Ann Arbor Film Festival 2010

This film was shot with a still camera with 16 lenses, which takes a series of 16 pictures within 1.5 seconds, fitting onto two normal frame areas. The film shows the sense of the event at Tokyo Racecourse, when it was holding the biggest race of the year, the Japanese Derby (Tokyo Yushun). The excitement of each race lasts 2 minutes and 30 seconds. -TN

“Film #37 is part of an ongoing exploration of the propagation and diffraction of light through holes and grids. The inspiration for #37 came from the way crystallographers use X-ray to investigate the internal structure of crystals. -JR “Andronicos says that in a certain place in Spain one finds small, scattered stones which are polygonal and grow spontaneously. Some of them are white, others are like wax and pregnant of smaller stones similar to themselves. I kept one to verify this myself and it gave birth at my place, so the story is not a lie.” -‘Paradoxographus Palatinus’, anonymous, 3rd century.

Cost: NO COVER DJs, dancing and complimentary light fare at the Sh\aut\ & \aut\BAR as the AAFF takes over Braun Court, one of Ann Arbor's prime spots for socializing.

Cost: $5 cover | FREE with festival pass DJ Bob Moir and VJ Troupe Colorswim guide the evening’s festivities, a culmination of the festival week in one of Ann Arbor's finest venues (Sava's), right around the corner from the Michigan Theater.

Discovered documents, secrets and artifacts inspire stories that move through porous boundaries of identity. Sponsored by:

Alma, a little girl, skips through the snow covered streets of a small town. Her attention is caught by a strange doll in the window of an antique toy shop. Fascinated, Alma decides to enter…

Photographed with an exquisite eye for interiors and a restless invention, Alpsee stages a boy’s coming of age, that painful rend between infant dependency and mature individuation. Nearly wordless, Müller proceeds by analogy and synecdoche, gathering up precisely framed moments within the home and collecting them as evidence. Its gorgeous chromatic scheme and high key lighting mark a significant departure from Müller’s narrow gauge efforts of the 80s. -Mike Hoolboom

The first film by Chick Strand (1931-2009); an experimental film poem in celebration of life and visions. Techniques include live action, animation, montage and found images.

In this animated music video for Andrew Bird, a plethora of abstracted, squirming, amorphous beings create their own choreography in a mysterious underworld.