The 62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival will be a hybrid festival, with both in-person and online opportunities for attendees.?

Festival Schedule:

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Reception
North Quad Space 2435 | 4–6pm | free

Grafica Harmolodica
North Quad Space 2435 | 4:30pm | free

Opening Night Party with drinks and food generously provided by Ann Arbor area businesses
Michigan Theater Grand Foyer | 6:30–8pm | $

?Opening Night Party Ticket Prices:
$75 - General Admission
$50 - Seniors / AAFF and MTF Members
$45 - Students
$14 - Online Screening only ($9 Seniors / AAFF Members) ($8 Students)

Opening Night Party included with the purchase of In-Person or Combo Pass

Films in Competition 1
Opening Night Screening
Michigan Theater Main Auditorium | 8:15pm | $

?Projector and Audience Calibration Film
Intersextion
Welcome to the Enclave
Really Good Friends
Leah Loftin
Waterpark
Midnight Rising
This Is a Story Without a Plan

Tuesday After Party
Featuring the Jon Hammonds Trio
Knight's | 600 East Liberty Street | 9:30-11:30pm | free

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

New Voices, Coffee, Bagels, and Film Jam
U-M North Quad Space 2435 | 10am–2pm | free

Juror Presentation: Deanna Morse
State Theatre 1 | 1pm | free in-person ($5 online)

How Animation Works: Move-Click-Move
Help! I’m Stranded…
Container Loss
Sandpaintings
The Gift
A Mother’s Advice
Skin
Breathing Room
Whispers of the Prairie
August Afternoons
Lost Ground
Plants
Monkey’s T-shirt
Night Sounds: Imagination
Dejeunez, Mon Amour
Forced Perspective: Odessa
Postcards from My Backyard
Charleston Home Movie

Screening Groups Roundtable
Salon
U-M North Quad Space 2435 | 3–4:30pm | free

Visions from Colorado
State Theatre 1 | 5pm | $

?Visions from Colorado
Song 27, Part 1: My Mountain
Jane Brakhage
The Girl’s Nervy
Night Hikes—Ethereal Shore
Dark Enough
Corn Mother
Phantom Canyon
The Sea Seeks Its Own Level
Tattva
How a Sprig of Fir Would Replace a Feather

Mum
Feature in Competition
State Theatre 2 | 5:30pm | $

Falling
Mum

What Are Words For?
State Theatre 1 | 7pm | $

?What Are Words For?
Captioning on Captioning
Mission Drift
Song for Rent, After Jack Smith
Christine Sun Kim
The Tuba Thieves—Scene 61: The Kaleidoscopic Window
Clouds and Perception
Captioned: Channel Surfing

Expanded Cinema Performances
Michigan Theater Main Auditorium | 7:30pm | $

?Music In the Air
Lass That Has Gone
kino lau: many bodies

Anqa
Feature in Competition
State Theatre 1 | 9pm | $

?A Dreaming Angel
Anqa

Films in Competition 2
Michigan Theater Main Auditorium | 9:30pm | $

?From Our Side
I’m Outside
I Can Feel It Coming
After Bed
Immortals
Survived from Illusions
de-composition

Wednesday After Party
401 East Liberty Street | 10:30pm-1am | free

Thursday, March 28, 2024

Coffee & Bagels: Meet the artists of Dope Women in Media and Detroit Narrative Agency
U-M North Quad Space 2435 | 10–11:30am | free

Juror Presentation: Su Friedrich
State Theatre 1 | 1pm | free in-person ($5 online)

?She, Her, Hers
Hand Tinting
The Drift of Juicy
Jennifer, Where Are You?
She Puppet
Seeing Red

Dope Women in Media: Honoring the Women of Film in Metro Detroit
Reception and Panel
Ann Arbor Art Center | 3–5pm

BIO_DOT_BOT: Lynn Hershman Leeson Shorts
Michigan Theater Main Auditorium | 5:30pm | free

Commercial for Myself
Seduction of a Cyborg
Logic Paralyzes the Heart
Lynn Turning into Roberta
Cyborgian Rhapsody—Immortality
Test Patterns

Black Infinitude
State Theatre 1 | 7pm | $
?
Black Infinitude—Aldo Tambellini Retrospective
The Screw
Black Is
Black Trip #1
Black Out
M. Woods
Black Trip #2
Black Plus X
Listen
Black Video 3
Black TV

Films in Competition 3: Out Night
Michigan Theater Main Auditorium | 7:30pm | $

The Sketch
Ele of the Dark
Dildotectonics
Mast-del
Remember, Broken Crayons Colour Too
Bolero

Playland
Feature in Competition
State Theatre 1 | 9pm | $

?Beware
Playland

Films in Competition 4
Michigan Theater Main Auditorium | 9:30pm | $

?Velleity
Catalog ’93
Madwomen: to be a sparrow not a canary
Getting OK With Being OK That Things Are Not OK
In the Ice, Everything Leaves a Trace
Clear Ice Fern
Metamorphosis’ Chantings Or That Time When I Incarnated As Porpoise
Dickinsonia. Les archives sensibles

Thursday Out Night After Party
Pride Bar at LIVE Nightclub
Music by DJ Medusa
102 South First Street | 10:30pm-1am | free

Friday, March 29, 2024

The 8 Fest, Coffee & Bagels: Remembering Ann Arbor’s Other Film Festival
U-M North Quad Space 2435 | 10am–12pm | free

A Stranger Quest
Feature in Competition
State Theatre 1 | 1pm | $

?Jeri Hollister & R. Thomas Bray
A Stranger Quest

The Last Forever
Off the Screen Performance
U-M North Quad Space 2435 | 3pm | free

