s Office PART OF THE SERIES > Amos Gitaï: Images of Exile also the way it can cloud our judgment. Pop music can and the Wisconsin Union at the UW-Madison. Gen-Y Cops (Tejing xinrenlei 2) LANGUAGE > In French, Hebrew, English and Bambara with be like a prism hanging in the window,a gorgeous little Narrative Feature > Hong Kong > 2000 > 110 min > Color English subtitles FORMAT > 35mm PRODUCTION COMPA- thing through which everything in life is filtered. But it The Icelandic Dream PART OF THE SERIES > After Dark NY > Agav Hafakot, Allarts, Nova Films, Friedlander Film can also be an excuse for never leaving the couch to (Íslenski Draumurminn) LANGUAGE > In English, Cantonese and Mandarin with Eng- Production, RAI2, TSF, Channel 4, Canal Plus, CNC, European actually live, and Frears, like Hornby,is acutely aware Narrative Feature, Íslenski Draumurminn > Iceland > Script Fund, Media 92, Eurimages DIRECTOR > Amos Gitaï lish subtitles FORMAT > 35mm PRODUCTION COMPA- of that.” — Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com.Rating: R 2000 > 92 min > Color PART OF THE SERIES > Cinema at NY > Media Asia, Regent Entertainment DIRECTOR > Benny PRODUCER > Laurent Truchot SCREENPLAY BY > Amos Gitaï the Crossroads: Film in the New Europe Chan PRODUCER > Benny Chan, Thomas Chung, John Chong, CAST > Hanna Schygulla, Ophrah Shemesh, Samuel Fuller, Print courtesy of Buena Vista Pictures. LANGUAGE > In Icelandic with English subtitles FOR- Solon So EXECUTIVE PRODUCER > Willie Chan, Mark R. Har- Bernardo Bertolucci, Mireille Perrier, Sotigui Kouyate SCREENINGS High Fidelity > Sat, Apr 6 > 7:30pm > 2h30 > MAT > 35mm, 1.85 PRODUCTION COMPANY > Icelandic Film- ris, Stephen P. Jarchow, Paul Colichman SCREENPLAY (Wisconsin Premiere) Samuel Fuller,Hanna Schygulla, Orpheum - Main > ORDER CODE: HFI > PRECEDED BY > THE company, Eliza Entertainment DIRECTOR > Róbert I. Dou- BY > Felix Chong, Chan Kiu Ying CAST > Paul Rudd, Stephen Bernardo Bertolucci, and Mireille Perrier are among LOWDOWN ON HIGH FIDELITY > With co-writer/producer glas PRODUCER > Júlíus Kemp, Jón Fjörnir Thoroddsen Fung, Sam Lee, Edison Chen, Mark Hicks, Richard Sun the stars of this lovely,impressionistic transposition of Steve Pink in person. SPONSOR > UW-Madison Center for SCREENPLAY BY > Róbert I. Douglas CAST > Tórhallur Sver- the Humanities The follow-up to the Hong Kong smash hit Gen-X Cops, the Book of Ruth, segments of the Kabbalah, and other risson, Jón Gnarr, Hafdís Huld, Matt Keeslar this high-octane adventure sees the return of Stephen Home Movie (Wisconsin Premiere) Toti is a shady,loudmouth 30-year- Fung and Sam Lee as members of the youthful crime- Documentary Feature > USA > 2000 > 60 min > Color old with a fierce allegiance to the Icelandic soccer team, fighting team. American actor Paul Rudd (Clueless) PART OF THE SERIES > Documentary, Wisconsin’s Own Film- Valur. To the chagrin of his daughter (whom he must joins the cast as an FBI agent assigned to protect RS1, makers, Premieres entertain on weekends) and his teenage girlfriend, Toti the prototype of a lethal attack robot developed by the FORMAT > 35mm, 1.66 PRODUCTION COMPANY > Independent would rather “scrimmage” with his oafish, beer-guz- U.S. military.When RS1 is stolen during an exhibition Media DIRECTOR > Chris Smith PRODUCER > Barbara Joy Laf- zling buddies than engage in quality family time. Alas, in Hong Kong, the Gen Y Cops go head-to-head with the fey, Susanne Preissler EXECUTIVE PRODUCER > Stuart Wolff life is hardly fun and games for poor Toti. His current FBI to track down the missing weapon of destruction. (Midwest Premiere) The latest documentary from Mil- get-rich scheme—the illegal importation of Bulgarian This print is the original Hong Kong release ver- waukee filmmaker Chris Smith (American Job, Amer- cigarettes—is getting him nowhere fast. Even more dis- sion.“Entertaining, flashy,and outlandish . . . Hong ican Movie) is as revealing and entertaining as his pre- tressing is that the mother of his child is dating a Kong aficionados will enjoy the uberkitsch of its kinet- vious work. This time, Smith focuses on unusual homes, detestable American! Perhaps worst of all, Valur is not ic energy.”—The Hollywood Reporter. Nominated for the equally unusual homeowners and their sometimes faring well in division play.Filmed in hilarious “mock- bizarre chosen lifestyles. We meet electronics wizard four Hong Kong Film Awards. — SANDY LUCAS umentary” style—with characters directly addressing Ben Skora, who lives in a house full of Bond-like gad- the camera—The Icelandic Dream offers an amusing Print courtesy of Regent Entertainment. gets, revolving doors and a robot butler; Bill Triegle, “slice-of-life” look at the ways of modern-day Icelanders. SCREENINGS Gen-Y Cops > Fri, Apr 5 > 9:30pm > 2h15 > who raises alligators and whose Louisiana houseboat Cinematheque > ORDER CODE: GYC > Introduction by Official Selection, 2001 Toronto Film Festival. Stephen P. Jarchow, who will also give a talk at the Law has a bayou for a back yard; New Age couple Ed and Print courtesy of Icelandic Film Fund. — SANDY LUCAS School at noon on Friday. Campus late night movies made Diana Pedan, who have refitted an abandoned missile SCREENINGS The Icelandic Dream > Fri, Apr 5 > 9:00pm > possible in part by The RWJ Project, The Chancellor’s Office silo into their dream home and live underground; Lin- 1h30 > Play Circle > ORDER CODE: ID1 > Campus late night and the Wisconsin Union at the UW-Madison. da Beech, whose Hawaii tree house is powered by a movies made possible in part by The RWJ Project, The waterfall; and “extreme cat people” Bob Walker and Chancellor’s Office and the Wisconsin Union at the UW- Gen-Y Cops (Tejing xinrenlei 2) Francis Mooney who have redesigned their house with Madison. The Icelandic Dream > Sun, Apr 7 > 1:15pm > 1h30 a complex system of tunnels and catwalks to accom- > Play Circle > ORDER CODE: ID2 > 10 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • APRIL 4-7, 2002 • MADISON • WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM Films: I’ll-Lef

I’ll Walk with God Kippur (Kippour) Please see PERCEPTIONS OF PERCEPTION: SCOTT STARK. Narrative Feature > Israel, France > 2000 > 117 min > Color Immaculate PART OF THE SERIES > Amos Gitaï: Images of Exile Please see STUDENT SHORTS I: VARIATIONS ON YOUTH. LANGUAGE > In Hebrew with English subtitles FORMAT > 35mm PRODUCTION COMPANY > Agav Hafakot, MP Pro- Improbable Pairs ductions, Studio Canal+, ARTE France DIRECTOR > Amos Documentary Short > USA > 2001 > 18 min > Color Gitaï PRODUCER > Amos Gitaï, Laurent Truchot, Tilde Cor- PART OF THE SERIES > Documentary si EXECUTIVE PRODUCER > Michel Propper SCREEN- PLAY BY > CAST > FORMAT > Beta SP DIRECTOR > Frances Dosé PRODUC- Amos Gitaï, Marie-José Sanselme Liron ER > Frances Dosé EXECUTIVE PRODUCER > Paul Andrew Levo, Tomer Russo, Uri Ran Klausner, Yoram Hattab, Guy Amir, Juliano Merr (Wisconsin Premiere) This documentary shows two pairs (Madison Premiere) One of the great (anti-)war films, of people—one Israeli / Palestinian, the other South Kippur closely follows Gitaï’s own experiences seeking African—who have made peace with each other against out, participating in, and surviving the 1973 Yom Kip- truly extraordinary odds. — MARY CARBINE pur War. Kippur was the first Israeli film ever selected SCREENINGS Facing Arthur > Sun, Apr 7 > 3:30pm > The Left for the New York Film Festival. “Devastating and vis- 1h30 > Bartell - Drury > ORDER CODE: FAC > PRECEDED Side of ceral!” (David Stratton, Variety). “Pulls no punches!” BY > IMPROBABLE PAIRS the Fridge (John Petrakis, Chicago Tribune). “A classic war film!” in.side.out (La moitié (Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times). — RAY PRIVETT Please see PERCEPTIONS OF PERCEPTION: SCOTT STARK. gauche Print courtesy of Kino International. It’s About Time du frigo) SCREENINGS Kippur > Sun, Apr 7 > 7:30pm > 2h15 > Orpheum Documentary Feature > Israel > 2001 > 54 min > Color - Main > ORDER CODE: KPR > Introduction by guest curator PART OF THE SERIES > Documentary Ray Privett. SPONSOR > Conney Family Fund, UW-Madison LANGUAGE > In Hebrew with English subtitles FORMAT Center for Jewish Studies > Beta SP PRODUCTION COMPANY > Karuna Films Ltd. DIREC- Laid Out TOR > Elona Ariel, Ayelet Menahemi PRODUCER > Elona JUNG (War): Kino: Short Films from Québec Please see WISCONSIN SHORTS II. Ariel, Ayelet Menahemi SCREENPLAY BY > Elona Ariel, Short > Canada > PART OF THE SERIES > New Wave North: Ayelet Menahemi In the Land of the Mujaheddin Recent Films from Québec, Insider The Last Day of November (Midwest Premiere) Israelis from all walks of life talk Documentary Feature > Afghanistan, Italy > 2000 > 114 Experimental Short > USA > 2001 > 4 min > B/W PART OF min > Color PART OF THE SERIES > Documentary LANGUAGE > French / English subtitles. FORMAT > Beta SP about their concept of time in this witty and skillful THE SERIES > Wisconsin’s Own Filmmakers LANGUAGE > In Dari and Italian with English subtitles FOR- This program features the short film Jean Liberté by cinematic essay.For modern Israelis living with a long, FORMAT > 16mm PRODUCTION COMPANY > Eye of the Nee- MAT > Beta SP PRODUCTION COMPANY > Karousel Films Philippe Falardeau () and shorts by other Québec film- complex history,a difficult present and uncertain future, dle Productions DIRECTOR > Bill Basquin DIRECTOR > Fabrizio Lazzaretti, Alberto Vendemmiati PRO- makers, including members of Kino, a group of seven- time has more than passing significance. Through a DUCER > Giuseppe Pettito (World Premiere) A cinematic poem about deer hunt- ty or so filmmakers who have challenged one another ing, masculinity,and a fresh kill. Originally shot in mosaic of dialogues with subjects ranging from a stand- (Wisconsin Premiere) Shot in 1999/2000 by Italian film- into making short videos, fiction or documentaries on Super 8 and on location in Wisconsin. Filmmaker Bill up comedian to an Olympic swimmer,psychiatrist, life- makers in Northern Alliance strongholds in the Pan- a regular basis. Additional films TBA. Check the web- Basquin attended UW-Madison and now lives in San guard, little girl, or news editor, It’s About Time crafts jshir Valley of Afghanistan, Jung chronicles the con- site for details. — MARY CARBINE Francisco. a portrait of everyday Israeli life with intelligence and struction of a war hospital for landmine victims by the — MARY CARBINE warmth. SPONSOR > Ministère des Relations internationales du SCREENINGS Hybrid > Sat, Apr 6 > 9:00pm > 1h45 > Cine- — MARY CARBINE Italian relief agency Emergency,and the unbearable Québec, Québec Delegation Chicago, UW-Madison Pro- SCREENINGS It’s About Time > Sat, Apr 6 > 11:00am > 1h30 desperation and suffering of the Afghan people. On the matheque > ORDER CODE: HYB > PRECEDED BY > THE LAST fessional French Masters Program, Academy of Motion DAY OF NOVEMBER > Filmmaker Bill Basquin (The Last Day > Bartell - Drury > ORDER CODE: IAT > PRECEDED BY > STAN- first of three trips to Afghanistan, the filmmakers lived Picture Arts and Sciences. DARDS of November) in person. Campus late night movies made in barracks with rebel soldiers, occasionally filming Jean Liberté: A man, his vision, possible in part by The RWJ Project, The Chancellor’s Office them in combat against the Taliban. Once the hospital and a whole lot of concrete and the Wisconsin Union at the UW-Madison. High Fidelity was completed, a unending stream of people mangled by Narrative Short > Canada > 2001 > 8 min > Color landmines came in for amputations. Brutally frank, The Left Side of the Fridge LANGUAGE > In French with English subtitles FORMAT > Jung shows us doctors pulling shrapnel from a man’s Beta SP DIRECTOR > Philippe Falardeau SCREENPLAY BY > (La moitié gauche du frigo) eye socket and performing amputations with no X-rays Philippe Falardeau CAST > Pierre Falardeau, Martin Narrative Feature > Canada > 2000 > 90 min > Color PART OF and little anesthesia. The filmmakers go to the local Falardeau, Kathleen Allen, Claire Falardeau, Jean Falardeau THE SERIES > New Wave North: Recent Films from Québec marketplace to meet civilians: a war widow laments Jean Liberté is the tale of an eccentric entrepreneur (played LANGUAGE > In French with English subtitles FOR- “not even Death wants the people of Afghanistan.” by the filmmaker’s brother) who dreams of building the MAT > 35mm, 1.85 PRODUCTION COMPANY > Quatre Par “Jung is rough, visceral and harsh — but it’s also unde- world’s largest parking lot to help attract visitors to Ottawa’s Quatre Films DIRECTOR > Philippe Falardeau PRODUC- ER > Luc Déry, Joseph Hillel, Josée Roberge SCREEN- spairing and indispensable.” — Stuart Klawans, The PLAY BY > Philippe Falardeau CAST > Paul Ahmarani, Nation. Winner of the 2001 Human Rights Watch Inter- Stéphane Demers, Geneviève Néron, Jules Philippe, Alexan- national Film Festival Nestor Almendros Prize. drine Agostini, Marie-Andrée Corneille — MARY CARBINE (Midwest Premiere) This playfully activist “mocku- SCREENINGS JUNG (War): In the Land of the Mujaheddin mentary” (shot on digital video) mixes politics and > Sat, Apr 6 > 8:00pm > 2h00 > Bartell - Drury > ORDER humor to comment on the effects of chronic unem- CODE: JG1 > JUNG (War): In the Land of the Mujaheddin > ployment and work in the era of globalization. Thirty- Sun, Apr 7 > 1:00pm > 2h00 > Bartell - Drury > ORDER CODE: JG2 > year-old Christophe (Paul Ahmarani), an engagingly goofy out-of-work engineer,and his roommate Stéphane Kandahar (The Sun Behind the Moon) (Stéphane Demers), a neo-Marxist artist, decide to col- Narrative Feature > Iran, France > 2001 > 85 min > Color laborate on a “reality film” project in which Stéphane Jean Liberté: A man, his vision, PART OF THE SERIES > Contemporary World Cinema, Pre- records Christophe’s job search. Tirelessly following and a whole lot of concrete mieres Christophe with a digital video camera, Stéphane doc- Please see KINO: SHORT FILMS FROM QUÉBEC. LANGUAGE > In Farsi with English subtitles FORMAT > 35mm, uments him on job interviews, at career workshops, 1.85 PRODUCTION COMPANY > Makhmalbaf Film House, and at sessions with unemployment counselors and Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter Bac Films DIRECTOR > Mohsen Makhmalbaf SCREEN- PLAYBY> Mohsen Makhmalbaf CAST > Nelofer Pazira, self-help gurus.But when the job search stretches into Narrative Feature > Canada > 2002 > 70 min > Color months, tensions mount as Christophe’s employment PART OF THE SERIES > After Dark Hassan Tantaï, Sadou Teymouri, Hayatalah Hakimi prospects diminish, along with his bank account and LANGUAGE > English FORMAT > 16mm DIRECTOR > Lee (Madison Premiere) Winner of the Ecumenical Jury Demarbre PRODUCER > Lee Demarbre SCREENPLAY BY Prize at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, Kandahar is confidence, and Stéphane becomes increasingly aggres- > Ian Driscoll CAST > Phil Caracas, Murielle Varhely, Marcia inspired by the true story of a woman (Nelofer Pazira, sive about filming, turning the documentary into full- Moulton, Josh Grace, Tim Devries, Tracy Lance who plays the lead here) who attempts to enter time intrusion, recording Christophe even as he sleeps. “Highly entertaining . . . With a nod to the films of (Midwest Premiere) Sinners beware! The second com- Afghanistan to reach her sister living in the Taliban- Kandahar ing is upon us, and Jesus has returned to earth. Before controlled city of Kandahar. Celebrated Iranian direc- Michael Moore, the tradition of cinema direct, and the he can get on with his business of judging the living, tor Mohsen Makhmalbaf combines political melodrama current fascination with ‘reality’ television, La moitié however, he must contend with a legion of daylight- and a meditative lyricism to present an intense expose gauche du frigo is a funny and engaging look at work, friendly vampires. “J.C.” pairs up with Mexican of life under Afghanistan’s Taliban regime. Nafas, an corporate greed, and friendship.”—Liz Czach, Toron- wrestling hero El Santo, and an action-packed battle Afghan-born journalist raised in Canada, receives a pristine wilderness. Jean Liberte is a product of the Kino to Film Festival, 2000, at which this film won Best Cana- against the undead ensues. Somehow managing to letter from her sister. Unable to go on living under the manifesto and creative process. Falardeau wrote the script dian First Feature. “A small wonder . . . wry and inci- on a bus trip to see his family.When he arrived, announced incorporate kung-fu, sexual politics, and musical num- Taliban, she plans to commit suicide; Nafas has three sive . . . A young Québec director to watch out for.”— to his brother and parents that they were going to make a bers into one film, Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter delight- Hour Magazine. — MARY CARBINE days to find her way into the Afghanistan, and then to movie that weekend with his DV camera. ed audiences at this year’s Slamdance Film Festival. Kandahar, to stop her. “Lovely and terrifying.” — Print courtesy of Film Tonic. SCREENINGS Kino: Short Films from Québec > Fri, Apr 5 > — SANDY LUCAS Richard Schickel, Time Magazine. “Powerful . . . worthy 5:00pm > 1h30 > Orpheum - Stage Door > ORDER CODE: SCREENINGS The Left Side of the Fridge > Fri, Apr 5 > SCREENINGS Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter > Sat, Apr of Fellini or Buñuel.” — David Denby, New Yorker Mag- QBS > Filmmaker Philippe Falardeau in person. Introduc- 9:00pm > 2h00 > Majestic > ORDER CODE: LSF > Filmmak- 6 > 11:00pm > 1h45 > Play Circle > ORDER CODE: JVH > PRE- er Philippe Falardeau in person. Introduction by Ritt Deitz, azine. — MARY CARBINE tion by Ritt Deitz, Executive Director, UW-Madison Pro- CEDED BY > E-DAY! > Filmmaker Scott Dikkers (E-Day!) in Executive Director, UW-Madison Professional French Mas- Print courtesy of Avatar Films. fessional French Masters Program. SPONSOR > Ministère des person. Campus late night movies made possible in part by Relations internationales du Québec, Québec Delegation ters Program. SPONSOR > Ministère des Relations inter- The RWJ Project, The Chancellor’s Office and the Wis- SCREENINGS Kandahar > Thu, Apr 4 > 9:15pm > 1h30 > Chicago, UW-Madison Professional French Masters Pro- nationales du Québec, Québec Delegation Chicago, UW- consin Union at the UW-Madison. Majestic > ORDER CODE: KAN gram, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Madison Professional French Masters Program WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • APRIL 4-7, 2002 • MADISON • WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM 11 Films: Lit-Mex

