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Program 1
Gotta Get It
Passions and obsessions are revealed
through documentary, animation and experimental short films and
videos.
PROGRAM#1
Gotta Get It
PROGRAM#2
Coming From. . .
PROGRAM#3
The Student Nurses
PROGRAM#4
Divided Spaces
PROGRAM#5
The F-Word
PROGRAM#6
Out of the Past
PROGRAM#7
Clear Visions, Silent Filmakers
I: Guy-Blache and Deren
PROGRAM#8
Cut Snip Ooze: Contemporary Animated
Films by Women
PROGRAM#9
Traditions and Trajectories
PROGRAM#10
Educated Ladies: Films from the
PFA Collection
PROGRAM#11
Clear Visions, Silent Filmakers
II
Sidebar Program
Mala Leche and Leche
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The Margeaux Cartoon
Beth Warshafsky
1987 55 sec Color Mini DV US
A simple depiction of a child's needs.
The F.E.D.S
Jennifer Drummond
2002 6:20 min Color Mini DV
US West Coast Premiere
Under the fluorescent lights and piped-in "muzak" of a
grocery store, the "Food Education Demo Specialists" (F.E.D.S.)
struggle to keep their perky attitudes intact. From aggravating
customer habits to agoraphobic fantasies, each F.E.D.S. gives an
insider's look into the job of "slinging samples."
Bingo Ladies
Tami Wilson
2002 19 min Color 16mm Canada
Set amidst the smoky din and blue-haired haze of Vancouver's gaming
halls and local community centers, Bingo Ladies meets up with two
dedicated daubers for a closer look at this simple, yet pervasive,
game of chance. The results are both comical and sobering, and reveal
the inherent contradictions in a community-based, charity driven
industry that capitalizes on the alienation and desperation of its
players.
Murmur
Kate Mattews
2002 7:26 min Color Beta SP
Australia
This simple and "heart-wrenching" animation depicts a
man who has a problem with his ticker.
Bitter
Tamara Tracz
2002 3:30 min Color 16mm US
US Premiere
This comic/tragic sing-along tells the story of one woman’s
desire to be understood by the people she loves. Tracz incorporates
live action and animation to create a musical glimpse at late-20s
angst!
Kate's Sole Excess
Carolyn Kaylor
2002 8 min Color 16mm US West
Coast Premiere
A film about a woman obsessed with her shoes.
Wipe Your Mouth
Meg Mingione
2002 2 min Color DV US
California Premiere
A brief video about control.
Arapadaptor (I Feel So)
Anna Geyer
2002 4:26 min Color 16mm US
Filmmaker in Person
Lyrics about making out are combined with eerie creeks and groans.
Geyer applies a flashlight and laser to caterpillars, cicadas and
seeds and combines these cameraless images and the found sounds
to create a sexy and scary movie.
Drum Solo
Liliana Porter
2000 19 min, Color DVD US
This video features a series of brief vignettes - each one depicts
characters played by inanimate objects and figurines engaged in
fictional dialogues or similar situations. Through this peculiar
cast and limited narrative devices, Drum Solo aims to be
a kind of "existential tragicomedy of human affairs" that
triggers emotion and meaning. (L. Porter).
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Program 2
Coming From . .
Passions and obsessions are revealed
through documentary, animation and experimental short films and
videos.
PROGRAM#1
Gotta Get It
PROGRAM#2
Coming From. . .
PROGRAM#3
The Student Nurses
PROGRAM#4
Divided Spaces
PROGRAM#5
The F-Word
PROGRAM#6
Out of the Past
PROGRAM#7
Clear Visions, Silent Filmakers
I: Guy-Blache and Deren
PROGRAM#8
Cut Snip Ooze: Contemporary Animated
Films by Women
PROGRAM#9
Traditions and Trajectories
PROGRAM#10
Educated Ladies: Films from the
PFA Collection
PROGRAM#11
Clear Visions, Silent Filmakers
II
Sidebar Program
Mala Leche and Leche
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The
Fastlane
Rachel Moore
2002 3 min Color BetaSP Canada
California Premiere
An animated tale of a young girl who tries to overcome her
fear of water.
Exercise with Chin
Yung
Wenhwa Ts'ao
2003 8 min Color Beta SP US
West Coast Premiere
A personal experimental documentary about Ts'ao's retired
father who likes to exhibit his own creation of Tai Chi in public
and sings Karaoke with his friends. This film presents the internal
struggle of the daughter of an old-fashioned Chinese man, whose
lifelong wish had been to have a son to carry on his family name.
