Films Films Films at the venerable GLOBE THEATRE Presented by the YUKON FILM SOCIETY. An On Yukon Time event. Live performances and recent documentary and dramatic films from the Yukon, Russia, Minneapolis, New Orleans, the MacKenzie Delta, Fraser River, and the Republic of Zubrowka. Presentation and Tech: Zoë Toupin, Andrew Connors THU Dir. Kaija Siirala, ON/YT, 2014, 60min Live Performance: Using analog synths, guitar, lap steel and a constant swell of feedback, 7pm Sauna Music (Yukon musicians Jordy Walker and Micah Smith) create Sauna Music moving soundscapes while Ontario-based media artist Kaija Siirala uses FESTIVAL KICK-OFF with Kaija Siirala video mixing to respond to the changing shape of each of the musical NIGHT pieces in this experiment of structured improvisation across art forms. The Orphan and the Polar Bear, Christopher, NU, 2013, 9min You Don’t Know Jack, Kyle Nixon, Yukon, 2014, 10min The Town Mouse & the Country Mouse, Evelyn Lambart, Can, 1980, 5min THU Eh to Zed Dan Sokolowski, Yukon, 2013, 9min Animated Little Thunder, Nance Akerman & Alan Syliboy, Can, 2009, 3min 9pm Enough to Get By, Khun/Griffiths/O’Donovan, Yukon, 2013, 8min SAT New Territory: 9:30am Shorts The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin, Janet Perlman, Can, 1981, 10min films by The Orphan and the Polar Bear, Neil Christopher, Nunavut, 2013, 9min FESTIVAL Self Portrait w Migraine, Kathryn Hepburn, Yukon, 2013, 2min The Cremation of Sam McGee, Eva Szasz, Can, 1990, 7min KICK-OFF Northern Canadians NIGHT Tundra Cowboy, Marc Winkler, NWT, 2013, 18min for Kids The Danish Poet, Torill Cove, Nor/Can, 2006, 15min Filmmakers in attendance. Program length: 60min Dir. Twyla Roscovich, BC, 2013, 69min Live Performance: Dir. Dziga Vertov, USSR, 1929, 68min Salmon Salmon Confidential portrays the government cover-up of what is killing Man with a Vertov’s poetic documentary about a day in Russian life is presented Confidential BC’s wild salmon. When biologist Alexandra Morton discovers salmon in THU Movie Camera with live musical accompaniment by Whitehorse composer Daniel Janke BC are testing positive for dangerous European viruses, a chain of events on mandolin with guest musicians Micah Smith, Paul Bergman, Ken 11pm SAT is set off by government to suppress these findings. Tracking viruses, Searcy, and Olivier de Colombel. Startlingly modern, this influential film 10:30am Morton moves from courtrooms into British Columbia’s most remote riv- utilizes Sergei Eisenstein’s newly introduced form of ‘montage’ editing FESTIVAL ers, Vancouver grocery stores, and sushi restaurants. The film documents KICK-OFF and a ground-breaking style of rapid editing and incorporates innumer- Morton’s journey as she attempts to overcome government and industry NIGHT able other cinematic effects to create a work of amazing power and roadblocks thrown in her path and works to bring critical information to energy. This will be an outdoor screening if the weather is nice. Bring the public in time to save BC’s wild salmon. your chair. Dir. Chris Simon & Maureen Gosling, USA, 2013, 92min Color Me Obsessed: Dir. Gorman Bechard, USA, 2011, 120min Chris Strachwitz is the founder behind Berkeley’s legendary Arhoolie For some music fans and kids with a passion for musical history, The This Ain’t No Records, a label that’s been kicking it old school since 1960. Arhoolie is A Film about the Replacements are rock and roll defined. This Minneapolis quartet took a Mouse Music host to a myriad of down-home music from blues revival to Tejano; Ca- Replacements teenage-punk attitude, threw it in a blender with classic and pop rock, jun, zydeco, bluegrass and Appalachian country. In addition to profiling FRI and then poured it into a Middle American pint glass. Over the band’s SAT Strachwitz’s legacy, this labour-of-love documentary serves as a lesson in 12-year existence, its live sets were magical, a total mess, or both-de- 6pm Noon American music history, albeit, a lesson with lots of hot licks and serious pending on your mood and the members’ respective blood alcohol levels. This fascinating doc tells the ‘Mats’ chronological history as a mythology soul. Interviews with Strachwitz and many of the musicians and industry created through stories told by fans, critics, other musicians and the folks that he has worked with over the years are intercut with stunning ar- band’s supporting cast. chival performances by the likes of Big Mama Thornton, Mance Lipscomb, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Big Joe Williams and Country Joe McDonald. The Grand Dir. Wes Anderson, USA, 2013, 99min Recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a Dennis Allen, Yukon, 2013, 56 min Budapest Hotel famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby Crazywater Whitehorse-based filmmaker Dennis Allen’s raw and honest exploration boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft of substance abuse among First Nations communities begins in his own and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an childhood. Born in Inuvik, Dennis grew up where alcohol abuse was ram- pant. In his efforts to get sober he came across the book Crazywater by FRI enormous family fortune—all against the backdrop of a suddenly and SAT writer Brian Maracle of the Mohawk Nation that featured Native people 8:30pm dramatically changing Continent. Anderson’s slap-stick comedy unfolds 6pm in the most ornate environments which slyly veil the underlying emotion talking openly about their problems with alcohol. As Dennis says, “How and darkness of this tragic tale. Ralph Fiennes is a revelation supported can anyone understand us, if we don’t tell our story?” His film is an incred- by a whirling dervish of Anderson regulars: Bill Murray, the Wilson bros., ibly honest effort to do just that: empower five people to tell their stories Jason Schartzman, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton and Adrien Brody to of surviving addiction. Winner of the Available Light Film Festival 2014 name a few. Award for Best Documentary. Filmmaker in attendance. 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