Media Remix: Ninth Annual MadCat Women's International Film Festival

Fri, Sep 16
7:30pm
$7-$20

Co-sponsored by The Lexington Club.
Co-presented by Harvey Milk Center.

Filmmakers reinterpret media to create humorous, touching,
politically relevant works.

Program:
"Woman Without a Past" Lisa Barcy
2004 5 min, Color mini-DV US bull Bay Area Premiere
Using stop-motion animation, the filmmaker deconstructs the romance
novel-literally. Text comes alive to create an enigmatic portrait of
a mysterious woman, exposing everything, yet revealing nothing.

"Ice/Sea" Vivian Ostrovsky
2004 32 min, Color 16mm France bull West Coast Premiere
Ostrovsky's latest tour-de-force combines her signature style of
montage cinema-mixing found footage with her own shot footage. Ice/
Sea offers a hyperactive and hilarious seaside romp from Patagonia to
Odessa, Rio to Viet Nam, and elsewhere. The rollicking at a channel-
surfing pace proves experimental cinema can have a joyous edge and a
sense of humor. The soundtrack has an ingenious tidal flow of found
and created sound that propels this rambling document of sheer, sandy
fun. Ostrovsky, who grew up in Rio de Janeiro, has captured the
essence of how life is a beach-the commingling of families, couples
and playmates, the languorous sun-worshiping repose, the irresistible
compulsion for leering, the cavalcade of characters, and the
surprises beyond the inevitable sand-in-your-suit. The celebrated
avant-gardist has wryly advised, "Wear your flip flops." Watch for a
cameo appearance by fellow filmmaker Ulriche Ottinger.

"Birdlings Two" Davina Pardo
2004 6 min, Color Beta SP US bull SF Premiere
This personal essay explores the legacy of Birdlings, a film made by
Pardo's father decades ago. Using his film along with archival
footage and photographs, Birdlings Two is a meditation on the
relationships between art and invention, hopes and disappointment,
fathers and daughters.

"Periodical" Sarah Christman
2004 3:55 min, Color mini-DV US
West Coast Premiere
It's June 2004 and the cicadas are ascending after their 17-year
hibernation. Meanwhile, Ronald Reagan dies, Smarty Jones loses his
big race, and the war plods on. Using various animation techniques,
this is one woman's frame-by-frame account of a very hot week.

"In Whose Name?" Nandini Sikand
2004 10:50 min, Color mini-DV US bull West Coast Premiere
This filmic essay, which follows the co-opting of icons by political
agendas and parties, is told through personal narrative, Super-8mm
movies, Bollywood films and comic book art.

"boop-oop-a-doop" Sachiko Hayashi
2004 5 min Color, mini-DV US / Sweden bull West Coast Premiere
In her observation of daily life, Hayashi plays with three elements:
the creation of identity, media culture, and our own desire to be
somebody else. By focusing on two prominent figures in mass media
culture, Marilyn Monroe and Betty Boop, the video demonstrates how
these three elements intermingle.

"Perhaps the Singer Is Dead" Mary Billyou
2004 6:30 min Color, mini-DV US
Waves of television roll-bars lull the viewer into a false demi-sleep
while subtitled text accuses the audience: "You'd make a terrible
witness."

"Big Shtick" Courtney Egan
2003 3 min Color, mini-DV US bull West Coast Premiere
How did that fluke of evolution, the opposable thumb, influence
entertainment? This video makes the case that "the shtick is the stick."

"Pounds Per Square Inch" Heather Posner
2004 5:50 min Color, 16mm US bull World Premiere
A young woman recalls a dream involving a make-out session in a
bathroom. She attempts to solve the riddle of heterosexual feminist
fantasy.

"Where's My Boyfriend?" Gretchen Hogue
2005 2 min Color, mini-DV US bull CA Premiere
A biological clock explosion of penises and fetuses. This one's for
the ladies. Can you hear the ticking?

Venue:

Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia Street @ 21st
San Francisco
(415) 824-3890
www.atasite.org

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