Ann Arbor Film Festival: Shorts Lineup
by IMDb-Editors | created - 12 Mar 2018 | updated - 12 Mar 2018 | Public- Genres
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1. 165708 (2017)
7 min | Animation, Short
Exploring the capacity of the medium to express various notions of time, the film begins with a woman looking out from the shoreline. This acts as a point of departure to disparate yet ... See full summary »
Director: Josephine Massarella | Star: Jasmine June Dong
Votes: 18
2. Island (III) (2017)
3 min | Animation, Short
On a small island a bunch of exotic creatures run across each other.
Directors: Robert Löbel, Max Mörtl
Votes: 36
3. Extrapolate (2016)
2 min | Animation, Short
In this hand-drawn animation, a line is being extrapolated through a grid. When the line surpasses the boundaries of the grid, the process spreads to and reflects on its surroundings.Beyond... See full summary »
Director: Johan Rijpma
Votes: 17
4. Rhythm of Being (2017)
7 min | Short
For an instant, I am. The light touches me gently and I live, burst and shine. This constant, irreversible, rhythmic drift from being to not. Only the memories left. Escaping desires. The ... See full summary »
Director: Giada Ghiringhelli
Votes: 6
5. Pizzly Bear (2017)
4 min | Short, Family, Fantasy
Unlike imaginary landscapes where trees talk and frogs turn to handsome princes, a "Pizzly Bear" is a real bear - a cross between a Grizzly and Polar Bear.
Director: Cecelia Condit
Votes: 23
6. Possibly in Michigan (1983)
TV-14 | 12 min | Short, Horror, Musical
Two women are chased through a shopping mall by a stalker named Arthur.
Director: Cecelia Condit | Stars: Jill Sands, Karen Skladany, Bill Blume, Cecelia Condit
Votes: 1,502
7. Annie Lloyd (2008)
18 min | Documentary, Short, Comedy
'Annie Lloyd' is a daughter's poetic documentation of the last few years of her mother's life and a powerful portrayal of the wisdom of old age. Annie Lloyd's world is glimpsed through a lifetime of photographs and films.
Director: Cecelia Condit | Star: Annie Lloyd Condit
Votes: 11
8. Within a Stone's Throw (2012)
8 min | Short, Drama
Cecelia Condit's 'Within a Stone's Throw' considers the relationship between landscape and the human presence. 'Within a Stone's Throw' explores the rich landscape of Ireland's Burren ... See full summary »
Director: Cecelia Condit | Stars: Cecelia Condit, Elizabeth Wayne
Votes: 10
9. Tales of a Future Past (2017)
9 min | Short, Family, Fantasy
"Tales of a Future Past" uses props and toy animal masks to create an environmental fairy tale about species extinctions and the loneliness that ensues. Two women in giraffe and zebra masks... See full summary »
Director: Cecelia Condit
10. Pulling Up Roots (2015)
8 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
"Pulling Up Roots" is the emotional journey of a woman who is navigating the tenuous strain between the past and the future.
Director: Cecelia Condit | Star: Cecelia Condit
Votes: 13
11. Out of the Dark/Into the Light (2016)
15 min | Short, Fantasy | Completed
Three women trying to find a way back to themselves, through an attempt to break repetitive habits and erase old pains.
Directors: Constance Strickland, David T. Okolo
12. FOREIGN QUARTERS (2018)
15 min | Documentary, Short
My mother's lost Chinese heritage was a point of departure in this film which investigates the process by which an image is constructed in places foreign from that of my own.
Director: Rajee Samarasinghe
13. Longing (2017)
100 min | Drama
A middle-aged Israeli bachelor is forced to evaluate his life choices when he discovers an ex-girlfriend had given birth to his son 20 years before, in this affecting drama from writer director Savi Gabizon.
Director: Savi Gabizon | Stars: Ella Armony, Shai Avivi, Shmil Ben Ari, Salim Daw
Votes: 423
15. Aliens (2017)
23 min | Short
A portrait of the multi-talented Tesa Arranz, an icon of the "Movida" scene in Madrid. Personal testimonials are juxtaposed with diary entries, poems, performance clips, and selections from Arranz's 500+ paintings of extraterrestrials.
Director: Luis López Carrasco | Star: Tesa Arranz
Votes: 24
16. The Thread (2017)
6 min | Short | Completed
An old woman threads an infinite weave while her house floats upon the sea. Sometimes, she asks her god to wake her from the living dream. Sometimes, she asks him to help her forget the dream altogether.
Directors: Pietro Bulgarelli, Pablo Polanco | Star: Gabriela Fellet
17. Relato Familiar (2017)
20 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
FotoSaeki is a deserted photography goods store in the Santa Maria la Ribera neighborhood in Mexico City. Its owner, Yukio Saeki, arrived to Mexico in 1955. At 83 years old, he can still ... See full summary »
Director: Sumie Garcia | Star: Yukio Saeki
Votes: 14
18. Black Enuf (2017)
22 min | Documentary, Short
black enuf*, examines the expanding black identity through a personal journey. The film interweaves stories from my great grandmother's autobiography, interviews of family and friends, and my hand-drawn memories.
Director: Carrie Hawks | Stars: Jacquelyn Ackeifi, Chris Cooke, Carina Hawks, Carrie Hawks
Votes: 10
19. .TV (2017)
23 min | Documentary, Short, Sci-Fi
.TV is a found footage essay film: Voicemails left by an anonymous caller from the future guide us to the remote islands of Tuvalu, a place the global media has described as "the first ... See full summary »
Director: G. Anthony Svatek | Star: Tiueli Papau
Votes: 21
20. Cargo (I) (2017)
TV-MA | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
After an epidemic spreads all over Australia, a father searches for someone willing to protect his daughter.
Directors: Ben Howling, Yolanda Ramke | Stars: Simone Landers, Martin Freeman, Marlee Jane McPherson-Dobbins, Lily Anne McPherson-Dobbins
Votes: 48,142
21. Scrap (III) (2018)
6 min | Documentary, Short
In the shadow of the global metal trade, a metal scrapper hunts the streets of Oakland searching for his day's keep.
Director: Chris Filippone | Star: Eric Frank
22. Trip (II) (2017)
11 min | Animation, Short
A film beyond the eyelids. In one word: a trip.
Director: Marko Mestrovic | Star: Brian Ewan
23. American Hunger (II) (2013)
Not Rated | 19 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
American Hunger explores the relationship between personal experience and collective histories. Specifically, the relationship between African American modernity and the history from which ... See full summary »
Director: Ephraim Asili
Votes: 29
24. Forged Ways (2010)
Not Rated | 15 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Forged Ways combines elements of documentary, narrative, and experimental form to create an experience that brings the viewer in as an active participant as opposed to a passive witness. ... See full summary »
Director: Ephraim Asili | Stars: Julian Rozzell Jr., Kate Wand
Votes: 34
25. Kindah (2016)
12 min | Documentary, Short, History
Explores Ephraim Asili's relationship to the African diaspora, juxtaposing film shot in Hudson, New York, and Accompong, Jamaica.
Director: Ephraim Asili
Votes: 21
26. Fluid Frontiers (2017)
23 min | Short, Drama
Visually tracing the Windsor-Detroit slave pass of the Underground Railroad, with on-site readings of notable texts by Motor City's most storied African-American poets.
Director: Ephraim Asili
Votes: 28
27. Batum (2016)
9 min | Short
An experimental film based on the experience of near drowning in the Black Sea of Batumi, Georgia.
Director: Kamila Kuc | Star: Genie Kaminski
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