The 61st Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour is coming to Wealthy Theatre, January 25th! Presented by Grand Rapids Public Library.
The 61st Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour comes to Grand Rapids at Wealthy Theatre!
Made possible by Grand Rapids Public Library
WIth support from Grand Rapids Film Society and Pickle Fort Film Collective.
Arrive early to learn how to make your own 16mm film loops! With Pickle Fort Film Collective. Materials provided.
The Ann Arbor Film Festival (AAFF) tour provides filmmakers the unique opportunity of having their work screened in front of audiences for whom, in many places, the tour venue is their only access to this form of film art. Each filmmaker participating in the AAFF tour is also paid for each tour stop, directly supporting their filmmaking. The AAFF is a pioneer of the traveling film festival tour which launched in 1964 with film screenings in Paris, Los Angeles, and Berkeley. Since that time, the AAFF tour has presented hundreds of influential works by film artists including Barbara Hammer, Gus Van Sant, Sally Cruikshank, Don Hertzfeldt, Bill Brown, Ross McLaren, Paul Winkler, James Duesing, Martha Colburn, and Jay Rosenblatt.
Thursday January 25th, 2024
Doors: 6:00 PM
Show: 7:00 PM
Cost: Free!
RSVP online at: https://grcmc.vbotickets.com/event/Sixty_First_Ann_Arbor_Film_Festival_Tour/114351
Location:
Wealthy Theatre
1130 Wealthy St. SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49506
The traveling tour will be hosted by AAFF's Executive Director; Leslie Raymond. Leslie Raymond joined the Ann Arbor Film Festival as its executive director in August 2013. In September 2019, Raymond’s leadership role expanded to include festival programming. Prior to her position with AAFF, as a teaching artist and educator, she founded the New Media Program at University of Texas at San Antonio and served as an assistant professor of art in digital video and new media art at Oakland University, where she was recognized with an Innovations in Teaching award. Raymond is a Film Festival Alliance board member, and a third-generation American of Chinese and Jewish descent. She holds a BFA in film/video from the Rhode Island School of Design, MFA in new genres from the University of Michigan School of Art & Design, and also studied film, video, and new media art at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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