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Tuesday, March 24th
6:00 PM	click to rate	Opening Night Gala Reception Special Events \| 120 min.	Michigan Theater - Lobby & Main Theater	+ add to cal	buy tickets
8:00 PM	click to rate	Opening Night Screening Films in Competition, Short Films, Themed Competition Programs plays with... Freude ("Delight") \| Thomas Draschan 2009 Western Spaghetti \| PES 2008 The Control Master \| Run Wrake 2008 Out Of Print \| Danny Plotnick 2008 Dahlia \| Michael Langan 2008 Clear Glasses \| Sam Green 2008 P.R. \| Bryan Leister 2007 Cattle Call \| Mike Maryniuk & Matthew Rankin 2008 Team Taliban \| Benjamin Kegan 2008 Steel Homes \| Eva Weber 2008 Oh Great Now Look What Happened \| Tijmen Hauer & Gerbrand Burger 2007 I am so proud of you \| Don Hertzfeldt 2008	Michigan Theater - Main Theater	+ add to cal	buy tickets
10:30 PM	click to rate	Arbor Brewing Company After Parties	Arbor Brewing Company	+ add to cal
Wednesday, March 25th
1:00 PM	click to rate	Michigan in Motion: Film Tax Incentives at Full Speed Panel \| 90 min.	Work Gallery	+ add to cal
3:00 PM	click to rate	Juror Presentation: Emily Hubley Emily Hubley \| Feature Films, Juror Presentations, Short Films \| 95 min. plays with... Pigeon Within \| Emily Hubley 2000 Set Set Spike \| Emily Hubley 2002 The Toe Tactic \| Emily Hubley 2008	Michigan Theater - Main Theater	+ add to cal
7:00 PM	click to rate	Adventures in Illegal Art: Mark Hosler of Negativland Mark Hosler \| Experimental, Special Presentations \| 90 min.	Michigan Theater - Main Theater	+ add to cal	buy tickets
7:30 PM	click to rate	Terra Firma Films in Competition, Short Films, Themed Competition Programs plays with... Yard Work Is Hard Work \| Jodie Mack 2008 Passages \| Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre 2008 Falling With Force. \| Sofia Bohdanowicz 2009 Teat Beat Of Sex: Hair \| Signe Baumane 2008 Streetcar Named Perspire \| Joanna Priestley 2007 A Horse Is Not A Metaphor \| Barbara Hammer 2008	Michigan Theater - Screening Room	+ add to cal	buy tickets
9:30 PM	click to rate	Shadows of the Night Sea Films in Competition, Short Films, Themed Competition Programs plays with... Nightstill \| Elke Groen 2008 Kempinski \| Neil Beloufa 2007 LOUDTHINGS \| Telcosystems 2008 MY LIFE IN DREAMS \| Cam Woykin 2008 Crepitus \| Francois Miron 2008 The Promise \| Luke Losey 2008 Murder Capital \| Marcy Saude 2007 Cataract \| Alexis Eggertsen 2008 Autumnal \| Scott Nyerges 2008 Studies In Transfalumination \| Peter Rose 2008 Blue Tide, Black Water \| Eve Gordon & Sam Hamilton 2008 Seemannstreue (Sea Dog's Devotion) \| Anna Kalus 2008	Michigan Theater - Main Theater	+ add to cal	buy tickets
10:00 PM	click to rate	Mock Up On Mu Craig Baldwin 2008 \| Experimental, Feature Films, Films in Competition \| 110 min.	Michigan Theater - Screening Room	+ add to cal	buy tickets
10:30 PM	click to rate	Babs' Underground Lounge DJ BILJAX, DJ Davey Dave \| After Parties	Babs' Lounge	+ add to cal
Thursday, March 26th
1:00 PM	click to rate	Remixing the Rules: Copyright & Fair Use Panel \| 90 min.	Work Gallery	+ add to cal
3:00 PM	click to rate	Juror Presentation: Robert Todd Robert Todd \| Juror Presentations, Short Films \| 57 min. plays with... Riverbed \| Robert Todd 2008 Antechamber \| Robert Todd 2008 Passing \| Robert Todd 2008 Repair \| Robert Todd 2009	Michigan Theater - Main Theater	+ add to cal
5:10 PM	click to rate	Penny W. Stamps Presents: George Manupelli George Manupelli \| Special Presentations \| 80 min.	Michigan Theater - Main Theater	+ add to cal
