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LOCATION:Cactus Club\, 2496 S. Wentworth Avenue\, Milwaukee\, WI 53207\, United States
DESCRIPTION:<p style="text-align: left;">Doors @ 6:30 • screening at 7 • filmmaker in attendance</p> <a href="http://www.cactusclubmilwaukee.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/images.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-10886 alignleft" src="http://www.cactusclubmilwaukee.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/images.jpg" alt="" width="275" height="183" /></a> Cris Siqueira is a filmmaker and co-owner of Lion's Tooth, an upcoming bookstore, and a graphic novel subscription program based in Milwaukee. <em>Ape Girl, </em>is Siqueira's first radically independent feature-length documentary. The film traces the history of <em>Monga</em> or <em>Ape Girl</em>, a sideshow attraction in Brazil where the spectators watch the performer transform into a gorilla. The film also highlights other American sideshow performers and includes a mesmerizing score. <div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="cavtf" data-offset-key="29dkn-0-0"> <div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="29dkn-0-0"><span data-offset-key="29dkn-0-0">“It’s a dizzying, globe-trotting affair that spends time with Brazilian carnival owners, American showmen, and, of course, past and present “girl-to-gorilla” women.”</span></div> </div> <div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="cavtf" data-offset-key="e0471-0-0"> <div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e0471-0-0"><span data-offset-key="e0471-0-0"> </span></div> </div> <div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="cavtf" data-offset-key="2jbg2-0-0"> <div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2jbg2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2jbg2-0-0">-Milwaukee Record</span></div> </div> <div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="cavtf" data-offset-key="7t4fv-0-0"> <div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7t4fv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7t4fv-0-0"> </span></div> </div> <div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="cavtf" data-offset-key="56lfo-0-0"> <div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="56lfo-0-0"><span data-offset-key="56lfo-0-0">“This is a story of endangered collective memory in a rapidly transforming world, dying traditions in face of new moral codes, and the effects of the technological revolution on popular entertainment, it is at once a deeply personal movie and a universal tale of stubborn resilience and defiance of major cultural transformations.”</span></div> </div> <div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="cavtf" data-offset-key="70acb-0-0"> <div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="70acb-0-0"><span data-offset-key="70acb-0-0"> </span></div> </div> <div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="cavtf" data-offset-key="cn3di-0-0"> <div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cn3di-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cn3di-0-0">-Cris Siqueira (interview with Milwaukee Record)</span></div> </div>  
SUMMARY:Local screening: Ape Girl
ORGANIZER:Cactus Club
URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.cactusclubmilwaukee.com/events/local-screening-ape-girl/
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