The 10th Annual MadCat Women¹s International Film Festival
Screening the Best films by women directors from around the world
See 3D Films, live music, viewmasters performances and more

When: September 12-27 in San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley.
SF: Artists Television Access, El Rio and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Oakland: Grand Lake Theater, Berkeley: Pacific Film Archive

MadCat celebrates a milestone 10th birthday September and will present the
best films by women directors from near and far ‹ old and new. Come and See
where the ladies are at! MadCat maintains its unique status as one of the
best places to see cutting-edge films by directors from around the globe.
With over 85 films screening, from 17 countries MadCat premieres 53 titles
and 26 filmmakers will be in attendance! MadCat presents a unique and
expansive look at women¹s filmmaking internationally. See 12 programs of
films and videos, live music, viewmaster presentations, 3D films,
documentaries and more.

MadCat received over 1,300 submissions this year from far reaching nations
such as: Africa, Argentina, Brazil, France, Greece, India, Iran, Japan,
Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, and so many more. MadCat redefines the
women¹s film festival by focusing on works that challenge form.

³Performance abounds at this year¹s Festival. We have three live music
events, 2 viewmaster performances and 2 evenings of 3D films! I am thrilled
to present these cutting-edge events and floored by the shear genius of
these filmmakers from all reaches of the earth.²‹ Ariella Ben-Dov
Co-Founder, Curator, Executive Director. FOR A FULL PROGRAM go to
www.madcatfilmfestival.org <http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org/> or email
info@... <mailto:info@...> and
request a hard copy! Festival Highlights BelowŠ

MadCat PREMIERES AND SPECIAL EVENTS
MadCat is proud to present the Northern California Premiere of local
award-winning filmmakers Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre¹s
groundbreaking documentary Maquilapolis. This project is about the brutal
conditions of Tijuana's assembly factories, the maquiladoras and how a group
of courageous women have band together to fight the multinational
corporations who run them. MadCat presents the premiere at the Grand Lake
Theater in Oakland, September 21, Tickets $10. This screening is a
fundraiser and will benefit the Wellstone Democratic Club and Global
Exchange. MadCat will also present Maquilapolis in SF at Yerba Buena on Sun,
Sept 24!

The Festival screens the SF premiere of How Little We Know of Our
Neighbours, a new documentary by award-winning filmmaker, Rebecca Baron. How
Little We Know of Our Neighbours is an engrossing study of the Mass
Observation movement in Britain‹an eccentric social science enterprise begun
in 1937 that used hidden cameras to record and scrutinize behavior in public
spaces. Initially concerned with anthropology, the outfit became a civil spy
unit during World War II before re-emerging as a market research firm in the
¹50s. How Little We Know of Our Neighbors considers this fascinating history
of state-sanctioned snooping in relation to contemporary issues of
surveillance and privacy. This film screens in Surveillance Times at ATA on
Fri, Sept 22.

VIEWMASTERS and 3D Films ­ Sept 20 at El Rio
For the first time at MadCat we are proud to host Vladimir and her
Vladmasters. Like Madonna and Cher before her, Vladimir is a one named
wonder to be reckoned with! Vladmasters are viewmasters slide show stories
that she makes by hand. Yes, she sits in her house listening to books on
tape while making hundreds of viewmaster cartridges. She then invites an
uncanny group of musicians and artists to create original scores and
recorded narrations to her delightful and quirky narratives. MadCat will
screen the CA Premiere of her newest feat Fear & Trembling plus others.

3D Films!
Zoe Beloff will be in town with her award-winning 16mm 3D films. Her
projects are philosophical toys, objects to think with. They investigate the
space where technology intersects with unconscious desire. Beloff¹s work has
been exhibited internationally at: MOMA NY and the Whitney Museum, the
Rotterdam Film Festival and the Pompidou Center.

