More than 40 programs will showcase new work from filmmakers, performers, and artists from 20 countries at the 46th Ann Arbor Film Festival (AAFF), which runs from March 25-30.
On the avant-garde front, the AAFF will present the U.S. premiere of Pip Chodorov's Faux Mouvements (Wrong Moves) in the Cracking the Space/Time Continuum program "of perception-shifting experimental films"; a "live projector performance" by Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder; and Nathaniel Dorsky's Devotional Songs, consisting of three 20-minute shorts.
As per the AAFF website, Dorsky "has developed a language of cinema that concerns itself with light, mass, color and movement through the frame. He achieves an unusual kinetic energy in his editing, each image mobile yet imbued with a gravity that imparts a sense of almost mystical levitation to scenes routine and everyday."
"Films from the Live Earth" series will address global warming and assorted environmental issues. As part of that series, Jim Trainor will present "The Animals and Their Limitations," described as "a dark and humorous program of his remarkable animated films."
"Out Night" will feature several shorts (see below) in the compilation "Queer Realities: Fact and Fiction!" while film professor Dan Herbert will present the lecture "A Brief History of Time Travel in Cinema."
The "Queer Realities" shorts, selected by curator Debra Miller, are:
Featuring (in screening order):
- Worst Case Scenario: Butch Edition (Thomas Miller)
- King County (David Quantic)
- Trans-Neptune (or, The Fall of Pandora, Drag Queen Cosmonaut) (Matthew Long)
- In Twilight's Shadow (above, Tina Scorzafava)
- Make a Wish (Cherien Dabis)
- The Saddest Boy in the World (Jamie Travis)
- Seventy Times Seven (Charlotte Young Bowens)
- Filled With Water (Elka Kerkofs)
- Members Only (Carolina Roca-Smith)
- Dish (David Quantic)
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