A Little Princess Maya woman living in an oppressive society.Winner, Best Narrative Feature > USA > 1995 > 97 min > Color Screenplay,2001 Montréal World Film Festival. LANGUAGE > English FORMAT > 35mm, 1.85 PRODUC- Print courtesy of Film Tonic. — SANDY LUCAS TION COMPANY > Baltimore Pictures, Warner Bros. DIREC- SCREENINGS Mariages > Thu, Apr 4 > 7:00pm > 1h45 > TOR > Alfonso Cuarón PRODUCER > Mark Johnson EXECU- Orpheum - Stage Door > ORDER CODE: MAR > Introduction TIVE PRODUCER > Alan C. Blomquist, Amy Ephron SCREEN- by Ritt Deitz, Executive Director, UW-Madison Profession- PLAYBY> Frances Hodgson Burnett, Richard LaGrave- al French Masters Program. SPONSOR > Ministère des Rela- nese, Elizabeth Chandler CAST > Eleanor Bron, Liam Cun- tions internationales du Québec, Québec Delegation Chica- ningham, Liesel Matthews, Rusty Schwimmer go, UW-Madison Professional French Masters Program With her father away fighting World War I, 10-year-old Sara Crewe must leave her home in India to attend Miss Maya Minchin’s School for Girls, her late mother’s alma mater, Narrative Feature > India, USA > 2001 > 113 min > Color in New York City.Though she is at odds with the head PART OF THE SERIES > Contemporary World Cinema mistress Sara makes friends quickly,delighting them LANGUAGE > In Hindi with English subtitles FORMAT > 35mm, with imaginative stories from the Sanskrit epic, The 1.85 PRODUCTION COMPANY > Kundalini Pictures DIREC- TOR > Digvijay Singh PRODUCER > Dileep Singh Ratore, Ramayana. But despite her declaration that “every lit- Emmanuel Pappas EXECUTIVE PRODUCER > Neil Roberts, tle girl is a princess,” a tragic reversal of fortune rele- Raj Singh SCREENPLAY BY > Digvijay Singh, Emmanuel gates Sara to servitude, testing the limits of her self- Pappas CAST > Nitya Shetty, Anant Nag, Mita Vashisht, worth and optimism. Mexican-born director Alfonso Shilipa Navalkar, Viranda Saxenda Cuarón (Y tu mama tambien) has “cast the type of spell (Wisconsin Premiere) Maya is a happy twelve year old most family films can only dream about.”—Kenneth who, along with her younger cousin Sanjay,enjoys mak- Turan, The Los Angeles Times. Rating: G ing mischief in her rural Indian village. Everything — SANDY LUCAS changes when Maya gets her first period and is subse- SCREENINGS A Little Princess > Sat, Apr 6 > 11:00am > 1h45 quently considered an adult. No longer allowed the > Orpheum - Main > ORDER CODE: LTP > PRICE NOTE > Free for kids 12 and under. > childhood freedoms that Sanjay still enjoys, Maya is jealousy; a third has already bought a wedding dress taken to her parents’ village, where she prepares for an and has her engagement ring pre-designed in Power- ancient and brutal ceremonial ritual that will leave her point. A humorous, revealing portrait of three very dif- scarred forever.This devastating portrait of a little girl’s ferent women, their expectations (of men and for them- coming of age offers an important commentary on child selves), and the value of marriage in their lives. Pro- abuse and the forms it takes throughout the world. Run- ducer Matt Rader was born and raised in New Berlin / ner Up, People’s Choice Award, 2001 Toronto Film Fes- Waukesha, and plans to marry the film’s co-director tival. — SANDY LUCAS Melanie Middien this summer in Milwaukee. A Wis- Print courtesy of Films Distribution. consin’s Own Competition entry. — MARY CARBINE SCREENINGS Maya > Thu, Apr 4 > 9:30pm > 2h00 > Play Circle > ORDER CODE: MY1 > Campus late night movies made SCREENINGS Man Hunt > Sat, Apr 6 > 5:45pm > 2h00 > possible in part by The RWJ Project, The Chancellor’s Office Bartell - Drury > ORDER CODE: MHT > PRECEDED BY > THE and the Wisconsin Union at the UW-Madison. Maya > Sun, GODDAUGHTER > With filmmakers Melanie Middien, Alia Apr 7 > 5:30pm > 1h45 > Play Circle > ORDER CODE: MY2 > Yunis, Matt Rader and editor Zach Fine (Man Hunt) and Sandy Lucas (The Goddaughter) in person. SPONSOR > Wis- consin Film Office Manic Manic Narrative Feature > USA > 2001 > 100 min > Color PART OF THE SERIES > American Cinema, Premieres LANGUAGE > English FORMAT > 35mm, 1.85 PRODUC- Mariages (Marriages) TION COMPANY > Manic, LLC DIRECTOR > Jordan Melamed PRODUCER > Trudi Callon, Kirk Hassig EXECUTIVE PRO- DUCER > Peter Broderick Chuck Reeder, Joanne Hoffman SCREENPLAY BY > Michael Bacall, Blayne Weaver Lola Josee Croze, Jean-Nicolas Verreault, Stephanie Morgen- CAST > Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Don Cheadle, Cody Light- stern, Pierre Lebeau, Marc Gelinas, Klimbo ning, Zooey Deschanel, Elden Henson, Sara Rivas Narrative Feature > France, Italy > 1961 > 90 min > B/W PART OF THE SERIES > Restorations and Revivals, Cinema (Wisconsin Premiere) While Maelström is Denis Vil- (Midwest Premiere) Shot on digital video with a frenet- at the Crossroads: Film in the New Europe leneuve’s film, a fish tells us the story.Bibi is a beauti- ic energy and frankness that mirrors the youth it por- LANGUAGE > In French with English subtitles FOR- ful and prosperous young woman in Montréal, with an trays, Manic follows the fate of Lyle (Joseph Gordon- MAT > 35mm, CinemaScope PRODUCTION COMPANY > Ciné empty,high-fashion life. In quick succession, she faces Levitt), a violent adolescent who—in lieu of prison—is Tamaris DIRECTOR > Jacques Demy PRODUCER > Carlo Pon- embarrassing business failures and an unwanted preg- placed in a juvenile mental institution, where he ti, Georges de Beauregard EXECUTIVE PRODUCER > Paul- nancy,and is involved in a hit-and-run accident that encounters a group of equally troubled teens. Distin- Edmond Decharme SCREENPLAY BY > Jacques Demy takes a man’s life. As anxiety and desperation take hold, guished by its performances (especially by Levitt and CAST > Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel, Elina LaBourdette, Alan Scott, Annie Duperoux, Jacques Harden Bibi decides to end it all, but is given a chance for the remarkable Don Cheadle) and its fierce empathy redemption through the son of her victim. Maelström for its subjects, Manic is “a harshly honest picture . . . Winner of a special award for restoration from the New Meeting Uncle Mark makes a marriage—or at least une rencontre—between exactly the kind of film the Dogme 95 movement was York Film Critics Circle, Jacques Demy’s modern fairy Please see STUDENT SHORTS I: VARIATIONS ON YOUTH. two unlikely bedfellows: quirk and depth, with engag- meant to inspire.”—Ron Wells, Film Threat. Official tale of a cabaret dancer (the radiant Anouk Aimée) was ing bursts of eccentric humor, and gorgeous, dreamy Selection, 2001 Sundance and 2001 Toronto Film Festi- Mexicanidad recently rescued through a restoration supervised by cinematography by André Turpin. “A world where the vals. Documentary Short, Experimental Short > USA > 2001 > Demy’s widow, Agnès Varda. In Demy’s debut feature, — SANDY LUCAS bizarre is credible and the real turns magical.”—Bar- Color PART OF THE SERIES > Experimental and New Media, shot on location in the port city of Nantes, Lola brings Print courtesy of IFC Films. Wisconsin’s Own Filmmakers bara Goslawski, Box Office Magazine. — MARY CARBINE up her son while working as a dancer in a sailors’ cafe. SCREENINGS Manic > Sat, Apr 6 > 6:30pm > 2h00 > Play FORMAT > Multimedia Presentation DIRECTOR > Dan Ban- Left by Michel, her sailor lover, seven years ago, Lola Print courtesy of Arrow Releasing. Circle > ORDER CODE: MNC > SPONSOR > Charter Commu- da nications, The Independent Film Channel would settle down with another man, if only her heart SCREENINGS Maelström > Sun, Apr 7 > 1:00pm > 1h30 (Madison Premiere) Mexicanidad is both a tribute to the did not belong to Michel . . . “Exquisite! Most movies > Orpheum - Main > ORDER CODE: MAL > Introduction by Ritt Deitz, Executive Director, UW-Madison Professional Mariages (Marriages) visual storytelling abilities of mural art, and a work of pale compared to Lola . . . One of the ten best films of French Masters Program. SPONSOR > Ministère des Rela- Narrative Feature > Canada > 2001 > 95 min > Color PART OF video art that itself explores the possibilities of the medi- all time.”—Armond White, New York Press. “Magical. tions internationales du Québec, Québec Delegation Chica- THE SERIES > New Wave North: Recent Films from Québec um. Milwaukee filmmaker Dan Banda (Indigenous Charming. Graceful and beautiful.”—Terrence Raf- go, UW-Madison Professional French Masters Program LANGUAGE > In French with English subtitles FOR- Always; Mountain’s Mist & Mexico) was commissioned ferty, New York Times. — MARY CARBINE MAT > 35mm, 1.85 PRODUCTION COMPANY > Coop Vidéo de for the project by the Mexican Fine Arts Center Muse- Print courtesy of Wellspring Media. Man Hunt Montréal, Productions 23 DIRECTOR > Catherine Martin um, Chicago. Banda collected most of the images used Documentary Feature > USA > 2002 > 74min > Color PART PRODUCER > Lorraine Dufour SCREENPLAY BY > Catherine SCREENINGS Lola > Sat, Apr 6 > 6:00pm > 2h15 > Cine- in Mexicanidad over a six-year period in locations, OF THE SERIES > Wisconsin’s Own Filmmakers, Documen- Martin CAST > Marie-Ève Bertrand, Guylaine Tremblay, Miri- matheque > ORDER CODE: LOL > Introduction by Mike Wilm- tary anne Brûlé, Hélène Loiselle, David Boutin, Markita Boies including Mexico, Los Angeles and Chicago. Together, ington, Film Critic, Chicago Tribune. SPONSOR > Academy of these images serve as ambassadors to a vast store of LANGUAGE > English FORMAT > DV Cam PRODUCTION COM- (US Premiere) Beautifully photographed and exquis- Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, The Center for Euro- artwork found throughout the United States and Mex- PANY > The Rader Company DIRECTOR > Melanie Middien, itely sensual, Mariages takes place in the Québec coun- pean Studies, the European Studies Alliance, UW-Madi- ico and act as a doorway to topics of history,communi- son, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, Alia Yunis PRODUCER > Melanie Middien, Alia Yunis EXEC- tryside of the late 19th century.Set almost entirely in a UTIVE PRODUCER > ty,and identity. Chicago Matt Rader world of women, the film tells the story of one young — MARY CARBINE (World Premiere) Man Hunt takes an unflinching look woman’s rebellion against the restrictive nature of Vic- SCREENINGS Mexicanidad > Fri, Apr 5 > 5:30pm > 1h30 > Maelström at three single thirtysomething women and their com- torian life. When 20-year-old Yvonne discovers that the Madison Art Center > ORDER CODE: MX1 > Filmmaker Dan Banda in person for questions and discussion. Mexicanidad Narrative Feature > Canada > 2000 > 83 min > Color mon mission: finding Mr. Right. Over the course of a object of her desire, Charles, is betrothed to her niece, PART OF THE SERIES > New Wave North: Recent Films from > Fri, Apr 5 > 7:30pm > 1h30 > Madison Art Center > ORDER year, the film follows their travels through the dating she nevertheless sets out to make him her husband. Québec trenches—baggage and all. One woman tries to coax CODE: MX2 > Filmmaker Dan Banda in person for ques- Torn between her passion for Charles and the conflict- tions and discussion. LANGUAGE > In French with English subtitles FORMAT > male friendships into romance; another shows her 35mm, 1.85 PRODUCTION COMPANY > Max Films DIREC- ing expectations of her sister and mother, Yvonne is boyfriend the door when he takes back her birthday Milw. TOR > Denis Villeneuve PRODUCER > Roger Frappier, Luc forced to weigh crucial decisions about her role as a Please see STUDENT SHORTS II: MIDWESTERN LIFE. Vandal SCREENPLAY BY > Denis Villeneuve CAST > Marie- present—a Victoria’s Secret gift certificate—in a fit of 12 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • APRIL 4-7, 2002 • MADISON • WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM Films: Mon-Per

No Sleep ‘til Madison the Best Documentary Audience Award winner at the Perceptions of Perception: Short Narrative Feature > USA > 2002 > 85 min > Color 2001 South by Southwest Film Festival and was an offi- Film and Video Works by Scott Stark PART OF THE SERIES > Wisconsin’s Own Filmmakers, cial selection of the Toronto International Film Festival. Experimental Short > USA > Color and B/W PART OF THE American Cinema The film features music by the Flaming Lips. SERIES > Experimental and New Media, Wisconsin’s Own LANGUAGE > FORMAT > PRODUC- English Beta SP — JOE BERES Filmmakers TION COMPANY > No Sleep ‘til Madison, LLC DIREC- Scott Stark’s works challenge the way we perceive our TOR > Erik Moe, Peter Rudy, David Fleer PRODUC- SCREENINGS Okie Noodling > Sat, Apr 6 > 3:00pm > 2h00 > environment and the people in it, and the way that we No Sleep ER > Ivo Knezevic EXECUTIVE PRODUCER > Erik Moe, Orpheum - Stage Door > ORDER CODE: OKI > PRECEDED ‘til Madison Peter Rudy, Ivo Knezevic, David Fleer SCREEN- BY > THE FLAMING LIPS HAVE LANDED > Filmmaker Bradley are seen by those around us. Stark has produced over 60 PLAY BY > Erik Moe, Peter Rudy CAST > Jim Gaffigan, Beesley in person. SPONSOR > Association of Independent films and videos since 1980. He has shown his work TJ Jagodowski, Michael Gilio, Ian Brennan, Jed Video and Filmmakers nationally and internationally,and has had one-person Resnik, Rebekah Louise Smith shows at the Museum of Modern Art and the (World Premiere) Thirty-year-old Owen Fenby Pacific Film Archive. After getting his Bach- says he loves his girfriend. But his true love is Angel Beach elor’s degree at the UW-Madison, Stark went high school hockey.He’s spent all year planning on to the San Francisco Art Institute for an the hockey version of a classic “just the guys” MFA. He is also the creator of the Flicker northwoods hunting trip—an annual playoff (www.hi-beam.net) website, one of the most pilgrimage through Wisconsin with three for- prominent and important sources of infor- Monday Night at the Rock ‘n’ Bowl mer Kenosha high school teammates. Accompanied by mation about experimental film on the inter- Documentary Feature > USA > 2002 > 60 min > Color a hapless young protégé (documenting the trip on net. PART OF THE SERIES > Documentary, After Dark — JOE BERES video), Owen sets out in his used dry cleaning van for LANGUAGE > English FORMAT > Mini DV DIRECTOR > Posers what is sure to be the best trip ever—only to face Genevieve Coleman PRODUCER > Genevieve Coleman, Experimental Short > USA > 2000 > 12 min > Col- mounting obstacles and dashed expectations at every Michael Palmerio or FORMAT > Mini DV DIRECTOR > Scott Stark > curve. This sharply written ensemble comedy starrs What’s there to do on a Monday night? For a close-knit (Wisconsin Premiere) A diverse stream of tourists group of people in Chicago, the only thing to do is to go Jim Gaffigan (Three Kings, Super Troopers, The Ellen and passersby on San Francisco’s waterfront to the Diversey River Rock ‘n’ Bowl. Week after week Show) and features luminaries of Chicago’s improv casually superimpose themselves against a the same crowd gathers for bowling, beer,and fun. Mon- scene (TJ Jagodowski, Jed Resnik, Tami Sagher,Will benign backdrop of U.S. military might. The day Night at the Rock ‘n’ Bowl follows a few of the reg- Clinger and Susan Messing). Shot on location in Dane video camera tries to replicate the invisible ulars and delves into their personal lives, and we learn and Dodge counties, it’s also full of local Wisconsin frame that the subjects create around themselves more about what brings them together and keeps them flavor.Co-writers/directors Erik Moe and Peter Rudy as they assume the image of themselves they coming back. It’s a playful and warm documentary that played hockey at Lawrence University, and grew up wish others to see. The notion of the off-screen shows the importance and positivity of punk culture. in Madison with co-director David Fleer and produc- action to which they are responding—the pho- Our Song tographer taking their picture—is echoed in the shadow of — JOE BERES er Ivo Knezevic; all now work on film, television and commercial projects in Wisconsin, Chicago and Cal- Narrative Feature > USA > 2000 > 95 min > Color PART OF the mammoth war machine behind them, whose actions SCREENINGS Monday Night at the Rock ‘n’ Bowl > Fri, Apr THE SERIES > American Cinema ifornia. A Wisconsin’s Own Competition entry. are, for most of us, perpetually “off-screen.” 5 > 11:30pm > 1h45 > Bartell - Drury > ORDER CODE: MNR > FORMAT > 35mm, 1.66 PRODUCTION COMPANY > Beech Hill PRECEDED BY > ROBOT BASTARD! > With filmmakers Todd — MARY CARBINE Films, C-Hundred Film Corporation DIRECTOR > Jim McK- in.side.out Bishop, Rob Schrab and Genevieve Coleman in person. SCREENINGS No Sleep ‘til Madison > Thu, Apr 4 > 9:00pm ay PRODUCER > Jim McKay, Paul S. Mezey, Diana E. Williams, Experimental Short > USA > 1999 > 10 min > Color More Than Meets the Eye > 2h00 > Orpheum - Stage Door > ORDER CODE: NOS > PRE- Alexa L. Fogel, Joseph Infantolino, Tyrone Brown EXECU- LANGUAGE > English FORMAT > Mini DV DIRECTOR > Scott Please see PERCEPTIONS OF PERCEPTION: SCOTT STARK. CEDED BY > PICKUP POLKA > Filmmakers David Fleer, Ivo TIVE PRODUCER > Caroline Kaplan, Susannah Ludwig, Stark Knezevic, Erik Moe, Peter Rudy (No Sleep ‘til Madison), and Jonathan Sehring, Michael Stipe SCREENPLAY BY > Jim (Wisconsin Premiere) in.side.out is a very personal piece for The Morning of September Eleventh Chris Collins (Pickup Polka) in person. SPONSOR > Wiscon- McKay CAST > Kerry Washington, Anna Simpson, Melissa the filmmaker. On the surface it’s about the changes tak- Please see SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH: EYEWITNESSES. sin Film Office Martinez, Marlene Forte, Raymond Anthony Thomas, Ros- ing place, over a two-year period, in an empty lot and a alyn Coleman The Mullet The Novitiate decrepit old building next to his house. “Deeper down it’s (Madison Premiere) Our Song follows three friends— about the walls and windows between my interior and exte- Please see STUDENT SHORTS II: MIDWESTERN LIFE. Please see STORIES FROM UP NORTH. Lanisha, Maria, and Joycelyn—through the hot August rior selves, and how the fragile constructs of identity are My Old House Okie Noodling streets of their Crown Heights, Brooklyn, neighbor- etched, eroded, re-shaped and transformed by outside Narrative Short > USA > 2000 > 4min> Color PART OF THE hood. The thread connecting the girls’ lives is their Documentary Feature > USA > 2001 > 59 min > Color PART OF forces.” -Scott Stark SERIES > Wisconsin’s Own Filmmakers THE SERIES > Documentary marching band, the Jackie Robinson Steppers. It is the SLOW LANGUAGE > English FORMAT > Mini DV DIRECTOR > Ben- summer before their sophomore year of high school, LANGUAGE > English FORMAT > Beta SP PRODUCTION COM- Experimental Short > USA > 2001 > 16 min > Color son Gardner, Aaron Yonda CAST > Benson Gardner, Aaron and between band rehearsals, the girls bide their time Yonda PANY > Little League Pictures, itvs DIRECTOR > Bradley FORMAT > Mini DV DIRECTOR > Scott Stark Beesley shoplifting, daydreaming, flirting with boys, and con- (Wisconsin Premiere) SLOW uses a simple cinematic (Wisconsin Premiere) A hilarious send-up of household fronting the rising tensions within their own friend- “There’s nothing quite like the thrill of catching a 60- device—the wipe—to interweave human and mechanical project and how-to shows gets a new spin, times four, ship. This particular summer turns out to be a pivotal as two inept friends spend more time talking about the pound catfish with your bare hands.” They call it movements through fixed spaces over time, revealing potent one in which the girls, must make critical choices about absences and reflected presences. “The slashing movement work than actually doing it. “noodling” in Oklahoma. Okie Noodling chronicles the — CARRIE UUTALA where their futures are headed. “One of the best films of mechanized wipes acts as a magic wand morphing sur- sporting tradition through three families that have been SCREENINGS Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell > Fri, Apr 5 > 11:00pm I’ve seen this year.”—A.O. Scott, The New York Times. faces and hyphenating time and space.” — Mark McElhat- > 2h15 > Play Circle > ORDER CODE: DOA > PRECEDED BY > MY noodling for generations. The film is a curious but lov- “Wonderful . . . a thoughtful character study.”—Edward ten. Best of 2001 (list)—Gavin Smith, Editor, Film Comment. OLD HOUSE, E-DAY! > Filmmakers Scott Dikkers, Doug Miles, ing portrait of noodlers, their families and life in rural Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle. Rating: R More Than Meets the Eye Aaron Yonda and Benson Gardner in person. Campus late Oklahoma. Seeing this film is an experience in and of Print courtesy of IFC Films. — SANDY LUCAS Experimental Short > USA > 2001 > 17 min > Color night movies made possible in part by The RWJ Project, The itself; Okie Noodling captures all of the excitement, dan- Chancellor’s Office and the Wisconsin Union at the UW- SCREENINGS Our Song > Fri, Apr 5 > 7:00pm > 1h45 > Fredric FORMAT > Mini DV DIRECTOR > Scott Stark > ger and strangeness of handfishing. Okie Noodling was Madison. March Play Circle > ORDER CODE: OSG SPONSOR > Charter (Wisconsin Premiere) A remake of Jane Fonda’s mega-sell- Communications, The Independent Film Channel ing 1980s exercise video, with the filmmaker as the per- The Outfit former; an indirect chronicle of the remaking of a celebri- ty activist and the cultural shifts that allowed it happen. Narrative Feature > USA > 1974 > 105 min > Color PART OF THE SERIES > Special Presentations, Restorations and I’ll Walk with God Revivals Experimental Short > USA > 1994 > 8 min > Color FORMAT > 35mm DIRECTOR > John Flynn PRODUCER > Carter LANGUAGE > English DIRECTOR > Scott Stark DeHaven SCREENPLAY BY > John Flynn CAST > Robert Using emergency information cards surreptitiously lifted Duvall, Robert Ryan, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker, Jane from the backs of airline seats, I’ll Walk with God pictorially Greer, Elisha Cook, Jr. charts an airline flight attendant’s stoic transcendence This unappreciated genre classic was a favorite of Mark through and beyond worldly adversity.Through an elabo- Bergman, who helped make Madison a legendary film rate system of posturing and nuance that evokes an almost society capital in the 1960s and ‘70s. Written and direct- ritualistic synergy,the female protagonist(s) are shuttled ed by John Flynn, it’s based on one of the “Parker” crime toward a higher spiritual plane. novels by Richard Stark, a.k.a. Donald E. Westlake, all Angel Beach of which feature the unstoppable title character. Fly- Experimental Short > USA > 2001 > 25 min > Color nn’s entry has the character,now called Macklin (Robert DIRECTOR > Scott Stark > Duvall), targeting a mob led by noir vet Robert Ryan. (Wisconsin Premiere) Anonymous 3D photographs of biki- Also in the cast: Joe Don Baker and noir mainstays Tim- ni-clad women from the early 1970s are compressed into a othy Carey,Marie Windsor,Jane Greer and Elisha Cook, two-dimensional cinematic space, triggering an exuberant Jr.Rating: PG — MARY CARBINE visual dance and revealing a troubling and elegiac SCREENINGS The Outfit > Sat, Apr 6 > 3:00pm > 2h30 > voyeurism. One of the top ten films of 2001 (list)—Nicole Play Circle > ORDER CODE: OUT > PRECEDED BY > BERGMAN’S Armour, Film Comment. A 2002 Whitney Biennial selec- SHOW: REMEMBERING MARK BERGMAN, MADISON AND THE tion. MOVIES > Panel members include John Davis, Tom Flinn, SCREENINGS Perceptions of Perception: Short Film and Our Song Mike Wilmington and Reid Rosefelt. SPONSOR > Made pos- Video Works by Scott Stark > Sun, Apr 7 > 2:30pm > 2h00 sible through the generous support of Ronee Bergman. > Cinematheque > ORDER CODE: POP > Filmmaker Scott Sponsors also include the Academy of Motion Picture Arts Stark in person. and Sciences. WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • APRIL 4-7, 2002 • MADISON • WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM 13 Films: Pic-Sep

