Ann Arbor Film Festival 2009

A biography about the nineteenth century writer and explorer Eliza Farnham. Through voiceover, inter-titles, black space and a subjective camera, a single event in her life is examined.

A world in autumn; a requiem for lands not yet departed. This video was made with handpainted 35mm filmstrips, acrylic ink and solvents.

One lick of a battery ultimately leads to a man's tragic demise, as his addiction spins violently out of control.

Late one evening, Adam and Eve find themselves alone in the library. Suddenly, the plants and animals pictured in the books around them start to come alive...

When great visions go awry, what do we find on the other side? Co-Presented by: Growing Hope Films in screening order: Quiero Ver (Adele Horne) The Eternal Quarter Inch (Jesse McLean) Great Man and Cinema (Jim Finn) Video Terraform Dance Party (Jeremy Bailey) too close, too far (Katherin McInnis) Seeker (Jordan Hassay) Light (Liesbeth Koot) market sentiments (Barbara Musil) Six Apartments (Reynold Reynolds) A City to Yourself (Nicole Macdonald)

Amid an ocean of wax one might chance upon a garden of flowering chemicals, where the filmmakers have circumnavigated microscopic reactions, creating an epic in miniature.

The father of a transsexual child shares his family's story - what it was like when his child came out, how their relationship has changed, and how their bond continues to get stronger.

BOUQUETS 21-30 is a part of the ecological BOUQUETS series, consisting of one-minute films composed in the camera by weaving the characteristics of different environments with the activities there at the time. The filming basically entails using the filmstrip as a canvas with the freedom to Film frames on any part of the strip in any order, running the film through the camera as many times as needed.