Screen/Society--AMI Showcase--Experimental Short Films from the 55th Ann Arbor Film Festival

Film Screening: Experimental Short Films from the 55th Ann Arbor Film Festival

Internationally recognized as a premiere forum for independent filmmakers and artists, the Ann Arbor Film Festival is the longest-running independent and experimental film festival in North America, established in 1963.

Six new experimental, animated, documentary, and narrative videos including Jessica Kingdon's "Commodity City" (Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker), "personne" by Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller (Leon Speakers Award for Best Sound Design), Jonathan Rattner's "The Interior" (Michael Moore Award for Best Documentary), Elegance Bratton's "Walk For Me" (\aut\Film Award for Best LGBTQ Film), "Railment" by Shunsaku Hayashi (Chris Frayne Award for Best Animated Film), and "Pokey Pokey" by Junjie Zhang (Jury Award).

Panel discussion to follow with: Shambhavi Kaul (Assistant Professor of the Practice of Filmmaking, AAHVS); Anna Kipervaser (Instructor, AMI); Laurids Sonne (MFA|EDA '18); Evan Morgan (Trinity '19)