How Do You Choose Your Films?

ith 209 films laid out on the following pages, it can be a W daunting task to whittle down your list to a manageable weekend full of movies. When we’re selecting the films for this year’s Festival, the goal is to pull togeth- er a very wide mix of motion pictures, to give you access to dozens of films that you’d never otherwise have the chance to see. It’s the perfect opportunity to explore and be adventurous. Rather than focus solely on the kinds of films that already fit your tastes, consider the titles that you quickly skip over when reading the descriptions. The Festival might be exactly the right time to see — if these aren’t the kind The Wisconsin premier of Bill Cunningham New York screens you’d normally choose — a war documentary Thursday, March 31 at the Wisconsin Union Theater, and Friday, April 1 at the Bartell. like Armadillo, an art-house specialty like Le Quattro Volte, or an action picture like Hong THE ALPHABETICAL FILM LIST BEGINS ON PAGE 6 Kong’s The Stool Pigeon. TICKET INFORMATION IS ON PAGE 38 DAILY SCHEDULES IN GRID FORMAT ARE ON PAGES 20 & 21 This year is also perfect for getting a ticket to a program of experimental films. The director of the Ann Arbor Film Festival, David Dinnell, FILM SERIES FOR 2011 and two UW–Madison graduate students, PRESENTED WITH PRESENTED WITH Restorations and Revivals Ellen John Powers and Aaron Granat, have guest- THE UW DEPARTMENT THE UW CENTER FOR OF REHABILITATION EAST ASIAN STUDIES; 11 thru 12 Everyday Sunshine: The Story curated several clusters of the most accom- WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON MARCH 30-APRIL 3, 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM PSYCHOLOGY AND AND THE CENTER FOR FILM Le Amiche of Fishbone SPECIAL EDUCATION AND VISUAL CULTURE Blood Hook Figure In Isolation plished recent experimental and avant-garde Anita STUDIES, NATIONAL CENTRAL Campus Smiles Francesca films from around the world. They’ll be intro- UNIVERSITY OF TAIWAN Eskimo Kiss Cluny Brown From the Archive of Vagaries God Man Dog ducing these programs and providing insight Loving Lampposts The Evil Dead The Great Work of Dr. D. Volos Parking Marwencol Galaxies Tinkerpaw into how this branch of filmmaking continues Monica & David PRESENTED WITH A Letter from Colombia Haulin’ Ass to create fascinating works. The Red Chapel THE UW OFFICE OF Madison News Reel I’ll Be Here MULTICULTURAL ARTS March on Washington In the Courtyard of the Beloved Here in Wisconsin, many of us make a spe- PRESENTED WITH INITIATIVES Night Train to Terror instrumental video nine THE UW NELSON Louder Than a Bomb cial effort to support local farmers — let’s INSTITUTE FOR NYC Street Scenes and Noises Kathryn support local filmmakers, too. Get a ticket to ENVIRONMENTAL PRESENTED WITH On the Bowery Legend Lake: A Talking Circle STUDIES THE ANN ARBOR FILM Scratch and Crow Lottery Ticket at least one feature or shorts program of Fire, Burn, Babylon FESTIVAL A Study in Reds Love Me Tender films made here in Wisconsin. See the list on How I Ended This Summer Artifact #1 Sunday Mary and Bill My Dog Tulip Atlantiques A Trip Down Market Street Before The Mushroom Sessions the left or, if you browse the online Film Nénette Broad Channel the Fire Oil Wrestling Guide (http://wifilmfest.org/films/), you can Summer Pasture Devil’s Gate Open Season sort the list for “Wisconsin’s Own” titles. Sun Come Up Distance Wisconsin’s Own The Optimo Hat Company Get Out of the Car MADE BY FILMMAKERS LIVING Pesticide However you put your own Wisconsin Film PRESENTED WITH In Comparison IN OR NATIVE TO WISCONSIN, OR Power Trio THE UW CENTER FOR STUDENTS/ALUMNI OF WISCONSIN Festival together, whether it’s two films over RUSSIA, EASTERN EUROPE, In the Absence of Light, UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES Rigor Mortis AND CENTRAL ASIA; Darkness Prevails Anima Mundi SHC the weekend or twenty, the Festival will be a AND THE UW RUSSIAN Kalendar Slaves of the Saints FLAGSHIP CENTER Annihilation success if you try at least one new kind of Kempinski Spare Change Forever’s Gonna Start Ash movie. It’s not about having all your 2011 night side A Study in Reds Tonight At the Table: Mothers Sharing Ray’s Birds Style & Grace picks become your most favorite films of all How I Ended My Summer Stories Through Art Victoria, George, Edward, Subdued Glow My Joy The Bells of Bascom Hill time, it’s about sampling the many different and Thatcher They Say Even Water Has a My Perestroika Blink! Again kinds of motion pictures that talented crews Vineland Block Memory… around the world have made. Welcome to SUPPORT FOR EUROPEAN The Bully Time Will Tell FILM PROGRAMMING FROM Dark Ways Under the Sun your Wisconsin Film Festival. THE UW CENTER FOR The Death of Triforce Westbound: The Journey of a EUROPEAN STUDIES Deux Petits Bateaux Lifetime — MEG HAMEL, DIRECTOR 3 13 Assassins Acquainted with the Night Amy George

editing, the bloodletting takes on a works. High-definition photography is the most spectacular fur coats in cine- biographer: Spalding Gray. Director ( ) mythic grandeur, as if all previous samu- splendidly used here, with advances matic history. Restored by Cineteca di Steven Soderbergh, who collaborated SEE: Remember the Time rai movies have culminated into this one in video technology allowing for breath- Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata with with Gray on Gray’s Anatomy (1996), has majestic blowout. Although famous for taking color in, naturally, low-light con- funding provided by Gucci and The Film sifted through rare and revealing footage 11 thru 12 audacious subversions like Audition and ditions. Foundation. to construct a riveting final monologue. SEE: Orphan Films: Time Travel & Ichi the Killer, cult director Takashi There are glimpses of Gray’s father, and Dreams of a Better Life Miike treats the samurai genre with Ah, Liberty! Amy George of his son Forrest (who provides soar- great reverence. Unabashedly classical, SEE: Remember the Time SUN, APR 3 • 11:00 AM ing music for the end credits), but mostly 13 Assassins 13 Assassins eschews the high-flying Chazen Museum of Art this is an inspired one-man show, a bit- (Jûsan-nin No Shikaku) wirework and winking asides that Le Amiche (The Girlfriends) WORLD PREMIERE · narrative · Canada, 2010, tersweet display of Spalding’s playful WED, MAR 30 • 6:00 PM plague most contemporary martial arts color, video · 98 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A and embattled intelligence, his gift for FRI, APR 1 • 1:45 PM DIRECTOR: YONAH LEWIS, CALVIN Orpheum Main extravaganzas. Instead, Miike unleashes tracking universal truths by looking him- an old-school slice-and-dice spectac- SUN, APR 3 • 1:45 PM THOMAS self squarely in the eye. WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · Japan, Writer, cinematographer, editor, producer: Calvin 2010, color, 35mm · 126 MIN ular, and finds immense satisfaction in UW Cinematheque “Gray proved a fearless and relent- WISCONSIN PREMIERE · Thomas, Yonah Lewis; production manager: DIRECTOR: TAKASHI MIIKE narrative · Italy, 1955, tried-and-true swordsmanship. 2010 b/w, 35mm · 104 MIN Anna Cook; original music: Lev Lewis; cast: less invader of his own privacy; he held Writer: Kaneo Ikegami, Daisuke Tengan; direc- Gabriel del Castillo Mullally, Claudia Dey, Don Venice, Toronto, Pusan, and Sitges film DIRECTOR: MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI nothing back, especially the parts that tor of photography: Nobuyasu Kita; editor: Kenji Kerr, Natasha Allan, Emily Henry, Candice Yamashita; original music: Kôji Endô; produc- festivals. Writer: Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Michelangelo Barkin, Yaari Magenheim, Brian Scott, Andrea might prove embarrassing to himself tion designer: Yuji Hayashida; executive pro- Antonioni, Alba de Cespedes; cinematographer: Verginella Ester Reyes and his loved ones. For Gray, knowing ducer: Takashi Hirajô, Toshiaki Nakazawa, Gianni di Venanzo; editor: Eraldo Da Roma; orig- FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND. himself on such a profound and inti- Acquainted with the inal music: Giovanni Fusco; production designer: Jeremy Thomas; producer: Minami Ichikawa, Jesse (Gabriel del Castillo Mullally) mate level proved both a gift and a curse. Tôichirô Shiraishi, Michihiko Yanagisawa; cast: Night Gianni Polidori; set decorator: Gianni Polidori; costumes: Enzo Bulgarelli; producer: Giovanni is floating in the confusion that comes It afforded him enormous insight into Kôji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yûsuke Iseya, SAT, APR 2 • 1:45 PM Gorô Inagaki, Masachika Ichimura, Mikijiro Addessi; cast: Eleonora Rossi Drago, Gabriele with being a shrimpy 14-year-old boy in his inner workings yet robbed him of Ferzetti, Franco Fabrizi, Valentina Cortese, Hira, Hiroki Matsukata, Ikki Sawamura, Arata Chazen Museum of Art Toronto. The urge to change and trans- the comfort of self-delusion... Soder- Furuta, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Masataka Kubota, Sosuke Yvonne Furneaux, Madeleine Fischer, Anna Takaoka, Seiji Rokkaku, Yûma Ishigaki, Kôen SUN, APR 3 • 1:15 PM Maria Pancani form and mature is there, but none of it bergh’s loving, shattering valentine to Kondô, Ikki Namioka Bartell Theatre IN ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES makes sense to him yet. One idea is to his late friend and collaborator has an IN JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES MIDWEST PREMIERE · documentary · Canada, In 1955, Italy was still a place of strict become a “true artist,” one who suffers inherently tragic arc, but it’s ultimately Finland, France, 2010, color, video · 80 MIN + a celebration of Gray’s irrepressible lust Special Opening Night Presentation POST-FILM Q&A social mores and repressed femininity, for his work and discovers great pas- for the Festival’s 13th year: DIRECTOR: MICHAEL MCNAMARA with the pressures of modern living just sions along the way. Clumsily, he con- for life and bottomless curiosity about It’s 1844 in feudal Japan, and samu- Editor: Roland Schlimme, Roderick Deogrades; starting to crack the surface. Clelia is vinces his parents to buy him a tradi- the strange and beautiful world around rai are on their way out. Their glory days cinematographer: Mark Ellam, James Griffith, newly arrived from Rome to set up a tional film camera so he can take up pho- him. It does justice to a subject who long gone, once-legendary swordsmen David Bradshaw; executive producer: Judy branch of a couture fashion house. She’s tography. His dippy mom is both will- made his life and death works of art.” — Holm; producer: Judy Holm, Michael McNa- flounder in an alcoholic haze, warily mara; coproducer: Jen Recknagel; production independent and talented, still working ing to indulge her son’s creative side, Nathan Rabin, The A.V. Club. holding out hope for one last mission. coordinator: Laura Perlmutter; sound recordist: her way up the ladder and exploring what but also clings to the memory of his boy- [Note: a similarly titled film in the A last chance at glory arrives in the form Michael McNamara; original music: Kurt Swing- it means to be a successful business- ness, not yet ready to acknowledge how Festival is Everything Will Be Fine, a of Lord Naritsugu, an unholy monster hammer woman. At her hotel, though, she is swept close he is to that line between child and Danish psychological thriller.] IN ENGLISH, GREEK, ARABIC, NEPALESE, who casually commits unspeakable hor- FRENCH, SPANISH WITH ENGLISH into the affairs of a group of local women adult. rors just for the sick thrill of it and, as SUBTITLES when she rescues one from a suicide Jesse is orbited by girls and women: Anima Mundi the Shogun’s younger brother, is com- FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND. attempt in the next room. Jilted lovers, school friends, his hip twentysomething SEE: Shorts: Sunday @ Play Circle fortably above the law. Petrified at the Acquainted with the Night assembles unrequited passions, and delicious flir- aunt, and Amy, a teenage girl whose thought of Naritsugu acquiring even documentary postcards from around tations are everywhere, as Clelia becomes blossoming is irresistible to Jesse. Effec- Animal Control more power, an inside official hires the world, building a travelogue of the an observer in their social world. tively cast, especially the roles of Jesse SEE: Shorts: Thursday @ Play Circle retired samurai Shinzaemon (superstar world after dark. Director Michael “It’s not that deep emotions and pro- and his mother, this first feature from actor Kôji Yakusho, Tokyo Sonata, McNamara and his superb eye for sharp found meanings lurk beneath the sur- Canadian directors Yonah Lewis and Anita WFF09; Retribution, WFF07) and detail capture scenes from both the nat- face of ordinary actions and encounters. Calvin Thomas is observant, lush, and SAT, APR 2 • 11:00 AM eleven comrades to take him out. Joined ural world and human nighttime cus- It’s rather that, in Antonioni’s world, beautifully made. Revealing almost as by a raggedy joker with a few tricks up toms, in a film reminiscent of National the superficial and the profound can- much about the quasi-bohemian trendi- SUN, APR 3 • 1:30 PM his sleeve, the warriors plan to ambush Geographic magazine in the most com- not quite be distinguished.... It is, above ness of middle-class Toronto as it does Madison Museum of Contemporary Art the nefarious lord in a small village in plementary sense. all, impossible to stop watching.... His about the mind of the adolescent male, WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · Argentina, 2009, color, 35mm · 104 MIN the Japanese countryside, but are out- From under the Congress Avenue fascination with women is inflected by Amy George is a lovely, slightly disturb- Bridge in Austin, Texas, millions of bats DIRECTOR: MARCOS CARNEVALE numbered more than ten to one. a sympathy that might be called femi- ing story of discovery. Writer: Marcos Carnevale, Marcela Guety, Lily Takashi Miike’s rousing spectacle is swoop out at dusk, thrilling the hun- nist. The main characters pursue their Ann Martin; cinematographer: Guillermo Zap- a remake of a little-known 1963 film by dreds of sightseers on their lawn chairs desires and ambitions under constraints And Everything Is pino; editor: Pablo Barbieri Carrera; original the same title, but is clearly the heir to and blankets. A bike cop in Toronto’s imposed by custom and by the brute music: Lito Vitale; producer: Marcos Carnevale; Going Fine executive producer: Jorge Gundin; cast: Norma the ultimate posse-gatherer, Akira Kuro- Entertainment District deals with the impossibility of men. Which is not to Aleandro, Luis Luque, Leonor Manso, Peto Man- sawa’s Seven Samurai. As his crimes rowdy attitudes of rich young club-hop- say that the women are perfect or that SAT, APR 2 • 5:30 PM ahem, Alejandra Manzo against humanity are detailed in trau- pers. Ornithologists train their binocu- they see themselves as victims. On the SUN, APR 3 • 6:00 PM IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES lars on the fearsome beams of light ema- Monona Terrace PRESENTED WITH THE UW DEPARTMENT matic flashbacks, Naritsugu becomes contrary, what makes Le Amiche so brac- OF REHABILITATION PSYCHOLOGY AND one of the all-time most hissable screen nating from the September 11 memo- ing — so sad and, sometimes, so funny WISCONSIN PREMIERE · documentary · USA, SPECIAL EDUCATION. 2010, color, video · 89 MIN villains, and it is tremendously gratify- rial, looking for migrating bird flocks — is that its heroines are fallible, flawed, Life is pretty good when your mother confused by the dazzle. DIRECTOR: STEVEN SODERBERGH ing to watch the heroic band assemble vain and powerful, each in her own way. Editor: Susan Littenberg; producer: Amy Hobby, brings cocoa and your favorite cookies against him. It builds to a mammoth And in Chios, Greece, two ancient They often make one another miserable, Kathleen Russo, Joshua Blum; music: Forrest first thing in the morning. You spend showdown, a 45-minute showstopper churches across town from each other but their company is always a pleasure.” Gray your day helping mama at the family erupting with sword fighting, arrow get carefully wrapped in chicken wire — A.O. Scott, New York Times. And Everything is Going Fine provides stationery store, doing small tasks. For attacks, explosions, and flaming wild in preparation for the annual Easter cel- As is appropriate for a film with many an intimate portrait of master monolo- Anita, this cozy domesticity ends sud- ebration, in which teams bombard each WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • MARCH 30-APRIL 3, 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG 3, • MADISON MARCH 30-APRIL WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL boar stampede. scenes set inside the newly opened fash- gist Spalding Gray, as described by his denly when a bomb explodes on their 6 A bravura feat of choreography and other with thousands of homemade fire- ion salon, Le Amiche also costars one of most critical, irreverent, and insightful Armadillo

Buenos Aires street, demolishing the her two daughters (Lorraine and Lisa), store and separating Anita from her fam- one fathered by a local Pakistani lad and ily. She is an adult with Down Syndrome, who grew up under a bitter haze of frus- friendly and trusting but unprepared to tration from racism, poverty, and loss. navigate the chaos that follows. The film assembles Dunbar’s short life Her brother Ariel is looking for her through the familiar tools of documen- through the official channels set up by tary filmmaking (archival video, photo- The Arbor the Jewish community, but Anita is now graphs, mementos) and adds an inno- drifting free, without ID or an idea of vative twist: adapting a technique used detailing every aspect of the wars in the how to get help. She wanders on a fairy- on Dunbar’s third play, in which actors Middle East — from the frontlines action tale odyssey through the city, occasion- speak the words of Dunbar’s daughter, of Restrepo to the behind-the-scenes ally taken in by strangers who aren’t audio interviews with Dunbar’s family audit of No End in Sight — it can be all quite sure what to do with her, includ- and friends are replayed with actors lip- too easy for American viewers to forget ing a gruff old drunk and a family of Chi- synching the words. that other countries are participating nese shopkeepers. This is much more effective than it in the combat. Anchored by a terrific performance might sound, as the scenes develop a In Denmark, Metz’s documentary pro- from Alejandra Manzo, Anita seems huge and powerful emotional resonance voked a national debate over the rules of impervious to her sudden rootlessness, by combining the exquisite onscreen engagement. In 2010, Armadillo became except for wanting to get home to her presence of the cast with the raw, reveal- the first documentary ever screened the mother and return to her known rou- ing, and astonishing stories of Lisa, Lor- Cannes Film Festival’s International Crit- tine. It’s a bittersweet story of the good, raine, and others in Dunbar’s orbit. ics’ Week, where it won the grand prize. the bad, and the ugly in society, with a Although this is a deliberately fictional 2010 Toronto, Karlovy Vary, London, poignancy added by Anita’s innocent approach, some of the actors are also Milan film festivals. view of the world. ones who knew Dunbar in real life and performed her works. “The end result Artifact #1 Annihilation sees memory, reality, fact and fiction SEE: The Future Past SEE: Shorts: Saturday @ Cinematheque blend to give you a vivid ‘feel’ for the interviewees’ recollections while being Ash The Arbor acutely aware that this remains a SEE: Shorts: Saturday @ Cinematheque SUN, APR 3 • 3:45 PM remembered reconstruction of the past.... This is a fiercely intellectual piece Wisconsin Union Theatre At the Table: Mothers

WISCONSIN PREMIERE · documentary · United of cinema that still manages to grab your Aurora WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON MARCH Kingdom, 2010, color, video · 90 MIN heart and punch you in the gut.” — Sharing Stories DIRECTOR: CLIO BARNARD Amber Wilkinson, eyeforfilm.co.uk. Through Art Cinematographer: Ole Bratt Birkeland; editor: Nick Fenton; producer: Tracy O’Riordan; post- SEE: Shorts: Thursday @ Bartell production supervisor: Ameenah Ayub; produc- Armadillo tion manager: Scott Basset; sound designer: Tim WED, MAR 30 • 6:00 PM Baker; sound recordist: Tim Baker; original Atlantiques music: Harry Escott, Molly Escott; music super- FRI, APR 1 • 9:45 PM SEE: The Secret Sharer visor: Lucy Bright; production designer: Matthew Play Circle Theatre Button; costume design: Matthew Price; cast: WISCONSIN PREMIERE · documentary · Den- Christine Bottomley, Neil Dudgeon, Robert mark, 2010, color, video · 100 MIN Aurora Emms, Natalie Gavin, Manjinder Virk DIRECTOR: JANUS METZ PEDERSEN FRI, APR 1 • 8:00 PM A daring storytelling approach makes Writer: Kasper Torsting; editor: Per K. Kirke- SUN, APR 3 • 3:45 PM The Arbor a spellbinding documentary gaard; sound: Rasmus Winther; producer: Ron- nie Fridthjof, Sara Stockmann Madison Museum of Contemporary Art about a person, a place, a time, and a cul- IN DANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · Romania, ture. The person is Andrea Dunbar, a France, Switzerland, Germany, 2010, color, 35mm Armadillo rigorously tracks a Danish young woman from a public housing · 181 MIN company’s hectic six-month tour of duty project outside Bradford, England, who DIRECTOR: CRISTI PUIU in Afghanistan, from departure through Writer: Cristi Puiu; director of photography: gained some fame in 1976 when she was 30-APRIL 3, 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM training, battle, and return. Captured by Viorel Sergovici; editor: Ioachim Stroe; sound: just 15 years old, writing a play called André Rigaut; production Manager: Gilda Conon; cameramen filming right alongside the The Arbor which was performed in Lon- producer: Anca Puiu, Bobby Paunescu; cast: soldiers, the harrowing up-close com- don and New York. Cristi Puiu, Clara Voda, Valeria Seciu, Luminita bat sequences thunder with the inten- Gheorghiu, Catrinel Dumitrescu, Gelu Colceag, The place is the Buttershaw housing sity of the best war movies, but without Valentin Popescu estate, specifically the street called Braf- IN ROMANIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES the mental safety net that what you’re ferton Arbor (not a tree in sight), a poor watching is all make-believe. A black comedy worth of Samuel working-class area overrun with crime, Astonishingly, the Danes exhibit far Beckett, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu unemployment, and alcoholism, and more gung-ho braggadocio than media- (WFF06) occupied the pole position in few ways for anyone to get out. Dun- savvy American soldiers (who would the Romanian New Wave, hitting the bar’s next play was Rita Sue and Bob Too, likely not allow themselves to be pho- art-house circuit with the force of adapted into a successful 1987 film by tographed with such frankness). Their Godard’s Breathless. Five years later, Alan Clarke. Dunbar wrote about her recklessness allows director Janus Metz director Cristi Puiu has returned with neighborhood, reflecting the social and to explore the battle lines between brav- Aurora, a complex character study with economic realities of Thatcher’s Britain ery and adrenaline junkiedom, team- a touch of gallows humor and incisive with street-tough poignancy. work and groupthink. Faced with a social observations. Elliptically observ- Once establishing Dunbar’s back- steady stream of worthy documentaries ing the day-to-day life of a seemingly ground, the story is carried primarily by normal guy who will eventually com- Anita 7 Beneath Hill 60 Boy Bodyguards and Assassins (Shi yue wei cheng)

mit violent acts, Puiu invites the audi- collected in one place. recent trend in New York fashion. Then another 1980s campy teenager slasher themselves, and so have pulled back ence to puzzle over his motives. This true story is recaptured in a they refresh their coffee and go online thriller, if it weren’t for one thing: these their police. When the planned body- The director himself stars as the mid- grand, unapologetically romantic style for the video version of “On The Street,” are our people. Also known as Muskie guard detail is executed by Qing Dynasty dle-aged Viorel, an enigmatic man who in Beneath Hill 60, a rousing war drama just to listen to photographer Bill Cun- Madness, the film was shot around Hay- assassins, it’s up to the Hong Kong rev- lives in a dingy gray Bucharest apart- in which a group of barely trained min- ningham gush with delight and wonder ward, Wisconsin by a young Jim Mal- olutionaries to assemble a replacement ment. His travels around town at first ers must succeed at the impossible. over the terrific (one of his favorite lon, directing his first feature. Flamin- team in two days. seem unremarkable, but gradually build Oliver Woodward is just a regular work- words) style and ingenuity that he sees gos on Bascom Hill? Statue of Liberty Like 13 Assassins, also playing at the up to a character study of paranoia and ing man with strong-jawed integrity, but on the boulevards and parks of the city. on Lake Monona? Yes, that Jim Mallon, Festival, the first half of the film is the intensity. We watch him from a distance, finds himself called by his country to “We all get dressed for Bill,” says who as president of UW-Madison’s stu- Dirty Dozen-style round-up of the local just as he occasionally spies on a family fight in the Great War. Promoted to offi- Anna Wintour about Bill Cunningham, dent association helped create these characters who will become Sun’s pro- with young kids. Everyday details accu- cer, he is assigned to this small platoon the 80-year-old New York Times pho- iconic projects. Mallon moved to Min- tection on his 13-block trip from the boat mulate as he visits with his girlfriend, of tunnellers who are skeptical of the tographer and unlikely man-about-town. neapolis and later produced Mystery dock to the safe house. The main thread mother, and the workers who are fixing new guy. Woodward must gain the Still, no one knows a thing about Bill Science Theater 3000, which brings us follows a bold newspaper editor and a up his apartment, revealing simmering respect of his men, convince the British Cunningham, the man himself. Intensely back to Blood Hook. businessman who backs the paper but anger and disconnection. Infantry that their digging won’t put the private and averse to any kind of atten- Peter has brought his Illinois college prefers to stay out of direct involvement “For all the viewer’s constant immer- troops in greater danger, and navigate tion, it took years to convince Bill to friends up to the northwoods cabin in politics. The businessman’s son wants sion in the specifics of Viorel’s activity, a labyrinth of tunnels under No Man’s be filmed. Bill Cunningham New York where his grandfather once lived, and to join the growing movement against there’s the sense of constantly rubbing Land. The next shovel could break chronicles a man who is obsessively mysteriously died. It’s the annual muskie the ruling dynasty, but is forbidden to up against the unknowable, as both through the wall into a German-occu- interested in only one thing — the pic- fishing championship, and the kids meet so by his father. the character and the meaning of his pied hole, or bring up groundwater that tures he takes that document the way all the local color, including a gun-crazy One by one, others are drawn into the activity and relationships remain as would flood the whole system. people dress. Vietnam vet, a just-plain-crazy friend plot, including a gambler (played by inscrutable as his tightly drawn stoic’s This suspenseful, gritty (literally) Bill has lived in the same small stu- of Grandpa’s, and old Mr. Leudke, the superstar Donnie Yen) who has a past face.” — Variety. story is strengthened by a wonderful dio above Carnegie Hall for fifty years, Norwegian who sells fishing bait. One history with the businessman’s mistress, After Lazarescu, Aurora is the second cast of actors fulfilling all the roles you never eats in restaurants, and dresses in by one the kids are killed by giant foot- a rickshaw driver (Nicholas Tse, also installment of Puiu’s planned series “Six expect out of a war movie: the cocky a bright blue work jacket modeled after long fish hook, and Peter must stop the starring in The Stool Pigeon at the Fes- Stories From the Outskirts of Buchar- joker, the capable and quick one, the a French street-sweeper’s uniform. He murderer! tival), and a friendly giant who sells est.” 2010 Cannes, Karlovy Vary, New sensitive boy barely old enough to enlist, sleeps on a small cot wedged between stinky tofu (basketball star Mengke York, São Paulo film festivals. the arrogant commander. Back home, filing cabinets of photos, and is ushered Blueberry Bateer). Woodward has a lovely girl waiting for with great fanfare and deference past SEE: Slightly Unsettling Shorts The second half of the film is the har- Axiom him to return from the war, and the film the rope lines at Paris shows. The film rowing rickshaw race through the SEE: Shorts: Saturday @ Cinematheque cuts between the dark muddy rat-holes is certainly an homage to high fashion, Bodyguards and streets of colonial Hong Kong, on the of the Front with the sunny Queensland but Bill’s a great advocate for regular biggest walk-through set ever built in country estate where Marjorie awaits. working men and women who find their Assassins China, as hordes of arrow-shooting royal Baby (Shi yue wei cheng) SEE: Shorts: Friday @ Play Circle Adding a dimension to this classic own way of expressing themselves army assassins try to take out China’s story of heroism and romance is the through their clothes. FRI, APR 1 • 5:15 PM future president. Filled with terrific The Bells of Bascom nuts-and-bolts work of the engineers: “Rarely has anyone embodied con- Orpheum Main action sequences, the film combines the Beneath Hill 60 won the Alfred P. Sloan tradictions as happily and harmo- WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · China, Chinese principles of sacrifice for the Hill Feature Film Prize at the 2010 Hamp- niously... the heart and soul of the film Hong Kong, 2009, color, 35mm · 139 MIN motherland and the strength of the fam- SEE: Shorts: Thursday @ Bartell tons Film Festival, given to a film that is its archival and present-day footage DIRECTOR: TEDDY CHEN ily bond (despite the dangers, Sun insists Writer: Chun Tin-nam, Guo Junli, James Yuen, “explores science and technology of Cunningham at work as he pedals his Wu Bing; director of photography: Arthur Wong; on visiting his mother) with the full-on Beneath Hill 60 themes in fresh, innovative ways, and 29th Schwinn (28 having been stolen) action director: Tung Wai; production designer: skilled execution of fight choreography THU, MAR 31 • 5:15 PM depicts scientists and engineers in a real- all over the city, waiting at street cor- Kenneth Mak; costume Designer: Dora Ng; pro- and thrilling adventure. istic and compelling fashion.” ners to snap whatever trend, anomaly ducer: Peter Ho-sun Chan, Huang Jianxin; cast: Orpheum Main Donnie Yen, Leon Lai, Wang Xueqi, Tony Ka-fai MIDWEST PREMIERE · narrative · Australia, or felicitous ensemble strikes his fancy.” Leung, Nicholas Tse, Hu Jun, Li Yuchun, Eric Boy 2010, color, 35mm · 122 MIN Beyond the Images in — Ronnie Schieb, Variety. Tsang, Simon Yam, Fan Bing-bing, Zhou Yun, THU, MAR 31 • 7:45 PM Wang Po-Chieh, Mengke Bateer, Cung Le DIRECTOR: JEREMY HARTLEY SIMS SUN, APR 3 • 5:00 PM Writer: David Roach; director of photography: This Dark Box Blink! Again IN MANDARIN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Toby Oliver; editor: Dany Cooper; composer: SEE: Orphan Films: Time Travel & “I wanted to create a film which went Stage Door Theatre Cezary Skubiszewski; production designer: Clay- Dreams of a Better Life SEE: Shorts: Thursday @ Bartell WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · New ton Jauncey; executive producer: Ross J. Thomas, beyond the conventions of the action Zealand, 2009, color, 35mm · 87 MIN Greg Rains, John Lee; coproducer: Jeremy Sims, hero/martial arts genre.... I was able to DIRECTOR: TAIKA WAITITI David Roach; producer: Bill Leimbach; cast: Andy Bill Cunningham Block find material which would allow me SEE: Shorts: Friday @ Chazen Writer: Taika Waititi; cinematographer: Adam Bramble, Marcus Costello, Brendan Cowell, Alan combine martial arts choreography with Clark; editor: Chris Plummer; production Dukes, Leon Ford, Bob Franklin, Harrison New York a story of substance. Although the film designer: Shayne Radford; costume designer Gilbertson, Tom Green, Gyton Grantley, Anthony THU, MAR 31 • 5:30 PM Blood Hook Amanda Neale; producer: Ainsley Gardiner, Cliff Hayes, Chris Haywood, Bella Heathcote, Ger- Wisconsin Union Theatre is set during a tumultuous period in Curtis, Emanual Michael; cast: James Rolleston, ald Lepkowski, Jacqueline McKenzie, Steve Le THU, MAR 31 • 5:30 PM Hong Kong’s and China’s history and Te Aho Aho Eketone-Whitu, Taika Waititi, Marquand, Anthony Ring, David Ritchie, Mark FRI, APR 1 • 4:00 PM SAT, APR 2 • 8:45 PM makes use of true historical figures as a Moerangi Tihore, Cherilee Martin, RickyLee Coles Smith, Kenneth Spiteri, John Stanton, Bartell Theatre Waipuka-Russell, Haze Reweti, Maakariini But- Martin Thomas, Alex Thompson, Aden Young, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art backdrop, the focus of the story is a ler, Rajvinder Eria, Manihera Rangiuaia Duncan Young, Warwick Young WISCONSIN PREMIERE · documentary · USA, narrative · USA, 1986, color, 35mm · 85 MIN group of anonymous, flawed heroes.” — 2010, color, video · 84 MIN Boy is not your typical 11-year-old In 1916, a secret army company of DIRECTOR: JIM MALLON director Teddy Chen. DIRECTOR: RICHARD PRESS New Zealand farm kid. For starters, he Australian mining engineers was sent Writer: Larry Edgerton, John Galligan; cine- It is 1906, and Chinese revolutionary Cinematographer: Tony Cenicola, Richard Press; matographer: Marsha Kahm; editor: Marsha spends virtually all his time rehearsing to France to work on the Western Front. editor: Ryan Denmark; additional editor: Barry Kahm; music: Kevin Murphy, Thomas A. Nau- hero Sun Yat-sen is arriving in Hong Alexander Brown; producer: Philip Gefter Michael Jackson’s dance routines and More accurately, to work under the nas; producer: David Herbert; cast: Mark Jacobs, Kong after exile in Japan for an imag- concocting elaborate tall tales about his Devoted fans of The New York Times’ Lisa Todd, Patrick Danz, Sara Hauser, Christo- Western Front, as their mission was to ined secret meeting with representa- absent father. But when the legendary tunnel under German lines and trig- Style section do two things on Sundays: pher Whiting, Don Winters, Paul Drake, Bill tives from all the Chinese provinces. Lowrie, Sandy Meuwissen, Dale Dunham deadbeat dad finally turns up after ger dynamite under key enemy posts — open the paper to the half-page “On The The British governors have decided to WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • MARCH 30-APRIL 3, 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG 3, • MADISON MARCH 30-APRIL WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL spending seven years MIA, it turns out the largest amount of explosives ever Street” photo collage documenting a Blood Hook might have been just let the locals sort out this problem for 8 Breaking and Entering Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff that he’s not all that much to brag about. trying to build a promotional enterprise ciate producer: Sean Broughton, Helen Ireson, Played with affable charm by writer out of catching long-distance grapes in Steve Parish, Penny Verbe, Mark Wildig /director Taika Waititi, Boy’s father his mouth and bump the 70-year-old Cameraman illuminates a unique fig- Alamein is a bumbling hooligan fresh champion off his throne; and the guy ure in British and international cinema, out of the clink, leader of the entirely who runs marathons while juggling Jack Cardiff, a man whose life and inept, utterly nonthreatening three-man three rubber balls, because apparently career are inextricably interwoven with gang called The Crazy Horses. He’s back just running a marathon isn’t hard the history of cinema spanning nine on the farm to dig up some cash he enough. decades of motion pictures. The mas- buried long ago after a rare score, and, ter himself explains how he helped ele- as long as he’s around, teach Boy some British Television vate cinematography to an art form and dubious life. made history with his groundbreaking Oscar-nominated at 28 for his 2003 Advertising Awards vision and technical wizardry in A Mat- short Two Cars, One Night, Waititi was THU, MAR 31 • 5:00 PM ter of Life and Death, The Red Shoes, The a regular director on the cult HBO com- SUN, APR 3 • 8:00 PM African Queen, The Vikings, Black Nar- edy series Flight of the Conchords, and Monona Terrace cissus... even Rambo. shares that show’s goofy deadpan style WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · United Amongst many fascinating revela- and penchant for disarmingly sweet Kingdom, 2010, color, video · 108 MIN tions and anecdotes in the film, Jack DIRECTOR: VARIOUS characterizations. With Boy, he molds relates what it was like to work with them into a coming of age tale that is When we say “back by popular Hollywood’s greatest icons, Marilyn both heartfelt and endearingly loopy. demand,” we mean it. In 2010 the British Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey This winning lark became New Television Advertising Award winners Bogart, Kirk Douglas, and Sophia Loren. Zealand’s highest grossing domestic film were not included in the festival pro- Martin Scorsese passionately guides us of all time — do not be surprised when gram, spurring a minor letter-writing through Jack’s films and tells us why campaign to festival HQ. Thanks to they have had such an influence on him. Waititi’s infectious sensibility starts turn- Carancho WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON MARCH ing up in American comedies. 2010 Sun- those fans, the annual collection of Packed with stunning clips from clas- dance, Berlin Film Festivals. extraordinary, accomplished, and cre- sic movies and over twenty original ative commercials from Great Britain interviews with the world’s greatest Breaking and returns to Madison. actors, directors, and technicians, Cam- From household products (Cadbury, eraman explores Jack’s life and work Entering Weetabix, fish fingers) to public serv- in compelling detail, scope, and inti- SAT, APR 2 • 11:00 AM ice causes (Metropolitan Police, Depart- macy. Wisconsin Union Theatre ment for Transport), these ads show- “It is a celebration of the art of cin- WISCONSIN PREMIERE · documentary · USA, case the exceptional work of UK design- ematography, particularly in a pre-dig- 2010, color, video · 88 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A ers, writers, and directors. ital age, where simple acts of ingenuity DIRECTOR: BENJAMIN FINGERHUT Cinematographer: Geoffrey Fingerhut, Benjamin such as breathing or painting on a cam- Broad Channel era lens were able to create ‘special’ Fingerhut; editor: Ashley Nath; score: Andrew Campbell; sound: Federico Esquerro; art: Mer- Duncan; producer: Benjamin Fingerhut, Kelley SEE: The Future Past effects that have stood the test of time. lance medic disgusted by his methods cedes Alfonsin; costume: Marisa Urruti; make- but not without her own demons. Maher, Ashley Nath Sweet and moving, but be warned: this up: Marisa Amenta; production manager: Daniel FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND. The Bully film could seriously damage your Rutolo; executive producer: Martina Gusman; In this taut noir thriller in the tra- producer: Pablo Trapero; coproducer: Youngjoo dition of James M. Cain, Sosa begins Somewhere along the way, the Guin- SEE: Shorts: Friday @ Play Circle finances, as it’s likely to prompt an irre- ness Book of World Records expanded Suh, Juan Pablo Galli, Alejandro Cacetta, Juan to feel trapped by his own grimy role sistible urge to rush out and buy Vera, Alexandra Henochsberg, Gregory Gajos, 30-APRIL 3, 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM from the old-fashioned trivia answers Cameraman: The Cardiff’s entire back catalogue.” — Arthur Hallereau, Felipe Braun; cast: Ricardo in these lawsuits, especially as tensions like the largest land mammal and the Amber Wilkinson, eyeforfilm.co.uk. Darín, Martina Gusman, Carlos Weber, José Luis rise among his gang of amoral scam- highest mountain. The contemporary Life and Work of Arias, Fabio Ronzano mers. Together, Sosa and Luján devise Guinness lists accomplishments like Campus Smiles IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES one last job, a giant score that would phonebook ripping, human cannon- Jack Cardiff Ricardo Darín (star of 2010 Academy enable them to start new lives, freed WED, MAR 30 • 6:15 PM SEE: Orphan Films: Time Travel & Award winner The Secrets in Their Eyes) balling, and pushing an orange for a mile Dreams of a Better Life from their misery. Following this with your nose. If Guinness lists them, FRI, APR 1 • 5:45 PM is Sosa, a crooked lawyer who repre- unlikely couple through the nether- it means people are setting these Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Carancho sents the stunned victims of car crashes, worlds of the Argentine economy, records, and doing so with determina- WISCONSIN PREMIERE · documentary · United with the hopes of siphoning off their director Pablo Trapero (director of tion, gusto, and (in most cases) unfath- Kingdom, 2010, color, 35mm · 90 MIN SUN, APR 3 • 4:15 PM insurance settlements. And if there Lion’s Den and husband of Gusman) DIRECTOR: CRAIG MCCALL omable obsession. Orpheum Main aren’t enough accidents to meet his crafts a moody, visceral genre piece Cinematographer: Steven Chivers, Ricardo Coll, WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · Spain, This film covers the feats of several Simon Fanthorpe, Nicholas Hoffman, Jonathan quota, Sosa is not above engineering par excellence. An examination of fluc- Columbia, 2010, color, 35mm · 107 MIN some — an apparently common prac- of these would-be record-holders, focus- Rho, Ian Salvage, John Walker, James Welland, DIRECTOR: PABLO TRAPERO tuating morality shot through with Bob Williams; editor: Dan Roberts; associate edi- ing on three stories: the guy who tries Writer: Alejandro Fadel, Martin Mauregui, San- tice in Argentina. While canvassing the corruption and violence, Carancho is tor: Chris Dickens; line producer: Martin Dorey; tiago Mitre, Pablo Trapero; cinematographer: emergency room for prospective clients, to break the record for riding a station- composer: Mark Sayer-Wade; art director:Miles as unpredictable as a car crash. 2010 Julian Apezteguia; editor: Ezequiel Borovinsky, ary bike (harder than it sounds, gives Glyn; executive producer: Mason Cardiff, Lenny he falls hard for Luján (Martina Gus- Cannes, Toronto, San Sebastian Film Pablo Trapero; assistant director: Martin Car- Crooks, Chris Roff, Julie Williams; producer: man, Lion’s Den, WFF09), an ambu- you one hell of a rash); the guy who’s ranza; production director: Agustina Llambi Festivals. Craig McCall; coproducer Richard McGill; asso- 9 Circo Cluny Brown Carlos

