Ann Arbor - Festival on Tour

Das älteste Filmfestival Nordamerikas zu Gast im Audimax.

Experimentelle und unabhängige Filme unterschiedlicher Genres von Filmemachern und Künstlern.

Programmänderung: Aufgrund von Logistikproblemen zeigen wir euch jetzt 9 Filme aus dem digitalen Festivalprogramm "B". Die Gesamtspieldauer von 86 Minuten übertrifft sogar die der anfangs geplanten 80 Minuten aus dem 16 mm Filmprogramm, das in der Pupille Frankfurt zu sehen war.

HIER NUN DAS FINALE PROGRAMM:

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Ian Cheng
New York, NY | 2013 | 3min
Motion capture choreography simulated against motion capture choreography.

VELOCITY
Karolina Glusiec
London, UK | 2012 | 6 min
“I always thought I had a perfect memory. I wanted to show these drawings to you.” A collection of memories, drawings and loss.
52nd AAFF Chris Frayne Award for Best Animated Film

THE BLAZING WORLD
Jessica Bardsley
Boston, MA | 2013 | 20 min
A troubling relationship arises between the character played by Winona Ryder in the film Girl, Interrupted, the genuine depression experienced by the actress, and the shoplifting of which she was accused. Consisting entirely of clips stolen from existing films, this video essay, which ultimately turns out to be profoundly personal, explores possible links between depression and klepto- mania.

COLD OPEN
Seamus Harahan
Belfast, N. Ireland | 2013 | 12 min
Six scenes recorded over one year in the vicinity of the Waterworks (Queen Mary’s Park), in north Belfast; with Harahan interested in a “making that ‘is’ about looking, recording before thought, the visual consequence of an absent minded gaze in response to the world; locating yourself, locating others – mapping emotional and intellectual spaces, being part of the moving mass; the accumulation of meanings in the dislocation of the familiar, where narratives recede in the minutae of gesture and sound.”
52nd AAFF Jury Award

DER SPAZIERGANG
Margaret Rorison
Baltimore, MD | 2013 | 3 min
A document of my extensive walks taken throughout the city of Berlin, during the cold days of April 1–7, 2013. The film is edited in camera and composed of single frame snapshots along with longer moments of glance, captured on one 100’ roll of film. The soundtrack incorporates field recordings from these walks, as well as a handmade beat sequencer and electromagnetic pickups capturing the engine of a 16mm projector. The title comes from a story by Robert Walser.

LAGOS ISLAND
Karimah Ashadu
Nigeria/UK | 2012 | 4 min
Ashadu has constructed a “Camera Wheel Mechanism” from scrap materials found on the Lagos Island coast, inspired by the region’s hawkers and laborers and their ubiquitous, overburdened, handmade carts. A camera encased inside the mechanism depicts a constantly shifting perspective of the coastline, creating an atmosphere both playful and tense. Homes built by migrants on the coast will soon be destroyed by the Lagos government in a bid to clean up the city.
52nd AAFF Ken Burns Award for Best of the Festival

MOUNT SONG
Shambhavi Kaul
Durham, NC / Mumbai, Maharashtra | 9 min
A current runs underneath. It creeps under the door, makes its way into the cracks, revealing, obfuscating or breaking as clouds in the sky. Mountain, cave, river, forest and trap door; martial gestures, reiterated, stripped and rendered. A storm blows through. A parrot comments from a flowering branch. Here, the surfaces of set-constructions are offered for our attachments.

ENCOUNTERS WITH YOUR INNER TROTSKY CHILD
Jim Finn
Brooklyn, NY | 2013 | 21min
Another chapter in the parallel-leftist-universe of Jim Finn, this video appears to be part of a communist self-help videotape series made in the early 1990s. The series author, Lois Severin, was responding to the move from mass sociopolitical engagement of the 60s and 70s to the personal fulfillment fantasies of the 80s – the Jane Fonda-ization of the Left.

THE GREAT RABBIT
Atsushi Wada
Kobe, Japan | 2012 | 7.5 min
Once we called the noble, profound and mysterious existence The Great. We have moved with
the time, our thought and consciousness has changed. And yet what makes us still keep
calling it The Great? —AW
52nd AAFF Prix DeVarti for Funniest Film