March / April 2015
new world documentaries A Good Madness The Dance of Rachel Browne special events shorts & artist talks Architecture+Design Wapikoni Mobile: Film Festival 10th Anniversary Retrospective
www.winnipegcinematheque.com March/April Staff Picks
↑ Left to right: Cecilia Araneda, Dave Barber, Jaimz Asmundson, Kristy Muckosky. Photo by Leif Norman.
This year’s Oscars nominations were revealed to have included no the prospect of losing her job. Susan Algie and her curatorial team female directors. My March/April picks are but a small effort to tilt have assembled a great line up of world-class documentaries in the the universe a little bit and draw attention to some of the many architectural world and design in the upcoming Architecture+Design immensely talented women directors working in film. A Girl Walks Film Festival. Finally, Cassandre Pérusse will be here from the Wapikoni Home Alone at Night by Ana Lily Amirpour (April 9-23) immediately organization to introduce a great collection of Aboriginal shorts jumps at you out off the page as “the first Iranian vampire western” and in the Wapikoni Mobile 10th Anniversary Retrospective (April 30), a with its excellent reviews considering it to be one of the best films of collaboration between Urban Shaman, Cinematheque and Wapikoni. the year. Sol by Marie-Hélène Cousineau & Susan Avingaq (March 21) — Dave Barber, Programming Coordinator reflects on the alarming youth suicide rate in the arctic. And finally, Winnipeg’s own Danielle Sturk reflects on the impact and legacy of Susan Algie at the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation works hard every Canadian dance icon and choreographer Rachel Browne in A Good year to bring together a great program of architecture and design films. Madness (April 22-25). — Cecilia Araneda, Executive Director During the Festival you’ll see me dreaming of Palm Springs life at The Nature of Modernism and Quiet Elegance (April 16) as well as Mon Oncle As you can see, our March/April program guide is jam-packed with (April 18). Not just documentaries, the festival includes locally made fantastic films from around the world and exclusive partner events shorts and a walking tour. Also, because I’ve been on a horror movie kick such as the Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival (March 6-21) which features lately, I’m strangely excited for The Babadook (March 20-28), however the best Canadian works at last year’s TIFF including two fantastic I will have my eyes closed for most of it. Lastly, I encourage you to short film programs (featuring my personal favourite short of last watch the Wapikoni Mobile 10th Anniversary Retrospective. It’s original year – Matthew Rankin’s labouriously intricate and handcrafted programming that you will see nowhere else. tribute to WWII hero Andrew Mynarski) and the return of the — Kristy Muckosky, Operations Manager Architecture+Design Film Festival (April 15-19). I’m also very curious to see The Last Pogo Jumps Again (April 25-May 2), Colin Brunton and The two films that have piqued my interest are Leviathan (March 1-5) Kire Paputts’ three-hour epic documentary of the early Toronto punk and The Babadook. They both look terrifying but for vastly different scene. Debbie Wall of Winnipeg’s first all-girl-punk band, The Wurst, reasons. Leviathan is an Oscar-nominated film about Russian will be introducing the screenings and on the opening night we’ll have corruption and one man’s attempt to stand up for what is rightfully a record sale across the hall at Platform Gallery starting at 6:30 pm his. This is a film that was almost banned in Russia because officials with music by DJ Ack! — Jaimz Asmundson, Programming Director claimed it to be too grim of a take on modern Russia. So, it must be good. The trailer for The Babadook gave me the chills, and I am Some of my highlights include Xavier Dolan’s electrifying film Mommy reasonably desensitized to the horror genre. This film is about a boy (March 6-12) which is a must see in addition to Corbo (March 20-22), with behavioural problems who discovers a “monster under the bed” the riveting thriller about how one young man was lured in into book that eventually wreaks havoc on his mom and her psyche. the militant Quebec, separatist group the FLQ. Luc and Jean-Pierre If you like the horror genre, watch the trailer then go see the film. Dardenne’s new film Two Days, One Night (March 26-April 5) features — Mark Borowski, Box Office a powerful performance by Marion Cotillard about a woman facing
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2 staff picks Canadian & International Features
Leviathan * Two Days, One Night Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev (deux jours, une nuit) * 2014, Russia, 140 min Directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne * Russian w/English subtitles 2014, Belgium, 95 min * French w/English subtitles Sunday, March 1 / 3pm & 7 pm Wednesday & Thursday, March 4 & 5 / 7 pm Thursday & Friday, March 26 & 27 / 7 pm Saturday & Sunday, Winner of the Best Screenplay Award at Cannes March 28 & 29 / 3 pm & 7 pm last year, it is the story of Kolia who lives in Wednesday - Friday / April 1 - 3 / 7 pm Northern Russia. The town’s corrupt mayor Saturday, April 4 / 3 pm & 7 pm is determined to take away his business, his Sunday, April 5 / 7 pm house, as well as his land, but Kolia unflinchingly fights as hard as he can so as not to lose "A deeply lovable film that plays out like everything he owns. a thriller. The story of a broken woman’s journey back to herself couldn’t be more The Babadook uplifting and affecting, we left the theatre Directed by Jennifer Kent with our hearts nearly bursting." 2014, Australia, 93 min — The Playlist
Another masterwork from the Dardenne Friday & Saturday, March 20 & 21 / 9 pm brothers (The Kid with a Bike, Rosetta) Thursday - Saturday, March 26 - 28 / 9 pm features a career-high performance from "One of the best horror movies we’ve seen in Oscar winner Marion Cotillard who was years… it will put you through the wringer. nominated for Best Actress at this year’s Emotionally, psychologically. You’ll be thinking Academy Awards. Sandra, recently off work about it for days. You can see why it was so with depression, realizes that her small solar popular at Sundance… the horror element is panel factory company can operate with full-on terrifying and insane by the end of the one fewer employee and management tells movie." — Charlie Jane Andrews, i09 her she is to be let go. After learning that her co-workers will vote to decide her fate Widely considered one of the creepiest on Monday morning, Sandra races against horror films of the year, this haunting debut time over the course of the weekend, to resembles subtle horror classics like Jack convince each of her fellow employees to Clayton’s The Innocents and The Exorcist. sacrifice their much-needed bonuses so Amelia, a widowed single-mom, is struggling she can keep her job. With each encounter, to raise her 10-year-old son alone. The Sandra is brought into a different world boy has behavioral problems that isolate with unexpected results in this powerful her from friends and family, but his new statement on community solidarity. obsession about monsters invading their home is pushing Amelia to the brink.
