Ann Arbor Film Festival: Features Lineup
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- DirectorTakuya DairikiTakashi MiuraWatching the video that his uncle took, they talk about all kinds of things.
- DirectorRobert E. FultonStarsRobert GardnerA short film which presents us footage of students making and discussing their work alongside figures like Gardner, theorist Rudolf Arnheim, artist Stan Vanderbeek, filmmaker Stan Brakhage, and graphic designer Toshi Katayama.
- DirectorSimon PlouffeStarsMargie HoffJean-Paul EchaquanJoseph Guanish"Those Who Come, Will Hear" proposes a unique meeting with the speakers of several indigenous languages of Quebec. The film starts with the discovery of these unsung tongues through listening to the daily life of those who still speak them today. Buttressed by an exploration and creation of archives, the film allows us to better understand the musicality of these languages and reveals the cultural and human importance of these venerable oral traditions by nourishing a collective reflection on the consequences of their disappearance.
- DirectorYvonne RainerStarsDaniel Martin BerkeyBlaire BaronGabrielle MadePrivilege is an intelligently-conceived, boldly-anarchic, and wickedly-insightful exposition on the culturally-ingrained and socially-divisive malaise of isms that artificially define and characterize empowerment in contemporary society: ageism, sexism, economic elitism, and racism. Yvonne Rainer conveys texture through the inter-cutting of archival footage, video, and film, as well as compositional layering through the film-within-a-film structure, elliptical (and self-referential) fusion of past and present, and the filmmaker's idiosyncratic penchant for superimposed typed text.
- DirectorKabir MehtaStarsBuddhadev MangaldasLured by the chance of being the protagonist of a documentary film, Buddha Dev, a 27 year old flamboyant cricketer from Goa, starts authorising unrestricted access into the most private parts of his life.
- DirectorTravis WilkersonStarsTravis WilkersonEd VaughnEd VaughnA documentary murder mystery about the filmmaker's family, set in lower Alabama.
- DirectorGuangrong Rong"An encounter between me and the tragic suicide of four brothers and sisters. I take the risk to go into the village but get caught and held by the local authorities. Then after I've left, I wander in the mountains. Hanging out with the children in the mountains evokes my childhood memories. Fleeing like a coward, I return to Beijing and my family, and yet that lingering feeling keeps haunting me."
- DirectorAliki SaragasAfter a massacre shakes the foundations of their poverty stricken mining community, Marikana, two grandmothers rise up out of their homes and lead their community in a historic fight against seemingly insurmountable odds for justice and dignity. In an intimate story where the personal becomes political through fighting on-the-ground to the corridors of power, how will these women take on Goliath enemies and make their voices heard?
- DirectorSandra WollnerStarsJana McKinnonAlexander E. FennonDavid Jakob"Our memory is so unreliable - sometimes what we see might as well be the future." -Johanna F. What we see is the everyday life of a Viennese family in the 1950's, documented by 13-year-old Johanna, a childhood captured on 8mm film (or: a childhood as it might have been). Fragments of family history and family secrets; an apartment regularly visited by women, more than men, centered around grandmother Maria who holds weekly cooking clubs in her kitchen. But somehow, the women never actually seem to do any cooking - - - "Papa always said you have to be quick if you want to see anything. Because everything vanishes so quickly. But I don't think that's true. I think you just have to keep looking". And Johanna keeps looking. Until the camera's gaze suddenly turns on herself.
- DirectorAnnik Leroy