Pickup Polka 71 West Broadway Narrative Short > USA > 2002 > 6 min > Color Documentary Short > USA > 2002 > 20 min > Color FOR- PART OF THE SERIES > Wisconsin’s Own Film- MAT > Beta SP DIRECTOR > Beverly Peterson makers This touching motion picture diary lets the viewer see and LANGUAGE > English FORMAT > DigiBeta DIREC- feel what it was like to live two blocks north of the wreckage, TOR > Chris Collins PRODUCER > Chris Collins documenting the event and the subsequent three months. SCREENPLAY BY > Chris Collins CAST > Joe Brady, Humanistic and lovely in its narrative construction, the Pete Benton, Chris Collins, David Milke, John Mori- piece details the day-to-day challenges of living as a neigh- arty, Steve Meisner (accordion) bor to Ground Zero. Peterson is an experienced video doc- (World Premiere) Ten Men. Two teams. One bas- umentarian whose previous work includes The Andre Show ketball. One court. One polka. Where? Wis- and other works about the AIDS crisis. consin, of course, in this delightful comedic To the Workers of the World short. Madison-based filmmaker Chris Collins Documentary Short > USA > 2002 > 4 min > Color FOR- was born and raised in Wisconsin, and has MAT > Beta SP DIRECTOR > Tami Gold worked behind the camera on films including Tami Gold is a video artist and media professor at Hunter Mad Dog and Glory and The Fugitive. College and has made many politically conscious video- — MARY CARBINE tapes. Her piece is a moving elegy to the kitchen workers at SCREENINGS No Sleep ‘til Madison > Thu, Apr the Windows on the World luxury restaurant on the 107th 4 > 9:00pm > 2h00 > Orpheum - Stage Door > floor of the north tower,the first tower attacked. They nev- ORDER CODE: NOS > PRECEDED BY > PICKUP POL- er had a chance. The piece ends with a strong voice against KA > Filmmakers David Fleer, Ivo Knezevic, Erik US military engagement. Moe, Peter Rudy (No Sleep ‘til Madison), and Chris Tornado Collins (Pickup Polka) in person. SPONSOR > Wis- consin Film Office Documentary Short > USA > 2002 > 3 min > Color FOR- MAT > Beta SP DIRECTOR > Lynne Sachs Pineapple (Ananas) Lynne Sachs’ Tornado is a poetic piece shot from the per- Promises Documentary Feature > France, Finland > 1984 > spective of Brooklyn, where much of the paper and soot 76 min > Color PART OF THE SERIES > Amos Gitaï: from the burning towers fell. Her fingers obsessively han- Images of Exile dle burned fragments of paper,normally banal office mate- LANGUAGE > In English, Hawaiian and Tagalog with Eng- Robot Bastard! rial that takes on an eerie and sad meaning. Sachs recent- lish subtitles PRODUCTION COMPANY > Les films d’ici, Agav Narrative Short > USA > 2001 > 18 min > Color PART OF ly completed Investigation of a Flame, a documentary about Hafakot, FR3, TV2, Ikon, TV1 DIRECTOR > Amos Gitaï PRO- THE SERIES > Wisconsin’s Own Filmmakers Vietnam war-resisters. DUCER > Richard Copans, Stéphane Levine, Kevin Gallagher LANGUAGE > English FORMAT > DigiBeta PRODUCTION COM- Three Blind Mice SCREENPLAY BY > Amos Gitaï PANY > Big Ant Movie DIRECTOR > Rob Schrab PRODUC- Documentary Short > USA > 2002 > 1 min > Color FOR- (Wisconsin Premiere) Gitaï’s comic, subversive edge is ER > Todd Bishop SCREENPLAY BY > Rob Schrab CAST > Jeff MAT > Beta SP DIRECTOR > Candy Kugel in full effect in this masterful documentary about Davis, Robia LeMorte This a humorous animated film is about 3 Sams: S(add)am, pineapple. Gitaï and a small crew travel the world trac- (Midwest Premiere) The Robot is sent to rescue the Pres- Osama and (Uncle) Sam. A black comedy against war.Can- ing the history and cultural symbolism of the fruit from ident’s daughter from the evil Blood Mamba and an dy Kugel has been creating animated films for over two Sanford Dole’s governorship of Hawaii at the turn of army of zombie monsters. Can he do it? In the tradition decades, including Inbetweening America, which showed the 20th century through the exploitation of workers of some of the best sci-fi B-movies and Japanese Monster at the New York Film Festival this past September. in the fields of the Philippines near the turn of the 21st, movies, here comes Robot Bastard!, written and direct- Tornado 9.11 in the process exploring the systems of social control ed by Milwaukee native Rob Schrab, creator of the Scud Documentary Short > USA > 2002 > 15 min > Color FOR- the company has developed to ensure smooth produc- the Disposable Assassin comic book. A Wisconsin’s Own MAT > Beta SP DIRECTOR > Kerry Reardon September 11th tion. “Fascinating!” (Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Competition entry. — JOE BERES Scenic artist Kerry Reardon came to New York from Kansas Reader). Nurith Aviv is director of the understated cin- Please see THE VIEW FROM HERE: A POETIC RESPONSE TO City seven years ago and recently has begun to make media. SCREENINGS Monday Night at the Rock ‘n’ Bowl > Fri, Apr THE ATTACKS ON THE WORLD TRADE CENTER. ematography.Kevin Gallagher makes his way through 5 > 11:30pm > 1h45 > Bartell - Drury > ORDER CODE: MNR > Her video piece 9.11 is shot from her neighborhood on the one amusing situation after another as technician and PRECEDED BY > ROBOT BASTARD! > With filmmakers Todd September Eleventh: Eyewitnesses fringe of the Lower East Side in downtown Manhattan. It line producer. — RAY PRIVETT Bishop, Rob Schrab and Genevieve Coleman in person. Documentary Short > USA > 2002 > 85 min > Color and B/W covers the period of the attacks from day into evening, and Print courtesy of the British Film Institute. SPONSOR > Wisconsin Film Office PART OF THE SERIES > Documentary FORMAT > Beta SP reveals through its form the fragmented feeling of being in lower Manhattan that day. SCREENINGS Pineapple > Thu, Apr 4 > 7:00pm > 2h00 > Cin- Rocks With Wings (Wisconsin Premiere) There is a disproportionately large ematheque > ORDER CODE: PIN > PRECEDED BY > AMOS Hospital at Ground Zero Documentary Feature > USA > 2001 > 113 min > Color PART number of film- and video-makers who live in a radius GITAÏ: IMAGES OF EXILE > Introduction by guest curator Documentary Short > USA > 2002 > 12 min > Color FOR- OF THE SERIES > Documentary of two to three miles around the site of the former World Ray Privett. SPONSOR > Conney Family Fund, UW-Madison Trade Center in New York. The extraordinary events MAT > Beta SP DIRECTOR > Nina Rosenblum, Jules Shell Center for Jewish Studies FORMAT > DigiBeta PRODUCTION COMPANY > Shiprock Pro- ductions, Oregon Public Broadcasting DIRECTOR > Rick of September eleventh and their aftermath were docu- Hospital at Ground Zero gives the perspective of physicians Please Do Not Feed the Humans Derby PRODUCER > Rick Derby, Sandra Fong-Ging, Joan mented by some of these artists and documentarians. and other health workers at the nearest hospital to the site Please see WISCONSIN SHORTS I. Wooters-Reisin, Cathy Newby (Navajo) EXECUTIVE PRO- This is a program of these works, focusing on films and of the attacks, NYU Downtown Hospital. They saw the hor- ror close up. The group comes from a wide range of ethnic Posers DUCER > Rick Derby, David Davis videos by women. From where they stood, each had a (Midwest Premiere) A ten-year labor of love by film- backgrounds, a very “New York” mix. Rosenblum has made Please see PERCEPTIONS OF PERCEPTION: SCOTT STARK. unique angle onto the disasters of that day.This pro- many documentaries over the years, including Liberators, maker Rick Derby, Rocks with Wings is a beautifully- gram was curated by filmmaker Pola Rapaport, who which was nominated for an Academy Award. Promises crafted documentary that traces the journey of Jerry has a short film in the program, and whose award-win- Tribute 9.11 Documentary Feature > USA > 2001 > 100 min > Color Richardson, an African American star basketball play- ning work includes Family Secret, Blind Light (both Documentary Short > USA > 2002 > 2 min > B/W PART OF THE SERIES > Documentary er,and the Lady Chieftains, the high school basketball screened at the 2001 Wisconsin Film Festival). LANGUAGE > In Arabic, Hebrew and English with English team he coaches, in the small Navajo community of FORMAT > Beta SP DIRECTOR > Monica Sharf subtitles FORMAT > 35mm, 1.66 PRODUCTION COMPANY > The Shiprock, New Mexico. Eventually,a bond is forged that This black-and-white film packs a lot into its two minutes. Promises Project DIRECTOR > Justine Shapiro, B.Z. Goldberg, allows the coach and the girls to rise above their dif- Patriotic, emotional, and with high production values but Carlos Bolado PRODUCER > Justine Shapiro, B.Z. Goldberg no dialogue, it attempts to capture the feelings of the day EXECUTIVE PRODUCER > Lucy Kaplan SCREENPLAY BY > Jus- ferences and the odds to emerge as champions.By devot- ing years to his subjects and their lives, Derby is able to through the workers who were there. Sharf has won awards tine Shapiro, B.Z. Goldberg for two others shorts and is in progress on a feature docu- (Wisconsin Premiere) This Academy Award-nominated do what few documentarians can—reveal deeply per- mentary. sonal journeys, over time, within a multilayered social documentary looks at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict September Eleventh: Eyewitnesses and prospects for peace through the eyes of children in fabric. The result is an utterly compelling film that explores issues of race, class, gender,and what it means Documentary Short > USA > 2002 > 10 min > Color FOR- Jerusalem. This ambitious film focuses on seven Pales- MAT > Beta SP DIRECTOR > Pola Rapaport tinian and Israeli children (ages 9 to 13), divided by polit- to win in America. From its very opening shot, the film resonates with the Navajo’s serene and spiritual phi- Filmmaker Pola Rapaport was at home 18 blocks north of ical, social and religious gulfs that seem almost impos- the World Trade Center when the first plane flew directly losophy as expressed through the sweeping landscapes sible to bridge. Although they live no more than 20 min- overhead. Her September Eleventh: Eyewitnesses juxtapos- utes apart, the children are locked into separate worlds. and ancient rock formations that rise from the South- es super-8 images of the posters of missing people and slow- They each offer dramatic, emotional and sometimes western desert. “A thought-provoking and emotionally motion shots of construction teams at work on the six-sto- hilarious perspectives on the issues that lie at the heart forceful American story.” — San Francicso Bay ry pile of rubble, with voiceover eyewitness accounts of her of the Middle East conflict. “ . . . deeply humanistic Guardian. — MARY CARBINE friends and neighbors who saw the disaster firsthand as it insight into the complexities of the Middle East . . . This SCREENINGS Rocks With Wings > Thu, Apr 4 > 7:00pm unfolded. well-crafted film surprises with an exhaustive back- > 2h15 > Bartell - Drury > ORDER CODE: RW1 > With film- The Morning of September Eleventh > ground, a nonpartisan position, a personal, affecting maker Rick Derby in person. Rocks With Wings Sat, Apr Documentary Short > USA > 2002 > 4 min > Color FOR- 6 > 3:00pm > 2h30 > Bartell - Drury > ORDER CODE: RW2 > focus, and a wrenching sense of stolen innocence.”- MAT > Beta SP DIRECTOR > Darcy Dennett With filmmaker Rick Derby in person. David Rooney, Variety. This is a moving depiction of a group of Staten Island resi- — MARY CARBINE Sala Print courtesy of Cowboy Pictures. dents in shock that morning, viewing the fires and collapse Please see STUDENT SHORTS II: MIDWESTERN LIFE. of the buildings from a vantage point some miles away to the SCREENINGS Promises > Fri, Apr 5 > 5:00pm > 1h45 > Majes- south. Beautifully filmed and edited, it gives extraordinary tic > ORDER CODE: PR1 > Promises > Sat, Apr 6 > 6:00pm Searching for Sense > 1h45 > Majestic > ORDER CODE: PR2 Please see THE VIEW FROM HERE: A POETIC RESPONSE TO access to the emotions of the moment. Dennett has made Rocks music videos and produced documentaries for cable tele- The Ride THE ATTACKS ON THE WORLD TRADE CENTER. With Wings vision. Please see WISCONSIN SHORTS III. 14 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • APRIL 4-7, 2002 • MADISON • WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM Films: Sli-Stu

