Ann Arbor Film Festival: Shorts Lineup
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- DirectorJosephine MassarellaStarsJasmine June DongExploring the capacity of the medium to express various notions of time, the film begins with a woman looking out from the shoreline. This acts as a point of departure to disparate yet interconnected sequences which prompt the viewer to engage in a structurally unique mode of inquiry and experience. A dynamic original score by the acclaimed composer Graham Stewart accompanies the film.
- DirectorRobert LöbelMax MörtlOn a small island a bunch of exotic creatures run across each other.
- DirectorJohan RijpmaIn this hand-drawn animation, a line is being extrapolated through a grid. When the line surpasses the boundaries of the grid, the process spreads to and reflects on its surroundings.Beyond each boundary the extrapolation of movement is causing deformation in a systematic but speculative way.
- DirectorGiada GhiringhelliFor an instant, I am. The light touches me gently and I live, burst and shine. This constant, irreversible, rhythmic drift from being to not. Only the memories left. Escaping desires. The love and the pain. I only have an instant of life. So please. This film is an ode to the rhythm of being.
- DirectorCecelia ConditUnlike imaginary landscapes where trees talk and frogs turn to handsome princes, a "Pizzly Bear" is a real bear - a cross between a Grizzly and Polar Bear.
- DirectorCecelia ConditStarsJill SandsKaren SkladanyBill BlumeTwo women are chased through a shopping mall by a stalker named Arthur.
- DirectorCecelia ConditStarsAnnie Lloyd Condit'Annie Lloyd' is a daughter's poetic documentation of the last few years of her mother's life and a powerful portrayal of the wisdom of old age. Annie Lloyd's world is glimpsed through a lifetime of photographs and films.
- DirectorCecelia ConditStarsCecelia ConditElizabeth WayneCecelia Condit's 'Within a Stone's Throw' considers the relationship between landscape and the human presence. 'Within a Stone's Throw' explores the rich landscape of Ireland's Burren coastline. In 2010, Condit received a grant from the Lighton International Artists Exchange Program that allowed her to spend five weeks at the Burren College of Art in northwest County Clare, Ireland. Once dominated by dense oak forests, the Burren region-from the Gaelic boíreann, meaning rocky place-shows the effects of continuous settlement dating back to the Neolithic period. Ancient farmers cleared trees to make way for cattle and sheep farming, and livestock grazing eroded the thin layer of extant topsoil, effectively preventing the growth of future forests. Calling attention to the area's stark limestone hillsides, ancient megaliths, and rocky shore, 'Within a Stone's Throw,' Condit poetically weaves these seemingly distinctive natural and manmade terrains into a fluid landscape. The artist appears throughout the video, interacting with the natural surroundings, drifting through moss-covered ruins, walking across rocks, climbing berms, and throwing stones. With younger versions of herself appearing and disappearing, and pebbles transforming into boulders, Within a Stone's Throw plays with the unfolding of human and geologic time, and probes the connections and displacements that exist between ourselves and the natural world.
- DirectorCecelia Condit"Tales of a Future Past" uses props and toy animal masks to create an environmental fairy tale about species extinctions and the loneliness that ensues. Two women in giraffe and zebra masks fight for dominance and future resources, and like in so many fables, the animals are archetypal stand-ins for humanity.
- DirectorCecelia ConditStarsCecelia Condit"Pulling Up Roots" is the emotional journey of a woman who is navigating the tenuous strain between the past and the future.
- DirectorConstance StricklandDavid T. OkoloThree women trying to find a way back to themselves, through an attempt to break repetitive habits and erase old pains.
- DirectorRajee SamarasingheMy mother's lost Chinese heritage was a point of departure in this film which investigates the process by which an image is constructed in places foreign from that of my own.
- DirectorSavi GabizonStarsElla ArmonyShai AviviShmil Ben AriA middle-aged Israeli bachelor is forced to evaluate his life choices when he discovers an ex-girlfriend had given birth to his son 20 years before, in this affecting drama from writer director Savi Gabizon.
