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2 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ★ MADISON ★ APRIL 1-4, 2004 ★ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ★ 877.963.FILM CONTACT PROGRAMMERS Wisconsin Film Festival Mary Carbine Festival Express follows the Grateful Dead, UW-Madison Arts Institute Janis Joplin, The Band and Buddy Guy Joe Beres as they tour across Canada 821 University Avenue Walker Art Center Madison, WI 53706 (Thu, Apr 1, 7pm). (877) 963-FILM James Kreul [email protected] Communication Arts Department www.wifilmfest.org Eija Niskanen Communication Arts Department During the Festival: See the website or call Katherine Spring (877) 963-FILM for updates. UW Cinematheque Tony Cippolle, For additional questions or WUD Film Committee Festival Intern emergencies, call the Box Office / Will Call at (608) 265 -2933. Travis Gerdes, WUD Film Committee Festival Intern ABOUT US Founded in 1999, the Wisconsin JURORS Film Festival is Wisconsin’s premier Wisconsin’s Own Competition: independent film event. Ericka Frederick This four-day annual festival takes Ruth Leitman place each spring in campus and Keith Phipps downtown Madison venues. Wisconsin Student Competition: MARKETING CAMPAIGN The Festival presents the best Joey Garfield Planet Propaganda: Festival identity, new independent film (feature, Holly Kaster website, advertising, posters, in- documentary, experimental), Matt Solomon theater trailers and other materials. world cinema and new media; cultivates discovery through talks, FESTIVAL ADVISORY BOARD Creative Director: Dana Lytle Active Media Director: Ben Hirby panels, performances, and David Bordwell, Professor, Active Media Developers: David coffeehouse discussions with Communication Arts, UW-Madison filmmakers; and showcases the Huyck, Brian Wilson, Marcus Trapp Ben Brewster, Assistant Director, work of Wisconsin filmmakers Active Media Project Manager: Wisconsin Center for Film and through juried competitions. David Dickinson Theater Research Active Media Intern: Scott Starr The Festival is committed to CONTENTS Lisa Heller, Vice President Designer: David I. Taylor independent film culture, quality of Original Programming, HBO Copywriter: James Breen Schedule Chart ...... 18-19 programming, community TV Director: Nate Theis involvement, and a filmmaker- Sarah Klavas, Director, Bureau Film List ...... 4-21 Production Director: Ann Sweeney friendly environment. of Marketing Services, Wisconsin Production Designer: Angie Department of Tourism Talks ...... 22-23 Medenwaldt PEOPLE Jeffrey Kurz, Producer / Consultant, Estimator/Buyer: Julie Kimmell Film Series Belle City Pictures Mary Carbine, Director, Account Manager: Travis Ott Asian American Cinema ...... 24 Jennifer Montgomery, Filmmaker, Wisconsin Film Festival Additional design: Kelly Wiedholz Assistant Professor - Film/Video, Films from the New Europe ...... 25 Tino Balio, Executive Director, University of Illinois at Chicago Isthmus Film Guide and Program: UW-Madison Arts Institute Global Lens ...... 26 J.J. Murphy, Filmmaker, Professor, Creative Director: Ellen J Meany Meg Hamel (volunteer), Communication Arts, UW-Madison Production Design Artists: James Benning ...... 27 Venue and Logistics Management Eric Rank, Todd Hubler, James Schamus Danish Cinema Beyond Dogme ...... 28 Alissa Broderdorf, Festival Assistant David Michael Miller Co-President, Focus Features Advertising Sales: Troy Gile, Vanessa Shipley (volunteer), Other Series Lists ...... 29-30 Laurie Scheer Chad Hopper, Melissa Badini, Filmmaker and Guest Liaison Writer / Producer / Professor Colin Murray, Lisa Kersten, Festival Parties ...... 19 Tony Cippolle, WUD Film Committee Susan Schmitz Luke Piper, Michelle Pestlin Venues, Parking & Lodging ...... 3 1 Festival Intern President, Downtown Madison Inc. Travis Gerdes, WUD Film Committee Matt Solomon, Writer / Producer, FESTIVAL MEDIA RELATIONS Sponsors & Partners ...... 34 Festival Intern John Roach Projects Funnel Incorporated, Lori Wilson, Ticket Order Form ...... 33 Erik Gunneson, Faculty Associate, Mike Verveer, Alderperson, Marketing Communications Director Communication Arts City of Madison Becca Ekern, Marketing This festival guide was produced, printed and distributed with Catherine Reiland, World Cinema Communications Manager Isthmus, Madison’s Weekly Newspaper, Vol. 29, No. 10, March 5, 2004 Day Coordinator Jess Miller, Intern ©2004 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Arts Institute Leadership Staff: Tino Balio, Executive Director; Mary Carbine, Director, Wisconsin Film Festival; Arts Residency Coordinator; Ken Chraca, Administrator; Sarah Schaffer, Coordinator, School of Music Recordings Project The Wisconsin Film Festival is a public program of the UW-Madison Arts Institute. Arts Institute Executive Committee (2003-04): Sonya Clark, Associate Professor, Environment, Textiles and Design; Jim Escalante, Chair, The Arts Institute works to make the arts more visible and effective at UW- Department of Art; Linda Essig, Chair, Department of Theatre & Drama; Vance Kepley, Chair, Department of Communication Arts; Madison. Governed by arts faculty and staff, we represent the collective voice Russell Panczenko, Director, Elvehjem Museum of Art; Norma Saldivar, Director, University Theatre; Majid Sarmadi, Chair, Environment, and strength of the arts at the University. The Arts Institute funds and supports Textiles and Design; John Schaffer, Director, School of Music; Andrew Taylor, Director, Bolz Center for Arts Administration; Jin-Wen projects with university- and community-wide impact, including artists residencies, Yu, Chair, Dance Program The Arts on Campus website awards and fellowships, public programs, and arts marketing and outreach. is a collaborative project sponsored by the Deans’ Council: Phillip R. Certain, Dean, College of Letters & Science; Robin Douthitt, Dean, School of Human Ecology; Charles Read Arts Institute and University Communica- Created in 1998, the Arts Institute grew out of a university Arts Consortium and (Chair), Dean, School of Education tions in cooperation with campus arts units other collaborative efforts. An “intercollege unit,” the Arts Institute is sponsored and organizations, and with the support of by the College of Letters & Science, the School of Education, and the School of UW-Madison Arts Institute, 5542 Humanities Building, 455 N. Park St., Madison, WI 53706 the Evjue Foundation. Human Ecology. (608) 263-4086 • [email protected] • www.arts.wisc.edu WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ★ MADISON ★ APRIL 1-4, 2004 ★ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ★ 877.963.FILM 3 FILMS & FILM PROGRAMS

5 for 1: Episodes 1 & 2 See Young Visions and Voices. The Adventures of Mad Matt See Wisconsin’s Own Shorts III: Documentary. Afro-Punk: The “Rock ‘n Roll Nigger” Experience Fri, Apr 2, 9:15pm, 1h30, Play Circle ORDER CODE: AP1 Sun, Apr 4, 7:30pm, 1h30, Play Circle ORDER CODE: AP2 (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) Kicking off with a direct rebuke to the Patti Smith song, Afro-Punk takes an in-depth look at racial identity in the punk scene. It follows the lives of four people Alma is a story of family dysfunction. of color who have chosen a punk-rock lifestyle and examines their experiences in a mostly white scene. Isolation, interracial dating, and Alma black power are a few of the tough issues this Sat, Apr 3, 5pm, 1h45, Bartell Theatre documentary tackles. Afro-Punk features per- ORDER CODE: ALM formances by the Bad Brains, Tamar-Kali, With filmmaker Ruth Leitman in person. Cipher, and Ten Grand, and interviews with (MADISON PREMIERE) By any standard, Alma is a members of Fishbone, 247-spyz, D.H. Peligro of nightmare of a mother.A narcissist who expe- Dead Kennedys, Carley of Candiria, and Cha- riences frequent psychotic episodes, Alma ka Malik of Orange 9mm. hears voices in the ceiling, leaves ranting mes- — JOE BERES sages on the answering machine, and refers to Documentary Feature, USA, 2003, 66 min, Color, Beta SP; Director: James Spooner; Producer: James the uncle who raped her at age seven as her Spooner; Screenplay By: James Spooner; Cast: “first boyfriend.” She has abused her daughter Tamar-Kali, Matt Davis, Moe Mitchell, Mariko Jones; Margie, an Atlanta bartender and country Production Co: highyellow productions; Series: singer, since infancy.After leaving home, Documentary, Musically Inclined Margie tries unsuccessfully to distance herself from Alma and from her passive-aggressive alcoholic father.This conflicted relationship is ‘Afro-Punk: The “Rock ‘n Roll the subject of this compassionate documentary by “Wisconsin’s Own” Competition juror Nigger” Experience’ Ruth Leitman. At Margie’s invitation, Leit- man filmed the family over three years. View- takes an in-depth look er discretion advised. UW-Madison alumnus — MARY CARBINE Richard Schickel has created at racial identity Documentary Feature, USA, 1997, 77 min, Color, Beta Charlie: The Life and Art SP; Director: Ruth Leitman; Producer: Ruth Leitman, in the punk scene. Nancy Segler, Margie Thorpe; Executive Producer: of Charles Chaplin. Peter Wentworth; Production Co: Ruthless Films; Series: Documentary; Print courtesy of Ruthless Films. The Agronomist Angel on the Right Sat, Apr 3, 3pm, 1h30, Club Majestic (Fararishtay kifti rost) Barschool ★ XX to XY: Fighting to be Jake ORDER CODE: AGR Fri, Apr 2, 5pm, 1h30, University Square See Student Film Program I: Narrative. Jake was born female. Since early childhood, (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) Fifteen years in the making, ORDER CODE: AN1 he felt there had to be a genetic mistake: s/he The Agronomist is Academy Award-winning Sat, Apr 3, 5:15pm, 1h30, University Square Bloom should have been a boy.Touching interviews, See Student Film Program II: director Jonathan Demme’s portrait of Hai- ORDER CODE: AN2 vivid animation, and musical pastiche docu- Experimental/Documentary. tian human rights activist Jean Dominique – (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) After spending a decade in ment his courageous fight against a resistant assassinated in April 2000, on the steps of his Moscow,small-time thief Hamro returns to The Body Divided Short Film Program medical and social system. radio station – his extraordinary wife Documentary Short, Germany, 2002, 20 min, Color, his native village to visit his dying mother, Thu, Apr 1, 9:15pm, 1h30, Play Circle Michelèle Montas, and their beloved Haiti. In Beta SP; Director: Emily Atef; Producer: Emily Atef; only to find that she has feigned illness to lure ORDER CODE: WHL 1968, Dominique purchased Radio Haiti Inter Executive Producer: Emily Atef; Production Co: him back. Suddenly Hamro faces unpaid debts With filmmaker Melody Gilbert (Whole) in person. Berlin Film Academy and began to revolutionize radio communica- to his hometown, and a 10-year-old son whom Absorbing and challenging, these films ★ Whole tions, clearly defining himself as a militant he has never met. Deriving its title from an address the integrity of the body,medical (MADISON PREMIERE) In this well-crafted presenta- journalist working to realize democratic Islamic fable, the film is an engaging take on practices, and the boundary of pathology. tion of a difficult topic, the subjects of Whole ideals under the Duvalier regime. “Demme familial obligations and their discontents. 91 min suffer from Body Integrity Identity Disorder, tells Dominique’s story in traditional agit-prop “Usmonov refuses to paint his characters in ★ Ocularist characterized by the intense desire to live life style, shattering the screen with inspirational black and white terms… A sturdily acted film (MADISON PREMIERE) Using wax and acrylics, an with fewer than four limbs. Some hide their anecdotes, hard-hitting informational text and from a region so rarely represented in cine- ocularist crafts the illusion of an eye for his secret longing, some are “wannabes” who use historical news footage. Uncompromising in ma.” – Tom Dawson, BBCi Films. Winner, young patient. An award winner from the 2003 prosthetics to look the part, while some risk its political viewpoint, The Agronomist will FIPRESCI Award, 2002 London Film Festival; Sundance and South by Southwest Film Festi- their lives by taking matters into their own send you out of the theater with your fist in Silver Screen Award (Best Asian Director), the air.”– Kay Armatage, Toronto Film Festi- vals. hands. Rather than rely on cheap shocks, 2003 Singapore International Film Festival. Documentary Short, USA, 2003, 8 min, Color; 35 val. Featuring original music by Wyclef Jean — KATHERINE SPRING director Melody Gilbert allows her subjects mm, 2.35; Director: Vance Malone; Producer: Kevin and Jerry “Wonda” Duplessis. Narrative Feature, Tajikistan, France, 2002, 88 min, and their loved ones to tell their own stories. Sullivan; Executive Producer: David Allen Cress; “This is the sort of talking-point documentary — MARY CARBINE Color, 35mm, 1.66; Language: In Tajik with English Production Co: Food Chain Films subtitles; Director: Djamshed Usmonov; Producer: that festivals adore.” – Robert Koehler, Variety Documentary Feature, USA, 2003, 90 min, Color, ★ 35mm, 1.85; Language: In English, French and Creole Marco Müller; Executive Producer: Elise Jalladeau, Model Prisoner Documentary Short, USA, 2003, 55 min, Color, Mini with English subtitles; Director: Jonathan Demme; Marco Müller; Screenplay By: Djamshed Usmonov; (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) After being executed in 1993, DV; Director: Melody Gilbert; Production Co: FF Producer: Jonathan Demme, Peter Saraf, Bevin Cast: Uktamoi Miyasarova, Maruf Pulodzoda, Kova convict Joseph Jernigan’s remains were Productions, LLC McNamara; Executive Producer: Daniel Wolff; Tilavpur, Mardonqul Qulbobo, Maljqat Maqsumova, turned into 1,871 digitized slices as part of the Furkat Buriev; Production Co: Asht Village, Fabrica Production Co: Clinica Estetico; Series: Visible Human Project. This short film uses Breakfast on the Run Documentary; Print courtesy of ThinkFilm. Cinema; Series: Global Lens; Sponsor: The Evjue See Young Visions and Voices. Foundation; Print courtesy of Global Film Initiative. archival footage to reconstruct his life while Aldara challenging the ethics of the research. Fea- Broshennye Animation by Katie Wang tured in the 2003 Slamdance Film Festival. See Student Film Program II: See Student Film Program II: Experimental/Documentary. See Young Visions and Voices. Documentary Short, Experimental Short, USA, 2003, Experimental/Documentary. 8 min, Color, Mini DV; Director: Katherin McInnis 4 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ★ MADISON ★ APRIL 1-4, 2004 ★ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ★ 877.963.FILM ★ One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich The Agronomist, (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) Through film clips, journal Haitian human entries, and personal musings, One Day in the rights activist Life of Andrei Arsenevich is Chris Marker’s Jean Dominique. homage to his friend and colleague, Andrei Tarkovsky,who died in 1986. Widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century,Tarkovsky has achieved a mythic status with such masterpieces as Andrei Rublev, Solaris, and Stalker. Documentary Short, USA, 1999, 55 min, Color, Beta SP; Language: In French with English subtitles; Director: Chris Marker The Corporation is a darkly amusing Dancing Vulture Animated Short account of the See Young Visions and Voices. The Custodial Code institution’s birth Dateline: Zack Mar-Pohl Sat, Apr 3, 11:45pm, 1h45, Play Circle as a legal ‘person’ See Young Visions and Voices. whose directive ORDER CODE: ORL is to produce PRECEDES Martin and Orloff A Day in the Life of Leeana ever-increasing With filmmaker Andrew Zilch (Custodial Code) See Young Visions and Voices. (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) This action-packed comedy profit for its Death features ordinary janitors as extraordinary shareholders. See Wisconsin’s Own (and Other) Shorts II: Comedy. heroes – and disciples of The Custodial Code. — MARY CARBINE A Definition of Hip-Hop Narrative Short, USA, 2003, 15 min, Color, DigiBeta; See Young Visions and Voices. Director: Andrew Zilch; Producer: Jessica Otto, James E. Vidal, Andrew Zilch; Executive Producer: Destino Hal T. Wenaas; Screenplay By: Andrew Zilch, Chadd See Dali to Disney. Charlie: The Life and Art S. Johnson; Cast: Jordan Belfi, Roger Donzelli, of Charles Chaplin Aaron Vattano, Brett McDermid; Production Co: Yellow Skip Films Thu, Apr 1, 6:30pm, 2h30, Orpheum Stage Door In ‘Divan,’ filmmaker Pearl ORDER CODE: CHP Dalí to Disney: With filmmaker Richard Schickel in person. Traversing Surrealism, Cinema Gluck travels from the Hasidic UW-Madison alumnus Richard Schickel, one and History Short Film Program of the nation’s most influential film critics, Sat, Apr 3, 3:45pm, 1h45, Cinematheque Jewish community where has been reviewing movies for Time since ORDER CODE: DAL 1972. He is also an accomplished filmmaker, she was raised, to Hungary From Disney to Dalí, Bellon to Tarkovsky, and his new documentary chronicles the bril- these films address surrealism, art and film- liant career of Charles Chaplin, as well as his to retrieve a family heirloom. making from Hollywood to France and the controversial private life (four marriages, love The Ocularist, part of ‘The Body Divid- Soviet Union. affairs, a paternity suit, and persecution by ed.’ 103 min. Sponsor: European Studies Alliance, Center Divan the FBI). With rare footage of Chaplin, scenes for Interdisciplinary French Studies Sun, Apr 4, 3pm, 2h, Orpheum Stage Door from his greatest films (The Tramp, The Gold ★ Destino ORDER CODE: DIV Rush, Modern Times and more) and newly The Climactic Death of Dark Ninja (MADISON PREMIERE) The surrealistic imagery of With filmmaker Pearl Gluck in person. recorded interviews with Woody Allen, Geral- See Wisconsin’s Own (and Other) Shorts II: Comedy. Salvador Dalí comes to life in this new animat- dine Chaplin, Martin Scorsese and others, (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) In this charming and Clique Clash: Standing Alone ed short, a collaboration begun 58 years ago Charlie is a sharply observed and definitive poignant documentary,filmmaker Pearl Gluck See Young Visions and Voices. when Dalí came to the Disney Studios to work overview of Chaplin and his Little Tramp. travels from the Hasidic Jewish community of with Walt Disney on an animated artistic Brooklyn, where she was raised, to Hungary to — MARY CARBINE The Corporation Documentary Feature, USA, 2003, 127 min, Color experiment. Although the project was side- retrieve a turn-of-the-century family heirloom, and B/W, 35mm; Director: Richard Schickel; Sun, Apr 4, 3pm, 3h30, Orpheum Main lined in 1946, Dalí’s completed storyboards, her great-grandfather’s couch upon which Producer: Richard Schickel, Doug Freeman, Bryan ORDER CODE: COR visual development and paintings became the revered rebbes once slept. She hopes retriev- McKenzie; Executive Producer: Brian Jamieson; With filmmakers Mark Achbar and Harold Crooks blueprint for a new generation of Disney filming this piece of family history will heal a Screenplay By: Richard Schickel; Production Co: in person. Introduction and Q & A moderated makers. Destino is a love story as only Dalí breach with her father, who wants her to get Lorac Productions, MK2, Warner Home Video; by Bill Lueders, News Editor, Isthmus. Series: Documentary, Insider; Print courtesy of could envision it, complete with images of bal- married and return to the Hasidic world. Warner Home Video. (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) The Corporation, a new film lerinas, baseball players, the Tower of Babel, Throughout the entire tale, a chorus of former by Mark Achbar (co-director of the acclaimed melting clocks, tuxedo-clad eyeballs, and ants Orthodox Jews sits on the couch and com- Chaza Show Choir Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and that turn into bicyclists. An Academy Award ments on Gluck’s saga and Jewish culture. Sat, Apr 3, 11pm, 2h, Cinematheque The Media) and Jennifer Abbott, engages us in nominee for Best Animated Short. “Deeply committed and slyly ironic… a ORDER CODE: CHZ a darkly amusing account of the institution’s Animated Short, USA, 2003, 6 min, Color; Director: glimpse into the richness of Yiddish folklore, a Dominique Monfery; Producer: Baker Bloodworth; With filmmakers Didier Leplae and Theresa birth as a legal “person” whose prime direc- passive-aggressive assault on the patriarchal tive is to produce ever-increasing profit for its Executive Producer: Roy E. Disney; Screenplay By: Columbus in person. Salvador Dalí; Production Co: Walt Disney Pictures fastness of Hasidic orthodoxy and a vast self- shareholders regardless of the cost to anyone, (MADISON PREMIERE) The musical adventures of ★ reflexive joke.” – Ronnie Scheib, Variety. or anything else. The Corporation features Remembrance of Things to Come — MARY CARBINE plucky high school choir and band members (Les Souvenir d’un avenir) who are invited to compete in Germany,only interviews with CEOs and corporate execu- Documentary Feature, USA, Hungary, 2003, 77 min, (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) This latest “cine-essay” to be forced to work in a Wiener schnitzel fac- tives; critical thinkers Noam Chomsky,Naomi Color, 35mm; Language: In Hungarian, Yiddish and from Chris Marker is dense, demanding and English with English subtitles; Director: Pearl Gluck; tory.Will their punky little dance moves be Klein, and Milton Friedman; filmmaker and full of his trademark agility,poetry,and power. Producer: Pearl Gluck; Screenplay By: Pearl Gluck; enough to save them from this fate? High ener- corporate critic Michael Moore; and historian Ostensibly a portrait of photographer Denise Production Co: Pálinka Pictures; Series: gy performances and can-do attitudes animate Howard Zinn; plus corporate spies and Documentary; Sponsor: Hillel Bellon, focusing on the two decades between this feature co-directed by Theresa Columbus whistleblowers. “A brilliantly argued essay… a 1935 and 1955, the film leaps and backtracks of the Darling Hall independent performance scintillating intellectual journey into the El Dorko from a family portrait of Bellon and her two space, and Didier Leplae, co-director of the heart of global capitalism.” – IDFA, Amster- See Wisconsin’s Own (and Other) Shorts II: Comedy. daughters, Loleh and Yannick (the latter co- 2001 Wisconsin’s Own Best Narrative Feature, dam. “One of the most powerful and thought- authored the film), to a wide-ranging history Dreams of America The Foreigners. A Wisconsin’s Own Competi- provoking films the documentary genre has of surrealism, Paris, French cinema, Europe, See Student Film Program II: tion Entry. produced in a long time.” – The McGill Daily. Experimental/Documentary. — JAMES KREUL Winner of People’s Choice Awards at the Van- the National Front, the Second World War and Experimental Feature, Narrative Feature, USA, 2003, couver, Calgary and Toronto International Spanish Civil War, and postwar politics and The Drunk Squirrel 90 min, B/W, 35mm; Director: Theresa Columbus, Film Festivals. culture. Full of Marker jokes, word play,filmic See Young Visions and Voices. Didier Leplae; Producer: Theresa Columbus, Didier — JOE BERES homages, and peculiar art history,the film Leplae; Screenplay By: Theresa Columbus; Cast: Documentary Feature, Canada, 2004, 145 min, Color, opens with Dalí and ends with Mompou, tra- Duct Tape Stephanie Barber, Peter Barrickman, Sara Boland, 35mm, 1.85; Director: Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott; versing in its short time a world of thought, See Young Visions and Voices. Theresa Columbus, Didier Laplae, Xav Laplae; Producer: Mark Achbar, Bart Simpson; Executive feeling, and history. Series: Wisconsin’s Own Filmmakers, Experimental Producer: Mark Achbar; Screenplay By: Joel Bakan, East Saint Paul Documentary / Experimental Short, France, 2001, 42 Film and Media; Sponsor: Wisconsin Film Office Harold Crooks, Mark Achbar; Series: Documentary; See Student Film Program I: Narrative. min, Color, Beta SP; Language: In French with English Sponsor: Isthmus subtitles; Director: Chris Marker, Yannick Bellon CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ★ MADISON ★ APRIL 1-4, 2004 ★ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ★ 877.963.FILM 5 FILMS & FILM PROGRAMS, CONT.