table ballet of wheelings and dealings, girls. Tensions in the family are start- feels specific when you watch a Carlos plots and counterplots, promises of sup- ing to boil, as Ivonne gets increasing Lubitsch film, his observations on The Color Wheel FRI, APR 1 • 1:00 PM port and profound betrayals. It’s really more frustrated by Tino’s willingness human experience as seemingly can- FRI, APR 1 • 8:45 PM Wisconsin Union Theatre fun to watch. The movie boasts a star- to sacrifice the whole family’s well- did as a wicked bon mot murmured into Chazen Museum of Art WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · 2010, color, making performance by Édgar Ramírez. being to his father’s business (attend- your ear above the din of a cocktail SAT, APR 2 • 3:15 PM video · 334 MIN + INTERMISSIONS Possessed of a commanding animal ing school is impossible when the fam- party.” — Matthew Connolly, Slant Mag- DIRECTOR: OLIVIER ASSAYAS Bartell Theatre Writer: Olivier Assayas, Dan Franck; cinematog- force, he carries the five and a half hours, ily is on the move). Circo is a moving azine. SPECIAL PRESENTATION · narrative · USA, rapher: Denis Lenoir, Yorick Le Saux; editor: Luc capturing Carlos’s compelling blend and revealing peek behind the curtain 2010, color, video · 85 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A Barnier, Marion Monnier; executive producer: of arrogance, charisma, and danger.” of a family circus. Color Me Obsessed: DIRECTOR: ALEX ROSS PERRY Raphael Cohen; producer: Daniel Leconte; — John Power, Vogue. Winner, 2010 Writer: Alex Ross Perry, Carlen Altman; direc- coproducer: Jens Meurer, Judy Tossell; cast: A Film about The tor of photography: Sean Price Williams; pro- Édgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Nora Von Golden Globe; Film Comment’s Best Cluny Brown ducer: Alex Ross Perry; coproducer: Bob Bying- Waldstatten, Achmad Kaabour Film of 2010. FRI, APR 1 • 4:00 PM Replacements ton; cast: Alex Ross Perry, Carlen Altman, Bob Byington, Ry Russo-Young, Kate Lyn Shiel IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES SUN, APR 3 • 8:45 PM SAT, APR 2 • 6:45 PM Unfolding over 21 years, across 17 Charcoal Burners Chazen Museum of Art FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND. UW Cinematheque Colin has agreed to help his sister JR countries, in 8 languages, this engross- (Smolarze) narrative · USA, 1946, b/w, 35mm · 100 MIN MIDWEST PREMIERE · documentary · USA, 2011, color, video · 123 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A get her stuff out of her ex-boyfriend’s ing study of notorious terrorist Carlos SEE: Shorts: Thursday @ Play Circle DIRECTOR: ERNST LUBITSCH DIRECTOR: GORMAN BECHARD the Jackal earns every one of its 334 min- Writer: Samuel Hoffenstein, Elizabeth Rein- place. Complication #1: it’s a road trip. hardt, based on the novel by Margery Sharp; cin- Writer, cinematographer, editor: Gorman Complication #2: JR and Colin don’t get utes. A political militant and world-class Bechard, based upon an original idea by Hansi ladies’ man, Carlos attained celebrity Circo ematographer: Joseph LaShelle; editor: Dorothy along very well. More accurately, they Spencer; music: Cyril J. Mockridge; art designer: Oppenheimer status by attaching himself to the vio- THU, MAR 31 • 7:45 PM FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND. just don’t know each other well, and are Bartell Theatre Lyle Wheeler, J. Russell Spencer; set designer: lent vanguard of nearly every radical Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox; producer: Ernst Legendary Minneapolis rockers The good at getting on each other’s nerves, movement of the 1970s (and judging by FRI, APR 1 • 4:30 PM Lubitsch; cast: Jennifer Jones, Charles Boyer, Replacements won an enormous fan hilariously. Complication #3: the ex- Peter Lawford, Helen Walker, Reginald Gardiner, boyfriend is actually JR’s college pro- this movie, nearly every attractive rad- Chazen Museum of Art Reginald Owen, C. Aubrey Smith, Richard base for as they rocketed and spluttered ical woman of the era as well). WISCONSIN PREMIERE · documentary · USA, Haydn, Margaret Bannerman, Sara Allgood, through the 1980s punk scene. Direc- fessor, played with superbly deadpan Over the course of three feature- Mexico, 2010, color, video · 75 MIN Ernest Cossart tor Gorman Bechard set out to docu- obnoxiousness by Bob Byington, who DIRECTOR: AARON SCHOCK length segments, Carlos ascends from In 1938, a suave Czech refugee ment the influences, the inspirations, presented his film Harmony and Me at Writer: Aaron Schock and Mark Becker; cam- last year’s Festival. Complication #4: bumbling henchman for the Palestin- era, sound, producer: Aaron Schock; editor: Mark (Charles Boyer) named Belinski meets and the legacy of Westerberg, Mars, and ian Liberation Front to masterminding Becker; executive producer: Sally Jo Fifer; pro- plucky Cluny Brown (Jennifer Jones), the brothers Stinson. Although new- okay, now we’re getting ahead of our- a spate of high-profile terrorist attacks ducer: Jannat Gargi; assistant editor: Viviana when she’s come to fix the pipes in the comers to The Replacements’ music are selves. You’ll understand when it hap- Diaz; editorial consultants: Richard Hankin, throughout Europe, then sinking to a borrowed London flat where Belinski welcome to get a ticket, it’s highly rec- pens. Paola Gutierrez-Ortiz Director Alex Perry Ross plays Colin, bloated has-been hiding out in Sudan. IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES is staying. When Cluny later gets a job ommended that you reach out to your and cowriter Carlen Altman plays JR, Carlos’s globetrotting career doubles a Director Aaron Schock’s original plan as a chambermaid for an uppercrust hardcore buddy who has all the albums history of the 1970s, which director family, their paths cross again. This is and get a thorough listen first, starting and their onscreen presence is magnetic was to make a film about Mexican corn and witty in this probably semi-impro- Oliver Assayas treats as a great narra- farmers, to showcase a side of that pre-War England, and Belinski — an with Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the tive canvas, drawing astute connections anti-Nazi freedom fighter — is being Trash. vised gem. Keeping the bicker burner country more frequently seen through low but steady, they head off on the trip between the volatile geopolitics that ric- the lens of immigration and “only from sheltered by the family’s heir Andrew The film assembles a superb set of ocheted throughout the era. (Peter Lawford). Although Cluny is interviews with fanzine writers, record through New England, diverted along the border up.” While on a research visit the way by various people, hipster par- Assayas never has less than three balls to rural Nayarit, a traveling circus came wooed by a priggish local pharmacist store owners, studio folk, and dozens in the air, and he juggles pointed polit- (whose idea of a good date is taking of local and national musicians, some ties, and one very amusing antique shop. to town. And Schock had his story. This Perry shot on black-and-white 16mm ical observations and thrilling action tiny troupe of 10 family members, half Cluny to tea with his mother), it’s clear considerably more and some less suc- sequences with dexterity and intelli- from the beginning that Belinski will cessful than The Replacements (to not film, which gives the whole oddball of whom are children, are part of a story a somehow more plausible feel, gence. But an intimate knowledge of his- sprawling circus family, with almost win her heart. tell you who they are is consistent with tory isn’t a prerequisite for appreciat- Lubitsch’s last film to be completed this film’s attitude — there’s no music allowing the viewer to focus more on every descendent working in a seven- the off-the-cuff dialog and characters. ing Carlos: true story or not, this is one generations-old tradition of their own before his death in 1947, Cluny Brown in this music documentary). The anec- of the greatest displays of sheer film- small-time, small-town circus. is a delightful romance wrapped with dotes of everyone recounting their making chops in recent memory. Tino Ponce runs the circus with his Lubitsch’s sharp observations for class favorite show, their favorite Tommy The Colors of the This is a film of CinemaScope ambi- wife Ivonne and their kids, although structure and the tension brewing moment, their favorite Bob outfit (or Mountain tions and handheld immediacy, and the the whole business is owned by Tino’s across the Channel as Nazi power beck- lack of one), their favorite song on this (Los Colores de la Montaña) cinematography follows suit, emphasiz- ons English intervention. album, or the fight that happened at controlling father Gilberto, who sells SAT, APR 2 • 1:45 PM ing the effect of minute actions on a global the tickets. Everyone works incredibly “The director’s penchant for sly eli- that show, create an effective scrapbook SUN, APR 3 • 3:00 PM playing field. The extended account of hard, constantly. Rather than noble ded- sions—the knowing pan away from of a time in their lives when everything Stage Door Theatre Carlos’s 1975 raid of the OPEC confer- ication to a centuries-old art, this obses- imminent hanky-panky or the arch rel- revolved going to the club or the record WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · Colombia, ence in Vienna functions as a visceral, sion with keeping the circus afloat risks ish of his double entendres—rests upon store and knowing that you were hear- self-contained heist movie on the order an implicit understanding between 2010, color, 35mm · 88 MIN eliminating anything that the family ing greatness as it evolved. DIRECTOR: CARLOS CÉSAR ARBELÁEZ of Dog Day Afternoon. A magnet for vio- might have resembling a normal life. filmmaker and viewer, a trust that, com- The band itself is completely absent Writer: Carlos César Arbeláez; photography: lence, power, and women, Venezuelan Driving the semi-trucks that pull the ing from such a sophisticated source, from the film, leaving you with the Oscar Jiménez; editor: Felipe Aljure, Andrés actor Édgar Ramírez propels the movie equipment between dusty villages, set- feels like a gift unto itself. He takes for fiercest itch to race home and dig out Durán; assistant director: Biviana Márquez; art with a suave cockiness that begs com- granted not only a worldly knowledge direction: Gonzalo Martínez; costume: María ting up the tattered tent and stringing your LPs and play “I Will Dare,” or Adelaida Olarte; make-up: Jorge Betancur; com- parison to vintage Marlon Brando. the lights — this alone is exhausting. of sex, romance, class, and the multi- maybe “Bastards of Young,” or “Tommy poser: Camilo Montilla; sound designer: Camilo “Vivid, exciting, pulsingly cinematic But everyone in the family performs: tude of ways that adults so royally mix Gets His Tonsils Out” — whichever Montilla; sound recorder: Yesid Vásquez; exec- ... the Cannes Film Festival’s biggest them up, but an attitude toward such Mats song is your favorite. utive producer: Julián Giraldo; producer: Juan acrobatics, contortion tricks, the motor- Pablo Tamayo; cast: Manuel Hernán Ocampo, event. Assayas achieves a triumph of cycle-in-the-round-cage trick. Even foibles that is at once wry and empa- Poca Luz Genaro Aristizábal, Julián Nolberto lucidity, showing us the interconnec- Cascaras, the teen son, is learning to thetic. This cocktail of urbane compas- Color of the Ground Sanchez tions between Palestinian militants, Ger- work with the family’s pair of tigers sion is a very specific blend (the eye SEE: Shorts: Saturday @ Play Circle IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • MARCH 30-APRIL 3, 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG 3, • MADISON MARCH 30-APRIL WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL man revolutionaries, Middle Eastern when he’s not flirting with the local must roll in bemusement, but also twin- In the lush tropical mountains of 10 governments, and KGB spies — a veri- kle in self-recognition); or, rather, it Colombia, Manuel (wonderfully played Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone The Evil Dead The Colors of the Mountain (Los Colores de la Montaña) by Hernan Ocampo), his best friend Thomas Greve; producer: Tine Grew Pfeiffer; Julián, and timid albino Poca Luz have Eskimo Kiss coproducer: Michael Fleischer, Börje Hansson, SEE: Shorts: Friday @ Play Circle Agnès B., Charles-Marie Anthonioz, Francois- one flat place to kick the soccer ball Xavier Frantz; cast: Jens Albinus, Marijana around with the rest of the village boys. Jankovic, Søren Malling, Paprika Steen, Nicolas When the ball gets loose, it rolls into an Everyday Sunshine: Bro area known be mined — widening this The Story of IN DANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES story from a playful coming-of-age tale Danish director Christoffer Boe to one in which the complex Columbian Fishbone (Reconstruction, WFF04) has created armed conflict is always present on the SUN, APR 3 • 4:15 PM a stylish, enigmatic puzzle of a film, other side of the mountain. Chazen Museum of Art stocked with some of Denmark’s best For soccer-mad Manuel, the most MADISON PREMIERE · documentary · USA, actors (no country has as high a tal- important thing is retrieving the ball 2010, color, video · 103 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A ent-to-population ratio) and crafts- and, despite the pig that exploded in the DIRECTOR: CHRIS METZLER, LEV men. Three main things are happen- ANDERSON ing: Jacob (Jens Albinus; The Boss of field earlier, the boys try a number of Director of photography: Jeff Springer; camera: strategies to get it back. For Manuel’s Jeff Springer, Chris Metzler, Lev Anderson, Josh It All, WFF07) is having a hard time father, the most important thing is steer- Kurz; editor: Jeff Springer; narrator: Laurence hashing out the script for his next Fishburne; music: Fishbone; musical score pro- movie, a war picture, and his producer ing clear of the local rebel fighters, who ducer: Norwood Fisher and Jimmy Sloan; ani- expect all able-bodied men in the vil- mation: Click3x; motion graphics: Josh Kurz, (Nicholas Bro, Dark Horse, Adam’s lage to join their ranks. Jud Halpin, Carola Penn, Kia Simon, Jeff Apples, both WFF06) is cracking the Arbeláez, given the New Directors Springer, and Steve Tozzi; sound recording: Lev whip over him. Anderson, Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer; Jacob and his gorgeous wife Helena Award at the 2010 San Sebastian Inter- sound design and mix: E.J. Holowicki; producer: national Film Festival, says “No mat- Lev Anderson, Chris Metzler are adopting a boy from the Czech ter how tragic the reality of the children, SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN Republic and she’s worried that some- FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND. thing will go wrong. Elsewhere, Ali is they’re always ready to defend games Everything Will Be Fine (Alting Bliver Godt Igen) WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON MARCH and laughter as fundamental parts of Laurence Fishburne narrates this recruited by the Danish army to be an their lives. Childhood is, without a documentary about the influential black interpreter, and returns from his tour doubt, the time of friendship, the age rock band Fishbone, their rise from the with damning photographs of Danish when one truly makes friends.... The streets of South Central Los Angeles in soldiers torturing prisoners. These theme of childhood is recurrent in cin- the 1980s, the challenge they posed to threads intersect with bang when Jacob ema, whose celluloid is able to come racial and musical stereotypes, the hits Ali with his car and the photo- back every now and then, perhaps with internal struggles that kept them from graphs fall into his possession. Jacob the intention of renewing our gazes, achieving their expected heights of grows increasingly more paranoid and as a kind of starting over or, if you will, fame, and the continued work of lead panicked, even for a man known to get as a need to be able to believe again.” singer Angelo Moore and bassist Nor- obsessive over his work, and the story wood Fisher who have kept the band spins in complex ways as Jacob plunges on the road and making music for more deeper into the mystery. Dark Ways lege students to a decrepit old shack in the pioneering monsters’-perspective than 25 years. [Note: a similarly titled film in the SEE: Shorts: Saturday @ Chazen the woods, where they accidentally “shaky cam” to the legitimately awe- The film features interviews with Festival is And Everything Is Going Fine, invoke some sinister spirits. The woods some stop motion finale. musicians Flea, Gwen Stefani, Ice-T, a documentary about the monologist The Death of Triforce themselves come alive, assaulting and Rumors of a fourth installment have Perry Farrell, Branford Marsalis, George Spaulding Gray.] SEE: Shorts: Friday @ Monona Terrace possessing the friends one by one, who been circulated for years, often by Raimi Clinton, Tim Robbins, Gogol Bordello, 30-APRIL 3, 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM in turn attack each other with rabid and Campbell themselves — here’s hop- Questlove, and others, who express The Evil Dead gusto. It soon falls to last man standing ing that someday soon we’ll get to see Deux Petits Bateaux their respect and admiration for the WED, MAR 30 • 8:15 PM Ash (B-movie national treasure Bruce a middle-aged Ash pick up the ol’ boom- SEE: Shorts: Friday @ Monona Terrace groundbreaking work of Fishbone. THU, MAR 31 • 9:45 PM Campbell in his signature role) to defeat stick again. This special 30th anniver- Codirector Lev Anderson is an alum- Madison Museum of Contemporary Art the ghouls by daybreak. sary print is presented in its original Devil’s Gate nus of Beloit College. narrative · USA, 1981, color, 35mm · 85 MIN SEE: The Secret Sharer Far less devoted to slapstick comedy 1.37 aspect ratio, not the cropped ver- DIRECTOR: SAM RAIMI and classic one-liners than its sleep- sion released in theaters. Everything Will Be Writer: Sam Raimi; cinematographer: Tim Philo; Distance editor: Edna Ruth Paul, Joel Coen; music: Joseph over-staple sequels, the original Evil Fine LoDuca; producer: Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, Dead is essentially one epic man-on- Except for the Only SEE: The Secret Sharer (Alting Bliver Godt Igen) Robert Tapert; cast: Bruce Campbell, Ellen demon fight scene, providing Raimi SEE: Shorts: Saturday @ Cinematheque Sandweiss, Betsy Baker, Hal Delrich, Sarah York SUN, APR 3 • 6:45 PM with one excuse after another to indulge Drexciya Long before he was shattering box- in some incredibly imaginative gross- Figure In Isolation SEE: Shorts: Thursday @ Play Circle Orpheum Main office records with the Spider-Man fran- MIDWEST PREMIERE · narrative · Denmark, out sequences. Shooting over a year and SEE: Shorts: Friday @ Monona Terrace 2010, color, 35mm · 90 MIN chise, Sam Raimi earned a permanent a half for $375,000 (most of which Ellen DIRECTOR: CHRISTOFFER BOE spot in the heart of every horror fan- apparently went to stage blood), Raimi Fire, Burn, Babylon SEE: Shorts: Saturday @ Chazen Writer: Christoffer Boe; director of photogra- boy with an altogether different trilogy. used every film-school trick in the book, SEE: Sun + Fire phy: Manuel Alberto Claro; editor: Peter Brandt; The alpha and omega of haunted cabin from endearingly cheapo effects like sound: Morten Green; production designer: movies, The Evil Dead follows five col- 11 Foreign Parts Francesca God Man Dog

