July / August 2012 PROGRAM

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New World Documentaries Neil Young Journeys Shorts & Artist Talks The New Wave: The First Decade in a New Century CANADIAN & INTERNATIONAL FEATURES Cloudburst Indie Game: the movie

www.winnipegcinematheque.com New World Documentaries

indie game: the movie

THE NATIONAL JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI INDIE GAME: THE MOVIE THIS IS NOT A FILM PARKS PROJECT DIRs. DAVID GELB & MATHIEU ROY DIRS. JAMES SWIRSKY & DIRS. JAFAR PANAHI & DIRS. ZACHARIAS KUNUK, JOHN 2012 | USA | 82 MIN LISANNE PAJOT MOJTABA MIRTAHMASB WALKER, PETER LYNCH, LOUISE (Japanese w/English Subtitles) 2011 | CANADA | 94 MIN 2011 | IRAN | 75 MIN ARCHAMBAULT, CATHERINE FRI JUL 6 & SAT JUL 7 - 9:00 PM (Persian w/English Subtitles) MARTIN, DANIEL COCKBURN, WED JUL 4 - 7:00 PM KEVIN MCMAHON, STURLA FRI JUL 6 & SAT JUL 7 - 7:00 PM SUN JUL 8 - 7:00 PM FRI AUG 3 & SAT AUG 4 - 9:00 PM GUNNARSON, HUBERT DAVIS, SUN JUL 8 - 2:00 PM THU JUL 12 - 9:00 PM SUN AUG 5 - 7:00 PM SCOTT SMITH, STÉPHANE LAFLEUR, THU AUG 9 - 9:00 PM JAMIE TRAVIS, KEITH BERHMAN THU JUL 12 - 7:00 PM This amazing success story by 2011 | CANADA | 127 MIN Winnipeggers James Swirsky and Sentenced to six years in prison for 85 year old Jiro Ono is considered Lisanne Pajot looks at the underdogs SUN JUL 1 - 7:00 PM advocating propaganda against by many to be the world’s greatest of the video game industry, indie sushi chef. He is the proprietor of the Islam Republic and banned from To mark Canada Day we present game developers, who sacrifice Sukiyabashi Jiro, a 10-seat, sushi- making movies for 20 years, Iranian this film which was created to money, health and sanity to realize only restaurant inauspiciously located filmmaker Jafar Panahi made a film honor the 100th Anniversary of the their lifelong dreams of sharing their in a Tokyo subway station. Despite anyway using an iPhone and a national parks system in Canada. creative visions with the world. This its humble appearances, it is the first digital camera. Working with fellow Thirteen acclaimed Canadian Sundance award-winning restaurant of its kind to be awarded director Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, he directors were commissioned to film captures the tension and a prestigious 3 star Michelin review, created the film in his apartment create a series of films interpreting drama by focusing on these artist’s and sushi lovers from around the while under house arrest. It is a the country’s national parks. Each vulnerability and obsessive quest globe make repeated pilgrimage, bold act of political defiance. He work was created together with to express themselves through calling months in advance and expresses his anger in an eloquent three musicians; the artists were a 21st century art form. shelling out top dollar for a coveted manner, acts out the dialogue for the all given five days in a national seat at Jiro’s sushi bar. “The film manages to not only give film he is not allowed to make and park, to collaborate on a film us a glimpse into the fascinating shows clips from his award winning and soundtrack inspired by the Jiro Dreams of Sushi is a thoughtful world of indie game development… films heT White Balloon, The Circle, environment. Covering all of and elegant meditation on work, the movie tugs at your heart strings and The Mirror. This ingenious act Canada’s provinces and territories, family, and the art of perfection, while weaving dramatic stories with of film subversion was smuggled out the collection highlights the diversity chronicling Jiro’s life as both precision and vision. It’s a must see.” of Iran on a flash drive hidden in a of this country’s massive landscape, an unparalleled success in the - GERMAIN LUSSIER cake and screened at the Cannes from the mystery of the Pacific culinary world, and a loving yet Film Festival to great acclaim. rainforest to the fragile dunes of the complicated father. Maritime coast. Musicians included "An inspiring must-see for anyone who feels the urgent need to create Sam Roberts, John K. Samson and something beautiful and meaningful, many more. no matter the cost." - CHRISTY LEMIRE, ASSOCIATED PRESS