Everystory See Student Film Program I: Narrative. Eyes Without a Face (Les yeux sans visage) WITH Bergman’s Show: Remembering Mark Bergman, the Movies and Madison Sat, Apr 3, 3pm, 2h15, Play Circle ORDER CODE: EYE PRICE NOTE: Tickets are required. A mysterious woman in a plastic raincoat drives through the night, stopping to dump a corpse in the river.A distinguished surgeon lectures to a rapt audience on the difficulties of the “heterograft,” then goes to police head- quarters to identify the body of his daughter, disfigured in a car crash – her facial wounds so Anders Thomas Actress Bai Ling, and Treach, of Jensen’s The clean they might have been cut with a scalpel. Naughty by Nature, perform in Face. Georges Franju’s savage parody of the scien- Green Butchers tific method gone to its Faustian limits has is lunatic, grisly, Fakers been called “the most elegant horror movie unexpectedly ever made” (Pauline Kael). Not for those Fri, Apr 2, 5pm, 1h45, Orpheum Main touching, and squeamish about scalpels, facial surgery,or ORDER CODE: FAK terrifically funny. angry dogs, Eyes Without a Face is wildly fan- With filmmaker Todd Kleparski in person. tastical and infused with lyrical dread. “Gor- (MIDWEST PREMIERE) This thoroughly entertaining geously,intensely disquieting.” – The New entry in the Wisconsin’s Own competition York Times. “A one-of-a-kind horror master- hails from… London, of course. Fakers is an piece.” – The New York Post. This fresh 35mm off-beat crime caper set in the London art print features a new translation and subtitles. world. Con artist Nick Edwards has four days — MARY CARBINE to find £50,000 to pay off the seriously smooth Narrative Feature, France, Italy, 1959, 95 min, B/W, crime lord Foster Wright, as well as find some 35mm, 1.66; Language: In French with English romance on the side. Edwards constructs a subtitles; Director: Georges Franju; Producer: Jules race-against-time scam to sell five forgeries of Brokon; Screenplay By: Thomas Boileau, Pierre Narcejac, Jean Redon, Claude Sautet, George Franju; an infamous “lost sketch” before the London Cast: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Edith Scob, Juliette art world uncovers the truth. Kleparski grew Mayniel, François Guerin, Alexandre Rignault; up in Marathon, Wis., and attended UW- Production Co: Champs-Elysées Productions, Lux Stevens Point. Film; Series: Restorations and Revivals — MARY CARBINE Narrative Feature, United Kingdom, 2003, 86 min, Color, 35mm, 2.35; Language: In English and Italian Georges Franju’s savage with English Subtitles; Director: Richard Janes; Producer: Claire Bee, Todd Kleparski; Screenplay By: parody ‘Eyes Without a Face’ Paul Gerstenberger; Production Co: Kleparski & Bee Productions; Series: Wisconsin’s Own Filmmakers; is wildly fantastical and Sponsor: Wisconsin Film Office

infused with lyrical dread. Fatale Joe Louis and Max Schmeling square off The Five Obstructions is a journey into See Student Film Program I: Narrative. in The Fight. the human psyche. Festival Express Face The Fight The Five Obstructions Thu, Apr 1, 7pm, 1h30, Orpheum Main Sat, Apr 3, 7pm, 2h, Club Majestic Fri, Apr 2, 7pm, 1h45, Bartell Theatre (De Fem Benspænd) ORDER CODE: FEX ORDER CODE: FCE ORDER CODE: FGT Sun, Apr 4, 7:30pm, 1h30, Cinematheque (MIDWEST PREMIERE) In the summer of 1970, the With filmmaker Bertha Bay-Sa Pan in person. Festival Express carried the biggest names in With filmmaker Barak Goodman in person. ORDER CODE: OBS (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) The conflict between tradi- rock music across Canada on a legendary (MIDWEST PREMIERE) In 1938, during the depths of (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) In November 2000, director tional ethnic values and the pressures of train ride from one music festival to the next. the Great Depression, African-American Joe Lars von Trier gave an assignment to his urban American life are central to Face, the Young promoters Ken Walker and Thor Eaton Louis and German Max Schmeling squared off “hero,” the great Danish filmmaker Jørgen story of a mother and daughter, raised in assembled one of the greatest traveling con- in the heavyweight championship of the world Leth, a veteran experimentalist. Together, Queens, N.Y.by the family’s Chinese-Ameri- cert bills of all time, including Janis Joplin, in Yankee Stadium in New York. More than they would watch Leth’s eccentric short, The can matriarch. Acclaimed actor Bai Ling plays the Grateful Dead, The Band, The Flying Bur- ninety thousand people crowded the stadium Perfect Human (1967), a document on human Kim, who in the ’70s finds herself caught rito Brothers, Eric Andersen, Buddy Guy, to watch it, and the largest radio audience in behavior.Von Trier claims deep admiration between her traditional family and modern Great Speckled Bird, and many more. When history tuned in. Each fighter faced enormous for the short (“a little gem that we are going to surroundings. Forced into a hellish marriage, these headliners weren’t performing in front pressures. Joe Louis, who held the aspirations ruin”), but demands that Leth remake the film Kim flees New York, leaving her mother to of Canadian “Woodstocks” each night, they of black America in his fists, must uphold the five times, with von Trier imposing a series of raise her infant, Genie. In the ’90s, Genie were partying, feasting, drinking, and jam- honor of a nation in which he is a second-class increasingly outrageous obstructions. In the matures into a streetwise young woman, loyal ming in what they deemed the “party to end all citizen. Schmeling entered the ring under the meetings where Leth “reports back” to von to her grandmother yet unwilling to live with- parties.” The footage of this historic train ride pretense that the fight would prove Hitler’s Trier, the old master proves a wily opponent in the strictures of Chinese tradition. When was mired in legal proceedings for years, but racial theories. Filmmaker Barak Goodman for the cunning young provocateur.At once Kim resurfaces from Hong Kong and Genie 90 hours of raw negative and 40 hours of (Scottsboro: An American Tragedy) weaves documentary,fiction, avant-garde essay and falls in love with an African-American DJ uncut sound recordings made their way to the archival footage with commentary from for- vicious game, The Five Obstructions is a jour- (Treach of Naughty by Nature, who also per- National Archive of Canada. Bob Smeaton, the mer boxers and trainers to create a riveting ney into the human psyche and the phenome- forms on the soundtrack), all three women director of the ABC series “The Beatles portrait of this monumental match and of two non of filmmaking. must confront a conflicted past and uncertain — MARY CARBINE Anthology,”truly captures the spirit of the athletes. The Fight will make its national present. An official selection of the 2001 Sun- Documentary Feature, Experimental Feature, times as a new decade in music and culture broadcast premiere as part of American Expe- dance Film Festival. “Compelling… her actors Denmark, Switzerland, 2003, 90 min, Color, 35mm; dawned. rience on PBS next year. Language: In Danish, Spanish, English and French are exceptional.” – Hollywood Reporter. — TONY CIPPOLLE — MARY CARBINE — MARY CARBINE with English subtitles; Director: Jørgen Leth, Lars Documentary Feature, Canada, 2003, 90 min, Color, Documentary Feature, USA, 2003, 88 min, Color, von Trier; Producer: Carsten Holst; Executive Narrative Feature, USA, 2001, 84 min, Color, 35mm, 35mm, 1.85; Director: Bob Smeaton; Producer: DigiBeta; Director: Barak Goodman; Producer: Barak Producer: Carsten Holst; Screenplay By: Jørgen 1.85; Director: Bertha Bay-Sa Pan; Producer: Alexa L. Galvin Poolman, John Trapman; Executive Producer: Goodman, John Maggio; Executive Producer: Mark Leth, Lars von Trier; Production Co: Zentropa Real, Fogel, Joseph Infantolino, Bertha Bay-Sa Pan; Screenplay Ann Carli, Willem Poolman; Production Co: Apollo Samels; Production Co: Social Media Productions, Almaz Film Production, Wajnbrosse Productions, By: Bertha Bay-Sa Pan, Oren Moverman; Cast: Bai Ling, Films, Peachtree Films; Series: Documentary, American Experience/WGBH Boston, MDR/ARTE, Panic Productions; Series: Danish Cinema Beyond Kristy Wu, Kieu Chinh, Treach, Will Yun Lee, Tina Chen; Musically Inclined; Sponsor: 105.5 Triple M; Print BBC; Series: Documentary; Sponsor: Wisconsin Dogme; Sponsor: European Studies Alliance, Danish Series: Asian American Cinema, American Cinema; courtesy of ThinkFilm. Public Television Film Institute Sponsor: Asian American Studies Program 6 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ★ MADISON ★ APRIL 1-4, 2004 ★ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ★ 877.963.FILM Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Bu san) Fri, Apr 2, 9:30pm, 2h, Cinematheque ORDER CODE: GBY With introduction and Q & A by film critic Mike Wilmington. (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) “Do you remember the late night showings in a theater, where a thousand people would sit together, laugh together, cry together? Even the lightest sigh would move the heart.” – Tsai Ming-liang. On a rainy eve in Taipei, a decaying movie palace projects King Hu’s classic martial arts film, Dragon Inn.In front of the screen, gay men cruise, unrequit- ed love simmers, and ghosts of a past age haunt the theater’s eerie space. With trademark minimalist style and deadpan humor, acclaimed Taiwanese director Tsai (What Time Is It There?, Vive L’amour) presents a tender love poem to the cinema. Winner, FIPRESCI Prize, 2003 Venice Film Festival. — KATHERINE SPRING Narrative Feature, Taiwan, 2003, 82 min, Color, A Wisconsin’s Own Competition entry, Fakers is an off-beat crime caper set in the London art world. 35mm, 1.85; Language: In Mandarin and Taiwanese with English subtitles; Director: Tsai Ming-liang; Producer: Liang Hung-chih, Vincent Wang; Screenplay By: Tsai Ming-liang; Cast: Lee Kang- sheng, Chen Shiang-chyi, Kiyonobu Mitamura, Miao Tian, Shi Jun; Production Co: Homegreen Films; Series: Contemporary World Cinema

A decaying movie palace take centerstage in ‘Goodbye, Dragon Inn,’ a tender love poem to the cinema.

The Green Butchers (De Grønne Slagtere) Sat, Apr 3, 8pm, 2h15, Orpheum Main ORDER CODE: GRB With filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen in person. Humans dance with dogs in Freestyle. (MIDWEST PREMIERE) Svend is a fussy,overambi- tious geek with a chip on his shoulder.He sets Freestyle up a new butcher shop with his best friend Sat, Apr 3, 3pm, 1h30, Orpheum Stage Door Bjarne, an anti-social loafer.Business is slow Forget Baghdad tells the forgotten story of four Iraqi Jews. ORDER CODE: OF1 until Svend accidentally locks an electrician Sun, Apr 4, 7:30pm, 1h30, Orpheum Stage Door in the freezer.He tries to cover up the death by Forget Baghdad Four Corners ORDER CODE: OF2 grinding up the corpse but unexpectedly has to sell the only “stock” he has in the shop. Sat, Apr 3, 7:15pm, 2h, University Square Sun, Apr 4, 3pm, 2h, Cinematheque PRECEDES The Other Final When the two entrepreneurs become an ORDER CODE: FB1 ORDER CODE: COR (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) A delightful look at a new competitive sport, “Musical Canine Freestyle” overnight success, Svend is determined to Sun, Apr 4, 7:30pm, 2h, University Square With filmmaker James Benning in person. keep up with the demand – despite Bjarne’s ORDER CODE: FB2 (MADISON PREMIERE) The famous tourist spot (humans dancing with dogs), and its colorful practitioners who hope to take it all the way to resistance – and soon, people start disappear- (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) Winner of a 2002 Locarno where New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and ing. Written and directed by Denmark’s gifted Jury Prize, Forget Baghdad tells the forgotten Utah meet also marks the starting point for the Olympics. Winner of the Grand Jury Sparky Award for Best Short at the 2004 Slam- Anders Thomas Jensen (Flickering Lights, story of four Iraqi Jews, all former members James Benning’s complex meditation on land- writer Mifune, Open Hearts, co-writer Wilbur of the Communist Party forced to emigrate at scape, history,and painting. A wide range of dance Film Festival. — MARY CARBINE Wants to Kill Himself), The Green Butchers is Israel’s founding. Organized around the life subjects, from four paintings by very different Documentary Short, USA, 2003, 26 min, Color, lunatic, grisly,unexpectedly touching, and ter- stories of Shimon Ballas, Sami Michael, Samir artitsts, to migration history,ethnic displace- Video; Director: Elena Elmoznino; Series: rifically funny.Nominated for seven Danish Naqqash, and Moussa Houri, Forget Baghdad ment, and conflicts in particular areas of Mil- Documentary Robert Awards. reopens a lost chapter of Middle Eastern histo- waukee, allow Benning to convey the complex- — MEG HAMEL ry.The film also explores the painful and ity of the American story.“Four Corners, that Frozen Moment Narrative Feature, Denmark, 2003, 100 min, Color, humorous stories of the sons and daughters of favorite tourist destination...becomes a kind of See Student Film Program II: 35mm, 2.35; Language: In Danish with English Experimental/Documentary. Iraqi exiles, represented by the Iraqi-Swiss theoretical ground zero, the site from which subtitles; Director: Anders Thomas Jensen; Producer: Kim Magnusson; Screenplay By: Anders filmmaker Samir and Iraqi-Israeli-American Benning can give voice to other, pointedly Fulton Fish Market Thomas Jensen; Cast: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Mads film scholar Ella Shohat. Forget Baghdad unofficial sort of spurious conspiracy (the his- See Wisconsin’s Own Shorts IV: Experimental Mikkelsen, Line Kruse, Bodil Jørgensen, Ole offers a rare glimpse into a community little- tory of the United States), but one in which Documentaries. Thestrup, Aksel Erhardsen; Production Co: M & M known but extremely important in light of each sound and each image hints at a story not Productions A/S; Series: Danish Cinema Beyond current events. “Timely and thought-provok- yet fully told (the histories of the United Gas ‘N Fuel Employee Training Video Dogme; Sponsor: European Studies Alliance, Danish ing.” – Variety. States).” – Manohla Dargis, LA Weekly. #4A: Makin’ It Happen! Film Institute — MARY CARBINE — JAMES KREUL See Wisconsin’s Own (and Other) Shorts II: Comedy. Documentary Feature, Switzerland, 2002, 111 min, Experimental Feature, USA, 1997, 80 min, Color, Greeting Card Writer Color, 35mm, 1.66; Language: In Arabic, Hebrew and 16mm; Director: James Benning; Series: James The Glass Bottle See Wisconsin’s Own (and Other) Shorts II: Comedy. English with English subtitles; Director: Samir; Benning, Experimental Film and Media See Wisconsin’s Own (and Other) Shorts II: Comedy. Screenplay By: Samir; Production Co: Dschoint Have a Nice Day Ventschr Filmproduktion; Series: Documentary, Goodbye Milwaukee See Young Visions and Voices. Contemporary World Cinema See Student Film Program II: Experimental/Documentary. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ★ MADISON ★ APRIL 1-4, 2004 ★ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ★ 877.963.FILM 7 James’ Journey to Jerusalem layers serious issues with sly wit and lilting fairy-tale charm.

Hip Hop Homos is a stylish exploration of the lives of two queer rappers. FILMS & FILM PROGRAMS, CONT.

Hip Hop Homos Sat, Apr 3, 7:30pm, 1h30, Play Circle ORDER CODE: KNL PRECEDES Ngatahi: Know the Links Debra Hussong’s Human Shield. With filmmaker Dave O’Brien in person. (MIDWEST PREMIERE) Hip Hop Homos is a stylish and energetic exploration of the lives of two James’ Journey to Jerusalem radically opposite queer rappers: Los Angeles’ ‘Intermission’ is a raucous, (Massa’ot James Be’Eretz Hakodesh) Deadlee and Madison’s own God-des. Director Sat, Apr 3, 5pm, 1h30, Club Majestic Dave O’Brien is a Wisconsin native and UW- romantic collision of a dozen ORDER CODE: JJ1 Madison alumnus. A Wisconsin’s Own Compe- tition entry. storylines, scattered Sun, Apr 4, 7:30pm, 1h30, Club Majestic — MARY CARBINE ORDER CODE: JJ2 Documentary Short, USA, 2003, 26 min, Color, Beta with acutely observed (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) Israeli filmmaker Ra’anan SP; Director: Dave O’Brien; Producer: Favian Lopez, Alexandrowicz’s (The Inner Tour) droll, Morgan R. Stiff; Production Co: University of scenes of Dublin life. sharply observed debut feature follows the Southern California; Series: Wisconsin’s Own Filmmakers, Musically Inclined; Sponsor: Wisconsin adventures of young James, a devout wide- Film Office eyed Christian attempting a pilgrimage from Intermission his African village to the Holy Land. Jailed by Human Shield Fri, Apr 2, 9:30pm, 1h45, Orpheum Main the immigration authorities upon his arrival Sun, Apr 4, 1pm, 1h15, Orpheum Stage Door ORDER CODE: INT in Tel Aviv,James is “miraculously” bailed out ORDER CODE: PFE (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) A raucous, romantic colli- by a shady businessman only to become part of PRECEDES The Price of Freedom sion of a dozen storylines about relationships, his migrant labor pool. Undeterred, James With filmmaker Debra Hussong in person. ambitions, and lives held waiting for the next perseveres in his religious quest – until he gets (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) In February 2003, approxi- big thing to happen. In cranky,no-frills a taste of fortune by exploiting his employer’s mately 300 human shields from 30 countries Dublin, Lehiff tries to outwit and outrun the friends and colleagues for his own profit. mobilized in Iraq for what would become a nasty vigilante cop armed with his own brand Topped with a charismatic performance by futile mission to prevent an invasion. Human of rough justice. Lehiff is planning a bank job South African actor Siyabonga Melongisi Shield presents the stories of two of them, a that will involve John, a supermarket shelf Shibe, James’ Journey to Jerusalem layers seri- retired schoolteacher and an idealistic young stacker whose girlfriend Deirdre has just run ous issues with sly wit and lilting fairy-tale man. off with a twit who also happens to be the charm. “A little gem… a smart and satisfying — MARY CARBINE manager of the bank that Lehiff ’s got his eye parable about immigrant exploitation.” Documentary Short, USA, 2003, 22 min, Color, Mini on. Meanwhile, Deirdre’s sister Sally is so – Kevin Courrier, BoxOffice Online. Kate Davis and David Heilbroner reveal DV; Director: Debra Hussong; Production Co: DAH short on self-esteem after her last disastrous — MARY CARBINE the hidden world of the Jockey. Media; Series: Documentary relationship that she has even allowed her Narrative Feature, Israel, 2003, 87 min, Color, 35mm, 1.66; Language: In Hebrew, English and Zulu ers. Most jocks are working class, without I Promise Africa moustache to grow.An “inventive screenplay with English subtitles; Director: Ra’anan which is scattered with acutely observed much education or opportunity.To meet Fri, Apr 2, 5pm, 1h30, Bartell Theatre Alexandrowicz; Producer: Amir Harel; Screenplay By: scenes of Dublin life... and quirky,humorous Ra’anan Alexandrowicz; Cast: Siyabonga Melongisi extreme weight requirements, many follow a ORDER CODE: PAN details of the everyday.”– Caroline Hennessy, Shibe, Arie Elias, Salim Daw, Sandra Schonwald, brutal regime of fasting, purging and sweating PRECEDES A Panther in Africa RTE. Winner, Best Film, Best Director, and Hugh Masebenza, Florence Bloch; Production Co: it out in saunas. Jockey tells the story of three Lama Productions Ltd.; Series: Contemporary World With filmmaker Jerry Henry in person. Kentucky riders as they confront injury,star- Best Script at the Irish Film Awards. Cinema (MIDWEST PREMIERE) During the tragedies of 9/11, — MEG HAMEL vation, and the fickle cycle of stardom’s rise the filmmaker was in a rural village in Kenya Narrative Feature, Ireland, 2003, 106 min, Color, Jockey and fall. Together, they fight to change the where he documented what he witnessed. 35mm, 1.85. MPAA Rating: R.; Director: John rules of American horse racing. Award-win- — MARY CARBINE Crowley; Producer: Steve Woolley, Neil Jordan, Alan Fri, Apr 2, 9:15 pm, 1h45, Bartell Theatre ning filmmaker Kate Davis (Southern Comfort) Documentary Short, Kenya, USA, 2003, 3 min, Color, Moloney; Executive Producer: Paul Trijbits, Rod ORDER CODE: JK1 again turns her lens on the marginalized and DVD; Director: Jerry A. Henry; Production Co: Stoneman, Tristan Whalley; Screenplay By: Mark Sun, Apr 4, 5:15pm, 1h45, Bartell Theatre O’Rowe; Cast: Cillian Murphy, Kelly Macdonald, Colin misunderstood, and crafts a compelling Cactus Eyelash; Series: Documentary ORDER CODE: JK2 Farrell, Colm Meaney, Brian F. O’Byrne, Shirley human story. Jockey will have its national With filmmakers Kate Davis and David Heilbroner. I’m Bobby Henderson; Production Co: Company of Wolves, broadcast premiere on HBO later this spring. See Wisconsin’s Own Shorts I: Documentary, Parallel Films; Series: Near and Far: Films From the (MIDWEST PREMIERE) It’s no coincidence that thor- — MARY CARBINE Experimental, Narrative. New Europe; Sponsor: Charter Communications and oughbred racing is “the sport of kings.” Mil- Documentary Feature, USA, 2003, 85 min, Color, IFC. Print courtesy of IFC Films. lions of dollars are involved. While top jockeys Beta SP; Director: Kate Davis; Producer: David Interference Heilbroner, Lisa Heller; Executive Producer: Sheila International Rhythms are revered as heroes, behind the glamour of See Wisconsin’s Own Shorts I: Documentary, the winners’ circle lies the hidden world of the Nevins; Production Co: HBO Documentaries; Series: See Student Film Program II: Documentary; Print courtesy of HBO Experimental, Narrative. racetrack locker room and rank-and-file rid- Experimental/Documentary. Documentaries.