canadian & International features 3 Canadian & International Features
The Duke of Burgundy A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night * Directed by Peter Strickland Directed by Ana Lily Amirpour 2014, USA, 104 min 2014, USA, 99 min * Farsi w/English subtitles Thursday - Saturday, April 2 - 4 / 9 pm Sunday, April 5 / 3 pm Thursday, April 9 / 9:15 pm Wednesday, April 8 / 7 pm Friday & Saturday, April 10 & 11 / 9 pm Sunday, April 12 / 7 pm “A surreal and sublime knockout. Audaciously superb. It creates a spell Thursday, April 23 / 9 pm that has us hypnotized, immersed, and still awestruck... the kind of movie that has us falling in love with movies all over again.” “One of the best films of the year. A casual masterpiece fit to live — THE PLAYLIST beside the best work of David Lynch. This is a dream on your screen, British filmmaker Peter Strickland follows his eerie Festival hit Berberian absurd, languid and possessed by the calm of an inevitable beauty. Sound Studio with this dark melodrama about an amateur butterfly This is what cinema was invented for… profound.” — David Thomson expert whose wayward desires test her lover’s tolerance. Dripping with eroticism and dread, the film chronicles the increasingly intimate Dubbed the first Iranian vampire western, the film garnered a relationship between wealthy amateur lepidopterist Cynthia and her rapturous reception at last year’s Sundance Film Festival. Set in the newly hired housekeeper, Evelyn. As Cynthia’s demands begin to betray fictitious Bad City, it is a home to debauched drug users and other a sadomasochistic streak, Evelyn becomes less a domestic servant degenerates where a subdued vampire stalks the denizens. Our than an outright sex slave, submitting to her progressively extreme vampire girl only changes her ways upon being seduced by a debonair humiliations with a surprising relish. romantic named Arash. But Amirpour’s feature directorial debut is more than just a compelling narrative – its Iranian psychedelic rock Sponsored by and stunning anamorphic black-and-white indicate a refreshing and assured new talent.
4 canadian & International features New World Documentaries
The 50 Year Argument A Good Madness - The Dance of Rachel Browne Directed by Martin Scorsese & David Tedeschi Directed by Danielle Sturk 2014, USA, 97 min 2014, Canada, 77 min
Friday, April 10 / 7 pm Wednesday - Friday, April 22 - 24 / 7 pm Saturday, April 11 / 3 pm & 7 pm Saturday, April 25 / 3 pm Sunday, April 12 / 3 pm April 22 - Q&A with director/producer Danielle Sturk and Oscar Fenoglio (editor, cinematographer). Introduction by MTS Stories from Home’s “Superb archival footage. Over the decades, the New York Review Executive Producer, Cam Bennett of Books became a home for persecuted dissident writers (Vaclav Havel, Andrei Sakharov) and the staging ground for April 23 and 24 - Q&A with director/producer Danielle Sturk and dancers heavyweight ideological bouts: Susan Sontag vs. Leni Riefenstahl on Kristin Haight (April 23) and Treasure Waddell (April 24) Fascism; Edward Said vs. Bernard Lewis on Orientalism; Gore Vidal vs. “If Rachel Browne’s career is an aesthetic tour de force, so is Danielle just about everyone on just about everything.” — Variety Sturk’s cinematographic feat. This homage is a pas de deux between the limitations of daily life and the creative potential of a feminist Founded in 1963, The New York Review of Books is a sanctuary soul.” — J. R. Léveillé, Liaisons (Fall 2014 edition) for writers and a beacon for readers, covering the world of ideas and stirring whirlwinds of debate. Scorsese and Tedeschi’s Winnipeg filmmaker Danielle Sturk has created a beautiful new documentary pays tribute to the publication’s 50 year feature documentary on Rachel Browne (1934-2012), founder of history, featuring a wide array of interviews with the magazine’s Canada’s oldest professional modern dance company, Winnipeg’s international contributors, all of whom exemplify the power of Contemporary Dancers. The film captures the essence of the woman language to provoke, illuminate and effect change. and power of the dance she created, exposing her unwavering desire to create dance to the exclusion of all else. For anyone who’s followed the Review’s bylines, it’s a pleasure to encounter its roster as a bevy of onscreen personalities: Colm Tóibín, Ian Buruma, Joan Didion, Darryl Pinckney, Yasmine El Rashidi, Zoë Heller, Michael Chabon, and others. In scenes observing editor Silvers at work, we witness his command over details of literature, politics, history, art, and more, as he matches topics to writers and shepherds their pieces to completion.
