Ann Arbor Film Festival 50th: Retrospective Screening #2
Space exploration
curated by Mark Toscano (in person)
Thursday, October 20th, 19:30h
Michigan Theater
603 East Liberty Street, Ann Arbor, 48104 Michigan

The AAFF 50th: Retrospective Screening Series continues with a program of short archival films selected and presented by guest curator Mark Toscano. Film preservationist for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Toscano curates a selection of rare and influential films from the Ann Arbor Film Festival's 50 years of exhibition history, including recently restored works from the Academy Film Archive.

Films in the program include:
- Dialectic definitions (Dana Hodgdon, 1977, 8 min.)
- Grain graphics (Dana Plays, 1978, 6 min.)
- Iota (Carolyn Faber, 1998, 6 min.)
- Roseblood (Sharon Couzin, 1974, 8 min.)
- Xfilm (John Schofill, 1968, 14 min.)
- What ignites me, extinguishes me (François Miron, 1990, 9 min.)
- The man who could not see far enough (Peter Rose, 1981, 33 min)

Oporto apresenta #25: Phaeton
Friday, October 21, 2011, 22:30h
Oporto, Salvador Correia de Sá, 42, 2 frente, 1200-399 Lisboa

"Phaeton" by David Wharry
16mm film, b&w,sound, 7' 25, 1978
With the presence of the author

When a screen gets in contact with David Wharry`s films, it becomes a photosensitive membrane that, like an "Optogram" (an image imprinted on the retina), registers the surrounding action. The screen works, then, as a memory mechanism, a record of Wharry's actions, unveiling the inner-senses of his humorous cinematic charades.

It was in the late seventies that the author created "General Picture", a series of episodes built from the rubble of “noir” and mystery films. This body of work is a bright and mysterious plot on the foundations of the moving image. “Phæton” is one of the few episodes of "General Picture" which can be viewed independently. In this short film, Wharry makes us focus on the space between the retina and the eyelid to reveal the origin of the image and the birth of the otherness.

"Behind and beyond the eyelid" - Alexandre Estrela

Paul Clipson / Tashi Wada
Saturday October 29th 2011, 20h
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado Street, 90026, Los Angeles, California

Paul Clipson and Tashi Wada present a performance of their ongoing film and music collaboration. Clipson’s largely improvised and in-camera edited films employ multiple exposures, dissolves and macro imagery, that bring to light subconscious preoccupations and unexpected visual forms. Wada’s recent work focuses on sound perception as a basis for direct listening experiences. Also on the program are three of Paul Clipson's short films, Sphinx on the Seine, Light from the Mesa, and one other to be announced.