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Sunday, February 18, 4:00 p.m.
MadCat Women’s International Film Festival – Program One
“Private Eyes,” the first program in curator Ariella Ben-Dov’s series, features an eclectic selection of experimental documentaries and animated works from the UK, Czech Republic, Norway and the US. Highlights include The Intimacy of Strangers, which follows a clandestine film crew that prowls the streets, capturing phone conversations, and Deep Woods, which is a performative video that lures male participants through evocative advertisements.
Sunday, February 25, 4:00 p.m.
MadCat Women’s International Film Festival – Program Two
The second program in curator Ariella Ben-Dov’s series –“Fools Tricks” – highlights experiments in 16mm avant-garde filmmaking. Optical printing, painting on film, and other tricks of the cinematic trade are used to present an abstracted lunar eclipse, the inner workings of a monastery’s bakery, and the re-creation of planets. Other highlights include Boll Weevil Days, which re-conceptualizes the disaster narrative, and Tune-In, which uncovers the world of amateur radio operators.
Wisconsin Cinematheque
4070 Vilas Hall
821 University Avenue
Madison, Wisconsin
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PROGRAM NOTES
Program 1
Private Eyes
Curated by Ariella Ben-DovDear 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.
Winter Return Chelsea Walton
2006 1 min Color Mini-DV US
A moody stop-motion peek at a city.
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.
Human Nature Stine Gonsholt
2006 1:40 min B/W DVD Norway
A stick figure runs, and runs, and runs….
The Carnival of the Animals Michaela Pavlåtovå
2006 11 min Color Mini DV Czech Republic
This erotic animated musical takes viewers on a sensual and obscene tour of the lives of lascivious characters looking for love anywhere they can find it. Men, women, birds and their prey roam parks, restaurants and back alleys searching for pleasure in a fantastical world where genitals pop up in the most unexpected places.
PROGRAM 2
Fools Tricks
Curated by Ariella Ben-DovSheri Wills
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.
Eclipse Jeanne Liotta
2005 4 min Color US
Using lush, light-sensitive Kodachrome film, Eclipse is an abstract documentation of a lunar eclipse. Anticipation and fear grow as the soundtrack evokes the rumble of unseen fighter jets overhead.
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.
Callisto Courtney Hoskins
2003 2:51 min Color 16mm Silent US
Temperature sensitive liquid crystal paints, a common ingredient in mood rings, is used to create the outer space feel of Callisto. Hoskins uses an air blower to create the bubbly molten lava look of this film.
Orbit Kerry Laitala
2006 7 min Color 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.
Walk for Walk Amy Lockhart
2005 10 min Color 16mm Canada
Enter a surreal, hyper-colorized, ever-changing world where something’s just not right, but, boy, is entertaining. A variety of babies lead us through the story: Warm Baby, Mister Baby, Rich Baby, and others. Created using more than 1,000 hand-painted paper cutouts, puppets and backgrounds.
Europa Courtney Hoskins
2003 7:18 min Color 16mm US
The filmmaker animates dish soap with the grooves of her fingertips and superimposes super-8 aquarium footage to generate a three-dimensional underwater futuristic experience.
Corpus Christi Anna Lange
2006 7 min B/W DVD the Netherlands
Inspired by a story told by an old nun about a monastery’s communion host bakery and the pig they fattened with the waste and later consumed. This quasi-documentary collage plays subtly with associations on the theme of give and take, which eventually approaches the secret of Holy Communion.
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 may 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.MadCat Women’s International Film Festival
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MadCat Women’s International Film Festival
Screening the best films by women directors from around the world
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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