Short Film Events
8:15pm
Opening Night Screening
Animation, Documentary, Experimental, Films in Competition, Short Film
A selection of short films, featuring innovative new works in animation, documentary, experimental and independent cinema.
4:30pm
Films by Robert Nelson
Historic Film, Short Film, Special Presentations
Mark Toscano, archivist at the Academy Film Archive, will present a program of 16mm films by Robert Nelson (1930 - 2012) including Bleu Shut (1970, 33 min), and lesser-seen films
7:15pm
Films in Competition 1
Films in Competition, Short Film
New films by David Sherman, Deborah Stratman, Neil Beloufa and Marcy Saude that veer between fiction and non-fiction; with Craig Baldwin’s 1986 epic RocketKitKongoKit. Filmmakers David Sherman and Craig Baldwin
9:15pm
Films in Competition 2
Documentary, Experimental, Films in Competition, Short Film
New films and video by Mary Helena Clark, Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Marc Pelletier, Scott Stark, Jonathan Schwartz, James Sansing, Chris Kennedy with newly restored films by Phil Solomon and Pat
9:30pm
Out Night with Barbara Hammer
Documentary, Experimental, Films in Competition, Historic Film, Narrative, Short Film, Special Presentations
A celebration of historic and influential LGBTQ films, featuring trailblazing filmmaker Barbara Hammer in person with her films. Tina Takemoto’s video Looking for Jiro (2011), Ira Sachs’ 1994 film Lady,
12:30pm
Michael Robinson: Juror Presentation
Filmmaker in Attendance, Short Film, Special Presentations
Since the year 2000, Michael Robinson has created a body of film, video and photography work exploring the joys and dangers of mediated experience; cultivating new resonances between seemingly disparate
3:00pm
Future of Preservation: Panel & Screening
Panels & Discussions, Short Film
Film preservationists Mark Toscano (Academy Film Archive) and Ross Lipman (UCLA Film & Televsion Archive) will be joined by Tom Colley, Collection Manager at Video Data Bank, to discuss the current state of
7:00pm
Poetic Injustice: Short Films from the Arab World
Documentary, Experimental, Historic Film, Narrative, Short Film, Special Presentations
Curator Irina Leimbacher will present films and videos from the past 25 years from Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, and Morocco. What does it mean to speak one’s history and the dreams
7:15pm
Bruce Baillie Retrospective 1
Documentary, Experimental, Historic Film, Short Film, Special Presentations
The Ann Arbor Film Festival is honored to have Bruce Baillie in attendance for the presentation of the first of three retrospective programs, featuring some of the most important films to
9:30pm
Films in Competition 3
Animation, Experimental, Films in Competition, Historic Film, Short Film
New experimental, animated, and abstract works by Charlotte Pryce, Lawrence Jordan and Norbert Shieh, with the North American premieres of "Emblem" by Rei Hayama and "Vexed" by Telcosystems. Program begins
12:30pm
Kathy Geritz: Juror Presentation
Historic Film, Short Film, Special Presentations
Renowned film curator for the Pacific Film Archive, Geritz presents a program of historic and influential films that have screened at the AAFF over the past 50 years.
