The Big Ballyhoo and MadCat Film Festival Present...
An evening of film curated by Ariella Ben-DovThursday,
Jan 15, 7pm, $5
Theater Rhino 2926 16th Street bet S. Van Ness & Mission

List of Films
IRON MOUNTAIN
Jong Lim Ro
2003, 9 min, 16mm, Color, Korea
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?

HIGHRISE
Gabrielle Russell
2003, 4 min, 35mm, Color, UK US Premiere
A meditative look at one woman’s struggle with domesticity, motherhood and depression. Russell tells a complete and complex story without words only using the craft of editing and cinematography.
 
FEVER
Paula M. Froehle
1998, 7 min, 16mm, Color, US
A visually dense, poetic exploration of the bond between a mother and child. Extreme close-ups of quotidian objects, distorted “synchronous” sounds, and floating text intermesh to convey the fluctuation between security and danger, confidence and doubt when a child falls ill.

VESSEL WRESTLING
Lisa Yu
2001, 13 min, 16mm, Color, US
Using jello, clay and human hair Yu manufactures a domestic space gone awry. While a woman waits for her child to come to dinner the audience is introduced to the unearthly creature she awaits. The space is transformed into a world where hair balls have a mind of their own and humans melt into light fixtures only to ooze own of the walls in erotic delight. This stunning film snagged Yu the award for Most Promising Filmmaker at the Ann Arbor Film Festival.

JUST WORDS
Louise Bourque
1991, 10 min, 16mm, Color, Canada
Just Words has been called a “10 minute tour de force…” by Toronto’s Globe and Mail. Using as its text Samuel Beckett’s Not I, this shocking gift incorporates optically printed home movie footage and an eerily slick close-up of actress Patricia MacGeachy as she rants at lightening speed Beckett’s words about home, family and the confines and alienation associated with being a woman.

SKATE
Cade Bursell
2001, 5 min, 16mm, Color, US
Bursell hand paints liquid emulsion onto the footage of a young girl skating. Using sandpaper she creates another level of image and movement transforming a once simple scene into a multi layered moment in time.

LOLO FERRARI
Hope Tucker
2001, 1:50 min, Mini DV, Color, US  
Hope Tucker transforms an obituary from a list of public accomplishments to a revelation of the deceased’s most private moments.

SHARP PROOFING
Pearce Williams
2002, 8 min, Mini DV, Color, US
With an unsettling blend of fiction and realism Sharp Proofing takes viewers behind closed doors of a psychiatrists office. Our protagonist reveals her worst fears and phobias in this deadpan and succinctly written animated narrative.

PLUS MORE
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