New Frontier celebrates experimentation and the convergence of film and art as a hotbed for cinematic innovation. This All My Friends Are program highlights work that explores the Funeral Singers DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Tim Rutili limits of traditional aesthetics and the U.S.A., 2009, 84 min., color The beautiful Zel is a special woman. Her big narrative structures of filmmaking and house is full of ghosts of all ages from different eras. A psychic advisor, Zel works with her ethereal roommates to help her clients. Although presents the moving image in theatres, it’s magical, it is also a job as she removes clients’ aches and pains, advises gamblers, and channels cranky spirits to check on their loved ones. Business is good—until the ghosts see “the gallery spaces, and other surprising ways light” one night. The ghost crew now feel they are trapped and start pressuring Zel for the truth. at the Festival. Writer/director Tim Rutili is also a member of the band Califone, whose members act in the film and provide the lush original soundtrack. The band brought its music-making talent to the film’s construction, treating the footage and story like an album. Zel’s unique existence is a lesson in hope, habit, and folklore. The atmosphere is utterly enchanting, mixed with an odd realism and filled with as much humor as wonder. —MIKE PLANTE ExP: Glen Sherman Ci: Darryl Miller Ed: Kevin Ford PrD: Joseph Bristol Mu: Califone (Joe Adamik, Jim Becker, Ben Massarella, Tim Rutili) So: Blair Scheller Principal Cast: Angela Bettis, Molly Wade, Emily Candini, Reid Coker, George McAuliffe, Alan Scalpone Preceded by Fiddlestixx Directors: David Zellner, Nathan Zellner U.S.A., 2009, 10 min., color & b/w Tuesday, January 26, 9:00 p.m. - ALLMY26NN New Frontier on Main, Park City Screening with live music performance by Califone Wednesday, January 27, 9:00 p.m. - ALLMY27EN Egyptian Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 28, 2:00 p.m. - ALLMY282A Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Friday, January 29, 7:30 p.m. - ALLMY29BE Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC Saturday, January 30, 3:00 p.m. - ALLMY30YA Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City 56 Double Take Memories of ODDSAC DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Johan Grimonprez , Overdevelopment DIRECTOR: Danny Perez based on a story by Tom McCarthy, inspired by the U.S.A., 2010, 54 min., color essay “25 August, 1983,” by Jorge Luis Borges Memorias del Desarrollo Belgium/Germany/The Netherlands, 2009, DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Miguel Coyula Opening with torch-wielding villagers and a wall 80 min., color & b/w U.S.A./Cuba, 2010, 115 min., color bleeding oil, ODDSAC attaches vivid scenery English and Spanish with English subtitles and strange characters to the wonderful melodic The best art imitates life, but at a slant. Johan wavelengths of the band Animal Collective, Grimonprez adroitly proves this in his highly What happens when a socialist revolutionary in- revitalizing the lost form of the “visual album.” original film, which locates and develops tellectual asserts creative freedom? In Memories Working on the project for three years with friend thematic conjunctions between escapist of Overdevelopment, ideological clashes and Danny Perez, Animal Collective pushes the entertainment and real-life horror; more contradictions explode and fragment within a boundaries of the music video and joins music specifically, between the work and images of Cuban émigré while they spurt across the world visionaries like The Residents, Devo, and Daft legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock and stage. A kinetic, mesmerizing, subliminal collage, Punk, who previously connected filmic imagery the escalation of the cold war in the 1960s. the film forges new cinematic dimensions with with their songs. Appropriating and reprocessing film and multiple planes: a picaresque saga of desire and television images of Hitchcock, John F. Kennedy, decomposition, a self-reflexive project about art Animal Collective’s music is a glittering mix of Richard Nixon, Nikita Khruschev, and others, reifying life, a surreal foray into memory and the pop rock, experimental noise, and horror-movie Grimonprez expands droll generalizations about unconscious, and a searing critique of twentieth- soundtrack. Perez’s visuals mirror that, doppelgangers, guilt, and paranoia into a century forces like genocide and totalitarianism. incorporating intense scenes of vampires, full-blown analysis of global politics, fear of campfires, and screaming prophets to form the bomb, and the mad rush to mutually Shot with psychedelic lucidity, the narrative themes and a distinct vision, rather than assured destruction. As public anxieties are evolves from our rogue’s Cuban boyhood, when following a traditional plot and dialogue. The sublimated in popular entertainment, so do they the revolution and his aunt’s dying wish for a kiss characters are interlaced with flicker effects sometimes erupt in artistic expressions (such as become formative fodder and iconographic that mimic pressure phosphenes, the magic Hitchcock’s The Birds). In addition to pinpointing propaganda. He constructs and deconstructs colors produced by rubbing your closed eyes. the postmodern, movielike unreality of public life, reality—manipulating language, image, and A true physical experience, ODDSAC turns the Grimonprez convincingly indicates the precision sound—to manufacture the very art we’re theatre into a sensory submarine.