1 JULY / AUGUST 2012 NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS

BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!* BETTER THAN SOMETHING JAY REATARD NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS DIR. FREDRIK GERTTEN DIRS. ALEX HAMMOND & IAN MARKIEWICZ DIR. JONATHAN DEMME 2012 | | 88 MIN 2011 | USA | 89 MIN 2011 | USA | 87 MIN (English, Swedish And Spanish w/ English Subtitles) FRI AUG 17 & SAT AUG 18 - 9:00 PM FRI AUG 24 & SAT AUG 25 - 7:00 PM FRI AUG 10 & SAT AUG 11 - 7:00 PM SUN AUG 19 - 7:00 PM SUN AUG 26 – 2:00 PM SUN AUG 12 - 2:00 PM THU AUG 23 - 9:00 PM WED AUG 29 TO FRI AUG 31 - 7:00 PM Wed Aug 15 & Thu Aug 16 - 7:00 PM Better Than Something Jay Reatard is a dynamic Jonathan Demme’s Neil Young Journeys is the and poignant portrait of Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr. final film in the trilogy of Neil Young concert films Winner of Best Documentary at the Sarasota Film (better known as Jay Reatard); a garage punk icon beginning with Heart of Gold and Trunk Show. Festival, Big Boys Gone Bananas!* was also the who died four months before his 30th birthday. Demme follows Neil on a road trip through Ontario audience favourite at the Full Frame Documentary Born into poverty in Memphis, he learned the craft where he visits the small town of Omemee, where, Film Festival and was recently voted second of songwriting and played in numerous bands next to Winnipeg, he spent some of his formative favourite at the Hot Docs Festival. including The Reatards, Lost Sounds, The Final years growing up. The film finishes with a live solo In 2009 Fredrik Gertten’s documentary Bananas!* Solutions, Nervous Patterns, Angry Angles, and performance at Toronto’s Massey Hall – both electric chronicling a lawsuit against controversial food Destruction Unit. He opened for The Pixies and and acoustic, mixing new songs from his album La giant Dole, was set to premiere at the Dinosaur Jr. and was admired by Beck and Arcade Noise with classics like Ohio and I Believe in You. Film Festival. Dole responded with an aggressive Fire’s Win Butler. Jay had an extraordinarily difficult “Journeys features some of the most astounding media and public relations campaign to quash the personality and was also hilarious, outspoken and footage of the hallowed rock legend you will ever film’s release and discredit the reputation of the outrageous with a mesmerizing screen presence. In see committed to film. Neil is admittedly in great filmmakers. The filmmaking team behind Bananas!* live shows he ripped down disco balls and once bit form here. There are plenty of stunning moments refused to be bullied, filing a counter law suit and the head off of a pigeon. The film features interviews - a heartbreaking Down by the River, and a truly launching their own media strategy. Their point with Jay as well as his bandmates and friends and powerful sequence in honor of those slain during was that no one suing them had even seen the film. features lots of electrifying performance footage. the Kent State Massacre.” A true documentarian, Gertten again picks up his “Riveting, sad, and inspiring Better Than Something camera to capture his fight for free speech.Big Boys - GREG KLYMKIW / CFC is the best rock documentary since DIG!” Gone Bananas!* is an in depth case study of an independent filmmaker’s David and Goliath battle - AV CLUB Neil Young Journeys has been generously with a corporate machine. sponsored by Joanne Lesko & Cindi French Royal LePage Dynamic Real Estate "Big Boys Gone Bananas!* is a fun ride. It got a well-deserved standing ovation here at Sundance." - CIVILIZED DISOBEDIENCE

2 JULY / AUGUST 2012 CANADIAN & INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILMS

THE KID WITH A BIKE (LE GAMIN AU VELO)

free member screening aug 13!