Nan is in a Box
Susan Stamp
1994 4 min Color 16mm Australia
US Premiere
Through animation, Stamp reveals how young children grapple
with death even before they have the capacity to fully identify
it.
Closer to Heaven
Diane Bonder
2003 15 min b/w 16mm US California
Premiere
Using the weather as a metaphor for the stages of grief, Closer
to Heaven is a good-bye poem and homage to Bonder's father.
Shot on super-8 and optically printed.
Stone Welcome Mat
Gina Carducci
2003 6:30 min Color 16mm
Filmmaker in Person
Carducci uses her camera to document ephemeral moments of family
interactions and attempts to translate these instances from Italian
to English. She discovers that the translation onto film becomes
an entirely new visual language
Teatro Roots
Kristin Pichaske
2001 9:30 min Color 16mm US
Filmmaker in Person
When Cezar Chavez launched the grape strikes of the late '60s, Luis
Valdez drew on his migrant labor roots and theater training to found
El Teatro Campesino. Initially comprised of a few pickers and family
members performing political skits in the fields, the company grew
to achieve tremendous acclaim.
POWWOW
Kristin Pepe
2002 7:5 min Color Silent 16mm
US Northern California Premiere
POWWOW is a stunning abstraction of a Native American tradition.
The film stretches beyond the contextual and aesthetic elements
into the space between perception and thought, where rhythmic imagery
illustrates emotion.
Circa Oasis
Tatjana Bozic
1999 20 min Color 16mm Croatia
US Premiere
A film about a house in the Croatian coastal town of Rovinj
that is filled with people from five different nationalities - all
with different histories and politics of people. Using cinema verité
Bozic reveals the conflicts that arise and how people from such
vastly different backgrounds can learn to coexist.
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Program 3
The Student Nurses
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The
Student Nurses
Stephanie Rothman
1970 85 min Color 16mm US
Part of Roger Corman's B-movie-machine, Rothman puts a twist on
exploitation films with her style, feminism, politics and, of course,
the crowd pleasing sexy young ladies. The Student Nurses
reveals the adventures of four roommates - one falls for a poet
with a terminal illness; one takes acid and becomes pregnant; another
becomes involved with Latino revolutionaries; one has an affair
with a gynecologist.
Preceded By:
Baby’s Room by Rosy
Boyer - may look like a sexy 70s nudist colony home movie,
but it is so much more! Sugar and Spice
by Rose Dabbs - a homage to women's rear
ends circa 1960. Rap by Sarah
Kuhn - a little-seen gem from 1968 about the battle of the
sexes.
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Program 4
Divided Spaces
This program looks at how individuals
understand physical boundaries, public space and the power of words.
PROGRAM#1
Gotta Get It
PROGRAM#2
Coming From. . .
PROGRAM#3
The Student Nurses
PROGRAM#4
Divided Spaces
PROGRAM#5
The F-Word
PROGRAM#6
Out of the Past
PROGRAM#7
Clear Visions, Silent Filmakers
I: Guy-Blache and Deren
PROGRAM#8
Cut Snip Ooze: Contemporary Animated
Films by Women
PROGRAM#9
Traditions and Trajectories
PROGRAM#10
Educated Ladies: Films from the
PFA Collection
PROGRAM#11
Clear Visions, Silent Filmakers
II
Sidebar Program
Mala Leche and Leche
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Matte
Box Fun
Mavis Navin
1982 3:10 min b/w Super-8 US
Navin reveals all the many ways to break up a film frame with her
matte box set.
Moose Mountain
Mary Beth Reed
2002 5 min b/w 16mm US
Reed takes the viewer on a fantastical voyage through history. Regal
and religious icons merge with dancing kayaks over medieval jousting
fields as miners discover the legendary Colorado Moose Mountain
in the vicinity of Mesa Verde's ancient cliff dwellings. (M. Reed)
California Telephone
Haruko Tanaka
2003 3 min b/w 16mm US
A seemingly light portrait of people playing a game commonly known
as 'telephone,' is ultimately a complex commentary on communication
and the idea of being an "outsider" - whether because
of race, gender or language.