7:00 PM	click to rate	Out Night Films in Competition, Short Films, Themed Competition Programs plays with... Checkout \| Jenn Garrison 2006 Crazy Baby \| Jules Nurrish 2009 Operated By Invisible Hands \| Nicole Brending 2007 Steeling Magnolias \| Juan Carlos Saizarbioria & Patrick Hasson 2008 Clouded \| Ajae Clearway 2007 The Bond \| Michael T. Connell 2007 Untitled Film Stills \| Sam Icklow 2007 Tommy \| Tora Mårtens 2008 The Japanese Sandman \| Fo Buhr 2007 What I Found In Great Aunt Nell's Closet \| Melissa Bouwman 2008 575 Castro St. \| Jenni Olsen 2008	Michigan Theater - Main Theater	+ add to cal	buy tickets
7:30 PM	click to rate	Cry Dr. Chicago George Manupelli 1971 \| Feature Films, Special Presentations \| 96 min.	Michigan Theater - Screening Room	+ add to cal	buy tickets
9:30 PM	click to rate	Unexplored Territories Films in Competition, Short Films, Themed Competition Programs plays with... La Battue \| Guy Édoin 2008 Danse Macabre \| Pedro Pires 2008 Trailer Trash \| Mark Street 2009 Let's Get Married \| Stephan Hillerbrand, Kirk Lynn & Mary Magsamen 2008 Skhizein \| Jérémy Clapin 2008 1859 \| Fred Worden 2008 Reincarnation \| Takeshi Kushida 2008 The Nightgardener \| Jennifer Hardacker 2008 2) Secret Machine \| Reynold Reynolds 2008 AfterVille \| Fabio Guaglione & Fabio Resinaro 2008	Michigan Theater - Main Theater	+ add to cal	buy tickets
10:00 PM	click to rate	You Are Here Films in Competition, Short Films, Themed Competition Programs plays with... Telethon \| Kevin Everson 2009 Rooms \| Jacob Mendel 2008 Infrastructure \| John Carson McCarthy 2008 night side \| Rebecca Meyers 2008 A World Rattled Of Habit \| Ben Rivers 2008 Severing The Soul \| Barbara Klutinis 2008 Phantogram \| Kerry Laitala 2009 VIOLA: The Traveling Rooms Of A Little Giant \| Shih-Ting Hung 2008 Temporary Services \| Dina Noto 2008 Moments Of Considered Time \| Arthur Kleinjan 2008 Keep The Home Fires Burning \| Ryan O'Toole 2008	Michigan Theater - Screening Room	+ add to cal	buy tickets
10:30 PM	click to rate	SH\aut\ & \aut\BAR After Parties	SH\aut\ & \aut\BAR	+ add to cal
Friday, March 27th
1:00 PM	click to rate	Lecture: Pioneers of the Ann Arbor Film Festival Panel \| 90 min.	Work Gallery	+ add to cal
3:00 PM	click to rate	Juror Presentation: Betzy Bromberg Feature Films, Juror Presentations \| 78 min. plays with... A Darkness Swallowed \| Betzy Bromberg 2005	Michigan Theater - Main Theater	+ add to cal
7:00 PM	click to rate	An Evening with Don Hertzfeldt Don Hertzfeldt \| Animation, Short Films, Special Presentations plays with... The Meaning of Life \| Don Hertzfeldt 2005 Rejected \| Don Hertzfeldt 2000 Billy's Balloon \| Don Hertzfeldt 1998 Everything will be OK \| Don Hertzfeldt 2006 Intermission in the Third Dimension \| Don Hertzfeldt 2003 I am so proud of you \| Don Hertzfeldt 2008	Michigan Theater - Main Theater	+ add to cal	buy tickets
7:30 PM	click to rate	Mountains and Rivers Without End Films in Competition, Short Films, Themed Competition Programs plays with... Film Of The Sea \| Takashi Ishida 2007 Refraction Series \| Chris Gehman 2008 When It Was Blue \| Jennifer Reeves 2008	Michigan Theater - Screening Room	+ add to cal	buy tickets
