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College for Creative Studies
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630 Club
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Michigan Psychoanalytic Society
Experimental Curator: The Sally Dixon Story
Brigid Maher
Washington DC, New York City, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Saint Paul, Minneapolis, Denver, Lump Gulch, USA | 2022 | 57 | 4K Video
WORLD PREMIERE
A documentary that delves into the life of film curator Sally Dixon. Dixon was known as a trailblazer in the ”film as art” movement in the ’70s and founded and directed the Film Department at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. Featuring interviews with Carolee Schneemann, Jonas Mekas, Bruce Baillie, Ken Jacobs, and Robert Haller.
Presented with historical AAFF short films:
Valentin de las Sierras (In-Person Only)
Bruce Baillie
1967 | 10 | 16mm
Skin, eyes, knees, horses, hair, sun, earth. Old Song of Mexican hero Valentin, sung by blind Jose Santollo Nasido en Santa Cruz de la Soledad; Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico.
Invocation Of My Demon Brother (In-Person Only)
Kenneth Anger
1969 | 11 | 16mm
Underworld powers gather at a midnight mass to shadow forth Lord Lucifer. Mick Jagger used a moog synthesizer to provide the hallucinatory score. Anger calls this “an attack on the sensorium.”
Take Off (In-Person Only)
Gunvor Nelson
1972 | 10 | 16mm to digital
Ellion Ness, a thoroughly professional stripper, goes through her paces, bares her body, and then, astonishingly and literally, transcends it.
Fist Fight (In-Person Only)
Robert Breer
1964 | 11 | 16mm to digital
An autobiographical film combines personal and family photos with intense colors, textures, and geometric abstractions.