8 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ★ MADISON ★ APRIL 1-4, 2004 ★ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ★ 877.963.FILM The Legend of Leigh Bowery Fri, Apr 2, 11:45pm, 1h30, Cinematheque ORDER CODE: LLB (MIDWEST PREMIERE) Leigh Bowery can’t simply be called an artist. Bowery himself essentially became a living, changing work of art. He was a fashion designer, musician, and nightclub impresario. His outrageous designs and characters turned the London fashion and club scenes on their heads, and his vision still influences artists of all disciplines. The Legend of Leigh Bowery examines the life and work of this influential man through interviews with the people that knew him (including Boy George, Damien Hirst, and Rifat Ozbek) and Leigh Bowery: A living work of art. footage of Bowery himself. “The film makes a case for Bowery as a significant artistic cata- Klezmer on Fish Street lyst blazing a glittery trail at the intersection Thu, Apr 1, 7pm, 2h, Hillel of fashion, pop music and surrealist perform- ORDER CODE: KLZ ance.” – Stephen Holden, The New York Times. With filmmaker Yale Strom in person. — JOE BERES Documentary Feature, USA, 2002, 82 min, Color, (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) Acclaimed filmmaker, DVD; Director: Charles Atlas; Producer: Lucy Sexton; author and musician Yale Strom will present Executive Producer: Sylvie Blum; Cast: Boy George, his latest award-winning film in a special Wis- Damien Hirst, Bella Freud, Michael Clark, Rifat consin Film Festival program at Hillel at the Ozbek; Production Co: Atlas Films NY & INA; Series: University of Wisconsin. Strom has done Documentary, After Dark extensive field research about klezmer in East- ern Europe among the Jews and Rom (Gyp- ‘Let Me Be Your Band’ Dubliner Colin Farrell sies). In Klezmer on Fish Street, we experience actually plays an Irishman the peculiar phenomenon of the Polish “Holo- caust Tourist Trade” – organized tours to is an inspiring look at in Intermission. Krakow’s former Jewish Quarter and concen- one-man bands, and the tration camps – through the eyes of young, Jewish Americans and aspiring klezmer musi- evening will feature cians traveling to Poland on a self-initiated “musical goodwill tour.”Strom will do a post- a live performance by film Q & A, play some klezmer tunes on his violin, and sign copies of his book The Book of The Lonesome Organist Klezmer. — MARY CARBINE Documentary Feature, USA, 2003, 87 min, Color, Beta SP; Language: In English, Polish, Yiddish and Let Me Be Your Band German with English subtitles; Director: Yale Strom; performance by The Lonesome Organist Producer: Elizabeth Schwartz; Series: Documentary, WITH Musically Inclined; Sponsor: Hillel at the University Sat, Apr 3, 9:15pm, 2h15, Orpheum Stage Door of Wisconsin, the Mosse/Weinstein Center for ORDER CODE: LBL Jewish Studies, University Book Store PRICE NOTE: $10 general; $8 student NOT INCLUDED IN PACKAGES. INCLUDES FILM LET ME BE Last Life in the Universe YOUR BAND, PLUS THE MUSICAL PERFORMANCE. (Ruang Rak Noi Nid Mahasan) (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) Like a circus sideshow of Ju-On rides a wave of Japanese horror. I Promise Africa: Filmed in Kenya. Fri, Apr 2, 7pm, 2h, Club Majestic the music world, the one-man band is often ORDER CODE: LL1 overlooked and rarely respected, left to the Ju-On: The Grudge Khorma Sun, Apr 4, 5:15pm, 2h, Club Majestic fringe of the independent music scene. Let (Ju-On) (Khorma, Enfant du cimetière) ORDER CODE: LL2 Me Be Your Band takes a hilarious and Fri, Apr 2, 11:30pm, 1h30, University Square Sat, Apr 3, 9:30pm, 1h45, University Square (MIDWEST PREMIERE) Elements of Japanese yakuza inspiring look into the lives and work of ten ORDER CODE: JU1 ORDER CODE: KH1 films, lush and intoxicating images, and eccen- one-man bands. This film looks at what Sat, Apr 3, 11:30pm, 1h30, University Square Sun, Apr 4, 3:15pm, 1h45, University Square tric narrative tics from the cutting edge of drives these loner musicians on their singu- lar missions, and includes performances by ORDER CODE: JU2 ORDER CODE: KH2 Thai cinema converge to tell the story of the legendary southern wildman Hasil Adkins, (MIDWEST PREMIERE) Riding in on the new wave of (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) Teased for his shock of red mysterious Kenji, a lonely Japanese librari- Bob Log III, and The Lonesome Organist. “A Japanese horror comes Ju-On: The Grudge. hair and extraordinarily pale skin, young an’s assistant who is obsessed with suicide. stomping introduction to solo artists.” – Long ago a horrible murder was committed Khorma stands out as the village idiot of Biz- Kenji accidentally kills a gang member and, Lynne Fernie, Hot Docs Film Festival. “A inside a home. Now the spirits of the dead hold erle, Tunisia. When Khorma’s elderly while on the run that same night, meets Noi, a heartfelt documentary on a genuinely fasci- a grudge against the living, passing it on to all guardian is stripped of his position as the Thai bar girl who accidently kills her sister nating subject… vibrant energy and magnet- who enter.Even those who escape are paid announcer of births, death, and marriages, when they fight over their shared boyfriend. ic performances.” – Roctober house calls! Balancing genuine shocks with a the village turns to Khorma as a replacement. Noi brings chaotic yet vital disorder into Ken- macabre sense of humor for its victims, Ju-On But newfound power proves too tempting, and ji’s life and, as they hide out together, discover The Lonesome Organist Jeremy Jacobsen the hidden hope of finding love and redemp- should not be missed, especially before its Khorma eagerly seeks revenge on the villagers will transport you back to a world where tion. Brilliantly photographed by Christopher inevitable American remake. “Ju-On is one of who once mocked his physical appearance. “A vaudeville reigned and performers worked Doyle (frequent collaborator of Wong Kar- the most frightening films I’ve ever seen. sensitive deconstruction of Tunisia’s power hard for every dime. To simply call him a one- Wai) and directed by Pen-ek Ratanaruang [Director Shizmu] is relentless in his delivery imbalance… a strikingly intelligent debut fea- man band is to underestimate his abilities. He (Mon-Rak Transistor), this is a strange, magi- [of scares], leaving you no time to catch your ture.” – Gaylene Gould, Toronto Film Festival. will play many instruments and at the same cal story about sisters and brothers, love and breath.” – Sam Raimi, director, Army of Dark- Official selection, 2002 Toronto International time, dance, tell stories, and sing, sometimes ness. Film Festival; 2002 Carthage Film Festival. death. — MEG HAMEL with a taped, doo-wop chorus of Lonesome — TRAVIS GERDES — KATHERINE SPRING Organists. You will be tired but exhilerated Narrative Feature, Japan, 2002, 92 min, Color, Narrative Feature, Tunisia, France, 2002, 100 min, Narrative Feature, Thailand, 2003, 112 min, Color, 35mm, 1.85; Language: In Japanese with English Color, 35mm, 1.85; Language: In Arabic with English 35mm, 1.85; Language: In Thai and Japanese with after watching his mind-blowing performance. — JOE BERES subtitles; Director: Takashi Shimizu; Producer: Taka subtitles; Director: Jilani Saadi; Producer: English subtitles; Director: Pen-ek Ratanaruang; Ichise; Screenplay By: Takashi Shimizu; Cast: Dominique Janne, Pierre Javaux; Screenplay By: Producer: Nonzee Nimibutr, Duangkamol Documentary Feature, Canada, 2002, 74 min, Color, Megumi Okina, Misaki Ito, Misa Uehara, Yui Ichikawa; Jilani Saadi; Cast: Med Graya, Med Morali, Ramzi Limcharoen, Wouter Barendrecht; Executive Beta SP; Language: English; Director: Derek Production Co: Oz Company Ltd.; Series: After Dark, Braro, Hassen Khalssi, Dalila Meftahi, Chedly El Producer: Arai Yoshikiyo, Charoen Iampuengporn, Emerson, Heather Emerson; Producer: Heather Contemporary World Cinema Ouerghy; Production Co: Pierre Javaux Productions, Meileen Choo, Michael J. Werner, Fran Rubel Kuzui, Emerson, Derek Emerson, Jeff Mutch; Cast: Hasil Jilani Saadi Productions; Series: Global Lens; Kaz Kuzui; Screenplay By: Prabda Yoon, Pen-ek Adkins, The Lonesome Organist, Bob Log III, Ken: Story of a Western Drifter Sponsor: The Evjue Foundation; Print courtesy of Ratanaruang; Cast: Asano Tadanobu, Sinitta Washbord Hank; Production Co: One Eye Blinking Global Film Initiative. Boonyasak, Laila Boonyasak, Matsushige Yutaka, Productions; Series: Documentary, Musically Inclined See Wisconsin’s Own Shorts I: Documentary, Takeuchi Riki; Production Co: Bohemian Films, Experimental, Narrative. Cinemasia; Series: Contemporary World Cinema CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ★ MADISON ★ APRIL 1-4, 2004 ★ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ★ 877.963.FILM 9 Ryan Eslinger’s Madness and Genius weaves multiple storylines. FILMS & FILM PROGRAMS, CONT.

Loose Cannons: Campus Security (Ch.12) See Student Film Program I: Narrative. Los Fri, Apr 2, 7:15pm, 2h, Cinematheque ORDER CODE: LOS With filmmaker James Benning in person. (MADISON PREMIERE) The second installment of Benning’s “California Trilogy” follows the flow of water from El Valley Centro into the urban landscapes of Los Angeles. Benning’s sparse images display the labor, infrastruc- ture, and social spaces not often seen in popular imagery of a city so closely linked with the Martin and Orloff combines brazen entertainment industry.“The images in Los, humor with a slew of comedic cameos. as in El Valley Centro are indelible, as a result of the duration of the still-camera shots...The viewer’s eye has to do its own work to follow whatever motion occurs within the frame... a ‘Los,’ the second film simulacrum of first-hand experience that is rare in film.” – Megan Shaw Prelinger, Bad in James Benning’s Subjects. — JAMES KREUL ‘California Trilogy’ In Me and My White Pal, a Parisian make a visit to Burkina Faso. Experimental Feature, USA, 2000, 90 min, Color, 16mm; Director: James Benning; Series: James follows the flow of water Mango Yellow Martin and Orloff Benning, Experimental Film and Media from the central valley (Amarelo Manga) Sat, Apr 3, 11:45pm, 1h45, Play Circle Lovely Lonely Fri, Apr 2, 9:15pm, 1h45, Orpheum Stage Door ORDER CODE: ORL See Student Film Program II: into the urban landscapes ORDER CODE: MGY PRECEDED BY The Custodial Code Experimental/Documentary. Mango Yellow will continue at the Orpheum post- With filmmaker Andrew Zilch (Custodial Code). of Los Angeles. Festival, part of the “Global Lens” series. (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) After recovering from his Madness and Genius (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) A bereft waitress, a flamboy- suicide attempt, Martin tries to reenter society Thu, Apr 1, 7pm, 2h, Play Circle antly gay chef, a macho butcher, his Evangeli- and seek psychiatric treatment from the dubi- ORDER CODE: MG1 cal wife – vivid but ultimately lonely charac- ous Dr.Orloff. But first things first, he has to Sun, Apr 4, 1pm, 2h, Play Circle Maldoror ters inhabit the Brazilian city of Recife in clean up his old blood stains from the bath- ORDER CODE: MG2 Cláudio Assis’s shocking debut feature. “For room floor.If you didn’t know that Martin and Fri, Apr 2, 11:15pm, 1h45, Play Circle With filmmaker Ryan Eslinger in person. all the grimness and desperation on view in Orloff is the brainchild of members of the ORDER CODE: MDR (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) Jordan, struggling to meet Mango Yellow, the characters emerge as Upright Citizens Brigade improvisational (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) Maldoror, whose lips are the demands of his college coursework, steals robust, full-dimensional people in touch with group, or UCB, you’ve just been warned. Com- sulphur, whose eyes are jasper, is stranded on his reclusive professor’s papers and happens their explosive feelings. The movie’s surreal bining the rat-a-tat delivery of brazen humor Earth amongst the humanity he hates. His upon an invention that could end nearly all flavor underscores its message: this is how the with a slew of comedic cameos (including dark shadow haunts the day while at night he sickness. Meanwhile, Jordan’s tutor Nigel, a lower half lives in Brazil, and by extension, David Cross, Andy Richter, and Tina Fey), the is pursued by phantoms and the memory of genius afflicted with Lou Gehrig’s disease, humanity at its most basic, getting along with- film’s “best moments capture what UCB does his unspeakable crimes. Maldoror is an exper- tries to connect with a crush before his body out the rose-colored protections that affluence best: putting an absurd spin on the everyday.” imental adaptation of the Comte de Lautréa- betrays him. Weaving multiple storylines into affords.” – Stephen Holden, The New York – Keith Phipps, The Onion AV Club an intelligent script delivered by an exception- mont’s first and only novel of the same name. Times. Winner, C.I.C.A.E. Award, 2003 Berlin — TRAVIS GERDES al cast, Madness and Genius marks the emer- Each of the 12 episodes is created by a differ- International Film Festival; Best Film, 2003 Narrative Feature, USA, 2003, 87 min, Color, 35mm, gence of a dynamic young talent in director ent faction of the British independent film col- Brazilia Festival of Brazilian Cinema; Best 1.85; Director: Lawrence Blume; Producer: Lawrence Blume, Linda Moran, René Bastian, Gill Holland; Ryan Eslinger.“One of the more assured lective Underground Cinema. “One of the First Work, 2003 Havana Film Festival. Viewer strangest films to come out of Britain in Screenplay By: Ian Roberts, Katie Roberts, Matt debuts from an American filmmaker in some discretion advised. Walsh; Cast: Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh, Katie Roberts, years” – The Guardian.Viewer discretion time.” – Eugene Hernandez, Indiewire. 2003 — KATHERINE SPRING Amy Poehler, David Cross; Production Co: Toronto International Film Festival; 2004 advised. Narrative Feature, Brazil, 2002, 103 min, Color, Belladonna Productions LLC, Cineblast Productions — TONY CIPPOLLE 35mm, 2.35; Language: In Portugese with English Slamdance Film Festival; Official Nominee, Inc.; Series: After Dark, American Cinema Experimental Feature, United Kingdom, 2000, 100 subtitles; Director: Cláudio Assis; Producer: Cláudio 2004 Independent Spirit “Someone to Watch” min, Color and B/W, 16mm; Director: Kerri Sharp, Assis, Paulo Sacramento; Screenplay By: Hilton Award. Duncan Reekie, Caroline Kennedy, Colette Rouhier, Lacerda; Cast: Matheus Nachtergaele, Jonas Bloch, — TRAVIS GERDES Steven Eastwood, Andrew Coram; Producer: Duncan Leona Cavalli, Dira Paes, Chico Díaz, Conceição Narrative Feature, USA, 2003, 103 min, B/W, DV Cam; Reekie, Karsten Weber; Production Co: Underground Camaroti; Production Co: Olhos de Cão Filmworks; Director: Ryan Eslinger; Producer: Ryan Eslinger; Cinema; Series: After Dark, Experimental Film and Series: Global Lens; Sponsor: The Evjue Foundation; Screenplay By: Ryan Eslinger; Cast: Tom Noonan, David Media; Print courtesy of Underground Cinema. Print courtesy of Global Film Initiative. James Hayward, David Williams, Christine Meyers; Production Co: Riot Films; Series: American Cinema 10 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ★ MADISON ★ APRIL 1-4, 2004 ★ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ★ 877.963.FILM Nói (Nói Albinói) Icelander Nói spends Thu, Apr 1, 7pm, 1h45, Club Majestic his days dreaming ORDER CODE: NO1 of warmer climates. Sun, Apr 4, 1pm, 1h45, Club Majestic ORDER CODE: NO2 (MADISON PREMIERE) Nói – considered the village idiot but actually far from it – spends his days dreaming of warmer climates beyond Iceland. The arrival of a new counter girl at the local gas station inspires him to take action, but with unforeseen consequences. Audiences can take pleasure in how the film subverts coming- of-age clichés with a wicked streak of wry humor, confronting the patented happy ending with a resolution at once unexpected and faith- ful to its storytelling. “In [director] Kári’s hands, the young man’s escapades are tinged with bizarre, deadpan humor reminiscent of the work of Jim Jarmusch or Aki Kaurismä- ki.” – Dimitri Eipide, 2003 Toronto Interna- tional Film Festival. — TRAVIS GERDES Narrative Feature, Iceland, Germany, 2003, 95 min, Color, 35mm, 1.85; Language: In Icelandic with English subtitles; Director: Dagur Kári; Producer: Philippe Bober, Kim Magnusson, Skúli Fr. Malmquist, Thorir Snaer Sigurjónsson, Sol Gatti-Pascual; David Byrne in an early performance, Executive Producer: Lene Ingemann, Tivi from Nightclubbing, Part I. Magnusson, Susanne Marian; Screenplay By: Dagur Kári; Cast: Tómas Lemarquis, Thröstur Leó Gunnarsson, Elín Hansdóttir, Anna Fridriksdóttir; Nightclubbing: New York Punk Production Co: Zik Zak Filmworks, The Coproduction Soccer teams from Bhutan and New Wave, 1975-1980, Part I Office; Series: Near and Far: Films From the New Europe; Sponsor: European Studies Alliance Fri, Apr 2, 11:30pm, 2h, Bartell Theatre and Montserrat meet in ORDER CODE: NC1 Not Color Blind, Just Near-Sighted ‘The Other Final,’ a World Cup With filmmakers Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong. See Wisconsin’s Own Shorts I: Documentary, (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) Before MTV,there was Experimental, Narrative. Nightclubbing. Pat Ivers and Emily Arm- match for the two lousiest Ocularist strong documented the underground music See The Body Divided. ‘sides’ on the planet. scene in New York. Decades later, they have rare footage of musicians who have left an Old Night indelible mark on rock ’n’ roll. The Nightclub- See Wisconsin’s Own Shorts I: Documentary, Memories bing: Greatest Hits program includes perform- Experimental, Narrative. See Young Visions and Voices. ances by Dead Boys, Lounge Lizards, Dead Kennedys, Richard Hell, DNA, Iggy Pop, One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich Men’s Hockey See Dali to Disney. Men’s Hockey: One of Wisconsin’s Own. Cramps, John Cale, and The Suburbs. Rock See Wisconsin’s Own Shorts IV: Experimental From CBGB’s includes early (1975!) perform- Operation: American Freedom Documentaries. ances by Blondie and Talking Heads, plus an Me and My White Pal See Student Film Program II: Model Prisoner incredible Dead Boys performance from 1977. Experimental/Documentary. (Moi et mon blanc) See The Body Divided. You will not see this footage anywhere else! Fri, Apr 2, 7pm, 1h30, University Square — JOE BERES The Other Final Documentary Feature, USA, 120 min, Color and B/W, ORDER CODE: ME1 The Muffin Sat, Apr 3, 3pm, 1h30, Orpheum Stage Door Beta SP; Language: English; Director: Pat Ivers; Sat, Apr 3, 1pm, 1h30, University Square See Young Visions and Voices. Producer: Emily Armstrong; Series: After Dark, ORDER CODE: OF1 ORDER CODE: ME2 My Life By Water Musically Inclined Sun, Apr 4, 7:30pm, 1h30, Orpheum Stage Door (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) In this charming dramatic ORDER CODE: OF2 comedy,Mamedi is an average African immi- See Wisconsin’s Own Shorts I: Documentary, Nightclubbing: New York Punk Experimental, Narrative. PRECEDED BY Freestyle grant in Paris. By day,he works to complete and New Wave, 1975-1980, Part II (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) Deeply depressed by his his doctoral thesis. By night, he works illegally NagyAjta Sat, Apr 3, 11pm, 2h, Bartell Theatre national soccer team’s failure to qualify for the as a parking attendant, where he contends See Student Film Program II: ORDER CODE: NC2 World Cup, a Dutch supporter becomes fasci- with petty criminals and casual racism. Experimental/Documentary. With filmmakers Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong. nated with the two worst teams: lowly Bhutan Mamedi develops a comraderie with a slacker Ngatahi: Know the Links (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) Part II of this incredible and dismal Montserrat. With some like-mind- co-worker, Franck. When Mamedi witnesses a program takes us further out to the fringes of ed friends, he organizes a World Cup final for Sat, Apr 3, 7:30pm, 1h30, Play Circle drug deal gone wrong, he and Franck become the New York underground music scene, with the two lousiest “sides” on the planet. The ORDER CODE: KNL entangled in trouble. Mamedi and his “white rare footage of some of the most influential resulting odyssey takes them first to the tropi- pal” escape to Burkina Faso, Mamedi’s home PRECEDED BY Hip Hop Homos bands in the history of underground music. cal paradise of Montserrat and then to country,where nosy neighbors dish out preju- With filmmaker Dave O’Brien (Hip Hop Homos). Modern Music presents a history of the No Bhutan, a tiny monarchy nestled among the diced commentary with the same gusto as the (MIDWEST PREMIERE) In this “rapumentary,”direc- Wave movement and more with the Talking Himalayas, where their quest ends on the day white Parisians. With a lighthearted comedic tor and musician Dean Hapeta, aka Te Kupu, Heads, Lounge Lizards, Teenage Jesus and of the “real” World Cup final. A remarkably style, Me and My White Pal explores the tru- traverses the globe to explore the use of rap in The Jerks, Suicide, DNA, John Cale, and Sun moving film about sport in its purest form, ism that no book can be judged by its cover social protests by native and marginalized peo- Ra. Roots of Hardcore showcases the Bad unconnected to commercial interests, and how and provides a fresh and warmly human view ples from Hawaii to Ottawa, Canada and Brains’ first New York appearance from 1979, a our national identities can bring out the best on contemporary immigrant realities. Aotearoa, New Zealand. Mixing political dis- bizarre Dead Kennedys performance, an in us. — MARY CARBINE course with passionate performances to create intense Dead Boys set, and several perform- — MEG HAMEL Narrative Feature, Burkina Faso, France, 2003, 90 a socially aware energy, Ngatahi reveals how Documentary Feature, Netherlands, 2003, 53 min, min, Color, 35mm, 1.85; Language: In French with ances from the Heartbreakers. those so often denied a voice are at last able to — JOE BERES Color, DigiBeta; Language: English; Director: Johan English subtitles; Director: S. Pierre Yaméogo; make themselves heard. An official selection Documentary Feature, USA, 120 min, Color and B/W, Kramer; Producer: Jacqueline Kouwenberg; Producer: S. Pierre Yaméogo; Screenplay By: S. Screenplay By: Johan Kramer; Production Co: of the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. Beta SP; Language: English; Director: Pat Ivers; Pierre Yaméogo; Cast: Serge Bayala, Pierre-Loup KesselsKramer; Series: Documentary, Contemporary — TRAVIS GERDES Producer: Emily Armstrong; Series: After Dark, Rajot, Anne Roussel, Bruno Predebon, Samuel World Cinema Poirier; Production Co: Dunia Productions, Les Films Documentary Short, New Zealand, 2003, 55 min, Musically Inclined de L’Espoir, Thelma Film AG; Series: Contemporary Color, DVD; Director: Dean Hapeta; Series: World Cinema, Near and Far: Films From the New Documentary, Musically Inclined No Mutton Huts in Heaven Europe; Sponsor: European Studies Alliance, Center See Student Film Program II: for Interdisciplinary French Studies; Print courtesy Night and Day in the World Experimental/Documentary. of African Film Festival. See Student Film Program I: Narrative. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ★ MADISON ★ APRIL 1-4, 2004 ★ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ★ 877.963.FILM 11 FILMS & FILM PROGRAMS, CONT.

A Panther in Africa Fri, Apr 2, 5pm, 1h30, Bartell Theatre ORDER CODE: PAN PRECEDED BY I Promise Africa With filmmaker Jerry Henry (I Promise Africa). (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) In 1969, the young Black Panther Pete O’Neal was arrested for trans- porting a gun across state lines. One year later, O’Neal fled the charges and the United States to Tanzania, where he has lived for over 30 years. Panther is a fascinating portrait of an uncompromising idealist for whom maturity has tempered but not erased the revolutionary spirit. O’Neal and his wife run a sort of cultural exchange and community center, where they host foreign students, help their neighbors with public works projects, and act as foster “elders” to African-American teenagers. As O’Neal receives news of developments in his case, he confronts the challenges of a man living between two worlds: America and Africa, his radical past and uncertain future. — MARY CARBINE Documentary Feature, USA, Tanzania, 2003, 70 min, Color, Beta SP; Language: English; Director: Aaron Matthews; Producer: Aaron Matthews; Series: Documentary Patriots Day Thu, Apr 1, 9pm, 1h15, Bartell Theatre ORDER CODE: PA1 Sat, Apr 3, 12:45pm, 1h15, Bartell Theatre ORDER CODE: PA2 With filmmaker Marian Marzynski in person. (WORLD PREMIERE) The Revolutionary War may be over, but one of its best-known battles is still being fought. More than two centuries after Pete O’Neal is A Panther in Africa, a portrait of an idealist whose revolutionary spirit is tempered but not erased. the Lexington militia routed His Majesty’s reg- ulars at the Battle of Lexington and Concord, sixty-five Redcoats and sixty-seven colonial ‘The Price of Freedom’ patriots face off each April 19, bringing to life the birth of the American Revolution. Patriots introduces seven WWII Day is an engaging verité-style documentary from Marian Marzynski (Shtetl) that follows veterans, who came home re-enactors as they prepare for and engage in this annual encounter.By turns funny, to a world where war heroes poignant and suspenseful, Patriots Day is a compelling look at living history. Patriots Day were idolized and POWs will make its national broadcast premiere as part of American Experience on PBS later this were ignored. spring. — MARY CARBINE Documentary Feature, USA, 2003, 51 min, Color, A Poem By Steve Timm DigiBeta; Director: Marian Marzynski; Producer: See Student Film Program II: Marian Marzynski; Executive Producer: Mark Samels; Experimental/Documentary. Screenplay By: Marian Marzynski; Production Co: Marz Associates, American Experience/WGBH The Price of Freedom Boston; Series: Documentary; Sponsor: Wisconsin Sun, Apr 4, 1pm, 1h15, Orpheum Stage Door Public Television; Print courtesy of American ORDER CODE: PFE Experience. PRECEDED BY Human Shield Perfect Inside With filmmaker Debra Hussong (Human Shield) See Student Film Program I: Narrative. in person. (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) The seven veterans featured Hong Kong’s PTU is a masterfully directed, airtight cop thriller. Perils in Nude Modeling in the film were prepared to fight and die for See Wisconsin’s Own (and Other) Shorts II: Comedy. their country in World War II. Instead of PTU weapon until dawn. The wayward gun triggers becoming heroes, they surrendered or were Placebo Fri, Apr 2, 11:30pm, 1h30, Orpheum Stage Door a twisting chain of events and race against captured. After liberation, these men came See Student Film Program I: Narrative. ORDER CODE: PTU time that barrels towards an unexpected fin- home to a world where war heroes were idol- (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) PTU marks Johnnie To’s ish line. “A masterfully directed, airtight cop ized and POWs were ignored or considered cow- Planète Kino (Fulltime Killer) return to the police thriller thriller saturated with ambience and destined ards. This beautifully crafted and moving film Sat, Apr 3, 9:30pm, 1h45, Play Circle genre with his characteristic offbeat flair, sly to reaffirm [To’s] status in the Hong Kong reveals how this was an experience steeped in ORDER CODE: PLK humor and tightly orchestrated plot. Shot in crime film scene.” – Giovanna Fulvi, Toronto shame and helplessness that even now domi- With Montreal Kinoites Christian Laurence Hong Kong’s shadowy alleys and streets lit Film Festival. nates these veterans’ lives. Filmmaker Bruce and Jéricho Jeudy and Wis-Kinoite with garish neon lights, PTU unfolds over the — MARY CARBINE Aaron Yonda in person. Norfleet is a UW-Madison alumnus and former Narrative Feature, Hong Kong, China, 2003, 88 min, midnight hours as cops and punks face off, and Color, 35mm, 1.85; Language: In Cantonese with Do well with nothing, do better with little, and supervising producer at National Geographic. — MARY CARBINE police officers protect their comrades – no English subtitles; Director: Johnnie To; Producer: do it right now! The Kino program is a crowd Documentary Short, USA, 2002, 40 min, Color, matter what lines are crossed. A seedy plain- Johnnie To; Executive Producer: Johnnie To; favorite each festival, including short films 35mm, 1.85; Director: Bruce Norfleet; Producer: clothes officer stumbles into a gangland mess Screenplay By: Yau Nai-hoi, Au Kin-Yee; Cast: Simon made on shoestring budgets by truly inde- Bruce Norfleet, Steve Kalafer, Cynthia Van Cleef; and loses his gun in a back-alley confronta- Yam, Maggie Shiu, Lam Suet, Roby Wong, Lo Hoi- pang; Production Co: Milkway Images (HK) Ltd.; pendent local and Quebecois filmmakers. Production Co: FirstLight Films; Series: Wisconsin’s tion. He persuades two agents of the PTU Own Filmmakers, Documentary; Sponsor: Wisconsin Series: After Dark, Contemporary World Cinema; Record and Play! (Police Tactical Unit) not to report his missing Print courtesy of Mei Ah Films. — TONY CIPPOLLE Film Office 12 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ★ MADISON ★ APRIL 1-4, 2004 ★ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ★ 877.963.FILM ‘S21’ is now a Khmer genocide museum.