Soft Shell Man China Diary (911) (Un crabe dans la tête) Fishing Has No Boundaries maker’s own family members. Kate Love is a UW-Madison Documentary Short > USA > 2002 > 12 min Documentary Short > USA > 2000 > 23 min student, coffee drinker,smoker,and chocolate lover.A Stu- > Color FORMAT > Beta SP DIRECTOR > Eva > Color FORMAT > Beta SP PRODUCTION COM- dent Competition Entry. Ilona Brzeski PANY > Black Cat Productions DIREC- The Duke TOR > Sharon Zurek, Park Taylor PRODUC- Eva Ilona Brzeski is an adopted New York- Narrative Short > USA > 2001 > 6 min > Color er, originally from northern California, ER > Park Taylor SPONSOR > WUD Film Committee, IFVC LANGUAGE > Eng- (World Premiere) Founded in Hayward, Wis- who lives less than a mile from the attack lish FORMAT > Mini DV PRODUCTION COMPANY > SAMO Pro- consin by a local fishing guide, the group site. Her piece is from a very different per- ductions DIRECTOR > Adam Wolfe SCREENPLAY BY > Adam spective: a vacation in China with her Fishing Has No Boundaries helps make the Wolfe CAST > Brett Wolfe outdoor experience accessible to persons mother. Suddenly the television is filled (World Premiere) This whimsical short follows The Duke, an with disabilities. In this film, an all-volun- with images of the World Trade Center underground skateboard legend, as he wows a group of his teer crew documents a 1999 fishing event in burning, with the announcer’s rapid-fire peers. Adam Wolfe is a UW-Madison senior who enjoys Hayward and the fun had by participants Mandarin making her alienation all the skateboarding in his free time. A Student Competition entry. worse. Brzeski is at work on a longer piece, and organizers alike. build UP: BREAK down: Last Seen. The Novitiate Experimental Short > USA > 2001 > 12 min > Color SCREENINGS September Eleventh: Eye- Documentary Short > USA > 2001 > 14 min > SPONSOR > WUD Film Committee, IFVC LANGUAGE > Eng- witnesses > Fri, Apr 5 > 7:15pm > 2h00 > Color LANGUAGE > English FORMAT > Beta lish FORMAT > Mini DV DIRECTOR > Hunter Gross SCREEN- Bartell - Drury > ORDER CODE: SE1 > With SP PRODUCTION COMPANY > Counterfeit Bill PLAY BY > Hunter Gross CAST > Hunter Gross filmmaker and curator Pola Rapaport in Productions DIRECTOR > Chris Sheridan PRO- person. > September Eleventh: Eyewit- DUCER > Patrick Rick In this honest, riveting look into the world of depression, nesses > > > > Sat, Apr 6 12:45pm 2h00 (Madison Premiere) The Novitiate blends per- filmmaker Hunter Gross illuminates his own secret fears Bartell - Drury > ORDER CODE: SE2 > With sonal documentary with history in the story and anxieties onscreen. Hunter Gross, a native of Gleason, filmmaker and curator Pola Rapaport in WI, will graduate UW-Madison in 2003 with a degree in person. of the 1975 Menominee Warriors Society takeover of a Catholic Novitiate on the Red Communication Arts. A Student Competition Entry. September Eleventh: Eyewitnesses River near Gresham, WI, and month-long stand off with Static Please see SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH: EYEWITNESSES. Songs From the Second Floor the Wisconsin National Guard, as told by a former novice Experimental Short > USA > 2001 > 6 min > Color (producer Patrick Rick) as well as by a Menominee partic- September, 2001 — NYC (Sånger från andra våningen) SPONSOR > WUD Film Committee, IFVC FORMAT > Mini DV ipant. A Wisconsin’s Own Competition entry. DIRECTOR > Heather Kasar Please see THE VIEW FROM HERE: A POETIC RESPONSE TO Narrative Feature > Denmark, Norway > 2000 > 98 min > Col- THE ATTACKS ON THE WORLD TRADE CENTER. or PART OF THE SERIES > Cinema at the Crossroads: Film The Dogs of El Niño (Madison Premiere) An exercise in the collision of chaos The Sid Boyum Sculpture Project in the New Europe, Premieres Documentary Feature > USA > 2002 > 58 min > Color FOR- and simplicity, Static focuses its unique lens on the art of breakdancing. Heather Kasar is a senior majoring in Film Please see ART AND COMMUNITY IN WISCONSIN. LANGUAGE > In Swedish with English subtitles FOR- MAT > DigiBeta DIRECTOR > Cyndi Moran, Eric Scholl at UW-Milwaukee. A Student Competition entry. The Silence MAT > 35mm, 1.85 PRODUCTION COMPANY > Roy Andersson (World Premiere) “Dogs are like people. They like to be Filmproduction, Sveriges Television AB, Danmarks Radio, ASKED to do something.” Or so says musher Mark Dun- Please see STUDENT SHORTS I: VARIATIONS ON YOUTH. Norsk Rikskringkasting DIRECTOR > Roy Andersson PRO- lop, in this engaging documentary about the annual sled DUCER > Lisa Alwert SCREENPLAY BY > Roy Andersson dog race on Madeline Island, off the northern tip of Wis- Sliding Off the Edge of the World CAST > Stefan Larsson, Lars Nord, Torbjörn Fahlström, Experimental Short > USA > 2000 > 7 min > Color consin in Lake Superior. From the rigorous pre-race vet The Duke Lucio Vucana, Sten Andersson, Stig Holm checks through two days of running in the Northwoods to LANGUAGE > English FORMAT > Beta SP DIRECTOR > Mark (Wisconsin Premiere) In an unnamed city somewhere Street the final finish line, The Dogs of El Niño is a character dri- in the far north of Europe, a series of strange events ven documentary about people who love being outside with Sliding off the Edge of the World considers the passage takes place on the eve of the new millennium. Streets are their dogs—and the Madeline Island residents who host of time in a frenetic visual poem. A stab at depicting blocked by endless, unexplained traffic jams, and pro- the race to chase away those tir-crazy winter blues. fatherhood: fleeting images burst onto the screen only cessions of wailing citizens flagellate themselves in SCREENINGS Stories from Up North > Fri, Apr 5 > 5:00pm to recede from view just as quickly,suggesting transition choreographed rituals. Karl, a sickly middle-aged fur- > 2h00 > Bartell - Drury > ORDER CODE: SUP > With film- and decay.Tendrils of images cluster together and then niture salesman, burns down his business in the hopes makers Sharon Zurek, Park Taylor, Chris Sheridan, Patrick dissipate, making it clear that all things change all the of cheating on the insurance, and descends into mad- Rick, Cyndi Moran and Eric Scholl in person. time. — JOE BERES ness. Filmed with an amazing formal rigor,in precise- Student Competition Winners SCREENINGS At Home and Asea > Sat, Apr 6 > 7:00pm > ly staged compositions that invoke a painterly tradi- Short > USA PART OF THE SERIES > Wisconsin’s Own 2h00 > Madison Art Center - Auditorium, 3rd Floor > ORDER tion, Songs From the Second Floor creates a banal oth- Filmmakers CODE: AHA > PRECEDED BY > SLIDING OFF THE EDGE OF erworld of strangely ordered chaos and black comedy. THE WORLD > Filmmaker Mark Street in person. SCREENINGS Student Competition Winners > Sun, Apr “An ideologically ambitious and cleverly stylish film, 7 > 12:00pm > 1h00 > Play Circle > ORDER CODE: SSW SPON- SLOW with many scenes that linger in the mind—like those of SOR > WUD Film Committee IFVC Please see PERCEPTIONS OF PERCEPTION: SCOTT STARK. David Lynch’s Eraserhead or Terry Gilliam’s Brazil.”— Student Shorts Program I: Soft Shell Man (Un crabe dans la tête) Sight and Sound. Winner, Prix de Jury,Cannes 2000. — MARY CARBINE Variations on Youth Narrative Feature > Canada > 2001 > 102 min > Color PART OF THE SERIES > New Wave North: Recent Films from Print courtesy of New Yorker Films. Short > USA > 91 min > Color and B/W PART OF THE SERIES > Québec, Premieres SCREENINGS Songs From the Second Floor > Sun, Apr 7 Wisconsin’s Own Filmmakers LANGUAGE > In French with English subtitles FOR- > 3:00 pm > 1h30 > Orpheum - Main > ORDER CODE: SNG SPONSOR > WUD Film Committee, IFVC FORMAT > Mini DV MAT > 35mm, 1.85 PRODUCTION COMPANY > Qu4tre par SPONSOR > Center for European Studies, the European Compiling some of the best student film and video work Quatre DIRECTOR > André Turpin PRODUCER > Luc Déry, Studies Alliance, the Department of Scandinavian Studies, from Wisconsin’s colleges and universities, this diverse Joseph Hillel SCREENPLAY BY > André Turpin CAST > David and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, Chicago. array of experimental, narrative, and documentary La Haye, Isabelle Blais, Emmanuel Bilodeau, Chantal Giroux, work deals with themes of youthful angst and self- Pascale Desrochers, Vincent Bilodeau Standards expression. — SANDY LUCAS (Midwest Premiere) This offbeat and visually stunning Experimental Short, Documentary Short > USA > 2000 > 26 min > Color PART OF THE SERIES > Documentary, Exper- Immaculate first feature was written, shot and directed by acclaimed imental and New Media Narrative Short > USA > 2001 > 7 min > Color The Silence cinematographer André Turpin. It follows the exploits FORMAT > Beta SP DIRECTOR > Dan Boord, Luis Valdovino SPONSOR > WUD Film Committee, IFVC FORMAT > Mini DV Narrative Short > USA > 2001 > 11 min > Color of underwater photographer Alex (David La Haye), who PRODUCER > Dan Boord, Luis Valdovino SCREENPLAY BY > DIRECTOR > R. Callan SCREENPLAY BY > R. Callan SPONSOR > WUD Film Committee, IFVC LANGUAGE > Eng- at age 31 is handsome, likeable, eager to please—and Dan Boord, Luis Valdovino CAST > Stephanie Monday, Allen Ebert, John Van Nelson lish FORMAT > Mini DV DIRECTOR > Jordan Allott PRODUC- still learning how to navigate life and love as a grown up. (Wisconsin Premiere) From paellas in Spain to a hog ER > Jordan Allott SCREENPLAY BY > Jordan Allott After a near-death experience in the Indian Ocean, Alex (World Premiere) Stunningly photographed, Immaculate is calling contest in Ohio, guided tours of the first atomic a moving depiction of a grieving mother and her bed-ridden CAST > Daniel Allott, Anna Cianciara returns to Montréal, where he tries (unsuccessfully) to bomb test site, and Wal-Marts everywhere, Standards is son on the last night of his life. R. Callan is studying Com- After the death of his wife and unborn child, a man on the avoid the wife he left six months ago. He complicates a travelogue through continents at the end of the twen- muncation Arts and Chemical Engineering at UW-Madi- brink of losing his faith embarks on a spiritual journey to his situation even further with some ill-considered tieth century.“Put a grid around the world, standardize son. A Student Competition entry. find meaning in his tragedy.Jordan Allott was born in Read- romantic entanglements, and finally must face the con- ing, England, and transferred to UW-Madison after spend- consumption, then establish a global economy of expe- Meeting Uncle Mark sequences for himself and others. Shot quickly,with rience: instructions for the new Mcllenium.”—Steven ing two years in Hawaii. A Student Competition entry. improvised acting, “found” music, and a fluid, collage- Documentary Short > USA > 2001 > 13 min > Color and B/W Seid, Pacific Film Archives. An official selection of the SPONSOR > WUD Film Committee, IFVC LANGUAGE > Eng- The City Aloud like style, Un crabe dans la tête is alternately breezy and Venice Biennale. — MARY CARBINE lish FORMAT > Mini DV DIRECTOR > Emily Rumsey PRO- Documentary Short > USA > 2001 > 31 min > Color meditative, and infused with fresh energy. Variety’s Ken SCREENINGS It’s About Time > Sat, Apr 6 > 11:00am > 1h30 > DUCER > Emily Rumsey SPONSOR > WUD Film Committee, IFVC LANGUAGE > Eng- Eisner called the film a “striking tour de force” and Bartell - Drury > ORDER CODE: IAT > PRECEDED BY > STAN- Utilizing old 8mm and 16mm footage and family pho- lish FORMAT > DV Cam PRODUCTION COMPANY > Saharra compared Turpin’s sensibility to Wong Kar-wai “in his DARDS tographs, the director takes us on a moving journey to find Films DIRECTOR > Sarah Blain CAST > Doug Kearney, Nazi- Chunking Express mood.” An official selection of the rah , Desdamona , Bao Phi, Reggie Harris, Cynthia French Static the essence of her dead uncle’s spirit. Emily Rumsey,a UW- 2001 Toronto and Vancouver Film Festivals and 2002 (Midwest Premiere) From electrifying live performances to Please see STUDENT SHORTS I: VARIATIONS ON YOUTH. Madison senior,is originally from St. Paul, MN. A Student Sundance Film Festival. — MARY CARBINE Competition entry. intimate interviews, The City Aloud documents the Spoken Stating the Arts in Milwaukee Word scene of the Twin Cities, Minnesota. Sarah Blain is a Print courtesy of Film Tonic. Chocolate-Coffee-Nicotine Please see ART AND COMMUNITY IN WISCONSIN. UW-Madison graduate currently living in Los Angeles. A SCREENINGS Soft Shell Man > Sat, Apr 6 > 5:30pm > 1h45 > Experimental Short > USA > 2001 > 5 min > Color Student Competition entry. Orpheum - Stage Door > ORDER CODE: SSM > Introduction Stories from Up North SPONSOR > WUD Film Committee, IFVC FORMAT > Mini DV by Ritt Deitz, Executive Director, Professional French Mas- SCREENINGS Student Shorts Program I: Variations on Youth Documentary Feature, Documentary Short > USA > DIRECTOR > Kate Love SCREENPLAY BY > Kate Love ters Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison SPON- > Thu, Apr 4 > 5:00pm > 2h00 > Play Circle > ORDER CODE: 95 min > PART OF THE SERIES > Documentary, Wisconsin’s CAST > Charles Love, Cynthia Love, Gregory Love SOR > Ministère des Relations internationales du Québec, SS1 > With filmmakers Sarah Blain, Hunter Gross, Heather Own Filmmakers FORMAT > Beta SP, Mini DV An examination of American addiction, Chocolate-Coffee- Québec Delegation Chicago, UW-Madison Professional Kasar, Kate Love, Emily Rumsey and Adam Wolfe in per- French Masters Program Nicotine chronicles the dysfunctional addictions of the film- son. 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Student Shorts Program II: Three Blind Mice Midwestern Life Please see SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH: EYEWITNESSES. Short > USA > 86 min > Color and B/W PART OF THE SERIES Tiger Show > Wisconsin’s Own Filmmakers Please see WISCONSIN SHORTS II. SPONSOR > WUD Film Committee, IFVC FORMAT > Mini DV The Times of Harvey Milk From the personal to the political, culinary to the cre- Documentary Feature > USA > 1984 > 90 min > Color PART ative, these shorts— made by Wisconsin college and OF THE SERIES > Restorations and Revivals university students— illuminate various aspects of life FORMAT > 35mm DIRECTOR > Rob Epstein PRODUCER > in Wisconsin and elsewhere in the Midwest. Richard Schmeichen — SANDY LUCAS In 1978, Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Baklava city council, becoming the first openly gay person to Documentary Short > USA > 2001 > 8 min > Color be elected to public office in California. One year later, SPONSOR > WUD Film Committee, IFVC LANGUAGE > Eng- he and Mayor George Moscone were shot and killed by lish FORMAT > Mini DV DIRECTOR > Catharine Gartelos SCREENPLAY BY > Catharine Gartelos Milk’s fellow council member,former police officer and (World Premiere) Baklava is a charming autobiographical fire fighter Dan White. The Times of Harvey Milk recre- documentary exploring the filmmaker’s family tradition ates the tumultuous story of Milk’s grass-roots politi- of preparing the scrumptious Greek pastry.Catharine Garte- cal organizing and election, through the shocking mur- los is a graduate student in the department of Journalism ders and their repercussions. This classic portrait of and Mass Communication at UW-Madison. A Student Com- Thirteen communities in conflict has won countless awards, petition Entry. Conversations including the Academy Award for best documentary Evermor, Forevermor About One Thing feature, and was voted one of the two best documen- Documentary Short > USA > 2001 > 13 min > Color taries of the decade in an American Film Magazine crit- SPONSOR > WUD Film Committee, IFVC LANGUAGE > Eng- ics’ poll. This UCLA Film and Tele- lish FORMAT > Mini DV PRODUCTION COMPANY > Pointy Kit- vision archive restoration of The ty Studios DIRECTOR > Alyska Bailey PRODUCER > Michael The Subliminal Effects Times of Harvey Milk allows it to be Forster Rothbart, Jeff Snyder CAST > Doc Evermor, Eleanor of Natural Form seen for the first time in 35mm Dol- Every, Gail Lamberty, Jesse Lirola, John Petito Please see WISCONSIN SHORTS II. by stereo. A portrait of the sculptor and myth-maker Doc Evermor, Superhero — JOE BERES this film takes the viewer on a tour of his awesome art park SCREENINGS The Times of Harvey Milk off of Highway 12, a whimsical fantasyland where imagi- Please see THE VIEW FROM HERE: A POETIC RESPONSE TO THE ATTACKS ON THE WORLD TRADE CENTER. > Sun, Apr 7 > 7:30 pm > 1h30 > Cinema- nation truly has no bounds. Alyska Bailey is a recent grad- theque > ORDER CODE: KIL > SPON- uate of the UW-Madison film program. A Student Compe- Supermax Wisconsin SOR > Academy of Motion Picture Arts tition entry. Please see STUDENT SHORTS II: MIDWESTERN LIFE. and Sciences Friday Fry-Day Swing To the Workers of the World Documentary Short > USA > 2001 > 11 min > Color Please see WISCONSIN SHORTS I. Please see SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH: SPONSOR > WUD Film Committee, IFVC LANGUAGE > Eng- EYEWITNESSES. FORMAT > DIRECTOR > That’s My Face (É Minha Cara) lish Mini DV Amanda Dosch, Jim Fet- To Travel Fleeting Points zer, Natasa Plecas, Melissa S. Wollering Documentary Feature > USA > 2001 > 56 min > Color and B/W A mouth-watering look at Wisconsin’s most distinctive culi- PART OF THE SERIES > Documentary in Trine nary tradition, Friday Fry-Day explores the history,tradi- LANGUAGE > English FORMAT > 35mm PRODUCTION COM- Please see WISCONSIN SHORTS II. tions, and folklore of the Friday Fish Fry.The filmmakers PANY > Chimpanzee Productions DIRECTOR > Thomas Allen That’s My Face (É Minha Cara) Tornado are all either recent graduates of or students in the UW- Harris PRODUCER > Thomas Allen Harris, Yvonne Welbon, Please see SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH: Madison Communication Arts department. A Student Com- Sasha Dees SCREENPLAY BY > Thomas Allen Harris, Don EYEWITNESSES. petition entry. Perry Thirteen Conversations Milw. (Wisconsin Premiere) Inspired by his grandfather’s 8mm About One Thing Trembling Before G-d Experimental Short > USA > 2001 > 4 min > B/W home movies, a black filmmaker sets out on a spiritu- Documentary Feature > USA > 2000 > 84 min > Color PART al journey to discover the mythic face of Africa in the Narrative Feature > USA > 2001 > 102 min > Color PART OF SPONSOR > WUD Film Committee, IFVC FORMAT > Mini DV THE SERIES > American Cinema, Premieres OF THE SERIES > Documentary, Premieres DIRECTOR > Americas. His search leads him from the Bronx to Burk- Aaron Kraft FORMAT > 35mm, 1.85 PRODUCTION COMPANY > Stonelock LANGUAGE > In English, Hebrew and Yiddish with English ina Faso, Tanzania, and ultimately,Brazil. Shot entire- (Madison Premiere) A stark and at once stunning portrait Pictures DIRECTOR > Jill Sprecher PRODUCER > Ben Atoori, subtitles FORMAT > 35mm, 1.66 PRODUCTION COMPA- of Milwaukee. Aaron Kraft is a student in the UW-Milwau- ly on Super 8mm film, That’s My Face employs an inno- Gina Resnick EXECUTIVE PRODUCER > Michael Stipe, Sandy NY > Cinephil, Keshet Broadcasting, Pretty Pictures, Sim- kee film department. A Student Competition Entry. vative sound design that incorporates rap and hip hop Stern, Doug Mankoff, Andrew Spaulding, Peter Wetherell cha Leib Productions, Turbulent Arts DIRECTOR > Sandi Sala strategies of multi-voice sampling. “Astoundingly beau- SCREENPLAY BY > Karen Sprecher, Jill Sprecher CAST > Simcha DuBowski PRODUCER > Sandi Simcha DuBowski, Marc Smolowitz, James Velaise, Philippa Korwarsky Documentary Short > USA > 2001 > 10 min > Color tiful and epic in scope, É Minha Cara/That’s My Face is Matthew McConaughey, John Turturro, Clea DuVall, Amy Irv- SPONSOR > WUD Film Committee, IFVC LANGUAGE > In Thai a personal documentary offering an entire generation ing, Alan Arkin (Madison Premiere) This unprecedented documentary and English with English subtitles FORMAT > Mini DV DIREC- of African-Americans a groundbreaking perspective (Midwest Premiere) This beautifully realized second about Hasidic and Orthodox Jews who “come out” as TOR > Jonathan Frome, Amanda R. Irwin, Alyska Bailey on the maddening diasporic search for a mythical moth- feature from writer/director Jill Sprecher and co-writer lesbians and gays shatters assumptions about faith, PRODUCER > Jonathan Frome, Amanda R. Irwin, Alyska erland.”—Shari Frilot, Sundance Film Festival. Win- (and sister) Karen Sprecher (Clockwatchers) weaves sexuality and religious fundamentalism. Filmmaker Bailey ner,Prize of the Ecumenical Jury,2002 Berlin Film Fes- together the lives of five New Yorkers trying to solve Sandi Simcha Dubowski captures amazingly intimate This beautifully shot documentary explores the donation tival. Official Selection, 2002 Sundance and 2001 Toron- the puzzle of happiness. From a pessimistic insurance and heartbreaking stories of people who struggle to rec- and construction of the Thai Pavillion at Olbrich Gardens, to Film Festivals. claims manager (Alan Arkin) to a moody physics pro- oncile their sexual orientation with their deep com- UW-Madison. The filmmakers are UW-Madison students — SANDY LUCAS SCREENINGS That’s My Face > Thu, Apr 4 > 7:30pm > 1h30 > fessor (John Turturro) and his soon-to-be-jilted wife mitment to a religious tradition that condemns them in the Communication Arts department. A Student Com- (Amy Irving), a successful and cocky attorney (Matthew petition entry. Play Circle > ORDER CODE: EM1 > Filmmaker Thomas Allen because of whom they love. Shot over five years in Harris in person. That’s My Face > Sat, Apr 6 > 1:00pm > 1h30 McConaughey), and a principled young cleaning Brooklyn, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Mia- The Mullet > Play Circle > ORDER CODE: EM2 > Filmmaker Thomas Allen woman (Clea DuVall), these characters’ interlocking mi and London, Trembling Before G-d is remarkable for Documentary Short > USA > 2001 > 13 min > Color and B/W Harris in person. stories suggest that what seems to be fate is actually a its courage and compassion, exploring issues of glob- SPONSOR > WUD Film Committee, IFVC LANGUAGE > Eng- product of conscious choice, even in the smallest lish FORMAT > Mini DV DIRECTOR > Jesse Johnson, Paco al significance through a deeply personal and com- moments of life.Jill Sprecher elicits sterling perfor- Bertsch, Erik Figi SCREENPLAY BY > Jesse Johnson, Paco Supermax pelling lens. “[A] transcendent film that speaks to every- Bertsch, Erik Figi Wisconsin mances from this top-notch ensemble—several cast sur- one who has experienced being an outsider.”—Jim This zany,tongue-in-cheek documentary explores the mys- prisingly against type. The Sprechers’ intricate script Fouratt, LGNY. “We were blown away by . . . Trembling tery and wonders of the much-criticized 80s hairstyle. All moves fluidly between situations and across time to Before G-d, a devastating and nuanced portrayal.”— three filmmakers are Wisconsin residents and UW-Madi- reveal ironic connections between characters, places Planet Out. “It’s amazing that the filmmaker got access son students. A Student Competition entry. and seemingly inconsequential actions. Scenes of New to this hidden world—one he explores with lyricism Supermax Wisconsin York streets and rooms unfold as deeply-hued dream- and insight.”—David Ansen, Newsweek.com. scapes, with each precisely composed shot suggesting Documentary Short > USA > 2001 > 27 min > Color — MARY CARBINE SPONSOR > WUD Film Committee, IFVC LANGUAGE > Eng- a mysterious order behind the vagaries of everyday life. Print courtesy of New Yorker Films. lish FORMAT > Mini DV DIRECTOR > Joshua Moise PRODUC- With its dazzling narrative architecture, superb acting SCREENINGS Trembling Before G-d > Sun, Apr 7 > 3:00pm ER > Jude Javier, Joshua Moise and emotionally literate sensibility, Thirteen Conver- > 2h30 > Majestic > ORDER CODE: TBG > Introduction by This powerful exploration of Wisconsin’s highest-security sations About One Thing is a film that satisfies on every Janice Simsohn, Program Director, Temple Beth El, with prison includes interviews with a former inmate, politi- level. “An unforgettable film to be savored for its wis- facilitated audience discussion to follow screening. SPON- cians, and Boscobel community members. Joshua Moise dom, style and depth.”—Caroline Libresco, 2001 Sun- SOR > Temple Beth El, Hillel, Beth Israel Center, Madison and Jude Javier are recent graduates of the UW-Madison dance Film Festival. Rated: R Filmmakers Jill and Jewish Community Council Communication Arts department. A Student Competition Karen Sprecher grew up in Madison and earned degrees entry. Tribute 9.11 from UW-Madison. — MARY CARBINE SCREENINGS Student Shorts Program II: Midwestern Life > Please see SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH: EYEWITNESSES. Sat, Apr 6 > 11:00am > 1h45 > Play Circle > ORDER CODE: SS2 Print courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics. > With filmmakers Alyska Bailey, Paco Bertsch, Jim Fetzer, Erik SCREENINGS Thirteen Conversations About One Thing > Venus de Milo Figi, Michael Forster Rothbart, Catherine Gartelos, Aman- Thu, Apr 4 > 7:00pm > 2h00 > Orpheum - Main > ORDER Please see ART AND COMMUNITY IN WISCONSIN. da Irwin, Jude Javier, Jesse Johnson, Aaron Kraft, Joshua CODE: 13C > Director/writer Jill Sprecher and writer Karen Moise, Natasa Plecas and Melissa Wollering in person. Sprecher in person. 16 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • APRIL 4-7, 2002 • MADISON • WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM Films: AAA—AAA

