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Ticket Information PAG E 2
Theaters PAG E 2
Film Descriptions PAG E 5
Welcome Back
Daily Schedule at a Glance PAG E 16
FEST STAFF Professor Kelley Conway | Director Mike King | Artistic Director Ben Reiser | Director of Operations, Wisconsin’s Own Programming
It’s been three long, weird years since the last in-person Wisconsin Film Festival. And though less significant than many more pressing matters in the interim, an inarguable side effect of our recent era has been a great diminishing in the scale of art in our lives. Across disciplines, our encounters with art have been reduced to squint-sized pixels, too often half-watched in isolation at 1.5x speed. As we reemerge from our collective cocoons, let’s take the opportunity to restore art of all kinds to its rightful dimensions: to walk around a sculpture and explore it from every vantage point, to examine the physical texture of a painting’s brushstrokes, to feel live music reverberate in your bones. For us, this of course means experiencing great cinema on the biggest screen possible, with surround sound and a room full of friends and strangers—to provide art with a stage worthy of its vision, where it can be something we sit in awe of rather than swipe past. Rediscover the pleasure of turning off your notifications and submitting to the grand spectacle of theatrical experience, of showing up at an appointed hour, of watching a single screen you can’t pause, of sharing a precise moment in time and space with others, of simply going out.
Jim Healy | Consulting Programmer
This guide comprises a celebration of the entire ecosystem of cinema, from screenwriter to projectionist, from across the globe and the past century. Indeed, among their many more immediate pleasures, films from decades ago are reassurances that humanity has survived plenty of dark times with its humor and empathy intact. Let’s not forget that the word cinema does not only refer to films—it is also what we call the spaces in which we gather to see them, too. Because we’re not the only ones back where we belong, in theaters—you’re back, too.
Jane Schroeder | Events Coordinator
Terry Kerr | Big Screens, Little Folks Programming, Educational Coordinator, Volunteer Coordinator Pauline Lampert | Wisconsin’s Own Programmer, Print Traffic Coordinator Brody Coning | Wisconsin’s Own Programmer Karin Kolb | Big Screens, Little Folks Senior Programmer Kyra Hunting | Big Screens, Little Folks Programmer Kathleen Ricci | Community, Corporate and Business Sponsorships Emilie Schada | Grants and Campus Partnerships Christina King | Art Director Karen Cross Durham | Marketing and PR Justin Dean | Technical Director Michaela Holzhuter | Digital Communications
FILM PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS Jim Healy (JH) Mike King (MK) Ben Reiser (BR) Terry Kerr (TK) Brody Coning (BC) Karin Kolb (KK) Pauline Lampert (PL) Kelley Conway (KC)
About the Festival
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Opening Night Sponsors
Kyra Hunting (KH) Zachary Zahos (ZZ)
PROJECTIONISTS Julian Antos, Olivia Babler, Travis Bird, Mia Fiumefreddo, Alex Fountain, Becca Hall
SUPPORT STAFF UW-Madison Gender & Sexuality Campus Center
Boyd Hillestad, Pete Sengstock, James Runde, Lynn Malone, Vickie Groth, Clara Schanck
TRAILER Justin Dean
APR. 7 - 14, 2022 | WIFILMFEST.ORG
First launched in 1999, the Wisconsin Film Festival curates, promotes, and exhibits programs that showcase the art and history of world cinema. A non-profit annual event supported by the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the Festival advances the teaching, research, and public service mission of the University by exposing the campus and the greater community to films and filmmakers from Wisconsin and beyond. The Wisconsin Film Festival is firmly grounded in the belief that cinema is an essential art form that enriches human experience and enhances our knowledge of diverse cultures. As such, we seek to create a strong sense of community by creating a diverse program of films for viewers of all ages presented with state-of-the-art projection. The Wisconsin Film Festival is the Wisconsin Idea in action.
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