5:00pm
SPACE / TIME: Japanese Avant-Garde Films of the 1970s & 1980s
Experimental, Historic Film, Short Film, Special Presentations
SPACE / TIME presents ten 16mm films from the 1970s and early 1980s, created within a vibrant and prolific Japanese avant-garde film scene which experimented with the material and structure of the
7:15pm
Films in Competition 4
Animation, Experimental, Films in Competition, Historic Film, Narrative, Short Film
New films from Martin Arnold, Janie Geiser, Rob Todd, Laida Lertxundi, Kerry Laitalia, Jodie Mack, Albert Sackl and Tina Frank. Program includes Gus Van Sant’s 1978 short film The Discipline
9:15pm
Films by Phil Solomon
Experimental, Filmmaker in Attendance, Short Film, Special Presentations
Filmmaker Phil Solomon in attendance. A program of works drawn from three decades of the texturally extravagant and profoundly elegiac cinema of Phil Solomon. From his exquisitely bejeweled hand processed
9:30pm
Animated Films in Competition
Animation, Films in Competition, Short Film
A dozen new animated films from China, Spain, Austria, England, Canada and the U.S., including the latest from the Quay Brothers. Program in memory of Karen Aqua (1954–2011) Filmmakers Bryan
11:00am
Films in Competition 5 (Ages 6+)
Family Friendly, Films in Competition, Short Film
This visually engaging program of 10 films includes animation, music videos, documentaries and a computer-generated 3D film made in 1971. Program includes the world premiere of Luciano Zubillaga's "The Arrousing
12:30pm
Films in Competition 6
Documentary, Experimental, Films in Competition, Short Film
New experimental and documentary films from Canada, Romania, Germany and Singapore featuring the world premiere of "Berlin Tiger" by Shioh Cinquemani, and the US premieres of "Forest Walk" by Mike
1:00pm
Bruce Baillie Retrospective 2
Documentary, Experimental, Historic Film, Short Film, Special Presentations
The second of three programs celebrating the work of Bruce Baillie features two masterworks Quixote and Valentin de las Sierras, preceded by the rarely seen Yellow Horse and Termination. Bruce Baillie will be
3:00pm
Films by Omar Amiralay
Documentary, Historic Film, Short Film, Special Presentations
Three films by Omar Amiralay (1944–2011), Syria’s greatest documentary filmmaker, presented by Irina Leimbacher. The program includes Tabaq el-Sardin (A Plate of Sardines, 1997), Amiralay's powerful reflection on personal and
3:30pm
Films in Competition 7
Documentary, Experimental, Films in Competition, Short Film
New non-fiction films from Hayoun Kwon, Richard Wiebe, Robert Fenz, Fern Silva and the world premiere of Sasha Waters Freyer's "An Incomplete History of the Travelogue, 1925". This program also
5:00pm
“This Our Still Life” w/ “Kid Beat Box”
Documentary, Feature Length, Films in Competition, Short Film
This Our Still Life is comprised of video and 8mm footage dating back to 1989; artist and filmmaker Andrew Kötting has created an exceptionally warm yet unsentimental portrait of his
7:00pm
“As Above, So Below” w/ “Amos Fortune Road”
Documentary, Feature Length, Films in Competition, Historic Film, Narrative, Short Film
The world premiere of Sarah J. Christman’s feature-length documentary; As Above, So Below intimately examines various transmutations that reshape matter and its meanings. What separates the permanent from the
7:15pm
Films in Competition 8
Animation, Documentary, Experimental, Films in Competition, Short Film
New experimental, animated and documentary films from Peru, Finland, Japan and the U.S. including Suzan Pitt's latest animation "Visitation" and the North American premiere of Minna Parkkinen's film "Circle". Please
9:15pm
“Palaces of Pity” w/ “And I Will Rise…”
Feature Length, Films in Competition, Narrative, Short Film
Palaces of Pity, a feature length film by Portugese filmmaker Gabriel Abrantes and American filmmaker Daniel Schmidt, is a parable on guilt and oppression set in ancient and modern Portugal; two
9:30pm
Films in Competition 9
Animation, Documentary, Experimental, Films in Competition, Historic Film, Short Film
New abstract, experimental documentary and animated films from the U.S., England, and Germany including recent works by Jennifer Reeves, Fern Silva, Stephen Irwin, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Evan Meaney, Martin Arnold and
11:00am
Films in Competition 10
Documentary, Experimental, Films in Competition, Historic Film, Short Film
New experimental films from David Gatten, Samantha Rebello and JB Mabe. Program includes the North American premiere of "Generator" by Takashi Makino and the rarely seen 16mm film "Porch Glider" (1970,
1:00pm
Films in Competition 11
Documentary, Experimental, Historic Film, Narrative, Short Film
George Kuchar’s 1966 classic Hold Me While I’m Naked with new narrative, documentary and experimental films by Bobby Abate, Dietmar Brehm, Kevin T. Allen, Josh Gibson, and Kevin Jerome Everson.