CLOUDBURST BEYOND THE BLACK THE KID WITH A BIKE H.P. LOVECRAFT DIR. THOM FITZGERALD RAINBOW (LE GAMIN AU VELO) HORRORS DOUBLE BILL! To honour the birthday of one 2011 | CANADA | 94 MIN DIR. PANOS COSMATOS DIRS. JEAN PIERRE & LUC of the greatest horror writers of 2012 | CANADA | 110 MIN FRI AUG 3 & SAT AUG 4 - 7:00 PM DARDENNE the 20th century, H.P. Lovecraft, 2011| BELGIUM, FRANCE, SUN AUG 5 - 2:00 PM FRI AUG 10 & Cinematheque presents these horror SAT AUG 11 - 9:00 PM ITALY | 87 MIN films based on his early classics. WED AUG 8 & THU AUG 9 - 7:00 PM SAT AUG 11 - 11:30 PM (French w/English Subtitles) FRI AUG 24 & Oscar® winning actresses Olympia SUN AUG 12 - 7:00 PM MON AUG 13 - 7:00 PM SAT AUG 25 - 9:00 PM Dukakis and Brenda Fricker play an (Member screening) THU AUG 16 - 9:00 PM SUN AUG 26 - 7:00 PM aging couple named Stella and Dot Cinematheque members get in for THU AUG 30 & who have been together for 31 years free! Please RSVP to Kristy at Elena has been a prisoner her entire FRI AUG 31 - 9:00 PM and have faithfully accompanied [email protected] life, her world consisting of four stark one another through life's ups and white walls and one single window. FRI AUG 17 & The Whisperer In downs. Now in their seventies, Stella And on the other side of that SAT AUG 18 - 7:00 PM is hard of hearing and Dot is legally Darkness window, Doctor Barry Nyle. Is he SUN AUG 19 - 2:00 PM blind. Dotty's prudish granddaughter, Elena’s salvation or her tormenter? dir. Sean Branney Molly, decides the best place for Dot WED AUG 22 & Will she ever be free to live a 2011 | usa | 103 min is a nursing home that will provide THU AUG 23 - 7:00 PM normal life? And what, pray tell, is all the necessities. This forces Stella the exact purpose of the glowing Professor Albert investigates legends and Dot to make a bold decision: The Kid with a Bike is a deeply pyramid at the centre of the institute of strange creatures in the remote they will leave their hometown and affecting story of an 11 year old boy that contains them both? Director hills of Vermont. He discovers make their way to Canada, where who sets out in a desperate search Cosmatos plunges the audience strange footprints and suspects aliens same-sex marriage is legal. for his father after his abandonment into a sort of sensory overload as from space. His inquiry reveals a at a local children’s home. Winner “Stella and Dot are like a modern he fuses elements of Reagan-era terrifying glimpse of the truth that of the Grand Jury Prize at last year's day Bonnie and Clyde… paranoia, social engineering run lurks behind the legends. Cannes Film Festival The Kid with a a road trip comedy - sweet and amok and a drug fuelled step up Bike is the work of master filmmakers simple.” the evolutionary ladder to create a THE CALL OF CTHULHU in the social realist style of Truffaut’s hypnotic experience that plays out - EDMONTON VUE WEEKLY The 400 Blows and The Bicycle DIR. ANDREW LEMAN like a Tarkovsky style science fiction Thief. 2005 | USA | 47 MIN picture. The Kid with a Bike is generously A dying professor’s strange bequest sponsored by Radio Canada PLAYS WITH leads his nephew on a globe- spanning investigation to unravel A La Carte a twisted knot of fear, madness, dir. Jocelyne Le Leannec, 2012, nameless cults and horrors best left Canada, 3 min. unknown. A silent movie shot in Mythoscope, it is Lovecraft's most It’s feeding time in a dark, famous story. Mythoscope is a unearthly world. Here, tranquil technique using modern technology feasts are often disrupted. and vintage filmmaking techniques to create the moody, atmospheric look of an old movie. 3 JULY / AUGUST 2012 Shorts & THE NEW Artists Talks WAVE: The First Decade in a New Century