Refugee WITH Who I Became Sat, Apr 3, 2:30pm, 2h, Bartell Theatre ORDER CODE: REF With filmmakers Spencer Nakasako (Refugee) and Mike Siv (Who I Became), plus a special appearance by Cambodian rap star Prach. (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) Mike Siv and his mother narrowly escaped from Cambodia in 1979. A small boy at the time, Mike hasn’t seen his father or brother since. Now a college student, he and two friends take the opportunity to return to Cambodia and learn about the lives and people they left behind. For Siv,the trip begins innocently enough. “Me and my homies, we’re going to Cambodia. We’ll see the sights, visit family,have some fun.” But seeing his father again brings up questions of why he allowed the family to split up and live apart. This trip proves to be a life-changing experience. “A vivid sense of personal adventure... sports considerable dynamism, narrative oomph and emotional directness.” – Dennis Harvey, Variety. Refugee will have its national broadcast premiere on PBS later this spring. — JOE BERES Documentary Feature, USA, 2003, 61 min, Color, Beta SP; Redcoats and colonial militia face off each April on Patriot’s Day, reenacting the birth of the American Revolution. Language: English and Cambodian; Director: Spencer Nakasako; Producer: Spencer Nakasako, Jannette Eng; Executive Producer: Louella Lee, Glades Perreras; Cast: Two Cambodian survivors bear Michael “Adoe” Siv, Sophal “Paul” Meas, David Mark; Production Co: The Vietnamese Youth Development Center; Series: Documentary, Asian American Cinema; witness to an unspeakable Sponsor: Asian American Studies Program, National past in ‘S21: The Khmer Rouge Asian American Telecommunications Association (NAATA) Remembrance of Things to Come Killing Machine.’ (Les Souvenir d’un avenir) See Dali to Disney. S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine Pupendo (S21: La Machine de mort Khmère Rouge) Sun, Apr 4, 7:30pm, 2h, Orpheum Main Sat, Apr 3, 5:30pm, 1h45, Play Circle ORDER CODE: PUP ORDER CODE: S21 (MADISON PREMIERE) In 1984 Prague, Bedrich is a Sun, Apr 4, 5:15pm, 1h45, Play Circle talented sculptor who has been blacklisted fol- ORDER CODE: S22 lowing the Russian occupation. Now his fami- (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) The Cambodian genocide of ly has to make kitschy ceramic ornaments and 1975–79 was one of the worst in recent history: supplement their income with insurance 1.7 million people (21% of the country’s popu- fraud. They live in their cramped apartment lation) died under the Khmer Rouge. At S21 with exuberant dark humor and a scathing detention center in the heart of Phnom Penh, disrespect for authority.Bedrich’s former stu- 17,000 prisoners were tortured, interrogated dent, the socially ambitious Magda, has made A double winner at Cannes, Reconstruction tempers lush drama with film noir. and executed. Only three of them are still a much more practical marriage to high- alive. In this extraordinary film, two of these school principal Míla. Míla’s political connec- survivors bear witness to an unspeakable past tions get Bedrich some important commis- Reconstruction it seems on the morning after.Alex returns with supreme bravery and dignity.Painter sions, which he reluctantly accepts. What Sat, Apr 3, 1pm, 1h30, Orpheum Stage Door home only to discover his apartment doesn’t Vahnn Nath and mechanic Chum Mey return follows is a unique lesson in how to survive an exist – and Simone treats him like a complete ORDER CODE: RE1 to the site of S21, now converted into a Geno- oppressive regime without completely giving stranger.As scenes depicting their meetings Sun, Apr 4, 5:30pm, 1h30, Orpheum Stage Door cide Museum, to meet with former guards who in. Pupendo explores some of the same com- are played, replayed and reconstructed, we ORDER CODE: RE2 enabled a meticulous bureaucracy of terror. plex, gray areas of complicity as director Jan experience Alex’s disintegration of time, place (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) “Our story begins like this, Nath questions his onetime oppressors with Hrebejk’s Divided We Fall, nominated for a and reality.Is this the madness of love – or but this isn’t the beginning,” announces the serene courage and steely patience. “Astonish- 2001 Academy Award. narrator in Reconstruction, the ambitious and another plot altogether? — MARY CARBINE ing… A Cambodian ‘Shoah,’ the painfulness of — MEG HAMEL visually stylish debut feature from Christoffer Narrative Feature, Czech Republic, 2003, 122 min, Narrative Feature, Denmark, 2003, 90 min, Color, watching it is almost as great as the impor- Color, 35mm, 1.85; Language: In Czech, English and Boe. Winner of both the Camera d’Or and 35mm, 2.35; Language: In Danish and Swedish with tance of doing so.” – The Telegraph (UK). German with English subtitles; Director: Jan Youth Prize at Cannes, Reconstruction tempers English subtitles; Director: Christoffer Boe; — MARY CARBINE Hrebejk; Producer: Ondrej Trojan; Executive lush romantic drama with film noir’s frac- Producer: Tine Grew Pfeiffer; Executive Producer: Documentary Feature, Cambodia, France, 2003, 101 Producer: Milan Kuchynka; Screenplay By: Petr tured narrative. Photographer Alex spots the Rumle Hammerich; Screenplay By: Christoffer Boe, min, Color, 35mm, 1.33; Language: In Khmer with Jarchovsky; Cast: Boleslav Polívka, Jaroslav Dusek, gorgeous Aimee on a subway platform and Mogens Rukov; Cast: Nikolaj Lie Kass, Maria English subtitles; Director: Rithy Panh; Producer: Eva Holubová, Vilma Cibulková, Jirí Pecha, Pavel Bonnevie, Krister Henriksson, Nicolas Bro, Peter Cati Couteau; Executive Producer: Liane Willemont, makes a split-second decision to leave his girl- Liška; Production Co: Total HelpArt T.H.A.; Series: Steen, Ida Dwinger; Production Co: Nordisk Film Aline Sasson, Dana Hastier; Screenplay By: Rithy Near and Far: Films From the New Europe; Sponsor: friend Simone. His impromptu union with Production A/S; Series: Danish Cinema Beyond Panh; Production Co: Ina/ARTE France; Series: European Studies Alliance Aimee feels like true love. But nothing is what Dogme; Sponsor: European Studies Alliance, Danish Documentary, Contemporary World Cinema Film Institute CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ★ MADISON ★ APRIL 1-4, 2004 ★ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ★ 877.963.FILM 13 FILMS & FILM PROGRAMS, CONT. Slasher Sat, Apr 3, 5pm, 1h30, Orpheum Stage Door ORDER CODE: SLA Saigon, USA (MIDWEST PREMIERE) Director John Landis’ (The WITH Wet Sand: Voices from LA Blues Brothers, An American Werewolf in Lon- Sun, Apr 4, 2:45pm, 2h, Bartell Theatre don) first foray into documentary chronicles ORDER CODE: SWS the life of a man considered by many to be the (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) More than twenty years greatest living used-car salesman. Slasher fol- after the fall of Saigon, this painful past is lows the hyperkinetic saleman as he travels very much alive for America’s largest Viet- from town to town, demonstrating his innate namese community in Orange County,Califor- talent for “slasher sales” and unloading hard- nia. Saigon ,USA documents the tensions that to-sell vehicles. Landis’ team, including car- boiled over in the heart of “Little Saigon” salesman-turned-producer Chris Koben, was when a video store owner displayed a Commu- granted unrestricted access to the used car nist flag and picture of Ho Chi Minh in his scene: the pushy salesman, skeptical cus- window.The massive protests that ensued tomers, and the raspy-voiced Slasher striding raised questions about individual versus com- across the lot to close the deal in a feverishly munity rights, generational differences, the calculated performance. Part circus sideshow, identity of Vietnamese immigrants, and ulti- con job, and clinic on the tricks of the trade, mately what it means to be “American.” Slasher is an inside look at a true slice of — ALISSA BRODERDORF Americana. Documentary Feature, USA, 2003, 57 min, Color, — MARY CARBINE Video; Language: In Vietnamese and English with Documentary Feature, USA, 2004, 85 min, Color, English subtitles; Director: Lindsey Jang, Robert C. 35mm; Director: John Landis; Producer: Steve Winn; Producer: Lindsey Jang, Robert C. Winn; Cantor, Daniel Laikind, Chris Koben; Executive Screenplay By: Lindsey Jang, Robert C. Winn; Series: Producer: Alison Bourke; Production Co: Asian American Cinema, Documentary; Sponsor: Independent Film Channel, Stick Figure Productions; Asian American Studies Program Series: Documentary; Sponsor: Charter Director John Landis’ first Communications and IFC; Print courtesy of IFC TV. Sogobi foray into documentary, Sat, Apr 3, 8:30pm, 2h, Cinematheque ORDER CODE: SOG Stone Reader is a film about the power of literature, the obscurity of genius and ‘Slasher’ follows the life With filmmaker James Benning in person. the enormous demands of art… a superlative, soul-baring non-fiction work. (MADISON PREMIERE) Benning’s “California Trilo- of the greatest living gy” concludes in the wilderness, as Sogobi used-car salesman, for takes its title from the Shoshonean word for “earth.” The wilderness puts into perspective a true slice of Americana. the rural and urban portraits in El Valley Cen- tro and Los, and the trilogy evolves into an interrelated puzzle. “I spent a year in the middle of nowhere and perhaps this is the closest Since Otar Left I’ve come to portraying a true sense of place. It (Depuis qu’Otar est parti) is quiet. It is noisy.It is hot. It is cold. It is Sat, Apr 3, 1pm, 1h45, Club Majestic windy.It is still. It is wet. It is dry.It is every- ORDER CODE: OT1 where. It is nowhere. It is California. It is Sun, Apr 4, 3pm, 1h45, Club Majestic wilderness.” – James Benning. — JAMES KREUL ORDER CODE: OT2 Experimental Feature, USA, 2001, 90 min, Color, (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) Winner of the prestigious 16mm; Director: James Benning; Series: James Critics’ Week Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Benning, Experimental Film and Media Festival, Julie Bertuccelli’s Since Otar Left is a Find out why the camel weeps. bittersweet tale of deception and affection. Set Stone Reader in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia Sat, Apr 3, 5pm, 2h30, Orpheum Main The Story of Matt (home to many French émigrés), Since Otar ORDER CODE: STR See Young Visions and Voices. Left portrays three women coping with the With filmmaker Mark Moskowitz in person. absence of the most important man in their (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) Wisconsin audiences will The Story of the Weeping Camel lives. Ninety-year-old Eka pines for her finally have a chance to see the film on “Ten Sat, Apr 3, 11am, 1h30, University Square beloved son Otar, now a construction worker Best Lists” of critics from Roger Ebert to ORDER CODE: WC1 in Paris. Marina resents her mother’s obses- Andrew Sarris. Winner of the 2002 Slamdance Ninety-year-old Eka pines Sun, Apr 4, 5:30pm, 1h30, University Square sion with her absent brother, while the Special Grand Jury Prize and Audience for her beloved son, Since Otar Left. ORDER CODE: WC2 teenage Ada yearns for a more adventurous Award, Stone Reader is literary mystery that (MIDWEST PREMIERE) So unique it has to be experi- existence. When a friend of Otar’s calls with will thrill you with an inside look at writing, Stories Untold: enced, this documentary captures in heart- tragic news, Marina and Ada must make a publishing, and creative survival. Filmmaker Memories of Korean War Survivors breaking detail the story of a nomadic family seemingly impossible choice: Do they keep Mark Moskowitz finally reads a critically of Mongolian shepherds in the Gobi desert. WITH Wet Sand: Voices from LA Eka from learning the truth? “Beautiful… acclaimed novel he bought back in 1972, and They must contend with a mother camel that Thu, Apr 1, 6:30pm, 2h, Bartell Theatre touching… superbly acted.” – David Stratton, discovers that both the book (The Stones of rejects her newborn after a difficult delivery. Variety. “A sweet, accomplished fable of loss Summer) and the author (Dow Mossman) have ORDER CODE: WSU In order to save the newborn, the family sends and self-deception in the post-Soviet world.” – long since vanished. Stone Reader chronicles (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) To many Americans, the their young sons across the desert in search of J. Hoberman, The Village Voice. Moskowitz’s year-long search for Mossman. Korean War is known as the “forgotten” war, a musician to perform a traditional ceremony. — MARY CARBINE He crisscrosses the country,meeting Robert and its history has often been told from mili- Directed as a graduating thesis for German Narrative Feature, France, 2003, 102 min, Color, Gottlieb, editor of Catch-22, Frank Conroy, tary,ideological or political perspectives. Dur- film school by Italian filmmaker Luigi Falorni 35mm, 1.85; Language: In French with English head of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, critic ing the war, 9 million Koreans became and Mongolian Byambasuren Davaa, this is subtitles; Director: Julie Bertuccelli; Executive refugees, 4 million were killed, and 11 million Producer: Yaël Fogel; Screenplay By: Julie Leslie Fiedler and others. Cinematic, humor- Mongolia’s first submission for the Foreign were separated from their families. Despite Bertuccelli, Bernard Renucci, Roger Bohbot; Cast: ous and obsessive, Stone Reader is “a film Language Academy Award. “A rare find, [this Esther Gorintin, Nino Khomassouridze, Dinara about the power of literature, the obscurity of this human toll, we rarely hear about the film] is bound to be much discussed among Droukarova, Temour Kalandadze, Roussoudan genius and the enormous demands of art… a impact on civilians, specifically women. Film- those who venture to see it.” – Sean Farnel, Bolkvadze, Sacha Sarichvili; Production Co: Les superlative, soul-baring non-fiction work… makers Grace Yoo and Sulgi Kim give voice to 2003 Toronto Film Festival Films du Poisson; Series: Near and Far: Films From the memories of those who survived, stories — TRAVIS GERDES the New Europe; Sponsor: European Studies Like The Stones of Summer, it’s a first-time that have often been ignored. Documentary Feature, Mongolia, Germany, 2004, 90 Alliance, Center for Interdisciplinary French Studies out-of-the-gate magnum opus.” – Variety. — MARY CARBINE — ALISSA BRODERDORF min, Color, 35mm, 1.85; Language: In Mongolian with Documentary Feature, USA, 2002, 128 min, Color, Documentary Feature, USA, 2003, 53 min, Color, English subtitles; Director: Byambasuren Davaa, Six Feet Video; Language: In English and Korean with English Luigi Falorni; Producer: Tobias Siebert; Screenplay See Young Visions and Voices. 35mm, 1.85; Director: Mark Moskowitz; Producer: Mark Moskowitz, Robert Goodman; Production Co: subtitles; Director: Sulgi Kim; Producer: Grace Yoo; By: Byambasuren Davaa, Luigi Falorni; Production JetFilms, LLC, Point of View Productions; Series: Series: Asian American Cinema, Documentary; Co: Hochschule fur Fernsehen, Film Munchen; Print Documentary Sponsor: Asian American Studies Program courtesy of ThinkFilm. 14 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ★ MADISON ★ APRIL 1-4, 2004 ★ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ★ 877.963.FILM ★ Loose Cannons: Campus Security (Ch.12) appears in Student Film Program I: Narrative. Boasting accomplished action choreography Experimental Short, Documentary Short, 2003, 4 with a dash of humor, this film will have the min, Color, Mini DV; Director: Andrew Rosas; audience rooting for the Campus Security Offi- Production Co: The Surgery Room cer as he catches his man. Filmmaker Andy ★ Dreams of America Schlachtenhaufen is an undergraduate in (MADISON PREMIERE) Since Mariko Ujihisa was a Communication Arts at UW-Madison. little girl, she never stopped dreaming of com- Narrative Short, USA, 2003, 7 min, Color, Mini DV; ing to America, illustrated here through stop- Director: Andy Schlachtenhaufen; Screenplay By: motion animation. Filmmaker Christopher Andy Schlachtenhaufen, Joey Cienian; Cast: Andy Zahn is a senior studying film at UW-Milwau- Schlachtenhaufen, Phil Cigan, Zak Hanes, Greg Nass kee where his production company FUNTUP ★ Night and Day in the World Productions has orchestrated a handful of art, (MADISON PREMIERE) This short focuses on a couple music, and film festivals. from one night to the following day,capturing Experimental Short, Narrative Short, USA, 2002, 7 their intimate moments with an uncanny min, B/W, Mini DV; Director: Christopher Zahn; maturity.Filmmaker Tim Zwettler will gradu- Production Co: FUNTUP Productions ate from UW-Milwaukee this spring with a ★ Frozen Moment degree in Film. (MADISON PREMIERE) It was a very cold day; for a Narrative Short, USA, 2003, 7 min, Color, 1.33; brief moment he could see himself trapped Director: Tim Zwettler; Producer: Moonaya; Cast: inside a broken ice cube. Filmmaker Eric Ger- Justin Flood, Jamie Venci ber is an undergraduate in Film Production at ★ Perfect Inside UW-Milwaukee. His other experimental short, (WORLD PREMIERE) The budding romance between Aldara, also appears. two online friends comes into jeopardy when Experimental Short, USA, 2003, 2 min, B/W, 16mm; they decide to meet and withheld secrets come Director: Eric Gerber to light. Will love conquer all? Filmmaker ★ Goodbye Milwaukee Steven Wijaya graduated from UW-Madison (MADISON PREMIERE) A touching look into the life with a degree in Computer Science. Everystory is featured as part of Student Film Program I: Narrative. of an international student at University of Narrative Short, USA, 2003, 9 min, Color, DV Cam; Director: Wisconsin-Milwaukee woven into the recipe Steven Wijaya; Screenplay By: Steven Wijaya; Cast: for “kim chi,” a memento of home. Stephanie Budijono, Alwin Sastrasumita, Ann McLuaghn, Mark C., Chad Awtrey; Production Co: SW Production Experimental / Documentary Short, USA, 2003, 16 min, Color, Mini DV; Language: English, Korean; ★ Placebo Director: Kookhee Choi (MADISON PREMIERE) In this poetic and profound ★ International Rhythms short, a young man deals with his insecurities (WORLD PREMIERE) Seven American and interna- and his homosexuality.Filmmaker Diego tional students sing songs from their home Costa is a senior in Film at UW-Milwaukee. countries in Evelyn Grooten’s documentary. Narrative Short, USA, 2003, 9 min, B/W, Mini DV; Grooten studies at the University of Utrecht, Language: In Spanish with English subtitles; Director: Diego Costa; Cast: Dan Bialzik, Ben Netherlands; she made this film while an Cervenka, Michael Bisseke exchange student at UW-Madison. Experimental / Documentary Short, USA, 2003, 3 Student Film Program II: min, Color, Mini DV; Director: Evelyn Grooten; Cast: Experimental/Documentary Isaiah Thompson, Olga Lucia Arciniegas, Marco Aurelio Sousa Alves, Regina Carla Lapate, Nighat A Poem By Steve Timm: Just one minute. Fri, Apr 2, 7pm, 1h45, Play Circle Majid, Erik D. Lebby ORDER CODE: S2A ★ Lovely Lonely Producer Liz Sanger is an undergraduate in Sat, Apr 3, 1pm, 1h45, Play Circle (WORLD PREMIERE) Lovers “meant to be” are never English and Music at UW-Madison, perform- ORDER CODE: S2B meant to be in this illustration of a tender love ing the violin music in the film. With filmmakers Ya-Ling Tsai, Eric Gerber, Anne story.Filmmaker Ariana Hamidi is a graduate Narrative Short, USA, 2004, 8 min, Color, DV Cam; Barber, Andrew Rosas, Christopher Zahn, Evelyn Director: J.T. Mueller; Producer: Liz Sanger, Jason student in Film at UW-Milwaukee. Fabeck, Chris Roudabush; Screenplay By: J.T. Grooten, Ariana Hamidi, Alexis Gill, Brennan Experimental Short, 2003, 2 min, B/W, 16mm, 1.33; Mueller; Cast: J.T. Mueller, Mandy Sestak, Rick Vance, Ben Hutchinson, Alex Petzold, Geoff Director: Ariana Hamidi Liljenberg, Alicia Dorr, Russel Weinberg-Kinsey, Thomas, Jackie Bradley, and Chuck Matteson. ★ NagyAjta Kaitlin Frick Student filmmakers from all over Wisconsin (MADISON PREMIERE) A briliant glimpse into every- ★ Aldara, from Student Film Program II: East Saint Paul premiere their experimental and documen- day life in rural Transylvania. Alexis Gill, a Experimental/Documentary. (MADISON PREMIERE) A day in the life of a man ded- tary shorts. film student at UW- Milwaukee, has lived in icated to his profession. Filmmaker Andrew — TONY CIPPOLLE Hungary and Romania and plans on returning Rosas is a junior at UW-Milwaukee, majoring Experimental Short, Documentary Short, 81 min; to Nagy-Ajta again soon. Student Competition Winners Series: Wisconsin’s Own Filmmakers; Sponsor: in film. His experimental short, Broshennye, Documentary Short, 2003, 8 min, Color, Mini DV; Lan- Sun, Apr 4, 3:30pm, 1h15, Play Circle Wisconsin Film Office, WUD Film Committee appears in Student Film Program II: Experi- guage: Hungarian; Director: Alexis Gill; Cast: Edit L rincz ORDER CODE: STW ★ Aldara mental/Documentary. ★ No Mutton Huts in Heaven Screenings of the winning films from the (MADISON PREMIERE) Touching an infected person’s Narrative Short, USA, 2002, 6 min, B/W, Mini DV; (WORLD PREMIERE) Brennan Vance, a film student Student Filmmaker juried competition, lesions can transmit cells containing the Director: Andrew Rosas; Cast: Nicholas Sanborn, at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, delves announced late night, Saturday,April 3. Holly Reitner; Production Co: The Surgery Room virus. Only total absence of any contact with into the spiritually taxing vocation of ★ infected tissue will avoid transmission. Film- Student Film Program I: Narrative Everystory gravedigging where one must maintain humil- An unseen narrator plucks people from the maker Eric Gerber is an undergraduate in Fri, Apr 2, 5pm, 1h45, Play Circle ity in the face of death and sorrow daily. street at random. Giving each one an imagined Film Production at UW-Milwaukee. His short, ORDER CODE: S1A Documentary Short, USA, 2003, 13 min, Color, Mini life, he turns anonymous faces into people you Frozen Moment, also appears. DV; Director: Brennan Vance; Cast: Scott, Chris, Sat, Apr 3, 11am, 1h45, Play Circle may know.Filmmaker Michelle Yuan graduat- Experimental Short, USA, 2003, 4 min, B/W, Mini DV; Aaron, Butch, Bob ORDER CODE: S1B Director: Eric Gerber ed from UW-Madison in 2003 with a degree in ★ Operation: American Freedom With filmmakers J.T. Mueller, Justin Crowley- ★ Bloom Communication Arts. (MADISON PREMIERE) A documentary exploring the Johnson, Andrew Rosas, Michelle Yuan, Andrew Narrative Short, USA, 2002, 7 min, Color, VHS; (MIDWEST PREMIERE) Bloom animates the body, Parkhurst, Andy Schlachtenhaufen, Tim Zwettler, idea of patriotism in regard to President Director: Michelle Yuan; Cast: Jon Haag, Blaise employing a palette of pinks and reds to reveal Bush’s war in Iraq. Jackie Bradley and Chuck Steven Erwin Wijaya, and Diego Costa. Worden, Mike Messner beauty in an intimately constructed space. Matteson are UW-Superior Mass Communica- Experience the works of Wisconsin student ★ Fatale Anne Barber is earning her MFA in Film Pro- tions majors. filmmakers and future storytellers in these (WORLD PREMIERE) In this stylish homage to film duction at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Documentary Short, USA, 2003, 14 min, Color, Mini narrative shorts. noir, an investigative reporter left for dead Experimental Short, Animated Short, 2003, 5 min, DV; Director: Chuck Matteson, Jackie Bradley — TRAVIS GERDES teams with a police detective to track down his Color, Mini DV; Director: Anne Barber Narrative Short, 64 min; Series: Wisconsin’s Own ★ A Poem By Steve Timm would-be killer.Filmmaker Andrew Parkhurst ★ Broshennye Filmmakers; Sponsor: Wisconsin Film Office, WUD (WORLD PREMIERE) Steve Timm’s intense perform- Film Committee. is an undergraduate in Communication Arts (MADISON PREMIERE) In the past three decades ance of a uniquely inspired piece. Filmmaker ★ Barschool and Electrical Engineering at UW-Madison. many Russian families have suffered severe Ya-Ling Tsai is pursing her MFA in Art at UW- Narrative Short, USA, 2004, 12 min, B/W, Mini DV; financial depression and are unable to support (WORLD PREMIERE) A surreal comedy following a Madison. Director: Andrew Parkhurst; Screenplay By: Andrew their elderly parents. Filmmaker Andrew Experimental Short, 2004, 1 min, Color, Mini DV; student torn between his musical studies and Parkhurst; Cast: Andrew Parkhurst, Colin Hackbath, Rosas is a junior at UW-Milwaukee, majoring Director: Ya-Ling Tsai; Cast: Steve Timm the seemingly glamorous world of bartending. Kelly Raz, Jon Wood, Jeremy Taska, Eric Van Abel in film. His narrative short, East Saint Paul, CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ★ MADISON ★ APRIL 1-4, 2004 ★ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ★ 877.963.FILM 15 FILMS & FILM PROGRAMS, CONT.