MadCat presents 2 programs by Beloff:
The West Coast Premiere of Charming Augustine ‹ This surreal 3D film was
inspired by a series of photographs and texts on hysteria published in the
1880s by the insane asylum Salpêtrière, in Paris. Based on a case study of
the young Augustine who, at fifteen, was admitted to the hospital after
suffering from hysterical paralysis, the film re-imagines her psychosis,
exploring the connections between the attempts to document her mental states
and the prehistory of narrative film. The doctors were captivated by
Augustine¹s frequent attacks, which appeared extraordinarily theatrical and
photogenic. She became the star, the ³Sarah Bernhardt² of the asylum. To
conjure this era that predates the moving image, Beloff films in a
stereoscopic or 3D format to suggest a different direction that cinema might
have taken had it been invented a decade earlier. Sept 23 at Yerba Buena and
Sept 26 at PFA.

Enter the psycho-fantastical, hyper-colorized world of Claire and Don in
Slumberland. For the first time in San Francisco, Beloff presents this 3D
slide and film projection performance. Narrated by the audio of actual
psychology films from 1949, this bizarre journey follows Claire and Don as
they are hypnotized and asked to allow their subconscious to roam free in ³a
free-floating fever dream of the Cold War era.² Slumberland combines the
futuristic yet wonderfully dated feel of Barbarella with the earnest
scientific films of the 1950s that demonstrate innovations in early
psychology and hypnotism. Beloff transforms the viewing experience by asking
the audience to don 3D glasses and believe in Claire and Don¹s excursion
into the unknown, while simultaneously making a poignant comment on postwar
fear and anxiety. Screening Sept 20 at El Rio.

LIVE MUSIC
Continuing a long running tradition MadCat will yet again embrace silent era
presentation with a series of silent 16mm films set to live music by local
musicians. Silian Rail, Paper Boats, The Secrets of Family Happiness and
Tartufi will perform.

See Movies you wont find anywhere else!
MadCat¹s screenings include diverse thematically-curated shorts programs,
trailblazing documentaries, and slide presentations by local artists.

HIGHLIGHTS of the 10th Annual MadCat Film Festival
OPENING NIGHT-The Dwellers
Tues € Sept 12 € El Rio € 8:30 pm € Free BBQ at 6:30 pm
An ode to dwellers everywhere, whether in the city, country or the dry
plains of the desert. Documentary and surreal images explore home and how we
place ourselves in this world. Greta Snider premieres new Viewmasters from
her 3D documentary series. Also screening works by Maryam Kashani, Angela
Reginato and Chelsea Walton. With live music by Paper Boats and Silian Rail.

A MADCAT RETROSPECTIVE-Local Ladies: A MadCat Retrospective
Wed € Sept 13 € El Rio € 8:30 pm € Free BBQ at 6:30 pm
A selection of the best 16mm film from the past TEN years of MadCat. See
works by: Donna Carter, Samara Halperin, Greta Snider, Chelsea Walton, Chris
Willging, and others Also new works by Kerry Laitala and Jeanne Liotta! All
filmmakers will be present for the screening.

Rural Women: Finding Independence
Fri € Sept 15 € ATA € 7:30 pm
These unique documentaries depict women with entirely different approaches
to gaining independence. In a water deprived Iranian village, Atefeh stands
alone defending her fields from Mother Nature¹s arid whims. Unafraid of hard
work and tough negotiations, Atefeh stands her ground, a lone woman, to save
her livelihood. In The Angelmakers, several women in a small town in Hungary
change their fate and that of the town through a series of irreversible acts
of desperation.

Motion Stopped: An Evening of Animation
Tues € Sept 19 € El Rio € 8:30 pm € Free BBQ at 6:30 pm
Take an erotic musical tour of the sensual and obscene, go behind the scenes
of Norman McLaren¹s innovative animation, and journey through cut-out,
puppet, hand-drawn and computer animated worlds.

