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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 .