new world documentaries 5 Marinoni: The Fire in the Frame The Last Pogo Jumps Again Directed by Tony Girardin Directed by Colin Brunton & Kire Paputts 2014, Canada, 76 min 2013, Canada, 200 minutes
Friday, April 24 / 9 pm Saturday, April 25 / 8:45 pm Saturday, April 25 / 7 pm Friday, May 1 / 8:45 pm Sunday, April 26 / 3 pm & 7 pm Saturday, May 2 / 7 pm Friday, May 1 / 7 pm Opening night from 6:30-8:30 we’ll be having a record sale Saturday, May 2 / 3 pm across the hall at Platform Gallery with DJ Ack. Sunday, May 3 / 3 pm & 7 pm Introduced by Debbie Wall, who in 1979, started playing drums in For cycling fans, his name is nothing less than legendary. In 1964, Winnipeg’s first all-girl punk band The Wurst and later played in the when he was 25, Giuseppe Marinoni left his native Italy for a bike race. legendary Winnipeg band The Ruggedy Annes. She is currently playing Not only did he get countless Canadians interested in the sport, he with Gramma Lama. went on to become one of the most passionate and trusted bicycle builders in the world. Now 75, the man with “a character of iron and “Something of a major find: not only does it restore this period the soul of an angel” is as driven as ever, and plans to break the world and its players to something like rightful status in civic history, it record for distance cycled in one hour for his age group, a record held reiterates just how explosive the movement was and how f*#ked it is by Eddy Merckx. For 60 days leading up to the event, Tony Girardin that it’s been forgotten... a scene that was intense, fleeting, vibrant, documented this intriguing, complete man, who shared not only his crazy and more than a little bruising.” — Geoff Pevere own story but those of the people important to him. London had the Sex Pistols, New York had the Ramones, but Toronto had a punk movement all its own. Six years in the making, this Sponsored by Natural Cycleworks definitive epic traces the evolution of Toronto from small town to big city and its pop/counterculture lifestyle during the early and mid-70s. natural It centers on the first wave of Toronto punk rock and new wave music, cycleworks from the Ramones playing The New Yorker Theatre in ‘76 to the police shutting down Teenage Head and causing a riot at the Horseshoe Tavern’s infamous “The Last Pogo” concert in December 1978.
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Introduced by Cassandre Pérusse of Wapikoni
Co-founded in 2004 by the Atikamekw Nation Council, the First Nations Youth Council and the filmmaker Manon Barbeau, the Wapikoni Mobile is a travelling studio that offers audiovisual workshops in Aboriginal communities in Canada and abroad. Today, more than 3,000 young participants from nine nations and from 25 communities in Canada have directed more than 600 short films, many of which have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and even Mandarin. These works have won 80 prizes and honours in Films for prestigious national and international festivals.
The Amendment (L’amendment) / Dir. Kevin Papatie, 2007, One to Eight Canada, 5 min Night Runners (Coureurs De Nuit) / Dir. Chanouk Newashish, Projectors: 2005, Canada, 2.5 min Multi Projector experiments Number (Tshitashun) / Dir. James Picard, 2008, Canada, 3 min by Roger Beebe We Are / Dir. Kevin Papatie, 2009, Canada, 3 min Setbacks (Déboires) / Dir. Délia Gunn, 2010, Canada, 3 min Thursday, April 9 / 7 pm Earthquake (Nanameshkueu) / Dir. Réal Jr. Leblanc, 2010, Filmmaker/curator/professor Roger Beebe returns to the road Canada, 3 min in January 2015 with a touring program of his multiple-projector performances that takes him to three corners of North America Aitun (Traditions) / Dir. Kevin Bellefleur, 2011, Canada, 6 min with an additional stop off in the Antipodes (Australia/New Zealand). The tour features several of his best-known projector Don Severo Del Puente / Dirs. Donald Quispe, performances (including the six-projector show-stopping space jam René Lovera & Esteban Espejo, 2011, Canada, 6 min Last Light of a Dying Star) alongside recent award-winning work in single-channel HD video as well as the premiere of his Glitch / Dir. Erik Papatie, 2010, Canada, 7.5 min latest multi-projector mayhem, SOUND FILM.