Psycho Vision: 3D Hallucinations
Wed € Sept 20 € El Rio € 8:30 pm € Free BBQ at 6:30 pm
Journey back to your childhood. We¹ll provide the Viewmasters and the magic,
and you just click and enjoy. Vladimir, the Viewmaster maven, comes to town
with her Vladmaster series, premiering, Fear & Trembling, and others. Also
in attendance is Zoe Beloff with her 3D 16mm film and slide show
performance, the saturated colorful world of Claire and Don in Slumberland!

Maquilapolis
Thurs € Sept 21 € Grand Lake Theater € 7:30 pm
A riveting political documentary about and by workers in Tijuana¹s assembly
factories, the maquiladoras. This intimate film chronicles a tightly knit
community that sits in the shadow of one of Tijuana¹s 800 multinational
factories that thrive off of Mexico¹s cheap labor force. Directors Vicky
Funari and Sergio De La Torre in person.

Surveillance Times
Fri € Sept 22 € ATA € 7:30 pm
Video surveillance, surreptitiously recorded phone conversations, renegade
radio stations. These innovative documentaries reveal the power of modern
surveillance technologies and the incumbent whittling away of civil
liberties and upending of notions of privacy.

Charming Augustine: A 3D Film
Sat € Sept 23 € Yerba Buena € 7:30 pm
A story of love, madness and the loss of control in glorious 3D. Experience
what cinema might have been like had it been invented in the 1880s.
Filmmaker Zoe Beloff in person.


Maquilapolis
Sun € Sept 24 € Yerba Buena € 7:30 pm
A repeat screening with local filmmakers Funari and De La Torre in person.

Wishing Worlds
Tues € Sept 26 € El Rio € 8:30 pm € Free BBQ at 6:30 pm
Stories from Pakistan, The Netherlands, Germany and France follow lunatics
in search of a homeland, young lovers in a surreal musical, an underwater
struggle, and much more.

Charming Augustine: A 3D Film
Tues € Sept 26 € PFA € 7:30 pm
Repeat screening. Filmmaker in person.

CLOSING NIGHT-A Quiet Storm: Live Music Set to Silent Films
Wed € Sept 27 € El Rio € 8:30 pm € Free BBQ at 6:30 pm
Australian filmmaker Sally Golding and sound artist Joel Stern present an
improvisational three-projector performance. 16mm films by Kerry Laitala,
Courtney Hoskins and Sheri Wills set to live music by Tartufi and The
Secrets of Family Happiness.

10th Annual MadCat Film Festival Venues
El Rio
3158 Mission St. @ Precita in San Francisco
Tues and Weds, Sept 12, 13, 19, 20, 26 & 27
Movies 8:30 pm; FREE BBQ at 6:30 pm
Rain or Shine
Tix: $7­20. Cash Only. 21 and over.
(415) 282-3325, www.elriosf.com/

Artists¹ Television Access (ATA)
992 Valencia St. @ 21st in San Francisco
Fri, Sept 15 & 22. Movies 7:30 pm
Tix: $7­20. Cash Only.
(415) 824-3890, www.atasite.org

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission St. @ Third in San Francisco
Sat and Sun Sept 23 and 24, 7:30 pm
Tix: $9. Cash or Credit Cards
(415) 978-2700, www.ybca.org

Grand Lake Theater
3200 Grand Avenue in Oakland
Date September 21, 7:30 pm Tix: $10.
Advance tickets available by calling (415)
255-7296 Mastercard and visa accepted only in advance of the screening.
(510) 452-3556, www.grandlaketheater.com <http://www.grandlaketheater.com/>

Pacific Film Archive (PFA)
2575 Bancroft Way in Berkeley
Date: Sept 26, 7:30 pm
Tix: $8. Cash or Credit Cards
(510) 642-5249, http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/

There will always be tickets at the door!

For an entire line-up go to http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org
MadCat Women's International Film Festival
639 Steiner Street
San Francisco, CA 94117 USA

Phone: 415 436-9523
Fax: 415 934-0642
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