Sumo East and West Sun, Apr 4, 7:30pm, 1h30, Bartell Theatre ORDER CODE: SUM (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) Despite increasing partici- pation by non-Japanese wrestlers, sumo remains one of Japan’s most time-honored and insular traditions as well as its national sport. Prior to World War II, Japanese-Ameri- cans sustained an active sumo culture, especially in Hawaii, but abandoned it in the face of wartime anti-Japanese sentiment. Many wrestlers of Polynesian descent carried on the tradition. Today in Japan, sumo faces profound changes due to the influx of foreign images, ideas, and influences – foremost among them, the influx of Polynesian-Ameri- can wrestlers. Fascinating and beautifully photographed, Sumo East and West explores the cultural changes facing sumo in Japan and takes us into the world of the Hawaii-born sumo superstars at the forefront of the controversial transformation of the sport. “This moving film is not a movie just for hardcore sumo fans....[it] can make you fall in love with Who I Became director Mike Siv (right): His trip in Refugee begins innocently, “Me and my homies, we’re going to Cambodia.” sumo.” – ADCC News. Sumo will make its national broadcast premiere on many PBS sta- tions later this spring. — MARY CARBINE Documentary Feature, USA, 2003, 70 min, Color, DigiBeta; Language: In English and Japanese with English subtitles; Director: Ferne Pearlstein; Producer: Ferne Pearlstein, Robert Edwards, Yoshi Muto; Production Co: SumoFilms, Inc.; Series: Asian American Cinema, Documentary A rundown Glasgow bookshop is the setting for Lone Scherfig and Anders Thomas Jensen‘s Jennifer Montgomery’s Threads of Belonging examines mental illness. witty and visceral ‘Wilbur Ticket to Jerusalem Wants to Kill Himself.’ Sat, Apr 3, 7pm, 1h45, Orpheum Stage Door ORDER CODE: TJ1 With introduction and Q & A by Mary Layoun, Threads of Belonging Professor, UW-Madison Department of Water saturates El Valley Centro, the first installment of James Benning’s trilogy. Sat, Apr 3, 6pm, 2h, Cinematheque Comparative Literature (Sat screening only). ORDER CODE: THB Sun, Apr 4, 1pm, 1h30, Orpheum Main Tony Hawk The Vest ORDER CODE: TJ2 With filmmaker Jennifer Montgomery. See Young Visions and Voices. See Wisconsin’s Own (and Other) Shorts II: Comedy. (MADISON PREMIERE) Jennifer Montgomery’s por- Ticket will continue at the Orpheum post-Festival, trait of Layton House, a fictional therapeutic part of the “Global Lens” series. El Valley Centro Volcom Amateurs community in which doctors live with their (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) In a Palestinian refugee Thu, Apr 1, 9pm, 2h, Cinematheque See Young Visions and Voices. camp north of Jerusalem, Jaber, a benevolent patients, examines the idealism and politiciza- ORDER CODE: EVC The Watershed tion of mental illness. Experimental therapies, man in his 40s, earns a precarious living by With filmmaker James Benning in person. running a mobile cinema, bringing entertain- Sat, Apr 3, 11am, 1h30, Bartell Theatre power struggles, and individual arcs of mental (MADISON PREMIERE) The first installment of Ben- ORDER CODE: WAT illness converge, as the community strives to ment to both children and adults. Due to the ning’s “California Trilogy” reflects his inter- With filmmaker Mary Trunk in person. understand itself and determine its destiny. increasing conflict in the disputed territory, est in landscapes not only in physical, but also (MIDWEST PREMIERE) In this courageous autobio- Based on case histories in the anti-psychiatry Jaber meets more and more obstacles – check- social and political, terms. El Valley Centro graphical documentary,filmmaker Mary movement, the film was shot in documentary points, travel restrictions, permits that are dif- documents the Great Central Valley and pro- Trunk recounts how she and her seven siblings style with staged improvisations by a cast and ficult to obtain. But when he is asked to stage a vides insights into the politics of water in Cal- survived the trauma of losing both parents to crew that lived together during production. screening in a house seized by Israeli settlers, ifornia. “I was driving through the Great Cen- alcoholism and divorce. In 1972, life seemed Milwaukee filmmaker Jennifer Montgomery’s Jaber’s faith in the restorative powers of cine- tral Valley looking for places to film. I wasn’t perfect in the Trunk’s upper-class suburban work has been screened internationally in ma prevails. “Rashid Masharawi’s warm yet going to start shooting for at least six months; I home in Long Island. Life began to unravel film festivals and museums; her films include clear-eyed Ticket to Jerusalem largely side- wanted to just look and listen – to get to know when they moved to Santa Barbara. Their Transitional Objects, Troika and Art For steps sentiment in favor of a tentative hopeful- the Valley well before I would make images. father announced he no longer loved their Teachers of Children. A Wisconsin’s Own Com- ness.” – Mark Holcomb, Village Voice. Winner, But almost immediately I came across an oil mother and left; shortly thereafter,he was fired petition Entry.2003 Chicago International Silver Pyramid, 2002 Cairo International Film well fire with flames high in the sky.I returned from his job, plunging the family into poverty. Film Festival; 2003 Milwaukee International Festival. home for my Bolex [camera] and Nagra [sound — KATHERINE SPRING Overwhelmed by betrayal, their mother began Film Festival. recorder]. Determined that landscape is a — JAMES KREUL Narrative Feature, Palestine, Netherlands, 2003, 85 to drink and took to her bed. Barely surviving min, Color, 35mm, 1.66; Language: In Arabic with function of time, I let a full roll of 16mm film Experimental Feature, Narrative Feature, USA, 2003, on welfare and food stamps, the Trunk chil- English subtitles; Director: Rashid Masharawi; [100 feet] run through the camera. At that 93 min, Color, DV Cam; Director: Jennifer Producer: Rashid Masharawi, Peter van Vogelpoel; dren struggled to take care of themselves and Montgomery; Producer: Jennifer Montgomery; Cast: moment I knew I would make a portrait of the Executive Producer: Areen Omari; Screenplay By: to live like normal kids. An official selection of Stephanie Barber, Lori Connerley, Bruce Stater, Great Central Valley using 35 two-and-a-half Rashid Masharawi; Cast: Ghassan Abbas, Areen the 2004 Slamdance Film Festival. Jenny Bass, Dave O’Meara, Kelly Mink; Series: minute shots.” – James Benning Omary, Anan George Ibrahim, Reem Ilo, Imad — MARY CARBINE Wisconsin’s Own Filmmakers, Experimental Film and — JAMES KREUL Farageen, Najah Abu Al-Heja; Production Co: Documentary Feature, USA, 2003, 78 min, Color, DV Media; Sponsor: Wisconsin Film Office Experimental Feature, USA, 1999, 90 min, Color, Cinema Production Center, Silkroad Production; Cam; Director: Mary Trunk; Producer: Mary Trunk, 16mm; Director: James Benning; Series: James Series: Global Lens; Sponsor: The Evjue Foundation; Paul Sanchez; Series: Documentary Benning, Experimental Film and Media Print courtesy of Global Film Initiative. 16 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ★ MADISON ★ APRIL 1-4, 2004 ★ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ★ 877.963.FILM teased for it. Her reaction surprises even herself. An official selection of the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and IFP Los Angeles Film Festi- val Audience Award winner. Narrative Short, USA, 2003, 10 min, Color, 35mm, 1.85; Director: Paul Gutrecht; Producer: Albert Hasson; Screenplay By: Paul Gutrecht; Cast: Skye McCole Bartusiak, Kellie Waymire, Enrico Colantoni; Production Co: Door to Door Films ★ Greeting Card Writer Ever wanted to get inside the head of a greeting card writer? Madison filmmaker Aaron Yonda is the director of the independent filmmaking organization Wis-Kino and part of the Sketchpals comedy group. A Wisconsin’s Own Competition Entry. Narrative Short, USA, 2003, 5 min, Color, Mini DV; Director: Aaron Yonda; Cast: Aaron Yonda ★ Death An ordinary citizen tries to go about his daily life despite the annoying presence of the Grim Reaper.Madison filmmaker Aaron Yonda is the director of the independent filmmaking organization Wis-Kino and part of the Sketch- In The Watershed, Mary Trunk recounts the trauma of alcoholism and divorce. pals comedy group. A Wisconsin’s Own Com- petition Entry. Welcome to Anatevka Where’s the Party, Yaar? Why Not a Sparrow: Narrative Short, USA, 2003, 5 min, Color, Mini DV; Sun, Apr 4, 1pm, 1h30, Bartell Theatre Fri, Apr 2, 9pm, 2h, University Square Wisconsin’s Own Shorts I Director: Aaron Yonda; Producer: Matt Sloan; Cast: ORDER CODE: ANA ORDER CODE: WPY Aaron Yonda, Matt Sloan ★ With filmmaker Ruth Leitman in person. (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) When you are an Indian Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself The Glass Bottle (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) A young man discovers his (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) Tradition is the central immigrant “fresh off the boat” like Hari Patel, (Wilbur begår selvmord) theme of the musical Fiddler on the Roof, but you have enough to learn without having to hidden talent while watching sports and Fri, Apr 2, 7pm, 2h15, Orpheum Main the production in Welcome to Anatevka is far figure out “where’s the party,yaar.”The drinking beer.Multimedia artist Brian Dehler ORDER CODE: WIL from traditional. Filmmakers Ruth Leitman guardians of cool in Patel’s new home of is a UW-Madison alumnus. A Wisconsin’s Own With writer/director Lone Scherfig and co-writer Houston don’t want the FOBs crashing Desi Competition Entry. and James Jernigan go behind the scenes of Anders Thomas Jensen in person. auditions and rehearsals for a production of Fever parties with their sneakers and funny Narrative Short, USA, 2003, 3 min, Color, Mini DV; (MADISON PREMIERE) The chronically suicidal Fiddler at the Habima Theater of the Atlanta dance moves. This breezy comedy pokes fun at Director: Brian L. Dehler; Producer: Brian L. Dehler; Wilbur and his big brother Harbour inherit Executive Producer: Brian L. Dehler; Cast: Doug Jewish Community Center that features adult sacred cows and satirizes the stereotypical their father’s rundown bookshop in Glasgow. Aamoth; Production Co: DV Cinema, Inc. actors with developmental disabilities, high “culture clash” Indian-American identity nar- Harbour falls in love with Alice, a shy and ★ Gas ‘N Fuel Employee Training Video school students and theater professionals. rative. Starring Kal Penn and Sunil Malhotra intense woman. Little by little, Wilbur, Har- #4A: Makin’ It Happen! Named for the village in which Fiddler is set, (American Desi) and featuring Cornershop, bour, and Alice become inseparable. Wilbur (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) Poorly produced, demean- Welcome to Anatevka give us a new perspective Panjabi MC and DJ Cheb i Sabbah on the starts regaining his lust for life, Alice starts to ing and completely out-of-touch with the actu- on the craft of the theater and the lives of the soundtrack. “A witty assimilation comedy… come out of her shell, and her daughter Mary al demands of the job, Gas ‘N Fuel is the quin- disabled. whip-smart script.” – Austin Chronicle. — MARY CARBINE — ALISSA BRODERDORF starts reading the thousands of books in the tessential instructional film. Filmmakers Joe Documentary Feature, USA, 2001, 60 min, Color, Narrative Feature, USA, 2003, 110 min, Color, 35mm, second-hand bookshop. Harbour has never Pickett and Nick Prueher are Stoughton High Beta SP; Director: Ruth Leitman, James Jernigan; 1.85; Director: Benny Mathews; Producer: Sunil been happier, but he carries a deep secret that School grads who have written for The Onion Production Co: Ruthless Films, 100-to-One Films; Thakkar; Executive Producer: Sandhya Thakker; threatens to surface. “A remarkable achieve- and produced short films including Saving Series: Documentary; Print courtesy of Ruthless Screenplay By: Benny Mathews, Soham Mehta, Sunil ment for Sherfig (Italian for Beginners), a gift- Human Lives, winner Best Short at the 2003 Thakkar; Cast: Kal Penn, Sunil Malhotra, Prem Shah, Films. ed filmmaker who proves her skills...with a Wisconsin Film Festival. A Wisconsin’s Own Tina Cherian, Serena Varghese, Sunil Thakkar; Wet Sand: Voices from LA Production Co: Music Masala Films; Series: Asian delicate, witty script and visceral, lush direc- Competition Entry. tion that combine to draw us deeply into the Narrative Short, USA, 2002, 16 min, Color, Mini DV; WITH Stories Untold: American Cinema, American Cinema; Sponsor: Asian American Studies Program Director: Nick Prueher, Joe Pickett; Producer: Geoff Memories of Korean War Survivors lives of these characters.” – Rich Cline, Shad- ows on the Wall. Haas, Matt Lee, Joe Pickett, Mark Proksch, Nick , , , Thu, Apr 1 6:30pm 2h Bartell Theatre Who I Became WITH Refugee — MEG HAMEL Prueher; Screenplay By: Nick Prueher, Joe Pickett; Production Co: S-Heads Productions ORDER CODE: WSU Sat, Apr 3, 2:30pm, 2h, Bartell Theatre Narrative Feature, Denmark, United Kingdom, 2002, WITH Saigon, USA ★ ORDER CODE: REF 105 min, Color, 35mm, 2.35; Language: English. The Climactic Death of Dark Ninja Sun, Apr 4, 2:45pm, 2h, Bartell Theatre MPAA Rating: R; Director: Lone Scherfig; Producer: (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) In this charmingly offbeat With filmmakers Spencer Nakasako (Refugee) Sisse Graum Olsen; Executive Producer: Peter ORDER CODE: SWS and Mike Siv (Who I Became) in person. short, a frazzled young auteur struggles to Aalbæk Jensen; Screenplay By: Anders Thomas retain his lead actor, avoid heat stroke and (MIDWEST PREMIERE) Filmmaker Dai Sil Kim- Who I Became is the story of Pounloeu Chea, a Jensen, Lone Scherfig; Cast: Jamie Sieves, Adrian Gibson, the award-winning director of first generation Cambodian-American, whose Rawlins, Shirley Henderson, Lisa McKinlay, Mads smooth over creative differences while Sa-I-Gu, a documentary about the 1992 Los family escaped the Khmer Rouge and settled Mikkelsen, Julia Davis; Production Co: Zentropa attempting to shoot his movie’s climactic final Entertainments; Series: Danish Cinema Beyond Angeles civil unrest, returns to L.A. to explore in the Tenderloin District in San Francisco. scene. its aftermath through the stories of victims Dogme; Sponsor: European Studies Alliance, Danish Narrative Short, USA, 2003, 12 min, Color, DigiBeta; His parents have since returned to Cambodia, Film Institute; Print courtesy of ThinkFilm. and witnesses from multi-ethnic communities: Director: Peter Craig; Producer: Rachel Craig; but for Pounloeu, the United States is his Executive Producer: Ellis and Gwen Craig, Ryan Korean American, African American, Latino home. Lacking guidance and support, he ends Winter’s Muse Pulliam; Screenplay By: Peter Craig; Cast: Matt and Anglo. Their stories show how hope and up in trouble with the law,but wants to find a See Wisconsin’s Own Shorts IV: Experimental Jones, Phil Earhart, Christopher Strauss, Bob Kent, resiliency can thrive despite the racism and way to be responsible, hold a job, and have a Documentaries. Nate Roberts, Dennison Collard; Production Co: poverty that can pit immigrants and “minori- family. Spaceman X Media Productions LLC ty” communities against each other.Pho- — JOE BERES Wisconsin’s Own (and Other) Shorts II: ★ El Dorko tographed and edited by Charles Burnett. Documentary Short, USA, 2003, 20 min, Color, Beta Comedy (WORLD PREMIERE) Kicked out of his parents’ Wis- — ALISSA BRODERDORF SP; Language: English; Director: Michael Siv, Aram Fri, Apr 2, 5pm, 1h45, Cinematheque consin home at the tender age of 28, Clark is Collier; Producer: Spencer Nakasako; Executive Documentary Feature, USA, 2003, 59 min, Color, ORDER CODE: W2A forced to fend for himself on the gritty streets Video; Language: In English, Korean and Spanish Producer: Orlando Bagwell; Cast: Pounloeu Chea; with English subtitles; Director: Dai Sil Kim-Gibson; Production Co: The Vietnamese Youth Development Sat, Apr 3, 11am, 1h45, Cinematheque of L.A. Filmmaker Harrison Brown was born Producer: Dai Sil Kim-Gibson; Screenplay By: Dai Sil Center; Series: Documentary, Asian American ORDER CODE: W2B in Oregon and attended UW-Milwaukee; Tom Kim-Gibson; Series: Asian American Cinema, Cinema; Sponsor: Asian American Studies Program, With filmmakers Aaron Yonda, Matt Sloan, Clark and Kurt Scholler performed in Comedy Documentary; Sponsor: Asian American Studies National Asian American Telecommunications Harrison Brown, Tom Clark, Nick Prueher, Joe Sportz in Milwaukee; and Chris Tallman is Program Association (NAATA) Pickett, Scott Rice, Brian Dehler and Paul UW-Madison alumnus. A Wisconsin’s Own Gutrecht. When Dreaming Whole Competition Entry. 73 min. Series: Wisconsin’s Own Filmmakers; Narrative Short, USA, 2003, 13 min, Color, DigiBeta; See The Body Divided. See Young Visions and Voices. Sponsor: Wisconsin Film Office Director: Harrison Brown; Screenplay: Tom Clark, ★ The Vest Harrison Brown; Cast: Tom Clark, Kurt Scholler, Chris When the World Runs Fast Why Not a Sparrow Tallman See Wisconsin’s Own Shorts III: Documentary. See Wisconsin’s Own Shorts I: Documentary, (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) A third-grade girl wears a Experimental, Narrative. cherished homemade vest to school and gets CONTINUED ON PAGE 20 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ★ MADISON ★ APRIL 1-4, 2004 ★ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ★ 877.963.FILM 17 THURSDAY, APRIL 1 FRIDAY, APRIL 2

ORPHEUM ORPHEUM CLUB BARTELL UNIV. SQ. PLAY CINEMA- OTHER ORPHEUM ORPHEUM CLUB BARTELL UNIV. SQ. PLAY CINEMA- OTHER MAIN STAGE MAJESTIC THEATRE THEATRES CIRCLE THEQUE VENUES MAIN STAGE MAJESTIC THEATRE THEATRES CIRCLE THEQUE VENUES FESTIVAL PARTIES 3 3 PM PM Indies, Festivals and Friday Party: The Super Eights 4 the Presentation ... 4 PM 3:30pm | 1h30 PM FREE Fri, Apr 2, 11pm, 2h, Orpheum Theatre Lobby 5 5 Fakers WI Shorts IV A Panther in Angel on the Student Film WI Shorts II Doc. Producers PM PM 5:00pm | 1h45 5:00pm | 1h30 Africa Right Program I 5:00pm | 1h45 5pm | Steep & Brew ORDER CODE: FRP FAK W4A 5:00pm | 1h30 5:00pm | 1h30 5:00pm | 1h45 W2A 1h15 FREE 6 6 PAN AN1 S1A PM PM The Super Eights evoke the memory Charlie: The Wet Sand/ Life and Art Stories Untold WI Shorts I of countless ‘60s pop bands. 7 Festival Nói Madness and 6:45pm | 2h00 Klezmer on 7 Wilbur Wants WI Shorts III Last Life in The Fight Me and My Student Film IFC Ultimate PM of Charles 6:30pm | 2h00 PM Los Express 7:00pm | 1h45 WSU Genius W1A Fish Street to Kill Himself 7:00pm | 1h30 the Universe 7:00pm | 1h45 White Pal Program II Film Fanatic 7:00pm | 1h30 Chaplin NO1 7:00pm | 2h00 7:00pm | 2h00 7:00pm | 2h15 | W3A 7:00pm | 2h00 FGT 7:00pm | 1h30 7:00pm | 1h45 7:15pm | 2h00 Challenge Cash bar, 21 & over only (with ID) 8 FEX 6:30pm | 2h30 MG1 Hillel 8 WIL LL1 ME1 S2A LOS CHP 7:00pm | 3h00 | PM KLZ PM Lakeshore Price Note: $10 General; $7 students Cafeteria - 9 Patriots Day El Valley 9 Where’s the Memorial Union PM The Yes Men 9:00pm | 1h15 Body Divided PM Mango Yellow Jockey Afro-Punk FREE Yossi & Jagger Centro Intermission Party, Yaar? Goodbye, 9:15pm | 1h45 PA1 9:15pm | 1h30 9:00pm | 2h00 9:15pm | 1h45 9:15pm | 1h45 9:00pm | 2h00 9:15pm | 1h30 | Saturday Party: DJ Wyatt Agard 10 YES 9:30pm | 1h15 WHL EVC 10 9:30pm | 1h45 MGY JK1 WPY AP1 Dragon Inn PM 0YOS PM INT 9:30pm | 2h00 GBY Sat, Apr 3, 11pm, 2h, Orpheum Theatre Lobby 11 11 Festival PM PM Party: The Maldoror ORDER CODE: SPY PTU Nightclubbing: Ju-On: The 11:15pm | 1h45 Super Eights 11:30pm | 1h30 Part I Grudge The Legend of 12 12 11:00pm | 2h00 MDR DJ Wyatt Agard spins acid jazz and house. AM AM PTU 11:30pm | 2h00 11:30pm | 1h30 Leigh Bowery I Film I Talk I Party FRP NC1 JU1 11:45pm | 1h30 1 1 LLB Cash bar, 21 & over only (with ID) AM AM Price Note: $10 General; $7 students

