Bringing back the underground spirit of our early days, this year's Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF) includes a block of experimental shorts. The program, Celluloid Synergy, features work previously screened at AAIFF from the 1970-90s by seminal experimental filmmakers (Danny Yung, Takahiko Iimura, Al Wong, Sean O'Gara) alongside more recent films of the next generation (Erica Sheu, Tiffany Jiang). We are very excited to see many of these films again on the big screen after so many decades, please join us!  

Thinking like someone who makes movies, like those who live in movies, and those who can't stop playing movies. Move Screen! Process Cinema! Vol. 2 revolves around the potentiality of re-situating lenses, frames, screens, and projectors. Opening with an organic pairing of cinema and nature and ending with a non-cinema experience immersed in lights and colors.

Move Screen! Process Cinema! is a series of screening events that examine the forms and settings of cinematic projection. We will explore the variable use of the screen(s) and projector(s), the expression of film materiality, and the practice of photochemistry. We celebrate small film poems, hand-made films, experimentation in analog and digital practices, installation, live performance, and the kinds of miraculous moments that almost elude us and yet because of cinema, reappear.

Door opens at 7:30pm; Screening starts at 8pm.