1:30pm
In Praise of Shadows: Japanese Avant-Garde Films of the 1990s & 2000s
Experimental, Historic Film, Short Film, Special Presentations
In Praise of Shadows consists of nine Japanese experimental works from the 1990s and 2000s, made with various techniques via chosen media. All show the artists’ exploration of moving images,
6:00pm
Award Screening 1
Films in Competition, Short Film, Special Presentations
Onstage announcement of the 50th AAFF awards followed by a select screening of awarded films.
8:00pm
Award Screening 2
Films in Competition, Short Film, Special Presentations
Additional awarded films from the 50th AAFF.
Short Film Films
Walt Disney’s “Taxi Driver”
(Bryan Boyce, 2011)
Walt Disney's re-imagineering of Martin Scorsese's classic film "Taxi Driver" follows Mickey Mouse-obsessed Travis Bickle as he looks for love in a rapidly transforming New York City....
Showing Friday, March 30 9:30pm
Guañape Sur
(János Richter, 2010)
A barren rock island off the coast of Peru. No soil, no water, but hundreds of thousands of birds. For a period of ten years, only two guards may live...
Showing Saturday, March 31 7:15pm
Forward Aikido Roll
(Dan Bifano, 2011)
The struggle of misunderstood hipster art student....
Showing Wednesday, March 28 5:00pm
Ceibas: Epilogue - The Well of Representation
(Evan Meaney, 2011)
In part a remake of Hollis Frampton’s Gloria! (1979), in part a repurposing of hacked, 16-bit video game technology; Ceibas: Epilogue - The Well of Representation asks us to reconsider...
Showing Saturday, March 31 9:30pm
Saskatchewan
(Richard Wiebe, 2011)
16mm footage and Edison Voicewriter recordings introduce to me a family I never knew. I see my dad, age 7, in 1943 stand in front of a movie camera. I...
Showing Saturday, March 31 3:30pm
Untitled
(Neil Beloufa, 2010)
A cardboard decor and photographs reconstitute a luxury Californian-type villa in Algeria. Its inhabitants, neighbours and other protagonists imagine themselves there to explain why and how the latter was occupied...
Showing Wednesday, March 28 7:15pm
Mediator
(Joshua Tad Mulligan, 2012)
What results from the collision of two shapes is the energetic dance that visually leads you through an experience of sound, color, and movement....
Showing Wednesday, March 28 5:00pm
Conjuror’s Box
(Kerry Laitala, 2011)
Laitala recently finished the hand-made, hand-processed films entitled the "Muse of Cinema Series". Conjuror's Box, the last work in the series, was made using several D.I.Y.collage techniques including: CINEGRAMMING, hand-painting,...
Showing Friday, March 30 7:15pm
Turn the Camera Around
(Scott Allen, 2011)
"Yeah, I am like a big booster… These are people I really feel deserve more attention and deserve more support. There’s a real naive part of me that would like...
Showing Wednesday, March 28 5:00pm
A Piece of Life
(Chase BecseyJamie Lee, 2011)
Man vs. Canvas; "Every act of Creation is first of all an act of Destruction" –Pablo Picasso...
Showing Wednesday, March 28 5:00pm
Geekdown
(Steven Smith, 2011)
Winner of the Stones Throw 15 contest, this short animated piece is a music video for J Dilla's "Geekdown"...
Showing Wednesday, March 28 5:00pm
Curious Light
(Charlotte Pryce, 2011)
A manuscript illuminated: illustrations retreat into the fiber of the page; a fleeting light dissolves into the emulsion of the film: an elusive story is revisited....
Showing Thursday, March 29 9:30pm
It’s such a beautiful day
(Don Hertzfeldt, 2011)
Bill finds himself in a hospital struggling with memory problems, in this final chapter to Don Hertzfeldt's "Everything will be OK" trilogy....
Showing Tuesday, March 27 8:15pm
Maska
(Quay Brothers, 2010)
"Maska" is the latest animated film of Quay brothers, directors and puppet animators, with the music composed by Krzysztof Penderecki. The screenplay is the adaptation of Stanisław Lem’s novel of...
