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37th season, is the oldest of its kind in
ration and are eligible for $13,000 in
the country. Lawrence Kasdan, direc-
awards.
tor of The Big Chill, The Accidental
Although the Sachs and Winikur
Tourist and Body Heat and former
movies are the only ones with Jewish
University of Michigan student, this
themes, other Jewish filmmakers will
year doubled his financial support of
be showing works that do not relate to
the program.
religion.
"Experimental film is often seen as
"I'm a filmmaker with an interest in
an art form for a select and somewhat
blending experimental and documen-
rarefied group of people," says
tary modes of production," says Sachs,
who also has made Sermons and
Sacred Pictures: The Life and
Work of Rev. L.O. Taylor, a pro-
duction about a Baptist minis-
ter; The House of Science: a
Museum of False Facts, an explo-
ration of women through art
and science; and Which Way Is
East: Notebooks from Vietnam, an
investigation of the ramifica-
tions of the Vietnam war.
In A Biography of Lilith, a pre-
sent-day Lilith muses on the
choices she has made in her life
— giving up a baby for adoption
and dancing for men in a New
Jersey bar. Interweaving mystical
text from Jewish folklore with
interviews, music and poetry,
Sachs explores her role as mother.
"All my films use an essayish
format," says. Sachs, a prize-win-
ning filmmaker who lives in
Baltimore and teaches in the
film and media department of
Temple University in
Philadelphia. "I pull together
Lynne Sachs, left, made "Which Way Is East,"
personal and public histories to
an evocative study of contemporary Vietnam,
express a personal vision of the
with her journalist sister, Dana.
way things happen.
Winikur's documentary, which
has won second place at - the
Honeyman, who grew up in Detroit
Jewish Video Festival in Berkeley,
and attended Temple Beth El. "The
Calif, is based on his travels as a new
involvement of a commercially suc-
college graduate.
cessful Hollywood director like
"I was drawn to spirituality but
Lawrence Kasdan demonstrates that
cynical about organized religion," says
experimental film is readily accessible
Winikur, a filmmaking instructor at
to general movie audiences."
Temple University who came face to
Awarded and highlighted films
face with people who had never met a
shown
in Ann Arbor will tour to 40
Jew as well as those who practiced
U.S.
cities
for programs scheduled
Orthodoxy.
April to October. F1
The Ann Arbor Film Festival, in its

The Ann Arbor Film Festival, running March 16-21, opens Tuesday
with a 7 p.m. reception in the lobby of the Michigan Theater, 603 Liberty
St., followed by the public screening of films. The festival runs through
Saturday, March 20, and ends with a program of awarded films on Sunday,
March 21. Screenings are 8 p.m. Tuesday; 7 and 9:30 p.m. Wednesday-
Friday, with an additional screening Thursday at 11 p.m.; 1, 7 and 9:30
p.m. Saturday; and 5, 7 and 9 p.m. Sunday. Ticket prices range from $4 for
matinee screenings to $45 for a weeklong festival pass. In addition to the
nightly public screenings, there are free afternoon presentations at which
the awards jury screen and discuss their own films. (734) 995-5356 or
http://aafilmfest.org.

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