Film Stills

Stills from films to be featured at the 2004 Wisconsin Film Festival.

Additional high resolution images are available from the Wisconsin Film Festival. Please contact Becca Ekern at becca@funnelinc.com or Mary Carbine at mccarbine@wisc.edu.


Caption: Film still from Afro-Punk, to be featured in the sixth annual Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through Sunday, April 4, 2004. With its title a direct rebuke to the Patti Smith song, Afro-Punk: The "Rock 'n Roll Nigger" Experience by James Spooner takes an in-depth look at racial identity in the punk scene.
Photo by: courtesy James Spooner
Date: February 2004
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Caption: Film still from Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin, to be featured in the sixth annual Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through Sunday, April 4, 2004. Charlie, a new documentary by UW-Madison alumnus and Time film critic Richard Schickel, will be presented with Schickel in person. The still is originally from Chaplin's Modern Times.
Photo by: courtesy Warner Home Video
Date: February 2004
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Caption: Film still from Chaza Show Choir, to be featured in the sixth annual Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through Sunday, April 4, 2004. Chaza Show Choir features the musical adventures of a plucky high school choir and band members who are invited to compete in Germany, only to be forced to work in a wienerschnitzel factory. High energy performances and can-do attitudes animate this feature co-directed by Milwaukee's Theresa Columbus of the Darling Hall independent performance space, and Didier Leplae, co-director of the 2001 Wisconsin's Own Best Narrative Feature, The Foreigners.
Photo by: courtesy Wisconsin Film Festival
Date: February 2004
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Caption: Film still from The Corporation, to be featured in the sixth annual Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through Sunday, April 4, 2004. The Corporation, a new film by Mark Achbar (co-director of the acclaimed Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and The Media) and Jennifer Abbott, engages us in a darkly amusing account of the institution's birth as a legal "person" whose prime directive is to produce ever-increasing profit.
Photo by: courtesy Zeitgeist Films
Date: February 2004
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Caption: Film still from Divan, to be featured in the sixth annual Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through Sunday, April 4, 2004. In the documentary Divan, filmmaker Pearl Gluck travels from Brooklyn's Hasidic Jewish community to her roots in Hungary to retrieve a family heirloom.
Photo by: courtesy Zeitgeist Films
Date: February 2004
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Caption: Film still from Face, to be featured in the sixth annual Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through Sunday, April 4, 2004. Face, the debut feature from Bertha Bay-Sa Pan, presents a family drama of conflict between traditional Chinese-American values and the pressures of urban American life, presented with director Pan in person.
Photo by: courtesy Indican Pictures
Date: February 2004
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Caption: Film still from Festival Express, which kicks off opening night of the sixth annual Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through Sunday, April 4, 2004. Festival Express features newly released footage of Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, The Band, Buddy Guy and others, jamming and partying as they tour across Canada.
Photo by: courtesy ThinkFilm
Date: February 2004
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Caption: Film still from The Green Butchers, to be featured in the sixth annual Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through Sunday, April 4, 2004. Part of the Festival series Danish Cinema Beyond Dogme, The Green Butchers, a terrifically funny and unexpectedly touching Sweeney Todd tale from the gifted Anders Thomas Jensen (Flickering Lights).
Photo by: Rolf Konow/courtesy Newmarket Films / Danish Film Institute
Date: February 2004
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Caption: Film still from James' Journey to Jerusalem, to be featured in the sixth annual Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through Sunday, April 4, 2004. Siyabonga Melongisi Shibe stars in James' Journey to Jerusalem by Israeli director Ra'anan Alexandrowicz.
Photo by: courtesy Zeitgeist Films
Date: January 2004
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Caption: Film still from Jockey, to be featured in the sixth annual Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through Sunday, April 4, 2004. Apprentice rider Chris Rosier rides in Jockey, a documentary film by Kate Davis (Southern Comfort) and David Heilbroner.
Photo by: courtesy Wisconsin Film Festival
Date: January 2004
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Caption: Film still from Nói Albinói, to be featured in the sixth annual Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through Sunday, April 4, 2004. Tómas Lemarquis stars as the title character in Nói Albinói, directed by Dagur Kári.
Photo by: courtesy Palm Pictures
Date: January 2004
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Caption: Film still from Refugee, to be featured in the sixth annual Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through Sunday, April 4, 2004. Refugee, Spencer Nakasako's award-winning documentary on a young Cambodian-American who returns to Cambodia to meet his long-lost father and brother, is part of the Festival's Asian American cinema series.
Photo by: courtesy Wisconsin Film Festival
Date: February 2004
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Caption: Film still from Since Otar Left, to be featured in the sixth annual Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through Sunday, April 4, 2004. Winner of the prestigious Critics' Week Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Julie Bertuccelli's exquisite Since Otar Left is a sweet, accomplished fable of loss and self-deception in the post-Soviet world, starring 90-year-old Esther Gorintin.
Photo by: courtesy Zeitgeist Films
Date: January 2004
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Caption: Film still from Stone Reader, to be featured in the sixth annual Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through Sunday, April 4, 2004. Stone Reader is the acclaimed literary mystery story chronicling filmmaker Mark Moskowitz's year-long search for Dow Mossman, author of the The Stones of Summer, presented with Moskowitz in person.
Photo by: courtesy Jet Films
Date: February 2004
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Caption: Film still from Ticket to Jerusalem, to be featured in the sixth annual Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through Sunday, April 4, 2004. Ticket to Jerusalem, an inspired hybrid of documentary and fiction about a Palestinian film projectionist in a refugee camp near Ramallah, is part of the Global Film Initiative's "Global Lens" series. The series presents feature films from developing countries to raise cross-cultural awareness through cinema. In a related outreach program, on April 2, the UW College of Letters & Science (L & S) will host "World Cinema Day," an educational program for high school students patterned on the successful L & S "World Languages Day."
Photo by: courtesy Global Film Initiative
Date: February 2004
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Caption: Film still from Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself, to be featured in the sixth annual Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through Sunday, April 4, 2004. Jamie Sives (left) and Shirley Henderson (right) star in Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself, the English-language debut from acclaimed Danish director Lone Scherfig (Italian for Beginners), a romantic dark comedy about two very different brothers who both fall in love with the same woman.
Photo by: courtesy Wisconsin Film Festival
Date: January 2004
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Caption: Film still from The Yes Men, to be featured in the sixth annual Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through Sunday, April 4, 2004. The Yes Men is a hilarious and illuminating documentary of prankster-activism and protest against the World Trade Organization from Milwaukee's own Chris Smith, Sarah Price and Dan Ollman.
Photo by: courtesy United Artists
Date: February 2004
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