waydowntown The View From Here: The son becomes fixated on a woman who is moving to A Poetic Response to the Paris, with whom he had a brief encounter when selling a watch. In an attempt to bridge the miles between them, Attacks on the World Trade Center the young man compulsively begins to set Tapei clocks Documentary Short > USA > 2002 > 44 min > PART OF THE to Paris time. Tsai weaves a meticulous and affecting SERIES > Documentary FORMAT > Beta SP enigma with an unexpectedly poetic ending. “Darkly (World Premiere) This installation-style program curat- comic . . . bewitching . . . and as bizarre as almost any- ed by filmmaker Pola Rapaport, is a companion piece to thing you’ll see this year.”—Mike Wilmington, Chicago “September Eleventh: Eyewitnesses.” It includes addi- Tribune. “Intricate. Inventive. Tsai Ming-liang’s most tional short films in which the events of September exciting and original feature to date.”—Jonathan Rosen- eleventh and their aftermath were documented by film- baum, Chicago Reader. makers living within two to three mile of the former — MARY CARBINE World Trade Center in New York. Some pieces are works Print courtesy of Wellspring Media. in progress, completed just before showing at this fes- SCREENINGS What Time Is It There? > Fri, Apr 5 > 7:00pm > 2h00 > Cinematheque > ORDER CODE: WHT > tival. — MARY CARBINE September, 2001 - NYC When Two Won’t Do Documentary Short > USA > 2002 > 8 min Documentary Feature > Canada > 2001 > 90 min > Color FORMAT > Beta SP DIRECTOR > Eliza Gagnon PART OF THE SERIES > Documentary This film records scenes in downtown Manhattan on Sep- FORMAT > Beta SP PRODUCTION COMPANY > Galafilm, Pic- ture This Productions DIRECTOR > David Finch, Maureen tember 11th and the days after—the shock of witnessing Marovitch PRODUCER > Arnie Gelbart, Richard Elson, David the attacks from a back window on a beautiful morning, Finch, Maureen Marovitch SCREENPLAY BY > Maureen the awful cloud over the city,the unfamiliarity of check- Marovitch points and military vehicles on empty streets, the sounds of (US Premiere) Maureen Marovitch and David Finch are cellphone conversations and 24-hour news coverage, a young Superhero woman’s impromptu gospel song addressed to the hijackers, lovers. They are also filmmakers. Sometimes, they see Documentary Short > USA > 2002 > 9 min > Color people leaving town, people gathering, praying, looking. things a bit differently.So far, what’s new? Quite a lot, FORMAT > Beta SP DIRECTOR > Laure Sullivan, Paul Wilson actually,in this frank and engaging Canadian docu- September 11th A short film that uses the voices of children who attend mentary about polyamory,i.e. multipartner relation- Documentary Short > USA > 2002 > 5 min Independence School (P.S.234), at Ground Zero, to tell the sto- ships, in which Marovitch and Finch turn the camera FORMAT > Beta SP DIRECTOR > Yael Bitton ry of a boy who dreams of being a super hero and of helping on themselves, their lovers, and other non-mono- This four-minutes film was shot one hour after the towers to put right all that was broken in the attacks of September gamists. Maureen believes in polyamory,the philoso- collapsed. It juxtaposes images of people’s faces in the street, 11. phy of simultaneously and openly loving more than one friend’s faces facing the images of the disaster,and images SCREENINGS The View From Here: A Poetic Response to the Waterboys person. And that’s just a little too much togetherness of smoke. It expresses the incomprehensibility of facing Attacks on the World Trade Center > Sun, Apr 7 > 1:00pm for David, who wants Maureen to break up with her such an event on such a scale, and creates a language that > 4h00 > Madison Art Center - Auditorium, 3rd Floor > PRICE can talk to the event outside of binary statements, positions NOTE > Free This forty-minute program will play in a con- waydowntown two other lovers and settle down with him. Just him. and opinions. Text by of Edward Bond appears as a com- tinuous loop between 1 and 5 pm. Narrative Feature > Canada > 2000 > 83 min > Color PART Marovitch and Finch work through their differences OF THE SERIES > Contemporary World Cinema, Premieres mentary at the bottom of the screen to places the issues on by making a film about their relationship, with star- a more philosophical level. Music composed by Anthony War Memories (Kippour: Souvenirs de guèrre) FORMAT > 35mm, 1.85 PRODUCTION COMPANY > Burns Films tling matter-of-factness and good humor.After a journey Ltd. DIRECTOR > Gary Burns PRODUCER > Shirley Vercruysse Coleman and Roy Nathanson add emotional texture to the Documentary Feature > Israel, France > 1994 > 104 min > across North America,—swingers, pagans, group fam- SCREENPLAY BY > Gary Burns, James Martin CAST > Fab- void that we were all left with in the aftermath of that par- Color PART OF THE SERIES > Amos Gitaï: Images of Exile, ilies, and a Loving More Polyamory Convention—the Documentary rizio Filippo, Don McKellar, Marya Delver, Tammy Isbell, ticular Tuesday. Gordon Currie, Tobias Godson film finds its core in the filmmakers’ shared house in LANGUAGE > In Hebrew and English with English subtitles. Montreal, where David sleeps downstairs whenever from chaos comes grace FORMAT > Beta SP PRODUCTION COMPANY > Agav Hafakot, (Midwest Premiere) In the fluorescent world of inter- Maureen’s lovers come to stay.As Maureen’s experi- Documentary Short > USA > 2002 > 15 min > Color ARTE France DIRECTOR > Amos Gitaï PRODUCER > Laurent connected office buildings, apartment complexes and ments lead her into a relationship with a married man FORMAT > Beta SP DIRECTOR > Cheryl Dunn Truchot SCREENPLAY BY > Amos Gitaï mall food courts, four young office workers have staked and his unstable wife (who live in Wisconsin), a devas- With footage beginning moments after the first attack on (Wisconsin Premiere) This bold, two-part documentary a month’s salary to wager who can stay indoors the tating crisis forces everyone involved to confront the the World Trade Center, from chaos comes grace is a call and served as something of a study film for Kippur but also longest. By noon on day 24, everyone pretty much difficult realities of polyamory.“Fascinating . . . illu- response chronology of human movements, action and reac- stands by itself as a major achievement in Gitaï’s career. reached the breaking point. By the end of lunch, all bets minating, emotionally charged, [and] sometimes jaw- tion. From the exodus from downtown Manhattan to the Gitaï and members of his family meet up with the men are off in this kinetic, wickedly funny commentary on dropping.”—Elan Mastai, Vancouver Film Festival. days and weeks following, what people do, their grace with still living in Israel who were shot down with him dur- the emptiness of modern mall life and corporate cul- grief and also personal motivation compile a take on things ing the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Later, Gitaï travels ture. Shooting on digital video, director Gary Burns — MARY CARBINE in a city wholly changed. SCREENINGS When Two Won’t Do > Thu, Apr 4 > 9:30pm > halfway across the world, to California, to spend some (Suburbanators, Kitchen Party) constructs a sickly lumi- Searching for Sense time with his old friend Uzi, the man upon whom the 2h00 > Bartell - Drury > ORDER CODE: WT1 > With filmmakers nous zone of glass-enclosed elevator shafts and trans- Maureen Marovitch and David Finch in person. When Two Documentary Short > USA > 2002 > 7 min character Ruso is based in Kippur. — RAY PRIVETT parent office walls that mocks freedom of choice Won’t Do > Sat, Apr 6 > 10:30 pm > 2h00 > Bartell - Drury FORMAT > Beta SP DIRECTOR > Katja Esson SCREENINGS War Memories > Sun, Apr 7 > 5:00pm through consumer culture.“A cogent yet hilarious > ORDER CODE: WT2 > With filmmakers Maureen Marovitch After September 11th, the artist community in New York > 2h00 > Cinematheque > ORDER CODE: WAR > Introduc- indictment of our soul-destroying urban existence.”— and David Finch in person. was looking for a way to go on. A painting performance of tion by guest curator Ray Privett. SPONSOR > Conney Fam- Barbara Goslawski, BoxOffice Magazine. “You would- a large mural was held by the artist Sandra Spannan, accom- ily Fund, UW-Madison Center for Jewish Studies n’t want to live waydowntown, but it is a hilarious place Wisconsin Shorts I panied by musicians, singers, and the voices of emails. Like to visit.”—Pam Grady,Reel.com. Winner,Best Canadi- Short > USA > 72 min > PART OF THE SERIES > Wisconsin’s Waterboys Own Filmmakers the mural, the film searches for sense and hope. an Feature, Toronto International Film Festival 2000. Narrative Feature > Japan > 2001 > 90 min > Color PART SPONSOR > Wisconsin Film Office FORMAT > Mini DV, 16mm Rating: R OF THE SERIES > Contemporary World Cinema — MARY CARBINE Animated, documentary,narrative and experimental LANGUAGE > In Japanese with English subtitles FOR- Print courtesy of Lot 47 Films. shorts by Wisconsin filmmakers in competition. When Two Won’t Do MAT > 35mm, 1.85 PRODUCTION COMPANY > Altamira Pic- SCREENINGS waydowntown > Sat, Apr 6 > 10:15pm > 2h00 > — MARY CARBINE tures DIRECTOR > Shinobu Yaguchi PRODUCER > Akifumi Orpheum - Stage Door > ORDER CODE: wdt > Filmmaker Takuma, Daiske Sekiguchi EXECUTIVE PRODUCER > Shoji Gary Burns in person. Everyone’s a Hypocrite Masui SCREENPLAY BY > Shinobu Yaguchi CAST > Satoshi Animated Short > USA > 2000 > 1 min > B/W Tsumabuki, Hiroshi Tamaki, Akifumi Miura, Kuen Kondo, What Time Is It There? (Ni Neibian Jidian) SPONSOR > Wisconsin Film Office FORMAT > Beta SP DIREC- Naoto Takenaka Narrative Feature > Taiwan, France > 2001 > 116 min > Color TOR > Nathan Theis (Wisconsin Premiere) When a pretty new swim coach PART OF THE SERIES > Contemporary World Cinema, Pre- (Midwest Premiere) Six humorous vignettes of hypocrisy, shows up at Tadano High School hoping to form a syn- mieres enlightenment and the final judgment day—all in just one chronized swim team, she is faced with a harsh reality: LANGUAGE > In Mandarin with English subtitles FOR- minute. Middleton filmmaker Nathan Theis received a Tadano is an all-boys school. Though five adorable boys MAT > 35mm, 1.85 PRODUCTION COMPANY > Arena Films, B.F.A.in Film and Two-Dimensional Animation from Savan- (who all happen to be terribly bad swimmers) are up to Homegreen Films DIRECTOR > Tsai Ming-liang PRODUC- nah College of Art and Design. A Wisconsin’s Own Com- ER > Bruno Pesery SCREENPLAY BY > Tsai Ming-Liang, Yang petition Entry. the task, their early efforts end in disaster.But with the Pi-Ying CAST > Lee Kang-sheng, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chen help of a dolphin trainer and other creative methods of Shiang-chyi, Lu Yi-ching, Miao Tien Please Do Not Feed the Humans practice, they eventually pull through. The result is an (Madison Premiere) This latest film from Malaysian- Animated Short > USA > 2001 > 3 min > Color unapologetically wacky,over-the-top comedy that deliv- born Taiwanese auteur Tsai Ming-liang had its world SPONSOR > Wisconsin Film Office LANGUAGE > English FOR- ers big laughs from the opening credits right through premiere at the Cannes International Film Festival. MAT > Beta SP DIRECTOR > Nathan Theis the stunning, show-stopping musical finale. Writer/ Tsai has been praised since his 1992 directorial debut (World Premiere) This beautifully hand-drawn animated Director Shinobu Yaguchi (Adrenaline Drive) riddles (Rebels of the Neon God) for his unconventional story- short shows us visitors to the zoo—but not from the usual the film with homoerotic subtext, but you might be too telling and social commentary.Shot in Taipei and Paris, perspective. A Wisconsin’s Own Competition Entry. doubled over in laughter to notice. Official Selection, Tsai’s fifth feature film, What Time Is it There? features Bob the Slob 2001 Toronto Film Festival. — SANDY LUCAS the protagonist of all Tsai’s films, Lee Kang-Sheng and Narrative Short > USA > 2001 > 12 min > Color SCREENINGS Waterboys > Sat, Apr 6 > 9:00pm > 1h30 > Play Francois Truffaut’s alter ego Jean-Pierre Léaud (The SPONSOR > Wisconsin Film Office FORMAT > Beta SP DIREC- Circle > ORDER CODE: WB1 > Campus late night movies made Four Hundred Blows). A young man sells watches on TOR > Nathan Theis CAST > Russ Wilson possible in part by The RWJ Project, The Chancellor’s Office the streets of Taipei. When his father suddenly dies, his (Midwest Premiere) A school bus driver endures the typi- and the Wisconsin Union at the UW-Madison. Waterboys > mother becomes consumed with thoughts of reincar- cal jibes and pranks from his daily passengers—but only Sun, Apr 7 > 3:15pm > 1h30 > Play Circle > ORDER CODE: for so long. A Wisconsin’s Own Competition entry. 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Claudette Who? The Cufflink search of the perfect beach, the trio embark on a Documentary Short > USA > 2001 > 6 min > Color Narrative Short > USA > 2001 > 9 min > Color provocative—and sometimes poignant—journey of self- SPONSOR > Wisconsin Film Office LANGUAGE > English FOR- FORMAT > 16mm DIRECTOR > Stephen Williams PRODUC- discovery and sexual experimentation. “Riotously fun- MAT > Mini DV PRODUCTION COMPANY > University of Wis- ER > Stephen Williams SCREENPLAY BY > Stephen Williams ny . . . one of the few genuinely sexy films I’ve seen in consin-Milwaukee Film Department, Milwaukee Public CAST > Anne Cullimore Decker, Tony Larimer, Anne Stew- years.”—Peter Brunette, IndieWIRE. Winner, Best Schools, Hartford University School for Urban Explorations art Mark, Joan Mullaney, Matthew Klassen, David Spencer Screenplay,2001 Venice Film Festival. Nominee, Best DIRECTOR > Renato G. Umali (Wisconsin Premiere) This moving and finely acted short Foreign Language Film, 2002 Golden Globe Awards. (Madison Premiere) In this delightful history lesson, mem- drama portrays the emotional challenges of a woman — SANDY LUCAS bers of Hartford School’s 4th grade Room 20 interview sev- preparing to face her ex-husband at her grandson’s birth- Print courtesy of IFC Films. eral Milwaukee bus drivers about one of the unsung hero- day party.Lead actress Anne Cullimore Decker won the SCREENINGS Y tu mamá también > Sat, Apr 6 > 11:00pm > ines of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Director Renato Umali Best Acting award at the Eclipse Film Festival. Filmmaker 1h45 > Majestic > ORDER CODE: YTU > SPONSOR > Charter is a recent graduate of the UW-Milwaukee Film Depart- Stephen Williams in completing an MFA in Film Studies Communications, The Independent Film Channel ment. Concept, camera, sound, and editing also by (4th at University of Utah. graders) Earnest Bolden, Jr., Eddy Burch, Jared Derksen, The Book and the Rose Alonzo Dorsey,Jasper Hanson, and Romone McKnuckles. Narrative Short > USA > 2001 > 29 min > Color A Wisconsin’s Own Competition entry. Swing FORMAT > 35mm, 1.85 PRODUCTION COMPANY > Charter- Cat Lady crest Films DIRECTOR > Jeff Bemiss PRODUCER > Eric Kmetz, Narrative Short > USA > 2001 > 10 min > Color Aüs Blue Ron Forsythe SCREENPLAY BY > Jeff Bemiss CAST > Chris SPONSOR > Wisconsin Film Office LANGUAGE > English Experimental Short > USA > 2001 > 5 min > Color Kennedy, Patrick Tuttle, Carey Lessard, Kimmin O’Don- DIRECTOR > Liesel de Boor PRODUCER > David Elvin SCREEN- SPONSOR > Wisconsin Film Office FORMAT > Mini DV PRO- nell, Elaine Fabyanic, James Walker PLAYBY> Liesel de Boor CAST > Irma St. Paule, Brian Delate, DUCTION COMPANY > DV-Cinema DIRECTOR > Pixelflex (Wisconsin Premiere) Set in 1942, this beautifully pho- Isabelle McTwigan, Smoke (Wisconsin Premiere) This film takes its inspiration from tographed romantic drama is based on the popular short (Wisconsin Premiere) WWII. A cat was called to serve his DJ culture and the concepts of sampling and remixing. The story by Max Lucado. When John Barnes (Chris Kennedy) country.And he was brave, loyal and true. Or so the story filmmaker used his camera and a DAT recorder to capture acquires an old book filled with intriguing handwritten goes, as recalled by “Cat Lady” Irma St. Paule in this play- the original footage and then mixed the images into a visu- notes, he begins a correspondence with its previous owner, ful short with wonderfully inventive set design. Filmmak- al and aural song. which promises to be more than just an exchange of letters. er Liesel de Boor grew up in Madison and recently gradu- To Travel Fleeting Points in Trine Lead actor Chris Kennedy was born in Waunakee and grad- ated from the masters directing program at Columbia Uni- uated from the UW-Madison, where he played on the 1994 Experimental Short > USA > 2001 > Color versity.A Wisconsin’s Own Competition entry. Rose Bowl Championship Badger Football Team. FORMAT > Mini DV DIRECTOR > Chad McClure Swing SCREENINGS Wisconsin Shorts III > Sat, Apr 6 > 3:30pm (World Premiere) Personal documentary footage, digitally > 1h30 > Cinematheque > ORDER CODE: WS3 > Filmmakers Animated Short > USA > 2001 > 4 min > Color processed on a home computer,shows the passage from day Bill Basquin, Jeff Bemiss, and lead actor Chris Kennedy SPONSOR > Wisconsin Film Office LANGUAGE > English FOR- into night in three parts. Madison filmmaker Chad McClure (The Book and the Rose) in person. Y tu MAT > Beta SP DIRECTOR > Tim Granberg grew up in Green Bay and studied Communication Arts mamá también (Midwest Premiere) A man searches for a childhood mem- and Accounting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Wisconsin’s Own Competition (And Your ory in this winsome animated short. Animator Tim A Wisconsin’s Own Competition Entry. Winners: Documentary Mother Too) Granberg is a native of Menasha, WI, who now works in The Deer and the Antelope Documentary Feature, Documentary Short > USA PART Los Angeles. Swing has been shown at the Breckenridge Experimental Short, Documentary Short > USA > 2001 > OF THE SERIES > Wisconsin’s Own Filmmakers Festival of Film and the Los Angeles Short Film Festival. A 17 min > Color Screening of the Winner(s) of the Wisconsin’s Own Wisconsin’s Own Competition entry. SPONSOR > Wisconsin Film Office LANGUAGE > English FOR- Competition in the Documentary category.Winners Yellow Asphalt (Asphalt Zahov) The Golden Smile MAT > Mini DV DIRECTOR > Jack Cronin announced Saturday evening of the Festival. Narrative Feature > Israel > 2000 > 87 min > Color PART OF Narrative Short > USA > 2001 > 19 min > Color (World Premiere) This personal documentary about the film- SCREENINGS Wisconsin’s Own Competition Winners: Doc- THE SERIES > Contemporary World Cinema, Premieres SPONSOR > Wisconsin Film Office LANGUAGE > English PRO- maker’s parents, Burton and Carla Cronin, combines inter- umentary > Sun, Apr 7 > 3:00pm > 1h30 > Orpheum - Stage LANGUAGE > In Hebrew and Arabic with English subtitles DUCTION COMPANY > Hat Rack Productions DIRECTOR > views and home movies to explore memory,history,and Door > ORDER CODE: WW2 SPONSOR > Wisconsin Film FORMAT > 35mm, 1.66 DIRECTOR > Danny Vereté PRODUC- Andreas Burgess PRODUCER > Mary Robertson SCREEN- Office family.Filmmaker Jack Cronin studied filmmaking at East- ER > Danny Vereté SCREENPLAY BY > Danny Vereté PLAYBY> Andreas Burgess CAST > Brian Allnutt, John ern Michigan University and UW-Milwaukee, where he Basinger, Joe Reed, Reno Venturi, Dick Burgess, Jim McBride CAST > Sami Samir, Tatjana Blacher, Raida Adon, Motti Katz, now teaches. A Wisconsin’s Own Competition entry. Wisconsin’s Own Competition Abed Zuabi, Hagit Keler (Midwest Premiere) After seeing a puppet show operetta, a Laid Out Winners: Experimental and Shorts (Midwest Premiere) At the edge of modern Israel and young boy becomes obsessed with the protagonist, a curi- Experimental Short, Short > USA PART OF THE SERIES Documentary Short > USA > 2001 > 24 min > Color the Bedouin way of life, three dramatic encounters ous 3rd-century saint, and eventually performs a bizzare > Wisconsin’s Own Filmmakers SPONSOR > Wisconsin Film Office LANGUAGE > English FOR- between two very different societies set the stage for re-enactment of her life. Filmmaker Andreas Burgess grew Screening of the Winner(s) of the Wisconsin’s Own Com- up in Madison and attended Wesleyan Univesity.Puppetry MAT > Mini DV PRODUCTION COMPANY > Emotion Media, Yellow Asphalt: the tragic death of a Bedouin boy on LLC DIRECTOR > Thomas V. Grable PRODUCER > Thomas petition in the Shorts and Experimental categories. by Judah-Lev Dickstein, Adam Fisher and Ben Simington. the asphalt road cutting the desert in two; the impossi- V. Grable, Doug Whyte Winners announced Saturday evening of the Festival. A Wisconsin’s Own Competition entry. ble marriage between a German woman and her (Madison Premiere) This accomplished short documentary SCREENINGS Wisconsin’s Own Competition Winners: Exper- Bedouin husband; and the forbidden love affair of a The Bear Garden imental and Shorts > Sun, Apr 7 > 1:00pm > 1h00 > Cine- employs a striking visual style to present a portrait of Bedouin maid and her Israeli employer.Shot over sev- Experimental Short > USA > 2000 > 17 min > Color SPON- matheque > ORDER CODE: WW1 > SPONSOR > Wisconsin Film Ronald L. Jones, a flamboyant funeral director and self-pro- en years, entirely on location in the Judean desert, Yel- SOR > Wisconsin Film Office LANGUAGE > English DIREC- claimed “champion of the poor people” in urban St. Louis. Office TOR > Andrea Leuteneker low Asphalt was made by Israeli director Danny Vereté Filmmaker Tom Grable earned a degree in film from UW- Wisconsin’s Own (Madison Premiere) This visually rich and inventive short Milwaukee and makes documentaries and commercial pro- with the participation of the Beduoin tribe Jahalin. (painted, optically re-printed, and otherwise hand-manip- jects in Wisconsin. A Wisconsin’s Own Competition entry. Competition Winners: Feature Winner,Best Israeli Film, Haifa International Film Fes- ulated) is a meditation on historical trauma. The Bear Gar- Narrative Feature > USA > PART OF THE SERIES > Wiscon- tival, 2000, and an official selection of the New York, den has been exhibited at festivals including the Seattle Tiger Show sin’s Own Filmmakers Rotterdam and Edinburgh Film Festivals. Documentary Short > USA > 2001 > 20 min > Color Underground Film Festival and Dresden Filmfest. Film- Screening of the Winner(s) of the Wisconsin’s Own Com- Print courtesy of New Yorker Films. — MARY CARBINE maker Andrea Leuteneker was born in Germany and cur- SPONSOR > Wisconsin Film Office FORMAT > Mini DV DIREC- petition in the Feature category.Winners announced TOR > Nate Gubin PRODUCER > Tom Grable SCREENINGS Yellow Asphalt > Sat, Apr 6 > 1:15pm > rently works at the Film Department at UW-Milwaukee. A Saturday evening of the Festival. (World Premiere) In a fascinating look at a small-town Wis- 1h30 > Orpheum - Main > ORDER CODE: YLA > Wisconsin’s Own Competition entry. SCREENINGS Wisconsin’s Own Competition Winners: Fea- consin attraction, an elderly couple struggle to keep their SCREENINGS Wisconsin Shorts I > Thu, Apr 4 > 9:30pm ture > Sun, Apr 7 > 5:00pm > 2h00 > Orpheum - Stage You Shoot, I Shoot (Mai hung pak yang) roadside zoo and circus alive in Aniwa. Filmmaker Nate > 2h00 > Cinematheque > ORDER CODE: WSI > Filmmakers Door > ORDER CODE: WW3 > SPONSOR > Wisconsin Film Narrative Feature > Hong Kong > 2001 > 94 min > Color Andrea Leuteneker, Nathan Theis, Liesel de Boor, Renato Gubin lives in Milwaukee. Office PART OF THE SERIES > After Dark Umali, Tim Granberg and Andreas Burgess in person. Cam- SCREENINGS Wisconsin Shorts II > Fri, Apr 5 > 9:30pm LANGUAGE > In Cantonese, Japanese and Mandarin with pus late night movies made possible in part by The RWJ Pro- > 2h00 > Bartell - Drury > ORDER CODE: WS2 > With film- Y tu mamá también English subtitles FORMAT > 35mm, 1.85 PRODUCTION COM- ject, The Chancellor’s Office and the Wisconsin Union at the makes Jack Cronin, Thomas Grable, Nate Gubin, Jacob (And Your Mother Too) PANY > Golden Harvest Entertainment, Linksun Interna- UW-Madison. Lee, Brian Dehler (a.k.a. Pixelflex), and Chad McClure in Narrative Feature > Mexico > 2001 > 105 min > Color tional DIRECTOR > Edmond Pang PRODUCER > Raymond person. SPONSOR > Wisconsin Film Office Wisconsin Shorts II PART OF THE SERIES > Contemporary World Cinema, Pre- Chow, Gin Lau EXECUTIVE PRODUCER > Vincent Kuk, mieres Edmond Pang SCREENPLAY BY > Vincent Kuk CAST > Eric Short > USA > 78 min > PART OF THE SERIES > Wisconsin’s Wisconsin Shorts III LANGUAGE > In Spanish with English subtitles FOR- Kot, Cheung Tat-ming, Audrey Fong, Miao Feilin, Asuka Own Filmmakers, Experimental and New Media SPON- Narrative Short > USA > 50 min PART OF THE SERIES > Wis- Higuchi, Chan Fai-hung SOR > Wisconsin Film Office FORMAT > Mini DV, Beta SP consin’s Own Filmmakers FORMAT > 16mm, 35mm MAT > 35mm, 1.85 PRODUCTION COMPANY > Anhelo Pro- ducciones , Besame Mucho Pictures DIRECTOR > Alfonso (US Premiere) What’s an unemployed assassin to do? Narative shorts by Wisconsin and other filmmakers. Experimental and documentary shorts by Wisconsin Cuarón PRODUCER > Alfonso Cuarón, Jorge Vergara EXEC- Step up the marketing campaign, of course. Hong Kong filmmakers in competition and other filmmakers. — MARY CARBINE UTIVE PRODUCER > Sergio Aguero, Amy Kaufman, David cult comedian/filmmaker Eric Kot plays the hitman — MARY CARBINE The Ride Linde, Sandra Solares SCREENPLAY BY > Alfonso Cuarón, who hires a geeky film student to document his career Carlos Cuarón CAST > Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, The Subliminal Effects of Natural Form Narrative Short > USA > 2000 > 9 min > Color high (or is it low?) points. The resulting docu-hits prove Diego Luna Experimental Short > USA > 2001 > 2 min FORMAT > 16mm PRODUCTION COMPANY > Eye of the Nee- successful with clients, but complications ensue when SPONSOR > Wisconsin Film Office LANGUAGE > English FOR- dle Productions DIRECTOR > Bill Basquin PRODUCER > Bill (Madison Premiere) With their girlfriends away on fam- the auteur-assassin duo is hired to ice—and film—a MAT > Mini DV DIRECTOR > Jacob Lee PRODUCER > Jacob Lee Basquin SCREENPLAY BY > Bill Basquin CAST > Cooper Lee ily vacations, two horny seventeen-year-old friends, punk who has been mistakenly targeted for revenge on (World Premiere) An experimental film about landscape Bombardier, Judith Williams, Mark Haggerty Julio (Gael García Bernal, Amores Perros) and Tenoch account of one of their jobs. “Stuffed with cinematic in- and emotion, shot in the South Dakota Badlands. Film- (Madison Premiere) A meditative short narrative and mum- (Diego Luna), look forward to a summer of casual sex, jokes and cameos by filmmakers (including former 70s maker Jacob Lee grew up in Blue River,WI, and now makes bled conversation piece about a small town cab driver and drugs, and other forms of debauchery.But when they sexpot Yum Yum Shaw) . . . shows a genuinely lunatic films and other art in Chicago. A Wisconsin’s Own Com- passenger, sexual suggestion, and emotional ambiguity. meet Luisa, the wife of Tenoch’s older cousin, their plan invention.”—Derek Elley, Variety. petition entry. Filmmaker Bill Basquin attended UW-Madison and now takes an unexpected detour, resulting in a somewhat — MARY CARBINE lives in San Francisco. spontaneous road trip through the lush and colorful SCREENINGS You Shoot, I Shoot > Fri, Apr 5 > 11:30pm landscape of Mexico. As they depart Mexico City in > 1h45 > Orpheum - Stage Door > ORDER CODE: YSI 18 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • APRIL 4-7, 2002 • MADISON • WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM Talks & Panels

