From: Adam Hyman (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Oct 07 2009 - 10:20:57 PDT
Ann Arbor comes to Los Angeles!
Sunday October 11, 2009, 7:30 pm
Los Angeles Filmforum presents
The Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour Program 1
At the Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd)
Los Angeles, CA 90026
213-484-8846
For reservations, email email suppressed
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Note change in location!
The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the original and longest running independent
film festival in the United States, recognized as a premiere showcase for
risk-taking, pioneering and art driven cinema. The AAFF pioneered the
touring film festival concept in 1964 and each year brings a selection of
favorite and award-winning short films to more than 25 galleries,
universities, art house theaters and cinematheques throughout the world.
This program explores themes of life and death within the geography of our
surroundings, and includes films from Detroit, Montreal, San Francisco,
Berlin, Toronto and Tokyo.
This exciting show mixes new experimental, animation, and documentary work
a great way to catch up on what is happening in film & video art!
The festival: www.aafilmfest.org
Trailer: http://www.vimeo.com/5419558
Dahlia Michael Langan | San Francisco, CA | 5 minutes
http://aaff.bside.com/2009/films/dahlia_aaff2009
An animated, fast-motion portrait that explores the bustle and permanence of
a city: San Francisco. Set to a driving score of vocal percussion, this film
is a high-velocity contrast of stable forms and the dynamic patterns of
life.
Studies in Transfalumination Peter Rose | Philadelphia, PA | 5 minutes
[winner the Transfalumination Jury Award 47th AAFF]
http://aaff.bside.com/2009/films/studiesintransfalumination_aaff2009
The visual complexities of the ordinary world a tunnel, a clump of grass,
a discarded table, a piece of rock are examined with modified flashlights
and stripped down video projectors in this otherworldly exploration of place
and perception.
Passages Marie-Josee Saint-Pierre | Montreal, Canada | 24.5 minutes
http://aaff.bside.com/2009/films/passages_aaff2009
An exquisitely drawn animation that tells the dramatic story of a mother
giving birth to a child. Her enthusiastically awaited delivery day is turned
on its head as systems go awry, jeopardizing the lives of both mother and
baby.
Reincarnation Takeshi Kushida | Tokyo, Japan | 5 minutes
http://aaff.bside.com/2009/films/reincarnation_aaff2009
An otherworldly and poetic portrayal of one man's journey between lives,
expressed through movement, flesh and color.
Six Apartments Reynold Reynolds | Berlin, Germany | 12.5 minutes
http://aaff.bside.com/2009/films/sixapartments_aaff2009
Six isolated occupants of six different apartments live their lives unaware
of each other. Without drama they eat food, wander between rooms, bathe,
watch television, and sleep. For them, this is life; for the viewer this is
a contemplation of worlds in constant activity and decay.
Video Terraform Dance Party Jeremy Bailey | Toronto, Canada | 12 minutes
[winner Funniest Film Award 47th AAFF]
http://aaff.bside.com/2009/films/videoterraformdanceparty_aaff2009;jsessioni
d=C82137156768C2F723157F0B7B288F82
Based on his live performances, Bailey shows off his latest software program
that allows the user to design a better world. Combining improv monologue,
social commentary, and interactive software, Bailey provides a platform to
laugh and dance in our seats while contemplating the ways we live together.
A City to Yourself Nicole Macdonald | Detroit, MI | 24 minutes [winner
Best Michigan Film Award 47th AAFF]
http://aaff.bside.com/2009/films/acitytoyourself_aaff2009
In 1950, Detroit's population reached 1,849,568 people in the city; today
there are fewer than half remaining. We hear a lot of negativity about the
crumbling infrastructure of a shrinking, post-industrial city like Detroit,
but what about the pluses of having a city to yourself?
91 minutes total run-time
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****TICKET PRICE & RESERVATIONS: Admission is $10 general, $6
students/seniors, free for Filmforum members, cash or check only.
We will take reservations until Saturday night, and hold reservations
until 15 minutes before the show time.
Parking on the streets.
Filmforum is selling memberships! They get you into shows for a big
discount! $60 single/$95 double. Cash or check only. Inquire at
the door, or send us an email at lafilmforum@ yahoo.com.
Coming soon to Los Angeles Filmforum:
Oct 17 Azazel Jacobs & Ken Jacobs in person with The GoodTimesKid and The
Whirled at the Egyptian Theater
Oct 18 Ken Jacobs in person with Anaglyph Tom - 3-D film! at the Egyptian
Theater
Oct 25 - Robert Beavers in person, at the UCLA Film and Television Archive
Nov 1 - LOS HEREDEROS and THE ANCHORAGE - New films in conjunction with AFI
Film festival, at the Egyptian
**For full and up-to-date information, please visit our website at
http://lafilmforum.wordpress.com/ or email us at lafilmforum@ yahoo.com **
This screening series is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board
of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and the
Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles. Additional support is
generously provided by the American Cinematheque.
To see what else is playing at the American Cinematheque, please see
http://www.americancinematheque.com
***For a complete listing of alternative films in Los Angeles, check
www.filmradar.com
Los Angeles Filmforum is the city's longest-running organization
dedicated to weekly screenings of experimental film, documentaries,
and video art. This is our 33rd year!
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deductible.
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