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Program:

* Tales From the Margins Kavita Joshi
2006 • 24 min • Color • Mini DV • India • US Premiere

Twelve women strip themselves naked on the streets of Manipur in protest. A young woman has been on a fast demanding justice, and is forcibly nose-fed and kept under arrest by the government for more than six years. Why are the women of Manipur, a state in northeastern India, using their bodies both as their last weapon and a battlefield?

* Between Girls Kaja Leijon                                                                                                                                                   2007 • 10 min • Color • Mini DV • Norway • World Premiere

A group of girls are sitting in the dark, their faces lit by the light of the movie screen. What are their hopes and dreams?

* El Otro Lado Anne Wallace
2006 • 13 min • Color • Mini DV • US/Mexico • West Coast Premiere

The eye follows the hypnotic rhythm of a seemingly endless steel wall along the US/Mexico border from the Rio Grande to the deserts of Arizona and California. The voices describe border residents’ creative responses to the problems it poses.

* Niko Lesya Kalynska
2006 • 10 min • Color • Beta SP • Ukraine • West Coast Premiere

A former freedom fighter with the Georgian National Liberation Movement now struggles for daily survival as an illegal immigrant in New York City. Through sculpting and painting, he finds another kind of freedom in the creative process.

* The Days and the Hours Kristine Samuelson and John Haptas
2006 • 8:15 pm • Color • Beta SP • US • Filmmakers in Person

At a church in the middle of San Francisco, homeless people are allowed to sleep in the pews during daily services. Filling row after row, more than a hundred exhausted men and women find relief from filthy sidewalks and dangerous city shelters. Their voices describe their lives before they slipped off the tracks.

For a completee MadCat program go to www.madcatfilmfestival.org

A vibrant and award-winning one-hour documentary about inspiring well-spent lives, offers a totally fresh look at successful aging. Narrated by Beau Bridges, it profiles ten legendary surfers who model healthy aging by staying active and engaged into their 7th, 8th and 9th decades. Through interviews, contemporary day-in-the-life footage, and a wealth of rare archival material, the film provides an eloquent and powerful antidote to the negative images of aging presented in America’s youth-obsessed culture.

Intimate Observations is a collection of moving collages and cinema vérité committed to the confines of small gauge celluloid.  These new experimental works capture candid situations, mundane objects and familiar landscapes but reveal something extraordinary about them.  Local filmmakersinclude B Berzins (“Receding Memories”), Christian Bruno & Natalija Vekic (“7:30PM”), Paul Clipson (“TUOLUMNE”), Daniel Gorrell (“Ships, part 1”), Jim Granato (“Urban Renewal”), Douglas Katelus (“Death of Astro”), Bruce Landick, Brendan Lott & Ron Toole (“Operator Error”), John Reily & Charles Kremenak (“In a Flurry of Wings (Boundaries of an Occluded Sky))”, and Douglas Schultz (“Baird’s Beaked Whale: A Landing”).

The impetus for the Exquisite Corpse Films follows from the original surrealist construct presented by Andre Breton in 1920.  Each film was created using a 3 minute cartridge of Kodachrome super 8 film and was assigned a topic chosen by the group, with (6) 30 second opportunities to describe the subject. The filmmakers edited their contributions ‘in camera’ and the films are presented as they were shot. 

The SF Exquisite Corps S8 group are made up of local artists from a variety of arts backgrounds; painting, photography, sculpture, performance art, and film participated in the making of these films, in many cases with limited film experience.  In a direct sense the films are experiments in a visual narrative and provide alternative ideas about the subject.  In an indirect sense these films capture a moment in San Francisco and the lives of those participating in the films.S.F.

Exquisite Corpse live music accompaniment by Bill Cameron (Winechuggers), Patrick Abernathy & Pat Spurgeon (Rogue Wave).