The Last Forever

Domus de Janas
Feature in Competition
State Theatre 1 | 3pm | $

?Someone Called me Black Snake
Domus de Janas

Films in Competition 5: Music Videos
University of Michigan Museum of Art Helmut Stern Auditorium | 5pm | free

Dear, When I Met You
Born Days: How to Disappear
Empaths & Apples
Back To Suburbia
Kyubabe
Universe Moves So Fast
Universe of Language
Amaranth
New Water Music
Happy Doom
Ghost Song
Dreams


Films in Competition 6: 35MM AND 16MM
U-M Auditorium SKB 2500 | 5:30pm | $

Zerzura
Immaculate Generations No. 1
Inside Outside
Oxygen
The Newest Olds
Zoey
Man of Aral

A Horse is Not a Metaphor and Relict: A Phantasmagoria
Special Program
State Theatre 1 | 7pm | $

A Horse Is Not A Metaphor

Relict: A Phantasmagoria

Films in Competition 7
Michigan Theater Main Auditorium
7:30pm

?Poem of E.L.
Cinema for the Dead
Le Rêve
This Line Connects the Void
Moth Print
Déjà Nu

Playing Footsi: Ann Arbor Filmmakers of the 1960s–1980s
Special Program
Curated by Frank Uhle
State Theatre 1 | 9pm

?No Smoke
Gerard Malanga as the Baron von Richthofen
The Garden of Forking Paths
Footsi
Ida May
Circumflex
Danger Is My Business
Chicago
The Bridge
The Lunch Club
Smile and Relax
No Smoke
Cinema Street
Plow, Skid, Drag
Ozone Burgers (To Go)
107 1/2

Films in Competition 8: Animation
Michignan Theater Main Auditorium | 9:30pm | $

?Meshes
A Place Without Fear
Dissolution
St. Mickeyland
I Would've Been Happy
Between you and me
Is Heaven Blue? #2
The Expectation of the Observed

Teknolust
Special Feature Film
State Theatre 1 | 11pm | $

?Friday After Party
Sava’s
Featuring Ownsey
216 South State Street | 10:30pm–12:30am | free

Saturday, March 30, 2024

The Joy of LOOPing
U-M North Quad Space 2435 | 9am–12pm | free


Juror Presentation: Wenhua Shi

On Time
Because the Sky is Blue
Descending a Staircase
Concrete: Boston City Hall
Senses of Time
Gutai
Walking Cycle
Die Nacht
The Rose
Monosabishii

Films in Competition 9: Almost All Ages (6+)
Michigan Theater Main Auditorium | 1:30pm | $7

?k?ua — we (you & I)
Austin Karimloo
Necktie Cinema
Minus Plus Multiply
Glitter for Girls
The Forestbetween
Somnia
Bella Luna
Two One Two
Soul Supreme: Geshem Bejuni
I'm Lost to the World

Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59
Feature in Competition
State Theatre 1 | 3pm | $

?Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59

Films in Competition 10
Michigan Theater Main Auditorium | 3:30pm | $

?Chasing Birds
Becoming Fossil
Nothing Special
Humoresque

Light Falls Vertical
Feature in Competition
State Theater 1 | 5pm | $

?lessons on flight
Light Falls Vertical

Esther Newton Made Me Gay
Feature in Competition
Michigan Theater Main Auditorium | 5:30pm | $

?An Animal Is Not a Metaphor
Special Program
State Theatre 1
7pm

?An Animal is Not a Metaphor
Berlin Horse
Jamal [A Camel]
Cat Dance
Horsey
Pattaki
It Matters What
Stitching the Future with Clues
Turkey Vultures

Films in Competition 11
Michigan Theater Main Auditoirum | 7:30pm | $

?Vision
Photosynthesis
The Looking Game
Contractions
Quiet As It’s Kept
Intervals
Long Time No Techno

Conceiving Ada
Special Feature Film
State Theatre 1 | 9pm | $

?Films in Competition 12
Michigan Theater Main Auditorium | 9:30pm | $

?Sisters
Rebecca Shapass
Poppies Will Put Them to Sleep
Lil Internet & TRLLM (K8 Howl & Jak Ritger)
Matta and Matto
Xiuhtecuhtli
Loving In Between

Saturday After Party
Rabbit Hole at Root
FREE
210 South First Street | 11pm-1am | free

Sunday, March 31, 2024

Bagels and Coffee Social Hour
U-M North Quad Space 2435
10–11:30am | free

Amy Halpern: A Retrospective
STATE THEATRE 1 | 12pm | $

?Amy Halpern: A Retrospective
Invocation
Elixir
#27
Filament (the Hands)
Fire Belly
By Halves
Slow Fireworks
Unowned Luxuries #3
Verge: (for my sisters)
Vezelay Curtain
Hula
Injury on a Theme
3-Minute Hells
Chabrot

Brief Space of a Time
Feature in Competition
State Theatre 1 | 12:30pm | $

?Ottu
Brief Space of a Time

Giant’s Kettle
Feature in Competition
Michigan Theater Main Auditorium | 2pm | $

?Charlotte Pryce
Giant’s Kettle

Strange Culture
State Theatre 1 | 3pm | $

?Awards Screening 1
Festival Award Celebration
Closing night of the festival offers a program of select award-winning films, as chosen by this year’s panel of three distinguished AAFF jurors.
Michigan Theatre Main Auditorium | 5pm

?Awards Screening 2
Michigan Theater Main Auditorium | 7pm

?Sunday After Party
Black Pearl
FREE
302 South Main Street | 9:30–11pm | free

Fest Date: March 26 - 31, 2024

Online: March 26 - April 7, 2024

Location: Various Locations in Ann Arbor, MI

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