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Julia Yezbick’s film HOW TO RUST will screen at the Ann Arbor Film Festival on March 20 at 11am.

HOW TO RUST
(Julia Yezbick, 2016 25 min.)
Detroit artist Olayami Dabls’ installation “Iron Teaching Rocks How to Rust” is a metaphor for the forced assimilation of Africans to European culture and language. Here Dabls’ bricolage of the postindustrial landscape becomes a commentary on the half-life of Fordism, where the relationship between cultural production, history, and place is recast, revealing larger truths about how we mythologize a former glory and shape an imagined future.

CMP student Philip Cartelli and Mariangela Ciccarello’s film, Lampedusa has its world premiere at the Lorcarno Film Festival.

Lampedusa
Philip Cartelli and Mariangela Ciccarello
Italy, France, USA · 2015 · DCP · Color and Black and White

Combining high definition and Super 8 footage, Lampedusa is composed of interwoven narratives based on a series of real events. In 1831, a volcanic island suddenly erupted from the sea a few kilometers off the southern coast of Sicily. An international dispute ensued, as a number of European powers laid claim to this newfound “land”. The island receded below sea level six months later, leaving only a rocky ledge under the sea…

CMP student Joana Pimenta wins the Tom Berman Most Promising Filmmaker award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival for her recent film, “The Figures Carved into the Knife by the Sap of the Banana Trees” (As Figuras Gravadas na Faca com a Seiva das Bananeiras).

“The Figures Carved Into the Knife by the Sap of the Banana Trees”
Joana Pimenta
2014, DCP, 16 minutes
The rapid turning of a light draws a circle. In the space bound by its line unravels an archive of postcards sent between the island of Madeira and the former Portuguese colony of Mozambique. The figures carved into the Knife by the Sap of the Banana Trees circulates between a fictional colonial memory, and science-fiction.

Into the Hinterlands by CMP Student Julia Yezbick premieres at the Berlin Film Festival.

The Hinterlands, a Detroit-based performance ensemble, practice a form of ecstatic training which they see as a provocation towards the unknown — a space both physical and imaginary whose mystery is its source of generation and from which their creativity emerges. Their practice is one of ecstatic play, of finding the edge of one’s balance, and the limits of one’s body.
Into the Hinterlands
Julia Yezbick
2015, DCP, 39 mins.