{"id":10150,"date":"2015-04-18T10:06:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T15:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=10150"},"modified":"2015-04-18T22:39:59","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T03:39:59","slug":"wi-film-fest-15-sunday-tues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wi-film-fest-15-sunday-tues\/","title":{"rendered":"WI Film fest ’15, Sunday – Tues."},"content":{"rendered":"

On the Sunday of the film fest, we went to three movies.<\/p>\n

We started with a double feature: The last seder<\/a>, by Marc Kornblatt, and Off the Menu: Asian American<\/a>, by Grace Lee<\/a>. Both were good – Lee’s was a little more wide-ranging. She went to Texas, where she visited the sushi king of Texas<\/a>, a Chinese-American family<\/a> who make tofu and turn it into tamales and other products, and then headed to Wisconsin, to the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek<\/a>, where six people were shot<\/a> in 2012, by a crazy person, who then shot himself. Kornblatt visited his aging parents in New York.<\/p>\n

Then we went to Worlds of Tomorrow<\/a>, a set of short animated films (list as .pdf<\/a> if the fest website goes away), that took its name from one of the films, Don Hertzfeldt<\/span>‘s World of Tomorrow. I think I liked the clay-mation French film, La Buche de Noel<\/a>, the best.<\/p>\n

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Still from the Christmas log<\/p><\/div>\n

Mark took off for Illinois after the shorts. I was going to walk around the square, and get coffee at Colectivo, but all of a sudden there was cold rain, so I went to Ian’s and got a slice of potato pizza instead. And texted with John about his research paper.<\/p>\n

My last film of the day was White God. Summed up in a sentence, “Music hath charms to calm the savage beast.” Mostly, the dogs were better actors then the people – the relationship between the teenage girl and her dad played out stilted – and only the really bad people got their throats ripped out.<\/p>\n