In-person and online
March 21–29, 2023
The 61st Ann Arbor Film Festival gives voice to filmmakers, access to audiences in person and online. 108 films in competition from 33 countries. Most films presented in the online festival, March 21–29, 2023.
Founded in 1963, AAFF is the oldest avant-garde and experimental film festival in North America. Internationally recognized as a premiere forum for independent filmmakers and artists, AAFF engages audiences with remarkable cinematic experiences. For a second year, AAFF will be presented in a hybrid format that will allow filmmakers selected for the festival to reach a worldwide audience.
Two distinguished artists and an acclaimed film programmer/festival director will jury the 61st AAFF - Amir George, Christine Panushka, and Koyo Yamashita. Each juror will present a curated program of their own work that also will be presented online.
Highlights from the upcoming festival
Submissions: 2,754 films from 95 countries
Films in competition: 108 films from 33 countries
Premieres: 12 world, 30 North American, & 13 United States premieres
Percentage on film: 11% of selected films shot on 16mm or 35mm
Features in competition: All 12 features from outside the United States
Jorge Jácome, Super Natural
State Theatre 1: Saturday March 25, 9:30pm / Online: March 21–29
One of 108 films in competition at the 61st Ann Arbor Film Festival.
Jorge Jácome's Super Natural is a film that talks and listens, that interferes and seeks out those who are beholding it. Its desire is to abandon the screen, to take a look at those who look at it, and listen to them, but also to be smelled and seen beyond what is being seen. Super Natural is a transcendent experience occurring outside of the body, of all bodies, but particularly of one’s own. It is like a superpower and, in this movement, it focuses on the image, a sensitive existence one intends to speak with. That is why this film aspires, in a speculative gesture, to activate an effect, a hypothetical relaxation, a sensory experience for those who are off the screen as if they were on it.
Tickets & Passes are now available for the in-person and online festival.
