Selections from the 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival - 2012

Includes films by Hope Tucker, Ben Russell, Jillian Mayer & Lucas Leyva, Stephen Irwin, Hayoun Kwon, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Minna Parkinnen, Jonathan Schwartz, Suzan Pitt, James Sansing, Laura Heit and Jennifer Reeves. 

This DVD features five films by Vivienne Dick from various times in her life, and is meant as an introduction to the breadth of her work: Beauty Becomes the Beast is from her early suite of films made in the ‘No Wave’ scene of 1970s New York; Visibility MVivienne Dick (b. 1950, Ireland) is an internationally-celebrated film-maker and artist. A key figure of the ‘No Wave’ movement in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s, she has gone on to develop an extraordinary body of work, which has been shown in cinemas, films festivals and art galleries around the world.

A selection of animated films, from new glass master. Includes the films: L'eau life, Paper view, Lost and found, You won't remember this, Grand Central, Yours, White out, Trigger happy, Tulips, Postcards from Warren, Train of thought, All the wrong reaso

Lis Rhodes has been at the forefront of British experimental filmmaking since the early 1970s. She studied at the North East London Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art. A strong formal aesthetic has been developed in her films, reflecting her involveLis Rhodes has been at the forefront of British experimental filmmaking since the early 1970s. She studied at the North East London Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art. A strong formal aesthetic has been developed in her films, reflecting her involvement with the debates and practice which emerged from the London Filmmakers' Co-operative, where she was Cinema Curator 1975-6. Early 'expanded' works such as Light Music (1975) fused performance and multi-screen projection with an exploration of the visual qualities of sound. Her analysis of broader political and social questions can be traced to her later films, which combine formal rigour with a passionate critique of issues from nuclear power to domestic violence. As an active campaigner for women's rights, Rhodes was a founder member of Circles, the first women's artist film and video (1979) and was an Arts Advisor to the Greater London Council between 1982 and 1985. She lives and works in London and teaches at Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London.