29 bizarre stills from Ann Arbor Film Festival entries

The Prison in 12 Landscapes (Brett Story, 2016, 87min) A meditation on the prison’s disappearance in the era of mass incarceration, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes unfolds as a journey through a series of ordinary places across the USA. Showing Thursday, March 17 9:15pm

The Prison in 12 Landscapes (Brett Story, 2016, 87min) A meditation on the prison’s disappearance in the era of mass incarceration, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes unfolds as a journey through a series of ordinary places across the USA. Showing Thursday, March 17 9:15pm

The Event (Sergei Loznitsa, 2015, 74 min) The Event is constructed from black-and-white 35mm footage shot by eight independent documentary filmmakers in St. Petersburg in August, 1991 when a failed coup d’état attempt led by a group of hard-core communists. Showing Sunday, March 20 3:00pm

The Event (Sergei Loznitsa, 2015, 74 min) The Event is constructed from black-and-white 35mm footage shot by eight independent documentary filmmakers in St. Petersburg in August, 1991 when a failed coup d’état attempt led by a group of hard-core communists. Showing Sunday, March 20 3:00pm

The Host (Miranda Pennell, 2015, 60 min) While investigating her late parents’ involvement with the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (now BP) the filmmaker comes across the letters of a petroleum geologist in Iran who embarked on a search. Showing Saturday, March 19 7:00pm

time/OUT OF JOINT (Caspar Stracke, 2015, 75min) time/OUT OF JOINT probes the framework of the human condition by aiming to disrupt its incongruous and programmatic fate - life’s finitude marked by death. Showing Saturday, March 19 9:15pm

Thoth in the Kaleidoscope UFO (Tom Carey, 2016, 9 min) Live Performance Thoth, the dog-faced baboon god of ancient Egypt, is taken on a trip through outer space by a group of extra terrestrials. Thoth’s journey is projected live on screen using shadow. Showing Saturday, March 19 11:00am

The Lighted Field (Andrew Noren, 1987, 62 min) "Noren's films were among the most visually intense and overwhelming films ever created, incorporating relentless barrages of imagery, rapid in-camera editing, incredible single-framing and time lapse photography. Showing Wednesday, March 16 7:00pm

D'est (From the East) (Chantal Ackerman, 1993, 110 min) Chantal Akerman, with her cinematographers Rémon Fremont and Bernard Delville, retrace a journey from the end of summer to deepest winter, from East Germany, across Poland and the Baltics, to Moscow. Showing Friday, March 18 5:00pm

Counting (Jem Cohen, 2015, 111 min) In fifteen linked chapters shot in locations ranging from Moscow to New York to Istanbul, Counting merges city symphony, diary film, and personal/political essay to create a vivid portrait of contemporary life. Showing Wednesday, March 16 9:15pm

Various Titles (Curt McDowell) Showing Thursday, March 17 7:00pm

Penny Stamps Presents: David OReilly, Filmmaker in Attendance, Special Presentations Irish-born and Los Angeles-based, David OReilly is one of the most adventuresome and innovative independent animation filmmakers working today. Michigan Theater (Main Auditorium) Thursday, March 17 5:10pm

Penny Stamps Presents: David OReilly, Filmmaker in Attendance, Special Presentations Irish-born and Los Angeles-based, David OReilly is one of the most adventuresome and innovative independent animation filmmakers working today. OReilly's animations include Please Say Something (awarded Best Animation at 48th... Michigan Theater (Main Auditorium) Thursday, March 17 5:10pm

DAWIT (David Jansen, 2015, 15min) A wolf child, an angel, a cat. The film animated in the tradition of wood cut technique, tells the story of an abandoned child, who grows up with wolfs after. Showing Friday, March 18 9:30pm

A wolf child, an angel, a cat. The film animated in the tradition of wood cut technique, tells the story of an abandoned child, who grows up with wolfs after. Showing Friday, March 18 9:30pm

Dead Slow Ahead (Mauro Herce, 2015) 74 min NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Mauro Herce's documentary Dead Slow Ahead is a hallucinatory trip on board a lost ocean freighter where the hypnotic rhythm of its gears reveals the continuous movement of machinery devouring its workers: the last gestures of the old sailors’ trade disappearing under the mechanic and impersonal pace of 21st century neocapitalism. Showing Saturday, March 19 5:00pm

Dead Slow Ahead (Mauro Herce, 2015) 74 min NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Mauro Herce's documentary Dead Slow Ahead is a hallucinatory trip on board a lost ocean freighter where the hypnotic rhythm of its gears reveals the continuous movement of machinery devouring its workers: the last gestures of the old sailors’ trade disappearing under the mechanic and impersonal pace of 21st century neocapitalism. Showing Saturday, March 19 5:00pm

Engram of Returning (Daïchi Saïto, 2015, 19min) The figure of the jig-saw / that is of picture, / the representation of a world as ours / in a complex patterning of color in light and shadows, /... Showing Saturday, March 19 9:30pm

Fragment 53 (Carlo Gabriele Tribbioli And Federico Lodoli, 2015, 71 min) NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE According to the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, war is a universal constant. Showing Saturday, March 19 5:15pm

Fundir (Allison Cekala, 2015, 23min) Each winter hundreds of thousands of tons of salt are transported to Boston via cargo ship to spread on icy roads. Showing Saturday, March 19 7:15pm