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Program:

Which Way
Claudia Herbst
2001 5min Color BetaSP Germany
US Premiere
Through relentless yet enticing drum beats combined with rapid fire editing of animation, still photographs and live-action sequences, Herbst reveals a national tragedy through her very personal story in Which Way.

Travis
Kelly Reichardt
2004 11:46min Color BetaSP US
West Coast Premiere
Reichardt appropriates and illustrates an NPR radio interview with the Portland mother whose son Travis was killed clearing mines in Iraq just after President Bush declared the end to major combat. Through intricate sound editing the full story of this loss is revealed with chilling clarity.

Good Morning, Night
Kiyoko Segawa
2004 3min Color Mini DV Japan/US
West Coast Premiere
A surreal animation about a family that tries to ignore impending war…

Devour
Carolee Schneemann
2004 7:52min Color MiniDV US
World Premiere
Looped fragments of moments of both domestic intimacy and political disasters create a sense of ambiguous menace both real and imagined.

It’s Not My Memory of It
Julia Meltzer & David Thorne
2004 25min Color BetaSP US
It’s Not My Memory of It is about secrecy, memory and documents. In this riveting video a former CIA source reveals how the agency constructed his false identity. Actual US military footage shows a burial at sea and shredded classified documents are animated and reconstructed to reveal a complex story of cover-ups, the complexity of defining the “truth” and the difference between “real” and “protocol” secrets. Mobilizing specific historical records as images that flash up in moments of danger, this piece addresses the intensification of secrecy practices in the current climate of heightened security.

Call to the Dark Side
Barbara Klutinis
2003 2:30min Color MiniDV US
San Francisco Premiere
Filmmaker in Person!
With an eerie sound track and footage of a boy about to jump off an unidentified ledge, Klutinis creates anticipation and fear of an unknown horror ahead.

The Thief of Bagdad
Diane Nerwen
2003 5min Color MiniDV US
Oil, flying horses and tales of liberation swirl together in this Technicolor action adventure fantasy starring Charlton Heston as a swaggering Texan empire-builder in Baghdad and Conrad Veidt as his nemesis. The film draws on imagery and dialogue from classic Orientalist cinema to depict a clash of civilizations, Hollywood style.

The Invisible Hand
Lori Hiris
2003 12min Color/B/W 16mm US
The Invisible Hand is a hand-drawn history of corporate corruption from Enron, to Halliburton to Marthagate. Hiris uses her stunning craft to reveal new connections between some of the worlds’ most powerful conglomerations.

The MadCat Women’s International Film Festival seeks to exhibit provocative and visionary works that are original in their use of the medium. The festival’s goal is to emphasize innovative works by women that challenge the use of sound and image and explore notions of visual storytelling. This international festival advances an alternative vision by emphasizing work that exploits the medium.

http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org

See fresh perspectives and formula shattering techniques in film and video art from the Bay Area and beyond! Open Screening accepts one hour of shorts every month on an open revolving basis. Live local bands open every show, and the refreshments are darn good.

FREE admission for exhibitors

7pm: Door/Bar
7:30 Music
8pm: Projector

OS Submission Info:
* Cue and label all tapes w/ name, contact, title and length.
* Mail dubs to: “openscreening”, 992 Valencia, SF, 94110
* 1-2 week advance submissions strongly recommended
* Email inquiries do not guarantee a space. Tapes do
* Max trt: 20m
* DVD, miniDV/DVcam, sVHS, sm beta, 8mm and 16mm
* All genres. Student, “in progress”, and segments welcome
* Info: contact meg @ openscreening@hotmail.com

ABOUT OPEN SCREENING:
Open Screening is a noncompetitive and uncensored exhibition of short films and videos where artists and lay persons can experience cinema’s innovative foundations first hand. Most exhibitors are students and established filmmakers wishing to test run a new piece. Because the program is arranged on a first come – first served basis, themes are incidental, and style and subject matter varies tremendously from month to month and film to film.
For further information, contact Megan Miller at openscreening@hotmail.com

Program:

Boond: In 6 Tellings
Anuradha Chandra
2004 14min Color MiniDV
US Premiere Boond tells a mythical fable of a drop of water that turns into a man. The story is told by four women from around the world. Their interpretation and retelling of this ancient tale reveals the multiple meanings of the story. In a time when communities are collapsing under the pressures of modern life, Boond explores the possibility of resurrecting lost oral traditions and finding spaces to communicate despite differences.

Farm-In-The-City
EE Miller & Bernadine Mellis
2003 5min Color MiniDV US
World Premiere, Filmmaker in Person! 8mm footage combined with the interview of a woman who imagines giant possibilities, environmental and social utopia and ecstatic collaboration and struggle.

Floods, Ghosts and Contamination
Jenny Stark
2004 13:45min B/W BetaSP US
N. CA Premiere The film uses the old Mexican folktale of “La Llorona” as a backdrop to depictions of two disasters in Texas, one caused by a flood associated with the building of a dam on the Rio Grande River and the other caused by environmental contamination near an old Air Force base in San Antonio.

Landscapes in Alphabetical Order
Katherin McInnis
2003 1min Color MiniDV US
Filmmaker in Person! In this scenic montage McInnis examines the ways moving images are coded, organized- and archived by using film stills from the Prelinger Archives that were filed under the keyword “landscape.”

Fan (a lovel story)
Lori Samsel
2003 5min Color BetaSP US CA Premiere
An animated look at the love between a girl and her fan.

Monument
Amy Harrison
2003 1:34min Color MiniDV US Theatrical Premiere, Filmmaker in Person!
An animated pile of stones works as a parable of the earth’s response to the build up of thousands of years of human activity.

How to Fix the World
Jacqueline Goss
2004 28min Color BetaSP US
CA Premiere
Based on Soviet psychologist A.R. Luria’s research on Central Asian collective farms in the 1930’s, How To Fix The World illustrates the cultural conflicts between speaking and writing, drawing and photography, and Soviet Socialism and Islam. Digital animations based on Max Penson’s early 20th century photographs play against a backdrop of 21st century footage of Uzbekistan, where Luria originally conducted these humorous, conflicting and revealing conversations with the Muslim farmers of Central Asia.

The MadCat Women’s International Film Festival seeks to exhibit provocative and visionary works that are original in their use of the medium. The festival’s goal is to emphasize innovative works by women that challenge the use of sound and image and explore notions of visual storytelling. This international festival advances an alternative vision by emphasizing work that exploits the medium.

http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org