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18 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ★ MADISON ★ APRIL 1-4, 2004 ★ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ★ 877.963.FILM WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ★ MADISON ★ APRIL 1-4, 2004 ★ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ★ 877.963.FILM 19 FILMS & FILM PROGRAMS, CONT. ★ Old Night (MIDWEST PREMIERE) In this beautifully accomplished animated short, a young man wades ★ Perils in Nude Modeling between memory and reality to retrieve his (MIDWEST PREMIERE) A hapless art student on the love from an abandoned mansion. Filmmaker verge of expulsion must decide between his Molly M. Mann was born in Racine and life-long ambition and love when a beautiful received a B.F.A.in animation at the Califor- nude model makes a dangerous demand dur- nia Institute of the Arts. A Wisconsin’s Own ing class. Award-winning filmmaker Scott Competition entry. Rice is a UW-Madison alumnus. A Wisconsin’s Animated Short, USA, 2003, 4 min, Color, 35mm; Own Competition Entry. Director: Molly M. Mann; Cast: Lorin Shamus, Diana Narrative Short, USA, 2003, 10 min, Color, Beta SP; Vandekamp Director: Scott Rice; Producer: Scott Rice; ★ Interference Screenplay By: Scott Rice; Cast: John Merriman, (MIDWEST PREMIERE) A female private investigator Estephania LeBaron, Garry Peters, J. Hudson is hired to follow a woman who is cheating on Brownlee her husband. Filmmaker Lauren Hollings- Wisconsin’s Own Shorts I: worth was born and raised in Madison, and is Documentary, Experimental, Narrative the recipient of the Los Angeles Ovation Award for her work in directing theatre. A Thu, Apr 1, 6:45pm, 2h, Cinematheque Wisconsin’s Own Competition Entry. ORDER CODE: W1A Narrative Short, USA, 2003, 11 min, Color, 35mm; Sat, Apr 3, 1:15pm, 2h, Cinematheque Director: Lauren Hollingsworth; Producer: Caryn ORDER CODE: W1B Mamrack, Liza Eyre Temple, Timm Doolen, Lauren With filmmakers Xav Leplae, Peter Barrickman, Hollingsworth; Screenplay By: Lauren Hollingsworth; Jennifer Montgomery, James Franklin, Laura Production Co: University of Southern California Stewart, Nicholas Langholff, Brent Notbohm, ★ I’m Bobby Aaron Greer, Molly Mann and Cecelia Condit. (MADISON PREMIERE) Street children, child labor- A collection of experimental, documentary, ers, and schoolkids from Bombay and Goa, narrative and animated shorts from Wiscon- India re-create scenes using the soundtrack Prankster-activist Yes Men impersonate World Trade Organization members. sin’s Own filmmakers. from Raj Kapoor’s 1973 film, Bobby, a classic 74 min. Series: Wisconsin’s Own Filmmakers; Bollywood re-working of Romeo and Juliet. Wisconsin’s Own Shorts IV: Wisconsin’s Own Winners Screening 2 Sponsor: Wisconsin Film Office Selected for the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, Experimental Documentaries Sun, Apr 4, 5:30pm, 1h30, Cinematheque ★ Ken: Story of a Western Drifter 2003 Chicago Underground Film Festival, and Fri, Apr 2, 5pm, 1h30, Orpheum Stage Door ORDER CODE: WW2 (MIDWEST PREMIERE) Shot on Super 8 sound in the Milwaukee International Film Festival. Leplae ORDER CODE: W4A Screening of winning films from the Wiscon- rail yards of Denver, Ken: Story of a Western also co-directed the 2001 Wisconsin’s Own Best sin’s Own juried competition, announced late Drifter is about a former Air Force Academy Narrative Feature, The Foreigners. A Wiscon- With filmmaker Stephen Wetzel (Men’s Hockey). night, Saturday,April 3. recruit who rides the rails. Filmmaker Laura sin’s Own Competition Entry. 71 min. Series: Wisconsin’s Own Filmmakers; Sponsor: Wisconsin Film Office Stewart received a B.F.A.in film production Experimental Short, USA, 2003, 32 min, Color, Words of Youthful Hope 35mm, 1.33; Language: In Hindi with English ★ Fulton Fish Market from the UW-Milwaukee and studied filmmak- See Young Visions and Voices. ing with Stan Brakhage and Kurt Kren. A Wis- subtitles; Director: Xav Laplae; Producer: Jennifer (MIDWEST PREMIERE) Between the midnight and 7 Montgomery, Chris Smith; Screenplay By: Raj consin’s Own Competition Entry. a.m., New York City’s Fulton Fish Market The World Is Watching Kapoor; Cast: Venkatesh (Winky), Lakshimi, Tehira explodes with movement, sound and color. Documentary Short, USA, 2003, 4 min, Color, 16mm, Shaikh, Anan Laxman Moate, Sapicol Shaikh, Ganga WITH The World Stopped Watching 1.33; Director: Laura Stewart and Gita This formally rigorous yet lyrical documen- Sat, Apr 3, 7pm, 3h30, Bartell Theatre tary reveals a profoundly tactile material ★ Not Color Blind, Just Near-Sighted ORDER CODE: WAT Wisconsin’s Own Shorts III: Documentary world of chaos and beauty.Filmmaker Mark (MIDWEST PREMIERE) This “colorful” critique of With filmmaker Harold Crooks in person. Street was born in Beloit. A Wisconsin’s Own racial classifications and identity recounts the Fri, Apr 2, 7pm, 1h30, Orpheum Stage Door We would be naïve to think that everything we filmmaker’s routine trip to the Department of ORDER CODE: W3A Competition Entry. Experimental / Documentary Short, USA, 2003, 12 see and hear from the news media is complete- Motor Vehicles, an experience that tests his Sat, Apr 3, 11am, 1h30, Orpheum Stage Door min, Color, 35mm, 1.33; Director: Mark Street ly and objectively factual. The World Is Watch- sense of humor as well as the capriciousness ORDER CODE: W3B ★ Winter’s Muse ing investigates who decides what is news and of bureaucracy.Filmmaker Aaron Greer was With filmmakers Scott, Matt, Kelley, Eric and how it is presented. It centers on several jour- born and raised in Milwaukee and teaches Linda Rice, and Paul Ewen in person. (MIDWEST PREMIERE) This experimental meditation on Wisconsin’s winter plays with images and nalists working in Nicaragua during the nego- filmmaking at the University of Alabama. A 66 min. Series: Wisconsin’s Own Filmmakers; tiations surrounding the Arias Peace Plan in Wisconsin’s Own Competition Entry. Sponsor: Wisconsin Film Office sound from earth, water and sky.Ruth Gold- man taught filmmaking at UW-Madison, November 1987. Director Peter Raymont had Experimental Short, USA, 2003, 5 min, Color, Beta ★ The Adventures of Mad Matt unprecedented access to ABC’s Peter Jennings SP; Director: Aaron Greer where she is a PhD candidate, and is currently (MADISON PREMIERE) The Wonder Years meets Jack- pursuing an MFA in media study at SUNY-Buf- and John Quiñones, Newsweek photographer ★ Why Not a Sparrow ass as four kids with cameras produce the falo. A Wisconsin’s Own Competition Entry. Bill Gentile, and The Boston Globe’s Randolph (MADISON PREMIERE) Cecelia Condit’s “eco-fable” action series Mad Matt between 1982 and 1992. Ryan. This is an amazing look at the inside of about a girl, a rare bird, who enters a land Experimental Short, USA, 2003, 5 min, Color, DV Snowmobile stunts, cast in-fighting and sister Cam; Director: Ruth Goldman the news industry and is especially relevant where the distinction between human and oth- torture lead to a moving climax that proves ★ Men’s Hockey given the current political climate. “A brilliant er animal kingdoms is blurred. Why Not a you are never too young to pay the price for piece of work, documentary-making of the (MIDWEST PREMIERE) This film records a single day Sparrow explores innocence and responsibili- blind ambition. Filmmaker Scott Rice is a UW- inside the locker room of a professional hock- highest order.”– The Nation. ty,and the complex relationship humans have Madison alumnus. A Wisconsin’s Own Compe- — JOE BERES ey team in Rockford, Illinois. With dispassion- with other animal species. With music by Paul tition Entry. Documentary Feature, Canada, 1988, 58 min, Color, Amitai, and song compositions by Stephen Documentary Short, USA, 2003, 27 min, Color, Beta ate formal rigor, the camera chronicles events Beta SP; Director: Peter Raymont; Producer: Harold Vogel and Theresa Columbus. A Wisconsin’s SP; Director: Scott Rice; Producer: Scott Rice; as they unfold, from warm-up exercises to the Crooks, Jim Monro, Peter Raymont; Screenplay By: Harold Crooks, Peter Raymot; Cast: Peter Jennings, Own Competition Entry. Executive Producer: Scott Rice post-game application of hands and ice to knee ★ joints and ankles. Intensely homoerotic at John Quiñones, Bill Gentile, Randolph Ryan; Experimental Short, USA, 2003, 13 min, Color, DV When the World Runs Fast Production Co: Investigative Productions Cam; Director: Cecelia Condit; Cast: Theresa (WORLD PREMIERE) In 1986, Paul Ewen was a UW- times, aggressive at others, Men’s Hockey Columbus, Didier Laplae, Ron Hickerson Madison student; in his first-ever film class, he offers a glimpse of the intimate space where The World Stopped Watching men prepare for competition with each other. ★ My Life By Water made a documentary about his Uncle Andy’s WITH The World is Watching Filmmaker Stephen Wetzel holds an MFA in (MADISON PREMIERE) My Life By Water is a cinemat- band, Honor Among Thieves, a favorite fixture Sat, Apr 3, 7pm, 3h30, Bartell Theatre painting from the University of Chicago and ic interpretation of selected verses by the Wis- of the Madison music scene. Now a film editor ORDER CODE: WAT an MPFA in film and video from UW-Milwau- consin poet Lorine Niedecker (1903-1970). living in New York, Paul takes another crack With filmmaker Harold Crooks in person. Filmmaker Brent Notbohm grew up in Spring at the project in When the World Runs Fast, kee, where he teaches documentary produc- (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) In his follow-up to The tion. Green and teaches video production and which explores how the Thieves remained World Is Watching, Peter Raymont returns to media studies at UW-Superior.Nicolas Lang- viable artists and musicians content with the Documentary Short, USA, 2003, 53 min, Color, Mini DV; Director: Stephen Wetzel Nicaragua with two American journalists, to holff grew up in Fort Atkinson, Niedecker’s local scene. Michael Dorf, founder of the Knit- revisit some of the people and places that the home town, and is the house manager at ting Factory,provides commentary on the Wisconsin’s Own Winners Screening 1 news media put under the microscope in the American Players Theatre. A Wisconsin’s music industry and the meaning of success. A Sun, Apr 4, 1pm, 1h30, Cinematheque late 1980s and to find out what happened once Own Competition Entry Wisconsin’s Own Competition Entry. ORDER CODE: WW1 Nicaragua was no longer considered news. Documentary Short, USA, 2003, 7 min, Color, Mini Documentary Short, USA, 2003, 39 min, Color, Mini They encounter former Sandinista leaders DV; Director: Brent Notbohm; Producer: Nicholas DV; Director: Paul Ewen; Producer: Brendan Screening of winning films from the Wiscon- Langholff; Cast: Sarah Day; Production Co: Mirror Bathrick, Randy Thiel, Carl Fritscher; Production Co: sin’s Own juried competition, announced late including Daniel Ortega, an 82-year-old sur- Cinema Productions Brave New Image Productions night, Saturday,April 3. vivor of a Contra attack, and former Contra mercenaries. “A rare view of the Nicaraguan 20 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ★ MADISON ★ APRIL 1-4, 2004 ★ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ★ 877.963.FILM Young Visions and Voices Film Program ★ Duct Tape Sat, Apr 3, 11am, 2h15, Orpheum Main (MIDDLE SCHOOL, COMEDY/EXPERIMENTAL) Sullivan the ORDER CODE: YVV duct tape, a super hero’s weapon of choice, PRICE NOTE: FREE ADMISSION FOR YOUTH K-12. rolls off on his own adventure. With many youth filmmakers in person. Experimental Short, 2002, 4 min; Director: Sam Becker, Joon Lee, Sam Cohn; Cast: Sam Becker, Young Visions and Voices is a special program Joon Lee, Sam Cohn; Production Co: UW Office of of films by Madison area elementary,middle Education Outreach: Technology and Arts and high school filmmakers. Curated by a com- ★ The Story of Matt munity-based committee involved in teaching (ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, DRAMA) An apparition tells filmmaking to youth through the following how a young boy diagnosed with a terminal organizations (Wendy Nelson, coordinator): disease spends his last few weeks. Nancy Blake (Office of Education Outreach in Narrative Short, 2002, 8 min; Director: Kelsey the UW School of Education); Connie Darling Morris, Kimberly Norona, Helena Riekena, Kyle (Fitchburg Access Community Television); Swanson, Matt Zukowski; Cast: Kelsey Morris, Gretta Wing Miller (video clubs at O’Keeffe, Kimberly Norona, Helena Riekena, Kyle Swanson, Shabbaz; UW School of Education); Wendy Matt Zukowski; Production Co: WYOU Community Television, Inc., Wisconsin Youth Company, Inc. Nelson (UW School of Education); Tim Storm ★ Have a Nice Day I’m Bobby: Indian children act out scenes from a Bollywood classic. (West High School); Jacki Thomas (Packers Community Center); Whitney Wilcox (WYOU). (MIDDLE SCHOOL, DRAMA/EXPERIMENTAL) Bullying is The Yes Men — MARY CARBINE explored from the first-person perspectives of both the victim and tormentor. Thu, Apr 1, 9:15pm, 1h45, Orpheum Main 120 min, Series: Wisconsin’s Own Filmmakers ★ Breakfast on the Run Experimental / Narrative Short, 2003, 8 min; ORDER CODE: YES Director: Dory Liem, Spencer Lynch, Amber Malony, With filmmaker Sarah Price in person. (ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, ANIMATION / LIVE ACTION) Some- Daniel Ross-Moore, Shayne Stewart; Cast: Dory (MIDWEST PREMIERE) The Yes Men documents elab- times it’s hard to eat breakfast on the run, as Liem, Spencer Lynch, Amber Maloney, Daniel Ross- orate and hilarious instances of culture jam- Tay-Tay discovered! Moore, Shayne Stewart; Production Co: WYOU ming as the prankster-activist Yes Men imper- Animated / Narrative Short, USA, 2003, 1.5 min; Community Television, Inc., Wisconsin Youth Director: Chauntene Thomas, Juliette Clark; Cast: Company, Inc. sonate members of the World Trade Chauntene Thomas, Juliette Clark; Production Co: ★ Clique Clash: Standing Alone Organization on television and at business Packer Community Learning Center (MIDDLE SCHOOL, DRAMA/EXPERIMENTAL) Helen must meetings around the world. Posing at WTO ★ Tony Hawk representatives at a “Textiles of the Future” find resolution within herself when she expe- (MIDDLE SCHOOL, DOCUDRAMA) This biopic follows industry summit in Finland, the Yes Men riences conflict between old friends and new the life and career of pro skateboarder Tony decry Gandhi’s “self sufficiency” movement friends. Hawk. as misguided protectionism and unleash a Experimental Short, Narrative Short, 2003, 11 min; Documentary / Narrative Short, 2003, 1.5 min; Cast: Helen Ricker, Elizabeth Dies, Taran Molnar, Max gold-lamé “Management Leisure Suit” to an Director: Josh Centanni; Production Co: Fitchburg King, Annie Freiberg, John Gard; Production Co: UW enthusiastic crowd of scientists, engineers, Acess Community Television (FACT) Office of Education Outreach: Technology and Arts Yossi & Jagger is a tale of love and marketing professionals. Speaking to ★ Dancing Vulture Animated Short ★ Six Feet accountants in Australia, the Yes Men in the Israeli army. (MIDDLE SCHOOL) This is a whimsical animation (HIGH SCHOOL, DRAMA/EXPERIMENTAL) When a loved announce the dissolution of the WTO – a star- populated with colorful toys. one is six feet under, where does that leave us? tling development which sparked debate on people’s triumphs and tragedies through the Animated Short, 2001, 1 min; Director: Alex Zielske, Experimental Short, Narrative Short, 2003, 4.5 min; the floor of the Canadian Parliament. Milwau- Jonah Hacker, Lucas Brogan; Production Co: UW Office Sandinista Revolution and the US-run Contra Director: Michael Drozdowicz; Cast: Katherine kee-based filmmakers Chris Smith and Sarah of Education Outreach: Saturday Enrichment Program Goodman, Hailey Castro, Brandon McCarthy; war, and to the grim aftermath… searing and Price (American Movie) and co-director Dan ★ Production Co: Keesia Hyzer’s Mass Media class at powerful… it is never too late for us to face The Muffin Ollman have crafted a darkly comic and reve- West HS what we have done.” – Noam Chomsky,Massa- (ELEMENTARY/MIDDLE SCHOOL, COMEDY/EXPERIMENTAL) latory portrait of the Yes Men and their all-too- ★ A Definition of Hip-Hop chusetts Institute of Technology. AJ is surprised to find a muffin waiting for (HIGH SCHOOL) A true-to-life look at hip-hop and — JOE BERES easily-duped victims, deftly illuminating him, but that is not the only surprise! Documentary Feature, Canada, 2003, 82 min, Color, issues around global trade and mainstream Experimental Short, 2003, 1 min; Director: Andrew the people who live it. Beta SP; Director: Peter Raymont; Producer: Peter media complacency. Abeyta, Adrian Abeyta; Cast: Andrew Abeyta, Adrian Documentary Short, 2004, 5 min; Director: Antone Raymont, Harold Crooks, Lindalee Tracey; — MARY CARBINE Abeyta; Production Co: Packer Community Learning X. Hood; Production Co: WYOU Community Screenplay By: Peter Raymont, Harold Crooks; Cast: Documentary Feature, USA, 2003, 80 min, Color, 35mm, Center Television, Inc. Bill Gentile, Randolph Ryan; Production Co: White 1.85; Director: Chris Smith, Dan Ollman, Sarah Price; ★ Volcom Amateurs ★ A Day in the Life of Leeana Pine Pictures; Series: Documentary Producer: Chris Smith, Sarah Price; Production Co: Yes (MIDDLE SCHOOL) Faced with the tedium of his (HIGH SCHOOL) A Milwaukee high school student Men Films LLC; Series: Documentary, Wisconsin’s Own documents her experiences in an intensive 8- Wretched Lives Filmmakers; Sponsor: Wisconsin Film Office. Print studies, a pupil finds himself falling into a skateboard reverie. week summer program at UW-Madison. (Hubog) courtesy of MGM/UA. Experimental Short, 2001, 2 min; Cast: Tony Choy Documentary Short, USA, 2003, 10 min; Director: Sat, Apr 3, 3pm, 1h45, University Square Yossi & Jagger Sutton, Leigh Wasson, Nick Edmonds; Production Leeana Beck; Production Co: WYOU Community ORDER CODE: WL1 Co: UW Office of Education Outreach: Saturday Television, Inc. Thu, Apr 1, 9:30pm, 1h15, Orpheum Stage Door Sun, Apr 4, 1pm, 1h45, University Square Enrichment Program ★ ORDER CODE: YOS Words of Youthful Hope ORDER CODE: WL2 ★ When Dreaming (MIDDLE SCHOOL, DRAMA) What would you do if you (MADISON PREMIERE) Based on a true story of gay (MIDDLE SCHOOL) Surprising special effects high- (WISCONSIN PREMIERE) Featuring the popular male love in the Israeli army,Eytan Fox’s suc- wanted a job, but you were only 13? light this surreal short. Philippine actor Alessandra de Rossi, cinct film tells the tale of two officers who try Narrative Short, USA, 2003, 6.5 min; Director: Eulla Isis Experimental Short, 2001, 1.5 min; Director: Seth Renee Allen, Tyrone “Tydiller” Wren, Sharae Monique Wretched Lives tells the astonishing story of to sustain their affair during a mission to the Vanessa, a young woman who strives to care Collins; Production Co: UW Office of Education Travis, Lalee Thar, Corey Hanger, Elijah Smith; Cast: Eulla Israeli-Lebanese border.Amid desolate sur- Isis Renee Allen, Tyrone “Tydiller” Wren, Sharae Monique for her mentally challenged sister while ward- Outreach: Saturday Enrichment Program roundings, Yossi (Ohad Knoller) struggles to ★ Memories Travis, Lalee Thar, Corey Hanger, Elijah Smith; Production ing off the manipulative advances of men. Set stay closeted, and Jagger (Yehuda Levi, “the Co: UW Office of Education Outreach Saturday against the raging political and social climate (MIDDLE SCHOOL, COMEDY/HORROR) Grandma finds Enrichment Program, Atwood Community Center Israeli Tom Cruise”) unwittingly attracts the more than old memories in her attic! of Joseph Estrada’s short-lived regime, the affections of a female soldier.“If the situation ★ Dateline: Zack Mar-Pohl film suggests that “liberals are only public lib- Narrative Short, 2003, 1 min; Director: Martha Mank, has all the ingredients of a shrill, tearful melo- (HIGH SCHOOL, MOCKUMENTARY) Might you be the erals; when they come home, they follow a Ally Schmaling, Laura Linde; Cast: Martha Mank, Ally drama, the filmmaker, working from a taut Schmaling, Laura Linde; Production Co: UW Office of next to catch cuniculus disease? Find out completely different agenda. Innocence is a screenplay by Avner Bernheimer that doesn’t Education Outreach: College for Kids about what it’s like to live with this rare ail- license to be abused.” – Steve Gravestock, 2002 waste a word or a gesture, keeps the emotional ★ Animation by Katie Wang ment in this “Dateline” expose. Cast also Toronto International Film Festival. lid firmly in place.” – Stephen Holden, The includes Nyalay Weller. — KATHERINE SPRING (MIDDLE SCHOOL) This animation features delight- New York Times. Winner, Audience Award for ful drawings and paper sculptures. Narrative Short, USA, 2003, 9 min; Cast: Awais Narrative Feature, Philippines, 2001, 102 min, Color, Ahmad, Keesia Hyzer, Zach Mar- Pohl, Brandon 35mm; Language: In Tagalog with English subtitles; Best Feature Film, 2003 Torino International Animated Short, 2002, 1.5 min; Director: Katie Wang; Production Co: UW Office of Education Outreach: McCarthy, Lindsey Schiller, Matt Troia; Production Director: Joel Lamangan; Producer: Roselle Gay & Lesbian Film Festival; Best Actor (Ohad Co: Keesia Hyzer’s Mass Media class at West HS Monteverde; Executive Producer: Lily Y. Monteverde; Saturday Enrichment Program Knoller), 2003 Tribeca Film Festival. ★ Screenplay By: Roy Iglesias; Cast: Alessandra de — KATHERINE SPRING ★ The Drunk Squirrel 5 for 1: Episodes 1 & 2 Rossi, Assunta de Rossi, Jay Manolo, Wendell (MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL, DRAMA) This teen soap chron- Narrative Feature, Israel, 2002, 67 min, Color, 35mm, (MIDDLE SCHOOL) After chancing upon a discarded Ramos; Production Co: Good Harvest Productions; 1.66; Language: In Hebrew with English subtitles; MPAA beer bottle, our fuzzy-tailed hero embarks on icles the lives of six friends, as they navigate Series: Global Lens; Sponsor: The Evjue Foundation; Rating: R.; Director: Eytan Fox; Producer: Amir Harel, the rocky terrain of adolescence. Print courtesy of Global Film Initiative. an unsteady odyssey. Gal Uchovsky; Screenplay By: Avner Bernheimer; Cast: Narrative Short, 2003, 10 min; Director: Spencer Ohad Knoller, Yehuda Levi, Assi Cohen, Aya Koren, Experimental Short, 2003, 1.5 min; Director & Cast: John Schoech, Nick Heisig, Jackson Eagan; DeHaven, LeRoy Williams; Cast: Brenda Vivian, XX to XY: Fighting to be Jake Hani Furstenberg, Yuval Semo; Production Co: Lama Dannea Williams, LeRoy Williams, Spencer DeHaven, See The Body Divided. Productions; Series: Contemporary World Cinema; Production Co: UW Office of Education Outreach: College for Kids Karen Horns, Eva Maria Contreras; Production Co: Sponsor: WAA-GLBT Alumni Council Fitchburg Access Community Television (FACT) WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ★ MADISON ★ APRIL 1-4, 2004 ★ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ★ 877.963.FILM 21 TALKS The Indie Film Talent Manager Sat, Apr 3, 5pm, 1h15, Steep & Brew PRICE NOTE: Free. SEATING ON A FIRST-COME BASIS As Time Goes By: Managers play key roles in the careers of Reflections of A Hollywood Insider many independent film actors, writers and Sun, Apr 4, 2pm, 1h30, University Book Store directors. But what exactly does a manager PRICE NOTE: Free. SEATING ON A FIRST-COME BASIS. do? How is a manager different from an agent Join Kathie Fong Yoneda, script development (or not?) At what point in your career do you consultant and author of The Script-Selling need a manager, and what should you look Game: A Hollywood Insider’s Look at Getting for? Sam Maydew (producer/manager) is Your Script Sold and Produced, for a book-sign- president of Pop Art Films/Management in ing and informative and entertaining discus- L.A. He represents clients such as writer- sion on the changes she’s witnessed in market- director Bertha Bay-Sa Pan, at the Festival ing one’s work to Hollywood over the past 25 with her film Face; filmmaker, Michael years. Yoneda has been a Hollywood “insider” Burke, who’s first film, The Mudge Boy, was for over 25 years, specializing in story analy- Face writer/director Barak Goodman, director, Danish writer/director produced by Stanley Tucci and premiered at sis/development at Disney,MGM, 20th Centu- Bertha Bay-Sa Pan The Fight Lone Scherfig Sundance 2003; and young star, Emile Hirsch, ry Fox, Paramount and Universal. She’s held who made his feature film debut in the Jodi executive positions at Walt Disney,Touch- Foster-produced, The Dangerous Lives of stone, Island Pictures, and Disney TV Anima- Altar Boys. Mr. Maydew has produced five tion and has taught seminars and workshops feature films, including the critically all over North America and Europe. She is a acclaimed Sundance classic, SLC Punk. May- partner in TalkStory Productions with writer- dew will give a brief overview of what he producer Pamela Wallace (Witness). does and how he sees his work as a manager, Series: Insider; Sponsor: University Book Store, and then take your questions. Wisconsin Screenwriters Forum Series: Insider; Sponsor: Steep & Brew Bergman’s Show: Remembering Mark Indies, Festivals and the Bergman, the Movies and Madison Presentation of Cinema in the USA Sat, Apr 3, 3pm, 2h15, Play Circle Thu, Apr 1, 3:30pm, 1h30, Cinematheque PRICE NOTE: Tickets are required. PRICE NOTE: Free. SEATING ON A FIRST-COME BASIS ORDER CODE: EYE Douglas Gomery, a leading film historian and Eyes Without a Face, Georges Franju’s coolly recognized authority on the economics of the stylish 1960 exercise in B&W horror, is a prime American film industry,will speak about the example of the kinds of genre movies regular- role of film festivals and independent film in ly elevated to the status of art by the 1960s film the presentation of cinema in the United societies and their eager young explorers at States. Gomery is Professor of Media History the fringes of cinema. In fact, while the movie and Resident Scholar at the Library of Ameri- was given scant drive-in and grind-house can Broadcasting at the University of Mary- release under the trashy American title The land. Of Gomery’s 12 books, two have won Horror Chamber of Dr.Faustus, the film socie- Mark Moskowitz, Stone Reader, will appear on ‘To the Best of Our Knowledge.’ national book awards: Who Owns the Media? ty cognoscenti of the 1960s eagerly embraced and Shared Pleasures: A History of Movie Pre- the original French language version, and, Getting it Made, Getting sentation in the United States. Gomery is also along with Franju’s similarly distinctive it Seen: Documentary co-author of the widely-used Film History: Judex, promoted the films to the pantheon Production, Funding Theory and Practice, the essential reference for rank of screen fantasy.(Over 35 years later, and Programming graduate film historiography courses, and Eyes would be rediscovered when a reissue Sat, Apr 3, 10am, 1h30, author of The Hollywood Studio System. showcased it as part of the 2003 New York fall Tripp Commons Gomery earned his Ph.D. at the University of film season.) It is a complete cinematic revela- PRICE NOTE: Free. SEATING ON A Wisconsin in 1975, and his MA in 1970. tion, a historically interesting example of FIRST-COME BASIS Series: Insider; Sponsor: University Lecture Committee genre storytelling, and (lest we forget) a horrif- Over the past two decades, ic bon bon of an entertainment. Following the documentary films have film, our annual panel of appropriately grey- To the Best of Our Knowledge - Live gained momentum with Sat, Apr 3, 3pm, 1h30, Orpheum - Main headed wiseacres will briefly discuss the art of American audiences and PRICE NOTE: Free. SEATING ON A FIRST-COME BASIS the genre film. show no signs of slowing — TIM ONOSKO Join Jim Fleming, Steve Paulson and Anne down. For documentary film- As part of the Wisconsin Film Festival’s Bergman’s Strainchamps, hosts of Wisconsin Public makers, what are the oppor- Show, which annually recalls Madison’s yeasty film Radio’s nationally syndicated program “To the tunities and challenges society legacy of the 1960s, we are happy to once Best of Our Knowledge,” for an interview again present a cinematic rarity worthy of involved in developing a proj- event at the Orpheum, which will be recorded celebration. Special thanks to Ronee Bergman. ect, getting it made and get- for a future broadcast. The show will feature ting it seen by an audience? Coffehouse Discussion UW-Madison alumni Lisa Heller and Mark Samels some of the Festival’s most intriguing guests, What do documentary pro- with Documentary Producers discuss the finer points of documentary production. including Danish writer / director Lone ducers and programmers Lisa Heller and Mark Samels Scherfig, whose beguiling romantic comedy look for? What kind of documentary project Italian for Beginners (2000) became the most Fri, Apr 2, 5pm, 1h15, Steep & Brew has the potential for national exposure, either commercially successful of all Dogme films PRICE NOTE: Free. SEATING ON A FIRST-COME BASIS on television or theatrical? This panel features IFC Ultimate Film Fanatic Challenge and who is at the Wisconsin Film Festival with Many questions can arise when preparing a two seasoned documentary producers and Fri, Apr 2, 7pm, 3h her new film Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself; and documentary project for production. What do decision-makers (both UW-Madison alumni): Lakeshore Cafeteria-Memorial Union Mark Moskowitz, producer and director of the producers, money people and distributors look Mark Samels, Executive Producer, PBS’s PRICE NOTE: Free. SEATING ON A FIRST-COME BASIS. critically-acclaimed documentary Stone Read- for? How do I approach them and at what stage American Experience, and Lisa Heller, Vice Hey,film buffs and movie geeks — do you have er, also well-known for his more than three in my project? Which market is best for my President of Original Programming at HBO, what it takes to be the Ultimate Film Fanatic? thousand political spots for hundreds of cam- project — local television, national or theatri- as well as the filmmakers behind three docu- Find out with the Independent Film Channel at paigns. Moskowitz has been awarded “Pol- cal? Seasoned documentary producers and mentary projects presented at the Festival: this live Ultimate Film Fanatic Challenge. lies,” political media’s highest award, for five programmers Mark Samels, Executive Pro- Barak Goodman (The Fight, American Experi- Watch or join in as contestants from the audi- consecutive years. Newsweek described his ducer, PBS’s American Experience, and Lisa ence); Kate Davis and David Heilbroner (Jock- ence face off to answer the ultimate film trivia media as “brilliantly targeted,” and CNN Heller, Vice President of Original Program- ey, HBO); and Marian Marzynski (Patriots Day, questions. Stop by between films or stay all called it “a model of the medium.” This lively ming at HBO, will offer their inside tips on the American Experience). They will discuss cur- night — this game will run to 10pm, with four event will also feature musical interludes from basics of documentary producing and pro- rent issues in documentary production, fund- contestants chosen for each round. If you’ve The Lonesome Organist, the one-man band gramming. ing and programming, illustrated with brief got the answers, you’ll win a prize. Those who with a taste for the vaudevillian, featured in Series: Insider, Documentary; Sponsor: Wisconsin “how we did it” case studies of each film proj- Public Television, Steep & Brew don’t win still get something just for playing. the film Let Me Be Your Band. ect and followed by an audience Q & A session. Series: Insider; Sponsor: Charter Communications, Series: Insider Series: Insider, Documentary; Sponsor: Wisconsin IFC (Independent Film Channel) Public Television 22 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ★ MADISON ★ APRIL 1-4, 2004 ★ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ★ 877.963.FILM The Wisconsin Veterans Museum presents: DISPLACED: Europe 1945-46

