Ann Arbor Film Festival 2009

Character-driven cinema that etches its stories of triumph and tribulation across vast canyons walls. Sponsored by: SEE Eyewear Films in screening order: Pop Art (Amanda Boyle) Excision (Richard Bates) Honor & Justice (Shachar Freddy Kislev) Die Schneider Krankheit (Javier Chillon) found oBjects (David Birnbaum) Glory at Sea (Benh Zeitlin)

"Je jouis dans les paves.” -graffiti on the streets of Paris, May 1968 (“I have my orgasms among the paving stones”) Viewer discretion advised -- some films contain graphic images Films in screening order: Dig (Robert Todd) Speechless (Scott Stark) Lossless #2 (Rebecca Baron and Doug Goodwin) De Tijd (Bart Vegter) Horizontal Boundaries (Pat O'Neill) Public Domain (Jim Jennings) ELEMENTs (Julie Murray) Origin of the Species (Ben Rivers) Sarabande (Nathaniel Dorsky)

Animated short films run wild across all styles and techniques – beware what hides in the woods! Contains mature content. Viewer discretion advised. Sponsored by: Roos Roast Coffee Films in screening order: Retouches (Georges Schwizgebel) Trepan Hole (Andy Cahill) Battery Acid. (Dean Denell) Father (Sebastian Danta) The Heart of Amos Klein (Michal & Uri Kranot) I Live in the Woods (Max Winston) Permutation (Viktoriya Gruzdyn & Katerina Friday) El Miedo (Fear) (Jimena Sarno & Ms. Bea) The Idiot Stinks (Helder K. Sun) Friluftsliv (Outdoor Life) (Håkan Wennström) Kanizsa Hill (Evelyn Lee) Chainsaw (Dennis Tupicoff)

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)

A colorful mix of shorts that will engage even the youngest film-goer with high-caliber indie films. Co-Presented by: Ann Arbor District Library Sponsored by: Edward Jones Films in screening order: The Collection (Keren Albala) Bewick's Mambo (Peter Snowdon) Life on a Limb (David Chai) Ten Counting Cat (Robert Chaplin) Immersion (Richard Levien) Le Noeud Cravate (The Necktie) (Jean-François Lévesque) C Block (Vladimir Kooperman) Ridder (Hedvig Lien) Love Child (Daniel Wirtberg) My Happy End (Milen Vitanov)

Mountains and Rivers Without End Old ghost ranges, sunken rivers, come again stand by the wall and tell their tale, walk the path, sit the rains, grind the ink, wet the brush, unroll the broad white space: lead out and tip the moist black line. Walking on walking, under foot ________ earth turns. Streams and mountains never stay the same. from “Mountains and Rivers Without End” by Gary Snyder, 1996. Contains mature content and strobing images. Viewer discretion advised. Films in screening order: Film of the Sea (Takashi Ishida) Refraction Series(Chris Gehman) When It Was Blue (Jennifer Reeves)

This Opening Night Screening provides a colorful ride through the realm of independent and art-driven cinema with a selection of short films across all genres. The screening begins following festival director's welcome and opening night remarks. Films in screening order: FREUDE ("Delight") (Thomas Druschun) Western Spaghetti (PES) The Control Master (Run Wrake) Out of Print (Danny Plotnick) Dahlia (Michael Langan) Clear Glasses (Sam Green) P.R. (Bryan Leister) Cattle Call (Mike Maryniuk & Matthew Rankin) Team Taliban (Benjamin Kegan) Steel Homes (Eva Weber) Oh Great Now Look What Happened (Tijmen Hauer & Gerbrand Burger) I Am So Proud of You (Don Hertzfeldt)

This spunky and sexy showcase gets right to the heart of LGBT issues and goes well beyond! Sponsored by: Google Films in screening order: Checkout (Jenn Garrison) Crazy Baby (Jules Nurrish) Operated by Invisible Hands (Nicole Brending) Stealing Magnolias (Juan Carlos Saizarbioria & Patrick Hasson) Clouded (Ajae Clearway) The Bond (Michael T. Connell) Untitled Film Stills (Sam Icklow) Tommy (Tora Mårtens) The Japanese Sandman (Ed Buhr) What I Found in Great Aunt Nell's Closet (Melissa Bouwman) 575 Castro St. (Jenni Olsen)

Shifts in movement, sounds, and image help us explore reflections of ourselves and reality. Contains mature content and strobing images. Viewer discretion advised. Sponsored by: Giraffe Design + Build Films in screening order: Nightstill (Elke Groen) Kempinski (Neil Beloufa) LOUDTHINGS (Telcosystems) MY LIFE IN DREAMS (Cam Woykin) Crepitus (Francois Miron) The Promise (Luke Losey) Murder Capital (Marcy Saude) Cataract (Alexis Eggertsen) Autumnal (Scott Nyerges) Studies in Transfalumination (Peter Rose) Blue Tide, Black Water (Eve Gordon & Sam Hamilton) Seemannstreue (Sea Dog's Devotion) (Anna Kalus)