with light which restored to a more nat- Foreign Parts Francesca ural flow. This flow of light produces God Man Dog Gringo Loco THU, MAR 31 • 9:45 PM SUN, APR 3 • 6:30 PM beautiful abstractions which distract us (Liu Lang Shen Gou Ren) SEE: Shorts: Friday @ Play Circle Bartell Theatre Bartell Theatre from the business of speeding cars and SUN, APR 3 • 5:45 PM WORLD PREMIERE · narrative · USA, 2010, the artifacts produced by film cameras Haulin’ Ass SAT, APR 2 • 4:30 PM color, video · 99 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A UW Cinematheque MIDWEST PREMIERE · Wisconsin Union Theatre DIRECTOR: JUSTIN DAERING following motion.” — Doug Goodwin narrative · Taiwan, 2007, FRI, APR 1 • 5:00 PM color, 35mm · 118 MIN WISCONSIN PREMIERE · documentary · USA, Writer: Justin Daering; cinematographer: RJ Broad Channel SAT, APR 2 • 7:30 PM · 80 MIN DIRECTOR: SINGSING CHEN 2010, color, video Steiner, Josh Murdy; editor: Steffen Neiman, Stew experimental · USA, 2010, color, 16mm · 13 MIN Monona Terrace DIRECTOR: VÉRÉNA PARAVEL, Fyfe; make-up: Laura Schartner, Stephanie Dick- Writer: Singing Chen, Yi-an Lou; cinematogra- DIRECTOR: SARAH J. CHRISTMAN 63 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A J.P. SNIADECKI erson; production designer: Danielle Dannenberg; pher: Ko-shang Shen; editor: Hsiao-tong Chen, Camera, sound, editor: Verena Paravel, J.P. Sni- composer: Jordan Parker; sound designer and “Over the course of four seasons, Ching-Song Liao; original music: Hiromichi FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND. adecki; producer: Verena Paravel, J.P. Sniadecki mixer: Brian Liston; producer: Justin Daering, nuances of everyday activity are exam- Sakamoto; art director: Max Huang, Tien-chueh Andrew Kilkenny; associate producer: Anna Kat- Lee; executive producer: Ramy Choi; producer: Susan’s Horses IN ENGLISH, SPANISH, HEBREW WITH ined along one narrow stretch of pub- MIDWEST PREMIERE · ENGLISH SUBTITLES ter; cast: Debra Lopez, Ashlee Fuss, Rick Cornette, Li Cho, Yeh Jufeng; cast: Tarcy Su, Jack Kao, Han documentary · USA, Michael Herold, Annabel Armour, Amy Tor- lic shoreline on New York City’s Broad Chang, Yangyang Chang 2010, color, video · 7 MIN Few streets are as alive as the stretch gensen, Brian Gill, Carlyn Canter, Brad Gottschalk, Channel Island. Moments of recurrence IN CANTONESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES DIRECTOR: ELIZABETH HENRY of 39th Avenue in Willets Point, Queens, Brody Drews, Kamilah Lay, Larry R. Grab, Tom and change cycle through an ecosys- PRESENTED WITH THE UW CENTER FOR As a horse moves through space, it EAST ASIAN STUDIES. known as the Iron Triangle. A scrap heap Lodewyck, Alan Struthers, Brent Boylen tem rooted in migration.” — Sarah J. reminds us of what we’ve been missing. wonderland that festival veterans might SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN One particularly enjoyable kind of cin- FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND. Christman As a horse stands in place, it reminds us recognize as the boisterous setting of ematic story is one in which separate of what we are. Susan’s Horses explores When a female cop rescues a young Get Out of the Car Ramin Bahrahni’s Chop Shop (WFF08), characters overlap, intersect, and rico- a humble Colorado horse camp for kids, teenage girl who had been abducted, she experimental · USA, 2010, color, 16mm · 34 MIN the Iron Triangle is a bustling market- chet off each other with intertwining run by a woman whose troubled past finds herself unexpectedly charged with DIRECTOR: THOM ANDERSON place where broken down cars are dis- narrative threads. God Man Dog is a helps to inform her unique relationship caring for this girl (who hasn’t spoken “A response to his 2003 documentary mantled and redistributed like two-ton rewarding album of several individual to her animals. organ donors. As one might imagine, the since she was freed). Francesca — Frankie Los Angeles Plays Itself, Thom Andersen’s stories, in which the satisfaction comes place hosts no shortage of interesting — is already in hot water for making a new film Get Out of the Car is a city sym- not through a final uniting but simply Haulin’ Ass personalities, several of which are fea- minor drug bust without calling for phony film composed from advertising through the humor, richness, and diver- MIDWEST PREMIERE · documentary · USA, backup, so it’s hard to know if this new signs, building facades, fragments of music 2010, color, video · 56 MIN tured in this striking documentary. sity of these uniquely Taiwanese stories. DIRECTOR: TREVOR VELIN An observational survey of a quintes- assignment is a privilege or a punishment. and conversation, and unmarked sites of Yellow Bull is saving up money for a new, vanished cultural landmarks. The film is Editor: Robert Arrucci; producer: Trevor Velin, sentially American institution, the film Her tough shell is due for some cracking, modern prosthetic leg, and earns a little Robert Arrucci, Meghan McGinley is largely in the tradition of direct cin- partly through taking the young girl under an effort to discover how much of the by driving a truck laden with a glass- SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN ema godfather Frederick Wiseman her wing, partly through maybe for once ambience and history of Los Angeles can encased giant Buddha tableau — one of Quick! What’s the only sport indige- (High School, La Danse). But unlike their going on a date instead of working late. be revealed from these fragments.” — Lux the most striking movie vehicles ever — nous to Colorado? That’s right: pack- predecessor, codirectors Verena Paravel The smug slimeball who had kidnapped Victoria, George, Edward, to religious festivals. Perhaps in sympa- burro racing, in which competitors lead and J. P. Sniadecki hone in on charac- the girl is locked up, but it’s going to take and Thatcher thy with his own lost limb, he fixes dis- (not ride) their burro companions along ter and atmosphere rather than bureau- a solid case to keep him that way, and he’s experimental · England, 2010, color, 35mm carded religious artifacts to restore them mountainous paths. The pace of individ- cratic mechanics, and the result is more looking to get out and get revenge. · 2 MIN to full “health.” Ching is a hand-model ual competitors can range from a flat- akin to a poem than a report. As part Filmed in the Madison area with a DIRECTOR: CALLUM COOPER struggling to cope with post-partum out run to a stand-still (stubborn as a __), of a hotly debated urban renewal plan, cast and crew of Wisconsin natives, “The faces of class, wealth, history depression, which is taking a toll on her but it’s certainly a physically demand- Willets Point itself is now in the process Francesca is a crackling crime story with and the tensions between individualism young marriage. And a Taiwanese Abo- ing competition in high altitude. of being dismantled, lending the docu- a robust, flawed heroine, a tough-talk- and conformity in British society are riginal couple seek help dealing with This documentary follows Curtis mentary an elegiac air. ing police captain, and a vulnerable vic- explored in this visual journey from East alcoholism to win back their daughter Imrie, an old-time racer who returns Capturing with vivid imagery and tim. Director Justin Daering is a native to West London. Consisting of almost who is staying in a different city. annually, driven by a passion for the sport patient reverence the last gasp of one of Madison and is a graduate of UW- 3600 images of the city’s residences “Chen is more interested in develop- and the community; Roger Pedretti, who small tributary of a once mighty, now Madison. taken in 2009 and 2010, the film records ing these plots as individual narratives, travels from Lacrosse, Wisconsin to carry dying American industry, Foreign Parts my daily journey from my home in Clap- though the decisions some of the char- the torch of a family legacy; and Hal Wal- is no less than the Sweetgrass (WFF10) From the Archive of ton (E5) to the Royal College of Art in acters make do end up affecting one ter, a family man with a true talent for of the auto industry. Both were pro- Vagaries Kensington (SW7).” — Callum Cooper another. Surprisingly, these effects usu- the sport who is still discovering what duced through Harvard’s Sensory SEE: Shorts: Saturday @ Cinematheque Vineland ally result in amused chuckles.... With burro racing truly means to him. They Ethnographic Lab, which this campus- experimental · USA, 2009, color, video · 10 MIN solid performances, an impressive compete for the “other” Triple Crown based festival takes as a welcome sign DIRECTOR: LAURA KRANING screenplay, beautiful cinematography, of racing, in a film that’s hilarious, sus- that campus-based filmmaking is as vital The Future Past “At the last drive-in movie theater in and a stirring score by Hiromichi Saka- penseful, and affectionate. Director as ever. Best First Feature, 2010 Lor- THU, MAR 31 • 6:00 PM Los Angeles, dislocated Hollywood moto, God Man Dog proves that there is Trevor Velin is a Michigan native and carno Film Festival. 2010 New York, UW Cinematheque images filled with apocalyptic angst float still hope for Taiwanese cinema.” — 2005 UW-Madison alumnus with a Vancouver, Vienna Film Festivals. 73 MIN within the desolate nocturnal landscape Kevin Ma, lovehkfilm.com. This film is degree in Broadcast Journalism. GUEST-CURATED AND PRESENTED BY DAVID DINNELL, DIRECTOR OF THE ANN of the City of Industry. In this border touring colleges in the United States, as Forever’s Gonna Start ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL. zone, re-framed and mirrored projec- part of a collection curated and presented Her Seat is Vacant Artifact #1 tions collide with the displaced radio by Lin Wenchi, professor at the Center SEE: Shorts: Friday @ Chazen Tonight broadcast soundtrack, revealing overlap- for Film and Visual Culture Studies, SEE: Shorts: Friday @ Chazen experimental · USA, 2011, color, video · 13 MIN DIRECTOR: DOUG GOODWIN ping realities at the intersection of nos- National Central University of Taiwan. High/Low “Artifact #1 reveals the ghostly move- talgia and alienation.” — Laura Kraning SEE: Shorts: Thursday @ Play Circle Four Cubic Feet of ment of people and cars that gently dis- Golden Hour Space turb the landscape. Here we see a mov- Galaxies SEE: Shorts: Saturday @ Cinematheque How I Ended This SEE: Shorts: Saturday @ Cinematheque ing envelope of averaged time sweep- SEE: Orphan Films: Time Travel & ing through a video of a famous car Dreams of a Better Life The Great Work of Dr. Summer chase. Each frame is the optical average D. Volos Tinkerpaw (Kak Ya Provyol Etim Letom)

WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • MARCH 30-APRIL 3, 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG 3, • MADISON MARCH 30-APRIL WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL of many frames. The interruptions Get Out of the Car SEE: Shorts: Saturday @ Chazen FRI, APR 1 • 5:00 PM 12 between each frame have been filled in SEE: The Future Past Haulin’ Ass

SUN, APR 3 • 7:00 PM included in the 1861 founding of the Ital- Stage Door Theatre ian Republic — but without the agree- WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · Russia, ment of the locals, who elected a new 2010, color, 35mm · 130 MIN DIRECTOR: ALEKSEI POPOGREBSKY prince in 1965 to reassert sovereignty. Writer: Alexei Popogrebsky; editor: Ivan Lebe- One of the more atraditional nations dev; director of photography: Pavel Kostomarov; here is the Principality of Sealand, composer: Dmitry Katkhanov; producer: Roman where Prince Roy and his family lives If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle (Eu Când Vreau Sa Fluier, Fluier) Borisevich and Alexander Kushaev; cast: Grig- on a WWII gun tower eight miles off ory Dobrygin, Sergei Puskepalis IN RUSSIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES the coast of England. mind the work of the Dardenne Broth- PRESENTED WITH THE UW NELSON Looking to the future, the Seasteading ers (The Son, WFF03), especially in his INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES; Institute is signing up pioneers for the ability to elicit fantastic performances UW CENTER FOR RUSSIA, EASTERN EUROPE, AND CENTRAL ASIA; UW RUSSIAN FLAGSHIP ocean-going, self-sustaining platform out of young nonprofessional actors. In CENTER. world founded by Milton Friedman’s a particularly crowded year for Roman- A suspenseful tale of paranoia and grandson. With interviews which very ian cinema (see Aurora, Medal of Honor, survival, How I Ended This Summer is seriously open the question of what it and Tuesday, After Christmas, playing set on an barren and isolated island in takes to be recognized as a sovereign at this year’s fest), Serban’s pent-up the Arctic Ocean, where its only inhab- state by the global community, to Prince prison drama was selected as Romania’s itants are Sergei, a gruff and experienced Leonard of Australia’s Hutt River entry for this year’s Best Foreign Lan- meteorologist, and his just-out-of-school Province stamping passports for bus- guage Oscar. Jury Grand Prix Silver intern Pavel. The two men work at a loads of tourists, this film is provocative Bear, 2010 Berlin Film Festival. small meteorological station where they and thoroughly delightful. take readings from their radioactive sur- I’ll Be Here roundings and periodically report back If I Want to Whistle, SEE: Shorts: Friday @ Monona Terrace to the mainland. One day when Sergei is out, Pavel receives some grim news I Whistle (Eu Când Vreau Sa Fluier, Fluier) In Comparison about Sergei’s family, but is, for some SAT, APR 2 • 11:30 AM reason, unable to communicate it. As WED, MAR 30 • 8:45 PM UW Cinematheque the secret slowly drives Pavel into mad- THU, MAR 31 • 5:30 PM 80 MIN ness, the landscape around them Stage Door Theatre becomes more than an object of study, MADISON PREMIERE · narrative · Romania, In Comparison (Zum Vergleich) it is a formidable opponent that puts 2010, color, 35mm · 94 MIN experimental · Germany, 2009, color, 16mm DIRECTOR: FLORIN SERBAN · 61 MIN both men at peril. DIRECTOR: HARUN FAROCKI In Comparison (Zum Vergleich) WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON MARCH Hailed by the New York Times as “a Writer: Catalin Mitulescu, Florin Serban; based in the play by Andreea Valean; director of pho- “Bricks are the resonating fundamen- gripping survival drama [and] a merci- tography: Marius Panduru; editor: Catalin F. tals of society. Bricks are layers of clay less contemplation of the fragile human Cristutiu, Sorin Baican; production supervi- that sound, like records, just simply too psyche under siege,” the film won mul- sor: Ruxandra Slotea; sound: Thomas Huhn, Andreas Franck, Florin Tabacaru, Gelu Costache; thick. Like records they appear in series, tiple awards at last year’s Berlin Inter- production design Ana Ioneci; costumes: but every brick is slightly different — not national Film Festival, including Best Augustina Stanciu; executive producer: Flo- just another brick in the wall. Bricks cre- Actor, shared by its stars Dobrygin and rentina Onea; producer: Catalin Mitulescu, ate spaces, organize social relations and Puskepalis, and Outstanding Artistic Daniel Mitulescu; coproducer: Fredrik Zan- der, Tomas Eskilsson; associate producer: Vic- store knowledge on social structures. Contribution for its breathtaking cine- tor Mavrodineanu, Marcian Lazar; cast: George They resonate in a way that tells us if matography. Pistereanu, Ada Condeescu, Clara Voda, Mihai Constantin, Marian Bratu, Chilibar Papan, Mihai they are good enough or not. Bricks form Svoristeanu, Alexandru Mititelu, Cristian the fundamental sound of our societies, How To Start Your Dumitru, Laurentiu Banescu but we haven’t learned to listen to them. land of the Ukraine. Taking up residence ously coy, imperious, curious, stubborn Own Country IN ROMANIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES “Through different traditions of brick in the tiny, rural village of Legedzine, and comic raptor menagerie.” — Deb- WED, MAR 30 • 6:30 PM Mere weeks away from the end of his production Farocki’s film makes our eyes Uman created a series of films observ- orah Stratman four-year stay in a juvenile detention SAT, APR 2 • 3:30 PM and ears consider them in comparison ing the rhythms and textures of a life center, Silviu just needs to stay out of — and not in competition, not as clash not so far removed from what her ances- In the Absence of Monona Terrace 30-APRIL 3, 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM trouble — but a family visit starts a chain tors had experienced one hundred years WISCONSIN PREMIERE · documentary · of cultures. Farocki shows us various Light, Darkness Canada, 2010, color, video · 72 MIN reaction that puts that simple goal per- brick production sites in their colors, earlier. Kalendar, one of six films in the DIRECTOR: JODY SHAPIRO ilously out of reach. Bullied by inmates movements and sounds. Brick burning, series, is constructed like a pictorial lan- Prevails Writer: Denis Seguin, Jody Shapiro; cinematog- with nothing to lose and floored by news brick carrying, brick laying, bricks on guage lesson. This silent film is com- SEE: The Secret Sharer raphy: John Gurdebeke; producer: Phyllis Laing, that his absent mother has returned bricks, no voice off-commentary. Twenty prised of twelve chronological shots, Jody Shapiro; coproducer: Denis Seguin home and is planning to abscond with intertitles in 60 minutes tell us some- each depicting seasonal details and What makes a country a country? A In the Courtyard of his younger brother, Silviu nurtures a thing about the temporality of working events in the village.” — David Dinnell nation a nation? And what’s to stop you simmering rage in an environment with processes. The film shows us that cer- the Beloved from starting your own? In a globe-hop- Ray’s Birds SEE: Shorts: Sunday @ Play Circle no outlets. Meanwhile, he falls for Ana, tain production modes require their own ping search for an answer to these fun- experimental · England, USA, 2010, color, 16mm a pretty social worker tasked with help- duration and that cultures differentiate · 7 MIN damental but little understood ques- ing him prepare for release into the out- around the time of the brick.” — Ute Holl DIRECTOR: DEBORAH STRATMAN instrumental video tions of sovereignty, How To Start Your side world. Once Silviu determines that Kalendar “Ray Lowden keeps seventy-two nine Own Country visits six micronations: her interest in him is purely academic, large birds of prey, five deer, and some unrecognized self-declared entities that experimental · Ukraine, USA, 2008, color, 16mm SEE: Shorts: Friday @ Monona Terrace the film takes an explosive turn. · 12 MIN wallabies at his place in Northumber- you will not find on a political map. Director Florin Serban’s attentive DIRECTOR: NAOMI UMAN land, England. He’s had ten days off in The oldest is the Principality of Kalendar study of the dead-end plight of under- “In 2006, U.S.-born filmmaker Naomi twelve years and loves what he does. Seborga, a sovereign state since 954 AD. SEE: In Comparison privileged European teenagers calls to Uman returned to her ancestral home- The film is a little homage to his vari- This Ligurian hill town of Seborga was 13 Loving Lampposts Louder Than a Bomb Made in India Medal of Honor (Medalia de Onoare)

ural demeanor of the villagers.” — Dan ing number of options available to con- ing in the center of Toronto. While Kathryn Fainaru, Screen Daily. Love Me Tender temporary infertile couples, they opted returning to places in the city and the SEE: Shorts: Saturday @ Cinematheque Copresented by the Global Film Ini- SEE: Shorts: Saturday @ Chazen to hire a surrogate to carry their own breathtaking landscape of Algonquin tiative and is part of the Global Lens fertilized embryo to term. In India. Jok- Park, Mark Lewis talks eloquently about Kempinski 2011 film series. For more information, Loving Lampposts ingly but accurately called the “ultimate his interest in architecture, his fascina- SEE: The Secret Sharer visit globalfilm.org. SAT, APR 2 • 4:15 PM outsourcing,” companies are running tion for non-places, his working meth- Chazen Museum of Art clinics in India to combine the yearn- ods, and his convictions as an artist and Legend Lake: Lili’s Paradise WISCONSIN PREMIERE · documentary · USA, ing of American couples with the earn- a filmmaker. (El Paraíso de Lili) 2010, color, video · 83 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A ing of poor Indian women who may not This film will be a tremendously sat- A Talking Circle DIRECTOR: TODD DREZNER have many other options for work. isfying exploration for anyone drawn SEE: Shorts: Saturday @ Monona Terrace SEE: Shorts: Saturday @ Play Circle Director of photography: Ben Wolf; editor: Todd Drezner; coproducer: Todd Drezner, Lauren Sil- These two women — big, brassy to experimental film, and an even more Lottery Ticket ver; composer: Zack Martin Texan Lisa and the petite, shy Aasia — valuable choice for festival-goers who The Legend of Beaver PRESENTED WITH THE UW DEPARTMENT are fascinating subjects, one for her might wonder about such abstract SEE: Shorts: Friday @ Play Circle OF REHABILITATION PSYCHOLOGY AND Dam SPECIAL EDUCATION. frankness and forwardness and the pieces and what their attraction might SEE: Slightly Unsettling Shorts FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND. other for the tender and vulnerable way be. In certain sections, the film cuts Louder Than a Bomb What would you call a four-year-old she gradually becomes accustomed to between Lewis (warm and engaging) A Letter from SAT, APR 2 • 1:30 PM who caresses all the lampposts in the the camera and emerges as a person. describing how his ideas came into Wisconsin Union Theatre park? Quirky? Unusual? Or sick? Such The film also looks behind the scenes being, and portions of that film, so the Colombia WISCONSIN PREMIERE · documentary · USA, of the companies providing these serv- viewer can comprehend and absorb the 2010, color, video · 100 MIN labels are at the center of the debate SEE: Orphan Films: Time Travel & about autism: is it a disease or a differ- ices. Even though it’s less expensive than intentions of the filmmaker. It all Dreams of a Better Life DIRECTOR: GREG JACOBS, JON SISKEL Editor: John Farbrother; director of photogra- ent way of being, or both? In Loving domestic surrogacies, there’s still a lot becomes clear, in a kind of magical way, phy: Stephan Mazurek; producer: Greg Jacobs, Lampposts, we witness this debate and of money changing hands. When Lisa acting as a very accessible and illumi- The Light Thief (Svet-Ake) Jon Siskel meet the people who are redefining and Brian agree to the contract, they are nating introduction to both an artist PRESENTED WITH THE UW OFFICE OF told what part of the payment is directed and his art form. SAT, APR 2 • 4:00 PM MULTICULTURAL ARTS INITIATIVES. autism at a moment when it’s better SUN, APR 3 • 1:00 PM known than ever before. to the birth mother. But how much of Hundreds of high schoolers from that will the birth mother see? Stage Door Theatre across Chicagoland compete in Louder Motivated by his son’s diagnosis, film- Marwencol WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · Kyrgyzs- maker Todd Drezner explores the chang- As Aasia and the Switzers’ stories THU, MAR 31 • 9:45 PM Than a Bomb, an annual citywide poetry grow increasingly tied together, the big- tan, 2010, color, 35mm · 80 MIN slam. Poems are judged on an Olympic ing world of autism and learns the truth Wisconsin Union Theatre DIRECTOR: AKTAN ARYM KUBAT ger picture begins to unfold, revealing scale and schools are eliminated tour- of the saying, “if you’ve met one autistic FRI, APR 1 • 10:30 PM Writer: Aktan Arym Kubat, Talip Ibraimov; direc- person, you’ve met one autistic person.” questions of citizenship, human rights, tor of photography: Hassan Kydyraliyev; editor: nament-style, but, as any contestant will global corporate practices, choice, repro- Bartell Theatre Petar Markovic; sound: Bakyt Niyazaliev; music: We meet the “recovery movement,” documentary · USA, 2010, color, video · 83 MIN tell you, “it’s not about the points, it’s ductive rights, commodification of the Andre Matthias; production designer: Talgat about the poetry.” To get ready, students which views autism as a tragic epidemic DIRECTOR: JEFF MALMBERG Asyrankulov; costume designer, Inara Abdieva;; body, legal accountability, and notions meet after school to drill the essentials, brought on by environmental toxins. Editor: Jeff Malmberg; camera: Jeff Malmberg, producer: Altynai Koichumanova, Cedomir These parents, doctors, and therapists of motherhood. Tom Putnam, Matt Radecki, Kevin Walsh; orig- Kolar, Thanassis Karathanos, Marc Baschet, Karl practicing with a dedicated fervor and inal music: Ash Black Buffalo; sound design: Pete Baumgartner, Denis Vaslin; cast: Aktan Arym team spirit to rival any high school foot- search for unconventional treatments Kneser; producer: Tom Putnam, Matt Radecki, Kubat, Taalaikan Abazova, Askat Sulaimanov, that can “reverse” autism and restore Madison News Reel Chris Shellen, Kevin Walsh Asan Amanov, Stanbek Toichubaev ball program. And if you are skeptical about slam poetry, these young authors their children to normal lives. We meet (ca. 1932) PRESENTED WITH THE UW DEPARTMENT IN KYRGYZ WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES the ‘neurodiversity’ movement, which OF REHABILITATION PSYCHOLOGY AND In the valleys of Kyrgyzstan, Svet-Ake will open your ears to the art form. SEE: Orphan Films: Time Travel & SPECIAL EDUCATION. Coming from all sides of the city, the argues that autism should be accepted Dreams of a Better Life Danger is everywhere in the WWII- (“Mr. Light”) is the village electrician, and autistic people supported. This carrying his steel boot clamps with him poets display an incredible range of era Belgian town of Marwencol. Teem- styles and subject matter: Oak Park’s group argues that the focus on treat- March on ing with sinister Nazis, heroic marines, wherever he goes, in case he needs to ments and cures causes the wider soci- scramble up a pole to fix a failed line or Nova Venerable writes raw, personal and vigilante barmaids, it would appear poetry about her special-needs brother; ety to view autistic people as damaged Washington a short circuit. Played with impish SEE: Orphan Films: Time Travel & lawless and threatening were its resi- the south-side underdogs from Stein- and sick. And we meet a too often dents not meticulously dressed action delight by the film’s director, Svet-Ake ignored group: autistic adults. It’s these Dreams of a Better Life is respected in the community and also metz deliver syncopated group poems figures and Barbie dolls. At 1/6-scale with rat-a-tat precision; Northsider adults who show just how tricky it is to size and outfitted with enough plastic devilishly outside it, as seen when the judge an autistic person’s life. Mark Lewis : film opens and he fiddles an old man’s Adam Gottlieb is a literary prodigy artillery to take down the Cobra Com- electric meter to set it back a bit. His whose breathless showmanship con- Made in India Nowhere Land mander, Marwencol is the fascinating problems? After several daughters, he’s tains epic ambitions. THU, MAR 31 • 7:30 PM creation of outsider artist Mark Hogan- THU, MAR 31 • 7:45 PM desperate for a son. A rich family is Many film critics have devoted most SUN, APR 3 • 1:15 PM camp. Suffering from permanent brain of their reviews to flat-out gushing over returning to the village intent on buy- SAT, APR 2 • 5:45 PM Monona Terrace damage after being beaten outside a bar ing their way into power, and Svet-Ake the kids’ obvious talent, and for good Play Circle Theatre WORLD PREMIERE · documentary · Germany, in upstate New York, he constructed a doesn’t want to play by their rules. He’s reason — as the contest builds to the WISCONSIN PREMIERE · documentary · USA, 2010, color, video · 82 MIN miniature town in his backyard as a kind India, 2010, color, video · 97 MIN also developing a rickety wind genera- final round, it becomes impossible to DIRECTOR: REINHARD WULF of self-imposed therapy, furnishing toy imagine any group not winning. It’s not DIRECTOR: REBECCA HAIMOWITZ, Camera: Jürgen Behrens; editor: Olaf Strecker; tor to give more independent power to VAISHALI SINHA soldiers with elaborate backstories that about the points, but that hasn’t stopped sound: Henning Schiller; executive producer: the community. Director of photography: Adri Thakur, Basia Frank Strauß echoed his own trials. the film from being absolutely show- Winograd, Rebecca Haimowitz, Vaishali Sinha; As Hogancamp embroidered his “Since the Kyrgyz sources of energy Mark Lewis makes short, usually ered with prizes — it has won the Audi- editor: Myles Kane; executive producer: Erin comic book scenarios with novelistic are mostly found across the border in silent films that are often projected in ence Award at the Chicago, Palm Heidenriech; producer: Rebecca Haimowitz, detail, his secret refuge unfurled into Uzbekistan (a questionable decision Vaishali Sinha ongoing loops in galleries. This docu- Springs, Philadelphia, Cleveland, and an epic private world. This self-con- following the partition of the Soviet IN ENGLISH, HINDI WITH ENGLISH mentary follows Lewis to Toronto (he St. Louis Film Festivals, and Best Doc- SUBTITLES tained universe has been documented empire), Kubat’s picture takes on added was born in Hamilton, Ontario), where umentary at Austin and Virginia. With by Hogancamp’s photographs of his political significance. But its main Lisa and Brian always hoped for a he had created several earlier pieces. live spoken-word performances by stu- painstakingly crafted tableaux. Shot on strength lies less in politics and more baby in their lives, but after earlier med- The artist is setting up for a new work, in the relaxed simplicity of its proce- dents in the UW First Wave program. ical procedures, Lisa was unable to carry disposable cameras with an uncannily WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • MARCH 30-APRIL 3, 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG 3, • MADISON MARCH 30-APRIL WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL “Mid Day Mid Summer, Corner of a child herself. Faced with an increas- cinematic eye — short focal lengths, nat- 14 dure, its humorous touches and the nat- Yonge and Dundas” at a four-way cross- Marwencol ural lighting, an innate sense of visual Variety. Winner, Audience Award, 2009 space — the images could pass for stills Torino; Special Jury Award, Best from the greatest war movie never Screenplay, Best Actor, 2009 Thessa- made. Eventually the art world catches loniki; Best Director, Best Actor, 2009 on to the magic of Marwencol, and the Transylvania film festivals. prospect of gallery exhibition forces Mark to decide whether to let the out- Meek’s Cutoff Meek’s Cutoff side world intrude on his fantasy. SAT, APR 2 • 9:15 PM This incredible, indelible documen- SUN, APR 3 • 11:30 AM tary has scooped up top prizes at the Mine Vaganti UW Cinematheque (Loose Cannons) 2010 SXSW, Hot Docs, Seattle, Silver- MIDWEST PREMIERE · narrative · USA, 2010, docs, Comic-Con, and Vienna Film Fes- color, 35mm · 104 MIN SAT, APR 2 • 8:00 PM tivals (among others), and was named DIRECTOR: KELLY REICHARDT Orpheum Main one of the year’s 10 best films by New Writer: Jon Raymond; cinematographer: Christo- WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · Italy, 2010, York Magazine, the Boston Globe, Slate, pher Blauvelt; editor: Kelly Reichardt; produc- color, 35mm · 110 MIN tion designer: David Doernberg; costume: Vicki and NPR. “Exactly the sort of mysteri- DIRECTOR: FERZAN ÖZPETEK Farrell; sound design: Leslie Shatz; composer:Jeff Writer: Ivan Cotroneo, Ferzan Ozpetek; direc- ous and almost holy experience you Grace; producer: Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani, Eliz- tor of photography: Maurizio Calvesi; editor: hope to get from documentaries ... a abeth Cuthrell, David Urrutia; executive pro- Patrizio Marone; composer: Pasquale Catalano; ducer: Todd Haynes, Phil Morrison, Rajen Sav- production designer: Andrea Crisanti; costume: homegrown slice of Herzog oddness.” jani, Andrew Pope, Steven Tuttleman, Laura — Michael Atkinson, Village Voice. Alessandro Lai; production supervisor: Clau- Rosenthal, Mike S. Ryan; cast: Michelle Williams, dio Zampetti; line producer: Gianluca Leurini; Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Bruce Greenwood, Shirley production manager: Roberto Leone; sound: Mary and Bill Henderson, Rod Rondeaux Marco Grillo; assistant director: Gianluca SEE: Shorts: Sunday @ Monona Terrace Over the past four years, Kelly Mazzella; producer: Domenico Procacci; cast: Reichardt has asserted herself as one Riccardo Scamarcio, Nicole Grimaudo, Alessan- dro Preziosi, Ennio Fantastichini, Lunetta of independent cinema’s crucial voices Savino, Ilaria Occhini, Daniele Pecci, Carolina Medal of Honor by focusing on introverted loners in the (Medalia de Onoare) Crescentini, Elena Sofia Ricci Pacific Northwest, so it comes as some- IN ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES SAT, APR 2 • 3:30 PM thing of a surprise to see her take on a Tommaso is the younger brother in Orpheum Main western. But then, her focus has always the large, eccentric Cantone family who WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · Ger- been quintessentially American, and own a pasta factory in Lecce, in south- many/Romania, 2009, color, 35mm · 105 MIN where Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy fol- DIRECTOR: CALIN PETER NETZER ern Italy’s Apulia. His mother Stefania lowed down and out Portlanders on is loving but suffocated by bourgeois con- Writer: Tudor Voican; cinematographer: Liviu Mark Lewis : Nowhere Land WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON MARCH Marghidan; editor: Catalin F. Cristutiu; producer: journeys in search of something better, ventions; his father Vincenzo is very Liviu Marghidan, Karl Baumgartner, Ada Meek’s Cutoff simply turns back the judgmental and has unrealistically high Solomon; cast: Victor Rebengiuc, Camelia Zor- clock 165 years, finding the same rest- lescu, Mircea Andreescu, Ion Lucian, Radu Beli- expectations of his children; his aunt gan, Costica Draganescu less turmoil in our nation’s roots. Luciana is quite odd and drinks; his sis- IN ROMANIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Three families embark on a cross- ter Elena is a frustrated housewife sad- It’s 1995, and a letter arrives country pilgrimage in covered wagons, dled with a husband who doesn’t quite announcing that Ion I. Ion has been begrudgingly following the lead of a fit in; while his older brother Antonio awarded a military decoration for a hired guide whose knowledge of the reluctantly but dutifully works with their long-ago WWII heroic act. How won- terrain seems more dubious every father at the pasta factory; and then there derful, thinks the old pensioner, but minute. As any old hand at Oregon Trail is his supportive grandmother, trapped what action were they thinking of? knows, it’s an arduous trek, and panic in the memory of an impossible love, Willing to accept such an honor but sets in well before the group makes very who consequently encourages her intrigued to know exactly how it came far west, when they realize their water grandchildren to pursue their dreams. to be, Ion looks for answers at the Vet- supply is nearly dry and that a myste- Tommaso, an aspiring writer, has erans Association. Big mistake, as any- rious Cayuse Indian is on their trail. returned from Rome for an important one who has seen more than one The small cast is stacked with many family dinner at which his father will

Romanian film from the past decade of the best young actors, including Zoe hand over the management of the pasta 30-APRIL 3, 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM will understand. The bureaucracy is Kazan (The Exploding Girl, WFF10) factory to him and his brother. Deter- fearsome, but fruitful for the wonder- Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood), mined to assert his own personal choices, fully dry Romanian sense of humor. Ion Michelle Williams (just about every Tommaso plans to announce at the din- is determined, since being seen as a war other major indie film in recent mem- ner that he is gay, and that he wants no hero might thaw the frozen relations ory), and Scottish actress Shirley Hen- part of the family business. When his with his wife (whom he lives with) and derson, all of whom turn in outstand- plans are foiled and his father is whisked his son (emigrated to Canada), who ing performances. As the grizzled Meek, off to the hospital with a heart attack, haven’t spoken to him since some dust- Bruce Greenwood outdoes Jeff Bridges Tommaso is obligated to stay and run the up that happened six years ago. in True Grit for grating outlaw charm. factory even though his heart isn’t in it. “(Victor) Rebengiuc is terrific as the Shot with a sun-bleached palette in A surprise visit from his friends forces gentlemanly retiree who never had an the classic Academy aspect ratio, Meek’s the family secrets to the surface with unpatriotic thought; ditto (Camelia) Cutoff is both a masterful revisionist other surprise revelations in this warm, Zorlescu as his sturdy wife. Their western and a cryptic indictment of generous and moving comedy. 2010 scenes together, as they start commu- contemporary foreign policy. 2010 Berlin, Tribeca, and Seattle film festivals. nicating again, are warmly shaded by Cannes, Venice, and New York, 2011 both thesps, and the pic’s finale adds a Sundance and Rotterdam Film Festi- Minong, I Slept vals. SEE: last, touching irony.” — Derek Elley, Shorts: Saturday @ Cinematheque Mine Vaganti (Loose Cannons) 15 Monica & David My Dog Tulip Mozart’s Sister (Nannerl, la soeur de Mozart)

IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES his German shepherd Tulip, who ends windswept landscapes and nocturnal Monica & David Five years older than her brother up being the love of his life. Tulip, Ack- woods seem almost sentient, envelop- Nénette FRI, APR 1 • 6:00 PM Wolfgang, Nannerl was a talented singer erley writes, “offered me what I had ing the characters with the haunted grip FRI, APR 1 • 3:30 PM SUN, APR 3 • 11:00 AM and harpsichordist, frequently accom- never found in my sexual life: constant, of quicksand. As dark as it gets, the film SUN, APR 3 • 3:45 PM Bartell Theatre panying him when the youngster per- single-hearted, incorruptible, uncriti- retains a certain mythic authenticity: Play Circle Theatre MADISON PREMIERE · documentary · USA, formed for the crowned heads of cal devotion.” Indeed, Ackerley records Lozintsa began his career as a docu- WISCONSIN PREMIERE · documentary · France, 2009, color, video · 68 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A Europe. Dragged from chateau to Tulip’s bodily functions and attempts mentary filmmaker, traveling exten- 2010, color, video · 67 MIN DIRECTOR: ALEXANDRA CODINA chateau by the original obsessive stage to mate her in great detail — this film sively throughout Russia and collect- DIRECTOR: NICOLAS PHILIBERT Editor: Mary Manhardt, Paola Gutiérrez-Ortiz; mother (their father Léopold) Nannerl Cinematographer: Katell Dijan, Nicolas Philib- cinematographer: David Fenster, Juan Carlos may be best suited for people comfort- ing the eerie scraps of folklore that ert; editor: Nicolas Philibert, Léa Masson; orig- Zaldívar, Abel Klainbaum; community campaign begins to question why she is denied ably knowing where puppies come would form the foundation for My Joy. inal music: Philippe Hersant, Pascal Gallois manager: Beckett Horowitz; composer: Steven the same opportunities and training as from. His cold, assured vision makes for an IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Schoenberg; producer: Deborah Dickson Wolfgang. Wonderfully voiced by Christopher intimidating first fiction feature. 2010 PRESENTED WITH THE UW NELSON PRESENTED WITH THE UW DEPARTMENT INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES. OF REHABILITATION PSYCHOLOGY AND The film centers on 1763, a time Plummer, the late Lynn Redgrave, and Cannes, Toronto and New York Film SPECIAL EDUCATION. when the Mozart family is invited to Isabella Rossellini, My Dog Tulip is a Festivals. With her casual confidence and FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND. perform at the French court for the crowd pleaser that, according to The shock of rust-colored hair, Nénette is Winner of the Jury Award for Best young Dauphin, who comes to encour- Village Voice, “transform(s) the seem- My Perestroika an orangutan who owns the screen with the ease of a Hollywood starlet. A native Documentary at the 2010 Tribeca Film age Nannerl’s study and development ingly banal relationship between pet THU, MAR 31 • 5:15 PM of Borneo, she’s been living in the zoo Festival, Monica & David is a intimate, as a musician. Appropriately for a film and owner into something singular, Chazen Museum of Art humorous, and complex family portrait about a talented family, director René inimitable, sacred.” at Paris’s Jardin des Plantes for 37 of her (the director is Monica’s cousin) of a Féret’s own family collaborates on the FRI, APR 1 • 8:15 PM 40 years, where she has outlasted three newlywed couple embarking on their film: his son is his first assistant, his My Joy Bartell Theatre mates and receives 600,000 visitors a documentary · USA, United Kingdom, 2010, year. life together. Both have Down Syn- wife is the film’s editor, a daughter plays (Schastye Moe) color, video · 88 MIN drome, and living independently is a By simply allowing us to bask in her a key role of Louise de France, and SUN, APR 3 • 1:30 PM DIRECTOR: ROBIN HESSMAN dream but not an option. Unbelievably another daughter Marié plays the lumi- majestic presence, this observational Orpheum Main Cinematographer: Robin Hessman; editor: Alla romantic and playful, the two kiss and nous Nannerl. Kovgan, Garret Savage; post production super- documentary becomes a meditation on WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · France, visor: Mark Steele; music composition: Lev captivity of even the most well-inten- coo under the protective shelter of “Feminist without the arrogance of Germany, Netherlands, Ukraine, 2010, color, Zhurbin; producer: Robin Hessman, Rachel tioned kind. Director of the awards- Monica’s mother Maria Elena and her 20–20 hindsight, vividly precise in its 35mm · 127 MIN Wexler stepfather, Bob. depiction of 18th-century pre-revolu- DIRECTOR: SERGEI LOZNITSA IN RUSSIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES devouring classroom documentary To Maria Elena is quite blunt when she tionary France (the filmmakers were Writer: Sergei Loznitsa; cinematographer: Oleg PRESENTED WITH THE UW CENTER FOR Be and To Have, Nicholas Philibert keeps Mutu; editor: Danielius Kokanauskis; produc- RUSSIA, EASTERN EUROPE, AND CENTRAL his cameras trained on Nénette while describes how, after being left alone as allowed to shoot inside Versailles), alive tion designer: Kirill Shuvalov; sound: Vladimir ASIA; UW RUSSIAN FLAGSHIP CENTER. a young woman with baby Monica, she weaving a complex soundtrack, alter- with exuberantly thesped personages Golovnitski; editor: Danielius Kokanauskis; pro- So, you’re a kid in the USSR, grow- realized that not only was she going duction designer: Kirill Shuvalov; costume nating zoogoers’ impressions with and awash in the joy and power of ing up to be a patriotic Young Pioneer. to need to earn a living, she was going music, the picture is a stunner.” — Ron- designers: Tuuli Malinovski, Mare Raidma; exec- insightful anecdotes from her handlers. utive producer: Olena Yershova, Od Howell; pro- You sing the songs in praise of Lenin, to have to earn enough to also cover Elliptically glimpsed in refractions nie Scheib, Variety. ducer: Heino Deckert, Oleg Kokhan; coproducer: you present bouquets when govern- Monica as a adult, too. The family pre- Leontine Petit, Marleen Slot, Joost de Vries; asso- of the ape house’s glass cage, kids and ment ministers visit your school, and pares to move into a new condo which ciate producer: Valery Kulyk; cast: Viktor Nemets, adults alike express an almost starstruck The Mushroom you wear that dapper red kerchief is large enough for Monica and David Vladimir Golovin, Aleksey Vertkov, Dmitriy Gots- wonder upon seeing Nénette, and their diner, Olga Shuvalova, Maria Varsami, Boris around your neck. This is the reality to have their own full living quarters Sessions wide-eyed, often anthropomorphizing SEE: Shorts: Friday @ Chazen Kamorzin, Vlad Ivanov, Olga Kogut that you’ve been raised to believe in. adjacent to their parents. IN RUSSIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES comments convey the underlying con- And then, in 1991, the USSR breaks “Neither overly sentimental nor PRESENTED WITH THE UW CENTER FOR nection between man and beast better apart. Western influences trickle in insistently uplifting, Alexandra Cod- My Dog Tulip RUSSIA, EASTERN EUROPE, AND CENTRAL than any textbook ever could. Nénette’s ASIA; UW RUSSIAN FLAGSHIP CENTER. (rock music!) and there are greater lib- ina’s confidently directed, expertly SAT, APR 2 • 6:00 PM handlers provide moving testimonials Don’t be fooled by the title: there is erties in culture, business, travel, and edited documentary about the marriage Orpheum Main about life with the temperamental not a lot of joy to be found in My Joy. religion. of two people with Down syndrome MADISON PREMIERE · animation · USA, 2009, orangutan, which is so rife with com- This powerfully grim parable is a road Robin Hessman’s acclaimed docu- proves unexpectedly engrossing.” — color, 35mm · 82 MIN promise and respect as to resemble a DIRECTOR: PAUL FIERLINGER, SANDRA movie of sorts, tracing the epic, episodic mentary brings us into the lives of five marriage. 2010 Berlin, Edinburgh, and Ronnie Schieb, Variety. FIERLINGER journey of a long-haul truck driver into Moscow schoolmates who were Vienna Film Festivals. Writer, editor: Paul Fierlinger; animator: Paul the darkest heart of the Russian out- brought up behind the Iron Curtain, and Sandra Fierlinger; original music: Jon Morning Star back. After taking a dirt road to circum- witnessed the joy and confusion of glas- SEE: Shorts: Saturday @ Play Circle Avarese; producer: Norman Twain, Howard The New Year Kaminsky, Frank Pellegrino; associate producer: vent a traffic jam, he encounters a mot- nost, and reached adulthood as the SAT, APR 2 • 6:30 PM Deanna Deignan; cast: Christopher Plummer, ley series of misfits and outcasts that world changed around them. Through Lynn Redgrave, Isabella Rossellini Wisconsin Union Theatre Mozart’s Sister could have sprung from the minds of a candid first-person testimony, reveal- PRESENTED WITH THE UW NELSON MIDWEST PREMIERE · narrative · USA, 2010, (Nannerl, la soeur de Mozart) INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES. neorealist Brothers Grimm. In time, the ing verité footage, and vintage home color, video · 96 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A FRI, APR 1 • 1:00 PM “Unable to love each other, the Eng- trucker’s detours overwhelm the nar- movies, Hessman, who spent many DIRECTOR: BRETT HALEY rative, and the film veers freely between SAT, APR 2 • 6:00 PM lish turn naturally to dogs.” So begins years living in Moscow, reveals a Rus- Writer: Brett Haley, Elizabeth Kennedy; cine- contemporary Russia and flashbacks to matographer: Rob Givens; editor: Brett Haley; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art this delightful adaptation of J.R. Ack- sia rarely ever seen on film, where peo- World War II, ultimately coalescing original music: Austin Donohue; producer: Brett WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · France, erley’s 1956 memoir-cum-love story, ple are frank about their lives and forth- Haley, Elizabeth Kennedy; cast: Trieste Kelly 2010, color, 35mm · 120 MIN which Truman Capote called, “One of into a singularly menacing worldview. coming about their country. Dunn, Ryan Hunter, Kevin Wheatley, Linda Lee DIRECTOR: RENÉ FÉRET the greatest books ever written by any- Treating Russia’s frostbitten outskirts Engaging, funny, and positively McBride FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND. Writer: René Féret; cinematographer: Benjamín body in the world.” as a vast national subconscious, writer inspiring, in My Perestroika politics is Echazarreta; editor: Fabienne Féret; original /director Sergei Loznitsa uncovers a personal, honesty overshadows ideol- At the Cordova Lanes bowling alley music: Marie-Jeanne Serrero; production Paul and Sandra Fierlinger’s touch- designer: Veronica Fruhbrodt; costume designer: ing and bittersweet rendering — the nightmare morality in the isolated tracts ogy, and history progresses one day, one in Pensacola, Sunny works behind the Dominique Louis; producer: Fabienne Féret; first animated feature to be entirely where modern civilization has yet to life at a time. 2010 Sundance, Full counter, renting shoes and making cast: Marie Féret, Marc Barbé, Delphine Chuil- hand drawn and painted utilizing put up stakes. Seen through the lens of Frame, Hot Docs, SilverDocs festivals; small-talk with the customers, a tat- lot, David Moreau, Clovis Fouin, Lisa Féret, Adèle cinematographer Oleg Mutu (The Death tered copy of Walker Percy’s The Movie- Leprêtre, Valentine Duval, Dominique Marcas, paperless computer technology — 2010 New Directors/New Films. WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • MARCH 30-APRIL 3, 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG 3, • MADISON MARCH 30-APRIL WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL Mona Heftre, Salomé Stévenin recounts the author’s relationship with of Mr. Lazarescu, WFF06), the goer on hand when times are slow. The 16 My Joy (Schastye Moe) basic elements of her story are famil- way with her sketchbook, alone in the iar: a young person returns home at a night. time when they should be racing for- Director Ivette Löcker follows the ward to the future, but instead is faced people who venture out into the night, with the question of what will happen creating a hauntingly beautiful film out next, what will ever change. of the dark urban spaces. In Night Shifts, Director Brett Haley and his cowriter equal care is given to the invisible peo- My Perestroika (and sister-in-law) Elizabeth Kennedy ple who keep Berlin’s pulse at night and have superbly crafted this remarkable to the rough surfaces, architectural breasts and, memorably, quite a lot of film, anchored by the compelling and shapes, and glowing red taillights that 1980s aerobic-wear fashions. sensitive acting of Trieste Kelly Dunn. recede in the distance. Sunny left college two years ago to look Löcker says: “It was my intention to Nimbus Seed after her father who is in poor health. explore cinematically the tension SEE: Remember the Time She’s pragmatic, appealing, calm, and between a pragmatic routine by which deep down aware that she’s suppress- the night is spent.... and the existential NYC Street Scenes ing her ambitions and creativity so she desires and fears that seem to be can just get through this difficult time inevitably evoked.... We discover the ten- and Noises with dad. Mostly hanging out with her sions and ambiguities but also the prom- SEE: Orphan Films: Time Travel & sweet-but-uninspiring boyfriend Neal, ising freedoms that their way of life Dreams of a Better Life and her best pal Amy (now with a baby opens up. The moments in which we can in tow), the shift in Sunny’s outlook sense despair, fear, and desperation or Octubre comes in part from the appearance of the struggle against them reveal how SAT, APR 2 • 11:00 AM Isaac, a guy from high school who’s fragile the night’s freedoms are.” Orpheum Main home for the Christmas holidays. MADISON PREMIERE · narrative · Peru, 2010, The magic of the film comes from the color, 35mm · 83 MIN night side DIRECTOR: DANIEL VEGA; DIEGO VEGA normalness of how these characters SEE: The Secret Sharer Writer: Daniel Vega, Diego Vega; cinematogra- interact: there’s no fateful, inevitable pher: Fergan Chávez-Ferrer; editor: Gianfranco romance coming here, just the burbling Night Train to Terror Annichini; production director: Carla Sousa Gar- rido; sound: Guillermo Palacios Pareja, Daniel of an intriguing attraction which may THU, MAR 31 • 7:30 PM or may not go anywhere. Thiessen; art direction Guillermo Palacios SUN, APR 3 • 7:15 PM Pomareda; producer: Daniel Vega, Diego Vega; “Richly endowed with true-to-life cast: Bruno Odar, Gabriela Velásquez, Carlos Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Gasols, María Carbajal, Sheryl Sánchez Mesco, moments, a generosity of spirit, and an Octubre WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON MARCH unsentimental perspective on the quar- narrative · USA, 1985, color, 35mm · 98 MIN Víctor Prada Sofía Palacios, Norma Francisca DIRECTOR: JOHN CARR, PHILLIP MARSHAK, Villarreal, Humberta Trujillo ter-life crisis, nano-budgeted indie The TOM MCGOWAN, JAY SCHLOSSBERG- IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES New Year represents a glowing coming- COHEN, GREGG C. TALLAS The three points of this film’s trian- Writer: Philip Yordan; cinematographer: Hal out party for its debutant writer-direc- gle are Clemente, a gloomy middle-aged tor Brett Haley and star Trieste Kelly Trussell; editor: Evan A. Stoliar; original music: Eddy Lawrence Manson; executive producer: loner who operates a two-bit money- Dunn. It feels like a film destined for William F. Messerli; associate producer: Gene lending operation out of his dingy apart- later rediscovery by cineastes curious Ruggiero; producer: Jay Schlossberg-Cohen; cast: John Phillip Law, Cameron Mitchell, ment; Sofia, a neighborhood spinster to see the first flowering of two serious who is participating in the annual El talents.” — Andrew Barker, Variety. Richard Moll, Marc Lawrence This film doesn’t make a lick of sense. Señor de los Milagros religious proces- Other true things: If you’ve already sion; and the baby, who Clemente found Night Shifts in a basket in his apartment one day, (Nachtschichten) heard about this film, or seen it on some cheapo DVD, then you need no further probably left there by one of the hook- THU, MAR 31 • 9:45 PM explanation. If you haven’t heard about ers he visits. Chazen Museum of Art Night Train to Terror, and are intrigued This deadpan, bittersweet comedy SAT, APR 2 • 1:00 PM by the idea of seeing a low-budget, low- follows the unlikely journey of both adults, as Clemente first tries to look Bartell Theatre brow mid-1980s horror film (and if 30-APRIL 3, 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE · documentary Blood Hook and The Evil Dead are sold after the baby himself, but eventually · Austria, 2010, color, video · 87 MIN out), then please, please do not go to allows Sofia to take on the job of being DIRECTOR: IVETTE LÖCKER YouTube and search for clips. Let the a kind of live-in nanny. First-time direc- Writer: Ivette Löcker; director of photography: tors and full-time brothers Daniel and Frank Amann; producer: Georg Misch, Ralph weirdness take you by surprise. Wieser; production manager: David Bohun Telling you this much won’t spoil it: Diego Vega have created a film that IN GERMAN, ENGLISH, RUSSIAN WITH three completely separate, unrelated reviewers liken to the work of Aki Kau- ENGLISH SUBTITLES cheesy horror films are chopped up into rismaki and Jim Jarmusch: droll, gritty, When night descends over wintry much shorter compressed stories. laced with small touches of quirkiness Berlin, not everyone is asleep. Graffiti Wrapped, or warped, around these but never lurching into either melo- artists use the darkness for tagging train repurposed films is a framing device of drama or broad comedy. cars, and railway security monitor the God and the Devil sitting in a train car, Clemente is a rather brusque fellow, yards for intruders. A couple of women starry night sky flashing by outside, hav- so it’s clear that Sofia’s drawn into this driving the homeless shelter’s van visit ing a genteel tussle over the souls of the household less by any kind of real the familiar street corners and door- characters in each of the three chopped- attraction and more as a response to ways, looking for the regulars who need up films. There’s a sanitarium run by her own sweet, soulful loneliness. Look- a sandwich and hot coffee, and maybe a mad doctor, lots of gory body parts, ing after this little baby gives her value, a warm bed. A young DJ rides the sub- a giant poisonous fly, a defrocked monk, it means she is useful to someone, and Night Train to Terror 17 On the Bowery Orphan Films The Optimo Hat Company

it isn’t long before she’s offhandedly window into the soul of a lost New York. A Letter from Colombia The newly preserved film prints, telling the butcher at the market what On the Bowery Though not widely known, the film documentary · USA, 1963, 35mm · 10 MIN selected from ten archives, range in time kind of poultry cuts her “husband” likes. THU, MAR 31 • 8:00 PM was a major inspiration to at least two DIRECTOR: JAMES BLUE from A Trip Down Market Street Before 2010 Cannes, Karlovy Vary, San Sebas- FRI, APR 1 • 10:30 PM iconic American directors. John Cas- Madison News Reel (ca. 1932) the Fire (1906) to Helen Hill’s dream- tian, and São Paulo film festivals. UW Cinematheque savetes admired Rogosin’s ability to sym- documentary · USA, 1932, 35mm · 3 MIN like Scratch and Crow (1995) — both pathize with his subjects, observing that SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN recently added to the National Film Reg- The Perfect Team “to tell the truth as you see it, inciden- istry. Oil Wrestling WISCONSIN PREMIERE · documentary · France, Preservation funded by Cineric, Inc., and Patrons SEE: Shorts: Thursday @ Play Circle USA, Italy, 2009, color, video · 47 MIN tally, is not necessarily the truth. To tell of the Alamo Theatre. Other travels include a newsreel cam- DIRECTOR: MICHAEL ROGOSIN the truth as someone else sees it is, to March on Washington era van’s drive down Manhattan’s Radio Old Man and the Lady Editor: Thierry Simonnet; cinematographer, me, much more important and enlight- documentary · USA, 1963, 16mm · 9 MIN Row in NYC Street Scenes and Noises (Ukko Ja Akka) sound: Zach Levy, Michael Rogosin, Lloyd Ross; ening ... like Lionel Rogosin’s pictures, DIRECTOR: ED EMSHWILLER (1929), the imaginative USIA propa- assistant editor: Céleste Rogosin; research, for instance; like On the Bowery. This is ganda short A Letter from Colombia SEE: The Worst Company in the World archiving: Matt Peterson; score: Jeff Gardner; NYC Street Scenes and music: Charles Mills; producer: Michael Rogosin a guy who’s probably the greatest doc- (1963) and its previously unseen con- The Perfect Team is a new and fasci- umentary filmmaker of all time, in my Noises temporary, Ed Emshwiller’s March on documentary · USA, 1929, · 10 MIN On Earth as It Is in nating account of the making of On The opinion.” Washington (1963). Heaven Bowery by Rogosin’s son Michael, with Martin Scorsese, an authority on the Scratch and Crow The enigmatic, anonymous found- SUN, APR 3 • 4:00 PM recent and archival footage. Michael cinematic representation of New York experimental · USA, 1995, color, 16mm · 4 MIN film Madison News Reel (ca. 1932), the UW Cinematheque details the history of the Bowery then City if there ever was one, calls it “a mile- DIRECTOR: HELEN HILL intuitive verité Sunday (1961) by 77 MIN and now as well as Rogosin’s crew, made stone in American cinema ... Rogosin’s A Study in Reds teenager Dan Drasin, and the I Ching- film is so true to my memories of that inspired 11 Æ 12 (Andrea Callard, 1977) Panels for the Walls of up of remarkable filmmakers who were documentary · USA, 1933, video not always so perfect off the set. place and that time. It’s a rare achieve- DIRECTOR: MIRIAM BENNETT make for unconventional time travel Heaven Michael also delves into the mystery ment.” Documentary Grand Prize, 1956 SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN — as will the premiere restoration experimental · USA, 2002, color, 16mm · 35 MIN of Ray Salyer, the star who abruptly dis- Venice Film Festival. Best Documen- screening of Galaxies (1974), a mind- DIRECTOR: STAN BRAKHAGE Sunday appeared when fame and fortune started tary, 1956 British Film Academy Awards. documentary · USA, 1961, 35mm · 17 MIN bender by pioneering computer artist A Pitcher of Colored Light knocking on his door. Nominated for Best Documentary Oscar, DIRECTOR: DAN DRAISIN Lillian Schwartz. experimental · USA, 2007, color, 16mm · 24 MIN 1958. Inducted to the United States Finally, two films stick close to home: The Perfect Team features two of the A Trip Down Market Street DIRECTOR: ROBERT BEAVERS few filmed interviews of Lionel ever National Film Registry in 2008. excerpts from A Study in Reds, Miriam The Visitation recorded: one by Russian film director Before the Fire Bennet’s 1932 vision of a Soviet Wiscon- documentary · USA, 1906, b/w, 35mm · 12 MIN experimental · USA, 2002, color, 16mm · 18 MIN Marina Goldovskaya and the other an The Perfect Team sin (added to the National Film Registry DIRECTOR: NATHANIEL DORSKY astonishing 1956 interview on The SEE: On the Bowery What’s an “orphan film”? Narrowly in 2009), and Madison’s own Campus These stunningly beautiful films by Today Show also featuring Ray Salyer. defined, it’s a motion picture abandoned Smiles, a short produced by UW stu- three acknowledged masters of exper- Open Season by its owner. More often, the term refers dents in 1920 (preserved by the National On the Bowery to all manner of films outside of the Film Preservation Foundation in 2010). imental filmmaking make their Wis- narrative · USA, 1957, b/w, 35mm · 65 MIN SEE: Shorts: Saturday @ Monona consin debuts after being ranked among DIRECTOR: LIONEL ROGOSIN Terrace commercial mainstream: home movies, Live musical accompaniment by Madi- the best avant-garde films of the last Writer: Richard Bagley, Lionel Rogosin, Mark outtakes, sponsored and educational son musician Biff Blumfumgagnge. decade by Film Comment magazine. Sufrin; editor: Carl Lerner; producer: Lionel productions, newsfilm, unidentified, Rogosin; original music: Charles Mills Opening Up experimental, and small-gauge works, All attempt to locate the sacred in every- SEE: Shorts: Friday @ Chazen Outcast day experience through color, texture, A vivid time capsule of 1950s New ad infinitum. THU, MAR 31 • 10:30 PM rhythm, and light. Curated by John York, On the Bowery documents three The Optimo Hat The Orphan Film Project is an ongo- Orpheum Main Powers, PhD student in the Department days in the life of the Bowery, the skid ing, international, collaborative en- WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · United of Communication Arts. row of Manhattan. Roaming the streets Company deavor to save, study, and screen neg- Kingdom, Ireland, 2010, color, 35mm · 98 MIN In Nathaniel Dorsky’s The Visitation after losing his job on a railroad, a young SEE: Shorts: Sunday @ Monona Terrace lected moving images. Media archivists, DIRECTOR: COLM MCCARTHY Writer: Colm McCarthy, Tom K. McCarthy; cin- (2002), images of nature and city life — alcoholic named Ray is taken under the artists, scholars, technical experts, lab wing of Gorman, a kind-hearted Bow- owners, curators, collectors, students, ematographer Darran Tiernan; editor: Helen clouds, display windows, a fish tank, Orphan Films: Time Chapman; production designer: Tom Sayer; cos- water — take on a radiance that fills the ery lifer. Shepherding the rookie through and other self-identified orphanistas tume: Rhona Russell; makeup designer: Niamh viewer with a sense of rapture. the neighborhood’s network of hole-in- Travel & Dreams contribute to the project, gathering for Morrison; composer: Giles Packham; executive the-wall bars and flophouses, Gorman the biennial Orphan Film Symposium producer: Phil Hunt, Compton Ross, Carole A Pitcher of Colored Light (2007), of a Better Life Sheridan; producer: Brendan McCarthy, John Robert Beavers’ delicate portrait of his helps Ray score day-labor gigs when he SAT, APR 2 • 1:30 PM now adopted by the Tisch School of the McDonnell, Eddie Dick; cast: James Nesbitt, mother’s cottage in Massachusetts, doc- can and steals from him when he can’t. Arts at New York University (and for- Kate Dickie, James Cosmo, Niall Bruton, Han- UW Cinematheque nah Stanbridge uments the passage of the seasons Shot documentary-style with a non- 120 MIN merly by the University of South Car- professional cast, this neorealist mar- olina, 1999–2006). NYU Cinema Stud- Kate Dickey (Red Road, WFF07; through meticulous attention to detail 11 Æ 12 and subtle play with stillness and move- vel follows the poetic example of Robert ies and its Moving Image Archiving and Somers Town, WFF09) and James Nes- Flaherty: director Lionel Rogosin experimental · USA, 1977, 16mm · 11 MIN Preservation master’s program integrate bitt (dozens of British television pro- ment. DIRECTOR: ANDREA CALLARD Finally, Panels for the Walls of Heaven embedded himself in the Bowery for the concept and practice into course- grams like Ballykissangel and Jekyll), (2002) stands as legendary filmmaker four months, forming a deep bond with Beyond the Images in This work. represent opposing forces in this super- Stan Brakhage’s last major work before the people that appear in his profoundly Dark Box This program of films was curated natural thriller set in the dark grey his death in 2003, an unpredictable humanist portrait of downtrodden experimental · 2010, video · 1 MIN for the Wisconsin Film Festival by sym- council housing estates of Edinburgh. hand-painted film that searches for Americans. DIRECTOR: RUSSELL SHEAFFER AND JIM posium organizer Dan Streible (NYU Dickie plays Mary, mother to teenage BITTL transcendence amidst the turbulence Rendered in crisp, breathtakingly gor- associate professor of cinema studies) Fergal, and is fiercely desperate to pro- of life. geous black-and-white cinematography, Campus Smiles and emceed by independent documen- tect and shelter him from the outside Note: Threnody (Dorsky, 2004), a the New York streets are so vividly pre- documentary · USA, 1920, 35mm · 5 MIN tarian and film preservationist, Walter world. They are being chased by Cathal (Nesbitt) and Liam, hunters in an Irish companion piece to The Visitation, is sented that it feels like you could step Galaxies Forsberg. playing at the Festival as part of the pro- right onto them. Unearthed by the same It was organized with the assistance gypsy occult society and driven to find experimental · USA, 1974, 16mm · 5 MIN a beast who has risen. Mary fends off gram Remember the Time. team who resurrected the independent DIRECTOR: LILLIAN SCHWARTZ of Heather Heckman, a PhD student in landmark Killer of Sheep (WFF07), this the UW Department of Communication obtrusive social workers in efforts to WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • MARCH 30-APRIL 3, 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG 3, • MADISON MARCH 30-APRIL WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL keep their location a secret, and Fergal 18 luminous restoration provides a rare Arts. Parking (Ting Che) can’t resist his instincts that draw him son, a one-armed barbershop owner closer to Petronella, a sharp-tongued cooking fish-head soup, a mainland Chi- girl in the squalid flat next door. nese prostitute trying to escape her “Performances are almost uniformly pimp’s cruel clutches, and a Hong Kong very strong. The magnificent Kate tailor embroiled in debt and captured Dickie is quite simply incapable of giv- by underground loan sharks. ing a bad performance and her Mary is “Swinging delicately between off- Outcast a screen-commanding creation: an beat comedy, gangster thriller, and art- intense, stony and full-on sorceress, house melodrama, Parking is a kaleido- events. When it seems impossible that unrepentantly vicious when her back scopic little film that never ceases to he’ll be able to afford a piano, and steal- is in the corner. James Nesbitt as Cathal fascinate with its inspired originality ing one is too complicated, he’s deter- is a crawling, brutally insane nightmare — not to mention its enchanting score, mined to build one. No wood is avail- of a man, both blessed and doubly crisp editing, and dazzling cinematog- able this industrial place, so the ragtag drunk with booze and supernatural raphy.” — Edmund Lee, Time Out Hong bunch draws up the plans to build one powers, sporting a ‘shiny new skin.’... Kong. out of steel. Avoiding the sternness of Director Colm McCarthy knows his This film is touring colleges in the social realism, the film has a tone of genre — and how to provide a fresh United States, as part of a collection gentle comic whimsy and melancholy sting in the tale. The script astutely curated and presented by Lin Wenchi, but ultimately uplifting grace. blends Celtic folklore, creepy occult professor at the Center for Film and Visu- sorcery, and strong social drama into a al Culture Studies, National Central Uni- Pianomania strange and rather original fusion.... versity of Taiwan. The 35mm film print SAT, APR 2 • 3:45 PM Outcast may be the best British hor- will be donated to the UW’s Wisconsin Madison Museum of Contemporary Art ror film since The Descent, and it keeps Center for Film and Theater Research. SUN, APR 3 • 11:30 AM hearts in the right place — our throats.” Stage Door Theatre — Scott Macdonald, eyeforfilm.co.uk. The Perfect Team WISCONSIN PREMIERE · documentary · Ger- SEE: On the Bowery many, 2010, color, 35mm · 93 MIN The Overpass DIRECTOR: ROBERT CIBIS, LILIAN (Gogadoro) Pesticide FRANCK Camera: Jerzy Palacz; editor: Michelle Barbin; SEE: Shorts: Thursday @ Play Circle SEE: Shorts: Saturday @ Chazen sound: Sabine Panossian; music: David Benedikt, Ina Nikolow; sound design: Niklas Kammertöns; sound mix: Ansgar Frerich; producer: Ebba Panels for the Walls of The Piano in a Sinzinger, Vincent Lucassen, Robert Cibis, Lil- The Piano in a Factory WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON MARCH Heaven Factory ian Franck SEE: On Earth as It Is in Heaven FRI, APR 1 • 10:00 PM IN GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES A machine as complex as a piano — SAT, APR 2 • 11:30 AM wood, steel, wire, padding — develops Parking Stage Door Theatre its own sound, its own personality, and (Ting Che) WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · China, 2010, color, 35mm · 100 MIN presents particular musical possibili- SAT, APR 2 • 6:30 PM DIRECTOR: ZHANG MENG ties to the person who plays it. Stefan UW Cinematheque Writer: Zhang Meng; director of photography: Knüpfer is a Steinway & Sons’ master WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · Taiwan, Shu Chou; editor: Gao Bo; sound: Lee Sang- tuner at the Vienna Concert House, and 2008, color, 35mm · 106 MIN Wook; original music: Oh Young-Mook; pro- is a giddy, infectiously obsessive per- DIRECTOR: CHUNG MONG-HONG ducer: Jessica Kam, Choi Gwang-Suk, Kwak Jae- Writer, cinematographer: Mong-Hong Chung; Yong; cast: Wang Qian-Yuan, Qin Hai-Lu, Jang fectionist in pursuit of immaculate tone editor: Shih-Ching Lo; assistant director: Ya- Shin-Yeong, Liu Qian, Luo Er-Yang, Tian-Yu, Guo and voice. Ling Lan; art director: Shih-Hao Chao; sound Yong-Zhen He assists the great concert pianists mixer: Duu-Chih Tu; costumes: Chi-Lun Fang; IN MANDARIN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES in finding the right instrument for a music: An Dong, Peng Fei; producer: Shao-Chien The Piano in a Factory is kind of a Tseng, Jane H. Hsiao; cast: Chen Chang, Lun- given performance. Piano No. 245? No. mei Kwai, Leon Dai, Chapman To, Jack Kao, Chinese The Full Monty, in which none 109? In consultation with the performer Peggy Tseng, Shih-Chieh King, Chun-Hua Tou, of the barely employed men in this fad-