Micta / Dir. Élisa Moar & Marie-Pier Ottawa, 2012, Canada, 1 min SOUND FILM / Dir. Roger Beebe, 2015, USA, 17 min Pipiteu (White Ashes) / Dir. Ernest Aness Dominique, 2012, Historia Calamitatum / Dir. Roger Beebe, 2014, USA, 21 min Canada, 3.5 min
AAAAA Motion Picture / Dir. Roger Beebe, 2010, USA, 11 min Blocus 138 – Innu Resistance / Dir. Réal Junior Leblanc, 2012, Canada, 7 min Money Changes Everything / Dir. Roger Beebe, 2009, USA, 5 min Correcting the Chalkboard / Dirs. Wapikoni & Collectif Empreintes Beginnings / Dir. Roger Beebe 2010, USA, 5 min Engages-toi, 2012, Canada, 5 min
Last Light of a Dying Star / Dir. Roger Beebe, 2008/2011, USA, 26 min The Hearing / Dir. Russell Ratt-Brascoupe, 2013, Canada, 5 min
In Your Heart / Dir. Raymond Caplin, 2012, Canada, 3.5 min “Beebe’s films are both erudite and punk, lo-fi yet high-brow shorts that wrestle with a disfigured, contemporary American landscape.” — Wyatt Williams, Creative Loafing (Atlanta) Co-presented with Urban Shaman
A special presentation of Open City Cinema and Cinematheque
8 shorts & Artist Talks Special Events Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival Now in its 14th year, Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival features some of the most electrifying and original Canadian films of the year. Organized by the Toronto International Film Festival, the series includes films from Quebec, Alberta, Nunavut and British Columbia and highlights the best independent shorts of the year.
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↑ Mommy ↑ Maps to the Stars
Mommy * Maps to the Stars The Price We Pay * Directed by Xavier Dolan Directed by David Cronenberg Directed by Harold Crooks 2014, Canada, 139 min 2014, Canada, 111 min 2014, Canada, 92 min * French w/English subtitles * English & French w/English subtitles Friday & Saturday, March 6 & 7 / 9:30 pm Friday & Saturday, March 6 & 7 / 7 pm Saturday, March 7 / 3 pm “Nightmarishly compelling, the Canadian Sunday, March 8 / 3 pm & 7 pm Thursday, March 12 / 7 pm director’s best film since Spider... a writhing, Wednesday, March 11 / 7 pm hissing, Hollywood waking nightmare.” Director Harold Crooks (Surviving Progress) Thursday, March 12 / 9 pm — The Telegraph blows the lid off the dirty world of corporate “Funny, heartbreaking and above all, original... malfeasance with this incendiary doc about Hollywood, Babylon, USA. Working from a The result is as personal as ever, an ecstatic the dark history and dire present-day reality wicked script from novelist Bruce Wagner, celebration not only of mothers, but of the of big-business tax avoidance, which has David Cronenberg strips Tinseltown bare in two incredible actresses Dolan has adopted seen multinationals depriving governments this fiendish and fiercely intelligent satire of as muses along the way.” — Variety of trillions of dollars in tax revenues by the movie business. Julianne Moore gives a harbouring profits in offshore havens. Tax Audacious and inspiring, this rapturously stunning performance as Havana Segrand, a havens, originally created by London bankers received new film from Québécois desperate and insecure middle aged actress in the 50s, put over half the world’s stock wunderkind Xavier Dolan shared the Special scheming remorselessly to land the lead in a of money beyond reach of public treasuries. Jury Prize at Cannes with co-winner Jean Luc remake of a film that her mother starred in Nation states are being reshaped by this Godard. When single mother Diane brings her years ago. off-shoring of the world’s wealth. Crusading teenage son Steve home from a government journalists, tax justice campaigners and institution for troubled youth, it’s both an act former finance and technology industry of maternal love and a huge risk: Steve is a insiders speak frankly about the accelerating volatile hell raiser with a hair-trigger temper, trends that are carrying the Western world to and Diane is barely keeping it together an unsustainable future. herself. When a shy neighbour takes an interest in mother and son, a surprising trio develops.
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Félix and Meira * Directed by Maxime Giroux 2014, Canada, 105 min * English, French & Yiddish w/English subtitles
Friday & Saturday, March 13 & 14 / 7 pm Sunday, March 15 / 3 pm & 7 pm
“Giroux weaves together a romance that is both rapturous and captivating. One of the year’s hidden gems.” — Courtney Small, Cinema Axis
In Maxime Giroux’s latest feature, the Award winner at TIFF for Best Canadian First Feature, an unusual romance blossoms between two lost souls who inhabit the In Her Place * Corbo * same neighborhood but vastly different Directed by Albert Shin Directed by Mathieu Denis worlds. Meira is a young Hassidic Jewish 2014, Canada & South Korea, 115 min 2014, Canada, 119 min mother in Montreal’s Mile End district who * Korean w/English subtitles * French w/English subtitles secretly rebels against her faith by listening to soul music and taking birth control pills; Saturday, March 14 / 3 pm Friday & Saturday, March 20 & 21 / 7 pm Félix is a loner grieving the recent death of Sunday, March 22 / 7 pm “A film about yearning, love and the her estranged father. They fall in love. This extraordinary tears and magic that are borne “Stunning. The events documented here in is the story of an impossible love between out of the company and shared experience of thrilling detail give rise to the radical October two separate beings from two distinct women... Exquisite.” — Greg Klymkiw Crisis of 1970. Corbo evokes The Battle of communities, who attempt to draw each Algiers...exceptionally crafted.” other out and to love each other despite their An affluent couple from Seoul arrives — Pat Mullen, Cinemablographer differences. at a desolate farm in the South Korean