Screen/Society--AMI Showcase--Experimental Shorts from the 53rd Ann Arbor Film Festival

Experimental Shorts from the 53rd Ann Arbor Film Festival / The longest-running independent and experimental film festival in North America. / Works to be screened: "The Bigger Picture" (Daisy Jacobs, 2014, 8 min, London, UK, Digital) / A stark and darkly humorous tale of caring for an elderly parent. / "Seven Signs that Mean Silence" (Sara Magenheimer, 2014, 11 min, Brooklyn, NY, Digital) / A story about the human search for meaning in a dark void. / "Babash" (Lisa Truttmann & Behrouz Rae, 2014, 9 min, USA/Austria/Iran, Digital) / Babash is a parrot kept by an Iranian family in the USA, an associative portrait about a special relationship and the domestic surroundings in which it grew. / "Many Thousands Gone" (Ephraim Asili, 2015, 8 min, Hudson, NY, 16mm Digital) / Parallels between a summer afternoon on the streets of Salvador, Brazil, and Harlem, New York. / "layover" (Vanessa Renwick, 2014, 7 min, Portland, OR, Digital) / The Vaux's Swifts layover for three weeks in Portland each fall on their migration to South America. / "All That Is Solid" (Louis Henderson, 2014, 15 min, Paris, France, Digital) / A technographic study of e-recycling and neo-colonial mining. / "Special Features" (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, 2014, 12 min, Brooklyn, NY, Digital) / An apparent interview with three highlights. /"Symphony No. 42" (Réka Bucsi, 2014, 10 min, Bugapest, Hungary, Digital) / A subjective world through 47 scenes.