Screen/Society--AMI Showcase--"Experimental Short Films from the 52nd Ann Arbor Film Festival"

Monday, February 23, 2015 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Screen/Society--AMI Showcase--"Experimental Short Films from the 52nd Ann Arbor Film Festival"

Film Screening:

 

Experimental Short Films from the 52nd Ann Arbor Film Festival

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

This digital program showcases nine new films that feature experimental, animated, and documentary filmmaking techniques.

--Introduced by Shambhavi Kaul, Experimental Filmmaker and Duke Visiting Artist!

Works to be screened:

 

bbrraattss
(Ian Cheng, 2013, 3 min, New York)

This short digital work presents a hallucinatory motion graphic version of the conflict between a rabbit and its hunter.

Velocity
(Karolina Glusiec, 2012, 6 min, UK)

Velocity is a hand-drawn meditation on memory and loss, which was awarded the 52 AAFF Chris Frayne Award for Best Animated Film

The Blazing World
Jessica Bardsley, 2013, 20 min, Boston)

A personal video-essay, this film uses stolen film clips to explore the link between kleptomania and depression, focusing on the actress Winona Ryder from Girl, Interrupted.

Cold Open
(Seamus Harahan, 2013, 12 min, N. Ireland)

Winner of the 52 AAFF Jury Award, Cold Open records the filmmaker’s episodic observations over a year in a Belfast neighborhood.

Der Spaziergang
(Margaret Rorison, 2013, 3 min, Baltimore)

This kinetic in-camera film records the filmmaker’s walks through Berlin.

Lagos Island
(Karimah Ashadu, 2012, 4 min, Nigeria/UK)

A camera encased in a “Camera Wheel Mechanism”, reminiscent of the ubiquitous carts of Lagos Island laborers, depicts a constantly shifting perspective of the coastline, creating an atmosphere that is both playful and tense. This short digital film won the 52 AAFF Ken Burns Award for Best of the Festival.

Mount Song
(Shambhavi Kaul, 2012, 9 min, Durham/India)

This experimental video uncannily repurposes sets from 70’s and 80’s Hong Kong cinema into depopulated fantastical non-spaces.

Encounters with Your Inner Trotsky Child
(Jim Finn, 2013, 21 min, Brooklyn)

Another chapter in the parallel-leftist-universe of Jim Finn, Encounters with Your Inner Trotsky Child appears to be part of a communist self-help videotape series made in the early 1990s.

The Great Rabbit
(Atushi Wada, 2012, 7.5 min, Japan)

Once we called the noble, profound and mysterious existence The Great. Yet this ineffably beautiful animation asks the question: as we move with time, and our thought and consciousness changes, what makes us still keep calling it The Great?

Cost: Free and Open to the Public

Sponsors: The Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI)

White 107 (White Lecture Hall)