Mills Folly Microcinema hosts an exchange with Spectral Microcinema (Stevens Point) and Cellular Cinema (Minneapolis) with a program of short films by regional filmmakers.
Join us for an evening of short experimental films on Wednesday, October 26 at 7:00 p.m. Admission $5.00, free for ALL members. Seating is limited, and doors open at 6:30 p.m. A $1 fee will be added for single admission credit card charges at the door, but no fee for multiple admissions ($10 or more).
A Mills Folly Microcinema Fall 2022 Season Pass will grant you up to three admissions for $10.00 (plus fees). The Pass is non-transferable to other people, and can only be used for the October 26, November 30, and December 14, 2022 screenings. You can purchase your Fall 2022 Season Pass at https://millsfollyfall2022.bpt.me. Pass sales end November 30.
Inland Cinema: A program of experimental film cultivated in the rich soil, dark forests and clear waters of the Great Inland North, featuring work by filmmakers based in Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, and Wisconsin.
Programmed by Kevin Obsatz from Cellular Cinema in Minneapolis and Alex Ingersoll from Spectral Microcinema in Stevens Point.
Travel Stop | Mike Gibisser | Iowa | 2018 | 16 minutes
Shot at the World's Largest Truckstop in Walcott, Iowa, the film contemplates the interiors of a Midwestern highway rest stop, creating an essayistic portrait of a familiar site of travel and transience. With attention fixed on the ideological overtones pressed to the surface in the objects for sale, Travel Stop examines how identity is called upon, regressed, emptied, overburdened, or parceled when traversing the non-places along the US interstate.
Put the Brights On | Raymond Rea | Minnesota | 2021 | 17 minutes
Put the Brights On pairs edited interviews with rural transgender subjects with original 16mm and Super 8mm visuals as well as found footage to create a non-fiction experimental look at trans people who prefer not to live in the city. Recorded and shot in "Greater Minnesota" but also relevant to the national focus on the rural/urban divide.
Field Resistance | Emily Drummer | Iowa | 2019 | 16 minutes
Charging scenes of the present with dystopian speculation, Field Resistance blurs the boundaries between documentary filmmaking and science fiction to investigate overlooked environmental devastation in the state of Iowa. Footage collected from disparate locations—a university herbarium, karst sinkholes inhabited by primordial flora and fauna, a telecommunication tower job site, a decaying grain silo, among others—interlocks to evoke a narrative of present danger and future disaster, of plant expansion and humanity’s retreat.
Dislocation Blues | Sky Hopinka | North Dakota | 2017 | 17 minutes
An incomplete and imperfect portrait of reflections from Standing Rock. Cleo Keahna recounts his experiences entering, being at, and leaving the camp and the difficulties and the reluctance in looking back with a clear and critical eye. Terry Running Wild describes what his camp is like, and what he hopes it will become.
Light of its History | Alex Ingersoll | Wisconsin | 2017 | 17 minutes
An archive of stone memory. mapping time with geological media. fumbling to reach through time to the things themselves. Constructed using boulder stereograms, martian landscapes, mutable pixels, and glacial erratics.
Country Roads | Ryan Clancy | Minnesota | 2022 | 11 minutes
A recollection of sensations and landscapes blurred by the rumble of an uncanny force.
The Cellular Cinema community is dedicated to the idea that moving image art can be a realm of exploration, improvisation, and play on a small scale, using a wide range of tools, techniques and technologies, unbound by the commercial considerations of mainstream narrative media.
Spectral Microcinema: A certain magic happens when the lights go out and the projectionist starts the show. In the earliest days of cinema, projection shows used devices like the magic lantern to cast a spell on audiences with a range of mysterious visual representations. We’re interested in cultivating that early sense of mystery by supporting and celebrating the intimate theatrical experience.
Check back soon for more program details!
ABOUT MILLS FOLLY MICROCINEMA
Mills Folly Microcinema showcases nationally recognized experimental film and video art work from the festival and microcinema circuit. We network with regional filmmakers and organizations to bring filmmakers and guest programmers to Madison for screenings. And we incubate local experimental filmmaking by providing screen time at Project Projection events.
