Ann Arbor Film Festival 16mm films at the Los Angeles Filmforum
The Los Angeles Filmforum will present the 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival’s 16mm short-film show, featuring recent U.S.-made experimental, narrative, documentary and animated movies. The program, which will be screened at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, February 3, at the Steven Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian Theatre complex on Hollywood Boulevard, also includes two films from the Los Angeles area and several L.A. premieres. L.A.-based filmmaker Charlotte Pryce, whose Curious Light is part of the program, is expected to attend the screening. (Image: Owl in Robert Todd’s Undergrowth.)
Among the other 16mm short films screening at the Spielberg Theatre are the following:
- Fern Silva’s Passage Upon the Plume (“Plumes dust the arid land, east to west, shapeshifting as they lift in ascension.”)
- Tomonari Nishikawa’s Tokyo-Ebisu, which “shows the views from the platforms of 10 stations in Yamanote Line, from Tokyo Station to Ebisu Station clockwise.”
- Jodie Mack’s Point de Gaze, described as a “spectral study [that] investigates intricate illusion and optical arrest.”
- Robert Schaller’s Under the Shadow of Marcus Mountain (“This film is part of an ongoing project to show where I am in a natural landscape in a way that reflects those structures of thought.”)
- Norbert Sheih’s The Electrical Embrace, described as a “silent, hand-processed and optically printed film [that] shifts like an electric current between positive and negative spaces to examine the electric pylons by the Los Angeles River.”
- Linda Scobie’s Craig’s Cutting Room Floor, featuring a “collage artist with an eclectic archive of 16mm prints” and described as “a fragmented journey through cinema’s history taken right off the cutting room floor.”
- Robert Todd’s Undergrowth, in which “a blind predator dreams through its prey’s eyes.”
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Owl in Robert Todd’s Undergrowth image: Courtesy of the Los Angeles Filmforum.