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Off The Screen: Installations

Published March 9th, 2022


The Ann Arbor Film Festival is happy to welcome back Off The Screen! (OTS!) installations to the 60th AAFF! Meant to expose attendees to intermedia art, OTS! is free, open to the public, and in-person only unless otherwise noted.


This years' OTS! program includes live cinema performances, new media installations, and other intermedia moving image artworks. OTS! engages artists, festival attendees, the general public, students and educators. The program provides opportunities for constituents to experience expanded cinema art, and to more deeply engage with festival subject matter, as well as each other.


See below the full list of installations including locations and times they will be available. OTS! is free, open to the public, and in-person only unless otherwise noted.


Installations


111 South 4th Avenue

Now on view from the street!


Thunder Scene by Vijay Masharani


A single-channel video loop of the front of a wrecked 1983-88 Ford Thunderbird that appears to have been set on fire. Each passing car has been removed; their presence is registered through their headlights and brake lights illuminating the broken glass on the ground and the body of the Thunderbird.


 

Ann Arbor Art Center (A2AC)

117 West Liberty Street

Now on view from the street!


Metamorphism by Manda Moran


This video installation reveals the hypnotizing interplay between light and metamorphic rocks through movement.


A graduate of USC School of Cinematic Arts, Manda Moran is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans film, photography, and installation. Her GIF installation Laser Loops premiered at the 2016 Ann Arbor Film Festival. She is an MFA candidate in Cranbrook’s 3D design department and a 2018 Applebaum Photography fellow.


 

A2AC Aquarium Gallery

Next to the Ashley Street Exit of the S. Ashley Street Lot

Now on view from the street!


Inside the Box (Outside the Box) by Jeremy Liesen & Matt Wilken

The Inside the Box (Outside the Box) installation explores how technology can shape our ideas of connection, collaboration and cooperation, while moving us away from past perceived boundaries.


 

Michigan Theater

603 East Liberty Street

March 22-27 (Festival Week)





Amalgamate! by Alexandra McDonald


A life-size, three-channel, interactive video sculpture. Three 32-inch TV monitors each display videos of a different segment of the body, the top monitor being the head, the middle the torso, and the bottom legs.


Three buttons on the side of the monitors allow viewers to randomly flip through dozens of outfits and performances, creating a variety of different versions of just one person.


All videos play on a loop, so viewers may stay and interact with the piece for as little or as long as they like.