New York's Big Back
Yard
Rose Dabbs
c. 1982 13.5 min Color Super 8 US
Self proclaimed amateur filmmaker - Dabbs work includes "how
to" films, animated love poems made of string and the long
forgotten gem, New York's Big Back Yard. Dabbs reveals the
wonder that is Central Park with lush and beautifully shot super-8
footage. Including footage of free concerts, anti-nuclear weapons
protests, cameos of Charlton Heston and then mayor Ed Koch and children
running free. The simple and romantic voice-over chronicles the
range of cultures that utilize the park and is set against Dabbs'
genius and rhythmic editing.
My Hero
Elizabeth Henry
2003 1 min b/w 16mm US World
Premiere
There is a universe in every grain of sand - don't blink! (E. Henry)
Nikita Kino
Vivian Ostrovsky
2002 40 min Color/b/w 16mm France Northern
California Premiere
Nikita Kino is an inspired blend of home movie footage of
the 60s and 70s - of visits to Ostrovsky's family in Moscow, with
Soviet feature and propaganda films of the same period. Brilliantly
edited, Ostrovsky blends these disparate elements to create a cohesive
story that is not merely personal documentary but a comment on political
corruption and look back on Russian history. (V. Ostrovsky)
There There Square
Jacqueline Goss
2002 14 min Color Beta SP US
The desire to own and name land and the pleasures of seeing from
a distance color this personal survey of the history of mapmaking
in the New World. There There Square takes a close look at
the gestures of travelers, mapmakers and saboteurs that determine
how we read --and live within -- the lines that define the US. (J.
Goss)
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Program 5
The F-Word
Haughty, funny and complex films that challenge
traditional notions of feminism.
PROGRAM#1
Gotta Get It
PROGRAM#2
Coming From. . .
PROGRAM#3
The Student Nurses
PROGRAM#4
Divided Spaces
PROGRAM#5
The F-Word
PROGRAM#6
Out of the Past
PROGRAM#7
Clear Visions, Silent Filmakers
I: Guy-Blache and Deren
PROGRAM#8
Cut Snip Ooze: Contemporary Animated
Films by Women
PROGRAM#9
Traditions and Trajectories
PROGRAM#10
Educated Ladies: Films from the
PFA Collection
PROGRAM#11
Clear Visions, Silent Filmakers
II
Sidebar Program
Mala Leche and Leche
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Cooper/Bridges
Fight
Christina Battle
2002 3 min b/w 16mm Canada West
Coast Premiere Filmmaker
in Person
Battle reconstructs an infamous scene from the classic Western High
Noon, revealing a homo-erotic struggle in the process.
Kenn's Dream
Shawn Tamaribuchi
2003 3 min Color Mini DV US World
Premiere Filmmaker in Person
Kenn's Dream is an animated short that captures the timeless
love story of a boy and his vagina.
Kristy
Stephanie Gray
2003 6.5 min b/w Super 8 US West
Coast Premiere
A hand processed love poem to a Little Darling's era Kristy McNichol.
What Will I Do?
Jenette Issacson and Bryan Konefsy
2001 3 min b/w 16mm US Bay
Area Premiere
A short musical meditation on love and loss.
To The Happy Few
Stella Friedrichs and Thomas Draschan
2003 5 min Color 16mm Germany/Austria
US Premiere
Using found footage from the 1930's through the 1980's and a lively
Bollywood soundtrack the filmmaker convey a sense of mayhem and
desire and provide a look at how to love.
Developing Memory
Naomi Uman and Melinda Stone
2002 4 min b/w 16mm US Filmmaker
in Person
The events of an afternoon evade veracity even when an arsenal of
film equipment and audio recording devices are there to document.
(M. Stone)
Bullfight
Kate Haug
2003 6 min Color 16mm
San Francisco Premiere
Filmmaker in Person
A lyrical portrait of bloodless bullfights in the Central Valley
of California.
Sounds Like Her
Jane Devoy
2003 5.5 min Color Beta SP UK World
Premiere
One soundtrack runs simultaneously as three visual narratives are
revealed. Devoy takes the viewer on a journey through the visual
narrative and the tricks of editing. How do we choose to connect
sound, image and meaning in our minds?
Dear Jim
Goody-B Wiseman
2003 6.5 min b/w Super 8 US Wolrd
Premiere Filmmaker in Person
A letter to an old fling about obsessions and paranoia.
