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were on Fulbright fellowships in the
"We never show a film more than
Czech Republic in 1997 when they
once," says Vicki Honeyman, who has
developed Happy Are the Happy (Your
been director of the nonprofit AAFF
Best Joke, Please), which will be fea-
for the past 14 years. "We want to
tured 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 13. This
show as much film as we can."
experimental, nonfiction project asked
Founded in 1963 by filmmaker-artist
Bosnian, Jewish and Romany refugees
George Manupelli at the University of
Michigan School of Art, the festival is the about humor during their most trying
confrontations with oppression.
oldest of its kind in the country. Now
"We were asking how humor func-
independent of the university, it contin-
tions
as a mode of education and com-
ues to celebrate independent cinema
munication,"
explains Lapp, whose
makers who demonstrate a high regard
interest
in
the
comic impulse has been
for film as an art form and has premiered
expressed in other films she has made.
the early efforts of Brian DePalma, Andy
Lapp, who has taught film produc-
Warhol and George Lucas.
tion at The School of the Art Institute
The films entered for awards will be
of Chicago, is now based in Brooklyn,
shown in the main auditorium.
where she is working on two new
Additional films and workshops will
films and building on her experience
be assigned to the screening room.
with
hand-drawn animation and
Simon Tarr, professor of film at Penn
experimental nonfiction techniques.
State University, will facilitate discus-
Happy Birthday Mr. Mog, - rabi, which
sion groups at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.
will be shown 7 p.m. Wednesday,
Wednesday-Saturday.
Toronto filmmaker Elida Schogt's new March 14, moves viewers to Israel,
work, The Walnut Tree, developed out of where three anniversaries are explored
— the establishment of the Jewish state,
last year's entry, Zyklon Portrait, which
the Nakba (Palestinian expulsion) and
claimed a $200 honorable mention in
the filmmaker's birthday. It has been
Ann Arbor and awards at other festivals.
shown in festivals around the world.
is
a
Holocaust
film
"Zyklon Portrait
"This is a political film and deals
without Holocaust imagery," explains
with the question of Palestinian
Schogt, who has a master's degree in
refugees," says Avi Mograbi, an Israeli
media studies from the New School
for Social Research in New York. " The independent filmmaker who also
Walnut Tree examines Holocaust mem- teaches cinema production. "It is part
ory, the family and the role of photog- documentary and part fiction."
As Ravett, an independent filmmak-
raphy in history."
er for 25 years, approaches his juror
Schogt, who has been executive
responsibilities, he advises viewers to
director of the Images Festival of
think through their impressions of the
Independent Film and Video in
works shown.
Canada, will have her film shown at
"I hope people are open and recep-
9:30 p.m. Saturday, March 17.
tive
to different ideas and that they
"I came to filmmaking from arts
allow
the material to be absorbed for
management, and that has been help-
one
or
two weeks," he says. ❑
ful because I'm producing," says
Schogt, who uses facilities available
through a cooperative.
The Ann Arbor Film Festival
Esther Podemski, a teacher at
runs March 13-18 at ! -he
Parsons School of Design in New
Michigan Theater, 603 Liberty
York, has her first film, House of the
St. Festivities begin 7 p.m.
World, in the festival. About to be
Tuesday,
March 13, with a public
scheduled for broadcast by the
reception and silent auction.
Learning Channel, her work explores
Film showings start 8 p.m. that
the relationship between objective his-
evening and continue 7 and 9:30
tory and personal memory as it exam-
p.m. Wednesday; 7, 9:30 and 11
ines the Holocaust through the eyes of
p.m. Thursday and Friday; and
survivors and their descendants.
2, 7 and 9:30 p.m. Saturday. A
"My film touches upon the impor-
selection of awarded films will be
tance of graveyards in Jewish life," says
shown at 5, 7 and 9 p.m.
Podemski, whose screening is sched-
Sunday. A complete listing of
uled at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 17.
films and show times as well as
"My relatives are Holocaust survivors
workshops
can be obtained at the
who wanted to go back [to honor lost
festival's
Web
sire: www.aafilm-
loved ones], and often they couldn't
. 57 for
fest.org/festweek.html
find graves because cemeteries would
one
show/$50
for
the
entire
be gone. They had a strong need to
series. (734) 668-8397, Ext. 22.
settle these accounts with the dead."
Sarah Jane Lapp and Jenny Perlin
.