countryside, where a pregnant teenager and Mathieu Denis’ gripping solo directorial debut Tu dors Nicole * her mother have agreed to let them adopt the examines the rise of the Front de libération Directed by Stéphane Lafleur girl’s unborn child. The wife is to stay at the du Québec (FLQ) — the militant separatist 2014, Canada, 93 min farm until the child is born and a quiet unease group that precipitated the October Crisis of * French w/English subtitles begins to percolate as the three unnamed 1970 — through the eyes of 16-year-old Jean women fall into a daily routine, each working Corbo. Radicalized by a variety of factors… the Friday & Saturday, March 13 & 14 / 9 pm to fill a void within. However, as their very fearless and committed Jean joins a student different paths converge, their arrangement cell and rises quickly through the FLQ ranks. “Reviews from Cannes offer ample becomes more than what they bargained for. Beautifully crafted and rigorously intelligent. comparisons of Tu dors Nicole to Frances Ha. Smart, simple, and astutely observational, this Violent * Sol * hilarious and gorgeously shot film is a TIFF Directed by Andrew Huculiak Directed by Marie-Hélène Cousineau & Susan highlight.” — Pat Mullen 2014, Canada, 102 min Avingaq A critical hit at Cannes, the third fiction * Norwegian w/English subtitles 2014, Canada, 76 min feature by Stéphane Lafleur once again * Inuktitut & English w/English subtitles displays his trademark absurdist humour Thursday, March 19 / 9 pm honing in on 20-somethings at an Saturday, March 21 / 3 pm A catastrophic event sparks a young existentialist crossroads. Taking advantage of Norwegian woman’s memories of the five This stirring documentary from the acclaimed the family home in the absence of her parents, people who loved her most in the visually Arnait Video Collective (Uvanga, Before Nicole flows peacefully through the summer stunning feature debut of West Coast Tomorrow) investigates the suspicious death of with her best friend Veronica. Nicole’s brother musician and filmmaker Andrew Huculiak 26-year-old Inuk actor and musician Solomon arrives with his band to record an album. (drummer for We Are the City). Violent is the Tapatia Uyarasak, and the alarming youth Their imposing presence quickly undermines tale of Dagne, a young Norwegian girl who suicide rate in the Arctic community. With its the relationship between the two friends. attempts to escape her small-town life. She profound, lonesome beauty — especially in the Summer takes a different turn and Nicole soon finds herself hanging out with other opening sequence and home-movie footage — humorously observes the beginning of assorted outcasts, including a comically Sol is as heartbreaking a film as it is important adulthood and its share of potential. suicidal young man who hasn’t slept in weeks, and timely. and the lovelorn owner of the small store where she finds work.
10 special events ↑ Lifers ↑ Mynarski Death Plummet Canada’s Top Ten Canada’s Top Student Shorts Ten Shorts
Wednesday, March 18 / 7 pm Thursday, March 19 / 7 pm
Introduced by Cinematheque Programmer and Top Ten juror Dave Barber Introduced by Cinematheque Programmer and Top Ten juror Dave Barber
This program features a terrific line-up of great work created by A superb collection from some of Canada’s best independent student filmmakers from across the country including Saskatchewan filmmakers including Elle-Maija Tailfeathers’ extraordinarily filmmaker Candy Fox and her powerful film about survivors of family beautiful documentary about her mother, Matthew Rankin’s explosive abuse, Colin Lepper’s Tim Burton inspired animated film about cycling tribute to WWII hero Andrew Mynarski and Randall Lloyd Okita’s and Aristofanis Soulikias’ poignant film documenting the demolition spellbinding story of two brothers with conflicting memories in of a row of historic Red-Light District buildings on Montreal’s Saint- The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer. Laurent Boulevard. Bihttoš (Rebel) / Dir. Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, 2014, Canada, 14 min, Backroads / Dir. Candy Fox, 2014, Canada, 15 min English & Sami w/English subtitles
Dinner Time / Dir. Alexander Mainwaring, 2014, Canada, 10 min Bison / Dir. Kevan Funk, 2014, Canada, 12 min
Elpis / Dir. Akreta Saim, 2014, Canada, 9 min La Coupe (The Cut) / Dir. Geneviève Dulude-De Celles, 2014, Canada, 15 min, French w/English subtitles Fallow / Dir. Breanna Cheek, 2014 Canada, 4 min Cutaway / Dir. Kazik Radwanski, 2014, Canada, 7 min La derniere danse sur la Main (Last Dance on the Main) / Dir. Aristofanis Soulikias, 2014, Canada, 3 min, Day 40 / Dir. Sol Friedman, 2014, Canada, 6 min English & French w/ English Subtitles Kajutaijuq: The Spirit That Comes / Dir. Scott Brachmayer, 2014, Lifers / Dir. Joel Salaysay, 2014, Canada, 13 min Canada, 15 min, Inuktitut w/English subtitles
Light / Dir. Yassmina Karajah, 2014, Canada, 13 min, Mynarski Death Plummet / Dir. Matthew Rankin, 2014, Canada, 8 min English & Arabic w/English subtitles Sleeping Giant / Dir. Andrew Cividino, 2014, Canada, 17 min Never Stop Cycling / Dir. Colin Lepper, 2014, Canada, 4 min Still / Dir. Slater Jewell-Kemker, 2014, Canada, 16 min Running Season / Dir. Grayson Moore, 2014, Canada, 20 min The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer / Dir. Randall Lloyd Tomonster / Dir. Pui Ka Wong, 2014, Canada, 2 min Okita, 2014, Canada, 10 min
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↑ The Nature of Modernism: E. Stewart Williams ↑ The Nature of Modernism: E. Stewart Williams Architecture+Design Film Festival