Showing Friday, March 30 9:30pm
Lack of Evidence (Manque de Preuves)
(Hayoun KWON, 2011)
In Nigeria, twins can be a blessing or a curse. One day, the father of Oscar and his brother tried to kill his two sons during a ritual ceremony. By...
Showing Saturday, March 31 3:30pm
Moxie
(Stephen Irwin, 2011)
A pyromaniac bear misses his mother....
Showing Saturday, March 31 9:30pm
And I Will Rise if Only to Hold You Down
(Jennifer Reeder, 2012)
Filmmaker Jennifer Reeder in attendance. Nova and Candice, both 14, prepare for the high school dance while discussing the afternoon Candice spent with her birth mother. The girls express a...
Showing Saturday, March 31 9:15pm
Pilgrimage (Pèlerinage)
(Marc Pelletier, 2011)
A simple walk in the park can become a spiritual experience, a moment of discovery, a pilgrimage. This film explores the meditative nighttime allure of the Parc Lafontaine in Montreal,...
Showing Wednesday, March 28 9:15pm
Snakes and Ladders
(Katherin McInnis, 2011)
A flicker film of possible narratives, including an excavation of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and associated tabloid frenzy, and the cyclical nature of financial crisis. Soundtrack by Akiko Suzuki....
Showing Tuesday, March 27 8:15pm
Rekord
(Sean Thompson, 2011)
We go on a journey with a German speed trial race-car driver in the golden age of European motor racing. When he sets out on a record breaking run, he...
Showing Wednesday, March 28 5:00pm
Craig’s Cutting Room Floor
(Linda Scobie, 2011)
Craig is a collage artist with an eclectic archive of 16mm prints. His floor is full of spliced off and discarded film frames left to pile, corrode and live out...
Showing Tuesday, March 27 8:15pm
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The Sea [is still] Around Us
(Hope Tucker, 2011)
The postcard of a vacation spot usually enhances the reality. The contrast is more stark in Corinna, Maine, a former woolen mill town on the shores of Lake Sebasticook, where...
Showing Tuesday, March 27 8:15pm
A Series Of Kinetic Sets Tell A Story
(Shannon Kohlitz, 2011)
This is an animation telling the story of my grandpa’s life in 1920 -1940s America through a series of kinetic dioramas. I built the sets from recycled materials then videotaped...
Showing Wednesday, March 28 5:00pm
An Incomplete History of the Travelogue, 1925
(Sasha Waters Freyer, 2012)
An Incomplete History of the Travelogue, 1925 is a lyrical essay film which captures the spirit of excess and adventure embodied by The Great Gatsby (published in 1925) in fragments...
Showing Saturday, March 31 3:30pm
Verses
(James Sansing, 2008-2012)
Verses is a film that animates counselors' logs that were found in an abandoned juvenile detention center. The ink stains and mold growth thread their way through the veins of...
Showing Wednesday, March 28 9:15pm
Remote
(Jesse McLean, 2011)
In the collage video Remote, dream logic invokes a presence that drifts through physical and temporal barriers. There is a presence lingering in the dark woods, just under the surface...
Showing Saturday, March 31 12:30pm
RocketKitKongoKit
(Craig Baldwin, 1986)
This kaleidoscopic, amphetamine-paced tour de force uses a barrage of found-footage images and rapid-fire narration to trace a history of Zaire since its independence in 1960. The CIA, German munitions...
Showing Wednesday, March 28 7:15pm
Runs Good
(Pat O’Neill, 1970)
A darkish journey down memory lane, to visit some news events, folkways and thought patterns associated with the late forties and early fifties. The film is also concerned with such...
Showing Wednesday, March 28 9:15pm
What’s Out Tonight Is Lost
(Phil Solomon, 1983)
“Adopting its title from a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, What’s Out Tonight Is Lost is an elegiac film sifting through the unrecoverable. The film is a reflecting pool...
Showing Wednesday, March 28 9:15pm
Taxonomy
(Karen Aqua, 2011)
The animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms reside in a state of constant flux, reflecting a world of transience, mutability, and impermanence. Through the metaphor of visual transformation, this film explores...
