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| Festival Year |
Festival Section |
| 2004 |
21ST CENTURY SILENTS |
| Film Title |
CADTASTROPHE |
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| Country |
USA |
| Release Date |
2003 |
| Production Co. |
Wisconsin Bioscope |
| Director |
Lynne Wisnefski |
| Format |
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Speed (fps) |
| 35mm |
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16 |
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| Footage |
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Time |
| 185 ft. |
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3' |
| Archive Source |
Communication Arts Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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| Print Notes |
Didascalie in inglese / English intertitles. |
| Cast |
| Gabe Gronli, Kat Nichols, Dan Fuller, Nadia Ghasedi |
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| Other Credits |
| prod/sc: Dan Fuller; ph: Laura Cecil |
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| Program Notes |
| For the past 4 years, University of Wisconsin students have made silent films as the Wisconsin Bioscope Company, a fictitious film studio from before the First World War, whose first two productions, Plan B (1999) and Winner Take All (2000), were shown at the 2000 Giornate. Their first film of 2003, Cadtastrophe, is an elaboration of Robert W. Paul’s A Chess Dispute of 1903. Like Paul’s film, it consists of an extended shot of a café scene in which two players disagree and then drop below the bottom of the frame to fight. In Paul’s film, a waiter ends the men’s dispute, but Cadtastrophe adds a fourth character, a scullery maid whom the waiter harasses. In this way, the cad’s attack on the young woman over a game of cards is paralleled by the waiter’s abuse of the scullery maid. This deepens the film’s theme from a dispute over a mere game to the troubled relations between men and women, or between the powerful and the subservient. It also makes possible two surprise endings. – DAN FULLER |
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