Johnson
Rebecca Barten
2002 21 min Color Mini DV US Filmmaker
in Person
The story of one girls love for her horse. Starring Carolyn Cooley.
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Program 6
Out of the Past
With hope and strength, filmmakers
depict characters that overcome difficult times
PROGRAM#1
Gotta Get It
PROGRAM#2
Coming From. . .
PROGRAM#3
The Student Nurses
PROGRAM#4
Divided Spaces
PROGRAM#5
The F-Word
PROGRAM#6
Out of the Past
PROGRAM#7
Clear Visions, Silent Filmakers
I: Guy-Blache and Deren
PROGRAM#8
Cut Snip Ooze: Contemporary Animated
Films by Women
PROGRAM#9
Traditions and Trajectories
PROGRAM#10
Educated Ladies: Films from the
PFA Collection
PROGRAM#11
Clear Visions, Silent Filmakers
II
Sidebar Program
Mala Leche and Leche
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Chickenshit
Sarolta Jane Cump
2001 1:30 min b/w Beta SP US Filmmaker
in person
A disturbing and humorous story is told about a young girl's anticipation
of violence.
Iron Mountain
Jong Lim Ro
2003 9 min Color 16mm Korea San
Francisco Premiere
Shot against the backdrop of Kang Won, Korea, Iron Mountain
depicts a community of miners. A woman lives with her lover and
child trying to find peace and beauty in a violent relationship.
Her husband who abandoned her returns to town and proposes they
journey to Seoul together. Does she start a new life with an unreliable
man or stay in a morbid town with her lover?
Crying and Wanking
Alys Hawkins
2002 6 min Color Beta UK US
Premiere
An animated domestic drama about sex and spending too much time
indoors.
A Big Thing Like
You
Danielle Lombardi
2002 8 min Color 16mm US
West Coast Premiere
Lombardi uses imagery of a family to comment on an ideal of safety.
She manipulates the found and original footage through painting
directly on the film and optically prints it - this in turn reveals
alienation, longing, repulsion, fear and desire.
Bandaid
Krescent Carasso
2003 7 min Color Mini DV US
Without sentimentality Bandaid reveals the reality of living
a monitored life as a ward of the state.
glimmer
Maria Raponi
2002 3:50 min Color 16mm Canada
US Premiere
glimmer explores the precariousness of perception and the
process of navigating one's surroundings.
Downpour Resurfacing
Frances Nkara
2002 28 min b/w 16mm US Northern
California Premiere Filmmaker
in person
A surprisingly uplifting film, Downpour Resurfacing conveys
Robert Hall's rekindled sense of self and strength as he recounts
his childhood abuse. A noted Buddhist teacher, innovative psychiatrist
and poet, Hall tells viewers of his experiences with exceptional
clarity. Nkara uses her own images and beautifully manipulated found
footage to reveal Hall's strength and rebirth.
Into the Shadow
Heekyung Shin
2002 2 min Color 16mm US Northern
California Premiere
Shin uses sand animation to tell of a young girl who overcomes her
fear of the dark.
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Program 7
Clear Visions, Silent Filmakers
I: Alice Guy-Blaché and Deren
Live music by The Secrets of Family
Happiness plus special guest musicians!Instrumental trio Secrets
of Family Happiness layer live drums, bass and guitars to create
dynamic, moody music with a cinematic flair. Featuring Armon Kasmai
on guitar, Dustin Ray Jermier on bass, and Lila Thirkield on drums.
MadCat celebrates these silent filmmakers with 2 programs of short
films from the first half of the 1900s. See program 11.
PROGRAM#1
Gotta Get It
PROGRAM#2
Coming From. . .
PROGRAM#3
The Student Nurses
PROGRAM#4
Divided Spaces
PROGRAM#5
The F-Word
PROGRAM#6
Out of the Past
PROGRAM#7
Clear Visions, Silent Filmakers
I: Guy-Blache and Deren
PROGRAM#8
Cut Snip Ooze: Contemporary Animated
Films by Women
PROGRAM#9
Traditions and Trajectories
PROGRAM#10
Educated Ladies: Films from the
PFA Collection
PROGRAM#11
Clear Visions, Silent Filmakers
II
Sidebar Program
Mala Leche and Leche
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Canned
Harmony
Alice Guy-Blaché
1912 13 min b/w 16mm US
A young woman being prepped for musical stardom by her father
falls in love with musically inept lad. Trying to mask his inabilities
and gain her fathers approval, the young man rigs up an elaborate
scheme to trick him into believing he is a genius musician.