by FREE Maxine ADMISSION Rude Wisconsin Veterans Museum and Research Center on the Capitol Square 30 W. Mifflin St. Madison, WI 53703 608.267.1799 http://museum.dva.state.wi.us The Wisconsin Veterans Museum is an activity of the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs.

‘The Lonesome Organist’ Entertaining Movie Lovers For Over 35 Years! Writers Seminar Sat, Apr 3, 1pm, 1h30, Tripp Commons PRICE NOTE: Free. SEATING ON A FIRST-COME BASIS Featured screenwriters and writer/directors Hilldale — including Lone Scherfig (Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself), Ryan Eslinger (Madness and THEATR E Genius) and Bertha Bay-Sa Pan (Face) — will discuss writing and developing their Two Large Auditoriums - DTS Digital Sound projects. Moderated by Kathie Fong Yoneda All Natural Popcorn With Real Butter & Gourmet Flavored Toppings (The Script-Selling Game: A Hollywood Insider’s Look at Getting Your Script Sold Close To The U.W. Campus, Just Off University Avenue, and Produced). Located In The Hilldale Shopping Center Series: Insider; Sponsor: Wisconsin Screenwriters Forum 702 North Midvale Boulevard - Madison PARTICIPANTS: Danish writer/director Lone Scherfig, whose beguiling romantic comedy (608) 238-0206 Italian for Beginners (2000) became the most commercially successful of all Dogme films, is at the Wisconsin Visit the Elvehjem Museum of Art... Film Festival with her new film Wilbur Wants one of the nation’s leading university art museums, with a reputation for fine to Kill Himself. She exhibitions and receptions, insightful programs, and arts activities for all ages. started work in television and in features focusing on children, ELVEHJEM Elvehjem and her award-winning Museum films have been featured in prestigious fes- of Art tivals including Berlin, LVM Kathie Fong New Directors/New Yoneda 800 University Avenue Films, New York and 608-263-2246 Toronto. Ryan Eslinger, recently nominated for the FREE ADMISSION Tuesday-Friday 9 AM -5PM “Someone to Watch” Award at the 2004 IFP Saturday-Sunday 11AM -5PM • Closed Mon. Independent Spirit Awards, wrote, directed www.lvm.wisc.edu (and edited, produced, and scored) his debut feature Madness and Genius which he has been working on since age 13. Madness and Genius won the Alfred P.Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize in Science and Technology at the Hamptons Film Festival and was featured at Take a 3-D Break at Your the 2004 Slamdance film festival. Face is the debut feature for writer/ director Bertha Bay-Sa Pan. Born in New Jersey Museums on the Square... and raised in Taiwan, Pan received MFA in Film from Columbia University.Her short film Face (from which the feature is adapted) won WISCONSIN numerous awards including the Director’s Guild Award for “Best Asian American Stu- HISTORICAL dent Filmmaker,” People’s Choice Award at MUSEUM Memphis Black Writers Conference and Southern Film Festival, and Polo Ralph Lau- 30 N. Carroll Street 100 State Street ren Award for Best Screenplay. Moderator Kathie Fong Yoneda special- Tues-Sat 9-4 Tues-Fri 9-4, Sat & Sun 9-5 izes in story analysis and development (for www.wisconsinhistory.org www.madisonchildrensmuseum.org bio, see “As Time Goes By:Reflections of a Hol- lywood Insider.”)

WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ★ MADISON ★ APRIL 1-4, 2004 ★ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ★ 877.963.FILM 23 Films give voice and vision to Asian American diversity By Hemant Shah Director, Asian American Studies Program, UW-Madison

The Asian population is one of the fastest growing and most diverse in America. Their num- bers grew from 1.5 million in 1970 to about 11 million in 2000. Asians in American have ancestral origins in countries of East Asia, Southeast Asian and the Indian subcontinent. They hail from countries as culturally different as Pakistan, Vietnam, Tibet, and Taiwan. The three most populous Asian groups in America in 2000 were the Chinese (2.7 million), Filipinos (2.3 million), Indians (1.9 million), and Koreans (1.2 million). Vietnamese and Japanese numbered about 1 million each. They are all Asians living in America, but are they all Asian Americans? Is the international student from Taiwan, making her first trip to the United States, an Asian American the moment she lands at O’Hare Internation- al Airport? Or does she become Asian Amer- ican only after living in America 5 years? Or 10 years? Must she first become a US citizen to become an Asian America? One common answer to the question is that an Asian Amer- ican is someone who has significant knowl- Sumo East and West (Sun, Apr 4, 7:30pm) will Saigon, USA (Sun, Apr 4, 2:45pm) documents tensions in America’s edge about what it means to live and grow up make you fall in love with the sport. largest Vietnamese community. Asian in America – that is, has experienced what it is to be a ethnic minority in predomi- nantly white America. We hear Asian languages, Asian American Cinema Defining Asian American cinema is as tricky as defining who qualifies to be Asian see the energy and pulse Sponsor: Asian American Studies Program American. Complicating the matter is the trend toward multinational distribution and financ- of a Chinatown or a PROGRAMS ing networks that characterize the increasing- Koreatown, feel the beat Face ly global film industry.Like the slipperiness Refugee associated with defining Asian American iden- of modern fusion music, tity,defining Asian American cinema in an age Saigon, USA of media globalization also has its difficulties. and smell the samosas Stories Untold: Memories Are all films written or directed by Asian Amer- of Korean War Survivors icans, regardless of subject matter, part of being fried up at the Sumo East and West Asian American cinema? What about films with Wet Sand: Voices from LA specifically Asian American subject matter? Indian fast food shop. Are these part of Asian American cinema, Wet Sand: Voices from LA (Thu, Apr 1, Where’s the Party, Yaar? regardless of who wrote or directed them? 6:30pm, Sun, Apr 4, 2:45pm). Who I Became There is yet one other possibility: Films about themes of particular importance to Asian Asian American community strength, (2) of Asian American cinema today.This trend adjustment, but as film scholar Jun Xing notes, Americans that are created by Asian American mobilized Asian American political activism, is reflected in the slate of films being screened they place more emphasis than documentaries filmmakers. The films in the Asian American and (3) represented an Asian American aes- at Wisconsin Film Festival this year. and experimental films on the Asian Ameri- cinema program at the 2004 Wisconsin Film thetic containing Asian American points of One of the common themes in the docu- can aesthetic dimension of “triangular cine- Festival fall mainly into this last category. view and sensitive portrayals of Asian Amer- mentaries being screened this year is how new ma.” Asian American cinema has a relatively ican characters and communities. immigrants deal with myriad problems relat- Many of the films retain a sociopolitical recent history. In response to Hollywood Under the rubric of “triangular cinema,” ed to cultural adjustment. edge by, for example, using humor and exag- stereotypes of Asians, two short-lived efforts several types of movies were made. One type The frustrations of language acquisition, geration to lay bare the racist logic of stereo- in the early part of the 20th century to create was the documentary film that dealt with his- the confusion of dealing with legal issues, and types or showing the arbitrary injustice of films by,for,and about Asians in America were torical injustice and contemporary racism. the ache of nostalgic desire for “home” are cultural discrimination. But in the feature made. These included Loni Ding’s The Color of Hon- some of the themes explored in the films. The films we also see genuine slices of Asian In 1920, James B. Leong, a Chinese or (1988), and Christine Choy’s and Renee Taji- documentaries also reveal the diversity with- American life. We may hear Asian languages exchange student based in Muncie, Indiana, ma’s Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1987). Several in Asian America. Each Asian American in everyday routine conversations, see the dai- moved to Hollywood to try his hand at mak- important Asian American experimental group has varying points of origin, unique ly energy and pulse of a Chinatown or a Kore- ing films for the Chinese community in Cali- films also were made during this period. These dilemmas, and different networks of commu- atown, feel the beat of modern Asian-Ameri- fornia. films, typically dealing with identity,race, and nity and family resources to tap. can fusion music, or almost smell and taste In 1928, Sessue Hayakawa, at the time one gender, included such classics as Helen Lee’s One might expect that Indian and Japan- the samosa being fried up at the Indian fast of the few successful Asian actors in Holly- Sally’s Beauty Spot (1990) and Shu Lea Chang’s ese immigrants, from cultures that are unre- food shop. wood silent films, established Haworth Pro- Color Schemes (1989). A third type of Asian lated in almost every way, have little in the Asian American cinema is a fast growing, ductions and produced about 25 films before American film was the feature length drama way of shared experiences as immigrants diverse, and complex form of cultural expres- going out of business. such as Peter Wang’s A Great Wall (1986), Mira (aside from the fact that they are ex-patriots). sion of fast growing, diverse, and complex eth- Asian American cinema did not come into Nair’s Mississippi Masala (1991), and Wayne But the documentaries also show that immi- nic communities with roots in Asia. The films its own until 1970s, on the heels of the civil Wang’s Joy Luck Club (1993). Even though it grants from the neighboring countries of Viet- are entertaining, thought provoking, and rights movement. was the dramas that earned Asian American nam and Cambodia also have very different poignant. Above all, however, they provide Asian American filmmaking evolved into filmmakers popular and critical acclaim, as experiences. audiences a sense of Asian life in America in so-called “triangular cinema,” signaling intent Asian American film scholar Jun Xing notes, Asian American feature films also deal the voice, with the vision, and from the per- to make films that (1) contributed to building documentaries remain the predominant genre with issues of immigration and cultural spective of Asian Americans themselves. ★ 24 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ★ MADISON ★ APRIL 1-4, 2004 ★ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ★ 877.963.FILM Jan Hrebejk’s Pupendo (Sun, Apr 4, 7:30pm) is set in 1984 Prague. Explore Europe’s changing face and identity

Since the second Wisconsin Film Festival in 2000, European Studies at the UW-Madison Near and Far: has been a proud sponsor of the event, and specifically of the Films from the New Europe Films From series, offering films that explore Europe’s the New Europe changing face and identity. The UW’s European Studies Alliance (ESA) PROGRAMS provides a common profile for European Stud- Intermission ies on campus by coordinating the classroom, research, and public affairs activities of four Me and My White Pal centers. Each center has developed a nation- Nói al, if not international, reputation for excel- One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich lence through the pursuit of research and pro- Pupendo grammatic activities. The centers include: Remembrance of Things to Come ★ The Center for European Studies Since Otar Left ★ The Center for German and European Studies ★ The European Union Center From France to Burkina Faso, ★ The Center for Interdisciplinary French Studies the Czech Republic, Iceland, Under the umbrella of the ESA, the centers: ★ create innovative, interdisciplinary the former Soviet Republic courses for undergraduate and graduate students that prepare them for work in of Georgia, and Ireland, the global economy and international policy arenas; these films take us to the ★ promote and encourage cutting-edge worlds inhabited by the research on every aspect of the workings of contemporary Europe; citizens of the new Europe. ★ develop transatlantic learning through scholarly networks and student exchanges across the humanities, social sciences, and professional schools; ★ reach out to businesses, legislators, journalists, secondary schools, and the broad- the opportunity to fulfill our mission of cultur- er community in Wisconsin and the Mid- al and linguistic outreach to the citizens of west through a variety of programs that southern Wisconsin through our association expand knowledge about Europe. with WFF. A special ESA project, in conjunction with The Center was established to promote the the Office of the Dean of International Stud- use and study of French across diverse aca- ies, is the Madison Transatlantic Initiative. demic disciplines within the university, to The MTI, a series of international confer- serve a broader public that includes teachers, ences, workshops, and other outreach events business and government professionals, and to be held over a two-year period, both in the to cooperate with the network of Centres U.S. and Europe, aims to evaluate the strengths pluridisciplinaires, multidisciplinary centers of the transatlantic relationship, and to devel- that are privileged partners with the French op strategies for making them more widely Cultural Service in higher education. ★ understood. To learn more about the Center visit This year,the Center for Interdisciplinary www.uwcifs.org. For more information French Studies (CIFS) is honored to be a first- on the European Studies Alliance, time sponsor, in its own right, of the Wiscon- visit www.europeanstudiesalliance.org sin Film Festival. We are very pleased to have or call (608) 265-4766. WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ★ MADISON ★ APRIL 1-4, 2004 ★ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ★ 877.963.FILM 25 Raising cross-cultural awareness is focus of Global Lens The Festival is pleased to present The Global Film Initiative’s “Global Lens” series of fea- These international ture films from developing countries. Culled from international film festivals such as feature films were chosen Cannes, Toronto, and Rotterdam, the films were chosen for their cinematic and narrative for their cinematic excellence, cultural authenticity,and relevance and narrative excellence, to The Global Film Initiative’s mission: raising cross-cultural awareness through cinema. and cultural authenticity. In a related outreach program, on April 2, the UW College of Letters & Science (L & S) will host “World Cinema Day,”an education- al program for high school students that At the Orpheum Theatre April 5-8, the Festival includes screening a “Global Lens” film, and films Mango Yellow and Ticket to Jerusalem is patterned on the successful L & S “World will have additional screenings, and the Languages Day.” World Cinema Day is sup- Orpheum will present three more Global Lens ported by the Evjue Foundation, The Britting- films: ham Trust, and the WEAC Human Relations Rachida (2002 Algeria). Directed by Yami- Committee. na Bachir-Chouikh. Rachida is a young, Alger- The Global Lens series will continue post- ian schoolteacher who flees to another village Festival at the Orpheum Theatre and the UW after having been shot by terrorists, only to Cinematheque. Please contact the venues for find that terrorism is unavoidable there too. showtimes. Shadow Kill (2002, India). Directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan. In pre-independence Mango Yellow (Fri, Apr 2, 9:15pm). Ticket to Jerusalem (Sat, Apr 3, 7pm, India, a state-appointed executioner can no and Sun, Apr 4, 1pm). Global Lens longer bear the guilty solitude of carrying out death sentences that are, more often than not, PROGRAMS the result of politics rather than justice. On April 16-17, the Cinematheque will present ters on their behalf and giving meaning to Angel on the Right Women’s Prison (2002, Iran). Directed by the last two films of the Global Lens series: inhibited emotions. Khorma Manijeh Hekmat. A diverse group of women Nothing (2001, Cuba). Directed by Juan Car- Margarette’s Feast (2002, Brazil). Directed struggle to survive in a claustrophobic Iranian los Cremata Malberti. Carla works in a Cuban by Renato Falcão. In an ode to classic silent Mango Yellow prison in three segments set in 1984, 1992 and post office and, to pass the time, assumes oth- films, a working-class everyman in Brazil Ticket to Jerusalem 2001. er people’s identities by secretly writing let- escapes from his desperate life through the Wretched Lives power of imagination. ★

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26 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ★ MADISON ★ APRIL 1-4, 2004 ★ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ★ 877.963.FILM Sogobi takes its title from the Shoshonean word for ‘earth.’ (Sat, Apr 3, 8:30pm). Trilogy presents ‘fleeting absolutes’