Showing Tuesday, March 27 8:15pm
River Rites
(Ben Russell, 2011)
“Animists are people who recognize that the world is full of persons, some of whom are human, and that life is always lived in relationship with others.”—Graham Harvey, Animism A...
Showing Tuesday, March 27 8:15pm
Tokyo - Ebisu
(Tomonari Nishikawa, 2010)
JR (Japan Railway Company) Yamanote Line is one of the Japan's busiest lines, consisting of 29 stations and running as a loop. The film shows the views from the platforms...
Showing Tuesday, March 27 8:15pm
Sangre de Cristo
(Marcy Saude, 2011)
In Sangre de Cristo, the titular mountain range is examined as a site where embedded layers of oppositional history converge and are revealed through traces of the past in the...
Showing Wednesday, March 28 7:15pm
Village, silenced
(Deborah Stratman, 2011)
A reworking of Humphrey Jennings’ 36-minute 1943 docudrama The Silent Village, wherein coal miners from the Welsh village of Cwmgiedd collectively reenact the Nazi invasion and annihilation of the resisting...
Showing Wednesday, March 28 7:15pm
Heavy Eyes (Schwere Augen)
(Siegfried A. Fruhauf, 2011)
In this hand-processed inscription of cinema negation, unnamed players in found-footage fragments shimmer hypnotically in faint exchanges as a sound engine bears down heavily from above. Darkened figures outline themselves...
Showing Wednesday, March 28 9:15pm
349 (for Sol LeWitt)
(Chris Kennedy, 2011)
A digitally animated version of Sol LeWitt¹s Wall Drawing #349. Recreating LeWitt¹s geometric vocabulary and primary colour palette, 349 careens through emblazoned emblems, lifted from walls and transported into dialogue...
Showing Wednesday, March 28 9:15pm
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If the War Continues
(Jonathan Schwartz, 2012)
For ascending: “and before I could be noticed again and taken to task, I spoke to the tiny blessed star within me, shut off my heartbeat, made my body disappear...
Showing Wednesday, March 28 9:15pm
By Foot-Candle Light
(Mary Helena Clark, 2011)
Scenes from the proscenium wings. A film imagined and recounted by foot-candle light. You close your eyes and, suddenly, it is dark.—Mary Helena Clark...
Showing Wednesday, March 28 9:15pm
Solar Sight
(Lawrence Jordan, 2011)
A question I had in mind was: what's the place of the human being in the cosmos? More and more we think about what is 'beyond.' Less and less is...
Showing Thursday, March 29 9:30pm
Emblem
(Rei Hayama, 2012)
Using a fixed camera remotely operated within a bird sanctuary and trained on a mess of twigs and leaves, Rei Hayama’s Emblem uses the steady and unbroken gaze of this standard ornithological...
Showing Thursday, March 29 9:30pm
The Discipline of DE
(Gus Van Sant, 1978)
Gus Van Sant's early short film screened at the 17th AAFF in 1979. Adapted from a short story by William Burroughs, "The Discipline of the DE" demonstrates an extremely efficient...
Showing Friday, March 30 7:15pm
A Lax Riddle Unit
(Laida Lertxundi, 2011)
In a Los Angeles interior, moving walls for loss. Practicing a song to a loved one. A film of the feminine structuring body. –Laida Lertxundi...
Showing Friday, March 30 7:15pm
Ricky
(Janie Geiser, 2011)
The realms of childhood, war, and loss echo through Ricky. Double vision illuminates, and simultaneously obfuscates, what can be remembered, lost, or retrieved. A found sound recording forms the spine...
Showing Friday, March 30 7:15pm
Undergrowth
(Robert Todd, 2011)
A blind predator dreams through its prey’s eyes. – RT...
Showing Friday, March 30 7:15pm
Point de Gaze
(Jodie Mack, 2012)
Named after a type of Belgian lace, this spectral study investigates intricate illusion and optical arrest....
Showing Friday, March 30 7:15pm
In the Open (Im Freien)
(Albert Sackl, 2011)
Using time-lapse technique Sackl explores the energetic interaction between man-made construction and camera rhythm, cant, and shudder in the textural particulars of a remote mountainous landscape in Iceland. One image...