Wednesday - Sunday, April 15 - 19 / Series Pass: $55 member, $66 non-member Now in its 4th year, ADFF presents critically acclaimed films focusing on the importance of architecture and design in everyday life. The films cover a range of design oriented topics from architecture and urban design to graphics and product design. Curated by Susan Algie of the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation with Ted Landrum and Dr. Erroll Billinkoff. With support from the Winnipeg Foundation. www.adff.ca
Strange & Familiar: Peter Zumthor: The Nature of Modernism: Architecture of Fogo Island The Practice of Architecture E. Stewart Williams Directed by Katherine Knight Directed by Michael Blackwood Directed by Jake Gorst & Tracey Rennie Gorst & Marcia Connolly 2012, USA, 58 min 2014, USA, 79 min 2014, Canada, 55 min Wednesday, April 15 / 9 pm Thursday, April 16 / 7 pm Wednesday, April 15 / 7 pm Architect Peter Zumthor lives and works When Frank Sinatra walked into E. Stewart Filmmakers in attendance in the remote village of Haldenstein in the Williams’ newly established architectural Swiss Kanton of Graubunden and enjoys office in May, 1947 he wanted a Georgian Architect Todd Saunder’s sculpture-like artist the status of world class architect for his style house built in the desert of Palm studios perched on the rocky shores of Fogo unique modernist buildings. Critic Kenneth Springs. Williams tactfully convinced him of Island created a buzz among worldwide Frampton questioned him during a tour of the benefits of modernism and Sinatra went architecture fans when the images were first his pioneering earlier works, such as the Spa for it. The two had no idea how far reaching released. Since then the four artists’ studios in Vals (for which he received much early and influential that decision would prove and the new Fogo Island Inn have been recognition) and the recently acclaimed to be. The house was the first in a string of documented in more than 80 international Kolumba, the museum of the archdiocese of mid century modernist gems that still define magazines. Gorgeously photographed over Cologne, Germany. the look and feel of the Coachella Valley. all four seasons the film is a flowing visual This film makes extensive use of E. Stewart narrative that unfolds over time as the Fogo Plays with Stories Houses Tell / Dir. Scott Williams personal archive photographs and Island Inn is being constructed. From the Fitzpatrick, 2014, Canada, 3.5 min / Four voice recordings to shed light on a remarkable same creative team that brought you Spring Winnipeg houses as documented by reporter Lillian career. and Arnaud and Koop. Gibbons, with illustrations by Arlene Osen. plays with Creative Placemaking Sponsored by the Royal Architecture Sponsored by LM Architectural Group Challenge / Dir. Mike Maryniuk, 2014, 8 min, Institute of Canada World Premiere / Documenting a challenge to create temporary installations and activities that animated selected alleys and dray ways in the Exchange District.
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12 special events Quiet Elegance: La Sapienza * The Architecture of Hugh M. Kaptur Directed by Eugène Green Directed by John C. Brown 2014, France & Italy, 100 min 2014, USA, 54 min * French & Italian w/English subtitles
Thursday, April 16 / 9 pm Friday, April 17 / 9 pm
During his 50 plus years designing homes, A brilliant architect seeks spiritual and artistic condominiums, office buildings and civic renewal during a life changing voyage in structures in the Coachella Valley, Hugh Italy to study the great 17th century architect M. Kaptur has assembled a body of work Francesco Borromini. Bathed in Italian light and that is rivalled by few and envied by many. often breathtakingly beautiful in its sweeping In interviews with architects, colleagues, panoramic shots and disembodied architectural and Hugh himself, this film tells the story of observations, the film makes a passionate Kaptur’s life and career. plea not only for the preservation of history, but for the rekindling of human affection and plays with Home Sweet Home / Dirs. Pierre interaction in a world grown cold. Clenet, Romain Mazevet & Stephane Paccolat, 2014, France, 10 min, Silent / Awarded Best Plays with The Dolphin Skin City / Dir. Animated Short at the SIGGRAPH 2014 Computer Pierre Gaffié, 2014, France, 22 min, French w/ Animation Festival, this is an animated film which English subtitles / A utopist architect attends a imagines the adventurous exploits of two houses congress to present his view on future cities and tired of life in the suburbs. falls under the spell of an unusual woman.
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Inside Piano * Sign Painters Directed by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine Directed by Faythe Levine & Sam Macon 2013, France, 99 min 2014, USA, 120 min * Italian & French w/English subtitles Saturday, April 18 / 3 pm Friday, April 17 / 7 pm Followed by a tour of “Ghost Signs” in the Exchange Inside Piano is composed of three films on District three symbolic buildings of Renzo Piano’s Sign Painters celebrates the hand painted career with a humorous, caustic and sign industry, an American tradition, and quirky point of view. A visit throughout the stylistically explores this unacknowledged prototype-building of the Centre Pompidou, art form through anecdotal accounts from an immersion in the soundproof world artists across the country. This documentary of a submarine floating in the depths of explores a fascinating insight into a highly the Parisian underground, and a journey specialized underground trade, emphasizing aboard a luminous magic carpet of a highly an appreciation for a balance between art and sophisticated architectural machine. commerce. Plays with REDDRESS / Dir. Jonathan Sponsored by the Advertising Clabburn, 2011, Finland, 5 min / Documentation Association of Winnipeg of an installation and performance space in the form of a colossal, red dress at the 2011 London Design Festival.