he may spend hours adjusting the ten- 30-APRIL 3, 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM Hsaio-Kuo Chia ing steel town strip down but they do sion of the strings with the wrench, buff IN MANDARIN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES band together, despite the odds, to do PRESENTED WITH THE UW CENTER FOR the felt hammers, add reflecting baffles EAST ASIAN STUDIES. the improbable. Chen is the hero of the to control sound. The tiniest details can On Mother’s Day in Taipei, Chen- story, a likeable fellow who is trying to affect the sound, at least in the ears of Mo makes a date for dinner with his impress his young daughter. His soon- world-class musicians like Lang Lang, wife, hoping to bring their estranged to-be ex-wife has returned from the big Alfred Brendel, and Pierre-Laurent relationship back together. While buy- city, wanting to take little Xiao Yuan Aimard. “Dust!,” says Knüpfer. “A ing a cake on his way home, a car unex- away with her. The kid sees an oppor- Japanese technician once took a tuft of pectedly double-parks next to his car, tunity, and agrees to stay with whichever dust out of the sounding board and held preventing his exit. For the entire night, parent can provide her with a piano. it up in front of me and said: ‘Oh, Ste- Chen-Mo searches the floors of a Although this family tussle create fan, look what I found!’ And I asked nearby apartment building for the the central arc of of the story, the film’s where did you get that? He said: ‘That owner of the illegally parked car, and richness and delight comes from the was on the sounding board,’ and I said encounters a succession of strange motley buddies surrounding Chen, put it back immediately. Everything events and eccentric characters: an old including his musical group (his girl- changes the sound, even the dust.” couple living with their precocious friend Shu Xian is the singer) which Knüpfer bursts into a giggle and goes granddaughter who have lost their only plays Chinese and Russian songs at local back to polishing the piano. Pianomania 19 Pink Saris The Pipe Project Nim

care for a child (in this film, her petu- Suzanne steps forward to effectively his best interests at heart. Pink Saris The Pipe lant grandson) and who must cope with negotiate with the workers, reinvent At turns funny, moving, and troubling, WED, MAR 30 • 8:30 PM FRI, APR 1 • 7:30 PM the consequences of a terrible act of the company, and take on the former Project Nim demonstrates that animals SUN, APR 3 • 7:45 PM Wisconsin Union Theatre violence. Mija (Yun Jung-hee) is in her union leader (and ex-flame) played by have biographies every bit compelling Play Circle Theatre SAT, APR 2 • 11:00 AM sixties and diagnosed with mild demen- Gérard Depardieu. as our own. A recent Oscar winner for WISCONSIN PREMIERE · documentary · United Bartell Theatre tia, but she continues her work as a daily In past films like Swimming Pool and his documentary Man on Wire, director Kingdom, India, 2010, color, · 96 MIN WISCONSIN PREMIERE · documentary · Ire- home aide to an elderly patriarch. Even 8 Women, director François Ozon has James Marsh has a long history with the DIRECTOR: KIM LONGINOTTO land, 2010, video · 83 MIN as she starts forgetting things, she proven himself to be adoring and fas- Wisconsin Film Festival, having directed Cinematographer: Kim Longinotto; editor: Ollie DIRECTOR: RISTEARD Ó DOMHNAILL yearns to write poetry and enrolls in a cinated by women of all ages, and in Red Riding: 1980 (WFF10), The King Huddleston; production manager: Clare Bailey, Cinematographer: Risteard O’Domhnaill; edi- Tapas Chakraborty, Suresh Panjabi; sound: Gir- tor: Stephen O’Connell, Nigel O’Regan; original class, awaiting inspiration. Potiche (which means a kind of mature (WFF06), and Wisconsin Death Trip jahanker Vohra; music: Midival Punditz; pro- music: Stephen Rennicks; producer: Rachel The serene elegance of Mija’s life is trophy wife) he created a role for (WFF00). ducer: Amber Latif, Girjashanker Vohra Lysaght, Risteard Ó Domhnaill jolted when she learns of the death of Deneuve that celebrates feminism with “Nim is adorable, playful, stubborn, IN HINDI WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Rossport is what many of us envision a schoolgirl in town, victim of sexual sacrificing the feminine. Deneuve is vulnerable and possessive — just like a Sampat Pal Devi doesn’t take any guff. as the perfect Irish coastal village. A violence. The particular circumstances clearly having the time of her life, and child — but that’s nothing compared to A short, powerful woman in a hot pink gorgeous horizon overlooking the cause Mija to identify painfully with the late 1970s décor and fashions (espe- the humans who prance around him. sari, she fearlessly challenges and intim- water, tidal flats filled with shellfish, the young girl and to also be stunned cially the costumes for her grown son The New York hippies are merely the idates men twice her size in a commu- and a small harbor with working fish- by a system that allows such a horrible Laurent) are divine. start of a confounding parade of homes, nity where she is considered a second- ing vessels chugging out for a day’s thing to be silenced. Lee’s approach owners, and experiments that Nim must class citizen at best. She lives in the rural work with the nets. Natural gas is plen- to this story of a care-giving woman’s endure. Marsh draws us into an epic Uttar Pradesh region of India, where Power Trio tiful in the region, and Shell Oil wants response to male aggression is patient, SEE: Shorts: Friday @ Monona Terrace drama that swirls around this creature women’s rights are still a newfangled to build a pipeline through Rossport, complex, nuanced, and almost meta- and the desires of those who would idea and child marriages remain the tra- ruining farming fields and upsetting physical. attempt to shape him. What emerges is dition. Leader of the Gulabi (Pink) Gang, Preacher (Prediker) the fishing grounds. “The importance of seeing, seeing SEE: Shorts: Saturday @ Play Circle a telling exposé of human vanity that Sampat Pal fights tirelessly on behalf This alone would make for a com- the world deeply, is at the heart of this reminds us that while our close genetic young women from India’s lowest caste, pelling story as the Rossport citizens quietly devastating, humanistic work relatives are as intelligent as they come, who are known as Untouchables. Unfail- fight back again the global industrial ... She seems so unremarkable, this Project Nim we can be the biggest chumps.” — The ingly pragmatic, she referees domestic company. But when they seek support woman with her white hats, tidily THU, MAR 31 • 7:30 PM Guardian. 2011 Sundance Film Festival. disputes between families who are from the Irish government to protect arranged scarves and vanity. But like SUN, APR 3 • 7:00 PM barely on speaking terms, and brokers their rights to earn their livelihood, they this subtle, transfixing film, she draws Chazen Museum of Art marriages and divorces with the savvy Le Quattro Volte discover that the state has put Shell’s you in. Crucial in this respect is Ms. MIDWEST PREMIERE · documentary · United (The Four Times) of a shrewd businesswoman. right to lay a pipeline over their own. Yun’s performance, a tour de force of Kingdom, 2011, color, · 93 MIN The self-described “messiah of DIRECTOR: JAMES MARSH SAT, APR 2 • 8:15 PM The world’s largest pipelaying vessel, emotional complexity that builds Director of photography: Michael Simmonds; women” is also something of a show- a massive hulk that looks like a space- through restraint and, like Mr. Lee’s SUN, APR 3 • 11:00 AM man, often holding court right on the editor: Jinx Godfrey; original music: Dickon ship from Star Wars, is due to arrive in unadorned visual style, earns rather Hinchliffe; production designer: Markus Stage Door Theatre streets, where she can publicly shame the harbor, and members of the fishing than demands your attention.” — Kirschner; costumes: Kathryn Nixon; line pro- WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · Italy, 2010, ducer: Rosemary Lombard; executive producer: color, 35mm · 88 MIN the men who cross her and her teenage fleet are determined to prevent it from Manohla Dargis, New York Times. Win- charges. But she is up against genera- John Battsek, Andrew Ruhemann, Jamie Lau- DIRECTOR: MICHELANGELO digging. The Pipe is suspenseful true- ner, 2010 Best Screenplay, Cannes Film renson, Nick Fraser, Hugo Grumbar; producer: FRAMMARTINO tions of ingrained oppression, and audi- life story that pits the local village cops Festival. Simon Chinn; coproducers: George Chignell, Writer: Michelangelo Frammartino; cinematog- ences may be alarmed at how compro- against their neighbors, supporters of Maureen A. Ryan rapher: Andrea Locatelli; editor: Benni Atria, Maurizio Grillo; production design: Matthew mised even the best-case solutions to energy development against traditional (Nullpunkt) Noam Chomsky has theorized that these women’s problems can be. But Point Zero Broussard; producer: Marta Donzelli, Gregorio farmers, and a tiny Irish village against SEE: Slightly Unsettling Shorts language is uniquely human. But Paonessa, Susanne Marian, Philippe Bober, Sampat Pal is also unfailingly optimistic, their own government. humans and chimpanzees share the Gabriella Manfrè, Elda Guidinetti, Andres Pfa- and her relentless drive to improve the great majority of the same genetic mate- effli; cast: Giuseppe Fuda, Bruno Timpano, Potiche Nazareno Timpano lives of women is as inspirational as her A Pitcher of Colored rial — could they share language as well? vigilante spirit is infectious. FRI, APR 1 • 8:15 PM In 1973, Columbia University psychol- IN ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Acclaimed director Kim Longinotto Light Orpheum Main ogist Herbert Terrace set out to find out, A transcendent — yet drolly amusing has devoted much of her career to doc- SEE: On Earth as It Is in Heaven WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · France, and launched a controversial experi- — meditation on mankind’s relationship umenting the strength of women living 2010, color, 35mm · 103 MIN with the natural world, Michelangelo DIRECTOR: FRANÇOIS OZON ment to see if a chimpanzee, raised as a under oppression — her films Divorce, Poetry (Shi) human, could master American Sign Frammartino’s wordless masterpiece Writer: François Ozon, from the play by Baril- takes its narrative cues from Pythago- Iranian Style and The Day I Will Never WED, MAR 30 • 8:15 PM let, Grédy; director of photography: Yorick Le Language. ras’s theory of transmigration. Track- Forget are feminist classics — and Sam- Wisconsin Union Theatre Saux; editor: Laure Gardette; producer: Eric Alt- This fascinating documentary pat Pal ranks among her most captivat- mayer, Nicolas Altmayer; cast: Catherine recounts the stranger-than-fiction story ing one soul’s reincarnation through FRI, APR 1 • 1:15 PM Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Fabrice Luchini, ing subjects. Typical documentarians of the fateful primate named Nim various planes of earthly existence, the Bartell Theatre Karin Viard, Jérémie Renier, Judith Godrèche would employ Western talking heads to IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Chimpsky. A sort of inverse feral child, film’s protagonists are an elderly shep- WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · South contextualize (and distance us from) trau- An absolutely joy, Potiche stars the Nim was plucked from a captive chim- herd, a mischievous goat, a fir tree, and Korea, 2010, color, video · 139 MIN a pile of coal. matic scenes like these — not Longinotto. DIRECTOR: LEE CHANG-DONG luminous Catherine Deneuve as panzee colony at birth, into the arms of Given this cast, what is most surpris- She dives into the fray with a confidence Writer: Lee Chang-dong; cinematographer: Kim Suzanne Pujol, the immaculate and a family of hippie academics who raised to match her subject, trusting her audi- Hyung-seok; editor: Kim Hyun; production ornamental wife of Robert (the won- him as their own. They taught him him ing about Le Quattro Volte is that it brims design: Sihn Jeom-hui; executive producer: ence to be able to sort out right from derfully arrogant and comic Fabrice sign language, and his vocabulary with spontaneity: the section with the Youm Tae-soon, Choi Seong-min; producer: Lee goats is particularly hilarious, culminat- wrong, and all the shades of gray between. Joon-dong; cast: Yun Jung-hee, Lee David, Kim Luchini), who runs her family’s quickly grew to 125 signs. As Nim grew, The result is an irreplaceable dispatch Hira umbrella factory. It’s 1977, and the fac- he proved to be more of a handful than ing in a jaw-dropping feat of livestock- from the frontlines of women’s rights. IN KOREAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES tory workers are going on strike, tak- even the kind of people who would wrangling that suggests an animist take Special Jury Prize, 2010 Sheffield Lee Chang-dong, director of the ing Robert hostage for a short time. housebreak a chimp could handle. The on the choreographed comedy of Doc/Fest. Best Documentary, 2010 Abu exceptional Secret Sunshine (WFF09), The family puzzles through who will test subject was left essentially home- Jacques Tati. Dhabi International Film Festival. returns with another masterful char- take over the company as the patriarch less, shuttled between graduate students As the film transitions into plant and WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • MARCH 30-APRIL 3, 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG 3, • MADISON MARCH 30-APRIL WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL acter study of a woman providing sole recuperates and, to everyone’s surprise, and laboratories, not all of whom have mineral life, it takes on a documentary 22 Potiche quality so naturally it becomes difficult tic zingers early on. But eventually Nos- to determine the difference between sell’s conscience gets the better of him, what is real and what is set up — among and he begins rebelling against both the the film’s lessons is the suggestion that documentary and his hosts. the distinction may be irrelevant. Both high-wire prank and unforget- Stunningly photographed and exact- table guerilla provocation, The Red ingly assembled, Le Quattro Volte will Chapel handily trumps Sacha Baron The Red Chapel (Det Røde Kapel) have you marveling not only at the sub- Cohen for both cultural satire and polit- lime orchestration of the film, but of life ical risk-taking, while offering interna- of The Velvet Underground). itself. Best European Film, 2010 Cannes tional audiences a rare peek behind The program concludes with Thren- Film Festival. Golden Puffin, FIPRESCI North Korea’s iron curtain. World Cin- ody (2004), a tone poem from Nathaniel Award, 2010 Rekjavik International Film ema Jury Prize, 2010 Sundance Film Dorsky, whose gorgeous images of city Festival. Festival. and plant life in and around his home in San Francisco fills viewers with a The Rabbi and César Remember the Time sense of rapture. Curated by John Pow- FRI, APR 1 • 8:15 PM ers, PhD student in the UW Department Chávez of Communication Arts and Aaron SEE: The Worst Company in the World UW Cinematheque 95 MIN Granat, who holds a Masters degree in film studies from the same department. Ray’s Birds ( ) Note: The Visitation (Dorsky, 2002), The Robber (Der Räuber) Poetry (Shi) SEE: In Comparison experimental · USA, 2003, color, 16mm · 21 MIN DIRECTOR: MORGAN FISHER a companion piece to Threnody, is also playing at the Festival as part of the pro- The Red Chapel Ah, Liberty! gram, In Earth As It Is In Heaven. (Det Røde Kapel) experimental · United Kingdom, 2008, b/w, 16mm · 21 MIN FRI, APR 1 • 1:30 PM DIRECTOR: BEN RIVERS Rigor Mortis SEE: Shorts: Saturday @ Chazen SAT, APR 2 • 8:00 PM Nimbus Seed Play Circle Theatre experimental · USA, 2009, color, · 9 MIN MADISON PREMIERE · documentary · Den- DIRECTOR: LEWIS KLAHR The Robber (Der Räuber) mark, 2009, color, video · 88 MIN WED, MAR 30 • 9:00 PM DIRECTOR: MADS BRÜGGER These Hammers Don’t Hurt Us Orpheum Main experimental · USA, 2010, color, video · 13 MIN IN GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Director of photography: Rene Johannsen; edi- WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · Austria, Festival, The Runner keeps an enigmatic tor: Rene Johannsen; executive producer: Mette DIRECTOR: MICHAEL ROBINSON Sasha is a handsome young piano 2010, color, 35mm · 90 MIN distance from its central character. Fol- WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON MARCH Hoffmann Meyer, Peter Aalbaek Jensen; pro- DIRECTOR: BENJAMIN HEISENBERG student with a crush on his even more ducer: Peter Engel Threnody lowing the routine of Johann’s days, we IN DANISH, KOREAN, ENGLISH WITH experimental · USA, 2004, color, 16mm · 25 MIN Writer: Benjamin Heisenberg, Martin Prinz; cin- come to understand that he doesn’t go handsome teacher Gebhard (often ENGLISH SUBTITLES DIRECTOR: NATHANIEL DORSKY ematographer: Reinhold Vorschneider; editor: out socially, except eventually with a shown with a glow of honey-colored PRESENTED WITH THE UW DEPARTMENT Andrea Wagner, Benjamin Heisenberg; music: Lorenz Dangel; producer: Nikolaus Geyrhalter, girl from the parole office, and doesn’t light signifying both the comedic and OF REHABILITATION PSYCHOLOGY AND Trypps #7 (Badlands) romantic touches here). When Gebhard SPECIAL EDUCATION. experimental · USA, 2010, color, video · 9 MIN Markus Glaser, Michael Kitzberger, Wolfgang seem to do much with the bag of money Widerhofer, Peter Heilrath; cast: Andreas Lust, Stop me if you’ve heard this one DIRECTOR: BEN RUSSELL stashed under his bed, except fret about reveals the news that he has accepted Franziska Weisz, Markus Schleinzer it. Full comprehension of why someone a more prestigious position in another before: a Danish-Korean comedy duo Morgan Fisher’s ( ) (2003), widely IN GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES would so dangerously rob banks is elu- city, Sasha determines that the time is (one of whom is disabled) makes an considered to be one of the best films of Marathon runner. Bank robber. The undercover trip to North Korea, where the last decade, is a hilarious and mov- sive. But then again, some of us don’t right to finally come out to Gebhard and ultimate getaway. This pitch-perfect understand why someone would want to his own boisterous family. they perform outlandish vaudeville rou- ing found-footage film guided by a sim- setup is actually based on the true story tines for perplexed Pyongyang school- ple rule: only close-up insert shots are to run a marathon, either. English-lan- The Petrovics have been running a of “Pump-Gun Ronnie,” a compulsive guage remake rights have already been pub in Cologne for two decades but are children. And it’s a documentary. Offi- used. Ben Russell continues to develop Viennese criminal who still holds the cially, Jacob Nossell and Simon Jul Jor- his Trypps series, comprising a formal sold, so consider this your chance to stay still Montenegrin at heart — consider- course record at the Kainach Mountain ahead of the pack. 2010 Berlin, New ably less worldly and sophisticated and gensen are Danish-raised, ethnically exploration of “trance, travel, and psy- Marathon. Andreas Lust (Revanche, Korean comedians returning to the chedelic ethnography,” with Trypps #7 York, and Vancouver Film Festivals. perhaps not open to the idea that Sasha WFF09) is splendidly cast as Johann is gay. And although an upcoming piano homeland of their parents under the (Badlands) (2010), a long-take, raptur- Rettenberger, a tall lanky marathoner guise of a benign cultural exchange. ous portrait of a young woman tripping Sasha (Saša) competition provides a point of forward 30-APRIL 3, 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM released from prison and whose pen- motion for the film’s plot, especially with Unofficially, they’re smuggling in some on acid in the Badlands National Park. chant for knocking over the odd bank THU, MAR 31 • 10:00 PM risky ulterior motives. Michael Robinson, who presented his SUN, APR 3 • 1:30 PM Sasha’s parents’ high expectations, the between races has become an obsessive story is far less concerned with concert Acting as their manager, documen- films at MMoCA in 2008, returns to Play Circle Theatre three-a-day habit. music than the amusing intersections tarian Mads Brugger uses the exclusive Madison with These Hammers Don’t WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · Germany, Filmed with an athlete’s physical intu- and misunderstanding between cultures, access to both interrogate and mock the Hurt Us (2010), a video exposé on ition and pulse-pounding reflexes, 2010, color, video · 102 MIN DIRECTOR: DENNIS TODOROVÍC sexes, and our own family. day-to-day workings of a totalitarian ancient Egypt — starring Elizabeth Tay- Johann’s cinematic crime spree acceler- regime. North Korean officials work Writer: Dennis Todorovíc; director of photog- Sasha’s best friend Jiao has her own lor and Michael Jackson! ates with a breakneck intensity. Between raphy: Andreas Köhler; editor: Britta Strath- to insert propaganda into the duo’s In Ah, Liberty! (2008), British film- secret crush on him, and Sasha’s breathless chase sequences through Aus- min Berger; original music: Peter Aufderhaar; younger brother Boki is initially flirta- material and review Brugger’s footage maker Ben Rivers uses stunning trian city streets and into the country- sound design: Peter Aufderhaar; sound mixing: nightly, but are apparently so oblivious widescreen cinematography to capture Lothar Segeler; sound: Claas Benjamin Berger; tious with Jiao in a way that seems side, director Benjamin Heisenberg offers make-up: Claudia Schaaf; costume: Sarah to satire they don’t know when they’re moments in the lives of an eccentric merely irritating but eventually is a perceptive glimpse into the psyche of Raible, Nina Albrecht; production design: understood to be genuine. A few darker being had. rural family. Daniel Chour; production manager: Annette the long-distance runner, a life governed moments slice in between the comic Nossell’s disability proves an assett: Dedicated to Rivers, collage anima- by pathological heart rate monitoring, Schilling; unit manager: Laura Einmahl; pro- the combination of his slurred speech ducer: Ewa Borowski; cast: Saša Kekez, Tim jumble of the ensemble cast to make tor Lewis Klahr’s Nimbus Smile (2009) spare, controlled regimens, and the end- Bergmann, Pedja Bjelac, Zeljka Preksavec, Lju- and the North Koreans’ discomfort is a heartbreaking love story made in his this a dimensional, relevant, and thor- less pursuit of the runner’s high. biša Grujcic, Jasin Mjumjunov, Yvonne Yung- oughly satisfying story of one man’s allows him to get away with many caus- trademark, cutout style (set to the music Not unlike Aurora, also playing at the Hee, Arno Kempf ownership of his identity. 23 Atlantiques Kempinski Charcoal Burners (Smolarze)

“Sitting by the campfire, Serigne, a the tiny turtles crawling their way to the maker Brijetta Hall Waller captures the orating with pre-teens and teenagers Scratch and Crow young man from Dakar, tells his two sea, or heard in the crackling of a Geiger experience of a group of international and even vandalism, to create startling SEE: Orphan Films: Time Travel & friends the story of his sea voyage as a counter as a masked man sprays plants women in the Eagle Heights Commu- works that linger in the mind long after Dreams of a Better Life stowaway. Not only he, but everyone in with pesticides. Though only 13 min- nity who engage and inspire each other they’re gone from the scene. his surroundings seems to be continu- utes, the film’s span is enormous. As rev- by creating collaborative art about moth- A Screaming Man ally obsessed by the idea of trying to cross elers in Salvador, Bahia, parade through erhood and family nourishment. The Shorts: Thursday @ (Un Homme Qui Crie) the sea. His words reverberate like a the streets, a gnat-sized Mercury passes women incorporate their personal sto- Play Circle SAT, APR 2 • 1:15 PM melancholic poem. A story about boys across the surface of the sun, and men ries into an interactive art installation THU, MAR 31 • 5:00 PM Orpheum Main who are continually traveling: between slowly make their way up the giant steps made of cyanotypes, a type of photo- MADISON PREMIERE · narrative · Chad, France, past, present and future, between life and of an ancient temple; the film resides in graphic process that captures silhou- Play Circle Theatre Belgium, 2010, color, 35mm · 92 MIN death, history and myth.” — Studio Le a well of deep time, civilizational his- ettes using light from the sun, and they 128 MIN DIRECTOR: MAHAMAT-SALEH HAROUN Fresnoy tory swallowed by the life of the planet.” present their work to their families and Charcoal Burners Writer: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun; director of pho- tography: Laurent Brunet; photographer: Frank Devil’s Gate — Genevieve Yue neighbors in a local community garden. (Smolarze) Verdier; editor: Marie Hélène Dozo; original experimental · USA, 2011, b/w, video · 20 MIN Kempinski The Bells of Bascom Hill MIDWEST PREMIERE · documentary · Poland, score: Wasis Diop; original songs: Djénéba Kone; DIRECTOR: LAURA KRANING experimental · Mali, France, 2007, color, video · WORLD PREMIERE · documentary · USA, 2010, 2010, color, video · 15 MIN producer: Florence Stern “Devil’s Gate is an experimental doc- 14 MIN color, video · 8 MIN DIRECTOR: PIOTR ZLOTOROWICZ IN FRENCH, ARABIC WITH ENGLISH DIRECTOR: NEIL BELOUFA DIRECTOR: STEVE WILCOX, JAKE CHRISTIAN Writer: Piotr Zlotorowicz; cinematographer: SUBTITLES umentary exploring the metaphysical Malte Rosenfeld; editor: Barbara Snarska; pro- “‘Ethnological sci-fi documentary’ is Editor, videographer, producer: Steve Wilcox, Winner of the 2010 Jury Prize at the undercurrents of a Southern California Jake Christian ducer: Joanna Malicka; cast: Grigori Lwowski, the self-consciously contradictory way Meski Chór Prawoslawny, Gieorgij Smimow Cannes Film Festival, A Screaming Man landscape scarred by fire. The film lyri- SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN that the director describes Kempinski. IN POLISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES is a confident and mature film by cally depicts the physical and mytholog- Inspired by an article in the Isthmus accomplished director Mahamat-Saleh ical terrain of Devil’s Gate Dam, located Neil Beloufa traveled to Mali and asked Marek and Janina work in the Polish people there to describe the future in the newspaper, UW-Whitewater graduate countryside, carefully stacking split Haroun (Bye Bye Africa, WFF03). at the nexus of Pasadena’s historical rela- Jake Christian and Madison resident Once the 1965 swimming champion tionship with technology and the occult, present tense; a deceptively rudimentary wood in an enormous, elaborately con- premise, but one that allows the video to Steve Wilcox ask UW-Madison caril- structed pile, to burn to make charcoal. of Central Africa, Adam now works and intertwining with its central figure, loneur Lyle Anderson to tell the story tending the sparkling pool at a luxury Jack Parsons, who some believe to have capture the haunted terrain between fact The film, by Piotr Zlotorowicz, a stu- and faction, the familiar and the exotic, of the Madison Carillon, an instrument dent at the Polish National Film School hotel in N’Djamena, the capital of Chad. opened a dark portal in this place. consisting of 54 bells that can be heard Dignified and proud, Adam is devas- “The film merges an observational the weight of the present and visions of in Lódz, has little dialogue: possibly an what’s to come.” — Andrew Berardini playing out over the UW campus once artistic choice, but also Marek and Jan- tated when economic pressures cause portrait of a landscape transformed by a day, with a special concert every Sun- the the hotel’s Chinese owners to shuf- fire, ash and water with a fragmentary night side ina are folks of few words. Their beloved day. While Anderson describes how he dog Roki, fur smudged with soot, and fle staff, moving Adam to the parking textual narrative, providing a view into experimental · USA, 2009, color, 16mm · 5 MIN came to be the current carillonneur and gate. His teenage son Abdel takes over man’s obsession with controlling and DIRECTOR: REBECCA MEYERS various yard critters also star in this gen- how he selects the music he plays, the tle, observant documentary about a tra- the pool, prodding Adam’s quiet, slowly transcending the forces of nature and “A side of the universe turned away filmmakers provide a unique behind- accumulating sense of mortality and spirit. It can be seen as unearthing a sub- from the sun.” — Rebecca Meyers dition and a small-scale business still the-scenes perspective on a staple of the very much a part of European life. uselessness. conscious of the landscape, as the echoes “night side is a tone poem of twilight university that is often taken for granted. The endless civil war in Chad is of the past reverberate in the present images, colors, and lights that privilege Drexciya never far away, and a local chief con- and infect our perception and experi- isolation, even loneliness. Birds appear Blink! Again MIDWEST PREMIERE · documentary · Ghana, ence of place.” — Laura Kraning alone, perched sentinel-like on winter documentary · USA, 2010, color, video · 78 MIN USA, 2010, color, video · 12 MIN tinues to press Adam for donations to DIRECTOR: BRIAN H. STANDING the war effort: every man is expected branches. Interiors, though absent of DIRECTOR: AKOSUA ADOMA OWUSU Distance Director of photography, editor, sound recordist, Adapted from: Gerald Donald, James Stinson; to give something to support the cause. experimental · Ireland, USA, 2010, color, 16mm human presence, nevertheless beckon producer: Brian Standing; original score: JoAnne director of photography: Dustin Thompson, Ako- With no money to give, Adam protects · 12 MIN through warmly lit reflections of lamps Pow!ers sua Adoma Owusu; editor: Dustin Thompson; himself with an awful moral choice and DIRECTOR: JULIE MURRAY in windows.” — Tony Pipolo SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN composer: Nathan Ruyle; art director: Akosua a terrible act of betrayal. “Time spent at two shores, one thinly Veteran documentarian, Madison res- Adoma Owusu; sound: Caroline Key “Haroun’s tender but unsentimental populated, the other a wasteland, joined SHC ident, and WORT 89.9 FM radio host A portrait of an abandoned public regard for his characters allows his sto- by the interluency of various paths SEE: Shorts: Saturday @ Chazen Brian Standing offers an intimate look swimming pool in Accra, Ghana. The rytelling a natural gravitas thoroughly taken, each bit real enough, though exact at the creative processes of the recipi- Riviera Beach Club was once known as suited to the simultaneously unfold- measures being obscurely indicated. Shine On You Crzy ents of the 2009 Madison Arts Commis- Ghana’s first pleasure beach. The ing private and national tragedies. Notions of home and its ache are, to bor- sion Blink! Grant — as in “blink and Olympic-sized pool in the once-extrav- Directed with great confidence and con- row a phrase, ‘not capable of being told Diamond you’ll miss it” — a city-funded grant pro- agant Ambassador Hotel is now in a trol, and filled with stretches of quiet unless by far-off hints and adumbra- SEE: Shorts: Friday @ Monona Terrace gram that specialized in ephemeral, tem- dilapidated state. The film’s title is contemplation, this is pure-grade art tions.’” — Julie Murray porary exhibitions and performances. inspired by Drexciya, the somewhat cinema.” — Robert Koehler, Variety. In the Absence of Light, Shorts: Thursday @ If you lived in Madison in 2009, you mysterious Black electronic-music duo may have witnessed some of their work from Detroit. Darkness Prevails Bartell in action, including oil derricks crop- The Secret Sharer experimental · Brazil, USA, 2010, color & b/w, THU, MAR 31 • 5:00 PM High/Low FRI, APR 1 • 6:15 PM 16mm · 13 MIN ping up on the Lake Monona ice, NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE · documentary Bartell Theatre photos of your friends and neighbors · Luxembourg, 2010, color, video · 53 MIN UW Cinematheque DIRECTOR: FERN SILVA 95 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A staring back at you along the bike path DIRECTOR: JEAN-LOUIS SCHULLER, SAM 79 MIN “O mother of waters! Great is your FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND. and from storefront windows, or the BLAIR Atlantiques power, your strength, and your light... Photography: Jean-Louis Schuller; editor: Jacob Let your greatness be the greatest wealth At the Table: Mothers unexplained appearance of oversized Schulsinger; sound recording: Sam Blair; sound experimental · Senegal, France, 2009, color, video peapods, giant electrical outlets, and design: Gunnar Oskarsson; original music: Roger · 15 MIN you dispense to me...surrounded by Sharing Stories Through Art WORLD PREMIERE · Goula; producer: Anne Schroeder DIRECTOR: MATI DIOP sweet melodies springing from your own documentary · USA, 2010, huge, mobile iron seabirds. color, video · 9 MIN IN CANTONESE, ENGLISH WITH ENGLISH Cinematographer: Mati Diop; editor: Mati Diop; In this feature documentary, Stand- self...” — prayer to Iemanjá DIRECTOR: BRIJETTA HALL WALLER SUBTITLES sound: Sylvain Copans; music: Bent; production “Fern Silva’s In the Absence of Light, ing allows the artists to describe in their An obsession with luck and fortune designer: Mati Diop; executive producer: Le Producer: Brijetta Hall Waller; additional video- own words how they overcame (or Darkness Prevails suggests a future grapher: Jason Butler permeates through Hong Kong culture. Fresnoy; producer: Mati Diop; cast: Serigne Seck, occasionally were defeated by) balky Alpha Diop, Cheikh M’Baye, Ouli Seck, Asta already arrived, merging the destruc- SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN From trained sparrows choosing your WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • MARCH 30-APRIL 3, 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG 3, • MADISON MARCH 30-APRIL WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL M’Boup tion with the creation of life as seen in Madison-based documentary film- materials, creative frustration, bureau- lucky card in the street market to feng 24 cratic red tape, the challenge of collab- Oil Wrestling shui consultants advising on the cor- Block rect placement of flowing water, to live MIDWEST PREMIERE · narrative · USA, 2010, in Hong Kong and neighboring Macau color, video · 12 MIN is to be surrounding by the inspiration DIRECTOR: CHADD HARBOLD and opportunity to grow rich and suc- Writer, producer: Mary Beth Minthorn, Helen Rogers; cinematographer: Dan Katz; editor: ceed. But for there to be winners, it Bryan Gaynor; art department: Marianna Luden- means there are losers, and gambling sky; sound editor: Graham Reznik; executive A Screaming Man (Un Homme Qui Crie) has long been a part of Chinese life. producer: Dan Katz, Mary Beth Minthorn; cast: Helen Rogers, Artie Pasquale, Mike Keller, Leo Shot in exquisite high-definition Townsell another responsibility to her list, but video, the film follows four gamblers SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN maybe this one will lighten her heart. on their journey toward easy money, at In a corner convenience store, a Director Bohdana Smyrnova was born the casino and the horse track. Through young woman in Brooklyn discovers in Kiev, Ukraine, and has an MFA in film personal stories, High/Low reveals an that the hostility of the city has had an from the Tisch School of the Arts. emotional search for belief and iden- unexpectedly profound and disturbing The Mushroom Sessions tity in money-centric modern China. effect, when she feels threatened by a MIDWEST PREMIERE · narrative · USA, 2010, Oil Wrestling belligerent drunk. The film’s writer, pro- color, video · 28 MIN DIRECTOR: ADAM COSCO WORLD PREMIERE · documentary · USA, ducer and lead actress, Helen Rogers, Cinematographer: Daniel Kenji Levin; editor: Turkey, 2009, color, video · 24 MIN was born and raised in Madison. DIRECTOR: EMIR CAKAROZ Arndt Peemoeller; production designer: Colleen Larson; producer: Allard Cantor; cast: Micah IN TURKISH, NO SUBTITLES WITH ENGLISH Forever’s Gonna Start Tonight Hauptman, Annika Marks SUBTITLES MIDWEST PREMIERE · narrative · USA, 2010, SERIES: SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN color, video · 16 MIN WISCONSIN’S OWN Clad in heavy black leather kneepants, DIRECTOR: ELIZA HITTMAN The Mushroom Sessions is a subtle, the men pour thick oil over their arms, Writer, producer: Eliza Hittman; director of pho- moving, realistic, and beautifully pho- tography: Smokey Nelson; editor: Scott Cum- tographed depiction of two characters chest, and legs. This is preparation for a mings; assistant camera: Tim Trotman; assistant community wrestling competition, held director , associate producer: Andrew Ahn; cast: who sort through the sordid details of in a grassy field ringed by bleachers. Fam- Viktoria Vinyarska, Nina Medvinskaya, Fedor their once happy relationship. When ilies gather to hear music and cheer along Filonov, Andrew Drozdov, Mike Pikeman, Mariya David shows up where Catherine works, Lebedovych she’s unpleasantly surprised. He cajoles as men and boys of all ages compete IN RUSSIAN, ENGLISH WITH ENGLISH against their peers. The passion of the SUBTITLES her into spending time with him: the competitors and the transmission of tra- PRESENTED WITH THE UW CENTER FOR lure is a paper bag of psychedelic mush- RUSSIA, EASTERN EUROPE, AND CENTRAL rooms. Their history is slowly revealed ditional beliefs about strength and mas- ASIA; UW RUSSIAN FLAGSHIP CENTER. culinity between generations remain and relived throughout one night they Forever’s Gonna Start Tonight WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON MARCH Sonya is a 17-year-old Russian immi- spend together taking mushrooms in strikingly clear. Born in Istanbul, direc- grant, more interested in Brooklyn club- tor Emir Cakaroz now lives in Milwau- the woods, a story made powerful bing than being with her dad in their through incredibly honest performances kee, where he received his MFA from the stuffy, cramped apartment. He can’t stop UWM Peck School of Arts. and a stark style that lets the characters bringing home rescued cats, and the speak for themselves. Director Adam The Overpass landlady is starting to get ticked off. Cosco’s thesis film at the American Film (Gogadoro) Sonya goes to the nightclub with her Institute, The Mushroom Sessions was WORLD PREMIERE · documentary · South girlfriend, where they meet a pair of produced by 1994 UW-Madison alum- Korea, 2009, color, video · 24 MIN handsome guys, also part of the Russ- nus Allard Cantor. DIRECTOR: JUNGMIN CHOI ian scene in Brooklyn. Wanting to get IN KOREAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES away, wanting to let go, she looks for Opening Up Yo Jungok is 73, lives alone under a ways to escape into the sounds of puls- MIDWEST PREMIERE · narrative · Canada, 2010, highway overpass in Seoul, and makes color, video · 19 MIN ing dance beats. Director Eliza Hittman DIRECTOR: ALBÉRIC AURTENÈCHE a scanty livelihood by collecting and made this film while an MFA student at Writer: Albéric Aurteneche; camera: Nicolas selling recyclable junk. As the city gets the California Institute of the Arts. Canniccioni; editor: Isabelle Malenfant; sound: increasingly urbanized, it becomes Her Seat is Vacant Dominique Chartrand; sound mixer: Jean-Paul harder for him to survive with his low- Vialard; original music: Roger Tellier-Craig; pro- MIDWEST PREMIERE · narrative · Ukraine, USA, duction manager: Nancy Grant; cast: Ariane 30-APRIL 3, 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM tech tools and outmoded cart. It can 2010, b/w, video · 17 MIN Trepanier, Pierre-Luc Lafontaine, Denis Bernard, take three days of junk collecting just DIRECTOR: BOHDANA SMYRNOVA Catherine Cadotte, Éleonore Lamothe to earn five dollars. Good thing there’s Writer: Bohdana Smyrnova; cinematographer: IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES a local soup kitchen for seniors where Michael Rossetti; editor: Sarah-Rose Meredith; Gabrielle is an intelligent teenager, sound: Mike Wood; costume design: Malgosia he can get a square meal. This delicately Turzanska; set design: Sia Balabanova; execu- navigating the social circles at her school filmed documentary carefully and tive producer: Bohdana Smyrnova; producer: and feeling disconnected from her father. respectfully observes one of the many Mollye Asher, Irakli Tskhadadze; cast: Halyna One night she meets, or rather overhears, people marginalized by fast-growing Gebura, Andriy Milavsky, Olga Shuhan Étienne: they are both in the hospital IN UKRAINIAN, RUSSIAN, ENGLISH WITH urban sprawl. ENGLISH SUBTITLES emergency room, getting stitches. He Vira is a little late for work, but the cut himself when he was a bit drunk, and Shorts: Friday @ other women in the New York tailor she cuts herself on purpose. Presented Chazen shop are forgiving. Vira is making without judgment and very much in arrangements for her sister’s funeral, sympathy with Gabrielle (well-acted by FRI, APR 1 • 6:15 PM Ariane Trepanier), this beautifully made Chazen Museum of Art and is also looking after her elderly Ukrainian mother. How awkward, then, but frank film shows two people who 95 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A don’t need to explain themselves to each FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND. when the hired musician shows up at the shop a day early. Vira must add other. Viewer discretion advised. The Mushroom Sessions 25 Baby The Death of Triforce Time Will Tell

