WINTER 2008 - 2009
WINTER FILM SERIES SCREENING SCHEDULE. SUBJECT TO CHANGE
INDEPENDENT FILM SELECTIONS FROM THE WOODS HOLE FILM FESTIVAL.
NOVEMBER 8TH
KILLER POET- feature doc
BY SUSAN GRAY (77 MIN)
Killer Poet tells the story of Norman Porter, a convicted double murderer from Massachusetts who served 25 years in prison before escaping to Chicago. There he spent the next two decades living as a poet/intellectual by the name of JJ Jameson - an elaborately crafted false identity - until he was apprehended in 2005, thanks to a relentless police investigation and a compromising trail left by his audacious persona. He had just been named Chicago’s “Poet of the Month” when the law finally caught up with him.
NOVEMBER 22ND
BENDING SPACES: GEORGE
ROUSSSE AND THE DURHAM
PROJECT - feature doc
BY KENNY DALSHEIMER (57 MIN)
What happens when a visionary French artist meets the creative spirit of a former Tobacco Road town in the midst of a downtown revitalization? A singular grassroots arts project emerges that confounds expectations and takes the city of Durham, North Carolina by storm as buildings from a past incarnation of the city are transformed into temporary canvases for dramatic public art. The film captures the genius of French photographer
and installation artist Georges Rousse
and follows the artist and two hundred volunteers during a September 2006 art residency in Durham.
DECEMBER 6TH
FOURHAND - feature drama
BY WINN COSLICK, WRITTEN BY HORTENSE GERARDO (67 MIN)
Fourhand is a wry tale of making music, falling in love, falling in friendship, and adjusting one’s expectations of life. Two men and one-woman link up with one another in order to resolve a perennial New York difficulty: finding and keeping a satisfactory place to live. Both men love classical music. The two become student and teacher--and in the meantime fall for the same woman. As the three become friends (and more), their relationship evolves and resolves in unexpected ways.
DECEMBER 20TH
CHASIN’ GUS’ GHOST - feature
doc by Todd Kwait (97 MIN)
Chasin’ Gus’ Ghost film on the history of Jug Band Music. It traces the roots of American
music beginning with Gus Cannon and Cannon’s Jug Stompers, The Memphis Jug Band and the Dixieland Jug Blowers from the 1920’s, and weaves a tapestry through interviews, live performances, archival footage, and photographs showing their influence on the ever-popular folk and rock movements of the 1960’s.
JANUARY 3RD – WOODPECKER (SATIRICAL COMEDY 87 Min.) by Alex Karpovsky. Fanatical birdwatchers have decended upon a small town in the Arkansas bayou in hope of finding the celebrated Ivory Billed Woodpecker. Declared extince in the 1940's, the bird has apparently been spotted by numerous experts. Enter amateur birder and poet Johnny Neander, who has convinced his taciturn sidekick that he will be the one to find the elusive Woodpecker. Chaos ensues, dividing the small town between believers and non-believers, rabid environmentalists and opportunistic entrepreneurs. Much like the bird itself, WOODPECKER explores the intersection of fact and fiction. A tragic comedy about hope, perception and some very, very strange birds.
JANUARY 24TH – BOOGIE MAN: THE LEE ATWATER STORY (FEATURE DOC. 87 Min.) by Stefan Forbes. Boogie Man is a surprising look at Lee Atwater, the blues-playing rogue whose rambunctious rise from the South to Chairman of the GOP made him a household name. He mentored Karl Rove and George W. Bush and played a crucial role in the elections of Reagan and George H.W. Bush. He wrote the Republican Party's winning playbook used by subsequent presidential campaigns. In eye-opening interviews with Atwater's closest friends and enemies, Boogie Man re-examines Atwater's crucial role in the remaking of the Republican Party. To Democrats offended by his cutthroat style (including the 1988 Willie Horton controversy), Atwater was a political assassin dubbed by one Congress-woman as "the most evil man in America." But to most Republicans he remains a hero for his deep understanding of the American Heartland, his expert manipulation of the media, and his unapologetic vision of politics as war. Director Stefan Forbes offers a timely documentary for this election year asa he examines the charming yet Machiavellian godfather of the modern negative political campaign.
FEBRUARY 7TH –GUEST OF CINDY SHERMAN (FEATURE DOC)
FEBRUARY 21ST – TRACES OF THE TRADE (FEATURE DOC)
MARCH 7TH – THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS (FEATURE DRAMA)
MARCH 21ST – AN EVENING OF SHORT FILMS (COMEDY & DRAMA) APRIL 4TH – MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL (FEATURE DOC)
APRIL 18TH – SNEAK PREVIEW WHFF 2009