9:30 PM	click to rate	The Animated Forest Animation, Films in Competition, Short Films, Themed Competition Programs plays with... Retouches \| Georges Schwizgebel 2008 Trepan Hole \| Andy Cahill 2008 Battery Acid. \| Dean Denell & Daniel Olson 2008 Father \| Sebastian Danta 2008 The Heart Of Amos Klein \| Michal & Uri Kranot 2008 I Live In The Woods \| Max Winston 2008 Permutation \| Viktoriya Gruzdyn & Katerina Friday 2008 El Miedo (Fear) \| Jimena Sarno & Ms. Bea 2008 THE IDIOT STINKS \| Helder K. Sun 2008 Friluftsliv (Outdoor Life) \| Håkan Wennström 2008 Kanizsa Hill \| Evelyn Lee 2008 Chainsaw \| Dennis Tupicoff 2007	Michigan Theater - Main Theater	+ add to cal	buy tickets
10:00 PM	click to rate	Canyon Cinema Presents Short Films, Special Presentations plays with... Kaleidoscope and Colour Flight \| Len Lye 1935 Composition in Blue \| Oskar Fischinger 1935 Ellipses \| Frédérique Devaux 1999 The Crossing \| Timoleon Wilkins 2007 Bridge Go Round \| Shirley Clarke 1958 Bouquets 21-30 \| Rose Lowder 2005 Kosmos \| Thorston Fleisch 2004 The Argonaut \| Alexis Bravos 2008 Ruby Skin \| Eve Heller 2005 You Be Mother \| Sarah Pucill 1990 The Girl Chewing Gum \| John Smith 1976	Michigan Theater - Screening Room	+ add to cal	buy tickets
10:30 PM	click to rate	Yellow Barn with Dark Matter After Parties	Yellow Barn	+ add to cal
12:00 AM	click to rate	The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle Julien Temple 1980 \| Experimental, Feature Films, Midnight Movies, Narrative \| 103 min.	State Theater	+ add to cal	buy tickets
Saturday, March 28th
10:00 AM	click to rate	Stop By. Shoot Film. Special Presentations	Work Gallery	+ add to cal
11:00 AM	click to rate	Ann Arbor Walking Tour The Swoops \| Special Presentations \| 90 min.	Michigan Theater - Lobby & Main Theater	+ add to cal
1:00 PM	click to rate	For Kids of All Ages Family Friendly, Films in Competition, Short Films, Themed Competition Programs plays with... The Collection \| Keren Albala 2008 Bewick's Mambo \| Peter Snowdon 2008 Life On A Limb \| David Chai 2008 Ten Counting Cat \| Robert Chaplin 2008 Immersion \| Richard Levien 2009 Le Noeud Cravate (The Necktie) \| Jean-Francois Lévesque 2008 C Block \| Vladimir Kooperman 2008 Ridder \| Hedvig Lien 2008 Love Child \| Daniel Wirtberg 2009 My Happy End \| Milen Vitanov 2007	Michigan Theater - Main Theater	+ add to cal	buy tickets
1:00 PM	click to rate	Stop By. Shoot Film. Special Presentations	Work Gallery	+ add to cal
1:30 PM	click to rate	Beyond the New World Films in Competition, Short Films, Themed Competition Programs plays with... Quiero Ver \| Adele Horne 2008 The Eternal Quarter Inch \| Jesse McLean 2008 Great Man and Cinema \| Jim Finn 2009 Video Terraform Dance Party \| Jeremy Bailey 2008 too close, too far \| Katherin McInnis 2008 Seeker \| Jordan Hassay 2008 Light \| Liesbeth Koot 2008 market sentiments \| Barbara Musil 2007 Six Apartments \| Reynold Reynolds 2007 A City To Yourself \| Nicole MacDonald 2008	Michigan Theater - Screening Room	+ add to cal	buy tickets
3:00 PM	click to rate	Automorphosis Harrod Blank 2008 \| Documentary, Feature Films, Films in Competition \| 77 min.	Michigan Theater - Main Theater	+ add to cal	buy tickets
4:00 PM	click to rate	Among the Paving Stones Films in Competition, Short Films, Themed Competition Programs plays with... Dig \| Robert Todd 2007 Speechless \| Scott Stark 2008 Lossless #2 \| Rebecca Baron & Doug Goodwin 2008 De Tijd \| Bart Vegter 2008 Horizontal Boundaries \| Pat O'Neill 2008 Public Domain \| Jim Jennings 2008 ELEMENTs \| Julie Murray 2008 Origin Of The Species \| Ben Rivers 2008 Sarabande \| Nathaniel Dorsky 2008	Michigan Theater - Screening Room	+ add to cal	buy tickets
