29 bizarre stills from Ann Arbor Film Festival entries

By Metro Times Staff on Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 2:14 am

The 54th Festival will feature more than 200 films, videos, and live performances with over 30 world, North American, and U.S. premieres. The festival runs March 15-20.

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The Prison in 12 Landscapes (Brett Story, 2016, 87min) A meditation on the prison’s disappearance in the era of mass incarceration, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes unfolds as a journey through a series of ordinary places across the USA. Showing Thursday, March 17 9:15pm

The Event (Sergei Loznitsa, 2015, 74 min) The Event is constructed from black-and-white 35mm footage shot by eight independent documentary filmmakers in St. Petersburg in August, 1991 when a failed coup d’état attempt led by a group of hard-core communists. Showing Sunday, March 20 3:00pm

The Host (Miranda Pennell, 2015, 60 min) While investigating her late parents’ involvement with the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (now BP) the filmmaker comes across the letters of a petroleum geologist in Iran who embarked on a search. Showing Saturday, March 19 7:00pm

time/OUT OF JOINT (Caspar Stracke, 2015, 75min) time/OUT OF JOINT probes the framework of the human condition by aiming to disrupt its incongruous and programmatic fate - life’s finitude marked by death. Showing Saturday, March 19 9:15pm

Thoth in the Kaleidoscope UFO (Tom Carey, 2016, 9 min) Live Performance Thoth, the dog-faced baboon god of ancient Egypt, is taken on a trip through outer space by a group of extra terrestrials. Thoth’s journey is projected live on screen using shadow. Showing Saturday, March 19 11:00am

The Lighted Field (Andrew Noren, 1987, 62 min) "Noren's films were among the most visually intense and overwhelming films ever created, incorporating relentless barrages of imagery, rapid in-camera editing, incredible single-framing and time lapse photography. Showing Wednesday, March 16 7:00pm

D'est (From the East) (Chantal Ackerman, 1993, 110 min) Chantal Akerman, with her cinematographers Rémon Fremont and Bernard Delville, retrace a journey from the end of summer to deepest winter, from East Germany, across Poland and the Baltics, to Moscow. Showing Friday, March 18 5:00pm

Counting (Jem Cohen, 2015, 111 min) In fifteen linked chapters shot in locations ranging from Moscow to New York to Istanbul, Counting merges city symphony, diary film, and personal/political essay to create a vivid portrait of contemporary life. Showing Wednesday, March 16 9:15pm