Screen/Society--AMI Showcase--Experimental Short Films from the 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival

Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Screen/Society--AMI Showcase--Experimental Short Films from the 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival

AMI presents a Special Program of Experimental Short Films from the 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour:

The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the longest-running independent and experimental film festival in North America, established in 1963. Internationally recognized as a premiere forum for independent filmmakers and artists, each year's festival engages audiences with remarkable cinematic experiences.

 

Tonight's Program:
Introduction by Shambhavi Kaul, Experimental Filmmaker and Duke Visiting Artist!

A program of 8 short digital works from England, USA, France, and Germany, including a mix of narrative and experimental works, featuring live-action, animation, and computer-generated imagery.

Moxie
(Stephen Irwin, 2011, 6 min, England)
A pyromaniac bear misses his mother.

 

20 Hz
(Semiconductor, 2011, 5 min, England)
20 Hz observes a geo-magnetic storm occurring in the Earth's upper atmosphere.

 

Visitation
(Suzan Pitt, 2011, 9 min, USA)
Surrealistic and strange, cast in grainy 16mm images, the film allows an imaginary glimpse within "an outer-world night."

 

Sounding Glass
(Sylvia Schedelbauer, 2011, 10 min, Germany)
A man in a forest is subject to a flood of impressions; structurally rhythmic waves of images and sounds give form to his introspection.

 

Tin Pressed
(Dani Leventhal, 2011, 7 min, USA)
"Leventhal's deft oscillation between elision and inclusion reveals a brief but vast taxonomy of beauty, peace, longing, and terror." - Jeremy Hoevenaar

 

Untitled
(Neil Beloufa, 2010, 15 min, France)
A cardboard decor and photographs reconstitute a luxury Californian-type villa in Algeria.

 

Lack of Evidence
(Hayoun KWON, 2011, 10 min, France)
One day, O's father tried to kill his two sons during a ritual ceremony: O managed to escape but saw his brother murdered. Having fled, he succeeded, by chance, in leaving Nigeria and going into exile in France.

 

Ceibas: Epilogue - The Well of Representation
(Evan Meaney, 2011, 8 min, USA)
In part a remake of Hollis Frampton's Gloria! (1979), in part a repurposing of hacked,16-bit video game technology; Ceibas: Epilogue asks us to reconsider our fear of the liminal.

 

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Cost: Free and Open to the Public!

Sponsors: The Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), with support from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation

White 107 (White Lecture Hall)