Advance Press for Here, Kitty, Kitty
Not yet released, Here, Kitty, Kitty is already creating a buzz among the alternative press. 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).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)
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)
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. ^ TOP