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From top to bottom → Quiet Elegance: The Architecture of Hugh M. Kaptur / La Sapienza / Sign Painters Special events 13 Special Events
↑ The New Rijksmuseum ↑ Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer and Architect
Estate, a Reverie The New Rijksmuseum * Directed by Andrea Luka Zimmerman Directed by Oeke Hoogendijk 2015, UK, 83 min 2014, Netherlands, 93 min * Dutch & Spanish w/English subtitles Saturday, April 18 / 7 pm Sunday, April 19 / 3 pm Estate tracks the passing of the Haggerston Estate in Hackney, London and the utopian promise of social housing it offered, with a spirited In 2003 an optimistic start was made with the renovation of the celebration of extraordinary everyday humanity. Filmed over seven Rijksmusuem in Amsterdam. The Netherlands major tourist attraction years, the film reveals and celebrates the resilience of residents who would re-open its doors in fresh splendour in 2008. But alas, right are profoundly overlooked by media representations and wider social from the start the project was opposed by unyielding counter forces responses. and Rembrandt’s palace was slowly transformed into an apparently permanent building site. This unique and prize winning epic documentary Plays with Some Lots / Dir. Lorne Bailey, 2014, Canada, 23 min / was filmed behind the closed doors of the Museum for ten years. Through clever overlapping of archival photos of downtown Winnipeg buildings with surface parking lots, Lorne Bailey offers a deadpan commentary on how we Sponsored by have lost many historic landmarks. These buildings include the Grace Church, HFTC Planning & Design Empire Hotel, and the McIntyre Block on Main Street.
Sponsored by Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer and Architect green seed development Directed by Michael Blackwood 2009, USA, 56 min Mon Oncle * Sunday, April 19 / 7 pm Directed by Jacques Tati 1958, France, 116 min In conversations with architecture critic Sanford Kwinter, the * French w/English subtitles remarkable Cecil Balmond reveals his visions and multifaceted talents in a retrospective exhibition of his accomplishments at the Saturday, April 18 / 9 pm Graham Foundation Gallery in Chicago. Through his commitment to experimentation and belief in structure as a creative act he has Slapstick prevails again when Jacques Tati’s eccentric, old-fashioned helped realize some of the most thrilling buildings of the last 30 years. hero, Monsieur Hulot, is set loose in Villa Arpel, the geometric, Since the early 1980’s Balmond has collaborated with such important oppressively ultramodern home of his brother-in-law, and in the architects and artists working today such as Toyo Ito, Anish Kapoor, antiseptic plastic hose factory where he gets a job. The second Hulot Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind and Alvaro Siza. movie and Tati’s first color film, Mon oncle is a supremely amusing satire of mechanized living, materialist suburbanites and consumer Plays with ABC of Architecture / Dir. Federico González and society that earned the director the Academy Award for best foreign- Andrea Stinga, 2012, Colombia, 2 min / From Aalto to Zaha, an animated language film. trip through capital A architecture’s alphabet.
Sponsored by J R Wagner Architect Ove Arup, the Philosopher / Dir. Taghi Amirani, 2013, UK, 38 min / Capturing the story of Ove Arup, his character, values, vision and work.
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14 special events From Novel to Screen: The Writer’s Imagination
Hosted by Alison Gillmor Winnipeg Free Press pop culture and film writer Alison Gillmor returns to host our book to film discussion and screening series. Following each screening, Alison will moderate a discussion of how the book compares to its screen adaptation. Participants who sign up for the discussion are encouraged to read the book in advance (available at McNally Robinson).
↑ Photo by Mike Deal Please register in advance (204-925-3456, ext 106). Please note that the discussion is limited to 30 people.
Panel Discussion On Adapting Books for the Screen
Sunday, March 22 / 2 pm
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As a part of our ongoing From Novel to Screen series we invited several excellent writers to discuss the challenges of adapting the written word for the screen and how literature and film each have their own creative structure. Moderator and writer Alison Gillmor will pose some questions for the panelists which include Shelagh Carter, a lifetime member of the Actor’s Studio and writer and director of Passionflower, acclaimed short story writer and novelist David Bergen who also won the Scotiabank Giller Prize winner for his book The Time in Between, and distinguished teacher and writer George Toles (House Made of Light: Essays on the Art of Film) who has been involved with the screenplays for several Guy Maddin features.
