The Film Festival here in Ann Arbor, the longest-running experimental and independent film festival in North America, starts this Tuesday. Lots of awesome stuff to see. I already have tickets for the Diamond Pivot Bright program of short films in competition on Wednesday night (preceeded by a rare, silent 10-minute 8mm of Iggy and the Stooges in NYC in '73), as well as Saturday night's "An Evening with Kenneth Anger" which will screen four early-ish K. Anger shorts, including "Scorpio Rising." I've seen all of these about ten times each, and even own the dvd sets, but never seen them on a big screen. The totally unsurpassably sweet thing is that the films are followed by an on-stage conversation between the 80-something Kenneth Anger himself (!!) and some NYC critic!
Also piquing my interest:
-Harry Smith's "Heaven & Earth Magic" (aka Film No. 12) with live musical accompaniment by Black Lotus on Friday night.
-Short documentaries by Pavel Medvedev, Saturday afternoon
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