a girlfriend home for the first time, in ema program, which brings professional boda, Jay Hurst; producer: Brian J. Crush; orig- Quamme, Ryan Reeve, Dan Boville, Ali Berry; Shorts: Friday @ Play this exquisitely made film about the filmmakers and local college film stu- inal music: Eric Westendorf; cast: Emily Vajda cast: Josh Evert, Cole Quamme, Ali Berry, Adam SERIES: Gilmore, Joey Boyce, Jackie McMahon Circle awkwardness and magic of a new rela- dents to Milwaukee area high school. WISCONSIN’S OWN An enigmatic mystery arises when SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN FRI, APR 1 • 5:15 PM tionship, and the trust that can come Spare Change was written by Franklin This clever three-part short exam- when the right person is with you. Film- High School sophomore Alexis Daub- a young woman notices that her apart- Play Circle Theatre ment furniture has been changing posi- ines the ways rhythm and music have 99 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A maker Dustin Feneley’s film Hawker ner and directed by Milwaukee native changed in response to developments FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND. played at last year’s Festival. Aaron Greer (Getting’ Grown WFF05). tion without explanation, and her inter- com buzzes when no one is there. 2009 in technology and cultural codes of Baby Gringo Loco Denison University graduates Jay Hurst interaction through time. Director Cole MIDWEST PREMIERE · Shorts: Friday @ MIDWEST PREMIERE · narrative · United King- narrative · USA, 2009, and Marc Slaboda create a highly sub- Quamme is a Wisconsin native and film dom, 2010, color, video · 25 MIN color, video · 15 MIN student at the UW-Milwaukee Peck DIRECTOR: RENEE S. BALTSEN Monona Terrace jective experience of confusion, frus- DIRECTOR: DANIEL MULLOY School of the Arts. IN ENGLISH, BOSNIAN WITH ENGLISH Writer: Hillary Layman; cinematographer: Collin FRI, APR 1 • 7:00 PM tration, fear and lost time in this mini- SUBTITLES Brazie; editor: Mark Hawkins; sound designer: Monona Terrace malist short. The film’s photography Under the Sun “I wanted to make a film about an David Jacox; producer: Ben Fickes; cast: Daniel 79 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A was done by Mike Palzkill, a Wisconsin WORLD PREMIERE · animation · USA, 2010, E. Mora, Jake Head, Martin Morales intense relationship and how it evolves FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND. native and current Madison resident. color, video · 4 MIN IN SPANISH, ENGLISH WITH ENGLISH DIRECTOR: EMMA PETERSEN over a very short period. Power can shift SUBTITLES The Death of Triforce instrumental video nine SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN so quickly and I really wanted to create There’s a spot on the highway where MADISON PREMIERE · documentary · USA, MIDWEST PREMIERE · animation · USA, 2010, Drawn in chalk on the side of a filing a scenario in which I could play with a the Latino day-labors gather each day, 2010, b/w, video · 7 MIN color, video · 3 MIN cabinet, this animated film displays the relationship that develops fast between hoping to pick up a little construction DIRECTOR: JON SALIMES, ANTHONY DIRECTOR: MIKE WINKELMANN LOPEZ power of nature’s rejuvenation amidst two unlikely strangers.” — director work. Carlos is the unofficial foreman SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN Editor: Anthony Lopez, Jon Salimes a sterile city. Emma Petersen is a stu- Daniel Mulloy. As Sara waits at the bus of this group, and has to decide what to An animated video featuring SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN dent at Wayland Academy in Beaver stop, she interrupts a man trying to pick- do when a white gringo shows up, look- machines tightly synced to an grungy, The Triforce Festival brings together Dam. pocket someone’s purse. The man, cocky ing for a work assignment. Director glitchy, electronic soundtrack. Each eleven local Milwaukee garage bands small piece of the machine produces its and challenging, follows her onto the Renee Baltsen is a student at Chapman for a night of intense energy in a base- Wowie own sound that together works to sym- WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · USA, 2010, bus. Intrigued and attracted, he persist- University in Orange, Calif. ment music venue known as “The ently tries to get Sara to react and biotically produce a thick, pulsating color, video · 9 MIN Lottery Ticket Vault.” The remarkable quality of The DIRECTOR: CRAIG WEBSTER, FLORINA TITZ respond to him. 2011 Sundance Film track that is not only made by machines, MADISON PREMIERE · narrative · USA, 2009, Death of Triforce, besides its stunning Writer: Craig Webster; director of photogra- Festival; Best British Short, 2010 British color, video · 10 MIN but for machines. Wisconsin native phy: Chris Renaud, Florina Titz; editor: Craig black-and-white photography by UW- Mike Winkelmann is a frequent con- Independent Film Awards. DIRECTOR: SAMUEL TOMFOHR Milwaukee alumni Anthony Lopez and Webster; location sound: Jeff Palmer; make- Writer: Samuel Tomfohr; director of photogra- tributor to the Wisconsin Film Festival. up: Laura Houha, Leah Kniss; sound design: The Bully phy: Christina Voros; editor: Samuel Tomfohr; Jon Salimes, is the eternality of even its Craig Webster; music: Little Wings; producer: MADISON PREMIERE · narrative · USA, 2010, producer: Jacob Kader and Samuel Tomfohr; most ephemeral moments. Such a con- Power Trio Craig Webster, Florina Titz; cast: Luther color, video · 26 MIN cast: David Bonfim, Luciana Faulhaber, Luca cert could have taken place in any one WORLD PREMIERE · animation · USA, 2010, Bangert, Leah Kniss, Zardon Richardson, DIRECTOR: DEREK KIMBALL color, video · 3 MIN Michael Darrow Rodrigues, Lucy McMichael of America’s cities on any night for Writer: Matthew Konkel, Derek Kimball; direc- IN ENGLISH, PORTUGUESE WITH ENGLISH DIRECTOR: ERIC J. NELSON While on his rounds as a postman, decades; such youthful passion and tor of photography: Mark Myers; original score: SUBTITLES Animation: Eric J. Nelson; music: Vibrationland Wowie peeks through a window to see Graham; executive producer: Elaine Konkel, Jim SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN spirit is what powers underground SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN a young woman exercising in her house. Konkel, David Kimball; producer: Matthew music. Konkel, Derek Kimball, Angie Nemanic; cast: João, a Brazilian man living in New Intergalactic plastic musicians give To catch her attention at a party, he Henry Shotwell, Richard Heim, Alex Losi, Joel York, is desperate to get in touch with Deux Petits Bateaux their half-inch arms a workout in an out- delivers an awkward, goofball perform- Kopischke, Zachary Soetenga, Angelica Sekula, his daughter. He asks his ex-wife’s MADISON PREMIERE · experimental · USA, of-this-world performance. Madison- ance. The character of Wowie is inspired Abby Shotwell brother for help — won’t you give me 2010, color, video · 3 MIN based filmmaker, Eric J. Nelson has SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN DIRECTOR: KATE RANEY by and acted by Luther Bangert, an Iowa her phone number? A sensitive and del- shown several films at the Festival, City juggler and street performer. Two 10-year-old boys plot to win the icately handled story filled with the SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN including Fishin’ For Tradition: The Lute- favor of a cute girl by taking on the details of the immigrant world of the Two All-American teenagers on a fisk Saga (WFF09). Music by local band Shorts: Saturday @ school bully. This simple story turns into city: riding a bicycle because a car is too sailing trip happen upon an old-timey ViBRATiONLAND. a rich exploration of the difficult underwater dance party when their expensive, the steam tables at the Shine On You Crzy Diamond Chazen moments when childhood drama comes brother-in-law’s Brazilian lunch spot. phonograph falls overboard. A delight- SAT, APR 2 • 9:45 PM face-to-face with adult reality. Director WORLD PREMIERE · animation · USA, 2010, Filmmaker Samuel Tomfohr is a native ful cut-out animation by UW-Milwau- color, video · 6 MIN Chazen Museum of Art Derek Kimball differentiates his film of Menomonie who is currently work- kee alumna Kate Raney. DIRECTOR: JERSTIN CROSBY, THAD 98 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A from other coming-of-age tales with a ing on a feature-length film project in Figure In Isolation KELLSTADT FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND. modesty and a subtlety that lend depth São Paulo, Brazil, where he has lived WORLD PREMIERE · animation · USA, 2010, Jerstin Crosby created six minutes Dark Ways to his characters and poignancy to his color, video · 4 MIN over the past year with a Fulbright fel- of visuals from found environmentalist WORLD PREMIERE · narrative · USA, 2010, story. This may also be the first WFF lowship in filmmaking. DIRECTOR: KALEB DUROCHER, MICHELLE footage, and hand-made effects of light. color, video · 27 MIN CHRZANOWSKI film to feature a cat coughing up a hair- Thad Kellstadt created six minutes of DIRECTOR: WILLIAM Q. HARTIN Animation: Kalev Durocher, Michelle ball. Shot entirely in Wisconsin, The Spare Change Director of photography: Justin Daering; first Chrzanowski audio that uses found audio, guitar MADISON PREMIERE · narrative · USA, 2010, assistant director: Jason Dusensky; camera Bully stars Madison resident Henry color, video · 12 MIN SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN effects, and a distorted narration. Both Shotwell. operator: Spencer Meffert; sound mixer, DIRECTOR: AARON GREER A masked figure seeks change in the artists worked separately and only com- designer: Brian Liston; production designer: Eskimo Kiss Writer: Alexis Daubner; original music: Susan vast whiteness of an empty world. This bined the components at the very end. Danielle Dannenberg; producer: Travis Moody; and John Nicholson; producer: Susan Kerns, WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · Australia, stop-motion animation was created in The result was a concise whole that cast: Jacqueline Scislowski, Thom McCloud, 2009, color, video · 11 MIN Blyth Meier, Mark Metcalf; executive producer: Mark Huismann Jonathan Jackson; producer: Collaborative Cin- a small, dark bedroom-turned-anima- challenges traditional attitudes about DIRECTOR: DUSTIN FENELEY SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN ema and Milwaukee Film; cast: John Kishline, tion cave as a part of an independent the nature of collaboration, opting for Writer: Dustin Feneley; cinematographer: Ari Marti Gobel, Jeff Fitzsimmons, Sarah Laack- Dark Ways is the story of ten-year- Wegner; editor: Peter Sciberras; music: Nick Bat- film study at UW-Eau Claire. a more indeterminable, unconscious Hughes effort. old Nell and her father Robert, who have terham; producer: Rob Ball, Dustin Feneley; cast: SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN Mario Filintatzis, Anya Beyersdorf I’ll Be Here the task of clearing out the eerie house WISCONSIN PREMIERE · Time Will Tell PRESENTED WITH THE UW DEPARTMENT A good-spirited homeless man col- narrative · USA, 2010, of Robert’s deceased brother. Nell’s love OF REHABILITATION PSYCHOLOGY AND lects quarters with unexpected results color, video · 15 MIN MADISON PREMIERE · narrative · USA, 2010, for spooky stories proves unexpectedly SPECIAL EDUCATION. DIRECTOR: JAY HURST, MARC SLOBODA color, video · 23 MIN in this quirky short created as part of DIRECTOR: COLE QUAMME prophetic as the house begins to reveal WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • MARCH 30-APRIL 3, 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG 3, • MADISON MARCH 30-APRIL WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL A young man with a disability brings Writer: Marc Sloboda, Jay Hurst; director of Milwaukee Film’s Collaborative Cin- Writer, editor: Cole Quamme; camera: Cole a deep, sinister presence. Directed by 26 photography: Mike Palzkill; editor: Marc Slo- Ellen

William Q. Hartin, a graduate of UW- Writer: Eric Gerber; editor, sound designer: Drew Milwaukee, and filmed in Madison’s Rosas; composer, art director: Evan Murphy; cast: Rob Dunlop Vilas neighborhood. SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN Ellen Tight framing and the low light of the MIDWEST PREMIERE · narrative · USA, 2010, Los Angeles sunset heighten the ten- color, video · 15 MIN sion in this short film about a pest con- DIRECTOR: KYLE HAUSMANN-STOKES The Great Work of Dr. D. Volos Tinkerpaw Writer: Stephanie Spoleti; cinematographer: trol worker with a unique relationship Brian Charles Lehrer, Sam Sabawi; editor: Jack to bugs. Director Eric Gerber is a grad- Murgatroyd, Joe Smith; composer: Gareth Coker; uate of UW-Milwaukee. ing prairie brush in Dodge County Wis- producer: CC Chainey; cast: Jessica Andres, Traci consin reveal unexpected, even painterly Odom, Edward E. Cohen Rigor Mortis formal patterns in this documentary by SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN WORLD PREMIERE · narrative · USA, 2010, UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee color, video · 10 MIN She’s been abducted and strapped to DIRECTOR: TRAVIS A. TOROK, KYLE graduate William Bedford. an attic bed, in the home of a mild-man- PROBST Axiom nered but obviously sicko neighborhood Writer: Travis Torok; editor, producer: Travis A. MIDWEST PREMIERE · experimental · USA, man. Drugged and helpless, she recalls Torok, Kyle Probst; music: Tucker Torok; cast: 2010, b/w, video · 1 MIN Kyle Gallagher-Smith, Derek Burton Morris a memory of her mother, which gives DIRECTOR: SALLY GRIZZELL LARSON SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN her an idea for her escape. Director Kyle Editor, producer: Sally Grizzell Larson Hausmann-Stokes is a native of Verona, In this supernatural film from UW- Sally Grizzell Larson combines Wis. The film was his senior thesis at Milwaukee film students Travis Torok footage from Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia, the University of Southern California. and Kyle Probst, a man who discovers the song “Paradise Circus” by Massive a grave stone prophesizing his death, The Great Work of Attack, and text edited from Herwin falls asleep at work and wakes up in a Schaefer’s 1970 book Nineteenth Cen- Dr. D. Volos Tinkerpaw hellish reality. tury Modern: The Functional Tradition WORLD PREMIERE · narrative · USA, 2010, color, video · 10 MIN SHC in Victorian Design. DIRECTOR: JEREMY HOSTERMAN narrative · USA, 2010, color, video · 15 MIN DIRECTOR: ROBB THOMPSON Except for the Only Producer: Michael Savage, Jeremy Hosterman, WORLD PREMIERE · experimental · USA, 2009, Writer: Ren Patterson; director of photography: Karl Warnke; cast: Michael Savage, Nora Thar- color, 16mm · 28 MIN Nathan Clarke,; score, sound design: RJ Beyler; gonski-Obrien DIRECTOR: AARON AUERBACH SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN producer: Melissa Schaefer; cast: Colin Wool- ston, Debra Lopez, Mary Fairweather Dexter The architecture of India’s temples A Victorian-era apothecary and his SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN merges with natural plant forms, and demon assistant discover an elixir capa- Anxiety pervades the photography, hand-processed film gradually takes on Rigor Mortis WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON MARCH ble of raising the dead. This Méliès- editing, and score in this energetic more clarity in this personal cinematic inspired work updates the silent, tableau thriller about a man who visits a gypsy journal. From quiet lakes to the clamor style with touches of color and dialogue, fortune teller and learns that he will of crowded streets, the film presents as well as masterful photography and burst into flames at 7 pm, through spon- abstract impressions of this land. art direction. Director Jeremy Hoster- taneous human combustion. Director Four Cubic Feet of Space man is a Wisconsin native and first-year Robb Thompson and producer Melissa student at Minneapolis Community and MIDWEST PREMIERE · documentary · USA, Schaefer are 2009 graduates of Madi- 2010, color, video · 9 MIN Technical College. son Media Institute. The film was shot DIRECTOR: TONY GAULT Love Me Tender entirely on location in Madison. Watch over of the shoulder of artist WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · USA, 2009, Daniel Sprick in his studio, as he cre- color, video · 17 MIN ates a compelling painting of a reclin- DIRECTOR: MATTHEW MORGENTHALER Shorts: Saturday @ ing human skeleton and muses about Writer: Brian McAuley; director of photogra- Cinematheque phy: Antonio Cisneros; editor: Elan Golod; pro- the strange fact that we all exist. Direc- duction designer: Charlotte Royer; sound edi- SAT, APR 2 • 4:00 PM tor Tony Gault’s film Fledgling played tor, mixer: Hannah Weddle; composer: Dan UW Cinematheque at last year’s Festival. Ashby; producer: Matthew Morgenthaler; cast: 92 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A Jeanne Joe Perrone, Ben Levin, Betsy Newman, FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND. From the Archive

Max Ruebens, Chris Kies, Andrews Landsman, 30-APRIL 3, 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM Emily Robison, Adam Quinn Annihilation of Vagaries SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN MADISON PREMIERE · experimental · USA, MIDWEST PREMIERE · experimental · USA, 2010, color, video · 6 MIN 2010, color, video · 9 MIN A dark, twisted, and richly illustrated DIRECTOR: CHELE ISAAC comedy about Emma, a young woman DIRECTOR: CATIE ELLER SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN Sound, camera, post: Chele Isaac; cast: BA Har- with a lifelong obsession with falling in rington; crew: John Neis love. While she seems to have no trou- Silent film footage of old logging SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN ble finding a date with a classmate, her trucks and giant redwoods is hand- Dreamlike movement and rich enthusiasm for finding her white knight processed and distressed to create an autumnal color renders this experimen- makes it difficult for her to keep him — evocative piece of work by Catie Eller, tal piece about a fairytale figure mak- alive. Filmmaker Matthew Morgen- a Madison native who is currently a stu- ing music in the moonlit forest as quaint thaler is a former Madison resident and dent at UW-Milwaukee. as it is nightmarish. Shot partly in the an NYU Tisch film production gradu- Ash UW-Madison Arboretum. Director ate. WORLD PREMIERE · experimental · USA, 2010, Chele Isaac holds an MFA from UW- color, video · 5 MIN Madison and has had several award- Pesticide DIRECTOR: WM. BEDFORD winning films in past Wisconsin Film MADISON PREMIERE · narrative · USA, 2010, SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN color, video · 5 MIN Festivals. DIRECTOR: ERIC GERBER The quiet, simple images of burn- Four Cubic Feet of Space 27 Minong, I Slept Legend Lake: A Talking Circle Color of the Ground

Golden Hour They Say Even Water Has a out was intense: Vang is a naturalized Morning Star The Optimo Hat Company WISCONSIN PREMIERE · experimental · USA, U.S. citizen and Hmong immigrant, the MIDWEST PREMIERE · narrative · Australia, WORLD PREMIERE · documentary · USA, 2010, 2009, color, 16mm · 16 MIN Memory... 2010, color, video · 15 MIN color, video · 10 MIN MADISON PREMIERE · experimental · USA, six hunters were white. Open Season DIRECTOR: ROBERT TODD DIRECTOR: JESSICA BARCLAY LAWTON DIRECTOR: SAM MACON 2010, color, video · 7 MIN looks at this story, combining court- Cinematographer, editor, sound design, score: DIRECTOR: JULIE WOLTERSTORFF room testimony with commentary from Writer: Jessica Lawton; director of photogra- Director of photographer: Travis Auclair; edi- Robert Todd phy: Edward Goldner; editor: Jessica Lawton; tor: Mark P. Smith; producer: Jonah Mueller, Editor: Julie Wolterstorff; sound: Julie Wolter- friends and family members of both the producer: Lani Kingston; cast: Kerry-Anne Haf- Timm Gable, Adam Loeb Robert Todd describes his film: storff, Wylie Hefti; actor: Wylie Hefti victims and the defendant to create a fern, Adrian Auld, Salvatore Galofaro SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN “What if the Looking Glass were, at the SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN complex picture of the issues involved same time, a window and a mirror, if Set in early 1900s Australia, in an omi- Gorgeous photography and a brassy The bubbling and swirling of water in both the crime and the conviction, nous, rural town, young widow Ida the window was the mirror, the mirror in motion creates a disorienting and jazz soundtrack set the tone for this doc- including racial, cultural and economic Edminson finds her faith restored when umentary about the Optimo Hat Com- the window? And your projection immersive experience in this film by tensions. Codirector Mark Tang lives through this transparent/reflective a mysterious man, with wings resem- pany, a producer of hand-made luxury Julie Wolterstorff, a student at UW-Mil- in the Twin Cities, and co-director Lu bling those of an angel, wanders into the plane did bring you to a world that is waukee. hats on the South Side of Chicago. Stun- Lippold is a Wisconsin resident and town from an uncharted dirt road. With ning details include the classic hat-mak- as externally rich as the self, in its inter- graduate of UW-Madison. nal churnings shifting through dark and Shorts: Saturday @ his presence comes hope for change and ing process and the culture of the hat- light, directs it to be — the self and the resurgence, which Ida so desperately wearing community in contemporary world open to each other, if but for a Monona Terrace Shorts: Saturday @ desires. Chicago. Director Sam Macon received moment? And that window offers itself SAT, APR 2 • 1:00 PM Play Circle Preacher his BFA in film from UW-Milwaukee. to you as a space in your life, held shim- Monona Terrace SAT, APR 2 • 1:30 PM (Prediker) Style & Grace mering in your being and your vision 91 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A Play Circle Theatre NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE · narrative · documentary · USA, 2010, color, video · 40 MIN FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND. throughout that sustaining moment, 76 MIN Belgium, 2009, color, video · 28 MIN DIRECTOR: LINDA FRIEND that golden hour. Legend Lake: A Talking DIRECTOR: DAAN VAN BAELEN SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN Color of the Ground Writer: Daan Van Baelen, Leslie Verbeeck; direc- A compilation of footage taken over Circle WORLD PREMIERE · Kathryn narrative · USA, 2010, tor of photography: Rik Zang; editor: Leslie Ver- three years, this short documentary WORLD PREMIERE · experimental · USA, 2010, WORLD PREMIERE · documentary · USA, 2010, color, video · 16 MIN beeck; sound: Pieter Deweirdt; art direction: b/w, video · 2 MIN color, video · 34 MIN DIRECTOR: JERREN LAUDER Dries De Win; cast: Michaël Vergauwen, Jan depicts Style & Grace, Madison’s oldest DIRECTOR: JACLYN MCCLANATHAN DIRECTOR: MARK ANTHONY ROLO Writer: Jerren Lauder; cinematographer: Elisha Hammenecker, Jeroen Perceval, Ellen Schoe- Black barbershop, where Mr. Smitty has Photographer, editor: Jaclyn McClanathan; orig- Writer: Mark Anthony Rolo; director of photog- Christian; editor: Sean Ferris; original score: naerts been cutting hair on the south side of inal music: Tim Fehling raphy: Robert Breitenbach; editor: Robert Brei- Justin Hopkins; costume: Beth Hanna; art direc- IN DUTCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES town since 1949. Part of director Linda SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN tenbach; musical score: Mitch Buenger Mielke; tion: Jenna Sullo; sound design: Justin Hopkins; Three religious brothers live an iso- theater, sound, lighting: Tony Klose; additional producer: Alexander Ordonez and Jerren Friend’s 2010 MFA thesis at UW-Madi- Recent UW-Madison graduate Jaclyn photography: Jessica Buettner; executive pro- Lauder; cast: Robert Longstreet, Alexander lated, harsh life on the countryside. The son, the film celebrates a sector of the McClanathan considers Kathryn an ducer: David Stanfield; producer: Mark Anthony Ordonez youngest one, Steve, is mentally chal- Madison community made up of the autobiographical piece, created during Rolo; narrator: David Stanfield IN ENGLISH, SPANISH WITH ENGLISH lenged and often the victim of harass- patrons of the salon who stop by to play SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN SUBTITLES a particularly stressful time. She ment by his rowdy older brothers. Some- checkers, to catch up with friends, and explores human emotion through the Decades ago, Legend Lake was A Spanish-speaking man with a duf- thing he finds in the woods turns the fel bag wanders into the wooded camp to ruminate on current events. Style & contrast of rich, dark shadow and hope- formed by joining nine smaller lakes in lives of the brothers upside down: Chris- Grace is as much a depiction of 60-year- ful, illuminating light and movement. the Menominee Indian Reservation in of a loony hoarder, a guy who loves to tian morality only seems to stretch so talk. With a language barrier, they find old familial and community traditions as Original music by UW-Madison student Northern Wisconsin to create a residen- far and family ties turn out to be weaker it is a unique perspective on the current Tim Fehling. tial development. Shared by American a way to swap stories about their dam- than expected. aged pasts, relieving themselves a lit- national condition by Madison residents. Minong, I Slept Indians and lake-home owners, the community has struggled with racial tle bit of their burdens, imagining a city Shorts: Sunday @ UNITED STATES PREMIERE · experimental · built out of lost memories. Shorts: Sunday @ USA, 2010, color, 16mm · 5 MIN and environmental issues for decades. Monona Terrace DIRECTOR: VERA BRUNNER-SUNG Now, some valuable lakefront land is Lili’s Paradise Play Circle Writer, photographer, editor: Vera Brunner-Sung being returned to the Reservation, SUN, APR 3 • 3:15 PM SUN, APR 3 • 11:00 AM (El Paraíso de Lili) Monona Terrace On the remote wilderness island removing it from the local tax base. It’s MIDWEST PREMIERE · Play Circle Theatre narrative · Peru, 2009, 100 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A called Minong (Isle Royale), remains of a problem that has no elegant, easy solu- color, video · 17 MIN 80 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND. human industry are absorbed into the tion, but talking and learning and under- DIRECTOR: MELINA LEON FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND. forest and shoreline. An inquiry into the standing are helping all the members of Writer: Melina León; director of photography: Mary and Bill Anima Mundi this community keep looking for an Inti Briones; producer: Nené Herrera, Iris Otero, MADISON PREMIERE · documentary · USA, push and pull between people and Silvia Del Aguila; cast: Natalia Roca, Tommy Pár- MADISON PREMIERE · experimental · USA, nature, land and sea, intimacy and vast- acceptable outcome. The documentary 2010, color, video · 50 MIN 2010, color, video · 4 MIN raga, Magaly Bolivar DIRECTOR: ANDREW NAPIER ness. Vera Brunner-Sung’s work has combines interviews and history with IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES DIRECTOR: KATHERINE ANNA BALSLEY Writer, producer: Andrew Napier SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN played widely at international film fes- footage from a community roundtable Lili’s Paradise is a group of episodes SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN tivals, including Common Ground (or talking circle) led by UW-Madison in the life of Lili Jiménez, a precocious “Anima mundi,” a Latin phrase mean- Mary Stroebe is a 90-year-old triath- ing “spirit of the world,” has been a fun- (WFF10). professor Patty Loew. Peruvian girl who questions every- lete and Bill Wambach an 83-year-old Open Season thing, from God’s existence to her damental principle of philosophical Subdued Glow high jumper who compete in the thought for centuries, representing the MADISON PREMIERE · experimental · USA, MADISON PREMIERE · documentary · USA, maid’s working status. Ernesto, her National Senior Olympic Games; they vital life force that animates all matter 2010, color, video · 3 MIN 2010, color, video · 57 MIN only brother, is 18 and is a sort of ide- both happen to live right here in Madi- DIRECTOR: MARK TANG, LU LIPPOLD in the universe. This experimental piece, DIRECTOR: ANTONIO VARGAS ological master for her. She’s Jewish, son. Director Andrew Napier and pro- Cast: Caroline Jaecks Editor: Dan Luke, Mark Tang; original score: by filmmaker, animator, video artist and so when the rest of her class goes off ducer Jesse Mursky-Fuller, both natives SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN Willie Murphy; post-production audio: John UW-Milwaukee professor Kate Balsley, Sims to study for First Communion, Lili of Wisconsin and UW students, allow Saturated color and intense focus give combines thousands of individual IN ENGLISH, HMONG WITH ENGLISH plays basketball by herself. One day Mary and Bill to tell their stories and unexpected aesthetic force to a young SUBTITLES images of flowers, both wild and culti- Ernesto decides to leave home, to show off their talents as they prepare to woman’s morning routine. Director SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN become a guerrilla, leaving Lili alone vated, to create a unique, fluid aesthetic, Antonio Vargas is a film student at UW- In 2005, Chai Vang was convicted of compete, despite recent injuries and celebrating the beauty of the natural to figure things out by herself. The medical complications. The film is both Milwaukee. killing six hunters in a violent con- world. All images were taken at the story is set in 1988, in the context of delightfully funny and inspirational to frontation during deer hunting season Schlitz Audubon Center in Bayside, Wis- Peru’s worst financial crisis and polit- athletes of any age. in Sawyer County, Wisconsin. The consin, and the Boerner Botanical Gar-

WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • MARCH 30-APRIL 3, 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG 3, • MADISON MARCH 30-APRIL WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL ical upheaval. crime, the trial, and the community fall- dens in Hales Corners. 28 Slaves of the Saints

In the Courtyard of the ing released in the nineties wasn’t a col- Beloved lection of songs by a tortured alt-rocker. MIDWEST PREMIERE · documentary · USA, It was a covert audio recording of two 2009, color, video · 13 MIN older drunken men sharing an apart- DIRECTOR: ANDREAS BURGESS, SADIA ment in San Francisco, who spent their SHEPARD time yelling, screaming, hitting, and IN URDU WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES generally abusing each other. This Shut Up Little Man SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN recording is “Shut Up Little Man!,” one Over 18,000 still images combine to of the world’s first viral pop-culture tial meeting, the awkward first few create a stunning kaleidoscopic por- sensations. dates, the honeymoon period, blindly trait of the pilgrims, Sufi devotees, and It all began when Eddie Lee Sausage doing anything to save the failing rela- traditional devotional musicians who and Mitchell D — two UW-Madison tionship, and moving on are all various gather at the Nizamuddin Auliya Dar- guys (anyone remember seeing the stages that I wanted to infuse into the gah shrine and surrounding market in band Metal Blister at O’Cayz’s?) — film.” Intrigued by what that could pos- New Delhi, India. Burgess and Shep- moved to San Francisco to an ugly pink sibly do with taxidermy? You’ll have to ard recorded sound along the journey apartment building they called the get a ticket to this deliciously creepy by train to the shrine, layering that over Pepto-Bismol Palace. Their neighbors but sweet film to find out. the delicate arrangement of the photo- next door were Peter (a flamboyant gay graphs in collages and panoramas. It is Blueberry man) and Ray (a raging homophobe). MIDWEST PREMIERE · narrative · United King- a remarkable achievement in the cre- This ultimate odd-couple hated each dom, 2009, color, video · 12 MIN ation of light, color, rhythm and move- other with raging abandon, and through DIRECTOR: MATTHEW SANGER ment using only still images. Director the paper-thin walls their alcohol- Writer: Matthew Sanger, Darren Bender; direc- Andreas Burgess is a Madison native. tor of photography: Bryan Loftus; producer: Dar- fueled rants terrorized Eddie and ren Bender, Rosie Fellner; cast: Jay Simpson, Slaves of the Saints Mitch. Fearing for their lives they began Harley Bird WISCONSIN PREMIERE · documentary · USA, to tape-record evidence of the insane Daisy is a precociously upbeat kid, 2010, color, video · 64 MIN goings-on next door. who insists that mummy’s away on hol- DIRECTOR: KELLY E. HAYES Their tapes went on to inspire a cult Writer, editor: Catherine Crouch; producer: Kelly iday (she’s run off with “uncle” Barry) E. Hayes; producer, sound mix: Martie Marro following, spawning sell-out CDs, comic and daddy has itchy eyes (he’s miser- IN PORTUGUESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES artworks by Dan Clowes (Ghostworld), ably depressed and hitting the bottle). SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN stage-plays, and music from Devo. Like He’s not doing a great job of holding it UW-Madison graduate and Indiana the recent documentary Winnebago together, so when Daisy sees a giant

University ethnographer Kelly Hayes Man about Jack Rebney, Shut Up Little blue python in the pet store, Blueberry Animal Control WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON MARCH incorporated ten years of video footage Man! explores the blurring boundary becomes a new companion to Daisy and of ceremonies and personal interviews between privacy, art, and exploitation. their dog Molly. Not, unsurprisingly, a to create this exploration of Afro-Brazil- good idea. ian possession religions, popular Slaves of the Saints The Legend of Beaver throughout urban Brazil, where a vari- SEE: Shorts: Sunday @ Play Circle ety of spirit entities are believed to be Dam MIDWEST PREMIERE · narrative · Canada, 2010, active in the lives of human beings. The Slightly Unsettling color, video · 12 MIN film not only allows the faithful to Shorts DIRECTOR: JEROME SABLE, ELI BATALION describe the history of the religions and Writer: Jerome Sable, Eli Batalion; editor: the daily worship of their deities, but WED, MAR 30 • 8:15 PM Nicholas Musurca; cinematographer: Matt goes on to depict the vibrant, joyful rit- SAT, APR 2 • 9:45 PM Egan; music: Jerome Sable, Eli Batalion; pro- duction design: John Lord Booth III; producer uals where spirits are summoned from Monona Terrace Michael R. Blaha, Jerome Sable, Eli Batalion; their otherworldly abodes through 86 MIN coproducer: Mikhail Samonov, Edward Brooke, drumming, songs, and dance to possess Jacob Cowles; associate producer: Aaron Animal Control Greenberg; cast: L.J. Benet, Danny Zigwitz, the bodies of the devotees and bless the WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · Canada, Seán Cullen, Rick Miller, Kailey Swanson, community with their presence. 2010, color, video · 16 MIN Michael Chey, Joe Kaprielian, Dylan Boyack,

DIRECTOR: KIRE PAPUTTS Megan Lee 30-APRIL 3, 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM Shut Up Little Man Writer: Kire Paputts; editor: James Vandewater; Around the campfire, the troop director of photography: James Klopko; pro- FRI, APR 1 • 9:30 PM ducer: Kire Paputts, James Vandewater; execu- leader is telling spooky stories to the Wisconsin Union Theatre tive producer: Colin Brunton; production kids camping in the weeks. When the designer: Sophia Chirovsk chilling story of Stumpy Sam comes SAT, APR 2 • 8:00 PM An amateur taxidermist who works to life, one of the nerdy kids steps for- Bartell Theatre for the highway department picking up ward to save the day. “We wanted to do MIDWEST PREMIERE · documentary · Aus- tralia, 2011, color, video · 90 MIN+POST-FILM roadkill: you never run out of raw mate- something that both horror fans and Q&A rial for your art. Larry (Julian Richings) musical geeks like us would like,” says DIRECTOR: MATTHEW BATE is — no surprise — a bit of a loner, sur- Canadian codirector Jerome Sable. “So Writer: Matthew Bate; cinematographer: Bryan rounded in his cluttered house by we hand-picked the cream-of-the-crop Mason; editor: Bryan Mason; original music: Jonny Elk Walsh; production designer: Tony stuffed wildlife of all kinds. Director musical theatre talent for the cast, and Cronin; executive producer: Stephen Cleary, Kire Paputts envisioned this as a break- then assembled the best horror special Julie Ryan; producer: Julie Byrne, Sophie Hyde, up film. “Not only did it come together effects filmmaking team for the crew. Bryan Mason when I had gotten my heart broken, but What comes out at the other end is, we FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND. the narrative loosely follows the life hope, a scare and a laugh and a catchy The most important audio record- span of a typical relationship. The ini- tune.” Style & Grace The Legend of Beaver Dam 29 Songs from the Nickel Soul Boy Square Grouper

Point Zero director Hans Petter Moland reunite tor operator; and Ken’s room is piled ing it. Nyawawa agrees to restore dad’s friends, was drawn to the easy money (Nullpunkt) for their third film together, the darkly thick and high with his artwork. health if Abila succeeds at seven chal- of bringing in 500 tons of for sale, think- MIDWEST PREMIERE · narrative · Germany, humorous story of a small-time convict Director Alina Skrzeszewska lived lenges to “follow the sun.” In tackling each ing that pretty soon now (this was the 2010, color, video · 20 MIN released from jail and settling into his in one of the hotels for a year and a half of these tasks, and with the guidance and 1970s) it would be legalized. Corben DIRECTOR: ANDREAS SCHAAP life again. while shooting the film, and creates a encouragement of intelligent Shiku, Abi brings a vibrant documentary style to Cinematographer: Jakub Bejnarowicz; editor: Ulrik is a big dope of a man without sparsely elegant and strikingly intimate learns many new skills. these stories, laced with original Buf- Marc Hofmeister; production manager: Marie much ambition, who works for an portrait of people living in this largely “Raising the narrative beyond mere fet-esque music. Ebenhan; production design: Annette Schnei- der; sound: Carina Schlage, Kai Theißen; pro- absurd, incompetent, but still danger- invisible community. Their lives speak moral didacticism, the screenplay by ducer: Dana Löffelholz; cast: Max Engelke, Nic ous neighborhood gangster, Jensen. of both desperation and beauty, while Kenyan writer Billy Kahora naturally St. Christophorus: Romm, Nora Tschirner There’s a job at a local car mechanic, subtly resisting the encroaching gen- incorporates a slew of current issues, IN GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES which suits him fine, and he can bunk trification. ranging from the tensions between the Roadkill SEE: Slightly Unsettling Shorts Best friends Lenny and Daniel begin down in a grimy basement room run by country’s Luo and Kikuyu tribes to cam- playing a dangerous game, driven by the a grotesque landlady who likes the idea Soul Boy paigns for teen celibacy and HIV educa- absurd theory that you need to create of a hulking lug like him. Things get FRI, APR 1 • 8:00 PM tion. It also contrasts the poverty and The Stool Pigeon tragic bad luck in order to gain good for- (Sin yan) complicated when Jensen wants to see SAT, APR 2 • 4:00 PM crime of the vast slum with the privileged tune. When something bad happens to Ulrik get revenge on the guy who rat- milieu of white Kenyans in their gated THU, MAR 31 • 8:00 PM you, the universe will compensate with Play Circle Theatre ted on him: the crime boss has been 74 MIN communities.” — Alissa Simon, Variety. Orpheum Main happiness. Filmed with a kinetic and making sure that Ulrik’s ex-wife and kid 2010 Göteborg, Rotterdam, Berlin, Edin- NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE · narrative · saturated style reminiscent of Tom Tyk- were looked after during the 12 years Woman in Purple burgh, and Sydney film festivals. Hong Kong, 2010, color, 35mm · 112 MIN wer or Guy Ritchie, the two men dare prison and wants Ulrik to kill the snitch. (Zena U Ljubicastom) DIRECTOR: DANTE LAM each other to greater risks, and the game “Everything about A Somewhat Gen- MIDWEST PREMIERE · narrative · Bosnia and Spare Change Writer: Jack Ng, based on an idea by Dante Lam; Herzegovina, 2010, color, video · 14 MIN camera: Kenny Tse; editor: Chan Ki-Hop, escalates until everything is on the line. tle Man is so subdued and precise, from SEE: Shorts: Friday @ Play Circle Matthew Hui; art director: Pater Wong; costume: St. Christophorus: Roadkill Philip Øgaard’s cinematography to the DIRECTOR: IGOR DRLJACA Stephanie Wong; music: Henry Lai; stunt cho- Writer: Igor Drljaca, Hrvoje Zuparic; producer: reography: Chin Ka-Lok, Wong Wai-Fai; exec- WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · Germany, brilliant score by Danish composer Amra Bakšic Camo; executive producer: Izeta Square Grouper: The 2010, color, video · 24 MIN utive producer: Albert Lee, Wong Zhonglei, Che- Halfdan E (constructed around half- Grdevic, Jovan Marjanovic, Mirsad Purivatra; ung Hong-Tat; producer: Candy Leung, Zhang DIRECTOR: GREGOR ERLER buried bits of rock, pop and country cast: Haris Begic, Alen Muratovic, Mediha Mus- Godfathers of Ganja Dajun, Ren Yue; cast: Nick Cheung, Nicholas Writer: Benjamin Karalic; director of photogra- hits) to the performance by Skarsgård liovic, Aleksandar Seksan, Emina Muftic WED, MAR 30 • 6:00 PM Tse, Kwai Lun-Mei, Liu Kai-chi, Lu Yi, Miao Pu phy: Philipp Haberlandt; editor: Tobias Suhm; IN BOSNIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES that tells us nothing but shows us every- Bartell Theatre IN CANTONESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES producer: David Skrotzki, Martin Wippler, If you’re a young teenager in Sarajevo, Alexander Münzer; cast: Matthias Ziesing, Daniel thing.... Moland and screenwriter Kim This electric, explosive film is it’s easy to make a little money running SAT, APR 2 • 9:15 PM Zillmann, Patrick von Blume, Timo Dierkes, Con- Fupz Aakeson’s ruthless treatment of anchored by a pair of dynamite Hong rad F. Geier errands for the two-bit neighborhood Wisconsin Union Theatre their country’s frozen landscape and Kong actors: Nick Cheung as Inspector IN GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES gangsters. Just hang out by the concrete MIDWEST PREMIERE · documentary · USA, repressed people can only be rooted in 2010, color, video · 96 MIN Don Li, and Nicholas Tse (also starring On a dark stretch of heavily wood road basketball court; they’ll know where to love.” — Andrew O’Hehir, Salon.com. DIRECTOR: BILLY CORBEN in Bodyguards and Assassins at the Fes- near Hamburg, Chris is driving and talk- find you. Mirza’s small and good-look- Writer: Billy Corben; cinematographer: Randy tival) as his new informant. Inspector Li ing to his buddy on his cell phone. Blue ing — perfect for carrying a secret stash Valdes; editor: Jorge Diaz; producer: Alfred Spell- is a dedicated, veteran detective who has flashing lights appear in his rearview Songs from the Nickel — but needs to decide if this is the right man, Billy Corben, Lindsey Snell FRI, APR 1 • 9:30 PM often worked with hired informants to mirror. Cops. As he prepares to pull over, path. Director Igor Drljaca (On a Lonely Director Billy Corben is developed get the inside edge on the crime lords he sees a dark form in the road, a drunk SAT, APR 3 • 11:00 AM Drive, WFF10) creates an impressive an impressive body of work document- who rule the dark streets of Hong Kong. or hobo wandering in the night. Chris Monona Terrace portrait of one kid in the city, using high- ing Florida culture and history, most He is plagued by the memory of an ear- swerves, but the police car nails the WISCONSIN PREMIERE · documentary · definition photography and splendid recently with the widely acclaimed “The lier case, where a previous snitch’s cover vagrant squarely with the front fender. USA/Germany, 2010, color, video · 83 MIN casting. Woman in Purple was part of the U,” an ESPN 30-for-30 documentary DIRECTOR: ALINA E. SKRZESZEWSKA was blown during a police sting, and that Crash! And crash goes Chris’s night as 2009 Sarajevo City of Film Project; and about black football players at the Uni- man now leads a traumatized life on the Editor: Oliver Eclarinal, Alina Skrzeszewska; versity of Miami. In Square Grouper, the cops are determined that he not get cinematographer: Alina Skrzeszewska; assistant he is completing his MFA in Film Pro- streets, afraid of retribution. away. A spine-chilling shocker with some director: William Shepherd; coproducer: William duction at York University, Toronto. Corben provides three highly entertain- For his new case, Li teams up with Shepherd, Oliver Eclarinal; sound: Ben Huff; nasty black humor. ing and revelatory cases of marijuana Ghost, Jr., fresh out of jail and needing producer: Alina Skrzeszewska Soul Boy smuggling in that coastal state. A few blocks around 5th Street in WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · Kenya, to get cash, and lots of it, to settle his A Somewhat Gentle Germany, 2010, color, video · 60 MIN In the early 1970s, a fundamentalist father’s debt to the mob and buy his sis- downtown Los Angeles there’s a neigh- Christian sect known as the Ethiopian (En Ganske Snill Mann) DIRECTOR: HAWA ESSUMAN ter out of forced prostitution. The police Man borhood where you can stay if you have Writer: Billy Kahora; director of photography: Zion Coptic Church believed that mar- WED, 30 MAR • 6:15 PM nowhere else to go. Homeless couples Christian Almesberger; editor: Ng’ehte Gitungo; force pays well when information leads ijuana was their sacrament ... and all to arrests, so Ghost is willing to do what SAT, APR 2 • 6:00 PM curled up in blankets on the sidewalk, original music: Xaver von Treyer; producer: members, including children, smoked transvestites in miniskirts standing on Marie Steinmann, Tom Tykwer; cast: Nordeen it takes. Inspector Li is haunted by Stage Door Theatre Abdulghani, Christopher Abuga, Rose Adhiambo it around the clock. The Church started another ghost: a past mistake has now WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · Norway, corners, religious groups singing IN SWAHILI WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES a massive marijuana export operation ruined the life of his wife, who now 2010, color, video · 103 MIN gospels, people caught up in daily bar- A young teenage boy goes on a kind and expanded throughout the 70’s, even- DIRECTOR: HANS PETTER MOLAND works at a dance school and doesn’t rec- tering routines selling just about any- of magic-realism treasure hunt, in a quest tually becoming the largest employers Writer: Kim Fupz Aakeson; director of photog- thing. Formerly grand hotels (and the ognize him. These psychological scars raphy: Philip Øgaard; editor: Jens Christian Fod- to save his father whose soul has been and landowners in Jamaica. interior architecture of the lobbies drive Li forward, and director Dante stad; composer: Halfdan E; sound design: stolen by a female spirite called In Everglades City, a tiny fishing vil- Lam creates a thrilling combination of Frogner Kino, Storyline Studios, Gisle Tveito; really are something special) with hand- Nyawawa. German director Tom Tyk- lage 80 miles west of Miami, the coast- costumes: Caroline Sætre; art direction: Gert personal demons and ferocious action operated elevators are relics of the wer (Run Lola Run, probably coinciden- line is a vast labyrinth of mangroves Wibe; production design: Handverk By Eivind area’s heyday, now housing an eclectic as jewel thieves plot a tremendous heist Stoud Platou, Kaare Martens, Synne Moen tally also about a person on a time-sen- known as the Ten Thousand Islands. in downtown Hong Kong. Tøften; producer: Stein B. Kvae, Finn Gjerdrum; mix of people whose lives at one point sitive quest through a city) lead a film- The unique geography, coupled with Searing car chases, a heart-pound- cast: Stellan Skarsgård, Bjørn Floberg, Gard B. or another broke apart. Some residents making workshop in Nairobi, training the fact that only locals knew how to Eidsvold, Jorunn Kjellsby, Jannike Kruse, Aksel stay for a few months. Others have lived ing footrace through an old street mar- Hennie young Kenyans in the art of filmmaking. navigate it, made the town a picture- ket, and a visually inventive violent cli- IN NORWEGIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES there for as long as 40 years. Our hero is 14-year-old Abila, who part- perfect location for smuggling. Craig’s been in and out of jail; Char- max in an abandoned school, desk Actor Stellan Skarsgård (Breaking ners with a neighborhood girl, Shiku, at Finally, the story Robert Platshorn chairs piled high in rooms destined for

WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • MARCH 30-APRIL 3, 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG 3, • MADISON MARCH 30-APRIL WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL lie is the desk clerk at the King Edward the Waves, Good Will Hunting) and first resisting her help but later welcom- who, with his wife and a couple of hand-to-hand combat, make The Stool 30 Hotel; Richard is the night shift eleva- Stranger Things The Stool Pigeon (Sin yan)

Pigeon a superb example of contempo- DIRECTOR: MAMORU HOSODA rary Hong Kong cinema. 2010 Hong Subdued Glow Writer, Satoko Okudera; camera: Yukihiro SEE: Shorts: Saturday @ Cinematheque Masumoto; editor: Shigeru Nishiyama; music: Kong, 2011 Berlin film festivals. Akihiko Matsumoto; art director: Yoji Takeshige; sound: Yoshio Obara; character designer: Summer Pasture Yoshiyuki Sadamoto; animation directors: Stranger Things Hiroyuki Aoyama, Shigeru Fujita, Kunihiko THU, MAR 31 • 7:30 PM SUN, APR 3 • 11:30 AM Hamada, Kazutaka Ozaki; executive producer: Wisconsin Union Theatre Wisconsin Union Theatre Seiji Okuda; producer: Takuya Ito, Yuichiro MIDWEST PREMIERE · narrative · United King- WISCONSIN PREMIERE · documentary · USA, Saito, Nozomu Takahashi, Takashi Watanabe; dom, USA, 2010, color, video · 77 MIN + POST- Canada, Tibet, 2010, color, video · 85 MIN cast: Tobias Diakow, Sumiko Fuji, Ryunosuke FILM Q&A DIRECTOR: LYNN TRUE, NELSON WALKER Kamiki, Ayumu Saito, Nanami Sakuraba, Yoji Tanaka, Mitsuki Tanimura, Takahiro Yokokawa DIRECTOR: ELEANOR BURKE, RON EYAL III IN JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Writer: Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal; director of Cinematographer: Nelson Walker; editor: Lynn photography: Eleanor Burke; editor: Michael True; supervising sound editor: Paul Bercovitch; School is out for the summer and Taylor, Eleanor Burke; production designer: Kris- coproducer, codirector: Tsering Perlo; producer: Kenji, a math nerd, has taken a part- Lynn True, Nelson Walker ten Adams; production manager: Lindsay time job doing tech support for OZ, the MacKay; production sound Mixer: Ed Barnes; IN TIBETAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES sound editor: Daniel Pagan; producer: Eleanor PRESENTED WITH THE UW NELSON massive worldwide virtual world that Burke, Ron Eyal; cast: Bridget Collins, Adeel INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES. is a combination of fantasy social net- Akhtar, Victoria Jeffrey, Kim Joyce, Keith Parry, Locho apparently used to be a bit of work and real-world systems manage- Taran Wiseman, Vivienne Burke, Rebecca Ward a ladies’ man, according to his wife ment. A better opportunity opens, FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND. Yama. But when you’re a Tibetan yak though, when the coolest girl in school Stranger Things is a delicate, small- herder, “settling down” just doesn’t asks him to come back to her family’s scale story about two people whose paths mean the same thing it does here. Sum- estate to help plan her great-grand- in life were unlikely to cross, but when mer Pasture is gorgeously filmed on the mother’s ninetieth birthday party (and that does happen they affect each other cold, high plains of eastern Tibet, reveal- fool her family into thinking that she in meaningful, revelatory ways. Oona

ing the fascinating details of daily life has a boyfriend). Natsuki’s family is an Summer Pasture WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON MARCH has come to her mother’s house on the inside the family tent. old, traditional one, and the extended south coast of England. It’s quiet now, Yes, the film acknowledges the ten- clan is gathering at their wonderful her mother having died a few months sion between continuing the traditional ancestral home in the countryside. earlier, but still filled with belongings, nomadic way of life, and succumbing to The film combines an exploration mementos, and her mother’s presence. the Chinese construction and develop- of this aspect of Japanese culture, Oona is a young, shy woman just ment slowly encroaching into the val- including the strength of the family recently finished with university, and leys. What’s most memorable, though, bond, with a rip-roaring 21st-century at that place in life where she’s now are the intimate routines of Locho and adventure when Kenji intercepts an independent and adult, but hasn’t yet Yama’s days: milking yaks, making but- anonymous math challenge which developed her own fully realized life ter, collecting the field dung to be dried leads to a massive hijack of the OZ yet. It’s like she’s waiting for something for fuel, tending to their 5-month-old network. It gradually becomes clear to happen. As she’s cleaning out the baby girl who is nestled naked in a fur- that a rogue element is loose in OZ small white house, she is surprised by lined box. and threatens to create massive chaos a vagrant who has jimmied the door The couple deal with endless prob- that will have real-world dangerous open, looking for shelter. lems: the weather, Yama’s chronic ill- results. Faced with a decision about what to ness, the weather, protecting their stash “Richly detailed and beautifully do, Oona chooses to allow Mani to stay of valuable caterpillar fungus, runaway written, Summer Wars is a film filled 30-APRIL 3, 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM in the garden shed, and eventually they yaks, the weather. Locho still seems to with the sprawling chaos of family. develop an openness and a presence for want to escape into boyish irresponsi- Always ready to pause to capture the each other — not a romance, not that inti- bility, but it’s Yama who keeps focused small details of daily life, it uses its scifi mate — but a recognition that they are on the practical and the necessary. premise to provide some punch to the coming to know each other and may be Winner, Best Feature, Banff Moun- visuals and energy to the proceedings crossing from being strangers to some- tain Film Festival; Inspiration Award while — so subtly that you barely thing else. Winner, Grand Jury Award Jury Special Mention, Full Frame Doc- notice — Hosoda pulls a bait-and- for Best Narrative Film, 2011 Slamdance umentary Film Festival; Best New Doc- switch job and delivers not a ripping Film Festival; Best Narrative Feature, umentary Filmmaker, Palm Springs scifi adventure so much as he does a 2010 Woodstock Film Festival. International Film Festival. truly human story, a story of hope and perseverance and learning to become A Study in Reds Summer Wars a man. It is a charming and funny piece SEE: Orphan Films: Time Travel & of work, one that has a spot-on under- Dreams of a Better Life (Samâ Wôzu) SUN, APR 3 • 6:00 PM standing of human nature, one blessed with an extensive cast of stunningly Style & Grace Wisconsin Union Theatre WISCONSIN PREMIERE · detailed and authentic characters.” — SEE: Shorts: Sunday @ Monona Terrace animation · Japan, 2009, color, video · 114 MIN Todd Brown, Twitch. Summer Wars (Samâ Wôzu) 31 Fire, Burn, Babylon Troll Hunter (Trolljegeren) Tuesday, After Christmas (Marti, Dupa Craciun)