Screening and DVD launch THU JUL 5 - 7:00 PM

THE NEW WAVE, the last of a six DVD set CINEMA LOUNGE celebrating films from the Winnipeg Film Group’s CRITICAL DIALOGUE ON CANADIAN CINEMA Distribution catalogue, features 13 films from the first decade of the 21st century. These films, FREE ADMISSION in some cases the filmmaker’s first or very early work, showcase the talented array of filmmaking The Cinema Lounge series was created to spark a dialogue about Canadian cinema and styles and voices that have emerged from Manitoba in recent years. help combat the onslaught of Hollywood publicity that saturates most film media coverage in Canada. Through this series the Winnipeg Film Group invites deeply respected artists Curated by Cecilia Araneda, Danishka Esterhazy & Solomon Nagler in the Canadian film community to select and write about a work from the vast and rich body of Canadian cinema that has impacted them as artists. This unique series contributes Film(knout) dir. Deco Dawson to a larger public debate on the awareness and thematic concerns addressed by The Lost Bundefjord Expedition Canadian film. dir. Matthew Holm

A Bit Transcendental dir. Patrick Lowe Buenos Aires Souvenir dir. Sean Garrity Unwoven dir. Cecilia Araneda Embowered dir. Danishka Esterhazy perhaps/We dir. Solomon Nagler Asleep at the Wheel dir. Mike Maryniuk Meskanahk (My Path) dir. Kevin Lee Burton alison davis introduces steve loft introduces Isolating Landscapes dir. Heidi Phillips GAMBLING, GODS AND LSD A WINDIGO TALE INDIAN dir. Darryl Nepinak DIR. PETER METTLER DIR. ARMAND GARNET RUFFO 2002 | CANADA | 180 MIN 2010 | CANADA | 92 MIN Hydro-Lévesque dir. Matthew Rankin WED JUL 11 - 7:00 PM WED AUG 1 - 7:00 PM IKWÉ dir. Caroline Monnet Gambling, Gods and LSD is an experimental Filmed on Six Nations Reserve in Ontario and Please join us at the Free Press Cafe documentary that defies easy categorization. The in the Ottawa Valley, the film tells a powerful for a post screening reception! film takes us on a journey of discovery to various story of intergenerational trauma and healing. A parts of the globe observing the different ways in Native grandfather, desperate to save his troubled We acknowledge the support of the Canada which people seek transcendence. Mettler interviews grandson from a life on the street, shares the dark Council for the Arts, which last year invested heroin addicts, gamblers, born again Christians, secrets of their family and community. In an isolated $154 million to bring the arts to Canadians Albert Hoffman (the inventor of LSD), each of them village, an estranged mother and daughter must throughout the country. seeking to express the meaning of their life. reunite to exorcise the voracious Windigo spirit tied to a painful past. Born in Pinawa, Manitoba and raised in Deep The New Wave screening and reception has been River, Ontario, Alison Davis spent most of her Steven Loft is a Mohawk of the Six Nations. He is generously sponsored by On Screen Manitoba, childhood playing in the woods. She graduated a curator, scholar, writer and media artist. He was Zappia Group Realty and Half Pints Brewing with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film Animation in named Trudeau National Visiting Fellow at Ryerson Company. 2004 from Concordia University, . After her University, where he is continuing his research in graduation she decided to move to Winnipeg where Indigenous art and aesthetics. Formerly, he was she still lives and draws her traditionally animated Curator-In-Residence, Indigenous Art at the National films. Her animated films have played at festivals Gallery of Canada, Director/Curator of the Urban around the world and she has won numerous Shaman Gallery, and Aboriginal Curator at the Art scholarships and awards. Gallery of Hamilton. He has written extensively on Indigenous art and aesthetics for various magazines, catalogues and arts publications.

