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MadCat Looks Back: 8 Greats from the Festival Archives
Some of the best 16mm films MadCat has screened over its twelve-year history are highlighted, including works by local talent Kerry Laitala, Angela Reginato, and Phoebe Tooke.

Artists' Television Access
Fri • Sept 19 • 7:30 pm
992 Valencia St., San Francisco
(415) 824-3890. www.atasite.org

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Orbit
Kerry Laitala
2006 • 7 min • Color • 16mm • US Filmmaker in Person
US Premiere
Candy-apple light emissions tickle the retinas in this playful pulsation of mis-registered images created when a lab accidentally split the film from 16mm to regular 8. (screened at MadCat in 2006)

Winter Return
Chelsea Walton
2006 • 1 min • Color • mini-DV • US • Filmmaker in Person
A moody stop-motion peek at a city. (screened at MadCat in 2006)

Contemplating the City (Contemplando La Ciudad)
Angela Reginato
2005 • 3:30 min • B/W • 16mm • US/MX
Perfectly, without affect, a girl sings along with a pop tune, transporting herself through space and time to Mexico City circa 1978. (screened at MadCat in 2005)

Late
Diane Cheklich
2003 • 7:38 min • B/W • 16mm • US
A collage of eerie, high-contrast shots of seedy hotels and Dial-A-Savior billboards flicker by as late-night radio evangelist Sister Agnes Phillips dispenses wisdom and hope to lost souls. (screened at MadCat in 2004)

Hotel City
Phoebe Tooke
2004 • 16 min • B/W • 16mm • US • Filmmaker in Person
Four tenants living in SRO (single residence occupancy) hotels struggle to improve their lot. Through the Central City SRO Collaborative, they fight alongside other tenants and community members for better, safer conditions as well as address larger issues facing their neighborhoods. (screened at MadCat in 2004)

Historia del Desierto
Celia Galan Julve
2002 • 6 min • Color • Beta • UK
Spanish with English subtitles
Set against the Chihuahua desert, artful stop-motion action illustrates the brutal crimes of the fictitious Rosita Guzmán, a.k.a. La Mocha, who keeps her pursuers guessing for more than forty years. (screened at MadCat in 2003)

Vessel Wrestling
Lisa Yu
2001 • 13 min • Color •• 16mm • US
Jello, clay and human hair are the elements of this domestic space gone awry. Hairballs have a mind of their own and humans melt into light fixtures only to ooze out of the walls in erotic delight. (screened at MadCat in 2002).

Sorry, Brenda
Samara Halperin
2000 • 3 min • B/W • 16mm • US • Filmmaker in Person
Using scenes from Beverly Hills 90210 shot on Super-8 off a television monitor and optically printed to 16mm, the filmmaker arranges a love affair between two unlikely characters. (screened at MadCat in 2001)

 

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Program 2

Program 2
Hear It to Believe It
Continuing a long-running tradition, MadCat presents a series of silent 16mm films set to live music performed by local musicians, including bands Tartufi and Silian Rail. Learn more about these musicians at: http://www.tartufirock.net/ --- http://www.myspace.com/silianrailmusic

El Rio
Tues • Sept 23 • 8:30 pm • Rain or Shine
(Free BBQ @ 6:30pm)
3158 Mission St @ Precita in SF.
Tix: $7-20. 21 and over.
Tix available in advance or at the door. Cash Only.
(415) 282-3325. www.elriosf.com

PROGRAM 1
MadCat Looks Back

PROGRAM 2
Hear It to Believe It

Observando el Cielo
Jeanne Liotta
2007 • 19 min • Color • 16mm • US
Soundtrack by Peggy Ahwesh
Seven years of celestial field recordings gathered from the chaos of the cosmos are inscribed onto 16mm film. These naturally occurring VLF (very low frequency) radio recordings of the magnetosphere allow the universe to speak for itself. Chosen as one of the Top Ten Films of 2007 by Artforum and the Village Voice.

Air
Sheri Wills
2008 • 6 min • Color • 16mm • US • West Coast Premiere
Mimicking the unpredictable and frequently serendipitous nature of watercolor paints as they run over a blank sheet of paper, these images unfold on the screen, become charged with life, then quickly disappear into a mysterious void.

Box Office
Jenny Perlin
2007 • 2:25 min • B/W • 16mm • US • US Premiere
Shocking statistics highlight the hypocrisy of American foreign policy in Iraq.

Fallen Flags
Amanda Christie
2007 • 8:10 min • Color • 16mm • Canada • US Premiere
A layered tapestry of filmed trains and underwater footage, this film explores fear, death, and transience through the traces of human voices set amid the flickering light and shadows of empty passenger cars.

Ecstatic Vessels
Diane Kitchen
2008 • 20 min • Color • 16mm • US • Northern California Premiere
Fluid images of nature create a dreamlike palette of color and time, what fellow filmmaker Grant Wiedenfeld called, "A symphony of movement, color, focus, line."

The Parable of the Tulip Painter and the Fly
Charlotte Pryce
2008 • 3:50 min • Color • 16mm • US • Northern California Premiere
A philosophical quest drenched in luminous colors and sparkling light, this film was shot on color reversal and entirely hand-processed and re-printed on the optical printer.

 

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