www.woodlandpattern.org
720 E Locust St – (414) 263.5001
7pm $ 2
ProjectorTalk (Ages 6 & Up):
Live film performances by Grant Wiedenfeld
A projector speaks her images onscreen, and a poet’s voice offscreen talks to her, with her, when she listens in the dark. This unique mode of performance plays with a purring machine in place of a stage, and speaks to the lyric child at heart, on sleeves, or climbing in the trees. A native of Des Moines, Iowa, Grant Wiedenfeld is an MFA candidate (nearly graduated!) at UW-Milwaukee. His films have screened at Media City Film Festival, the London Film Festival, and TIE, The International Experimental Cinema Exposition.
Films to be screened/performed:
Aubrey’s Forest Grove (8 min, 16mm & voice, 2007)
View of Lake Michigan, 1892 (4 min, 16mm, silent, 2007)
Muriel’s Song (3 min, 16mm, silent, 2006
Fort Dodge, Iowa (8 min, 16mm & voice, 2006)
Thunderstorms (5 min, 16mm & voice, 2006)
Crepuscule Duet (6 min, super8 & voice, 2002)
PLUS a surprise film…
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UWM Union Theater
5pm and 9pm
The Iceberg (L’iceberg, by Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon & Bruno Romy, Belgium, French w/ Eng. St., 35mm, 2005)
UWM Union Theater
7pm *FREE*
The General (Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckmann, Eddie Cline, 76 min., 35mm, 1926)
With Live Musical Accompaniment by Casey Meehan!
Consistently ranked among the greatest films ever made, Buster Keaton's The General is so brilliantly conceived and executed that it continues to inspire awe and laughter with every viewing. Rejected by the Confederate army as unfit and taken for a coward by his beloved Annabelle Lee, young Johnnie Gray sets out to single-handedly win the war with the help of his cherished locomotive. What follows is, without exaggeration, probably the most cleverly choreographed comedy ever recorded on celluloid. Johnnie wages war against hijackers, an errant cannon, and the unpredictable hand of fate while roaring along the iron rails. Insisting on accuracy in every detail, Keaton created a remarkably authentic historical epic, replete with hundreds of costumed extras, full-scale sets, and the breathtaking plunge of an actual locomotive from a burning bridge into a river. “[Keaton's films] have such a graceful perfection, such a meshing of story, character and episode, that they unfold like music.” – Roger Ebert CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
