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MUS 175, 11am – 12:50pmFILM 201HERE(Fred Worden, video, color/sound, 11 min., 2005)Stranger Comes to Town(Jacqueline Goss, video, color/sound, 30 min., 2006)More than Meets the Eye: Remaking Jane Fonda(Scott Stark,video, color/sound, 20mins. 2001/2006)
Jean Genet in Chicago(Frederic Moffet, in English and French with English subtitles, video, b&w & color/sound, 26min., 2006)* * * * * * * * * * * *
UWM Union Theater2007 Milwaukee Asian Film FestivalFriday, March 30 – Thursday, April 57pm ** FREE **Memories of Murder (Salinui Chueok)(Bong Joon -ho , South Korea , Korean w/ Eng. St. , 132 min., 35mm, 2003)
Based on the true story of South Korea 's first serial killer. In 1986 South Korea is under military dictatorship. When women start turning up dead in a small town, two reluctantly-partnered cops resolve to bring the killer to justice. But in a world without DNA testing or modern forensics, the investigators are forced to rely mainly on intuition and brute force. Their crude measures become more desperate with each new corpse found. At times both touching and hilarious, Memories of Murder is a riveting tale of a mysterious killer and the ceaseless pressure on those charged with stopping his rampage.
UWM Union Theater2007 Milwaukee Asian Film FestivalFriday, March 30 – Thursday, April 57pm ** FREE **Experimental TuesdayHermetic Alchemy: New experimental film and video from Japan
A program of recent Japanese independent and experimental film and video. The program will include alchemical abstractions by Yuiko Matsuyama, films from celebrated animator Takashi Ishida and new serene minimalist films from Shiho Kano, among others.
UWM Union Theatre2007 Milwaukee Asian Film FestivalFriday, March 30 – Thursday, April 57pm ** FREE **Drug Story(Luu Hong Sôn , Vietnam , 20 min., Video, 1999)In the mountains of Lai Chau in northwest Vietnam lives a small community of army veterans, ex-farmers, mothers, grandparents and children. They all use opium - including the children - on a regular basis. Impervious to government programs that discourage the drug's consumption, they have no existence outside of foraging for the food and scraps of firewood they trade for a fix, then getting high in their cave homes.Shown withFear and Hope in Cambodia(Isabelle Abric , Cambodia, 56 min., Video, 1993)Fear and Hope in Cambodia chronicles Cambodia 's recent history, from the Paris Peace Agreement to the elections and finally the signing of a new Constitution. Written and narrated by well-known British journalist and author William Shawcross , the film includes previously unseen footage of massacres, intimidation, and human rights abuses.
UWM Union Theatre2007 Milwaukee Asian Film FestivalFriday, March 30 – Thursday, April 57pm ** FREE **Bang Rajan(Jitnukul Tanit , Thailand , Thai w/ Eng. St . , 118 min., 35mm, 2000)
In 1765, during the legendary struggle between the Burmese and Siamese empires in what is now Thailand , Burmese forces advanced on the Siamese capital. With no support from Thailand 's Royal army, a small village of ordinary men and women with extraordinary courage withheld the advances of the Burmese juggernaut over and over again. Their heroic tale passed through the ages. “Unspeakably Thrilling! It doesn't get more intense or more spectacular than Bang Rajan . A directorial style that seamlessly blends Akiro Kurosawa with Steven Spielberg.” – Stephen Schaefer, BOSTON HERALD
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LGBT Film/Historian Jenni Olson in person to present
the 1969 dykesplotiation classic “That Tender Touch”
Presented by Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival
and Milwaukee Art Museum
The Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival and the Milwaukee Art Museum are thrilled to welcome LGBT film historian Jenni Olson to Milwaukee to present a rare screening of the beloved – and hilarious -- 1969 dykesploitation B-movie classic That Tender Touch. An evening both edifying and entertaining!
The screening begins at 6:15 pm in the Lubar Auditorium of the Milwaukee Art Museum, 700 North Art Museum Drive. The film will be introduced by Jenni Olson and will be followed by a talkback with Olson and Carl Bogner, director of the Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival. Tickets are $5 (free to those who join MAM that evening) and are available at the door.
Historian, collector, curator, distributor, and filmmaker, Jenni Olson is one of the world's leading experts on LGBT cinema history.As a historian, Olson is a champion of a category understood as “dykesploitation,” films such as That Tender Touch, a 1969 feature made by Russel Vincent and marketed to male audiences. The poster for the film promises salacious content with such lines as “A woman’s picture every man must see,” “The Maid: Cute…ready to serve!” and “The Teenager: Young…Vulnerable…Which way will she go?” But, in this same film, Olson suggests, lesbian audiences – and others, for that matter --- can find camp pleasures in the melodramatic representation of a relationship between the female leads while also being engaged by the visible pleasures of the two women and the narrative around their liaison.
UWM Union TheatreWorld Cinema7pmIn Between Days(So Yong Kim, Korean and Eng. w/ Eng. St., 82 min., 16mm, 2006)
Aimie, a newly arrived Korean immigrant teenager, has fallen in love with her best and only friend, Tran. She tries to express her feelings for him, but is scared of losing their friendship. Their misunderstood affection for each other creates a delicate relationship that is challenged by the demands of living in a new country. To spend more time with Tran, Aimie drops out of her English class, which she is failing. She fights against her mother who wants to remarry and then realizes she’s losing Tran to an Americanized Korean girl. Aimie’s world becomes more isolated, until she is forced to look inside herself for answers.9pmThe Motel(Michael Kang, US, English & Cantonese w/ Eng. St., 76 min., 35mm, 2005)
Winner – Humanitas Prize – Sundance Film Festival 2005Thirteen-year-old Ernest lives and works at a sleazy hourly-rate motel on a strip of desolate suburban bi-way with his Mother, his Grandfather and his little sister. This is the family business. Misunderstood by his family and blindly careening into puberty, Ernest befriends Sam Kim, a self-destructive yet charismatic Korean American man who has checked in. Sam sees himself in Ernest, a boy lost in the worst stages of pre-pubescence with nobody to help guide him. After they bond over a midnight snack of fried chicken, Sam becomes inspired to take Ernest under his wing and teach him the steps to manhood.
UWM Union TheatreWorld Cinema5pm In Between Days(So Yong Kim, Korean and Eng. w/ Eng. St., 82 min., 16mm, 2006)7pmThe Motel(Michael Kang, US, English & Cantonese w/ Eng. St., 76 min., 35mm, 2005)9pm In Between Days(So Yong Kim, Korean and Eng. w/ Eng. St., 82 min., 16mm, 2006)
UWM Union TheatreWorld Cinema5pmThe Motel(Michael Kang, US, English & Cantonese w/ Eng. St., 76 min., 35mm, 2005)7pm In Between Days(So Yong Kim, Korean and Eng. w/ Eng. St., 82 min., 16mm, 2006)