—MIKE PLANTE with which an artist may sketch the public psyche consuming. As he careens from youth to old in entertainment, and why Hitchcock still haunts age in elliptical swirls of misadventure, elusive Pr: Gary Hustwit CoP: Jojo Li AsP: Brian our dreams.—SHANNON KELLEY Betancourt, Chris Ronis Ci: Ryan Samul pleasures of collectivity and individualism give Ed: Danny Perez Mu: Animal Collective way to existential truth.—CAROLINE LIBRESCO Principal Cast: Josh Dibb, Noah Lennox, Pr: Zap-o-Matik, Emmy Oost, Johan David Portner, Brian Weitz Grimonprez CoP: Nikovantastic Film, ExP: Steve Pieczenik, Suzana Dejkanovic Hanneke van der Tas, Nicole Gerhards, Pr: David Leitner AsP: Yukiko Niigata, Preceded by Ed: The ZO Volya Films, Denis Vaslin Dieter Michael Ferris Gibson Ci: Miguel Coyula Director: Glenda Wharton Mu: Diependaele, Tyler Hubby Christian Ed: Miguel Coyula Mu: Dika Durbuzovic, U.S.A., 2009, 26 min., color Halten So: Ranko Paukovic Principal Cast: Ron Miguel Coyula, Hayes Greenfield, Luis Burrage, Mark Perry Novo Principal Cast: Ron Blair, Eileen Alana, Tuesday, January 26, 8:30 p.m. - ODDSA26PN Susana Pérez, Lester Martínez, Dayana M. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Preceded by Voice on the Line Hernández, Reb Fleming Director: Kelly Sears Thursday, January 28, 10:30 p.m. - ODDSA281L U.S.A., 2009, 7 min., color Preceded by Vostok Station Holiday Village Cinema I, Park City Director: Dylan Pharazyn Friday, January 29, 9:30 p.m. - ODDSA292N Friday, January 22, 9:00 a.m. - DOUBL22EM New Zealand, 2009, 9 min., color Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 30, 6:00 p.m. - ODDSA30BE Saturday, January 23, 3:00 p.m. - DOUBL23BA Friday, January 22, noon - MEMOR224D Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City Sunday, January 24, noon - DOUBL24YD Saturday, January 23, noon - MEMOR23YD Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 30, 12:30 p.m. - DOUBL30ED Sunday, January 24, 4:30 p.m. - MEMOR24DA Egyptian Theatre, Park City Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC Tuesday, January 26, 9:00 p.m. - MEMOR26YN Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 30, 6:30 p.m. - MEMOR302E Holiday Village Cinema II, Park City NEW FRONTIER ON MAIN 57 Pepperminta Utopia in Four DIRECTOR: Pipilotti Rist Movements SCREENWRITERS: Chris Niemeyer, Pipilotti Rist DIRECTORS: Sam Green, Dave Cerf Austria/Switzerland, 2009, 80 min., color U.S.A., 2010, 75 min., color & b/w German with English subtitles Throughout human history, people have had Pepperminta is a playful young woman with an giddy dreams and fantastic notions about what anarchic imagination, determined to free people the future would bring. Today the future has from their fears through her own special alchemy. become more of a threat than a promise—a knot Colors are her best friends, strawberries are her of intractable problems looming menacingly on pets, and the world outside her door is there to the horizon. With a powerful sense of poetry, be licked. Together with a plump, shy young man Utopia in Four Movements uses the collective named Werwen and Edna, a gender-bending experience of cinema to explore the battered gardener, Pepperminta sets out on a mission to state of the utopian impulse at the dawn of the fight for a more humane world. twenty-first century. Internationally acclaimed visual artist Pipilotti In this “live documentary,” filmmaker Sam Rist’s first feature, Pepperminta is an explosion Green cues images and narrates in person of psychedelic color and fantasy where things while musician Dave Cerf performs the sacred and taboo become playful and whimsical, soundtrack. From the establishment of a and color can transform and heal lives. Crafting man-made language designed to end war and a tactile film seen through a toddler’s-eye cultural conflict and the undying optimism of an camera, Rist irreverently engages with childhood American exile in Cuba, to the current economic fairy tales to create a magical and visually boom in China and the desire to give the remains stunning contemporary fable of courage in the in mass graves a dignified burial, Green and Cerf face of shame. sift through the history of the utopian impulse with audiences and search for insights about Lobe of Lung: The Saliva Ooze Away to the the way to build a vision of the future based on Underground is a fully immersive version of Rist’s humankind’s noblest impulses.—SHARI FRILOT feature film, which invites audiences to lie back and lounge inside the film.