The Ann Arbor Film Festival celebrates its epic 53rd annual edition on March 24-29 with a colossal selection of experimental short films and features.
Feature film highlights include the documentary Speculation Nation by regular collaborators Bill Brown and Sabine Gruffat, which examines the recent Spanish housing crisis; a new ethnographic doc by Ben Russell, Greetings to the Ancestors, which plunges deep into the culture of South Africa; and Jenni Olson’s grand California study The Royal Road.
Short film highlights include the much anticipated new film by Jennifer Reeder, Blood Below the Skin, a narrative following a week in the dramatic and romantic lives of three teenage girls; a new music video by Mike Olenick called Beautiful Things with music by The Wet Things; new animations by Don Hertzfeldt, World of Tomorrow, and Lewis Klahr, Mars Garden; plus new experimental work by Vanessa Renwick, Peggy Ahwesh and Zachary Epcar.
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Feature film highlights include the documentary Speculation Nation by regular collaborators Bill Brown and Sabine Gruffat, which examines the recent Spanish housing crisis; a new ethnographic doc by Ben Russell, Greetings to the Ancestors, which plunges deep into the culture of South Africa; and Jenni Olson’s grand California study The Royal Road.
Short film highlights include the much anticipated new film by Jennifer Reeder, Blood Below the Skin, a narrative following a week in the dramatic and romantic lives of three teenage girls; a new music video by Mike Olenick called Beautiful Things with music by The Wet Things; new animations by Don Hertzfeldt, World of Tomorrow, and Lewis Klahr, Mars Garden; plus new experimental work by Vanessa Renwick, Peggy Ahwesh and Zachary Epcar.
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- 3/24/2015
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
When you consider the state of computers back in 1977 from our point of view here in 2009, it sometimes seems miraculous that computer-generated images made it into movies back then. We can push a button these days to easily create simple images and special effects, but back in the 1970s it was laborious just to generate a wireframe model of the Death Star. Compare that to what a comparatively simple computer system can bang out for a low-budget movie these days, and it's an extremely stark contrast.
In the video after the break, you can watch the Trench Run graphics being created for Star Wars, and computer artist Larry Cuba narrates the process. Word of warning: it's an extremely dry video, and someone had the crazy idea to throw sounds from the movie behind his narration. Sure, it takes a bit of movie magic out of the Lucasfilm mystique, but seeing...
In the video after the break, you can watch the Trench Run graphics being created for Star Wars, and computer artist Larry Cuba narrates the process. Word of warning: it's an extremely dry video, and someone had the crazy idea to throw sounds from the movie behind his narration. Sure, it takes a bit of movie magic out of the Lucasfilm mystique, but seeing...
- 9/24/2009
- by Kevin Kelly
- Cinematical
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