Negativland will be the Opening Night Performance for the 59th Ann Arbor Film Festival! Live collage cinema and live collage sound! Legendary sound collage group Negativland will be teaming up with legendary live cinema artist SUE-C to bring you a streaming audiovisual Opening Night Performance about our nervous systems, our realities, and the evolving forms of media and technology that inevitably insert themselves between them. Original music, found sounds, uniquely organic

Below you will find the schedule for In the Screen! salons and workshops that you can participate in during the 59th AAFF. They are free and open to the public. LOOPS 2021 Workshop 3/3 - 3/28 Watch here Make your own 16mm film loops with Sean Kenny of the Pickle Fort Film Collective. Mail yours back to the address below and it will be included in the LOOPS 2021 post-screening performance on Saturday at 9pm. You will need: Clear 16mm film leader, and markers. What you might wa

Below you will find a list of In The Screen! performances and after parties, free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. IT'S NORMAL FOR SOME THINGS TO COME TO YOUR ATTENTION by Negativland and SUE-C Opening Night Performance 3/23 Tuesday at 9:30pm Watch here Live collage cinema and live collage sound! Legendary sound collage group Negativland teams up with legendary live cinema artist SUE-C to bring you a streaming audiovisual performance about our nervous systems, o

Each year the Ann Arbor Film Festival has a select amount of programs that are free to the public. The 59th AAFF is no exception. Below you will find a list of what will be available, including three juror programs, In The Screen! salons, workshops, installations, and several performances. Juror Presentations Still from Anodyne Juror Presentation: Sheri Wills | What Does Light Remember? 3/24 Wednesday at 1:30pm Watch here As a small child, looking at the stars, Sherri Wills w

The 59th AAFF virtual lobby is now open! Join us in Gather.town, an easy-to-use virtual space that combines video-calling with a 2D map, letting you walk around and talk to the other people right next to you. The lobby will be open from now until the end of the festival. Find a quick how-to below, or check out Gather's FAQ page for more information about how to navigate the space. Join the lobby here. First, join the lobby. Enter your name and choose your avatar. Pretty cute,

The 59th Ann Arbor film festival is right around the corner! While we are excited for you to see all the amazing films we have in store, many of the films included in our festival’s lineup will be having their worldwide, North American, or US Premiere! For your convenience, the list below will outline each film that is having its premiere at the festival. Tickets for the 59th AAFF are now on sale, you can find all of these films and their corresponding programs using our film

BIPOC Experimental Animation Program, Curated by Carrie Hawks Rainbow Body, Chitra Ganesh In Tibetan Buddhist terms, “rainbow body” refers to a state of elevated consciousness upon attaining complete knowledge, marked by a rapturous sensation of light and color. The concept finds expression in Chitra Ganesh’s 2018 psychedelic piece of the same name—one of eight films selected by curator Carrie Hawks for this year’s Experimental Animation category—but may as well describe the

The transgender image has never existed with resolute clarity in mainstream depictions because there has historically never been a level of control granted to us when these films are considered. The film industry has always had its interpretation of transness, which in the past was rendered with a gawking carnivalesque fascination of the transgender body, but only how they saw it on their terms. It was not rooted in facts, but something manufactured, and because of this shame