Few filmmakers have explored the aesthetic and political impact of our national landscape as vividly as experimental filmmaker James Ben- ning. A Milwaukee native and UW-Madison alumnus, Benning will introduce his recent “Califor- nia Trilogy,”which has been featured at several international film festivals including Sundance, London, Berlin and Vienna. El Valley Centro (1999), Los (2000) and Sogobi (2001) present inter- Los, the urban leg of Benning’s related portraits of California’s agricultural, trilogy (Fri, Apr 2, 7:15pm). urban, and wilderness landscapes, each film con- sisting of 35 stationary 2½-minute shots. “Ben- ning’s poetic explorations of the American space James Benning bring us to a moment of pure contemplation, in which a fleeting absolute may be glimpsed behind the cool seduction of appearances.” PROGRAMS –Berenice Reynaud, Film Comment El Valley Centro “James Benning is one of my filmmaking Los heroes, an independent artist in the purest Sogobi sense of the word.” Four Corners — Richard Linklater, filmmaker Downtown Madison Dining

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WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ★ MADISON ★ APRIL 1-4, 2004 ★ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ★ 877.963.FILM 27 In the post-Dogme era, Danish film is alive and kicking By David Bordwell ing loudly about the Danish Film School, gov- Jacques Ledoux Professor of Film Studies, ernment film funding, and the cultural UW-Madison bureaucracy that supports a modest local cin- Across film history,Danish film has exercised ema, von Trier (who added the “von” to his an influence out of proportion to the nation’s name in homage to Stroheim and Sternberg) size. Just before World War I the Nordisk Film burst onto the festival circuit with provoca- company rivaled the French giant Pathé in film tive, highly stylized movies like Element of export. Soon thereafter a lone filmmaker,Carl Crime (1984) and Zentropa (1991). Theodor Dreyer, became a brooding presence Von Trier turned from the elegant finish on the international film scene with a series of of these films to a rougher style in his mes- masterpieces, beginning with La Passion de merizing TV series The Kingdom (1994/97) and Jeanne d’Arc (1928) and concluding with his his controversial feature Breaking the Waves magisterial Gertrud (1964). In the years that fol- (1996). At the same time, he gathered around lowed, Danish films won more than their share him a cohort of young filmmakers who of festival prizes and Oscars, with Babette’s declared a new assault on film convention: Feast (1987) and Pelle the Conqueror (1988) Dogme 95 (www.dogme95.dk). achieving considerable success in the US. The Dogme manifesto, written by von Tri- Lone Scherfig’s Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (Fri, Apr 2, 7pm). Today Danish cinema is cool again, and er and three pals after a night of partying, the chief cause is a prickly, monomaniacal demanded that filmmakers overturn Holly- filmmaker named Lars von Trier. Complain- wood spectacle and timid European slickness. The Dogme manifesto Dogme films would be shot with a loose lack of pretension, putting the stress on performers inspired directors worldwide Danish Cinema and momentary inspiration. The manifesto and the films it spawned galvanized filmmak- to rediscover spontaneity, Beyond Dogme ers worldwide. Shooting on 16mm or digital speed, and the charms video, directors rediscovered speed, spontane- Sponsors: European Studies Alliance, ity,and the charms of an unfinished look. of an unfinished look. Danish Film Institute The first Dogme entries ranged from the viewer-friendly “dramedy” of Mifune (Søren PROGRAMS Kragh-Jakobsen, 1999) to a disturbing assault new benchmark for the global prestige movie. The Five Obstructions on good taste in The Idiots (von Trier, 1998) Yet there were problems with the Dogme The Green Butchers and the Ibsenesque family melodrama of The dogma. The handheld camera and mismatched Reconstruction Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg, 1998). Dogme cuts quickly came to seem mannerisms, and Anders Thomas Jensen (The Green directors became festival darlings, setting a the militant casualness of the style worked Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself Butchers), who will appear at the against giving a film a consistent visual Festival, is central to Danish cinema. design. The style proved less subversive than initially thought, being easily applied to con- ventional genres like melodrama and roman- izens start disappearing…. One of the film’s tic comedy.Soon performances came to seem many pleasures is the eccentric performanc- as studied as in any Bille August movie. es offered by Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Mads Not surprisingly,there emerged fresh fer- Mikkelsen, two actors who have become stars ment — not exactly a reaction against Dogme in the post-Dogme era. but a willingness to push beyond it. The four Reconstruction is our anti-Dogme film. films we’ve programmed present a cross-sec- Designed down to the last detail, this puzzle- tion of the boldness and vivacity of contempo- film redoes Resnais and Kieslowski for the rary Danish cinema. Internet generation. Christoffer Boe splinters Lone Scherfig is of the same generation as a man’s encounter with a mysterious Swedish von Trier and Susanne Bier,but started work woman into a dizzying mosaic of what-ifs and in television and in features focusing on chil- might-have-beens and parallel universes. This dren. In her case, Dogme definitely conjured year’s Danish entry in the Oscar sweepstakes, up a new climate of creativity.Her beguiling Reconstruction has won several European fes- romantic comedy Italian for Beginners (2000) tival prizes. became the most commercially successful of And how could we overlook Dogme’s pre- all Dogme films. miere bad boy? With last year’s Dogville (soon Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself, Scherfig’s first to be released stateside) Lars von Trier proved English-language feature, is no less warmly that he can still arouse fierce debate. Altogeth- sympathetic but moves to a more meditative er stranger — in fact, one of the most delight- rhythm. Concentrating on an improbable love fully peculiar films in our festival — is The triangle — a working-class single mother, a Five Obstructions. shy book dealer, and his romantically suici- Start with Jørgen Leth, a veteran experi- dal brother — the film asks the viewer not to mentalist revered for his quirky short, The judge anyone, and we gradually come to sym- Perfect Human (1967). Enter von Trier, who pathize with even the self-hating aggressive- claims deep admiration for the short but ness of the title character. demands that Leth remake the film, and under Anders Thomas Jensen is central to the heavy constraints. He must, for example, New Danish Cinema, having scripted some of reshoot a scene in the poorest place on earth. its finest work and directed Flickering Lights When Leth improbably succeeds, von Tri- (2001), about robbers on the run who hide out er orders another remake, with still more out- by opening a (rather bad) restaurant. Taking rageous limitations. As this folie à deux pro- up the food motif, The Green Butchers offers ceeds, a weird codependency develops between black comedy reminiscent of Sweeney Todd the old master and the young provocateur.At and The Little Shop of Horrors. A struggling once documentary, fiction, and avant-garde pair of butchers accidentally discovers that essay, The Five Obstructions emerges as yet their customers have a taste for a meat of sur- another proof that in the post-Dogme era, Dan- passing rarity.As their business prospers, cit- ish film is alive and kicking — hard. ★ 28 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ★ MADISON ★ APRIL 1-4, 2004 ★ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ★ 877.963.FILM After Dark Contemporary Late night movies on the edge World Cinema and over the top. New narrative features from PROGRAMS outside the United States. 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WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ★ MADISON ★ APRIL 1-4, 2004 ★ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ★ 877.963.FILM 29 Wisconsin’s Musically Inclined Own Filmmakers Kicking off with Festival Express on opening night, this series trips from Janis Joplin and The Band to traditional Klezmer music, punk, new wave, Sponsors: Wisconsin Film Office, Eastman Kodak Company, WUD Film Committee hip-hop, one-man bands, and rap as lyrical social protest by indigenous peoples around the world. PROGRAMS 5 for 1: Episodes 1 & 2 PROGRAMS The Adventures of Mad Matt Afro-Punk: The “Rock ‘n Roll Nigger” Experience Animation by Katie Wang Festival Express Breakfast on the Run Hip Hop Homos Chaza Show Choir Klezmer on Fish Street Clique Clash: Standing Alone Let Me Be Your Band Dancing Vulture Animated Short The Lonesome Organist Live Performance Dateline: Zack Mar- Pohl Ngatahi: Know the Links A Day in the Life of Leeana The Adventures of Mad Matt Nightclubbing: New York Punk and New Wave, 1975 -1980, Part I & Part II (Fri, Apr 2, 7pm; and Sat, Apr 3, 11am). Death When the World Runs Fast A Definition of Hip-Hop El Dorko ‘Wisconsin’s Own’ features The Drunk Squirrel nationally acclaimed, Documentary Duct Tape emerging and student In the last 20 years, American audiences have flocked to non-fiction films Fakers and the trend shows no signs of slowing down. Documentaries address Fulton Fish Market filmmakers, with many relevant issues, bring the past into focus, and present personal dramas Gas ‘N Fuel Employee Training Video #4A: Makin’ It Happen! films in competition. that are every bit as complex and engrossing as those in fictional films. The Glass Bottle Discover the best films This year, the Festival presents a special focus on documentaries and Greeting Card Writer non-fiction filmmakers from the United States and around the world. Have a Nice Day Wisconsin has to offer. Klezmer on Fish Street co-sponsored by Hillel Hip Hop Homos at the UW-Madison, the Mosse/Weinstein Center Filmmaker Pearl Gluck’s I’m Bobby for Jewish Studies, and the University Book Store. Divan (Sun, Apr 4, 3pm). Interference Tony Hawk Selected programs presented in partnership with Wisconsin Public Television. Ken: Story of a Western Drifter Volcom Amateurs Memories When Dreaming PROGRAMS Men’s Hockey When the World Runs Fast The Adventures of Mad Matt The Muffin Why Not a Sparrow Afro-Punk: The “Rock ‘n Roll Nigger” My Life By Water Winter’s Muse Experience Not Color Blind, Just Near-Sighted Wisconsin’s Own Shorts I: The Agronomist Old Night Documentary, Experimental, Narrative Alma A Panther in Africa Perils in Nude Modeling Wisconsin’s Own (and Other) Shorts II: Charlie: Comedy The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin Patriots Day The Price of Freedom Wisconsin’s Own Shorts III: Coffehouse Discussion The Price of Freedom Six Feet Documentary with Documentary Producers Refugee The Story of Matt Lisa Heller and Mark Samels Wisconsin’s Own Shorts IV: S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine Student Film Program I: Experimental Documentaries The Corporation Narrative Saigon, USA Words of Youthful Hope Divan Student Film Program II: Slasher The Yes Men Festival Express Experimental/Documentary Stone Reader Young Visions and Voices The Fight Threads of Belonging Stories Untold: Forget Baghdad Memories of Korean War Survivors Freestyle The Watershed Getting it Made, Getting it Seen: Welcome to Anatevka Insider Documentary Production, Funding and Programming Wet Sand: Voices from LA For filmmakers. Filmgoers. Anyone who is interested in what goes on behind Human Shield Who I Became the scenes, behind the camera, and in the minds of writers and filmmakers. I Promise Africa Whole Jockey The World Is Watching PROGRAMS The World Stopped Watching As Time Goes By: Reflections of a Hollywood Insider Ken: Story of a Western Drifter The Yes Men Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin Klezmer on Fish Street Coffehouse Discussion with Documentary Producers Lisa Heller and Mark Samels The Legend of Leigh Bowery Getting it Made, Getting it Seen: Documentary Production, Funding and Programming Let Me Be Your Band Restorations & Revivals IFC Ultimate Film Fanatic Trivia Challenge Model Prisoner Archival prints, restorations The Indie Film and Talent Manager My Life By Water and special re-releases. Indies, Festivals and the Presentation of Cinema in the USA Ngatahi: Know the Links To the Best of Our Knowledge-Live Ocularist PROGRAMS Destino Writers Seminar One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich The Other Final Eyes Without a Face 30 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ★ MADISON ★ APRIL 1-4, 2004 ★ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ★ 877.963.FILM FESTIVAL VENUES LODGING Downtown Madison DOWNTOWN Enjoy Spring Getaway promotional rates and amenities for Orpheum Theatre Wisconsin Film Festival lodging. For information, please con- 216 State Street tact The Madison Concourse Hotel, a Festival sponsor, or During the Festival, Stage Door Theatre the following fine establishments, and ask for the Wiscon- entrance will be off Johnson Street, sin Film Festival or Spring Getaway package. Brought to you one-half block north of State Street. by the Greater Madison Convention and Visitors Bureau and Check Grand Lobby Café hours (255 -2594). the Wisconsin Film Festival.

Club Majestic The Madison Concourse Hotel 115 King Street; Club and Governor’s Club will be non-smoking during screenings. 1 West Dayton Street Bartell Theatre 800.356.8293 or 608.257.6000 113 East Mifflin Street www.concoursehotel.com Madison’s premier hotel, located in the heart of Madison Steep & Brew just steps from State Street, the Orpheum and Bartell, Club (coffeehouse discussions) Majestic and the University of Wisconsin campus. Rates 544 State Street based on availability.

UW-Madison Campus area Best Western Inn on the Park Hillel at UW-Madison 22 S. Carroll Street 611 Langdon Street 800.279.8811 or 608.257.8811 www.innonthepark.net Memorial Union On the Capitol Square, walking distance to Orpheum and 800 Langdon Street Bartell Theatres and Club Majestic, shuttle service, compli- Fredric March Play Circle: films; mentary parking, on-site restaurant, lounges on site. Tripp Commons: talks & panels Lakeshore Cafeteria: Trivia game The Campus Inn 601 Langdon Street UW Cinematheque 800.589.6285 or Rm. 4070, Vilas Hall 608.257.4391; 821 University Avenue www.thecampusinn.com University Square Theatres Stay in affordable luxury in Madison’s “newest” European- 62 University Square (at Johnson & Lake) style inn. Centrally located to both the campus and downtown film venues. Limited availability. Café open during Festival. Please do not bring outside food Canterbury Inn 315 West Gorham on State or drink into Festival venues. 800.838.3855 or 608.258.8899 www.madisoncanterbury.com Artist-decorated rooms, Jacuzzi suites, complimentary con- ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION tinental breakfast plus wine and cheese in the evening. Two blocks from the Orpheum. Box Office: The second-floor Annex Room (festival ticket sales) is CITY BUS SERVICE accessible via elevator. Enter from Terrace or Commons (east) entrance, For more information, call Metro Transit at (608) 266-4466; go to center of the building to elevator near the video game room on TTY (608) 267-1143, or visit their website Mansion Hill Inn the first floor. Contact the manager (608-262-1771) if accessibility issues www.ci.madison.wi.us/metro 424 North Pinckney Street prevent you from buying tickets in person. 800.798.9070 or 608.255.3999 Orpheum: Both the Main Theatre floor and Stage Door Theatre are PARKING www.mansionhillinn.com accessible via street level lobby entrances. The Stage Door can accom- An opulent, small hotel in the European tradition with lov- modate 2 - 3 persons using wheelchairs; at least ten designated pre- UW-Madison Campus ingly restored rooms, in the heart of Madison’s downtown. ferred seating spaces will be reserved on the floor of the Main Theatre. ALL METERS ARE $1/HR; ALL LOTS WITH ATTENDANTS ARE $3.50 PER VISIT. Complimentary wine reception, breakfast, valet parking. Please note: Wheelchair-accessible restroom is in the Main Theatre lob- PLEASE ALLOW PLENTY OF TIME TO FIND PARKING ON CAMPUS! Rate varies by room. by; for the Festival, the Main and Stage Door lobbies will be closed off from Fluno Center (Lot 83) each other. Stage Door patrons needing ground level restroom should alert EAST 601 University Avenue, enter off Frances Street. (ATTENDANT) volunteer / theatre staff for assistance. Assisted-listening headsets Comfort Inn: 800.4.CHOICE or 608.244.6265 available upon request from theater staff. Grainger Hall (Lot 7) 975 University Avenue, enter lot off www.comfortinn.com/hotel/wi415 of Brooks Street between University and West Johnson. Club Majestic: Ground level entrance. Two spaces for wheelchair users Courtyard by Marriott - Madison (METERED AND/OR ATTENDANT) 800.321.2211 or 608.661.8100 are available; more upon request (Festival seating will be movable.) www.courtyard.com/MSNCY Helen C. White Hall (Lot 6) 600 North Park Street (METERED) UW Cinematheque: Patrons using wheelchairs should enter Vilas Hall Crowne Plaza via the ramp off University Ave. near the corner of Park Street. Take Memorial Union (Lot 1) 800 Langdon Street (METERED) 800.404.7630 or 608.244.4703 elevator to the 4th floor. Exit to open terrace; theater (Rm. 4070) is in Southeast Ramp (Lot 46) Johnson and Lake Streets (METERED) www.crowneplaza.com/madison-etown center of terrace. Please alert volunteer staff at door to assist with enter- University Square Parking (Lot 47) 800 block of Hampton Inn of Madison - East Towne Mall Area ing via south theater entrance. The Cinematheque has two spaces for East Johnson between Park and Lake streets (METERED) 608.244.9400 or 800.HAMPTON those using wheelchairs. www.hampton-inn.com/hi/madison-east City Ramps Memorial Union: The second-floor Play Circle is accessible via eleva- Holiday Inn Madison East tor. Enter from Terrace or Commons (east) entrance, go to center of the $2 MAX AFTER 6 P.M. WEEKDAYS AND WEEKENDS, EXCEPT FOR DESIGNATED 866.791.3349 or 608.244.2481 www.holiday-inn.com/madison-east building to elevator near the video game room on the first floor. The SPECIAL EVENTS WHEN A $3 PAY-ON-ENTRY FEE IS CHARGED. Staybridge Suites - Madison East Play Circle has one seating space for those using wheelchairs. For Tripp Lower Campus (NEAR CINEMATHEQUE, MEMORIAL UNION) Commons, use the elevator by the Essentials Shop. 608.241.2300 Lake Street Ramp 415 N. Lake Street www.staybridge.com Building and theater entrance are University Square Theatres: Frances Street Ramp 430 N. Frances Street WEST ground level, with ramp into theater. Eight wheelchair spaces available; assisted listening headsets available upon request. Fairfield Inn by Marriott - Madison West State Street Area (NEAR ORPHEUM) 608.831.1400 Hillel: Ramp available to main entrance off of Langdon Street. Civic Center Ramp 318 West Mifflin Street www.marriott.com/MSNMW Steep & Brew: Coffee house entrance is on street level; back room for State Street Capitol Ramp 214 North Carroll Street Hampton Inn - Madison West Towne Mall Area discussions accessible only via stairs. 608.833.3511 King Street Area (NEAR CLUB MAJESTIC) www.hamptoninn.com/hi/madison-west Please call (877) 963-FILM or email [email protected] in Government East Ramp 215 South Pinckney Radisson Hotel - Madison advance if you have questions or need more information about 866.494.6448 or 608.833.0100 accessibility. Capitol Square North (NEAR BARTELL THEATRE) www.radisson.com/madisonwi Capitol Square North ramp 218 East Mifflin Street

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32 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ★ MADISON ★ APRIL 1-4, 2004 ★ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ★ 877.963.FILM ORDERING TICKETS OR PACKAGES Tickets are required for admission to each program at all festival venues except for free films and talks, as noted. Advance Ticket Box Office Wisconsin Union Theater Box Office / Annex Room, 2nd Floor, Memorial Union, 800 Langdon Street, Madison; Phone (608) 265-2933 or (608) 262-5981. Fax: (608) 262-5869 Box Office Hours Thursday, March 4 through Wednesday, March 31 Monday to Friday 11:30 am to 8 pm (SPRING BREAK HOURS MARCH 15-19: 3:00 TO 8:00 PM) Saturdays March 6 and 27: noon to 8 pm (SPRING BREAK HOURS MARCH 13 AND 20: NOON TO 5 PM) Sundays CLOSED How To Place Your Order New for 2004: Order your tickets online at www.wifilmfest.org 1. Pick your films and talks, using this program/form or the Wish List, Itinerary Planner on our website. 2. Fill out the order form completely, including 2nd choices. Incomplete forms will not be processed. 3. Submit your order with payment. Bring, mail or fax the completed order form to the Wisconsin Union Theater Box Office, or purchase tickets and packages by phone, or online. There’s a $5 service charge for processing all orders submitted online or by fax, phone or mail. 4. Advance tickets can be purchased with cash, check or credit card (Visa or MasterCard). Cash only is accepted for ticket purchases at the door, April 1-4. 5. We recommend that you place your order by March 25. After that, the Box Office is very busy and programs may sell out. 6. Orders placed online, by fax, phone or mail by March 25 will be mailed to you. Orders received March 26-31 will be held for Will Call pickup. 7. Will Call: Wisconsin Union Theater Box Office / Annex Room, 800 Langdon. Hours for April 1-4: Thursday & Friday, 11:30 am – 9 pm. Saturday 10 am – 6 pm; Sunday noon – 6 pm. Ticket Packages 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 (up to four per screening or event) at time of purchase. If you’re having trouble select- ing 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 Wis- consin Union Theater Box Office through March 31 or at the door April 1-4. 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 purchased at the Box Office. Parties and Special Events Festival party and special event tickets are not included in package orders. They can be purchased separately with package or single ticket orders. TICKET NUMBER GENERAL STUDENT THE FINE PRINT Single Tickets TYPE OF TICKETS PRICE PRICE ON SALE YES, EVEN YOU NEED TO READ THIS! Single ticket buyers can buy up to four tickets for any individual film screening or other ticketed program. 16-PACK 16 $50 $25 March 4-31 All advance ticket sales are final. No refunds for tickets or packages. No replacements for lost tickets. Talks 12-PACK 12 $43 $22 March 4-31 Individual film tickets can be exchanged in person only through Some talks are free and some require a paid ticket. For free March 31 at the Wisconsin Union Theater Box Office, 800 Langdon 8-PACK 8 $35 $17 March 4-31 Street, Madison, (608) 265-2933. Absolutely no exchanges for hard talks seating is limited and on a first-come basis. Please list tickets after March 31. Package holder vouchers can be exchanged only paid ticketed talks that you would like to attend on your 4-PACK 4 $25 $12 March 4-31 for tickets if available at the box office through March 31 or at the order. Paid ticketed talks can be included in package orders; a door April 1-4. Original ticket package and receipt must be presented second choice is still required. Festival WITH PACKAGES for exchange of tickets or vouchers. A limited number of single tickets to each screening will be sold at Student Price Parties 1 $10 $7 March 4-31 the door April 1-4. For some sold-out screenings, “rush” tickets will The discounted price is available to any student (grade school, be released just before curtain time, available on a first-come basis. Single Ticket (FILM/TALK) $7 $4 March 18-31* The lineup to buy tickets at the door begins a half hour before high school, college, graduate school) with current ID. Bring program start time. your (own) ID to the box office or enclose a photocopy of it Let Me Be Your Band $10 $8 March 4-31 Ticketholders please note: Theaters will be cleared between shows. with your ticket order to receive the student discount. For All patrons must exit theaters between shows to allow for setup for online or phone orders, tickets will be held at Will Call, and you Lonesome Organist (NOT INCLUDED IN PACKAGES) next program. No exceptions. must present student ID at time of pickup. Student status is No filming or taping allowed during screenings. Tapes or film are subject to verification. FREE Youth Tickets FOR K-12 Single Tickets subject to confiscation. Festival patron bags and belongings are Young Visions & Voices March 15-31 subject to search. Please do not bring outside food or beverages Stand By into Festival venues. When advance tickets to a film sell out, the film will go on “stand * A limited number of single tickets to screenings will also be sold Most festival films are not rated. MPAA ratings provided where by,” with a limited number of tickets available at the door. at the door at festival venues April 1-4. available. Viewer and parental discretion is advised. 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WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ★ MADISON ★ APRIL 1-4, 2004 ★ WWW.WIFILMFEST.ORG ★ 877.963.FILM 35 BLOCKBUSTER BARGAINS Gifts, accessories and jewelry Await You on Madison’s Own for life’s essential occasions. Star-Studded Walk of Fame!

Buy One Scoop + Film Fest Stub = Second Scoop Before or after the show, enjoy dinner on Us!! at Uno’s—the best food around! EAST CENTRAL WEST Valid at: Hilldale State Camelot 3010 Crossroads Dr. State & Gorham 7601 Mineral Point Rd. 702 N. 468 1726 244-3266 255-7722 833-7200 Midvale State Fordem Offer only good for one extra scoop on the same cone or dish and not valid with any other offers. Expires 4/6/04.

Madison’s Premier Sony High Definition Showroom FEMINIST BOOKSTORE & COFFEE HOUSE 23” to 70” 307 West Johnson Street, HD Televisions Also available: Madison, Wisconsin 53703 Advanced Cinematherapy Mon.-Fri. 8-8, Sat. 9-7, on display and and available for Cinematherapy for Lovers Sunday 11-6 608/257-7888 immediate www.roomofonesown.com installation.

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