4 JULY / AUGUST 2012 IMAGES ACROSS The Images Festival is the largest festival edge film, video and moving image art, CANADA 25th in North America for experimental and the Images Festival is goin’ down the road! ANNIVERSARY TOUR independent moving image culture, Images Across Canada is Images first ever showcasing the innovative edge of cross Canada, coast to coast tour and will THU AUG 2 international contemporary media art both bring great films to audiences all across the FREE ADMISSION on and off the screen. To celebrate 25 country. All programs will be introduced by years devoted to the exhibition of cutting programmers from Images.

program one - 7:00 pm A Letter to the Living Reflections on states of being and ending. Working with the real, the imagined and the remembered, the artists in this S.T.T.L. The Well of Representation program address death in both dir. Elisabeth Smolarz, 2011, USA, 4 min dir. Evan Meaney, 2012, USA, 7 min literal and figurative ways. As a woman folds laundry at a laundromat she From 16mm to 16 bit! Using Hollis Frampton’s delivers a detailed clinical account of the physical Gloria! as a foundation, the film is a remake and transformations that occur in the human body as it reconsideration of this avant garde classic from succumbs to cancer. 1979.

Algonquin To Mark the Shape Under the Shadow of Marcus Mountain dir. Travis Shilling, 2011, Canada, 4 min dir. JB Mabe, 2011, USA, 3 min dir. Robert Schaller, USA, 2011, 6 min

A brutal and poetic story of a wolf reincarnated in A fleeting portrait of a snowy landscape shot on Schaller’s stripped down 16mm filmmaking is the the world as a man. expired film stock with a broken down camera. epitome of independent cinema; he uses manual processing, custom made emulsions and chemicals and shoots with pinhole cameras and other handmade devices.

Hoof, Tooth & Claw where she stood in the first place Señora con Flores (Woman with Flowers) dirs. Chu-Li Shewring, Adam Gutch, 2011, UK, dir. Lindsay McIntyre, 2010, Canada, 10 min dir. Chick Strand, 1995, USA, 15 min 17 min Situated at the geographic centre of Canada, Baker Chick Strand’s last film, a portrait of a Mexican An affecting and sympathetic portrait of 86 year Lake, Nunavut is the only inland settlement in the flower vendor, is a perfect example of her old farmer Betty French, her land and the various Canadian Arctic. McIntyre’s haunting and sparse empathetic ethnography. animals in her care: horses, cattle and a gnarled film uses hand wrought black and white 16mm film. and greying pack of sheep.

5 JULY / AUGUST 2012 Portrait De La Place Ville Marie Third Law: N. Kedzie Blvd. dir. Alexandre Larose, 2011, Canada, 3 min dir. Mike Gibisser, 2011, USA, 7 min

Both hub and landmark, Montreal’s Place Ville Part three of a four part series, each focusing program two - 9:00 pm Marie is significant as much for its underground city on a different location and a different law of as its moderinist towers. In this film Larose frees the thermodynamics. In this part Gibissier documents A Place in the World edifice from its foundations, allowing the forms to the change of seasons on North Kedzie Blvd. dance an abstract pas des deux against a dazzling in Chicago. These four films reflect on distinct blue sky. structures and environments, drawing out qualities of space, time architecture and weather.

