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Films
Films
Films at the venerable
GLOBE THEATRE
Presented by the YUKON FILM SOCIETY. An On Yukon Time event.
Live performances and recent documentary and dramatic films from the Yukon, Russia,
Minneapolis, New Orleans, the MacKenzie Delta, Fraser River, and the Republic of Zubrowka.
Presentation and Tech: Zoë Toupin, Andrew Connors
THU
7pm
FESTIVAL
KICK-OFF
NIGHT
THU
9pm
FESTIVAL
KICK-OFF
NIGHT
Live Performance:
Sauna Music
with Kaija Siirala
New Territory:
films by
Northern Canadians
Dir. Kaija Siirala, ON/YT, 2014, 60min
Using analog synths, guitar, lap steel and a constant swell of feedback,
Sauna Music (Yukon musicians Jordy Walker and Micah Smith) create
moving soundscapes while Ontario-based media artist Kaija Siirala uses
video mixing to respond to the changing shape of each of the musical
pieces in this experiment of structured improvisation across art forms.
You Don’t Know Jack, Kyle Nixon, Yukon, 2014, 10min
Eh to Zed Dan Sokolowski, Yukon, 2013, 9min
Enough to Get By, Khun/Griffiths/O’Donovan, Yukon, 2013, 8min
The Orphan and the Polar Bear, Neil Christopher, Nunavut, 2013, 9min
Self Portrait w Migraine, Kathryn Hepburn, Yukon, 2013, 2min
Tundra Cowboy, Marc Winkler, NWT, 2013, 18min
Filmmakers in attendance. Program length: 60min SAT
9:30am
Animated
Shorts
for Kids
The Orphan and the Polar Bear, Christopher, NU, 2013, 9min
The Town Mouse & the Country Mouse, Evelyn Lambart, Can, 1980, 5min
Little Thunder, Nance Akerman & Alan Syliboy, Can, 2009, 3min
The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin, Janet Perlman, Can, 1981, 10min
The Cremation of Sam McGee, Eva Szasz, Can, 1990, 7min
The Danish Poet, Torill Cove, Nor/Can, 2006, 15min
Dir. Twyla Roscovich, BC, 2013, 69min
Live Performance:
Man with a
Movie Camera
THU
11pm
FESTIVAL
KICK-OFF
NIGHT
Color Me Obsessed:
A Film about the
Replacements
FRI
6pm
Dir. Dziga Vertov, USSR, 1929, 68min
Vertov’s poetic documentary about a day in Russian life is presented
with live musical accompaniment by Whitehorse composer Daniel Janke
on mandolin with guest musicians Micah Smith, Paul Bergman, Ken
Searcy, and Olivier de Colombel. Startlingly modern, this influential film
utilizes Sergei Eisenstein’s newly introduced form of ‘montage’ editing
and a ground-breaking style of rapid editing and incorporates innumerable other cinematic effects to create a work of amazing power and
energy. This will be an outdoor screening if the weather is nice. Bring
your chair.
Dir. Gorman Bechard, USA, 2011, 120min
For some music fans and kids with a passion for musical history, The
Replacements are rock and roll defined. This Minneapolis quartet took a
teenage-punk attitude, threw it in a blender with classic and pop rock,
and then poured it into a Middle American pint glass. Over the band’s
12-year existence, its live sets were magical, a total mess, or both-depending on your mood and the members’ respective blood alcohol levels.
This fascinating doc tells the ‘Mats’ chronological history as a mythology
created through stories told by fans, critics, other musicians and the
band’s supporting cast.
Salmon Salmon Confidential portrays the government cover-up of what is killing
Confidential BC’s wild salmon. When biologist Alexandra Morton discovers salmon in
SAT
10:30am
Dir. Chris Simon & Maureen Gosling, USA, 2013, 92min
This Ain’t No Chris Strachwitz is the founder behind Berkeley’s legendary Arhoolie
Records, a label that’s been kicking it old school since 1960. Arhoolie is
Mouse Music host to a myriad of down-home music from blues revival to Tejano; CaSAT
Noon
The Grand Dir. Wes Anderson, USA, 2013, 99min
Recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a
Budapest Hotel famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby
FRI
8:30pm
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boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft
and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an
enormous family fortune—all against the backdrop of a suddenly and
dramatically changing Continent. Anderson’s slap-stick comedy unfolds
in the most ornate environments which slyly veil the underlying emotion
and darkness of this tragic tale. Ralph Fiennes is a revelation supported
by a whirling dervish of Anderson regulars: Bill Murray, the Wilson bros.,
Jason Schartzman, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton and Adrien Brody to
name a few.
BC are testing positive for dangerous European viruses, a chain of events
is set off by government to suppress these findings. Tracking viruses,
Morton moves from courtrooms into British Columbia’s most remote rivers, Vancouver grocery stores, and sushi restaurants. The film documents
Morton’s journey as she attempts to overcome government and industry
roadblocks thrown in her path and works to bring critical information to
the public in time to save BC’s wild salmon.
jun, zydeco, bluegrass and Appalachian country. In addition to profiling
Strachwitz’s legacy, this labour-of-love documentary serves as a lesson in
American music history, albeit, a lesson with lots of hot licks and serious
soul. Interviews with Strachwitz and many of the musicians and industry
folks that he has worked with over the years are intercut with stunning archival performances by the likes of Big Mama Thornton, Mance Lipscomb,
Lightnin’ Hopkins, Big Joe Williams and Country Joe McDonald.
Dennis Allen, Yukon, 2013, 56 min
Crazywater Whitehorse-based filmmaker Dennis Allen’s raw and honest exploration
SAT
6pm
of substance abuse among First Nations communities begins in his own
childhood. Born in Inuvik, Dennis grew up where alcohol abuse was rampant. In his efforts to get sober he came across the book Crazywater by
writer Brian Maracle of the Mohawk Nation that featured Native people
talking openly about their problems with alcohol. As Dennis says, “How
can anyone understand us, if we don’t tell our story?” His film is an incredibly honest effort to do just that: empower five people to tell their stories
of surviving addiction. Winner of the Available Light Film Festival 2014
Award for Best Documentary. Filmmaker in attendance. Q&A to follow.
2014 I Atlin Arts & Music Festival
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