AAFF 50th: Retrospective Series, Screening #1
September 22nd 2011, 19:30h
Michigan Theater
Ann Arbor, MI
The AAFF's 50th season launches September 22 with the first of a five-part Retrospective Screening Series, which presents influential and rare films from our five decades of ground breaking exhibition.
The first retrospective screening includes films by Alice Anne Parker (a.k.a. Anne Severson). Parker is best known for her 1970 film Riverbody, which won Best Film at the 9th AAFF, and her 1971 film Near the Big Chakra, a landmark influential feminist film which provoked a near-riot during its screening at the Ann Arbor Film Festival in 1972. Along with presenting her own works, Parker will show additional films from Gunvor Nelson, Robert Nelson and Jay Cassidy that screened at the AAFF in its first decade. Alice Anne Parker will be in attendance and will be interviewed by artist and UM Art & Design professor Holly Hughes following the screening.
Some films contain nudity - program recommended for mature audiences.
Tickets are $10 for general admission; $7 for seniors, students and Michigan Theater members; $5 for AAFF members. Advance tickets for this screening are available through Brown Paper Tickets (for discount code for students/seniors/Mich Theater/AAFF members - email maria@aafilmfest.org).
This series is supported by the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan and presented in partnership with the Michigan Theater.