Officer Henderson
Alice Guy-Blaché
1913 12 min b/w 16mm US
An early cross-dressing film, Guy-Blaché tells the story
of cops that dress up like women in an attempt to apprehend pickpockets
and protect other women from unseemly men.
Ritual In Transfigured
Time
Maya Deren
1946 15 min b/w 16mm US
Ritual In Transfigured Time seamlessly combines the choreography
of bodies with the choreography of editing. A party becomes a dance,
a dance becomes a pursuit, people leap through space like superheroes,
spaces blend into one another, and, as usual with Deren, it all
ends up in a watery death. (M. Nolan)
At Land
Maya Deren
1944 15 min b/w 16mm US
Deren washes up on the beach, and crawls up a piece of driftwood
into a dinner party in a film that follows the logic of a dream,
radically collapsing spaces together as waves roll backwards and
the protagonist encounters men shrouded in sheets, women playing
chess, and herself, multiplied. What does it all mean? With a film
this beautiful, who cares? (M. Nolan)
Meshes of the Afternoon
Maya Deren
1943 15 min b/w 16mm US
Heavy with Freudian symbolism and using every camera and editing
trick in the book, Meshes is a masterpiece of dreamy suspense. Deren
said Meshes… was made "for what Hollywood spends
on lipstick." This is a timeless story of identity, desire
and death, all played out in a sun-drenched bungalow. (M. Nolan)
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Program 8
Cut Snip Ooze: Contemporary
Animated Films by Women
Animated films that investigate unsolved
crimes and medical mysteries.
PROGRAM#1
Gotta Get It
PROGRAM#2
Coming From. . .
PROGRAM#3
The Student Nurses
PROGRAM#4
Divided Spaces
PROGRAM#5
The F-Word
PROGRAM#6
Out of the Past
PROGRAM#7
Clear Visions, Silent Filmakers
I: Guy-Blache and Deren
PROGRAM#8
Cut Snip Ooze: Contemporary Animated
Films by Women
PROGRAM#9
Traditions and Trajectories
PROGRAM#10
Educated Ladies: Films from the
PFA Collection
PROGRAM#11
Clear Visions, Silent Filmakers
II
Sidebar Program
Mala Leche and Leche
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Chronicles
of an Asthmatic Stripper
Sarah Jane Lapp
2002 5 min Color, 35mm US East
Bay Premiere
Lapp's 1500 simple and stunning
drawings, combined with Mark Dresser's contrabass solo score bring
to life a set of ill-equipped lungs.
Monkeys and Lumps
Nancy Andrews
2003 38 min b/w 16mm US
Monkeys and Lumps chronicles Ima Plume, a public illustrator
or "chalk-talk specialist." In her spare time, Plume examines
nonhuman life forms called "globsters." Andrews successfully
combines intricate and beautifully rendered hand-drawn animation
and puppetry with live-action elements and optically-printed found
footage of Jane Goodall.
Cut Snip Ooze
Marianna Ellenberg
2003 5 min Color 16mm US 2001
West Coast Premiere
The vibrant colors of unidentifiable organic matter pulsate and
create a state of anxious, meditative beauty in Cut Snip Ooze.
Anorexie
Jenni Tietze
1999 13 min Color 16mm Germany
US Premiere
With biting humor and dry sarcasm, Anorexie is not a typical
film about eating disorders. Tietze posits anorexia as a murderer
with the organization United Diets as its accomplice.
Cows
Gabriela Golderr
2002 4 min Color Beta SP Argentina
US Premiere
Utilizing 35mm found footage from documentary and narrative films
Deveau optically prints and repositions these disparate stories.
monstruo
Carolina Esparragoza
2002 2:22 min Color DV Mexico US
Premiere
A brief and eerily animated video which imagines a monster's funeral.
Historia del Desierto
Celia Galan Julve
2002 6 min Color Beta UK
This stop-motion work of art reveals the brutal crimes of fictitious
character Rosita Guzman, a.k.a La Mocha, who kept the police and
her acquaintances guessing about her dexterous abilities for over
forty years.
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Program 9
Traditions and Trajectories
A visually stunning series of 35mm
films takes viewers on a journey from the jazz and art worlds of
the US, to Lapland with its near-forgotten traditions, to Chinese
communities in England - and even to outer space.
