Screen/Society--AMI Showcase--"Experimental Short Films from the 52nd Ann Arbor Film Festival"

Film Screening: "Experimental Short Films from the 52nd Ann Arbor Film Festival" / The nine films in this digital program feature new experimental, animated, documentary and narrative films including "bbrraattss," (3 min) a hallucinatory motion graphic version of a conflict between rabbit and hunter by Ian Cheng; "Velocity," (6 min) a hand-drawn meditation on memory and loss by Karolina Glusiec (52 AAFF Chris Frayne Award for Best Animated Film), Jessica Bardsley's personal video-essay "The Blazing World," (20 min) which uses stolen film clips to explore the link between kleptomania and depression (and Winona Ryder); "Cold Open," (12 min) Seamus Harahan's episodic observations recorded over a year in a Belfast neighborhood (52 AAFF Jury Award); "DER SPAZIERGANG," (3 min) Meg Rorison's kinetic in-camera film recording of walks through Berlin; "Lagos Island" by artist Karimah Ashadu (4 min), which features her handmade 'Camera Wheel Mechanism' depicting the Lagos coastline (52 AAFF Ken Burns Award for Best of the Festival); Shambhavi Kaul's "Mount Song," (9 min) which uncannily repurposes sets from 70's and 80's Hong Kong cinema into depopulated fantastical non-spaces; the latest chapter in the parallel-leftist-universe of Jim Finn, "Encounters with Your Inner Trotsky Child" (21 min) appear to be part of a communist self-help videotape series made in the early 1990's; and "The Great Rabbit," (7 min) the ineffably beautiful recent animation from Japanese artist Atsushi Wada.