At The Movies
The 37th Ann Arbor
Film Festival will screen
more than 100 independent
and experimental films
March 16-21.
SUZANNE CHESSLER
Special to The Jewish News
Film still from
"A Biography of Lilith,"
which filmmaker and Ann
Arbor Film Festival juror
Lynne Sachs will screen and
discuss at 3 p. m. March 17.
A
new take on Lilith as the first woman on
Earth will be featured at this year's Ann
Arbor Film Festival.
Jury member Lynne Sachs' A Biography
of Lilith will be the subject of a free screening at 3
p.m. Wednesday, March 17, at the Michigan
Theater. The showing, with the filmmaker dis-
cussing her work, is scheduled as a special event on
the second day of the festival, which includes more
than 100 new films and runs through March 21.
Later that day, at 9:30 p.m., another film with a
Jewish theme, Travel Photos by Ken Winikur, takes
a male point of view, exploring the struggle of a
Jewish American man searching for religious identi-
ty while traveling the Mideast and Southeast Asia.
Committee members selected 107 films from a
pool of 355. Decisions were made under the direc-
tion of Vickie Honeyman, who has been in charge
of the festival for the past 12 years.
"We want to show as much film as we can," says
Honeyman, a University of Michigan film graduate
who viewed entries with three others every night
for seven weeks to whittle down the choices.
The festival, supported by a grant from the
Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs,
includes independent and experimental films from
all over the world. Finalists can fall into the cate-
gories of animation, abstract, documentary or nar-
FILMS on page 98
A still from Ken Winikur "Travel Photos."
The film explores the struggle of a Jewish American
man searching for religious identity while traveling
the Mideast and Southeast Asia and will
be screened at 9:30 p.m. March 17.