Ann Arbor Film Festival, the oldest festival dedicated to experimental film & video, returns next week in its 53rd edition, with a programme of over 200 films, videos and live performances. During the week-long festival (March 24th - 29th), its attendants will be able to enjoy retrospective screenings dedicated to the work of Tacita Dean (UK) and Wojciech Bakowski (Poland), as well as the two-programme selection titled Computer Age: Early Computer Movies 1952–1987, curated by Gregory Zinman and Leo Goldsmith. The festival will also feature new works by Kevin Jerome Everson, Mike Hoolboom, Sergei Loznitsa, Jennifer Reeder, Tomonari Nishikawa, Shambhavi Kaul, Barbara Sternberg, Stephen Connolly, Robert Todd, Peggy Ahwesh and Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy, among many others.
In Person: Mary Helena Clark; Joshua Gen Solondz and Eric Stewart
- PRISONER'S CINEMA (2012) by Joshua Gen Solondz; digital video, b&w, sound, 10 minutes, from the maker bay area premiere —It has been widely reported that prisoners confined to dark cells often see brilliant light displays, which is sometimes called the “prisoner’s cinema.”
Dates:
Sunday, April 12, 2015 - 20:00 to Monday, April 13, 2015 - 19:55
SCREENING: - MEANWHILE AT THE MOON HOTEL (2014) by Jessie Stead; digital video, color, sound, 16 minutes, from the maker bay area premiere —A reverie in 10 overlapping Meanwhiles in a downloaded lunar hotel. (Jessie Stead)
Dates:
Sunday, April 12, 2015 - 18:00 to Monday, April 13, 2015 - 17:55
In Person: John Davis; Ryan Ferko; Karissa Hahn; Mike Stoltz and Zachary Epcar
SCREENING: - Chestnut Street (2014) by Karissa Hahn; digital video, color, sound, 1 minute, from the maker world premiere —projector—jam! (Karissa Hahn)
- LATE (2014) by Matt Whitman; Super 8mm, color, silent, 3 minutes, from the maker world premiere —The origin of this film is a 30-second low-quality video, shot spontaneously on a mobile phone. When the video’s subject died suddenly a few weeks after the footage was taken, it became precious as the last moving image containing their likeness. (Matt Whitman)
Dates:
Sunday, April 12, 2015 - 13:00 to Monday, April 13, 2015 - 12:55
In Person: Michael Betancourt; Karissa Hahn; Jeremy Moss and Deborah Stratman
- CICATRIX (2014) by Jeremy Moss; digital video, color, silent, 7 minutes, from the maker —A textural experience in layers, scars and deterioration that combines hand processed, tinted and toned 16mm imagery. Both sight and sound ooze and emulate those tangible tremors catalyzed by increasing awareness of loss and decay. Footage created at the Independent Imaging Retreat (Film Farm) in Mt. Forest, Ontario, Canada. (Jeremy Moss)
Dates:
Saturday, April 11, 2015 - 16:00 to Sunday, April 12, 2015 - 15:55
- Hypnosis Display (2014) by Paul Clipson and Grouper; 16mm, color, sound, 75 minutes, from the maker bay area premiere
Exploring impressionistic, emotional and sensory environments found within the vast natural and urban landscapes of America. Neither image nor sound takes precedence: the two interact and combine preserving a raw sense of the discovery that field recordings and in-camera edited film rushes often yield. Hypnosis Display was commissioned by Opera North Projects. (Paul Clipson/Liz Harris)
IN PERSON: Tommy Becker; Jon Behrens and Vanessa Renwick
- LAYOVER (2014) by Vanessa Renwick; digital video, color, sound, 6 minutes, from the maker —A swan song for the factory age. A vortex of swirling Vaux’s Swifts which layover for three weeks in Portland OR each fall on their migration to South America. Birds swoop over our demise, their relentless choreography signaling a new start. (Vanessa Renwick)
Dates:
Friday, April 10, 2015 - 19:00 to Saturday, April 11, 2015 - 18:55