ian culture have taken up residence in friends, two guys hanging out with their IN NORWEGIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Dragos Potop; costume: Giorgiania Bostan; assis- Sun + Fire a modern Babylon (London, England) skater buddies in the summer after high A poacher is suspected of taking tant director: Andrei Amarfoaie; executive pro- SUN, APR 3 • 1:45 PM ducer: Dragos Vîlcu; cast: Sasa Paul-Szel, Victor while longingly trying to retain cultural school. To pass the time and get a thrill, down bears in remote forests of Nor- Rebenguic, Dragos Bucur, Dana Dembinski, Sil- Chazen Museum of Art ties to their island home, their Zion. the group makes little videos of them- way. A group of student filmmakers via Nastase, Adrian Vancica, Carmen Lopazan, 91 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A An inquiry into the transformation selves doing daring, stupid teenage-guy takes on the adventurous assignment Ioana Blaj FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND. of culture after environmental disrup- tricks: riding a skateboard down the slag of finding the illegal hunter and inves- IN ROMANIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Sun Come Up tion, the film follows three Rastas — hill, jumping onto concrete from impos- tigating the story. Eventually they find The film opens with a man and a WISCONSIN PREMIERE · documentary · USA, I-Shaka, Lyndon White, and Elroy sible heights, setting body parts on fire. Hans, a gruff rogue who has indeed woman wrapped in sunlit sheets, enjoy- Papua New Guinea, 2010, color, video · 38 MIN Meade — who have abandoned their Tilva Rosh (translated: red hill) is about been hunting, but not for bear. As part ing the tenderness and attentiveness DIRECTOR: JENNIFER REDFEARN spiritual retreat in the foothills of their friendship and their futures, as of a secret government cover-up, he’s that comes from deep intimacy. Their Cinematographer: Tim Metzger; editor: David small talk reveals that this loving cou- Teague; producer: Jennifer Redfearn, Tim Metz- Montserrat and reinvented themselves Stefan plans to go to the university in in charge of tracking down any giant ger; executive producer: Abigail Disney as rude-boy rappers and small-time the fall, while Toda insists that’s too Norwegian trolls who have escaped ple is, in fact, a middle-aged man and IN ENGLISH, TOK PISIN WITH ENGLISH hustlers on the East End nightclub cir- ambitious a plan. from their allotted forest areas. He’s his mistress. Adultery, a cinematic trope SUBTITLES cuit. Following the aimless exploits of the getting sick of it — the long nighttime as durable (and dangerous) as car PRESENTED WITH THE UW NELSON INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES. Will their dreams of celebrity be real- loose gang, the film draws heavily from hours, the personal danger, the stench chases and shootouts, makes for espe- cially riveting viewing in this under- The Carteret Islanders near Papua ized before the law catches up with real life: cut into Lezaic’s film is footage of troll — and he eventually allows the stated Romanian melodrama. An oth- New Guinea have a dubious distinction them? What happens when the birth of from a homemade, hour-long tape that students to tag along to record evidence erwise responsible husband and loving — they are called the modern world’s their children by British women intro- the director got his hands on, of Toda of what he’s had to put up with and father, banker Paul Hanganu falls for first climate-change refugees. As global duces new values in their lives? What and Stefan (they play themselves) doing blow the lid off this clandestine gov- another (younger) woman. temperatures and sea levels rise, the happens when the three friends start to these actual dangerous stunts. ernment operation. When the power It’s simple and insoluble, a familiar ocean tides are washing away their have different visions of the future? Will The director says, “I was impressed lines which fence in the trolls go down, predicament rendered unique by direc- shores and salt is seeping into their soil. they fall for the thrills of Babylon or by a huge amount of unarticulated the group heads off on a dangerous tor Radu Muntean’s rational, even- Because of greenhouse gas emissions recommit to their Rastafari ideals? Win- energy which erupted from them, and chase. handed approach — this is no hysteri- half a world away, this community of ner, Bronze Palm, Mexico International also by a complete lack of interest in “Thoroughly believable from start cal symphony of slammed doors and 1,700 people must forever abandon the Film Festival. actual social struggle going on around to finish are the visual FX...which bring smeared mascara. Instead, Muntean only home they have ever known: sci- them. I remembered my own attitude the assorted creatures to life with nary presents an equilateral love triangle entists estimate that in five years their Sun Come Up from 10 years earlier, when I also lived a digital seam showing. It’s damn where each corner’s emotions are con- atoll in the Pacific Ocean will be unin- SEE: Sun + Fire in that same small town, and realized impressive work, not only considering sidered and thoughtfully realized: the habitable. that it wasn’t much different from theirs the presumably low budget but given wife’s anguish, the mistress’s uncertain With the community facing hunger — it was all about fun. I remembered the extra added verisimilitude that this Sunday guilt, the cheating husband’s grief- and failing rice crops, Ursula Rakova SEE: Orphan Films: Time Travel & how everything was much simpler, particular storytelling format demands. tinged relief at finally having the truth and other village leaders ask their youth, Dreams of a Better Life social rights, health insurance, politics Øvredal also belies the movie’s limited out. led by Nick Hakata, to find a new home. ... those were all terms from some other, means by keeping the settings varied, His actors rise to the occasion, often Traveling 50 miles across the sea, Nick borring dimension. So I wanted Tilva taking us along with the youthful pro- Susan’s Horses playing off each other in engrossing and his friends seek land for homes and Rosh to be about that — waking the tagonists from the forests to rocky caves SEE: Haulin’ Ass extended takes, resulting in three of the crops in neighboring Bougainville, in counscience you don’t want to wake, to an impressively shot final act on win- best, most nuanced performances of Papua New Guinea, just emerging from finding out about injustices you don’t try plains. It’s here where the truth These Hammers this year’s festival. The great delight in a 10-year civil war and suspicious of out- care about, assuming social roles when behind the trolls finally comes to light this film is appreciating the compas- siders. San kamap (sun come up) is local Don’t Hurt Us you don’t want to participate, and about and the assorted story strands are tied sion the director brings to the scenario, pidgin for “sunrise,” and, indeed, this SEE: Remember the Time helpless strugle to save that carefree together, capped off with a bit of bor- appreciating the complexities of their beautiful film does not portray the sun- teenage world from any changes.” rowed (and, one assumes, authentic and emotions and the impossibility of set of a people as much as their hope undoctored) news footage that serves They Say Even Water unraveling such a knot without break- and resilience to persevere for another Time Will Tell as a perfect, cheeky conclusion.... It ing. 2010 Cannes, Rio de Janeiro, and day. Nominee, 2011 Academy Award for Has a Memory... SEE: Shorts: Friday @ Monona Terrace always has another surprise up its SEE: Shorts: Saturday @ Cinematheque New York Film Festivals. Best Documentary Short. sleeve, and its basis in dark fairy tales A Trip Down Market makes it all the more impressive that Fire, Burn, Babylon Threnody the film achieves the basic goal of any Under the Sun documentary · United Kingdom, 2010, color, SEE: Street Before the Fire SEE: Shorts: Friday @ Monona Terrace video · 53 MIN Remember the Time found-footage feature: You never stop SEE: Orphan Films: Time Travel & DIRECTOR: SARITA SIEGEL believing what you’re seeing.” — Fan- Dreams of a Better Life Editor, cinematographer, producer: Sarita Siegel; Tilva Rosh goria. Undertow Eyes executive producer: Malcolm Moore; music: (Olhos de Ressaca) Eskimo Squad, Oakley Grenell FRI, APR 1 • 2:15 PM Troll Hunter Trypps #7 (Badlands) IN ENGLISH, RASTAFARI LYARIC WITH Chazen Museum of Art SEE: The Worst Company in the World (Trolljegeren) SEE: Remember the Time ENGLISH SUBTITLES SAT, APR 2 • 10:00 PM PRESENTED WITH THE UW NELSON FRI, APR 1 • 10:45 PM INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES. Play Circle Theatre Victoria, George, WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · Serbia, Orpheum Main Tuesday, After “Now how shall we sing the Lord’s WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · Norway, Edward, and song in a strange land?” This lyric from 2010, color, video · 99 MIN Christmas DIRECTOR: NIKOLA LEZAIC 2010, color, 35mm · 90 MIN the reggae song “Rivers of Babylon” cap- DIRECTOR: ANDRÉ ØVREDAL (Marti, Dupa Craciun) Thatcher Writer, editor: Nikola Lezaic; cinematographer: SEE: The Future Past tures the heart of Fire, Burn, Babylon. Miloš Jacimovic; art director: Nikola Bercek; Writer: André Øvredal; director of photography: SUN, APR 3 • 11:00 AM Hallvard Bræin; editor: Per Erik Eriksen; VFX Can home be a state of mind, or must it producer: Uroš Tomic, Mina Dukic, Nikola Orpheum Main Lezaic; coproducer: Dragan Durkovic; cast: supervisor: Øystein Larsen; sound design: Baard be a place? In July 1995, a volcanic erup- Haugan Ingebretsen; production design: Mar- WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · Romania, Vineland Marko Todorovic, Stefan Dordevic, Dunja SEE: The Future Past tion on the island of Montserrat Kovacevic tin Gant; line producer: Trond Gaute Lockert- 2010, color, 35mm · 99 MIN DIRECTOR: RADU MUNTEAN destroyed the capital city of Plymouth IN SERBIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES sen; producer: John M. Jacobsen, Sveinung and forced two-thirds of the population, Golimo; VFX, post producer: Marcus Broder- Writer: Alexandru Baciu, Radu Muntean, Raz- “Bor, Serbia, was once the largest cop- sen; cast: Otto Jespersen, Glenn Erland Tosterud, van Radulescu; cinematographer: Tudor Lucaciu; The Visitation some 8,000 people, to become refugees. Johanna Mørck, Tomas Alf Larsen, Urmila Berg- SEE: On Earth as It Is in Heaven

WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • MARCH 30-APRIL 3, 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG 3, • MADISON MARCH 30-APRIL WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL per mine in Europe, now it is just the editor: Alexandru Radu; set design: Sorin Dima; Today, many members of its Rastafar- Domaas, Hans Morten Hansen sound: Electric Brother; production director: 32 biggest hole.” Toda and Stefan are best Viva Riva! Win Win The White Meadows (Keshtzar Haye Sepid)

sound: Thomas Horat, Thomas Gassmann; sound Viva Riva! editor: Guido Keller; music: Hujässler The White Meadows THU, MAR 31 • 10:00 PM IN SWISS GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES (Keshtzar Haye Sepid) FRI, APR 1 • 7:45 PM FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND. FRI, APR 1 • 3:30 PM Stage Door Theatre In the heart of Switzerland and par- SAT, APR 2 • 1:30 PM WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · Democra- ticularly in the Muota valley an old tra- tic Republic of Congo, 2010, color, 35mm · 96 Madison Museum of Contemporary Art MIN dition is still alive. The spry old men WISCONSIN PREMIERE · narrative · Iran, 2009, · 93 MIN DIRECTOR: DJO MUNGA who live in the mountains above Schwyz color, 35mm DIRECTOR: MOHAMMAD RASOULOF Writer: Steven Markovitz; director of photog- are famous for predicting the weather raphy: Antoine Roch; production designer: using the ancient signs of animal behav- Writer: Mohammad Rasoulof; director of pho- Philippe Van Herwijnen; music: Louis Vyncke, tography: Ebrahim Ghafouri; editor: Jafar Panahi; Win Win Winter Vacation Congopunq; editor: Yves Langlois; producer: ior, plant growth, winds, and clouds. sound: Amir Hosein Ghasemi, Mohammad SUN, APR 3 • 9:00 PM (Han jia) Boris Van Gils, Michaël Goldberg; cast: Patsha Twice a year, a competition is held in Mokhtari; music: Mohammadreza Darvishi; pro- ducer: Mohammad Rasoulof; cast: Hasan Pour- Orpheum Main SUN, APR 3 • 1:30 PM Bay, Manie Malone, Hoji Fortuna, Marlene Lon- which these weathergazers tell elabo- narrative · USA, 2011, color, 35mm · 106 MIN gage, Alex Herabo, Diplome Amekindra, shirazi, Younes Ghazali, Mohammad Rabbani Wisconsin Union Theatre rate, poetic, and humorous predictions DIRECTOR: TOM MCCARTHY Angelique Mbumba, Nzita Tumba, Jordan IN FARSI WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES MIDWEST PREMIERE · narrative · China, 2010, for the coming six months, and are Writer: Tom McCarthy; story by McCarthy and N’Tunga An impossibly white lake stretches color, video · 91 MIN IN FRENCH, LINGALA, PORTUGUESE WITH judged by both the accuracy of the fore- Joe Tiboni; editor: Tom McArdle; director of DIRECTOR: LI HONGQI to meet the impossibly white sky, bro- photography: Oliver Bokelberg; production ENGLISH SUBTITLES cast and the flourishes in their prose. Writer: Li Honqgi; photography: Qin Yurui; edi- ken by the dark form of Rahmat’s small designer: John Paino; music: Lyle Workman; cos- “Finally! An African feature film that Intensely picturesque, the landscapes tor: Li Hongqi; sound: Guo Rn’ru; artistic direc- rowboat, its wooden canopy barely able tume designer: Melissa Toth; executive producer: merges the pleasures of Nollywood with try to nudge aside the weathergazers as Lori Keith Douglas, Tom Heller; producer: Mary tors: Qin Yurui, Yi Xiaodong; producer: Alex to block the dazzling sun. Rahmat is off Chung; executive producer: Ning Cai; cast: Bai sleek camerawork, satisfying genre the stars of this film. But these tough Jane Skalski, Michael London, Lisa Maria Fal- for a day’s work. With a small green glass cone, Tom McCarthy; cast: Paul Giamatti, Amy Junjie, Zhang Naqi, Bai Jinfeng, Xie Ying, Wang thrills and a rare look inside the very farmers are delightful and engaging with Hui, Bao Lei, Bai Xiaohong, Zhi Feng, Wu Guox- vial, he’ll collect the tears shed by the Ryan, Bobby Cannavale, Jeffrey Tambor, Burt heart of the continent. Viva Riva! is their local dialect, sharing their view Young, Melanie Lynskey, Alex Shaffer, Margo iong, Jiang Chao, Shao Meiqi,Yao Lang inhabitants of the small settlements unprecedented: a story set in contem- from their homes perched high up in Martindale, David Thompson IN CHINESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES around this salt-crusted lake. porary Democratic Republic of the the grassy meadows. Following a tremendous reception at The most deadpan of comedies, Win- Very much rooted in local folklore, Congo full of intrigue, music and a sur- Although modernization threatens the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, Tom ter Vacation contemplates a lethargic The White Meadows strings together the prisingly frank approach to sex.” — their traditional way of life, they scoff McCarthy’s Win Win comes bearing an pack of teenagers as they kill time in separate stories of each community with Cameron Bailey, Toronto International at the idea of global warming, since exceptionally talented, funny, and emo- Inner Mongolia. Enduring a school hol- Rahmat providing the connecting link Film Festival. everyone knows that 300 years ago there tional cast, lead by the never-better Paul iday with the enthusiasm you’d greet a to all. At each stop, Rahmat comes upon Riva returns home to Kinshasa after were several particularly warm winters, Giamatti. (Okay, after American Splen- jail sentence, they’re not so much hang- a scene of grief or melancholy: a young years of being away. He’s got money in and no one had cars back then. Just dor. And maybe after Sideways.) He ing out as waiting it out, lounging out- woman is dead, and her body has been his pocket and a plan to get hold of a check the records at the local church. plays Mike Flaherty, a new Jersey lawyer side on snow-covered couches, barely preserved in a pile of salt to prepare for truckload of gasoline barrels — one of trying to manage his floundering law able to muster the energy required to burial. It’s just as well, say the men of the best black-market commodities there practice, his anxiety attacks, and a los- tease one another. Westbound: The that place, since her body moved in too is. Other local businessmen/gangsters ing high-school wrestling team. Constructed in elegant wide shots, tempting a way under her burka. Rah- want a piece of the action, and Riva has Journey of a Lifetime One of Mike’s clients, an old geezer this unexpectedly funny film unfolds mat observes, and collects the tears that to outwit and outrun his competition. THU, MAR 31 • 9:30 PM played by Burt Young (you’ll remember at a sedated clip, and its humor has a fall as mourners gather. The biggest crime boss in the city also, Monona Terrace him from Rocky), receives a sudden visit cumulative effect: once you get into its · 77 MIN It’s quite possibly the most striking naturally, has the most seductively pow- documentary · USA, 2009, color, video from a grandson he never met, who’s somnambulant rhythm, you’ll be hang- + POST-FILM Q&A natural landscape of any film in the Fes- erful woman on his arm, and the charis- come all the way from Ohio to get away ing on every pregnant pause. This level DIRECTOR: JIM RIVETT tival, soaked in magic realism but still matic Riva sets out to capture her, too. from his deadbeat mom. Mike needs to of comic inaction would suggest an Writer: Shelly Young, Jim Rivett; editor: Jason believable. In this way, the film easily Director Munga adds spoonfuls of Davis, Rick Kump, DeGaull Vang; music super- help navigate this new situation, and affinity with Waiting for Godot, except takes on the metaphor for Iran’s oppres- observations about Congolese life, in visor: Ashley Throw; executive producer: Jim learns that the kid, Kyle, is a talented writer/director Li Hongqi’s slackers Rivett; producer: Shelly Young; associate pro- sion of nonconformists and creative spir- particular their strained relations with wrestler who just might be what his aren’t even sure what it is they’re wait- ducer: Paul Meinke, Irene Kress, Sharon Resch, its: the reason for Rahmat’s job is never neighboring Angolans. Cesar is one such team needs. ing for — certainly not to go back to Lynn Vandertie, Rick Vandertie, Adolph Vander- given, only that he’s been doing it for 30 foreigner, dressed in elaborate white tie, Colleen Weyers, Ron Weyers, Bobbie Fred- At this point, you might think you school. It’s more of a cross between the years. suits and taking everything he can get. ericks, Shari Kangas know where the story’s going, but trust hangover hilarity of Daytime Drinking SERIES: WISCONSIN’S OWN “Throughout, Iranian ills are movingly But mostly it’s a high-energy adventure, in McCarthy. Where others have lurched (WFF09) and the Kafkaesque vision of FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND. condemned, but it’s The White Meadows’ with plot twists, colorful characters, gun off into the macho heroics of a big sea- Roy Andersson (You, The Living, A fascinating bit of personal and state more general, humanistic portrait of barrels, and lust around every dark cor- son-ending championship, McCarthy WFF08, Songs From the Second Floor, history is explored as 96-year-old man’s multifaceted nature that truly ner in Kinshasa’s raucous night. Viva stays firmly in the honest territory of WFF02). Adolph Vandertie, a lifelong Wisconsin inspires, its social critique ultimately Riva! also increases the Festival’s quota Mike and Kyle’s slowly unfolding influ- The surprise winner of the top prize resident, describes his vested interest enhanced by its recognition of the falli- of lesbian army commanders mas- ence on each other. This teenage at the 2010 Lorcano Film Festival, Win- in the creation of hobo and tramp art, a bility, irrationality, and inscrutability of querading as nuns by one. stranger is looking for a place to fit, after ter Vacation is also a favorite of many hobby he picked up during the Great people’s hearts and minds.” — Nick living a somewhat damaged childhood, directors appearing at this year’s festi- Depression and consistently returned Shager, Slant Magazine. and moves in with Mike’s family. val. Introducing a long interview with Weather Gazers to at the hardest moments of his life. In December 2010, director Moham- Two of the best things about Hongqi in Cinema Scope, J.P. Sniadecki (Wätterschmöcker) Adolph’s story is also a remarkable look mad Rasoulof (Iron Island, WFF06) was McCarthy’s film The Station Agent were (Foreign Parts, WFF11) praised his SAT, APR 2 • 11:00 AM at the changing culture of Wisconsin in sentenced to six years in jail along with the way unlikely characters overlapped “masterful mix of philosophical pes- Chazen Museum of Art the 20th century, as well as the network fellow filmmaker Jafar Panahi (The Mir- and engaged each other, and Bobby Can- simism and dark humor,” and Thom of Midwesterns who work to keep tra- SUN, APR 3 • 3:45 PM ror, WFF01; also editor on The White nevale, who brings a similar palooka Andersen (Get Out Of The Car, WFF11) ditions of tramp and hobo culture alive. Bartell Theatre Meadows). Released on bail, their case cluelessness to the story here. He helps cited the film as one of 2010’s Director Jim Rivett is a native of Green NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE · documentary is still pending. Copresented by the set the tone, along with Jeffrey Tambor, “Unknown Pleasures” in Film Com- · Switzerland, 2010, color, video · 98 MIN + Bay and a graduate of UW-Whitewater. Global Film Initiative and is part of the for a brightly colored misfit comedy, bal- ment. POST-FILM Q&A The film’s producer and cinematogra- Global Lens 2011 film series. For more DIRECTOR: THOMAS HORAT anced by Giamatti and newcomer Alex Writing with a deadpan wit to match phers are also residents of Green Bay information, visit globalfilm.org. Hongqi’s, Andersen declared Winter WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • MARCH 30-APRIL 3, 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG 3, • MADISON MARCH 30-APRIL WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL Writer: Thomas Horat; producer, camera, editor: Shaffer’s more real-life problems. Alto- and De Pere. 34 Salome Pitschen; coproducer: Urs Augstburger; gether, a winning combination. Vacation “the funniest film since Good- !Women Art Revolution Wrestling For Jesus: The Tale of T-Money Undertow Eyes (Olhos de Ressaca)

bye, Dragon Inn (WFF04), but actually IN FINNISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES it’s funnier — and a bit faster paced.” The Woodmans Smoke curls up from chimney of the Bundled up and ironic, this is the polar WED, MAR 30 • 6:15 PM small red hut in the gorgeous, pristine opposite of the typical Hollywood Wisconsin Union Theatre woods of northern Finland. Inside are spring break movie — and, to most Wis- WISCONSIN PREMIERE · documentary · USA, 102-year-old Linda, a feisty dame with 2010, color, video · 82 MIN consinites, probably much more recog- DIRECTOR: SCOTT WILLIS a wicked sense of humor. Her 73-year- nizable. Golden Leopard and FIPRESCI Cinematographer: Neil Barrett; editor: Jeff old son Seppo looks after her, grudg- prize, 2010 Locarno Film Festival. Werner; original music: David Lang; art direc- ingly, since he’s the most curmudgeonly tor: Ekin Akalin; producer: Neil Barrett, Jeff codger in the whole village of Kainuu. Woman in Purple Werner, Scott Willis “That Seppo is a weird geezer,” says I’ve made was meant to keep me away George and Betty Woodman devoted from this, but here I am — a TV com- Young Visions (Zena U Ljubicastom) Linda to her home health aide. It’s SUN, APR 3 • 11:00 AM themselves to making art in a way that almost like he fell from a tree.” mercial director, going with dad to the SEE: Soul Boy permeated everything, absolutely every- accountant to hand an annual report for Monona Terrace thing in their lives. Painting and sculp- The Rabbi and César Chávez his failing insurance agency.” Regev’s USA, 2010, color, video · 65 MIN WORLD PREMIERE · documentary · USA, 2010, Kids can be savvy film critics and cre- !Women Art ture came first: admirable in some ways, color, video · 13 MIN father Karol runs a small insurance com- but devastating to their two children. DIRECTOR: DANIEL ROBIN pany out of his apartment, employing ators with a little help from their friends. Revolution Young Visions will entertain and edu- In particular, their daughter Francesca Driving through the sprawling farm- only his slow-moving brother Latzi, and WED, MAR 30 • 8:15 PM cate with a variety of animations, a grew up fierce and driven to succeed land in Bakersfield, California, film- their even slower-moving best friend SAT, APR 2 • 10:30 PM music video, and mini docs created at making pictures, mostly black-and-white maker Daniel Robin presses his father Moshe. Regev gets sucked into the world Bartell Theatre area schools, community centers, and photographs and videos of herself as an to revisit the time when he was a small- created by this genial threesome, as he WISCONSIN PREMIERE · documentary · USA, public access community TV centers. enigmatic nude. When Francesca threw town rabbi fighting alongside the leg- tries to instill some tight business prin- 2010, color, video · 83 MIN Featured are farm interviews by Sec- DIRECTOR: LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON herself off a New York building in 1981 endary union organizer César Chávez ciples, starting with promotions and ond and Third Graders from New Cen- writer, editor, producer: Lynn Hershman Lee- at age 22, she left behind both her bud- for farm workers’ rights. The Rabbi and business cards for all. Their incompe- tury School in Verona; animations by son; cinematographer: Hiro Narita, Antonio ding career and her parents who had to César Chávez is a road trip movie about tence is hilarious, as especially Moshe Rossi, Fawn Yacker, Lise Swenson, Lynn Hersh- youngsters at the Packers Community face the guilty question of why. family mythology, social justice, an assas- can barely remember what errands to man original score: Carrie Brownstein; execu- Learning Center; short films and a spo- tive producer: Sarah Peter; producer: Kyle Director Scott Willis builds his film sination plot on César Chávez that may do, preferring to nap on the sofa all day. ken word production created by young Stephan, Alexandra Chowaniec; coproducer and from substantial interviews with George have been buried in history, and how a One of the funniest films in the Festi- music supervisor: Carla Sacks; associate pro- students at UW Outreach programs; a and Betty, explorations of them at work, son finds a brief moment in his father’s val, it’s also bittersweet, with the threat ducer: Laura Blereau, Gracie Bucciarelli, music video by a high-school senior and delicate archival images from past when he became a hero. Robin’s of bankruptcy and failing health. But for Michella Rivera-Gravage, Ariel Dougherty, Jan done at the Marshfield Public Access Zivic Francesca’s legacy. Her child-like voice film My Olympic Summer won the Sun- Karol, nothing’s more important that Center. Be prepared to be inspired by An entertaining and revelatory inves- recalls with great joy the success of a dance Jury Prize for Short Film in 2008. the companionship of his two best pals, some KidVid fare! tigation of Feminist Art, !Women Art silhouette made from flour dusted over who make him laugh. Undertow Eyes 1) Toy Terror; 3:00 min.; dir: Jacki Revolution deftly illuminates this under- her naked body, contrasting with the air Thomas; elementary students from the explored movement through conver- of melancholy that infuses this story. (Olhos de Ressaca) Wowie WISCONSIN PREMIERE · documentary · Brazil, Packer Community Learning Center sations, observations, archival footage “There’s a degree of accusation to The SEE: Shorts: Friday @ Monona Terrace 2009, color, video · 20 MIN (Madison) and works of visionary artists, histori- Woodmans that’s discomfiting, almost DIRECTOR: PETRA COSTA 2) Dinner on the Run; 3:00 min.; dir: ans, curators, and critics. as if Willis is indicting Francesca’s par- Writer: Petra Costa; photography: Petra Costa, Wrestling For Jesus: Jacki Thomas; students from the Packer Starting from its roots in 1960s anti- ents for being so self-involved—even Eryk Rocha; editor: Ava Rocha; original score: Edson Secco; executive production: Petra Costa; Community Learning Center (Madison) war and civil rights protests, the film though they’re just answering his ques- The Tale of T-Money sound: Edson Secco; cast: Gabriel Andrade, Vera 3) Paper Dolls; 3:00 min.; dir: Jacki details major developments in women’s tions as honestly as they can.... George SAT, APR 2 • 5:45 PM Andrade Thomas; students from the Packer Com- art through the 1970s and explores how frankly asserts that one of the reasons IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Bartell Theatre WORLD PREMIERE · documentary · USA, 2010, munity Learning Center (Madison) new ways of thinking about the com- he loved his daughter was that she was Vera and Gabriel have been married color, video · 74 MIN + POST-FILM Q&A 4) A Visit to Fountain Prairie Farm; plexities of gender, race, class, and sex- the kind of passionate person who for sixty years. In Undertow Eyes they DIRECTOR: NATHAN CLARKE 17:43 min.; dir: Larry Gundlach; Grades uality evolved. The Guerrilla Girls would try something as drastic as sui- reflect on their own story: the first flir- Director of photography: Jeffrey Pohorski 2 and 3 from New Century Charter emerged as the conscience of the art cide. Some might find their attitude per- FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND. tations, the birth of their children, life School (Verona) world and held academic institutions, plexing, or even monstrous. To the Timothy Blackmon felt the drive to and aging. In the act of remembering, 5) Fred Bear Music Video; 4:30 min.; galleries, and museums accountable for Woodmans, that’s just the way it goes evangelize to his fellow man, and did images from their family history and dir: Coltin Esser; Wisconsin Associa- discrimination practices. when you dedicate your life to your art.” what seemed right in rural South Car- from the present intermingle, creating tion of PEG Channels Over time, the tenacity and courage — Noel Murry, The A.V. Club. olina: he founded an amateur Christian an affectionate tone. Through the cou- 6) Stop Motion Sampler; 5:00 min.; of these pioneering women artists wrestling league to spread the Word. ple’s recollections and stories, the film dir: Greta Wing-Miller; College for Kids, resulted in what many historians now The Worst Company Setting up the battered oilcloth ring in presents a personal and existential tale UW Education Outreach Class feel is the most significant art move- gymnasiums around the county, in the World about love and death. 7) The Tie; 1:00 min.; dir: Zach Koss; ment of the late 20th century. Wrestling for Jesus might draw a few SAT, APR 2 • 11:15 AM The Worst Company in the Young Student Scholars, UW Education Carrie Brownstein composed an dozen fans on a good night. Timothy’s SUN, APR 3 • 5:30 PM Outreach Class original score to accompany the film, World better known as T-Money, and he holds 8) Post It; 1:00 min.; dir: Zach Koss; combined with songs by Laurie Ander- Play Circle Theatre (Hachevra Hachi Gruaa Baolam) together a raggedy group of grizzled old 98 MIN Young Student Scholars, UW Education son, Janis Joplin, Sleater-Kinney, The WISCONSIN PREMIERE · documentary · Israel, bikers and young skinny wrestlers. It’s 2009, color, video · 50 MIN Outreach Class Gossip, Erase Errata, and Tribe 8. Old Man and the Lady tough work, both the praying and the DIRECTOR: REGEV MICHAEL CONTES 9) Skate Vid; 10:00 min.; dir: Blake Leeson says, “I began to shoot this fighting, and inevitably the challenges (Ukko Ja Akka) Writer: Regev Contes; cinematographer: Itai Housenger; Technology and Arts, UW film over forty years ago. I’ve been wait- NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE · documentary Raziel, Regev Contes, Benji Cohen; editor: Arik mount: injuries, family time, and a rival Education Outreach Class ing all this time for the right ending.” · Finland, 2010, color, video · 15 MIN Lahav Leibovitz; sound: Itzik Cohen, Nir Gav- backyard wrestling gang known as the 10) Video Production & Spoken Word; 2010 Toronto, 2011 Sundance, Berlin DIRECTOR: MARKKU HEIKKINEN ish; producer: Eilon Ratzkovsky, Yossi Uzrad, Throne of Anguish Wrestling Federa- Noa Lifshitz, Guy Jacoel 15:00 min.; dir: Blake Housenger; Tech- film festivals. Writer: Markku Heikkinen; producer, cinematog- tion. Filmmaker Nathan Clarke and rapher: Hannu-Pekka Vitikainen; editor: Joona IN HEBREW WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES nology and Arts, UW Education Out- director of photography Jeffery Pohorski Louhivuori; sound designer: Anne Tolkkinen; “The bald guy in the right is my dad, reach Class composer: Pekka Lehti WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • MARCH 30-APRIL 3, 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG 3, • MADISON MARCH 30-APRIL WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL and the other one is me. Every choice live in Madison. 36 38 WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • MARCH 30-APRIL 3, 2011 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM phone, ormail orders. feeis$4perorderService foronline, wifilmfest.org. student IDattimeofpickup. Subjecttoverification. tickets attheFestival Box Office;you mustpresent order. For onlineand phoneorders, we’ll hold your Bring your IDtothebox officewhenyou placeyour school, college, etc.)withvalid, current student ID. 1. PICK YOURFILMS ORDERING TICKETS STUDENT DISCOUNT: You canbuyuptoeightticketsperfilm. ADVANCE TICKET PRICES before ashowtobeguaranteed aseat. Ticket-holders mustarrive15minutes SUNDAY: 10AMTO6PM SATURDAY: 10AMTO9PM; THURSDAY &FRIDAY:NOONTO9PM; during thefestival,March 30–April 3: Box officehoursforwill-call DURING THE FESTIVAL, Will-call details: NOT atindividualtheaters. ONLY available attheFestival Box Office, at theFestival Box Office. Will-calltickets are WILL BE HELDFORWILL-CALLPICK UP ORDERS RECEIVED MARCH22-29 held attheBoxOfficeforpick-up. for studentticketorders, which willbe Monday, March 21willbemailedexcept Online orders placedby 7pm, TUESDAY, MARCH 29ONLY:12PMTO5 SUNDAYS: CLOSED SATURDAY: 11 PMTO3 MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY:12PMTO6PM; March 5-29: Box-office hoursforadvanceticketsales, (608) 265-2933 800 LangdonSt., Madison, WI53706 Annex Room, 2ndfloor, Memorial Union, HOURS LOCATION & BOX OFFICE/WILL-CALL wifilmfest.org ORDER ONLINEAT for buyingticketsduringthefestival. See “At-the-Fest Sales” and endat5p.m. Tuesday, March 29 at noonSaturday, March 5 Advance ticketsalesbegin Tickets 2. ADVANCE TICKETSALESBEGIN 2. 29. Orders maybeplaced inpersonattheBox Office, Saturday, March 5, andendat5p.m. Tuesday, March from thisbox officeduringtheFestival. pick-upswill-call only. No tickets are sold in theMemorial Union, isopenfor $6.25 13 OR MORE TOTAL TICKETS, PRICE PER TICKET: $6.50 9 TO12TOTALTICKETS,PRICEPERTICKET: $7 5 TO8TOTALTICKETS,PRICEPERTICKET: $8 1 TO4TOTALTICKETS,PRICEPERTICKET: general general general general using thisguide, oronline at Available toany student(high the Festival Box Office, $4.25 $4.50 $4.75 $5 student student student student at noonon the samelevel ofthepedestrianbridgethatcrosses University Ave. (Corner ofUniversity &Park). TheCinemathequeentrance isonthe4th-floor plaza, “What’s aVoucher?” below). selections, theBox Office will substitutevouchers (see by mail,butiftickets are nolongeravailable foryour be abletoacceptphoneorders. You maysendanorder or online. At busytimes,the Festival Box Officemaynot March 29, oratthetheaters duringthefestival. Vouchers exchange attheFestival Box Officethrough Tuesday, printed foraspecific filmprogram. You canmake an preferred filmare nolonger available. to resolve aproblem withyour order andtickets foryour Sometimes vouchers are issuediftheBox Officeneeds guide),andexchangeunder “V”inthefilm themlater. You canorder vouchers justlike regular tickets (look The Stage Door entrance isonJohnson Street, northeastofState. For thefestival, theOrpheumMain andStage Doortheatres have separate entrances. wifilmfest.org. tickets. No refunds forvouchers. March 29). No returns, refunds, orreplacements forlost can beexchanged attheFestival Box Officethrough 4. ONLINE: 3. AT THEBOXOFFICE: Monona Terrace Bartell Theatre Orpheum andStage DoorTheatres MMoCA —MadisonMuseumofContemporary Art UW Cinematheque Chazen MuseumofArt IN THEMEMORIALUNION, 800LANGDON STREET, 2NDFLOOR Frederic March PlayCircle IN THEMEMORIALUNION, 800LANGDON STREET Wisconsin UnionTheater Information aboutwheelchairaccommodationsandotheraccessibilityisat THEATERS VOUCHERS NEED TOBEEXCHANGED A VOUCHER IS A COUPON WHAT’S AVOUCHER? ACCEPTED. 6. CASH, CHECK,MASTERCARD,VISA,DISCOVER,AMEX 21 WILL BEMAILED. 5. ONLINE ORDERSPLACEDBY7P.M.MONDAY,MARCH Enter from north sideofbuildingfacingLibrary Mall. No foodordrinkinthebuilding. Enter from West Wilson Street, attheintersectionofMartin Luther KingDrive. be sold-out. of time. Checkatthebox officeforthelistoffilmsthatmay Office, NOT atindividualtheaters. Will-call tickets are ONLY available attheFestival Box pickupattheFestivalbe heldforwill-call Box Office. Enter through theRotunda between Overture CenterandMMoCA W. Dayton St. W. 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