The Ann Arbor Film Festival, having survived their half-a-century blowout in 2012, is back with another rip-roarin’ 51st edition in 2013, which will run from March 19-24, screening a mind-boggling amount of experimental short films and a few features.
Highlights of the fest include:
Special presentations by this year’s jurors, including Marcin Gizycki round-up of Polish animation from the 1950s to the present; Laida Lertxundi’s selection of some of her films as well as her biggest influences; and Kevin Jerome Everson’s mini-retrospective of his own films.
There’s also special tributes to Pat O’Neill, including a retrospective of his short films from the ’70s to the present as well as a screening of his 1989 35mm experimental epic Water and Power; Suzan Pitt, with selections of short films from her career; and a screening of Ken Burns’ latest doc The Central Park Five, co-directed with his daughter Sarah Burns and son-in-law David McMahon,...
Highlights of the fest include:
Special presentations by this year’s jurors, including Marcin Gizycki round-up of Polish animation from the 1950s to the present; Laida Lertxundi’s selection of some of her films as well as her biggest influences; and Kevin Jerome Everson’s mini-retrospective of his own films.
There’s also special tributes to Pat O’Neill, including a retrospective of his short films from the ’70s to the present as well as a screening of his 1989 35mm experimental epic Water and Power; Suzan Pitt, with selections of short films from her career; and a screening of Ken Burns’ latest doc The Central Park Five, co-directed with his daughter Sarah Burns and son-in-law David McMahon,...
- 3/19/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Los Angeles Filmforum continues its film series "Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980" with The Alternative Projections Marathon on May 18. As per the Filmforum press release, "for the penultimate experience, we celebrate with an incredible range of films and videos that we haven’t squeezed into other screenings, with frequent breaks for socializing!" Among the screening films are those by Pat O’Neill, Louis Hock, Chick Strand, Susan Mogul, Roberta Friedman and Grahame Weinbren, Gary Beydler, Michael Scroggins, Beth Block, William Hale, Amy Halpern, Morgan Fisher, Diana Wilson, Curtis Harrington (photo), and others. Among those, the best-known filmmaker is Curtis Harrington, among whose credits are more mainstream fare such as Games (1967), with Simone Signoret, James Caan, and Katharine Ross; What’s the Matter with Helen? (1971), with Debbie Reynolds and Shelley Winters; a couple of Charlie’s Angels episodes; and several episodes from Dynasty. Harrington died in May 2007. The...
- 4/27/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present a program devoted to animator and visual effects artist Adam Beckett entitled "Infinite Animation: The Work of Adam Beckett," on Aug. 17 at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood.
The evening will include a screening of "Life in the Atom," a short film that Beckett left unfinished when he died at the age of 29.
The evening will be presented by the Academy's Science and Technology Council and hosted by visual effects artist Richard Winn Taylor and Beckett biographer Pamela Turner. It also will feature screenings of six more of Beckett's films and an onstage panel discussion with his colleagues and friends.
Scheduled guests include visual effects artists David Berry and Richard Edlund, animator Chris Cassady, and filmmakers Beth Block, Roberta Friedman and Pat O'Neill.
The films to be screened are "Dear Janice" (1972), "Heavy-Light" (1973), "Evolution of the Red Star" (1973), "Flesh Flows" (1974), "Sausage...
The evening will include a screening of "Life in the Atom," a short film that Beckett left unfinished when he died at the age of 29.
The evening will be presented by the Academy's Science and Technology Council and hosted by visual effects artist Richard Winn Taylor and Beckett biographer Pamela Turner. It also will feature screenings of six more of Beckett's films and an onstage panel discussion with his colleagues and friends.
Scheduled guests include visual effects artists David Berry and Richard Edlund, animator Chris Cassady, and filmmakers Beth Block, Roberta Friedman and Pat O'Neill.
The films to be screened are "Dear Janice" (1972), "Heavy-Light" (1973), "Evolution of the Red Star" (1973), "Flesh Flows" (1974), "Sausage...
- 7/30/2009
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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