CJFF 2009 Schedule
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| Friday, Oct. 16 | |
11 AM – 5 PM @ Stephens College
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| 5:30 PM @ Ragtag Big Cold Souls |
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| 7:30 PM @ Windsor Auditorium, Stephens College Opening Night: Say My Name w/Nirit Peled & MC Lyte |
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| 10 PM @ Tonic MESS UP THE MIX, MIX UP THE MESS: LADIES’ MUSIC NIGHT |
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Saturday, Oct. 17 |
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| 10 AM @ Ragtag Small Experimental Animation: Saturday Morning Cartoons Never Tasted So Good! w/Jo Dery |
10 AM @ Ragtag Big $9.99 w/Shira Derman |
| 12 PM @ Ragtag Small WOMEN BEHIND THE CAMERA: A CONVERSATION WITH THE WOMEN OF CJFF09 w/Melissa Silverstein |
12:30 PM @ Ragtag Big AN INTIMATE SESSION with BARBARA HAMMER - featuring A Horse Is Not a Metaphor and The Diving Women of Jeju-Do w/Barbara Hammer |
| 1:15 PM @ Ragtag Small |
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| 3 PM @ Ragtag Small | 2:45 PM |
| 5:30 PM @ Ragtag Small Our Life in Shorts (Shorts Program) w/Karen Skloss & Stephanie Foley |
5 PM @ Ragtag Big $9.99 w/Shira Derman |
| 7:30 @ Ragtag Small Bright Star |
7:30 PM @ Windsor Auditorium, Stephens College Cold Souls w/Beth Mickle |
| 8 PM @ Ragtag Big Lemon Tree followed by discussion w/Ibtisam Barakat |
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| 10 PM @ Orr Steet Studios MONKEYSHINER’S CRAZY SWEATY! (Dance party with Videology) |
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Sunday Oct. 18 |
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| 10 AM @ Uprise Bakery/Ragtag Cinema CITIZEN BRUNCH |
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| 12:30 PM @ Ragtag Small The Secret Life of Girls: CJFF Youth Media Program w/Neeley Current |
12:15 PM @ Ragtag Big Sunshine w/Karen Skloss |
| 2:15 PM @ Ragtag Small Older Than America + Community Panel w/Georgina Lightning |
2:30 PM @ Ragtag Big American Casino + Community Panel w/ Leslie Cockburn |
| 5:15 PM @ Ragtag Small Bright Star |
5:45 PM @ Ragtag Big Cold Souls |
| 5:30 PM @ Ragtag lobby/Uprise Bar & Café
HANDMADE FILM & FUN: Closing Night Hangout Session. A special screening of work made during this year's festival workshops, featuring handmade films and a new animation from TIny Circus. |
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MONKEYSHINER’S CRAZY SWEATY!
Get crazy. Get sweaty. Do the Monkeyshiner. Repeat! Videology takes over Orr Street Studios for a night of hot dancing and multimedia adventures.
Tickets on sale at the door. $10
Orr St. Studios, 106 Orr Street
MESS UP THE MIX, MIX UP THE MESS: LADIES’ MUSIC NIGHT
10 PM @ Tonic
CJFF is proud to present a diverse showcase of music made by incredible women from near and far. Come here the legendary MC Lyte (also starring in the opening night film Say My Name) rap to the DJ skills of Note Girl (aka Tracy Lane) as well as the “Best of Hip Hop Artist of St. Louis” Toyy and other special guests. Not to mention some highstepping action and a little bit of fire . . .
Tickets on sale at the door. $10
Tonic, 122 S. 9th Street
CITIZEN BRUNCH
Join the festival filmmakers and guests for a yummy treat! Come kick off the last day of the festival at a special brunch hosted by Uprise Bakery (adjoined to the Ragtag Cinema). We’re going to eat and drink to the bluegrass with Citizen Ida Jane herself and members from Ironweed accompanied by the Pixie Chicks and Fiddle Stick (an all-girl band).
Tickets:
On sale at the Ragtag Box Office (10 Hitt St.) and online
Adults: $13
Children 12 and younger: $6.50
AMERICAN CASINO (dir. Leslie Cockburn, 2009, 89 min.)
Followed by a COMMUNITY DISCUSSION
Leslie and Andrew Cockburn make sense of the subprime-mortgage mess, creating a lucid picture of a system rotten to the core. Shot over 12 months in 2008, the film introduces us to the prime targets for the subprime loans that fueled the casino, and to the powerful financial players
who benefited from it all.
In person: director LESLIE COCKBURN, whose documentary film career began in 1980 at CBS Reports.
OLDER THAN AMERICA (dir. Georgina Lightning, 2008, 102 min.)
Followed by a COMMUNITY DISCUSSION
Centered on a woman's haunting visions that reveal a sinister plot to cover up the atrocities that had occurred at a boarding school, this suspenseful drama follows a group of Ojibwe Indians dealing with their ancestors’ brutal legacy.
