Ninth Annual MadCat Women’s International Film Festival presents
Amok-imation
Tues and Weds, Sept 13, 14, 20, 21 & 27
Movies 8:30 pm; Free BBQ at 6:30 pm
Amok-imation
Wry, dark and painfully funny, these animated works from Sweden, Mexico, the Netherlands and the Philippines are not your typical Saturday morning cartoons.
Who is Gunnar? Tilda Lovell
2004 5:40 min Color mini-DV Sweden • US Premiere
Observe Gunnar, a sad grasshopper who is maimed by an unwanted surgery. Follow him as he looks for his stolen body part and finds new friends.
Síndrome de Línea Blanca Lourdes Villagómez
2005 7 min Color Beta SP Mexico • CA Premiere
A young girl is killed by a car. Villagómez uses stop-motion animation, cutouts of people within life size sets and live-action footage to tell the story of a life that never was.
Silig (Undertow) Vivian Limpin
1996 7:26 min Color 16mm Philippines
Using white ink on black paper, Limpin ruminates about the ways one can end it all.
Give AIDS the Freeze Cathy Joritz
1996 2 min B/W 16mm Germany
Hand-drawn animation over a 1950s educational film is used to create this raucous promotional piece.
Small & Deep, Love Stories Hsin-Ping Pan
2005 6:40 min Color Beta SP US • Northern CA Premiere
A visual poem of love and passion.
Emblem Cecilia Lundqvist
2001 2:27 min Color mini-DV Sweden • US Premiere
Women in bathing suites and socks doing gymnastics. What are the posh British men so sorry about? Look closely.
The Guilt Trip, or The Vatican Takes a Holiday Lisa Barcy
2004 14 min Color mini-DV US • CA Premiere
In a dilapidated church, icons of Catholicism run amok, Jesus and Mary Magdalene steal away for an adventurous road trip, and the Pope tends his restless herd with an iron fist. Told with stop-motion animated puppets and mixed media, The Guilt Trip examines the notion that you can always leave, but you can never really escape.
Gum and Tea Samuael Topiary and E.E. Miller
2005 4:50 min Color mini-DV US • West Coast Premiere
A meditation on oral fixation and the presidency, this short features an unnamed local artist as she talks about her fanciful project for the president of the US.
Echoes of Bats and Men Jo Dery
2005 7 min Color 16mm US • West Coast Premiere
The night shift begins with a musical history lesson sung by a chubby skunk. Learn about Rhode Island’s industrial evolution through the midnight flight of a little bat and her many friends.
Ero Sawhang Blues Kay Lee
2004 4:25 min Color mini-DV South Korea • World Premiere
A gun, a little girl, a man and a masturbating older woman…something is bound to happen.
Cosmetic Emergency Martha Colburn
2005 9 min Color mini-DV The Netherlands
This music-driven film takes viewers on a humorous and politicized hip hop tour of the cosmetic surgery obsession. Sequences are created with paint-on-glass animation, found footage and documentary techniques. Dutch Ambassador of Cosmetic Surgery Marijke Helwegen makes a rare cameo. Original music by New Zealand’s, Coco Solid and Half Japanese founder Jad Fair, British radio artist Mick Hobbs, and trombonist Hilary Jeffery.
Jack and Jill Andrea Shear
2004 1:26 min Color Beta SP US • Filmmaker in Person
A fresh look at this classic nursery rhyme.
For a full program visit http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org or call 415 436-9523 and we will send you a program.
El Rio
3158 Mission St. @ Precita in SF
Rain or Shine. Dress warmly! 21 and over.
Tix: $7–$20. (415) 282-3325
Tickets available in advance or at the door. There will always be tickets at the door!! Cash only.