- DirectorPia BorgAn unseen location scout explores an opal mining town in South Australia in this sci-fi-laced essay film, which finds in this semi-deserted region both the traces of indigenous culture and remnants of cinema history
- DirectorLuis López CarrascoStarsTesa ArranzA portrait of the multi-talented Tesa Arranz, an icon of the "Movida" scene in Madrid. Personal testimonials are juxtaposed with diary entries, poems, performance clips, and selections from Arranz's 500+ paintings of extraterrestrials.
- DirectorPietro BulgarelliPablo PolancoStarsGabriela FelletAn old woman threads an infinite weave while her house floats upon the sea. Sometimes, she asks her god to wake her from the living dream. Sometimes, she asks him to help her forget the dream altogether.
- DirectorSumie GarciaStarsYukio SaekiFotoSaeki is a deserted photography goods store in the Santa Maria la Ribera neighborhood in Mexico City. Its owner, Yukio Saeki, arrived to Mexico in 1955. At 83 years old, he can still hear the echo of a hot Monday morning in Japan, as he walked across a field toward the ocean as the atomic bomb fell.
- DirectorCarrie HawksStarsJacquelyn AckeifiChris CookeCarina Hawksblack enuf*, examines the expanding black identity through a personal journey. The film interweaves stories from my great grandmother's autobiography, interviews of family and friends, and my hand-drawn memories.
- DirectorG. Anthony SvatekStarsTiueli Papau.TV is a found footage essay film: Voicemails left by an anonymous caller from the future guide us to the remote islands of Tuvalu, a place the global media has described as "the first country to disappear due to rising sea levels". Surrounded by thousands of miles of open water, much of Tuvalu's revenue comes from its country-code web extension .TV, a popular domain choice among global video-streaming and television industries. The caller describes how heat, digital screens, and distance gave him no choice but to leave his sinking home and escape into cyberspace where rising waters will never reach him.
- DirectorBen HowlingYolanda RamkeStarsSimone LandersMartin FreemanMarlee Jane McPherson-DobbinsAfter an epidemic spreads all over Australia, a father searches for someone willing to protect his daughter.
- DirectorChris FilipponeStarsEric FrankIn the shadow of the global metal trade, a metal scrapper hunts the streets of Oakland searching for his day's keep.
- DirectorMarko MestrovicStarsBrian EwanA film beyond the eyelids. In one word: a trip.
- DirectorEphraim AsiliAmerican Hunger explores the relationship between personal experience and collective histories. Specifically, the relationship between African American modernity and the history from which it has arrived. Oscillating between Philadelphia and New Jersey in the United States, and Cape Coast and Accra in Ghana, American Hunger, takes a direct approach to montage and composition counterpointing visual dialect lyricism with the concerns of narrative film. American fantasies confront African realities. African realities confront America fantasies. African fantasies confront American realities. American realities confront African
- DirectorEphraim AsiliStarsJulian Rozzell Jr.Kate WandForged Ways combines elements of documentary, narrative, and experimental form to create an experience that brings the viewer in as an active participant as opposed to a passive witness. Photographed on location in Harlem, New York, and various locations throughout Ethiopia the film oscillates between the first person account of a film maker, the third person experience of a man navigating the streets of Harlem, and day to day life in the cities and villages of Ethiopia. By subduing any definitive story-line or 'message' the film is able to function as an audio visual meditation on the constructs surrounding African American culture while simultaneously highlighting some of the more subtle implications of maintaining an identity that spans hundreds of years, and thousands of miles.
- DirectorEphraim AsiliExplores Ephraim Asili's relationship to the African diaspora, juxtaposing film shot in Hudson, New York, and Accompong, Jamaica.
- DirectorEphraim AsiliVisually tracing the Windsor-Detroit slave pass of the Underground Railroad, with on-site readings of notable texts by Motor City's most storied African-American poets.
- DirectorKamila KucStarsGenie KaminskiAn experimental film based on the experience of near drowning in the Black Sea of Batumi, Georgia.