PROGRAM#1
Gotta Get It
PROGRAM#2
Coming From. . .
PROGRAM#3
The Student Nurses
PROGRAM#4
Divided Spaces
PROGRAM#5
The F-Word
PROGRAM#6
Out of the Past
PROGRAM#7
Clear Visions, Silent Filmakers
I: Guy-Blache and Deren
PROGRAM#8
Cut Snip Ooze: Contemporary Animated
Films by Women
PROGRAM#9
Traditions and Trajectories
PROGRAM#10
Educated Ladies: Films from the
PFA Collection
PROGRAM#11
Clear Visions, Silent Filmakers
II
Sidebar Program
Mala Leche and Leche
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Cum
Pane
Anna Linder
2002 8 min Color 35mm Sweden
West Coast Premiere
Framing her grandparents as her subject, Linder poetically (and
without dialogue) reveals a tradition of bread-baking in her breathtaking
debut film, Cum Pane with improvised music by AALY.
Dim Sum [a little
Bit of Heart]
Jane Wong
2002 36 min Color 35mm UK East
Bay Premiere
Legendary photographer Helen Levittßs stunning portraits of children
on the Upper East Side come to life in her only motion picture,
a silent meditation on street culture, In
The Street.
Post Mark Lick
Sonia Bridge
2002 3:45 min Color 35mm UK/Canada
East Bay Premiere
Bridge explores the succinct and often lyrical narratives of postcard
correspondence using colorful photograms of stamps.
Jazz Elegy
Donna Cameron
2002 10 min Color 35mm US
A paper-emulsion homage to Matisse celebrates the cut-outs and paintings
of this French artist and his triumphant creative spirit.
The Planets
Francesca Talenti
2002 6 min Color 35mm US East
Bay Premiere
Talenti uses liquid dyes and solvent to create a vibrant animated
solar system.
Outline
Sandra Gibson
2003 5 min Color 35mm CinemaScope
"A strip of film was unwound on the studio floor and decoratively
stenciled; at the speed of projection, the objects dissolve into
a filmic downpour." (S. Gibson)
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Program 10
Educated Ladies: Films
from the PFA Collection
Never before screened at the PFA,
these films reveal some of the attitudes, priorities and educational
principles of years gone by.
PROGRAM#1
Gotta Get It
PROGRAM#2
Coming From. . .
PROGRAM#3
The Student Nurses
PROGRAM#4
Divided Spaces
PROGRAM#5
The F-Word
PROGRAM#6
Out of the Past
PROGRAM#7
Clear Visions, Silent Filmakers
I: Guy-Blache and Deren
PROGRAM#8
Cut Snip Ooze: Contemporary Animated
Films by Women
PROGRAM#9
Traditions and Trajectories
PROGRAM#10
Educated Ladies: Films from the
PFA Collection
PROGRAM#11
Clear Visions, Silent Filmakers
II
Sidebar Program
Mala Leche and Leche
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Cotton
Harriette Herring
1946 12 min b/w 16mm US
Herring takes viewers on a tour from cotton fields to the cotton
gin to the cotton sheet - ala "Mr. Rogers." Gorgeous images
of the gin at work are combined with a lighthearted voice-over about
a complicated era of child labor and rampant racism and inequality
for people of color in the US.
University of Arkansas
Folklore Research
Henwar Radakiewicz featuring
the folklore research of Mary Parler
1955 25 min b/w 16mm US
This film provides a rare peek into the folk song traditions of
mountain dwellers in Arkansas in the 1950's. Professor Parler records
songs that have been orally passed down from generation to generation.
Although natural performers, the stars of this film are regular
townsfolk who maintain an oral tradition by teaching their children
and grandchildren the songs of their forefathers.
Springboard Diving
Dept. of Physical Education of
UC Berkeley
c. 1950's 12 min Color 16mm US
UC Berkeley's pool at the Hearst Women's Gym sets the stage for
Springboard Diving. Sather Tower, more commonly know as "The
Campanile," is prominently featured in this lush and beautiful
meditation on diving.
Making Theatrical
Wigs
Mary Mainwaring
1951 11 min b/w 16mm US
Making Theatrical Wigs is an unwittingly campy look at the
construction of a proper wig. Produced at the UCLA theater department,
the film includes live models, step-by-step instructions and safety
precautions.