That’s My Face: The Films watchers premiered at Sun- feature film and sitcom writer (NBC, Comedy Cen- of Thomas Allen Harris dance and went on to win top tral, FOX’s King of the Hill.) She also supervised the DATE/TIME > Thu, Apr 4 at 3:30pm, 1h30 honors at the Turin Film Fes- production marketing campaigns for features such > VENUE > Cinematheque > PRICE tival. A graduate of Madison’s as Golden Eye, The Bird Cage, Get Shorty, and Leav- NOTE > Free > SPONSOR > University Lec- Memorial High School and ing Las Vegas. She is one of the original members of tures Committee the University of Wisconsin- the Wisconsin Screenwriters Forum (LA Chapter). Regarded as black America’s preem- Madison, Sprecher received Alia Yunis (Co-Director and Producer) is a screen- inent documentary maker, Thomas her Masters in Cinema Stud- writer and journalist and has worked as a story ana- Allen Harris’s works have been featured ies from NYU. She got her lyst and for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and in over 200 international festivals, muse- start as a coordinator, pro- Science. She received the Warner Bros. national award ums, and galleries. His first documen- duction manager and line for comedy writing. Her one-act play,which she also tary feature, Vintage-Families of Value producer on projects such as directed, was selected by Women in Film to be per- (1995) won best documentary at the Enemies: A Love Story, Last formed at its annual showcase. Yunis was president of Atlanta International Film and Video Rites, Stonewall, and The Last the LA Chapter of the Wisconsin Screenwriters Forum Festival and a Golden Gate Award at the Good Time. Thirteen Conver- for several years. Matt Rader (Executive Producer) San Francisco International Film Fes- sations About One Thing most recently headed up entertainment productions tival. Vintage was also the first openly debuted at the Venice Inter- at Paradise Entertainment and Jesse & Bob Dylan’s gay feature to be selected for official com- national Film Festival and Destiny Productions. Rader has produced and devel- petition at the Pan-African Film Festi- screened at the recent Toron- oped projects with Universal, Paramount, Sony, val of Ougadougou, Burkina Faso. Join to and Sundance festivals. Columbia, Dreamworks, HBO, CBS, USA, Yahoo!, Thomas Allen Harris as he shares his Karen Sprecher (Writer) is a Ifilm, and SEGA and for Michael J. Fox, including body of work and discusses the inspira- licensed clinical social work- Fox’s return to TV,ABC’s Spin City. Rader was born tion behind his most recent feature, er who graduated from Me- and raised in Wisconsin. That’s My Face, a personal exploration of morial High School, attended Erik Moe and Peter Rudy (No Sleep ‘til Madison): the mythic African motherland. That’s the University of Wisconsin’s In addition to No Sleep ‘til Madison, Erik Moe’s screen- My Face, a staple on the festival circuit, Thomas Allen Harris will discuss his films, including That’s My Face. School of Business and play credits include American Monster (2001) and recently screened at Toronto, Sundance, received her Masters degree Wildlife, Incorporated (in production, 2002). Moe’s tele- and Berlin, and will screen at this festi- from New York University. vision writing credits include What’s Up, Peter Fuddy? val on Thursday and Saturday. Raised in the Bronx Shooting the Before entering the film (2001) for Studios USA and Fox, Starbase 13: Shel Fen- and Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania, Harris received his Independent Documentary business, she counseled teenagers and adults in inde- sky Remembers (1999) for Universal Television and B.A. from Harvard University and later attended the with Tamara Goldsworthy pendent living programs and community mental Fox, Applewood 911 (1998) for Brillstein/Grey and Fox, Whitney Museum of Art’s Independent Study Pro- health facilities in Chicago and New York. Karen has plus the Moe Chronicles (1997) for Comedy Central. DATE/TIME > Fri, Apr 5 at 5:00pm, 1h30 > VENUE > Play gram. He is Associate Professor of Media Arts at the worked as a production coordinator on independent Moe has also written two books, Tales of a Young Circle > PART OF THE SERIES > Insider > PRICE NOTE > Free features and other projects; she also co-wrote and co- University of California San Diego. His articles have > SPONSOR > Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sci- Urban Failure (Chronicle Books, 1996) and Return of appeared in publications such as The Village Voice, ences produced Clockwatchers. the Young Urban Failure (1997). Peter Rudy’s screen- The Independent, and OUTWEEK. Cinematographer Tamara Goldsworthy has built Scott Dikkers (E-Day!): Scott Dikkers is best known writing credits include No Sleep ‘til Madison, This her career shooting independent documentaries, as the former editor-in-chief of The Onion, a post Space Between Us (1999), starring Jeremy Sisto and including projects for HBO, the BBC, NBC, ABC, Dis- which has made him a number-one best-selling author Poppy Montgomery, and Road Kill (1997), starring Stephen Jarchow (for Our Dumb Century), and recipient of the 1999 Erik Palladino and Jennifer Rubin. His fiction writing & Regent Entertainment covery Channel, MSNBC, Burma Border Projects and various independent producers. Her credits include Thurber Prize for American Humor. He wrote and as earned several national honors, including the Nel- DATE/TIME > Fri, Apr 5 at 12:00pm, 1h15 > VENUE > Law Big Mama (2000), which won an Academy Award for directed the no-budget independent feature Space- son Algren Award (1997), First Place and Second Place School - Room 2260 > PART OF THE SERIES > Insider > Documentary Short Subject. Goldsworthy has worked man, which was recently released on video and DVD Awards from the Writers at Work Fellowship Com- PRICE NOTE > Free > SPONSOR > Academy of Motion Pic- by Palm Pictures. petition (1995, 1996), and the Hicks Prize for Fiction ture Arts and Sciences on a wide range of projects, with virtually every for- Thomas Allen Harris (É Minha Cara/That’s My (1987). Stephen P. Jarchow is the Chairman and CEO of mat (16mm, Super 16, 35mm, Hi Def, Mini DV) and Face): See “That’s My Face: The Films of Thomas Allen Panel Moderator: Peggy Williams is president of the Regent Entertainment, a full service motion picture camera (Arriflex, Panavision, and more). This infor- Harris,” Talk Program above, for the filmmaker bio. Wisconsin Screenwriters Forum. Her feature screen- studio. Raised in Wisconsin, Jarchow earned a law mal session offers an excellent opportunity for film- play Chinaware-Fragile, co-written with Christine degree and his CPA at the University of Wisconsin makers and filmgoers alike to get “behind the cam- Melanie Middien, Alia Yunis and Matt Rader (Man DeSmet and Bob Shill, won the 1998 Slamdance screen- Law School and School of Business, respec- era” with an experienced Director Hunt): Melanie Middien (Director and Producer) is a play competition and is in development at tively.In this talk, Jarchow will tell the sto- of Photography. Goldsworthy will New Line Cinema. A fellowship graduate of ry of how he built Regent Entertainment show clips from films she has shot, the Warner Bros. Comedy Writer’s Work- into a success, and share insights from speak to topics from the personal shop, Peggy teaches screenwriting for the over 20 years of experience in entertain- (how to deal with subjects) to the UW Union Mini-Course program, writes ment, law and real estate ventures. Regent aesthetic (image, sound) or techni- locally for industrial, corporate, and educa- Entertainment—which takes its name cal (how to shoot for what editors tion videos and is a memeber of the Writers from Madison’s Regent Street—produces want), and take audience questions. Guild of America East. and/or distributes at least twenty feature Born and raised in Monroe, WI, films annually,acquires films for distrib- Goldsworthy studied photography ution, and maintains a substantial library at Madison Area Technical College Creating Images: of over 3,500 titles. Regent has its own for- and film at the UW-Madison. After moving to Los Angeles, Goldswor- Cinematography in eign sales organization (Regent Worldwide Documentary and Fiction Sales) and movie theaters (Regent The- thy began working as a camera assistant in the early 1990’s, and got with Wolfgang Held aters). The company’s Gods and Monsters Steven Jarchow won the 1999 Academy Award for Best her start in shooting documentaries DATE/TIME > Sat, Apr 6 at 1:00pm, 1h30 > Adapted Screenplay, three Independent with the acclaimed veríte cine- VENUE > Cinematheque > PART OF THE SERIES matographer Joan Churchill. > Insider > PRICE NOTE > Free > SPONSOR > Spirit Awards, Best Picture by the National Board of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Review, and a Golden Globe Awards for Best Sup- porting Actress (Lynn Redgrave). Award-winning Director of Photography Writer’s Seminar: Making It Happen Wolfgang Held has lent his talents to a wide Over the course of his career, Jarchow has practiced — Turn Your Idea into Screen Magic range of independent and major feature law, real estate development, and investment bank- DATE/TIME > Sat, Apr 6 at 10:00am, 1h30 > VENUE > Pyle films, documentaries and commercial pro- ing. He has taught Entertainment Law and is the Center > PART OF THE SERIES > Insider > PRICE NOTE > jects. Held’s feature film credits include Maze author of five books. In 1996, Jarchow and two invest- Free > SPONSOR > Wisconsin Screenwriters Forum; Con- (starring Rob Morrow,who also directed, and ment partners put up $1 million in equity and formed tinuing Studies, Liberal Studies and the Arts; Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Laura Linney) and The Tic Code (starring Regent Entertainment with the goal of financing, pro- Polly Draper and Gregory Hines, directed by ducing, and distributing low-budget movies in the $1 You’ve got an idea and a vision. What’s your next Gary Winick) and Ripe. Documentary cred- to $3 million range. The Dallas-based Jarchow is step? How do you get it onto the screen? Learn insid- its include this year’s Academy Award-nom- involved with his Santa Monica-based partners in er tips, and step-by-step “how to’s” from writers who inated Children Underground, Wigstock-The everything from choosing scripts to hiring (and fir- became filmmakers. Discover how to write the film Movie, and The War Room (D.A. Pennabak- ing) the talent. At a special festival screening this you want to make—and how to get taken seriously in er and Chris Hegedus), as well as a number evening, Jarchow will also introduce Gen-Y Cops, “the business” of filmmaking. of films by Pola Rapaport. His television and Regent’s first film with Media Asia, a production com- Panel Participants: Jill and Karen Sprecher (Thir- commercial clients include Maysles Films, pany that’s owned in part by actor Jackie Chan, star teen Conversations About One Thing): Jill Sprecher Fox TV: “TV Nation,” CBS: “Sixty Minutes,” of Shanghai Noon and Rush Hour I and II, and actress (Director/Writer) made her directing debut in 1997 Showtime, HBO, and AT&T.In this talk Held Michelle Yeoh, star of Crouching Tiger,Hidden Drag- with the independent feature Clockwatchers. Co-writ- Writer’s Seminar panelists include Melanie Middien and will shares insights on cinematography as on, and with which Regent has signed an eight-pic- ten with sister Karen and starring Toni Collette, Park- Alia Yunis (top, left and right); and the Sprecher sisters, well as scenes from his film projects. ture production deal. er Posey, Lisa Kudrow and Alanna Ubach, Clock- Jill and Karen. 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Independent Film Distribution: Boy, Three Seasons, Central Station, The process of turning the best-selling novel by Taking on the Challenge Spanish Prisoner, High Art, and Fast, Nick Hornby into a hit movie. In a question Cheap & Out of Control. Upcoming pro- and answer format moderated by Steven of Specialty Films jects include Paul Schrader’s Auto Focus, Nadler,professor of philosophy at UW-Madi- DATE/TIME > Sat, Apr 6 at 1:00pm, 1h30 > VENUE > Pyle with Greg Kinnear and Willem Dafoe; son and director of the Center for the Center > PART OF THE SERIES > Insider > PRICE NOTE > Rebecca Miller’s Sundance Grand Jury Humanities, Pink will discuss his long-time Free > SPONSOR > Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Prize Winner Personal Velocity, with collaboration with John Cusack, co-writer Parker Posey,Kyra Sedgwick and Fairuza as well as star of High Fidelity, and what it In the last year, independent distribution com- Balk; Pedro Almodovar’s Talk to Her; takes to write comedy, select the select the panies such as Lot 47, Cowboy Pictures, and Well- Lisa Cholodenko’s Laurel Canyon, with music for the score (nearly 60 songs) and the spring (formerly Winstar) have had increased impact Frances McDormand, Christian Bale and myriad components of movie-making. Pink in the marketplace and in the theaters. In this panel, Kate Beckinsdale; and Zhang Yimou’s has written numerous scripts for movies key figures from these companies will discuss taking Happy Times. Before founding Magic and television, including Grosse Point Blank, on the challenge of releasing and marketing “spe- Lantern, Inc., Rosefelt worked at New which he co-produced with John Cusack. He cialty” films – the types of films that play in “art Yorker Films and PMK, ran Reid Rose- also a partner with Cusack in their Los house” theaters and at this Festival.This panel will felt Publicity (handling Stranger Than Angeles-based New Crime Productions. give a better understanding of what a distribution Paradise and Desperately Seeking Susan, Pink is currently writing a screenplay for company does; explore the pressures of the market- among others) and worked as a publicist Tim Burton and is working on a pilot for place; and focus on issues facing independent distri- on numerous films (including The Naked ABC entitled Sungods. NOTE: Tickets are bution today, including the difficulties of survival Gun and The Godfather: Part III). required for this program, which includes amid rising costs for acquisition and marketing; the a screening of High Fidelity and the conver- relative importance of video vs. theatrical release; the Okie Noodling director Bradley Beesley. sation with Steve Pink. importance of critics and awards; and the difference Meet the Filmmakers: between gross and net profits. Québec sur Québec Panel Participants: Rodney Hill is head of marketing DATE/TIME > Sat, Apr 6 at 3:00pm, 1h30 > VENUE > Steep ing for post.” (Many of these filmmakers will be Meet the Filmmaker: and publicity for Wellspring Media (formerly Win- & Brew > PART OF THE SERIES > Insider, New Wave North: screening work and/or talking about their craft in Bradley Beesley, Okie Noodling star Cinema), whose theatrical division releases crit- Recent Films from Québec > PRICE NOTE > Free > SPON- other Festival programs as well.) Panelists include: DATE/TIME > Sun, Apr 7 at 1:00pm, 1h30 > VENUE > Steep ically acclaimed specialty films to the US marketplace. SOR > Steep & Brew, Ministère des Relations interna- Tamara Goldsworthy,DP for documentaries, includ- & Brew > PART OF THE SERIES > Insider > PRICE NOTE > tionales du Québec, Québec Delegation Chicago, UW- Hill holds an M. A. in film from the University of Wis- ing the Oscar-winning Big Mama. Rick Derby, film- Free > SPONSOR > Association of Independent Video and consin at Madison and also did doctoral work in film Madison Professional French Masters Program, Acade- Filmmakers, Steep & Brew my of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences maker / editor / post production coordinator (Rocks at the University of Kansas. Prior to joining Winstar with Wings). Pola Rapaport, filmmaker (Blind Light, Stop in for casual conversation with Bradley What is North American about contemporary Cinema, Hill served as Director of Operations at Inter- Family Secret) and curator (September Eleventh Eye- Beesley, director of Okie Noodling and The Flaming Québec cinema? What art forms or cultural trends national Film Circuit and Planet Pictures. He also has witnesses.) Wolfgang Held, DP for features, documen- Lips Have Landed. Topics could include self-distrib- influence this new generation of Québec filmmakers? been active in independent film production; his cred- taries and commercials (Children Underground, uting your film, getting funding for your documen- Come to our coffeehouse discussion with Philippe its as producer and associate producer include the Maze). Gretta Wing Miller,filmmaker and film editor tary,working in music video, cinematography,or cat- Falardeau (The Left Side of the Fridge, Jean Liberté) features Where We’re Born (in progress, directed by for twenty years in New York (The Sid Boyum Sculp- fish biting your arm until it bleeds. Bring your ques- and others, TBA. Helping out with Q & A will be Ritt George Spyros) and To the Cuckoo’s Calling (directed ture Project). Moderator: Kerman Eckes, Wisconsin tions and curiosities. Deitz, Executive Director, UW-Madison Professional by Steve Drain). Rodney Hill is co-author (with Gene Public Television. Additional panelists TBA D. Phillips) of The Encyclopedia of Stanley Kubrick, French Masters Program. due out in June from Checkmark Books. Wellspring Media releases showing at the Wisconsin Film Festi- Bergman’s Show: Making of Red Betsy FESTIVAL PARTIES val include What Time Is It There? and the restora- Remembering Mark Bergman, DATE/TIME > Sat, Apr 6 at 5:00pm, 1h30 > VENUE > Madi- tion of Jacques Demy’s Lola. son Art Center > PART OF THE SERIES > Insider, Wiscon- Ticket Required for Admission; Cash Bar for is Co-founder and President of Lot 47 Madison and the Movies sin’s Own Filmmakers > PRICE NOTE > Free > SPONSOR > 21 & over with ID only. Limited tickets available. Jeff Lipsky Wisconsin Film Office, Academy of Motion Picture Arts Films, a privately owned film company that has been DATE/TIME > Sat, Apr 6 at 3:00pm, 2h30 > VENUE > Play PRICE NOTE > $10 General; $7 Student Circle > ORDER CODE > OUT and Sciences acquiring and distributing American independent Red Betsy, films and high-profile foreign films since 1999. Lip- Once upon a time in the ‘60s and ‘70s, some The soon-to-be finished feature film tells the story of a rural Wisconsin family facing loss, sky leads all of Lot 47’s theatrical acquisition, distri- movie-mad youngsters made Madison the film soci- challenges and change during the WWII era. It fea- bution and marketing activities, drawing on his twen- ety capital of the known universe. Presiding over these tures a top-notch cast, including Alison Elliott (The ty-seven year career in the film industry, which movielovers was Mark Bergman, whose Wisconsin Spitfire Grill), Leo Burmester (Broadcast News, orig- includes co-founding October Films with Bingham Film Society helped make Madison the place it was. inal Broadway cast of Les Miserables), Lois Smith Ray in 1990, and heading up U.S. Marketing and Dis- The Outfit, an unappreciated genre classic, was one (Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company, The Lara- tribution for Samuel Goldwyn Films. Some of the crit- of Mark’s favorites. Written and directed by John Fly- mie Project), Chad Lowe (Now and Again, Unfaithful), ically-acclaimed films Lipsky has distributed include nn, it’s based on one of the “Parker” crime novels by and William Wise (In the Bedroom, Thirteen Conver- Stranger Than Paradise, My Life as a Dog, Sid & Nan- Richard Stark, a.k.a. Donald E. Westlake, all of which sations About One Thing). The behind-the-scenes sto- cy, Life is Sweet, My Dinner with Andre, Dance with a featured the unstoppable Parker. Flynn’s entry has ry of Red Betsy starts with New York-based writer/ Stranger, The Marriage of Maria Braun, The Last the character,now called Macklin (Robert Duvall) tar- director Chris Boebel, who grew up on a large farm in Seduction, The War Room, Ruby in Paradise and Loli- geting a mob led by noir vet Robert Ryan. Also in the Boscobel, WI, and based his script on a story penned ta. Lot 47 Films releases showing at the Wisconsin cast: Joe Don Baker and noir mainstays Timothy Festival Party with John Benitez Quartet by his father. Boebel and his producing partner, Jim Film Festival include Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) Carey, Marie Windsor, Jane Greer and Elisha Cook, Fri, Apr 5 at 11:00pm > 2h00 > Orpheum - Main Jr.The Outfit screening inaugurates an annual WFF Calabrese, both alumni of the graduate film program and waydowntown. ORDER CODE: FP1 event, Bergman’s Show,remembering Mark and Madi- at New York University,teamed up with Oconomowoc John Vanco is Co-President of Cowboy Pictures, a son’s days of movie yore. Afterwards: a fond panel dis- native Andrew Lang as executive producer and—sev- In Orpheum Lobby. “Mr. Benitez, with his rock- distributor of art house films and documentaries in cussion, followed by an arm-bending reunion in the eral months later—co-executive producer Lemore solid groove, is the best new Latin Jazz bassist in the United States and Canada, where he has led the Union Rathskeller. Panel members include John Syvan (Personal Velocity, 2002 Sundance Grand Jury the city, great at using the fewest possible notes marketing, publicity and distribution efforts over the Davis, Tom Flinn, Mike Wilmington and Reid Rose- Prize winner). The producing team enlisted top New to maximum swing potential.”—Ben Ratliff, The last five years. Recent successes include Catherine felt. NOTE: Tickets are required for this program, York casting director Adrienne Stern (Thirteen Con- New York Times. Breillat’s controversial and acclaimed Fat Girl, George which includes a screening of The Outfit and panel versations About One Thing; The Believer, 2001 Sun- Butler’s The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary discussion. dance Grand Jury Prize winner). Red Betsy was shot Antarctic Expedition, David Gordon Green’s award- last year in southeastern Wisconsin. Join writer/ winning George Washington, and Aviva Kempner’s director Chris Boebel, producer Andrew Lang, casting The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, one of the high- Preparing for Post director Adrienne Stern, and several cast members est grossing documentaries of the last decade. Prior to DATE/TIME > Sat, Apr 6 at 3:15pm, 1h30 > VENUE > Madi- to learn the inside story of how these Wisconsin film- joining Cowboy,John Vanco was a National Publicist son Art Center > PART OF THE SERIES > Insider > PRICE makers got their project developed and produced— at Miramax Films as well as Director of Marketing NOTE > Free > SPONSOR > Academy of Motion Picture and shot in Wisconsin—while staying true to their and Publicity at New Yorker Films. Upcoming Cow- Arts and Sciences, i-cubed and Cinefilm Laboratory creative vision. boy releases include Shohei Imamura’s Warm Water While many filmmakers give lots of attention to pre- Under a Red Bridge and Shunji Iwai’s All About Lily production (script, casting) and shooting, what hap- Chou-Chou, along with Chris Smith’s Home Movie. pens afterwards—in post-production—can make or The Lowdown on High Fidelity Cowboy Pictures titles showing at the Wisconsin break the quality and viability of your film or video DATE/TIME > Sat, Apr 6 at 7:30pm, 2h30 > VENUE > Film Festival include Promises, La Cienaga, Home project. Editing, sound design, visual and audio Orpheum - Main > PART OF THE SERIES > Insider > ORDER Festival Party with Noahjohn Movie and Cure (aka Kyua). effects, film processing and printing, video master- CODE > HFI > SPONSOR > Center for the Humanities, Acad- Sat, Apr 6 at 11:00pm > 2h00 > Orpheum - Main emy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Panel moderator Reid Rosefelt, a Wisconsin native ing, and video-to-film transfer — all will go more ORDER CODE: FP2 smoothly if you plan for post even before you shoot. A certifiable campus blockbuster when it was and UW-Madison alumnus, is the President of Magic In Orpheum Lobby.Madison’s post-modern coun- “ ‘Fixing it in post’ is often a costly solution — so why released in 2000, High Fidelity remains one of the most Lantern, Inc., a New York-based specialty public rela- try-rockers, Noahjohn, turned a number of heads why not get it right to begin with? In this panel, expe- popular films on records and on the funny and roman- tions and marketing firm. Magic Lantern, Inc., has last year with their second album Had a Burning. rienced editors, post-production coordinators, DP’s, tic world of music junkies. In the conversation “The represented such films as Crouching Tiger, Hidden The London Guardian commented “They are the sound and post-house professionals will share their Lowdown on High Fidelity,” the film’s screenwriter Dragon, Big Bad Love, Storytelling, Pollock, State and Velvet Underground gatecrashing a hoe-down and tips for success — and pitfalls to avoid — in “prepar- and producer Steve Pink will unravel the complex Main, All About My Mother, Mr. Death, The Winslow making merry with the local jug band.” 20 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • APRIL 4-7, 2002 • MADISON • WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM Series

