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MadCat Curator Travels to Michigan
Women Make Films, Too, Projectorhead, and The Department of Screen Arts and Culture Present
MadCat Women’s International Film Festival Presented by festival curator, Ariella Ben-Dov
Thursday, January 25, 7:00pm
Modern Languages Building, Lecture Room 2
University of Michigan
PUSHING THE FORM features a selection of films and videos from the 10th annual MadCat Women’s International Film Festival. Curated and presented by Ariella Ben-Dov this series includes an array of formal experimentations and innovations in storytelling. PUSHING THE FORM encompasses experimental documentaries, animation, an ephemeral performance and optically printed avant-garde works.
Dear Bill Gates Sarah Christman
2006 16 min Color Mini-DV US
A simple correspondence evolves into a poetic visual essay exploring the well-documented co-optation of our visual history and culture. Combining original and archival images, video and images from the internet, Dear Bill Gates draws unexpected connections among mining, memory and Microsoft.
Deep Woods Alison O’Daniel
2006 6 min Color Mini-DV UK
Part of a series, this performative video lures its male participants through the filmmaker’s enticing yet vague Web advertisements.
The Intimacy of Strangers Eva Weber
2005 19:35 min Color Beta SP UK
A clandestine film crew prowls the streets of London capturing phone conversations that take place in public. Weber “steals” these intimate moments and explores the ever-shrinking gap between private and public spheres. She weaves seemingly random exchanges into a modern-day love story, from first attraction to bitter end, creating an anonymous dance of life, love, loss and hope.
Winter Return Chelsea Walton
2006 1 min Color Mini-DV US
A moody stop-motion peek at a city.
Tune In Esther Johnson
2006 14:30 min Color DVD UK
Follow the fascinating world of amateur radio operators, better known as Radio Hams. Dealing with the politics of space and social communication, this film blends documentary and abstract audio to reflect a world that bridges both do-it-yourself and state-of-the-art technologies.
Orbit Kerry Laitala
2006 7 min Color Silent 16mm US
Candy-apple light emissions create a series of stimuli that tickle the retinas—a playful pulsation of mis-registered images made when a lab accidentally split the film from 16mm to Regular 8. Kodachrome color fields create tremulous vibrations, which hypnotize with their flickering beauty.
Boll Weevil Days Susan Simpson
2005 7 min Color 16mm US
Set against the background of real and imagined Southern California disasters, Simpson’s film re-conceptualizes the disaster narrative. The safety and ease of home gives way to waves of devastation. In the midst of repeated blows, two figures take turns rescuing and doctoring one another with extreme care and tenderness. A fragile paper city and yellowing pictures of rescue workers from the 1930s creates an elliptical portrayal of intimacy in the face of oblivion.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
MadCat seeks provocative and visionary films and videos directed or co-directed by women. Films can be of any length or genre and produced ANY year. MadCat is committed to showcasing work that challenges the use of sound and image and explores notions of visual story telling. All subjects/topics will be considered. Submission Fee: $10-30 sliding scale. Pay what you can afford. International entrants disregard the fee. For more details go to www.madcatfilmfestival.org or call 415 436-9523. Preview Formats: VHS or DVD. Exhibition Formats: 35mm, 16mm, Super8, Beta SP, Mini DV, VHS, DVD. All entries must include a self addressed stamped envelope for return of materials. Previews will not be returned without a self addressed stamped envelope. Early Bird Deadline: March 23, 2007. Late Bird Deadline: May 21, 2007.
Founded in 1996, the MadCat Women’s International Film Festival (MadCat) is a highly acclaimed international festival that exhibits independent and experimental films and videos directed by women from around the globe. MadCat began as a volunteer organization and grew out of an essential need within the San Francisco, Bay Area film community. The Festival emphasizes work that is inventive and visionary. Tonight’s program will include a variety of work from the previous years’ festival. The Festivals curator, Ariella Ben-Dov will lead a discussion following the screening.
“Women Make Films Too” is an ongoing visiting artist and scholar series focusing on professional women filmmakers working in the industry as well as those who work as independent film and video artists. The series is a University-wide forum and showcase for film screenings and symposia that addresses the (in)visibility of women working in film. The focus of the project is to bring to the University of
Michigan, women who will speak about their own work as well as scholars whose writing specifically focus on women filmmakers. This year’s Women Make Films too is series is made possible in part by a generous donation from the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.
Projectorhead is a project of the Donald Hall Collection in the Department of
MadCat Women’s International Film Festival
639 Steiner Street Unit C
San Francisco, CA 94117 USA
P. 415 436-9523
F. 415 934-0642
E. info@...
www.madcatfilmfestival.org
MadCat Women’s International Film Festival
Screening the best films by women directors from around the world
Screen Arts and Culture. Each year Projectorhead offers a program of film
screenings and hosts visiting artists in its ongoing series that is open to the public
free of charge.
Information on MadCat Women’s International Film festival:
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Website: www.madcatfilmfestival.org
Information on Women Make Films, Too, please contact:
Jennifer Hardacker, Lecturer IV Department of Screen Arts and Culture
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Stashu Kybartas, Lecturer IV Department of Screen Arts and Culture skybar@... <mailto:skybar@...>
Information on Projectorhead contact:
Philip Hallman, Librarian, Donald Hall Collection, Department of Screen Arts and Culture, phallman@...
MadCat Women’s International Film Festival
639 Steiner Street Unit C
San Francisco, CA 94117 USA
P. 415 436-9523
F. 415 934-0642
E. info@...
www.madcatfilmfestival.org
MadCat Women’s International Film Festival
Screening the best films by women directors from around the world
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