4:00 PM	click to rate	Stop By. Shoot Film. Special Presentations	Work Gallery	+ add to cal
7:00 PM	click to rate	Bruce Conner Retrospective 1 Short Films, Special Presentations plays with... A Movie \| Bruce Conner 1958 The White Rose \| Bruce Conner 1967 Breakaway \| Bruce Conner 1966 Vivian \| Bruce Conner 1964 Ten Second Film \| Bruce Conner 1965 Marilyn Times Five \| Bruce Conner Report \| Bruce Conner Crossroads \| Bruce Conner 1976	Michigan Theater - Main Theater	+ add to cal	buy tickets
7:30 PM	click to rate	The Altitude of Fiction Films in Competition, Narrative, Short Films, Themed Competition Programs plays with... Pop Art \| Amanda Boyle 2008 Excision \| Richard Bates 2008 Honor & Justice \| Shachar Freddy Kislev 2008 Die Schneider Krankheit \| Javier Chillon 2008 found oBjects \| David Birnbaum 2007 Glory at Sea \| Benh Zeitlin 2008	Michigan Theater - Screening Room	+ add to cal	buy tickets
9:00 PM	click to rate	RiP: A remix manifesto Brett Gaylor \| Documentary, Family-Friendly, Feature Films, Films in Competition \| 80 min.	Michigan Theater - Main Theater	+ add to cal	buy tickets
10:00 PM	click to rate	The Weight of Space Films in Competition, Short Films, Themed Competition Programs plays with... Inner Machine \| Michiel van Bakel 2007 Circles Of Confusion \| Phoebe Tooke 2007 Limbo Of The Infants \| David Osit 2009 For You, My People \| Jose Pablo Gonzalez 2007 Utopia, Part 3: the World's Largest Shopping Mall \| Sam Green & Carrie Lozano 2009 Cobra Mist \| Emily Richardson 2008 lay claim to an island \| Chris Kennedy 2009 The Dawn Of Jeju 4.3 \| Jaehyung Ju 2008 Nora \| Alla Kovgan & David Hinton 2008	Michigan Theater - Screening Room	+ add to cal	buy tickets
10:30 PM	click to rate	Cavern Club with DJ Bob Moir After Parties	Cavern Club	+ add to cal
12:00 AM	click to rate	Music Video Showcase Midnight Movies, Short Films	UMMA	+ add to cal
Sunday, March 29th
1:00 PM	click to rate	Systems and Layers Films in Competition, Short Films, Themed Competition Programs plays with... On The Third Planet From The Sun \| Pavel Medvedev 2006 Más Se Perdió (we lost more) \| Stephen Connolly 2008 O'er The Land \| Deborah Stratman 2008	Michigan Theater - Main Theater	+ add to cal	buy tickets
1:30 PM	click to rate	Bruce Conner Retrospective 2 Short Films, Special Presentations plays with... Cosmic Ray \| Bruce Conner 1961 A Movie \| Bruce Conner 1958 Report #3 \| Bruce Conner Mongoloid \| Bruce Conner 1978 America Is Waiting \| Bruce Conner 1982 Mea Culpa \| Bruce Conner 1981 Take The 5:10 To Dreamland \| Bruce Conner 1977 Valse Triste \| Bruce Conner 1979 Looking For Mushrooms (Long Version) \| Bruce Conner 1996 Easter Morning \| Bruce Conner 2008	Michigan Theater - Screening Room	+ add to cal	buy tickets
3:00 PM	click to rate	Kassim the Dream Kief Davidson 2008 \| Documentary, Feature Films, Films in Competition \| 86 min.	Michigan Theater - Main Theater	+ add to cal	buy tickets
3:30 PM	click to rate	Nazuna: 35mm Slideshow by Hitoshi Toyoda Short Films, Special Presentations \| 90 min.	Michigan Theater - Screening Room	+ add to cal	buy tickets
5:30 PM	click to rate	PLAY Station Community Animation Special Presentations	Michigan Theater - Main Theater	+ add to cal	buy tickets
6:00 PM	click to rate	Awarded Film Program 1 Films in Competition	Michigan Theater - Main Theater	+ add to cal	buy tickets
8:00 PM	click to rate	Awarded Film Program 2 Films in Competition	Michigan Theater - Main Theater	+ add to cal	buy tickets