Presenting films from the 52nd Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2014.

Includes works by Ian Cheng, Karolina Glusiec, Jennifer Reeder, Helena Wittmann, Karimah Ashadu, Joel Wanek, Jessica Sarah Rinland, Malena Szlam, Lois Patiño, Johan Rijpma, Wojciech Bakowski. 

Bimodal Press is excited to present Gravity Spells II: Bay Area New Music and Expanded Cinema Art, a combined publication release and performance series featuring over 30 Bay Area musicians, sound artists, filmmakers and writers.

The film is divided into five parts, which differ in the visual and musical structure of each other. The plot - it is about two women and their love for each other is of secondary importance.

John Latham (1921 - 2006) was one of the most important British artists of the post-war period, best remembered for his painting and sculptural works which incorporated materials such as glass, canvas and books. Less well-known, but now restored after several decades out of circulation, are the six films which Latham made during the 1960s and early 1970s. These films developed Latham’s concepts of ‘time-base’ and ‘structure in events’ through playful and varied use of stop-frame animation, from the stroboscopic collage Speak (1960) to the cosmological meditation Erth (1971).