Persuasion Crash Directed by Roger Michell Directed by David Cronenberg 1995, UK, 107 min 1996, Canada, 100 min
Wednesday, March 25 / 7 pm Wednesday, April 29 / 7 pm
In 1814 England, Anne lives an oppressive life with her father and her Based on the novel by J.G. Ballard, Crash tells the story of a group of elder sister, both of whom are incurable snobs. Eight years prior, Anne people who take sexual pleasure from car accidents. Highly controversial refused an offer of marriage from the man she loved, a young naval when first released (banned in Britain) this psychological thriller won the officer of no position or fortune. Now, after the Napoleonic wars, Special Jury Prize at Cannes for its originality, daringness and audacity Captain Wentworth has gained both rank and money, and chance and was voted one of the Top Ten Films of the Year for 1996 by the has thrown them together again. Anne finds herself confronted with prestigious French cinema journal Cahiers du Cinema. thoughts of might-have-been as she watches Wentworth court someone else. An accident causes Wentworth to realize whom he truly “The scenes and settings of Crash are stunning; industrial landscapes, cares for. Persuasion is a love story that unravels slowly, proving that metallic and concrete country sides. The script is the real gem. It is a good things cannot be rushed. monstrous concept that possibly only Cronenberg could have handled so well.” — Andrew Hesketh “Persuasion, based on Jane Austen’s final novel (written in 1818) has charm and real punch in its revealing portrait of the remarkable A special presentation generously transformation of a woman rediscovering her heart. Austen fans: sponsored by National Canadian Film Day Prepare to be swept away.” — San Francisco Chronicle
special events 15 March 2015 wednesday thursday friday saturday Sunday 1 Leviathan / 3 pm & 7 pm
4 5 6 7 8 Leviathan / 7 pm Leviathan / 7 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Canada’s Top Ten: Canada’s Top Ten: Mommy / 7 pm The Price We Pay / 3 pm Mommy / 3 pm & 7 pm
Maps to the Stars / 9:30 pm Mommy / 7 pm Maps to the Stars / 9:30 pm 11 12 13 14 15 Canada’s Top Ten: Canada’s Top Ten: Canada’s Top Ten: Canada’s Top Ten: Canada’s Top Ten: Mommy / 7 pm The Price We Pay / 7 pm Félix and Meira / 7 pm In Her Place / 3 pm Félix and Meira / 3 pm & 7 pm Mommy / 9 pm Tu dors Nicole / 9 pm Félix and Meira / 7 pm Tu dors Nicole / 9 pm 18 19 20 21 22 Canada’s Top Ten: Canada’s Top Ten: Canada’s Top Ten: Canada’s Top Ten: From Novel to Screen: Best Student Shorts / 7 pm Best Shorts / 7 pm Corbo / 7 pm Sol / 3 pm Panel Discussion / 2 pm Violent / 9 pm Corbo / 7 pm The Babadook / 9 pm Canada’s Top Ten: The Babadook / 9 pm Corbo / 7 pm 25 26 27 28 29 From Novel to Screen: Two Days, One Night / 7 pm Two Days, One Night / 7 pm Two Days, One Night / 3 pm & 7 pm Two Days, One Night / 3 pm & 7 pm Persuasion / 7 pm The Babadook / 9 pm The Babadook / 9 pm The Babadook / 9 pm
April 2015 wednesday thursday friday saturday Sunday 1 2 3 4 5 Two Days, One Night / 7 pm Two Days, One Night / 7 pm Two Days, One Night / 7 pm Two Days, One Night / 3 pm & 7 pm The Duke of Burgundy / 3 pm The Duke of Burgundy / 9 pm The Duke of Burgundy / 9 pm The Duke of Burgundy / 9 pm Two Days, One Night / 7 pm
8 9 10 11 12 The Duke of Burgundy / 7 pm Films for One to The 50 Year Argument / 7 pm The 50 Year Argument / 3 pm & 7 pm The 50 Year Argument / 3 pm Eight Projectors / 7 pm A Girl Walks Home Alone A Girl Walks Home Alone A Girl Walks Home Alone A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night / 9 pm at Night / 9 pm at Night / 7 pm at Night / 9:15 pm 15 16 17 18 19 Architecture+Design Film Fest: Architecture+Design Film Fest: Architecture+Design Film Fest: Architecture+Design Film Fest: Architecture+Design Film Fest: Strange & Familiar: Architecture The Nature of Modernism: Inside Piano / 7 pm Sign Painters / 3 pm The New Rijksmuseum / 3 pm of Fogo Island / 7 pm E. Stewart Williams / 7 pm La Sapienza / 9 pm Estate, A Reverie / 7 pm Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer Peter Zumthor: The Practice Quiet Elegance: The Architecture Mon Oncle / 9 pm and Architect / 7 pm of Architecture / 9 pm of Hugh M. Kaptur / 9 pm 22 23 24 25 26
A Good Madness: The Dance A Good Madness: The Dance A Good Madness: The Dance A Good Madness: The Dance Marioni: The Fire in of Rachel Browne / 7 pm of Rachel Browne / 7 pm of Rachel Browne / 7 pm of Rachel Browne / 3 pm the Frame / 3 pm & 7 pm A Girl Walks Home Alone Marioni: The Fire in the Frame / 9 pm Marioni: The Fire in the Frame / 7 pm at Night / 9 pm The Last Pogo Jumps Again / 8:45 pm 29 30 1 2 3 From Novel to Screen: Wapikoni Mobile – 10th Anniversary Marioni: The Fire in the Frame / 7 pm Marioni: The Fire in the Frame / 3 pm Marioni: The Fire in Crash / 7 pm Retrospective / 7 pm The Last Pogo Jumps Again / 8:45 pm The Last Pogo Jumps Again / 7 pm the Frame / 3 pm & 7 pm
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