Your Body During
Adolescence
Harold Diehl and Anita Laton
1954 12 min b/w 16mm US
This film takes a voyage back to sex ed. circa 1954, when animated
genderless shapes were perhaps the educational norm.
Have a Healthy Baby
Lillian and Spencer Peel, et al
1969 19 min Color 16mm US
Have a Healthy Baby is arguably the most frightening and
funny film you will see about nutrition and reproduction.
How to Make a Movie
Without a Camera
Michael and Mimi Warshaw
1972 5 min Color 16mm US
A sampling of the wonders of found footage and hand-made movie techniques.
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Program 11
Clear Visions, Silent Filmakers II
Films by Cleo Madison, Nell Shipman and
Lois Weber
Live music by Epic [Abridged] plus special guest musicians!
Introduced by Heather Stilin
Born in the late 1800s, Madison, Shipman and Weber all began their
careers as actors and went on to become revered directors. MadCat
will celebrate these silent filmmakers with 2 programs of short
films from the first half of the 1900s. See program 7.
PROGRAM#1
Gotta Get It
PROGRAM#2
Coming From. . .
PROGRAM#3
The Student Nurses
PROGRAM#4
Divided Spaces
PROGRAM#5
The F-Word
PROGRAM#6
Out of the Past
PROGRAM#7
Clear Visions, Silent Filmakers
I: Guy-Blache and Deren
PROGRAM#8
Cut Snip Ooze: Contemporary Animated
Films by Women
PROGRAM#9
Traditions and Trajectories
PROGRAM#10
Educated Ladies: Films from the
PFA Collection
PROGRAM#11
Clear Visions, Silent Filmakers
II
Sidebar Program
Mala Leche and Leche
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White
Water
Nell Shipman
1924 c. 28 min b/w/Tinted 35mm US
This recently rediscovered will be presented in a newly restored
and tinted print. White Water is a beautifully shot adventure
starring Shipman herself as Dreena, a writer who befriends two orphans
at a logging camp. When one of the orphans gets stranded on a log
in the rapids, will Dreena save the day?
Suspense
Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley
1913 c. 12 min b/w 35mm US
Weber and Smalley employ an array of innovative formal devices to
tell the story of a mother and child who are alone at home when
a burglar tries to invade their happy nest. The narratives of the
wife, the husband and the burglar are shown as a triptych within
one frame.
Her Defiance
Cleo Madison and Joe King
1916 23 min b/w 16mm US
Arguably on of the earliest feminist stories to be told on film,
Her Defiance depicts a single mother who refuses the economic
advantages of an arranged marriage with an older man, choosing instead
to support herself and her child by working as a cleaning woman.
Cut Snip Ooze: Contemporary
Animated Films by Women
Marianna Ellenberg
2003 5 min Color 16mm US West
Coast Premiere
October 5th, 7pm, at the Pacific Film Archive. Please see Program
8's Description
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Sidebar Program
Mala Leche and Leche
Co-Presented with SF Cinematheque
PROGRAM#1
Gotta Get It
PROGRAM#2
Coming From. . .
PROGRAM#3
The Student Nurses
PROGRAM#4
Divided Spaces
PROGRAM#5
The F-Word
PROGRAM#6
Out of the Past
PROGRAM#7
Clear Visions, Silent Filmakers
I
PROGRAM#8
Cut Snip Ooze: Contemporary Animated
Films by Women
PROGRAM#9
Traditions and Trajectories
PROGRAM#10
Educated Ladies: Films from the
PFA Collection
PROGRAM#11
Clear Visions, Silent Filmakers
II
Sidebar Program
Mala Leche and Leche
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Mala
Leche and Leche
Co-Presented with SF Cinematheque
Yerba Buena
October 2 at 7:30pm
Leche,
a lyrical and loving hand-processed portrait of life on a dairy
ranch in Mexico is accompanied by the premiere of its follow-up,
Mala Leche. Following members of the same family who have
emigrated to California, Mala Leche takes a different formal
and emotional approach to its subjects. The sensual romanticism
of the earlier film shifts to a cooler, more analytical depiction
of immigrant working life, and together the two films create a haunting
portrait of the meaning of labor, place and family as they cross
borders, cultures and generations. removed and Hand Eye
Coordination will also screen. (I. Leimbacher)
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