Shooting cats: over-the-top act of cruelty, or necessity for containing a nuisance? The subject matter alone—a failed 2005 effort to deal with feral cats in Wisconsin by making it legal to shoot them—ensures that Andy Beversdorf's new film, Here, Kitty, Kitty, will be more entertaining than your average homegrown political documentary. But it's not so provincial as that might imply. The film spends just a little time on the silly spectacle that followed the proposal. It's more concerned with digging up deeper threads. It's just an hour long, but Beversdorf energetically researches the science and work behind the feral-cat issue, turning up plenty that's unexpected (and we don't just mean the brief look at a spaying).
- Scott Gordon, The Onion 12/13/2007 (reprinted with permission)
Not yet released, Here, Kitty, Kitty is already creating a buzz among the alternative press. - Scott Gordon, The Onion 12/13/2007 (reprinted with permission)
In case you missed it, the Madison edition of the Onion's AV Club recently published a very favorable review of Prolefeed Studios' latest work, Here, Kitty, Kitty (see sidebar).
Scott Gordon, the review's author, also spoke favorably of Here, Kitty, Kitty in an article about the state of documentary film, saying:
"Here, Kitty, Kitty casts a sharper and funnier eye on public life... the film reveals that civics can make us small and ugly as well as elevate us."
And finally, Madison community radio station WORT 89.9FM featured an interview with Here, Kitty, Kitty director Andy Beversdorf on the December 14th edition of Jonathan Zarov's Eight O'Clock Buzz program. You can stream Andy's interview on WORT's online Audio Archive here. If you prefer, a downloadable podcast-ready version is available here.