Eight films explore life in the fractured Middle East

In Genesis, after God created man from the dust of the earth, He created the Garden of Eden as a home for the man. However, the man and the woman God also created disobeyed God, and were exiled from Eden. Similar dualities of homeland and exile are at the heart of many stories in Jewish history,as in the story of Moses wandering the desert before God restored the Israelites to “a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey” (Exodus 3:8, NRSV), in the Biblical book of Ruth, and in the flight of Jews from Europe to the land that would become the State of Israel. They are also at the heart of the life and work of Amos Gitai, the prolific and contro- versial Israeli filmmaker. This year, the Wisconsin Film Festival presents “Amos Gitai: Images of Exile,” an eight-film series exploring this duality and related subjects in inge- nious cinematic style. Amos Gitai was born Amos Weinraub in 1950, just two years after the establishment of the state of Israel. He became Amos Gitai in his late adolescence when his father Hebraized the family’s European name. After mandatory military service, Gitai fol- The prolific and controversial Israeli filmmaker lowed his father’s footsteps and studied architecture, Amos Gitaï. first at the Technion Institute in Haifa, and then at the University of California-Berkeley in the United States. Amos Gitaï: Images of Exile Gitai’s studies were disrupted by the 1973 Yom Above, Kippur. Below, Field Diary. Kippur War, an event that profoundly shaped his life SPONSOR(S) > The UW-Madison Center and work. A helicopter in which he was serving on a for Jewish Studies, Conney Family Fund PROGRAMS search and rescue mission was shot down, killing peo- his entire life work through Facets Video of Chicago. ple who were very close to him and nearly ending his Amos Gitaï: Images of Exile The centerpiece of these features is Amos Gitai: own life. After this, Gitai gradually turned toward Berlin Jerusalem Images of Exile, an original 32-minute documentary filmmaking, using a Super8 camera his mother had Esther dealing with many of the films and issues discussed in given him for his birthday.Gitai had brought the cam- Field Diary this essay.That short documentary opens the series at era with him on several helicopter missions, though Golem: The Spirit of Exile this year’s Wisconsin Film Festival that bears its not the fateful one that ended in a crash. Intrigued by Kippur name. the immediacy filmmaking offered as opposed to the Many thanks are due to Erik Gunneson and long-term commitments of architecture, he began Pineapple James Kreul (UW-Madison and the Wisconsin Film making short, abstract films on Super8 and 16mm fea- War Memories Festival), Kevin Gallagher (Agav Films), Jessica Ros- turing landscapes and political rallies. ner (Kino), Ana Martin (BFI), and Paul Willemen. An Since then, based alternately in Israel, the Unit- expanded program book will be available during the ed States, and France, he has produced an extraordi- the Jewish legend of the Golem, including Birth of a Golem, Golem: The Spirit of Exile, and Golem: The Pet- retrospective. nary,wide-ranging, and deeply personal body of work. -RAY PRIVETT, GUEST CURATOR, FACETS MULTIMEDIA In nearly 40 films, working in documentary, fiction- rified Garden. In these films Gitai collaborated with an al, and historical modes, Gitai has explored the lay- extraordinary range of talents, including the great ers of history in the Middle East and beyond, includ- French cinematographer Henri Alekan (Beauty and ing his own personal history,through such themes as the Beast, Wings of Desire), the German musicians homeland and exile, religion, social control, and Simon and Markus Stockhausen, producer Laurent utopia. Stylistically, these films are marked by pre- Truchot (Yeelen), actors from the Peter Brook Com- Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Experimental & New Media sentational, “planimetric” long takes, scarce but sig- pany,and others. nificant camera movements, sound counterpoint, and In the mid 90s, following the election of Yitzhak Experimental and avant garde film, a devilishly clever sense of humor. Rabin, Gitai moved back to his hometown of Haifa. new media, and multimedia. He continued to direct films at an astonishing rate. In the late 70s and early 80s, Gitai directed numer- PROGRAMS ous documentaries for Israeli television. Many,includ- He initiated the fictional Cities trilogy, including Devarim, Yom Yom, and Kadosh (presented in com- At Home and Asea ing House and Field Diary,were censored. During the Hybrid same era, Gitai received his Ph.D. in architecture from petition at Cannes). He simultaneously created the University of California-Berkeley, and directed numerous documentaries, including A House in Mexicanidad several documentaries in and about the United States, Jerusalem, which revisits the location of the film Perceptions of Perception: Short such as In Search of Identity and American Mytholo- House, Wadi 1981-1991, which integrates the early film Film and Video Works by Scott Stark gies. Wadi into a decade-spanning film, Give Peace a Chance, The Arena of Murder (concerning Rabin’s Standards Following the controversial reception of Field Wisconsin Shorts II Diary, in 1983 Gitai moved to Paris, France, where he assassination), War and Peace in Vesoul (co-directed was based for approximately the next decade. During with Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman), and After Dark Contemporary World Cinema this period he continued directing documentaries. Orange. Late night movies on the edge Several present international voyages, such as Pineap- He also returned to a moment that changed his Narrative features from outside ple, a humorous odyssey about the growth and mar- life: being shot down during the Yom Kippur War. War and over the top. the United States. keting of pineapples, and Brand New Day, a rocku- Memories is a documentary that examines that SPONSOR(S) > Campus late night movies SPONSOR(S) > Academy of Motion Picture mentary following musician Annie Lennox and the moment; it served as something of a sketch for the made possible in part by The RWJ Project, Arts and Sciences large-scale historical fiction film Kippur (presented in The Chancellor’s Office and the Wisconsin band the Eurythmics as they tour Japan. Some of the Union at the UW-Madison. PROGRAMS others deal with the resurgence of fascism in Europe, competition at Cannes). La Ciénaga PROGRAMS including In the Valley of the Wupper, set around a Neo- Since Kippur’s premiere less than two years ago, Gitai has remained very busy.He has completed two The Beaver Trilogy Daresalam Nazi incident in Germany,and In the Name of the Duce, Djomeh about Alessandra Mussolini’s election campaign for new feature-length films. Eden, a historical fiction Cure The Fast Runner the Neo-Fascist Party in Italy. film set between the U.S. and Palestine in the 1930s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (PICTURED ABOVE) While based in Paris, Gitai also began directing and drawing on the story of the Garden of Eden, is E-Day! Kandahar fiction features about the experience of exile. These based on a story by Arthur Miller, who also co-stars. Maya Wadi: Grand Canyon, a documentary shot on video, Existo include a stunning adaptation of the Biblical book of Gen-Y Cops Waterboys Esther, presented in the Cannes Film Festival’s is the third and possibly final installment in the Wadi trilogy begun in 1981. He is currently putting the final Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter waydowntown semaine de la critique; Berlin Jerusalem, a powerful What Time Is It There? historical epic about the emigration of European Jews touches on Kedma, a history film about the 1948 war. Monday Night at the Rock ‘n’ Bowl to British mandate-era Palestine that won the top prize Gitai has also contributed to the making of spe- You Shoot, I Shoot Y tu mamá también at the Venice Film Festival; and three films related to cial features for the forthcoming DVD release of almost Yellow Asphalt

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The ambiguous terrain of European cinema

Europe has been built on centuries of transitions unfolding at the crossroads of continents and con- cepts. This history continues to this day.The traumas of September 11th have reinforced the sense that the mobility of ideas, individuals, and even inimical inten- tions once again have placed Europe in ambiguous terrain. The continent is caught between what is thought to be an assured landscape of national, region- al and local borders and the shifting contours of per- sonal and public meaning. These seven films from northern Europe, south- ern Europe, and Africa portray in vivid and capti- vating detail what the broad political, social and cul- tural intersections between private and public lives entail, and what the political can and perhaps should mean for the personal. Focusing on timeless themes of purpose, power, and meaning in daily life and in Above and top to bottom: 101 Reykjavík; Daresalam; Cool and Crazy; and The Days Between. life spans, these films underscore the enormity of Europe’s experiences, their relevance, and how they European Studies. During the same period, Endnote: The conference “Europes and Contrary Tides: shape and reflect our global community. some 800 students studied in Europe. Filmmaking in the New Europe” has been organized at UW- There is little doubt about it: At the dawn of a European Studies at UW-Madison is Madison in association with the Wisconsin Film Festival. Many new century,a New Europe is emerging whose impor- also unique in that it is the only university of the world’s leading scholars and filmmakers will be on hand tance can be seen well beyond the contours of the in the country to have won the four most to offer their views on developments in European cinema, with European Union’s fifteen member states. News head- prestigious and competitive competitions presentations on French experimental film, the cinema of the lines make it strikingly clear how Europe is inter- held for European Studies grants in the African diaspora, recent developments in Spanish and Italian twined in the lives of United States citizens. Issues United States. This has allowed UW-Madi- cinema, the struggles of the new Yugoslav cinema, Turkish such as upholding free trade, defending human rights, son to found four nationally recognized cen- migrant cinema in Germany,and other topics relating to film- sustaining democracy,promoting culture and the arts, ters in European Studies: The Center for making in the rapidly evolving social and cultural settings of fighting international crime and making the world European Studies, The Center for German Europe. Speakers include David Bordwell, Nicole Brenez, Neve- more environmentally sound reach well beyond and European Studies, The European Union na Dakovic, Marvin D’Lugo, Deniz Gokturk, Mweze Ngangura, boundaries, making European struggles inseparable Center, and The Center for Interdiscipli- Massimo Sani, Marc Silberman, and Vito Zagarrio. This con- from ours or from those of Europe’s adjacent conti- nary French Studies. Each center pursues ference is co-sponsored by the European Studies Alliance and the nents such as Africa. its own range of intellectual and program- Center for African Studies in association with the Wisconsin This film series captures the broad mission of matic activities in line with their differing Film Festival, and will be held on March 15-16 at the Pyle European Studies at UW-Madison to educate citizens public missions, but together their efforts Center on the UW-Madison campus. It is free and open to for a globalizing world. The series also highlights the are overseen and coordinated by the Euro- the public. For information call the Center for European Stud- effort by European Studies to integrate instruction, pean Studies Alliance (ESA) at UW-Madi- ies at 265-6295 or visit its web-site at polyglot.lss.wisc. edu/eur. innovative scholarship and exciting outreach into a son. More about the ESA can be found at cohesive and accessible whole. Professor Patrick Rum- — CRISTER S. GARRETT, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, www.europeanstudiesalliance.org. EUROPEAN STUDIES ALLIANCE, UW-MADISON ble of the Department of French and Italian is over- seeing an entire project dealing with film this spring. On campus, he is teaching a course on “European Cin- emas and Societies,” with options to intensify stud- ies in sections taught in French and Italian. He has Documentary Premieres Insider also organized an international conference—free and Documentaries from the Selected Wisconsin premieres. Not likely to be For filmmakers. Filmgoers. Anyone interested in what open to the public—entitled “Europes and Contrary Tides: Filmmaking in the New Europe.” More infor- United States and around the world. available in Madison, Milwaukee or Chetek. goes on behind the scenes, and behind the camera. mation about the conference and how to register is PROGRAMS Be the first on your block to see them. SPONSOR(S) > Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences included below. Art and Community in Wisconsin PROGRAMS PROGRAMS This sort of energy in European Studies at UW- Bomba-Dancing the Drum Big Bad Love Creating Images: Cinematography in Documentary Madison mirrors the growing popularity of European Cool and Crazy The Fast Runner and Fiction with Wolfgang Held Studies among Wisconsin students and scholars. Daughter From Danang Home Movie Independent Film Distribution: Indeed, it is fair to say that Madison is actually poised Disability Culture Rap Kandahar Taking on the Challenge of Specialty Films to become an intellectual leader to help the U.S. adjust Manic and prosper with the New Europe. Facing Arthur KINO: Short Films from Québec Numbers reveal much of the story. During the The Flaming Lips Have Landed Thirteen Conversations The Lowdown on High Fidelity About One Thing last three years alone, European Studies at UW-Madi- The Goddaughter Making of Red Betsy son has offered some 700 courses, taught by nearly 300 Trembling Before G-d Home Movie Meet the Filmmaker: faculty in 50 departments and ten professional schools. Hybrid waydowntown During the 2000-2001 school year, 750 UW undergrad- Bradley Beesley, Okie Noodling Improbable Pairs What Time Is It There? uates had fifteen or more European Studies credits Y tu mamá también Meet the Filmmakers: Québec sur Québec on their transcript. In the past three years, the UW It’s About Time Yellow Asphalt Preparing for Post has awarded more than one hundred doctorates in JUNG (War): In the Land of the Mujaheddin Shooting the Independent Documentary Man Hunt Restorations & Revivals with Tamara Goldsworthy Cinema at the Crossroads: Monday Night at the Rock ‘n’ Bowl Archival prints, restorations Stephen Jarchow and Regent Entertainment Film in the New Europe Okie Noodling and special re-releases. Writer’s Seminar: Making It Happen — Promises SPONSOR(S) > Academy of Motion Picture Turn Your Idea into Screen Magic SPONSOR(S) > The Center for European Studies, Arts and Sciences Rocks With Wings the European Studies Alliance, and the PROGRAMS Department of Scandinavian Studies at the September Eleventh: Eyewitnesses Lola (PICTURED AT RIGHT) UW-Madison, and the Cultural Services of the Standards The Outfit French Embassy, Chicago. Stories from Up North The Times of Harvey Milk PROGRAMS That’s My Face 101 Reykjavík Trembling Before G-d Special Presentations Cool and Crazy The View From Here: These screenings include talks, Daresalam A Poetic Response to the Attacks panels or discussions. Insight The Days Between on the World Trade Center from behind the scenes. The Icelandic Dream War Memories PROGRAMS Lola When Two Won’t Do High Fidelity Songs From the Second Floor The Outfit Lola

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“New Wave North” awakens us to the national uniqueness of Québec

In 1981, Québec film maker Denys Arcand made lauds André Turpin for his sense of detail in Un crabe of building the world’s largest parking lot, parodies Le confort et l’indifférence (Comfort and Indifference), dans la tête (Soft Shell Man), declaring that “nobody one of Falardeau’s least favorite North American phe- a French-language documentary on the 1980 referen- has a keener sense of Québec society than Turpin.” nomena—automobile-centered urban sprawl. In their dum on national sovereignty.The movie showed every- Falardeau’s own “mockumentary,” La moitié gauche 1993 hit, “La Rue Principale,” the wildly popular (and thing from the patriotic speechifying of Canada’s cur- du frigo (The Left Side of the Fridge), is dead-on accu- now defunct) band Les Colocs delightfully promised rent Prime Minister,Jean Chrétien, to a guy at a con- rate in its portrayal of Montréal twenty- and thirty- to bulldoze the shopping center that had bled their version van show displaying his vehicle’s slick-shag- somethings arguing, partying, flirting and looking little Québec hometown dry. With Colocs-like gusto, gy interior. Immigrants who couldn’t speak French for work. The cheapness and spontaneity Falardeau Falardeau strikes the odd balance of humor and explained why they were voting oui for Québec sov- creates with his hand-held digital camera confirm, anger—this time, with his digital camera. In eight ereignty.Older people identified themselves as French voyeuristically,that this is a slice of Montréal life. minutes, he exposes a major weakness in the way Canadians, while most others used the term Québé- Denis Villeneuve’s Maelström slices youngish Québécois think about the resources around them. cois. Real speeches and interviews were interspersed life in urban Québec with a much more surreal knife. At the same time, he manages to prove that digital with passages from Machiavelli, implying the com- This quirky film comes to our screens with both hands technology can now democratize filmmaking every- plexity of a society that had just voted 60% non to a full—one with 2001 Genies, and the other with preoc- where—all one needs now are a camera, some good form of separation from Canada. In 1981 Arcand and cupations that are thoroughly Québécois. Cinephiles ideas, and a brother willing to put on a suit and stum- his filmmaking compatriots were a little-known quan- will note the influence of certain older European direc- ble around in the woods. tity outside the province, and Canadian cinema itself tors in this movie—the serendipitous turns of events If “New Wave North” glimpses a distinct gener- was mostly either confined to art houses or not rec- recall Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Franco-Polish Trois ation, it also tells us a lot about how Québec sees itself ognizably Canadian as such. couleurs trilogy (Bleu, Blanc and Rouge, aka Three in the larger world. Comments in English are sprin- This all changed in 1986, with Arcand’s interna- Colors: Blue, White and Red), and certain shots evoke kled throughout the films in this series (with the tionally-acclaimed Le déclin de l’empire américain Jean-Luc Godard so strongly as to constitute outright exception of Mariages), much as English is in daily (Decline of the American Empire). This dark glimpse at quotes (note the swirling coffee close-up, and its coun- life in Québec. However, the use of English is such a the sex lives and friendships of a group of Québec terpart in Godard’s 1967 film 2 ou 3 choses que je sais given, at least by younger Québécois, that it is almost intellectuals won nine Genies (the Canadian Oscar) d’elle, aka Two or Three Things I Know About Her). a banality,at least in Montréal. These films never seem and garnered accolades from Toronto to Cannes and These stylistic nods acknowledge both a Franco- to question the language divide itself, but they do shed back—among them the New York Film Critics Circle Québécois link in general and a film heritage whose light on ways Québec fits in with surrounding soci- prize for best foreign film. Three years later,Arcand’s lineage, even recently,comes right from France. eties, and especially with the rest of Canada. Jésus de Montréal (Jesus of Montreal) found it even Yet Villeneuve himself defines his “Québecness” For reasons both fiscal and cultural, Québec films easier to hit screens in English-speaking countries much like others of his generation do—telling the New routinely receive Canadian funding, either from the and was nominated for both an Oscar and the Palme York Times just this February that, when Québec federal government or financiers located outside the d’Or at Cannes. Remarkably, the specifically Québé- artists are in France, “we feel American.” He contin- province. Filmmakers also participate actively in cois subject matter had not hindered the appeal of ues, closing the circle as most young Québécois are Canadian festivals and awards ceremonies, and even either film among English-speaking audiences will- in the habit of doing in these conversations: “But when occasionally make movies in English. For these rea- ing to read subtitles. Arcand had introduced, at least we are in America, we feel French.” This purely sons and others, this generation exhibits a sharp to Americans amenable to French films, the cinema of Québécois Americanness (which in Québec is often awareness of what is Canadian about its films, and Québec. referred to, positively,as américanité) pervades Mael- likes to talk about it. Directors discuss this with diplo- By the time the second referendum on Québec ström, in spite of its nods to European cinema. Like matic acuity in the English-language Canadian press. sovereignty rolled around in October 1995, the oui lost Falardeau and Turpin—and even to some extent, “I think Canadian films are like Canadian beers,” by a mere fraction of a percentage point, leaving a Catherine Martin—Villeneuve surrounds his main Falardeau tells Eye magazine, “There are fine local society very attuned to reading, writing and filming character with particularly Québécois forms of sex, products, but it’s tough to get them across the borders itself as distinct from the rest of the country. By the fashion, money, and lifestyle. As in the series’ other of the provinces.” Yet Falardeau is not simply catering mid-1990s, Québec film, like the other arts, had become films and countless other Québécois works across the to his anglophone audience by reassuring them of his as national as half the population hoped its own gov- arts, water is a particularly noteworthy symbol in own—or Québec’s own—links to Canada. La moitié ernment would soon be. Maelström. This is, after all, a society founded and gauche du frigo (The Left Side of the Fridge) actually In Québec cinema today, this sensibility has still thriving along the river that led Europeans into From the top: Maelström; attempts to blend what is typically seen as an Anglo- moved way beyond simple politics. The Wisconsin the heart of the New World, and the ancient fish that and L’Ange de goudron (Tar Angel). Saxon comedic style with a public (and in a language) Film Festival series “New Wave North” film awakens narrates the film somehow indicates a larger Québé- much more accustomed to farce and comical situa- us to the national uniqueness of Québec, a French- cois awareness of water as the prime component of constantly present, confined to a relatively small phys- tions that to the wry sarcasm that pervades his film. speaking society where creativity itself seems to result both life and death. ical area. Falardeau’s experiment seems to have worked: Eng- from the ability to shift gears. And these films root us Martin’s Mariages echoes a different set of sen- Denis Chouinard’s L’Ange de goudron (Tar Angel) lish-speaking audiences in other Canadian provinces squarely on this side of the Atlantic—this is not the timents in Québec: those surrounding individual life is also to a great extent about both generations and have responded favorably,even in spite of subtitles. nouvelle vague of Truffaut, Godard and Rivette. For in community, set in a uniquely Québécois past. the ties that bind them together in small communi- Others tip their hats to Canadian identity but see those who have little or no experience with our neigh- Picked from the most recent crop of Québec films, ties. The story of a family of Algerian immigrants to the issue more on the level of the characters them- bors along the Saint Lawrence, “New Wave North” is Martin’s is so noticeable precisely for its pace: is silent, Québec, this film treats the stresses of exile on a fam- selves. Martin’s rural women predate a Québécois much more than a collection of filmmakers or aes- slow and decidedly unhip. This is the chronicle of a ily displaced from the French-speaking world’s identity,as we see them confronted by the temptations thetic tendencies. It is an initiation to the pleasures young woman’s sensual awakening in late nineteenth- warmest end to its coldest. There is something exper- of economically promising jobs in the Anglophone and anxieties most Québécois recognize in them- century rural Québec, right before she is to move to a imental in the premise. Chouinard takes members of New England milltowns that gobbled up so many selves, right now,when they go to the movies. A tick- convent and become a nun. Mariages blends pregnant- the most prominent minority group in France—North young French Canadians around the turn of the twen- et to the last fully French North America. pause realism with its magical counterpart, drifting Africans—and places them in a society where they tieth century.Villeneuve’s Algerian immigrants con- This series is also a ticket to a particular gener- into dreamlike sequences that resemble less narra- are by no means the primary immigrant group, and in front their new national setting in a number of scenes, ation of directors. Most prominent Québec artists and tive cinema than dance or even painting. Like a num- a physical environment about as far removed from confronting icons of Canadianness from the nation- intellectuals know or have at least met each other, ber of Québec narratives over the last fifty years, Mar- the Mediterranean as one can imagine. Chouinard al anthem, “O Canada,” to the federal immigration since the province comprises only 8 million or so peo- tin’s film constantly reminds us how totally reliant has even caused certain critics to wonder if he isn’t, authorities. ple in a sea of at least 300 million English speakers. one can be on family and place—and how stifling it by this very choice, enhancing the marketability of André Turpin’s Un crabe dans la tête (Soft Shell This forges some sense of linguistic solidarity among can be when those you count yourself among are so his Québécois film to French audiences, who are them- Man), however,presents the most nuanced represen- native French speakers who make up over 80% of the selves accustomed to routine cinematic inspections tation of Canadianness as seen from behind a Québé- population, and to a lesser degree even to those for of their own racism against Algerian immigrants. Yet cois lens. Turpin’s main character,Alex, gets into all whom French is simply a fluent second language. New Wave North: the Québecness of its environs and the props brings kinds of trouble because he is at once noncommittal, There is a coherence in being part of a small, sur- Recent Films from Québec this film so much closer to the typical Québécois view- afraid of confrontation, and desperate to be liked by rounded group, and filmmakers are an even smaller er than it would have had it been filmed in France, or everyone he meets. Turpin claims at first to have been band within the larger one. SPONSOR(S) > Ministère des Relations writing about himself, but then admits that Alex “is internationales du Québec, Québec Delegation even totally in a Montréal neighborhood. As such, it Yet these filmmakers are quick to dismiss sug- Chicago, UW-Madison Professional French does an excellent job of questioning this particular a very Canadian character.”This simple remark rings gestions that they represent a unified trend. “Before Masters Program era’s approach to immigrants, bureaucracy,and mul- like a particularly Québécois interpretation of Cana- dianness. Alex is charming and intelligent, but drift- you ask the question, I’ll answer it,” laughed Philippe PROGRAMS ticulturalism, just northeast of our own stretches of Falardeau after bagging a Genie last year for La moitié L’ Ange de goudron snow and snowmobiles. ing and unable to confront the larger dilemmas he gauche du frigo (The Left Side of the Fridge), “There has gotten himself into—is this what makes him Cana- KINO: Short Films from Québec Perhaps the oddest and most concise take on all is no new wave of Québec directors.” Maybe not, but these themes—family,generations, natural environ- dian? But, like Québec and Canada themselves, the each of the films in this series recognizes Québec soci- The Left Side of the Fridge ment, and work—is Falardeau’s Jean Laliberté, a hilar- indecisive drifter and his relationships manage to ety—either in its contemporary environment or its Maelström ious eight minute-long joke on entrepreneurism and find a way of working things out. At least for the time preoccupation with history—in ways that resound in Mariages car culture. Falardeau shot this excellent short film being. theaters from Montréal to the Gaspé peninsula, espe- Meet the Filmmakers: Québec sur Québec armed only with family members, his parents’ cot- — RITT DEITZ, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR UW-MADISON PROFESSIONAL cially with young people just starting to make their Soft Shell Man tage, and two mini-DV tapes. Jean Laliberté, a self-pro- way in the world. 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“Wisconsin’s Own” Filmmakers: All over the map

BY K. M. KODNER

The indie comedy No Sleep ‘til Madison will have its world premiere at this year’ s Wisconsin Film Fes- tival, and the filmmakers are excited. “The Wiscon- sin fest is a big deal to us,” says the film’s co-writer/co- director Peter Rudy.“It’s so fitting that our film will see the light of day there, because it was all shot in Madison, so we’re starting where it all began. It’s such a Wisconsin movie!” This year’s “Wisconsin’s Own” film series offers a treasure trove of “Wisconsin movies,” which can be defined as films shot here (or by Wisconsinites) that center on quirky or grand aspects of Wisconsin life. A Wisconsin movie is actually about Wisconsin. It does- n’t just use the state’s scenery as a backdrop. New local films stream in from all over the state in 2002. While Madison and Milwaukee are always popular locations (No Sleep ‘til Madison, Stating the Arts in Milwaukee, The Sid Boyum Sculpture Project), there’s also the chance to see films that hail from Madeline Island, Gresham, Aniwa, and Hayward.