In person: director GEORGINA LIGHTNING, also an actress with credits including Walker, Texas Ranger and The West Wing.
SUNSHINE (dir. Karen Skloss, 2009, 72 min.)
Woven together from more than 10 years of super 8 and video home movies, intimate family interviews, shimmering dance sequences and stylized reenactments, this documentary explores the meaning of family through a personal journey to understand both the legacy of the filmmaker’s birth and the non-traditional family she created by co-parenting with her ex-boyfriend.
In person: director KAREN SKLOSS, a filmmaker and visual artist who lives in Austin.
YOUTH MEDIA PROGRAM (TRT 70 min.)
A collection of shorts by young filmmakers from around the country.
In person: curator NEELEY CURRENT
BRIGHT STAR
Written and directed by Academy Award winner Jane Campion (The Piano), Bright Star is a riveting drama based on the three-year romance between 19th century poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and fashion student Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish), which was cut short by Keats' untimely death.
LEMON TREE (dir. Eran Riklis, 2009, 106 min.)
Lemon Tree is the story of Salma, a Palestinian widow who must defend her lemon tree field after the Israeli Defense Minister moves next door to her and issues orders to destroy the trees, which he deems a security threat.
In person: writer and artist IBTISAM BARAKAT
OUR LIFE IN SHORTS
This program celebrates the art and craft of the short film – windows into other lives, portraits of a time and place, and cinematic novellas. Most feature directors started out small and many filmmakers prefer the sort format, yet shorts remain largely inaccessible.
In person: filmmaker KAREN SKLOSS
BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO (dir. Jessica Oreck, 2009, 90 min.)
The quietly spellbinding Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo opens in modern-day Tokyo where a single beetle recently sold for $90,000. With its hypnotic sense of composition, the film does away with traditional plotlines to engage in avant-garde entomology.
In person: producer/writer/director JESSICA ORECK , who works as an animal keeper and docent at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City
ACT OF GOD (dir. Jennifer Baichwal, 2009, 76 min.)
An elegant cinematic meditation about the metaphysical effects of being struck by lightning. Act of God singularly captures the harsh beauty of the skies and the lives of those who have been forever touched by their fury.
In person: director JENNIFER BAICHWAL, who has been directing award-winning documentaries for 15 years.
INTIMATE TRANSMISSIONS: A ROMP THROUGH EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO ART (TRT 80 min.)
Chicago’s Video Data Bank is home to the world’s most extensive collection of videos by and about artists. The program presents a fun ride through the inspired and challenging history of women video art of the past 30 years. Curated especially for CJFF, the program will feature rarely seen work as well as landmark video art.
In person: curator and VDB Distribution Manager LINDSAY BOSCH, coauthor of the forthcoming two-volume textbook Icons of Beauty: Art, Culture and the Image of Women.
AN INTIMATE SESSION with BARBARA HAMMER: A HORSE IS NOT A METAPHOR + DIVING WOMEN OF JEJU-DO (TRT 60 min.)
Citizen Jane honors the life and work of Barbara Hammer, a noteworthy pioneer of queer cinema, with a wide-ranging discussion of her life after a screening of two of her films.
In person: director BARBARA HAMMER.
WOMEN BEHIND THE CAMERA: A CONVERSATION WITH THE WOMEN OF CJFF09
An exciting and intimate conversation with the directors, writers, editors, and artists who are behind this year's films and events.In person: Jessica Oreck, Georgina Lightning, Shira Derman, Laura Klein, Karen Skloss, Suha Arraf, Lindsay Bosch, Greta Songe, Sarah Bucalo Colado, Melissa Silverstein, Nirit Peled, Beth Mickle.
$9.99 (dir. Tatia Rosenthal, 2009, 78 min.)
The title of this inventive stop-motion animated fable, $9.99 is the price of a mail-order book that promises to reveal the meaning of life to an unemployed slacker who lives at home with his blustery father. With him, we enter an original universe of characters in search of contentment.
In person: animator and concept illustrator SHIRA DERMAN, coming from her home base in Tel Aviv.
SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS NEVER TASTED SO GOOD: AN ANIMATION ROMP (TRT 70 min.)
A fabulous, beautiful and sometimes bombastic collection of animated works by women filmmakers.
In person: artist, animator, and curator JO DERY.
SAY MY NAME (dir. Nirit Peled, 2008, 73 min.)
*OPENING NIGHT FILM*
In an industry dominated by men and noted for misogyny, the unstoppable female lyricists of Say My Name – MC Lyte, Erykah Badu, Monie Love – speak candidly about class, race, and gender in pursuing their passions as female MCs.
In person: director NIRIT PELED, currently working on the sequel, Say My Name in Africa
COLD SOULS (dir. Sophie Barthes, 2009, 101 min.)
In response to shiny, bigger, better American consumerism comes Cold Souls, a metaphysical comedy in which souls can be extracted and traded as commodities.
In person: production designer BETH MICKLE, named one of Hollywood Reporter's "Next Generation Production Designer To Watch" in 2007.
