Film Festival '79: Mother Goose, 2,000 dots and women

Mother Goose, 2,000 dots and women

"Mother Goose" — hilarious
animation of bloody Mother Goose

The 16 nun festival,
through Sunday, is cun

oldest and the inosi .

nith amateur and
i ho are interested in
1'iLn as art, said George Manupel-
li, the festival's founder.

The prize-winning films, though
- ' "',nked first, second and third,
shown Sunday at 7. 9, and
after a jury previews them

Berman Aw;i. iust
promising filmr.

FILMS RANGED from the
tour-minute "Mother Goose" to
'men-
Sur-
reat-
n .Ligged
•iian tribe

.•lit David
that
i the
he

"MANDARIN ORANGES" by
John Brister is a slick two-and-
one-half minute animation. Tradi-
tional Chinese mandarin oranges,

!h fireworks. Humorously, the
, inning beauty queen turns away
in shyness to reveal her orange
bottom.

Women's liberation from men
and human liberation for all are
common themes.

In "Women's Answer," Agnes
Varda, a well-known [''much di-
rector, places 15 wi.
old and young, pn"

witlrand without clothes, (or a lec-
ture to 15 men - fathers, brothers,
husbands and misogynists. Wo-
men teach and men learn what it
means to be a woman. The mes-
sage is that wn

FAR MOR' but
slightly flawed technically is Mi-
chelle Brager's "I Can Breathe
Under Water." Combining real
footage of an underwater swim-
mer with brightly colored anima-
tions of a diver and woman fight-
er, Brager aims for the poetic and
commands "breathe the tides," as
colorful animated yaves crest and
subside over a woman's face.

"Alabama Departure" by Peter
Bundy and Bryan Eilson finds so-

lace in the words and song of an
aged and t-shirted Southern crack-
er. A 10-minute essay on lazy Ala-
bama swamps, plants and bugs,
the film intersperse.; tii(it;i"r nn
the Southern phi! i
with his takeoft
home to die no in in

Though the film pri/.r-winnfr;,
are not designated first, second
and third, the three judges are al-
toted equal portions of tin
awards, which they divi<.
multiple winners, said V.i

FOLLOWING THE awards in
Ann Arbor, the jury reduces the

winning Festival dims to nine
hours, or approximali! -- "",
which tour the coun!'
five institutions, a

;n the
i audi-

torii! .i.Win-'
ner-; at 7, 9
and l , . : Arclu-
" lire and Design building and in
;it.orium A of Angell Hall, also
"cU-M campus.
ic festival is sponsored b "
l Cinema Guild and th.
••irDramaticArts ('
.'ivards are givrn hv rhf 1.1
cal theaters
nesses.

. me "mree tilinci
i s the case is when

THIS YEAR, more than 350
films were submitted for Festival
exhibitir:. .11; . : 1'iew-
ers arc ;iong
the 12;) .wing
arethelunuwiiiy.

"Foregrounds," a 14-minute
visual feat and feast by Pat 0'-

artisti

metal-:.

and mas

film. The film contain;

art forms — cloud '
from day to sunset to n
unknown modern art ti '•
"3/78," a sclntill.-i
state animation of 2,01"

on a
;ip to

true-
••erie

Peter Strauss stars a-
convict who trains to h
world's fastest miler ;'•
chance to compete for the Olym-
pics in the ABC movie "Jericho
Mile" airing on Sunday, March 18.

The movie was shot cni.rcil :.i
'Folsom State Prison.