Made in Wisconsin One of this year’s oddest and funniest homegrown From left: Man Hunt; At Home and Asea; and a monsters to save the world. films is No Sleep, a hilarious low-budget feature shot dog from The Dogs of El Niño. entirely in Dane and Dodge Counties by a four-head- Documentary shorts: The Deer and the Antelope, ed directing/producing team (Peter Rudy,Erik Moe, a filmmaker’s analysis of his parents’ relationship; Wisconsin. When Chicago filmmakers Cyndi Moran David Fleer,and Ivo Knezevic, all buddies from Madi- Claudette Who, a documentation of a video produc- and Eric Scholl showed up to film the race, it just hap- son’s West Side now working in film and television in tion developed by a fourth-grade class in Milwaukee; pened to be the warmest winter on record, with more Wisconsin, California and Chicago). Co-writers/co- and Laid Out, which presents of a flamboyant funer- slush than snow and ice. We go behind the scenes and directors Rudy and Moe were inspired to make a film al director who faces the challenge of his career death get to know local mushers and their dogs (“mushers about their weird obsession, Wisconsin high-school when he has to bury his best friend. are more like dogs than they are like people,” says ice-hockey tournaments. Every year, whenever they Animation and experimental shorts: Please Do one participant) and root for the entrants as we fol- could get away,Rudy and Moe have come back to Wis- Not Feed the Humans, which shows humans from the low the two-day race from start to finish The film consin to tour high schools statewide and root for zoo animals’ point of view; Everyone’s A Hypocrite,a evokes the romance of sled-dog racing through the their favorite players and teams. “We follow them like moral tale; and The Bear Garden, a hand-manipulat- mushers’ eyes; as one racer says, “It’s like flying on groupies,” Rudy says. “And it’s this obsession that ed, painted and optically re-printed film whose terri- eagle’s wings through the wilderness.” formed the core of our screenplay.We wanted to cre- bly beautiful images jolt the collective visual memo- Fishing Has No Boundaries also focuses on Wis- ate an alter ego for ourselves, a man who shuns the ry. consin sports, an event in Hayward that invites peo- typical “adult” life of kids, mortgages and high-pres- Finally,showing out of competition is E-Day!,a ple with disabilities to participate in the joys of fish- sure jobs, and is perfectly happy basking in the glory comedy short by former Onion editor-in-chief Scott ing. of his high-school hockey days.” Dikkers and starring Chevy Chase, styled like a WWII Tiger Show, shot in Aniwa in Northern Wiscon- Thus was born the hero of the film, 30-year-old newsreel. Eskimos begin taking over the world, and sin, is a tribute to an abandoned roadside circus, the Owen Fenby,a stunning case of arrested-development President Horace Lumley (Chase) has a nervous “last of the Great Northern American tiger shows,” job,” Middien says, inspired by the story of a mutual syndrome. Owen lives for the annual high-school hock- breakdown trying to handle the crisis: “I’m really still run by a couple in their 80s, Wilbert and Martha friend quit her full-time job to devote herself to find- ey pilgrimage with his old pals, and he keeps a video starting to get scared,” he blubbers, as furry men and Behn. Wilbert is still the Master Lion and Tiger Train- ing a husband and got married in three months. diary of every stage of the event. The goal is to sit in flying igloo ships invade the nation. er,and Martha feeds the few remaining animals (goats, To attract subjects, the filmmakers ran an online freezing rinks all over the state, beginning in the geese, and singing dogs). personal ad posing as men, saying they were docu- K. M. KODNER IS A WRITER LIVING IN MADISON. Northwoods and ending with the final championship The Novitiate is a haunting film about the 1975 mentary filmmakers looking for women who were in Madison. Tootling around Madison in a Lake Mills Menomonee takeover of the Alexian Brother Novi- looking for love. Once they found their subjects, they Cleaners & Dyers van, the guys visit the “legendary” tiate in Gresham, Wisconsin. The Novitiate is now an spent a whole year (Valentine’s Day to Valentine’s Wisconsin’s Own Filmmakers High School Hockey Hall of Fame, try to pick up girls, abandoned, eerie site, and the film traces its history Day) following the highs and lows of the romantic SPONSOR(S) > Wisconsin Film Office and get into a Duel-like tangle with a black “devil through interviews with participants, reenactments, lives of three women. At first they focused on how the PROGRAMS truck” that seems to be trailing them. But soon the and historical footage (including Marlon Brando, who women found men to date, but the project evolved into guys begin to flag, beset by typical 30-year-olds’ prob- Art and Community in Wisconsin supported the Menomonee cause). something richer and more emotionally complex. lems (new baby, flaky business partners, gout). One At Home and Asea Two new documentaries spotlight Wisconsin “It became very confessional,” Middien says. by one they bail out until finally Owen is left to make E-Day! artists and local arts scene: Stating the Arts in Mil- “The women began to feel more comfortable talking the last perilous stage of the journey alone, learning waukee features interviews with artists, collectors, to the camera than to a friend. We were surprised that The Goddaughter some hard lessons in the process. and residents about Milwaukee’s exploding arts scene they loved being filmed and almost became reliant on Home Movie No Sleep plays like a road movie, but it’s also a and also probes the politics of art; and The Sid Boyum it, like counseling.” The subjects appear natural, spon- The Last Day of November sharply written ensemble comedy starring Jim Gaffi- Sculpture Project celebrates a venerated local folk taneous, and unrehearsed, which Middien attributes gan (Three Kings, Super Troopers, and The Ellen Show) Making of Red Betsy artist and long-time resident of the Schenk-Atwood to their technique of letting the camera run without and featuring luminaries of Chicago’s improv scene Man Hunt neighborhood in Madison. trying to force an outcome. “The truth will come out (TJ Jagodowski, Jed Resnik, Tami Sagher,Will Clinger Mexicanidad if you leave the camera on long enough,” Middien and Susan Messing). The filmmakers shot in Wis- says. My Old House consin over a three-week period in February 2000, or Made By Wisconsin Beyond the Wisconsin movie, the “Wisconsin’s Own” Man Hunt has also chosen the Wisconsin Film No Sleep ‘til Madison as Rudy puts it, “22 days of scrambling around Dane series also invites films made by filmmakers with Wis- Festival as the site of its world premiere, due to the Perceptions of Perception: Short Film County,getting into accidents and watching the snow consin ties (natives, residents, or college/university filmmakers’ Wisconsin ties. “We’re coming home with and Video Works by Scott Stark melt.” The film displays a great eye for Madison alums). Even though many of these films aren’t about a piece of work we’re proud of,” Middien says. Her locales thanks to cinematographer (and Madison Pickup Polka Wisconsin, the often have that odd slant or offbeat next film, now in progress, will also be on the theme native) Brad Milsap, who makes his feature debut with Robot Bastard! angle that seems characteristic of Wisconsin’s films of dating and Middien plans to film it entirely in Wis- No Sleep. Locations include Governor Dodge State Stories from Up North and filmmakers. consin. Park, Monona Terrace (transformed into the High A highlight is the feature film Man Hunt,a The Wisconsin’s Own competition also presents Student Competition Winners School Hockey Hall of Fame), the Coliseum, UW Hos- refreshing and funny documentary that follows three an array of short films by local filmmakers: Student Shorts Program I and II: pital (which gave the filmmakers an entire wing to women for one year as they search for a mate. Co- Narrative shorts: Pickup Polka, a surprising twist Variations on Youth and Midwestern Life shoot in), Dane County Airport, and an Extended directors Melanie Middien and Alia Yunis met at the on pickup basketball; Cat Lady, featuring renowned Swing StayAmerica hotel. Los Angeles branch of the Wisconsin Screenwriters “dingbat” Irma St. Paule, who’s appeared on Satur- Other films with unusual and imaginative takes Wisconsin Shorts I, II and III Forum (both are founding members of the Forum, and day Night Live and Comedy Central; Bob the Slob,the on Wisconsin life include: Wisconsin’s Own Competition Winners: Middien’s fiancé is Wisconsin native and Man Hunt story of a school bus driver; The Golden Smile, about The Dogs of El Niño, documents the annual sled- Documentary, Experimental, producer Matt Rader). “Our original idea was to fol- a young boy’s obsession with a puppet show; and Robot dog races on Madeline Island, off the Northern tip of Shorts and Feature low someone who makes finding a husband a full-time Bastard!, a sci-fi spoof with a robot fighting zombie 24 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • APRIL 4-7, 2002 • MADISON • WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM Print Sources

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WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • APRIL 4-7, 2002 • MADISON • WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM 25 ETC? Isn’t that the company in Middleton that makes lights for theaters or something?

You mean,

The Academy Awards… 2002 Winter Olympics… The Metropolitan Opera… The Sopranos… The Producers… MTV… The Blue Man Group… The Tonight Show with Jay Leno… Moulin Rouge…?

Yeah, that’s us.

ETC salutes the Wisconsin Film Festival

www.etcconnect.com

FESTIVAL VENUES Downtown University of Wisconsin-Madison Orpheum Theatre, 216 State Street Campus Madison Art Center / Madison Civic Center Memorial Union Play Circle 211 State Street 800 Langdon Street Majestic Theatre, 115 King Street UW Cinematheque Bartell Theatre, 113 East Mifflin Street Rm. 4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Avenue Steep & Brew (coffeehouse discussions) The Pyle Center (panels) 544 State Street 702 Langdon Street

PARKING City Ramps (rates vary) Capitol Square North (near Bartell Theatre) Capitol Square North ramp Near Lower Campus 218 East Mifflin Street (close to Vilas Hall, Memorial Union) State Street Campus Ramp University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus Enter at 415 N. Lake Street or 430 N. Frances Street Metered or attendant. Lot hours vary. Check website “logistics” (www.wifilmfest.org) for details. Fluno Center (Lot 83) Downtown (near Orpheum Theatre, 601 University Avenue, enter off Frances Street Madison Art Center) Grainger Hall (Lot 7) Civic Center Ramp 975 University Avenue, enter lot off of Brooks Street 318 West Mifflin Street between University and West Johnson State Street Capitol Ramp Helen C. White Hall (Lot 6) 214 North Carroll Street 600 North Park Street Southeast Ramp (Lot 46) King Street Area (near Johnson and Lake Streets Majestic Theatre) University Square Parking (Lot 47) Government East Ramp 800 block of East Johnson between Park and 215 South Pinckney Lake streets

26 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • APRIL 4-7, 2002 • MADISON • WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM LODGING The Madison Concourse Hotel, a Festival sponsor, SPONSORS and the following fine establishments have graciously offered special rates and amenities for 2002 Festival participants. The Wisconsin Film Festival gratefully acknowledges the following sponsors and partners: Please contact them for information, and be sure to mention that you are attending the Wisconsin Film Festival. PRESENTED BY MAJOR SPONSORS

The Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor’s Club 1 West Dayton St., Madison, WI 53703 MEDIA SPONSORS — MADISON MEDIA SPONSOR — MILWAUKEE (608) 257-6000 / (800) 356-8293 fax (608) 257-5280 www.concoursehotel.com Madison’s premier hotel, located in the heart of Madison just steps from State Street, the Orpheum and Majestic Theatres, and the University of Wisconsin Campus.

MAJOR PARTNERS AND VENUES

Best Western Inn on the Park 22 S. Carroll St., Madison, WI 53703 (608) 257-8811 / (800) 279-8811 fax (608) 257-5995 CONTRIBUTING SPONSORS [email protected] • www.innonthepark.net On the Capitol Square, walking distance to Orpheum and Majestic Theatres, shuttle service, complimentary parking, two restaurants, lounges on site.

Friedrick Center TECHNICAL SPONSORS UW–MADISON SPONSORS UW Extension Conference Centers 1950 Willow Drive, Madison, WI 53706 AUDIO-VISUAL (608) 231-1341 fax (608) 263-9183 OF MADISON [email protected] • www.uwex.edu/ecc/friedrick THE LONYA NENASHEV Located on the UW Madison campus with Lake Mendota view. BRITTINGHAM CENTER FOR Complimentary breakfast, parking, and campus shuttle. INTELLASOUND PRODUCTIONS TRUST THE HUMANITIES EVENTS PLUS EUROPEAN STUDIES ALLIANCE MADISON THEATRICAL STAGE EMPLOYEES / CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES The Lowell Center MOVING PICTURE MACHINE TECHNICIANS, LOCAL 251 UW Extension Conference Centers THE CHANCELLOR’S OFFICE 610 Langdon St., Madison, WI 53703 MARKETING CAMPAIGN THE RWJ PROJECT (608) 256-2621 • fax (608) 262-5445 [email protected] • www.uwex.edu/ecc/lowell THE WISCONSIN UNION The Lowell Center is a hotel operated by the University of UNIVERSITY LECTURES COMMITTEE PROFESSIONAL FRENCH MASTERS PROGRAM Wisconsin located near the Memorial Union and State Street. WISCONSIN CENTER FOR FILM i-cubed AND THEATER RESEARCH CONTINUING STUDIES, LIBERAL STUDIES AND THE ARTS SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES VISITING MADISON For further assistance, contact: ADDITIONAL SPONSORS / PARTNERS

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University of Wisconsin—Madison STEVE JARCHOW, Campus Assistance and Visitor Center REGENT ENTERTAINMENT THE CULTURAL SERVICES TEMPLE BETH EL OF THE FRENCH EMBASSY, CHICAGO 716 Langdon St., Red Gym, (608) 263-2400, HILLEL or www.visit.wisc.edu. THE DISTRICT: MADISON’S DOWNTOWN MILWAUKEE INDEPENDENT FILM SOCIETY BUSINESS DISTRICT BETH ISRAEL CENTER MIRAMAX FILMS Wisconsin Department of Tourism GREATER MADISON CONVENTION & MADISON JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL WISCONSIN PUBLIC TELEVISION (800 )432-TRIP (800-432-8747) VISITORS BUREAU ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT or www.travelwisconsin.com INDEPENDENT FILM AND VIDEO WISCONSIN SCREENWRITERS FORUM VIDEO & FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE RONEE BERGMAN SPECIAL THANKS TO BONGO VIDEO, MADISON

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WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • APRIL 4-7, 2002 • MADISON • WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM 27 TICKETS 2002 Wisconsin Film Festival: Ordering Tickets or Packages Tickets are required for admission to each program at all festival venues unless otherwise indicated in the program. You can buy either a ticket Advance Ticket Box Office: Wisconsin Union Theater Box Office / Annex Room (2nd floor), package, or single tickets for particular film screenings. If you want to order, please take the time to read this page carefully, including the fine print. Memorial Union, 800 Langdon Street, Madison. Phone (608) 265-2933 or (608) 262-5981. Fax: (608) 262-5869. Please note: Check “Today in the Union” (TITU) for special Fes- Ticket Type: Number General Price: Student Price On Sale tival Box Office location. On March 8, 9, 22, 23,and 27, Festival Alpha Package 16 $50 $25 Mar 7 - Apr 3 tickets cannot be printed for walk-up customers after 5pm (due Beta Package 8 $35 $17 Mar 7 - Apr 3 *If still available, to theater performance ticketing at those times). Walk-up Single Ticket for film or talk 1 $7 $4 Mar 21 - Apr 3* single tickets to orders will still be accepted. Tickets will be printed the next day, held at the box office, and must be picked up by April 3. Festival Parties 1 $10 $7 March 7 with screenings will be Box Office Hours: A Little Princess: Free Tickets for package; sold at the door at Thursday, March 7 through Wednesday, April 3, 2002 Kids 12 & Under ------SingeSingle Tickets Tickets the festival Mar 21 - Apr 3 Monday to Friday: 11:30 am to 8:00 pm venues April 4 - 7 (Spring Break, March 25-29: 3:00 pm to 8:00 pm) Saturdays: a) March 9 and 16: noon to 8:00 pm b) March 23 and 30: noon to 5:00 pm Wisconsin Film Festival Ticket Order Form Sundays: CLOSED 2002 How To Place Your Advance Ticket Order NAME ______1. Pick your films and talks, using the website (www.wifilm- fest.org) or this printed program. ADDRESS ______2. Fill out the order form completely. For package orders, CITY ______STATE ______ZIP ______select a second choice for each event. Incomplete forms will not be processed. DAYTIME PHONE ______EVENING ______3. Submit your order with payment to the box office. Bring, mail or fax completed order form to the Wisconsin Union The- FAX ______EMAIL ______ater Box Office. You can also purchase tickets and packages by phone. There’s a $5 service charge for processing all orders submitted by fax, phone or mail. Keep a copy of the UW-MADISON ID# ______I am a student at (check one) order form for your records. OTHER SCHOOL ______To receive student discount you must present current student ID at 4. Advance tickets can be purchased with cash, check or cred- time of purchase or enclose photocopy with order. it card (Visa or MasterCard). Cash only is accepted for ticket purchases at the door, April 4 - 7. Method of payment (check one) CASH CHECK ENCLOSED, PAYABLE TO WISCONSIN UNION THEATER 5. We recommend that you place your order by March 28. The Box Office is very busy the week before the Festival. If you Charge my VISA MASTERCARD CARD# ______place your order by March 28, you’ll get a better choice of films, and you will have a better chance of avoiding long lines EXP DATE (MM/YY) ______SIGNATURE ______and busy signals. 6. Orders placed by fax, phone or mail by March 28 will be ADVANCE PACKAGE SALES BEGIN MARCH 7 AND END APRIL 3. COUPON FOR ONE FREE VIDEO RENTAL AT WITH EACH PACK- mailed to you. Orders received March 29 through April 3 will Package Orders AGE PURCHASED. PACKAGE BUYERS CAN PURCHASE PARTY TICKETS/ORDER FREE KID’S MOVIE TICKETS IN ORDER SUMMARY SECTION. be held for Will Call pickup. 7. Will Call: Wisconsin Union Theater Box Office / Annex ALPHA PACKAGE BETA PACKAGE Room, 800 Langdon. Hours as follows for April 4 – 7: Thurs- A (16 TICKETS) • GENERAL: $50 STUDENT: $25 B (8 TICKETS) • GENERAL: $35 STUDENT: $17 day & Friday, 11:30am – 9pm. Saturday 10am – 6pm; Sunday noon – 6pm. 1ST CHOICE 2ND CHOICE 1ST CHOICE 2ND CHOICE # OF FILM / TALK # OF FILM / TALK Ticket Packages CODE DATECODE DATE TKTS CODE DATE CODE DATE TKTS A ticket package lets you buy a group of tickets for yourself or to share with friends and family at a significant discount. Because advance package sales start before single ticket sales, you get priority in film selection. Package buyers must select film tickets at time of purchase. If you’re having trouble selecting all the films for your ticket package, vouchers can be issued in lieu of tickets. Vouchers can be exchanged later for hard tickets only if still available and only in person at the Wisconsin Union Theater Box Office through April 3 or at the door April 4 through 7. Voucher holders are not guaranteed availability of tickets for exchange nor a seat in any screening. Vouchers are only available with purchase of ticket packages. Special Bonus for package buyers: Coupon for one free video rental at Bongo Video (Madison) with each package pur- chased at the Box Office.

Parties # OF VOUCHERS Festival party tickets are not included in package orders. Par- ty tickets can be purchased separately with package or single Ticket Order Summary ticket orders. LIMIT 4 TICKETS PER FILM, TALK OR PARTY. Single Tickets Single ticket buyers can buy up to four tickets for any individ- TICKETS QTY TOTAL ual film screening or other ticketed program. Talks PACKAGE A GENERAL $50 / STUDENT $25 $ Some talks are free and some require a paid ticket. For free talks seating is limited and on a first come basis. On the order PACKAGE B GENERAL $35 / STUDENT $17 $ form please list only paid ticketed talks that you would like to attend. Paid ticketed talks can be included in package orders; SINGLE GENERAL $7 / STUDENT $4 $ a second choice is still required. FRIDAY NIGHT PARTY GNL $10 / STDT $7 $ Student Price The discounted student price is available to any student SATURDAY NIGHT PARTY GNL $10 / STDT $7 $ (grade school, high school, college, graduate school) with cur- # OF VOUCHERS rent ID. Bring your (own) ID to the box office or enclose a pho- FREE KIDS MOVIE: A LITTLE PRINCESS* tocopy of it with your ticket order to receive the student dis- Single Ticket Orders count. Student status is subject to verification. GENERAL: $7 STUDENT: $4 SERVICE FEE $5 (FOR PHONE, FAX OR MAIL ORDERS ONLY) $ The Fine Print: Yes, even you need to read this! ADVANCE SINGLE TICKET SALES BEGIN MARCH 21 AND END APRIL 3 TOTAL $ To guarantee admittance, ticket holders must arrive 15 min- 1ST CHOICE 2ND CHOICE # OF *A Little Princess, Kids under 12 FREE FILM / TALK utes prior to show. Available seats will be filled at curtain CODE DATECODE DATE TKTS time. Latecomers with tickets are not guaranteed admittance. All sales are final. No refunds for tickets or packages. No replacements for lost tickets. Individual film tickets can be exchanged in person only through April 3 at the Wisconsin SERVICE FEE FOR PHONE, FAX OR MAIL ORDER: $5.00 PER ORDER Union Theater Box Office, 800 Langdon Street, Madison. Please have your ticket order form and film selection filled out completely before sending, Absolutely no exchanges for hard tickets after April 3. Pack- faxing or bringing it to the Box Office, or before calling age holder vouchers can be exchanged for tickets if available to order tickets via phone. Incomplete orders cannot be processed. at the box office through April 3 or at the door April 4 - 7. WISCONSIN UNION THEATER BOX OFFICE: Original ticket package and receipt must be presented for 800 Langdon St • Madison, WI 53706 exchange of tickets or vouchers. FESTIVAL TICKET SALES: PH: (608) 265.2933 or (608) 262.5981 • FX: (608) 262.5869

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