Join us at Ypsilanti's Riverside Arts Center for the 5th year of mind-expanding programming, workshops, and live events!

Schedule:

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

7PM: 26.2 Filmmaker Marathon Screening

A screening of the 4 minute films that have been shot as part of iFFY’s 26.2 hour filmmaking marathon.

Free

Thursday, April 25, 2024

7:30PM: Michigan-ish

The opening night of this year's iFFY features a broad selection of short films from our mittened little corner of the world, encompassing everything from personal essays and music videos to forays into science fiction.

Superheroes
Island
The Plant Boy
BINGO
Rewind, Please
And He Was Like
He Careth For Thee
The Shepherdess
For Someone Grand
The Third Ear

Reception at Riverside Arts Center
FREE TO THE PUBLIC. Join us after the screening in the Riverside Art Center for drinks, light snacks and good conversation with filmmakers and friends!

Friday, April 26, 2024

7PM: Best of The London International Animation Festival 2023

The London International Animation Festival (LIAF) is the UK’s largest, longest-running animation festival, screening annually since 2003. This programme is a snapshot of the most recent festival - 8 short films that promise to inspire, delight and challenge the notion that animation is merely for the 3D CGI blockbuster genre or cute cartoons for kids.

An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It
Flutz
Now That I'm Thinking
Crab Day
The Wooden Ghost
fur
The Final Nail in the Coffin
All is Lost

9PM: Thicker Than Water

Eight short films exploring the horror, suspense, and terrible humor of troubled family relations and the things we inherit.

The Möbius Trip
Sugar Rag
Cover Your Ears
Some Day All This Will Be Yours
Perfect City: The Bravest Kid
***'n Nuts
Spoor
Ethel

Afterparty at Bellflower
FREE TO THE PUBLIC. After the screenings, we'll descend upon Ypsilanti's finest restaurant (don't take our word for it; the Detroit Free Press sang its praises to the heavens last year!) for after-hours drinking, hobnobbing, and lounge and exotica sounds courtesy of Golden Feelings.

Bellflower is located at: 209 Pearl St # 202, Ypsilanti, MI

Saturday, April 27, 2024

1PM: From Lens to Light: Demystifying Cinematography for Indie Filmmakers

"From Lens to Light" is an immersive workshop designed to transform how emerging filmmakers view and utilize camera and lighting techniques. Led by Garrett Sammons, a seasoned director and commercial cinematographer, this session delves deeply into the cinematic toolkit, unraveling the mysteries of achieving a filmic look regardless of budget constraints.

1PM: Best of the Children's Film Festival Seattle 2023

Dive into exciting adventures and vibrant colors with this joyful collection of award-winning and audience favorite short animated films from Children’s Film Festival Seattle. Follow along as different critters and kids embark on adventures of friendship, family, and learning to be yourself!

The Fox & The Pigeon: Narrative Neighbours
Blewish
Balloom
T-Rex
Mel Fell
Pete
Desa Timun: Bola
Spirit of the Forest
Marea
Sockz Studio's: I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly
Winter in a Day

3PM: Radio Campfire

Radio Campfire is a live listening event featuring creative audio stories of all kinds, curated and presented by a collective of audio producers in Detroit, Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor, Michigan. It’s like going to the movies, but for your ears. We gather together, dim the lights, and enjoy an evening of memorable radio documentaries, soundscapes and experimental sonic shorts.

4:30PM: Festival of (In)appropriation

Founded in 2009, the Festival of (In)appropriation is a preeminent international showcase for experimental, found-media film and video. Every year, the Festival attracts artists working across an astonishing array of moving-image formats while probing the limits of collage, machinima, re-mix, détournement, mash-up, and more.

Tulipomania: You Had to be There
Headspace
Collage 42
Her Violet Kiss
Timescraps: Film Threads and Sprocket Holes
Date Night
Queen of Dots
Motor
Dreams Under Confinement
Another Set of Jaws
OilMoonNight
Home
A Heated Exchange
Skyscraper Film
Cupid's Fever
Long Time No Techno

7PM: Stars In Our Eyes Vol. 2

This program consists of a collection of delightful short films centered on familial and friendly bonds designed to evoke joy, laughter, and heartwarming emotions.

Take Me Home
Confessions
Donkey
Oasis
Write a Song About Heartache
In Harmony
Shoes Off

9PM: Blood Memories

Eight snapshots of alternate histories and futures. Ancestral lore and mythologies remixed, reinterpreted. Mirror-worlds visited through a BIPOC lens.

Burnt Milk
Something More Than Masquerade
Daughter of the Sea
Dépaysé
Medea
Abalone Eyes
Oba

Date: April 24-27, 2024

Location: Riverside Arts Center, 76 North Huron Street, Ypsilanti, MI 48197

Buy Tickets

Click Here For More Information