The annual Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour, featuring some of the best short films of the Ann Arbor Film Festival, returns to the Capri Theatre in Montgomery, AL on Saturday, August 14. The Festival Tour will show one time at 2:00pm.
The Capri Theatre
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Running about two hours, this year's presentation features ten short films from around the world and the United States. The Ann Arbor Film Festival's mission is to support bold, visionary filmmakers, advance the art form of film and new media, and engage communities with remarkable cinematic experiences, and this year's tour lives up to those promises. From the Funniest Film Winner Attack of the Robots from Nebula-5 to the Best of Festival Winner Beauty Plus Pity, the short films on this tour are entertaining and challenging.
Attack of the Robots from Nebula 5
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The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the longest-running independent and experimental film festival in North America, established in 1963. Internationally recognized as a premiere forum for independent filmmakers and artists, each year's festival engages audiences with remarkable cinematic experiences. The six-day festival presents 40 programs with more than 160 films from over 20 countries of all lengths and genres, including experimental, animation, documentary, narrative, hybrid and performance based works.
Wednesday Morning Two A.M.
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The Ann Arbor Film Festival is steeped in a rich tradition of ground-breaking cinema. Thousands of influential filmmakers have showcased early work at the AAFF, including luminaries such as Kenneth Anger, Agnes Varda, Andy Warhol, Yoko Ono, Gus Van Sant, Barbara Hammer, Lawrence Kasdan, Devo and George Lucas. The Ann Arbor Film Festival receives more than 2,500 submissions annually from more than 65 countries and serves as one of a handful of Academy Award®-qualifying festivals in the United States.
Beauty Plus Pity
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The Capri Theatre has hosted the Ann Arbor Film Festival in Montgomery since August 2000. Tickets for the Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour are $6.00 for Capri members and $8.00 for the general public. For more information, contact the Capri Theatre at 334.262.4858 or visit our website at capritheatre.org.
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The following films are scheduled to show at the Capri Theatre for the Ann Arbor Festival Tour.
Wednesday Morning Two A.M.
Lewis Klahr | Los Angeles, CA | 6 minutes [Tiger Award at Int'l Film Festival Rotterdam 2010]
This is the first completed film of a new series entitled "Couplets". These will generally, but not exclusively, organize themselves around the pairing of various pop songs and just as in these songs lyrics, the theme of love.
Attack of the Robots from Nebula-5
Chema García Ibarra | Elche, SPAIN | 7 minutes [Funniest Film Award 48th AAFF]
Almost everybody is going to die very soon.
Missed Aches
Joanna Priestley | Portland, OR | 4 minutes [Jury Award at Black Maria Festival 2010]
Have you ever worked very horde on a paper for English clash, just to get a very glow raid? Proofreading your peppers is a matter of the the utmost impotence! Missed Aches demonstrates how the shortcomings of spellcheck can result in unexpected double entendres.
From the Archives of an Inventor
Stephen Wetzel | Milwaukee, WI | 20 minutes [Jury Award 48th AAFF]
Invention and America seem inseparable. The country has a restless image of itself as a work in progress; and the character at its core is the inventor - equal parts entrepreneur and crackpot, path-setter and outsider. Wetzel's piece is a found-footage exploration of one such character, a Midwestern inventor whose house has been transformed into a playful model of the future with mechanized armchairs and a domestic robot.
Please Say Something
David O'Reilly | Berlin, Germany | 10 minutes [Best Animated Film Award 48th AAFF]
A troubled relationship between a Cat and Mouse set in the distant Future. 23 episodes of exactly 25 seconds each.
Black Rain
Semiconductor | Brighton, England | 3 minutes
Working with STEREO satellite scientists, Semiconductor (Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt) collected all the HI (Heliospheric Imager) image data to date, revealing the journey of the satellites from their initial orientation, to their current tracing of the Earth's orbit around the Sun. Solar wind, CME's, passing planets and comets orbiting the sun can be seen as background stars and the milky way pass by.
Travelling Fields
Inger Lise Hansen | Oslo, Norway | 9 min. [Most Technically Innovative Film 48th AAFF
N. American premiere at 48th AAFF]
Moving between different topographies and locations in the Kola Peninsula, Northern Russia, this film explores sections of the landscape by moving the camera upside/down, one frame at the time, along a track. The work focuses on a particular phenomenon occurring through a change of perspective and animated camera movements, as a way of redefining a place and its geography.
Portrait #3: House of Sound
Vanessa Renwick | Portland, OR | 11 minutes [Feeding the Soul Award 48th AAFF]
Through radio interviews and a photography-driven visit to the neighborhood of record store "House of Sound" long after the wrecking ball, this film reflects the soul of a mix-tape era of music and the heart of a community-based business. Renwick's latest in her ongoing "Portrait" series of stories in Portland, Oregon.
Fantasy Suite
Kent Lambert | Chicago, IL | 7 minutes
A meditation on mainstream American heterosexual romance. - K.L.
Beauty Plus Pity
Duke & Battersby | Syracuse, NY | 14 minutes [Best of Festival Award 48th AAFF]
Presented in seven parts, "Beauty Plus Pity" contemplates the shame and beauty of existence; it is part apologia, part call to arms. -D&B
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The Capri Theatre
The Capri Theatre is operated by the Capri Community Film Society, a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization. For more information about the Capri visit Capri Theatre
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