MadCat Women's International Film Festival
The Experimentalists
Directors manipulate the medium creating the visual delights offered in this series of gorgeous 16mm contemporary avant-garde films.
PROGRAM
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Monsters
Directed by Gretchen Hogue.
US, 2004, 16mm, color, 10 min.
Rosemary’s Baby and The Shining are re-photographed, focusing on the films' female protagonists and their gradual subjugation by horror and retaliation, instigated by their husbands' brutal betrayals.
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Pedant Philia
Directed by Sandra Cheng.
US, 2003, 16mm, color, 2 min.
Defined as a love for teachers, especially occurring when the student experiences symptoms of schizophrenia, Pedant Philia is a hand-drawn story of unrequited love.
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On Women's Recipes
Directed by Beatriz Flores and Sonia Malfa.
US, 2003, 16mm, color, 10 min.
Immigrant women discuss the acquisition of taste, rituals, memory, the carrying on of tradition and making a home in a foreign land.
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Buffalo Lifts
Directed by Christina Battle.
US/Canada, 2004, 16mm, color, 3 min.
Gentle four-legged friends are presented in a sumptuous wash of color, optically printed to obey the maker.
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See Bikini See
Directed by Angela Reginato.
US, 2004, 16mm, color, 3 min.
The secret schematics of 60s beach movies are revealed in this found-footage film in which scratched-off emulsion reveals the sexual undertow overtaking Frankie and Annette.
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Poor White Trash Girl—Class Consciousness
Directed by Kelly Spivey.
US, 2003, 16mm, color, 7 min.
Using animation, the filmmaker explores a girl’s introduction to the class wars.
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Last Still Life
Directed by Michele Stanley.
Canada, 2003, 16mm, color, 3 min.
Reality, dream and hallucination intermingle when a single, disturbing moment becomes a continuously looped fragment of memory.
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Late
Directed by Diane Cheklich.
US, 2003, 16mm, black & white, 8 min.
High-contrast shots of seedy hotels and dial-a-savior billboards are collaged together as late-night radio evangelist dispenses wisdom and hope to lost souls.
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Make Haste Slowly
Directed by Elizabeth Block.
US, 2004, 16mm, color, 6 min.
Block presents a visual poem of text, color and light. Drawings on clear film leader are exposed to light and re-photographed as digital pixels that are then projected backwards.
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Numerical Engagements
Directed by Chelsea Walton.
US, 2004, 16mm, color, 4 min.
This hand-processed, optically printed love poem explores an intimate, roaming rendezvous. Lush and colorful, the rhythm of editing resembles a heartbeat.
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Neptune’s Release: Shot in the Dark
Directed by Joell Hallowell and Jacalyn White.
US, 2004, 16mm, color, 17 min.
Hallowell and White’s humorous and devastating found-footage extravaganza, complete with 50s advertisements, spiritual audiotapes, obsolete medical films and a star-studded cast that includes Janis Joplin, Timothy Leary and Shirley MacLaine.