Showing Friday, March 30 7:15pm
Vergence
(Tina Frank, 2010)
Vergence, a term from the field of optics, refers to the convergence or divergence of light rays. It also designates slow involuntary movements made by the eyes to center an...
Showing Friday, March 30 7:15pm
August Song
(Jodie MackEmily Kuehn, 2011)
A collaboration with Kent Lambert's ROOMMATE documenting a feline daydream....
Showing Saturday, March 31 11:00am
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The House (Das Haus)
(David Buob, 2011)
The dream of the little girl is to care for her grandmother, but aunt and mother do not let her do so. There is only one way out....
Showing Saturday, March 31 11:00am
Back to Land
(Tijana Petrovic, 2010)
Back to Land is a meditation on the sight of a blue whale beached on a California shore. After being hit by a boat, the whale’s enormous body landed on...
Showing Saturday, March 31 11:00am
UFOs
(Lillian SchwartzKen Knowlton, 1971)
Recently restored 16mm film print of this pioneering work of computer-generated animation. UFOs was created at Bell Laboratories where Schwartz was a consultant and artist-in residence. Music by Emmanuel Ghent. UFOs will be...
Showing Saturday, March 31 11:00am
The Arousing of Thought
(Luciano Zubillaga, 2012)
An act of faith sets the pace for a structure, a protocol of work and a wordless semantic form of writing. Then a 1991 music theme remix develops into an...
Showing Saturday, March 31 11:00am
TATAMP
(Mirai Mizue, 2011)
One living thing. One sound. Becomes chaos. Becomes melody. - MM...
Showing Saturday, March 31 11:00am
Lázslo Lassu
(Ben Popp, 2011)
Using cut out animation and shot on Hi-Con 16mm film, hand processed and transferred to HD, this music film for the band A Hawk and A Hacksaw tells the story...
Showing Friday, March 30 9:30pm
A Different Bunny
(Danijel Zezelj, 2010)
A small bunny in a big city looks for love in the wrong place....
Showing Friday, March 30 9:30pm
Perpetual Motion
(Karen Aqua, 1992)
A shrine to ritualized time. This film celebrates the cyclical nature of time, and the symbols and rites which have been created to mark and honor its passage. Screened at...
Showing Friday, March 30 9:30pm
Forest Walk
(Mike Hoolboom, 2011)
This brief black and white sojourn finds a father and son wandering, midway upon the journey of their lives, as the saying goes. Vincent Grenier adds slow motion heat to...
Showing Saturday, March 31 12:30pm
Within
(Robert Todd, 2012)
Into the darkness, into the light, a labyrinth of veils… – RT...
Showing Saturday, March 31 9:30pm
FLIGHT
(Greta Snider, 1997)
My father’s photographic legacy, compiled and transformed into light. His family photographs, his hobbyist pictures of trains and roses, his airplanes and his obsession with birds circling...these images are imprinted...
Showing Thursday, March 29 9:15pm
Termination
(Bruce Baillie, 1966)
Another of the Canyon CinemaNews reels, this time credited to the “Canyon Cinema Documentary Film Unit” (Paul Tulley and Bruce Baillie and others). Termination was made in Spring 1966 for a small...
Showing Saturday, March 31 1:00pm
Valentin de las Sierras
(Bruce Baillie, 1967)
"This ten minute portrait of lives lived in rare air and under sunlight of liquid gold is, simply put, one of the most beautiful films ever made." –Chuck Stephens "In...
Showing Saturday, March 31 1:00pm
Quixote
(Bruce Baillie, 1965)
"One-year journey through the land of incessant progress, researching those sources which have given rise twenty years later to the essential question of survival." -BB The bearded figure at the...
Showing Saturday, March 31 1:00pm
Amos Fortune Road
(Matthew Buckingham, 1996)
Less than twenty tattered business receipts are the only source of information on the life of Amos Fortune: in 1769, at the age of 59, Fortune bought his freedom from...
Showing Saturday, March 31 7:00pm
Berlin Tiger 13h00-16h30
(Shiloh Cinquemani, 2012)
A tiger in captivity. ...
