About the Event
Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour - Part Two
Saturday, January 25 // 7:00 PM
Rice Cinema, Sewall Hall room 301
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Catalog ‘93 | Grau Del Grau
Los Angeles, CA | 2023 | 4 min
The Terri Schwartz Film Award for Parody and Satire
In the catalog, earned about a lot of things.
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Amaranth | Justin Black
Toronto, ON, Canada | 2023 | 4 min
Kodak Cinematic Vision Award
Made in collaboration with composer Gayle Young and sculptor Reinhard Reitzenstein, Amaranth is a hybrid music and film work exploring the implications of deep ecology, encouraging the viewer to step outside of the default anthropocentric perspective and into a continuum of experience in which all beings have equal value.
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Le Rêve | Peter Conrad Beyer
Stralsund, Germany | 2020 | 8 min
The raven dreams of nature; he dreams of a world of plants and insects. He travels, flies into nature. He is nature itself. Nature itself dreams intotrance.
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In the Ice, Everything Leaves a Trace | Christoph Oeschger & Gianna Molinari
Zurich, Switzerland | 2022 | 13 min
The Gil Omenn Art and Science Award
As Arctic ice melts, borders shift, once inaccessible places and resources become accessible, and new claims to raw materials and territories are made. The Arctic is changing like never before, from a romanticized image of wild, harsh nature to a technological place full of economic interests. This essay film is a poetic approach to this place and makes the invisible visible.
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This Is a Story Without a Plan | Cassie Shao
Los Angeles, CA | 2023 | 8 min
The Barbara Aronofsky Latham Award for an Emerging Experimental Video Artist
Two people, and an explosion. This Is a Story Without a Plan envisions two characters witnessing a constant explosion in different fragments of their lives.
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Poem of E.L. | Maya Gurantz
Los Angeles, CA | 2022 | 19 min
Leon Speakers Award for Best Sound Design
In 2013, a woman’s last known movements were captured by elevator surveillance. Released by the LAPD to identify her body, this footage quickly exploded online into thousands of conspiracy theories, becoming fodder for horror and true crime exploitation. Poem of E.L. explores Elisa Lam’s unsolved death by dismantling the tired tropes used to tell her story.
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Cinema for the Dead | Bruno Moreno & Renato Sircilli
São Paulo, Brazil | 2023 | 14 min
Juror Award
In the village of Barra Grande, among appearances and disappearances, the animals keep the dead company. An attempt to touch nameless things through cinema, using its technical elements to oscillate between plasticity, the spiritual, and the ethical.
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I can feel it coming | Karin Fisslthaler
Vienna, Austria | 2022 | 8 min
Air is visible only in the things that it moves: wafting curtains, billowing meadows, swaying trees. Supported by Susanna Gartmayer’s bass clarinet compositions, Karin FissIthaler composes an abstract experience from dynamic images that make the wind visible, audible, and perceptible in its essence– as a warm wave, as swirling chaos, as an icy, whistling storm.
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Established in 1963, the Ann Arbor Film Festival is the oldest avant-garde and experimental film festival in North America. In 2024, the festival featured over 40 programs consisting of 110 films from nearly 40 countries of all lengths and genres, including experimental, animation, documentary, narrative, hybrid, and performance based works. The 62nd Festival took place in person March 26-31, 2024 and online March 26-April 7.
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Free and open to the public.
Discounted parking available in Founder’s Court lot, $6 flat fee, credit card required.