East Hastings pharmacy The Home and the World dir. Antoine Bourges, 2011, Canada, 46 min dir. Lucy Parker, 2011, UK, 19 min

Bourges documents the daily routine of a typical Parker filmed the rural care facility pictured in this pharmacy in Vancouver’s downtown Eastside, film over the duration of nine months. She returned where most clients are on a treatment that requires to the place every two weeks, documenting the taking daily doses of methadone witnessed by the ways in which routines in weekly life are focused on pharmacist. The architecture of the space is as nurture and development. much a character as the population which passes through it.

RADICAL RECESS: A Screening of Avant Garde Films for Children! SAT AUG 4 - 2:00 PM FREE ADMISSION Curated by Larissa Fan

Inspired by the Courtisane Festival’s Baby Matinee, Images presents a 16mm experimental film programme for children. Radical Recess attempts to engage children with experimental film and contemporary art, demonstrating that they can have even more radical tastes than their parents! This short program includes Ed Ackerman’s masterpiece of typewriter animation, the three minute animated classic Primiti Too Taa, Steve Woloshen’s direct animated work Didre Novo, a film that sets shapes, lines and colours to the beat of Masai tribal music and Jennifer Reeve’s The Girl’s Nervy in which fleeting shapes in lush colours flicker and move across the screen.

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JULY 2012 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 7:00 PM National Parks Project 7:00 PM Jiro Dreams of Sushi 7:00 PM The New Wave 7:00 PM Jiro Dreams of Sushi 7:00 PM Jiro Dreams of Sushi 9:00 PM Indie Game: The Movie 9:00 PM Indie Game: The Movie

8 9 10 11 12 2:00 PM Jiro Dreams of Sushi 7:00 PM Cinema Lounge: 7:00 PM Jiro Dreams of Sushi Gambling, Gods and LSD 7:00 PM Indie Game: The Movie 9:00 PM Indie Game: The Movie

closed Winnipeg Fringe Festival Official Venue

AUGUST 2012 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 2 3 4 7:00 PM Cinema Lounge: 7:00 PM Images Across Canada: 7:00 PM Cloudburst 2:00 PM Images Across Canada: A Windigo Tale A Letter to the Living Radical Recess 9:00 PM This Is Not a Film 9:00 PM IMAGES ACROSS CANADA: 7:00 PM Cloudburst PLACE IN THE WORLD 9:00 PM This Is Not a Film 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 2:00 PM Cloudburst 7:00 PM Cloudburst 7:00 PM Cloudburst 7:00 PM Big Boys Gone 7:00 PM Big Boys Gone Bananas!* Bananas!* 7:00 PM This Is Not a Film 9:00 PM This Is Not a Film 9:00 PM Beyond the Black 9:00 PM Beyond the Black Rainbow Rainbow 11:30 PM Beyond the Black Rainbow 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 2:00 PM Big Boys Gone 7:00 PM 7:00 PM Big Boys Gone 7:00 PM Big Boys Gone 7:00 PM The Kid with a Bike 7:00 PM The Kid with a Bike Bananas!* Member Bananas!* Bananas!* 9:00 PM Better than something 9:00 PM Better than Something Screening: 7:00 PM Beyond the Black 9:00 PM Beyond the Black JAY reatard Jay Reatard The Kid with Rainbow Rainbow a Bike

19 20 21 22 23 24 25 2:00 PM The Kid with a Bike 7:00 PM The Kid with a Bike 7:00 PM The Kid with a Bike 7:00 PM Neil Young Journeys 7:00 PM Neil Young Journeys 7:00 PM Better than Something 9:00 PM Better than Something 9:00 PM H.P. Lovecraft Horrors 9:00 PM H.P Lovecraft Horrors Jay Reatard Jay Reatard

26 27 28 29 30 31 2:00 PM Neil Young Journeys 7:00 PM Neil Young Journeys 7:00 PM Neil Young Journeys 7:00 PM Neil Young Journeys 7:00 PM H.P. Lovecraft Horrors 9:00 PM H.P. Lovecraft Horrors 9:00 PM H.P. Lovecraft Horrors

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