Showing Saturday, March 31 12:30pm
Tin-Pressed
(Dani Leventhal, 2011)
Opening with jarring violence, Dani Leventhal’s Tin Pressed, proceeds to negotiate a balancing act between the bewildering tonal variances of daily life—with all of its unnamable and enchantingly fragmented specifics—and...
Showing Saturday, March 31 12:30pm
Quest (Cautare)
(Ionut Piturescu, 2010)
Two persons, a carriage and a horse. Nobody knows who they really are. Few wonder. Less care. Where are they going? Towards what? Joy, torment and undefinable music. Vulnerable, yet...
Showing Saturday, March 31 12:30pm
21-87
(Arthur Lipsett, 1964)
A landmark film from Arthur Lipsett, comprised of disparate views of various cities. “Few films are as movingly bleak as Lipsett’s little-known 21-87, (it is) a stunning evocation of dehumanization.” – Fred...
Showing Saturday, March 31 12:30pm
Flower
(Yuiko MATSUYAMA, 2004)
Transforming pools of india ink and salt into a microscopic field overflowing with brilliant shards of light and color. – Y.M....
Showing Sunday, April 01 1:30pm
Still
(Shiho KANO, 1999)
Action of the character in the film is expressed by monochromatic still pictures, in fine, time is in cut state. Though color scenes inserted in the film have flowing time,...
Showing Sunday, April 01 1:30pm
Plate #24 (solid of revolution)
(Ryusuke ITO, 2004)
In order to investigate the necessity of film as a medium for moving images, I have focused on its materiality. First, I created a collage with found footages of various...
Showing Sunday, April 01 1:30pm
EVE
(Takashi Makino, 2004)
I created this film to express a feeling of the beginning of something and an image of the newborn vitality. – T.M....
Showing Sunday, April 01 1:30pm
Garden/ing
(Eriko SONODA, 2007)
A photograph of the scene outside a window, enlarged the same size as the window, was repeatedly pasted to and removed from the window while shooting single frames of the...
Showing Sunday, April 01 1:30pm
A Burning Star (short version)
(Kenji ONISHI, 1995)
In A Burning Star, my inner conflicts find a cruel form. Through the camera I come to terms with my father's death. It's only natural that a person should tremble,...
Showing Sunday, April 01 1:30pm
Ambiguous Funeral
(Ichiro SUEOKA, 2004)
This is part of an on-going project, "re-interpretation for the private films," in which I recreate old home movies. Today, we reflect on the way to understand the past events...
Showing Sunday, April 01 1:30pm
Like Flowing, Like Spinning
(Akira MIZUYOSHI, 2009)
I drag a 16mm negative film in a darkroom, improvisationally adhere it with the developed 16mm positive film and expose them by light of Maglite. I intentionally let a film...
Showing Sunday, April 01 1:30pm
XXX!
(Dietmar Brehm, 2011)
A dark rose montage of image-things, their sequence and arrangement veiled by an untold story in the ghostly cast of white shadow and black candle flame. Wig-sporting skulls, wedding cake...
Showing Sunday, April 01 1:00pm
KIRI
(Sakumi HAGIWARA, 1972)
A single uncut shot from a stationary camera photographs a fog shrouded landscape, at first totally white but then gradually revealed....
Showing Friday, March 30 5:00pm
Spacy
(Takashi ITO, 1981)
Spacy consists of 700 continous still photographs which are re-photographed frame by frame according to a strict rule where movements go from rectilinear motion to circular and parabola motion, then...
Showing Friday, March 30 5:00pm
Atman
(Toshio MATSUMOTO, 1975)
A visual tour-de-force and a landmark film of the Japanese avant-garde, Matusmoto creates a pulsing, circular motion through 480 stills of a demonic Noh mask taken from different angles. Music...
Showing Friday, March 30 5:00pm
My Movie Melodies
(Jun’ichi OKUYAMA, 1980)
In this film, the image produces the sound, the "sound image." Various images are used to cover a wide range of sounds. The main melody is radiographic image of a...
Showing Friday, March 30 5:00pm
At Yukigaya 2
(Mako IDEMITSU, 1974)
An abstract film shows the images of tree shadows or the sky in natural light with sharp contrasts. In this personal film, Idemitsu lived between Japan and USA, contains the...
Showing Friday, March 30 5:00pm
Un Relatif Horaire
(Yo OTA, 1981)
This is my first film since I moved to Paris to become a cinema student at University Paris 8. I felt that it was mysterious the way the moon was chasing...
Showing Friday, March 30 5:00pm
Shadow Cuts
(Martin Arnold, 2010)
The first in a four-film series, Martin Arnold directs his deconstructive impulses to the heritage of Walt Disney. The result is a neurotic re-animation that comes to life in the...
Showing Tuesday, March 27 8:15pm
Soft Palate
(Martin Arnold, 2011)
The second film in Martin Arnold's series of Disney deconstructions; Soft Palate rhythmically builds Mickey’s sleeping body out of the darkness of his bedroom one body part at a time,...
Showing Friday, March 30 7:15pm
Self Control
(Martin Arnold, 2011)
The third film in Martin Arnold's recent series. "Arnold uses subtle loops and rhythmical effects to unearth what Hollywood productions and Disney features repress, releasing suppressed gestures and suggesting associations...
Showing Friday, March 30 9:30pm
Haunted House
(Martin Arnold, 2011)
The frames of a 40’s cartoon film are dispersed into their original graphic elements by means of digital de- and reanimation, the character in the foreground as well as the...
Showing Saturday, March 31 9:30pm
The Evil Eyes
(Bobby Abate, 2011)
An homage to the death of the soap opera, The Evil Eyesis a 1960's era story of a grandmother faced with her mortality, a mother in mid-life crisis, and a...
Showing Sunday, April 01 1:00pm
Forms Are Not Self-Subsistent Substances
(Samantha Rebello, 2010)
Flesh, blood, milk and meat are the subject of a film which tries to get inside “substance” via medieval imagery. An attempt to explore “what things are” through juxtaposing bestiary...
Showing Sunday, April 01 11:00am
Joshua City
(Kevin T. Allen, 2011)
A cross-cultural camera roll of two desolate landscapes. One half shot in the Mojave Desert of Joshua Tree in California, the other half in the industrial ghost town of Industry...
Showing Sunday, April 01 1:00pm
Chevelle
(Kevin Jerome Everson, 2011)
In Chevelle, Kevin Jerome Everson captures two workhorse GM cars at a moment of drastic transformation. A junkyard crusher puts metal to metal and smashes the cars into tidy rectangular shapes while the...
Showing Sunday, April 01 1:00pm
Passage Upon the Plume
(Fern Silva, 2011)
Plumes dust the arid land, east to west, shapeshifting as they lift in ascension. Something lowers. An ark ran aground where revolution took root: ropes raise stones in baskets. Hearts...
Showing Saturday, March 31 9:30pm
Peril of the Antilles
(Fern Silva, 2011)
Peril of the Antilles was filmed at the beginning of November 2010 while visiting a friend in Haiti. At this specific time, the cholera epidemic was on its way to...
Showing Saturday, March 31 3:30pm
Generator
(Takashi Makino, 2011)
North American premiere of Makino's most recent work with a score by Jim O'Rourke. The film recently was given the Tiger Award for Short Film, IFF Rotterdam. The images reach...
Showing Sunday, April 01 11:00am
Porch Glider
(James Herbert, 1970)
Porch Glider is James Herbert's rarely seen masterpiece, one of over a dozen films by Herbert screened at AAFF from the late 1960s to the mid 1970s. The film is...
Showing Sunday, April 01 11:00am
New Improved Institutional Quality
(Owen Land (formerly known as George Landow), 1976)
New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a Parasitic Vowel Sometimes Develops bears Landow’s odd, convoluted humor and singular wit. Landow made 30 films between 1961 and 2009; several...
Showing Saturday, March 31 9:30pm
Sack Barrow
(Ben Rivers, 2011)
Sack Barrow explores a small family run factory in the outskirts of London. It was set up in 1931 to provide work for limbless and disabled ex-servicemen until the factory...
Showing Saturday, March 31 9:30pm
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