Mothlight Microcinema
About —an artist-run, nomadic film series screening experimental and avant-garde, fiction, documentary, and animated film + video in Detroit, Michigan since 2012. screening schedules and program line-ups can be found here and on our Facebook page . Stay connected by subscribing to our newsletter!
Upcoming Events
MMC 2024 ++ Gaza Ghetto (1984), Speakers: Umayyah Cable and Hannah Fahoome 16mm filmmaking workshop with Shanna Maurizi
Past Programs
MMC 2023 ++ 16mm filmmaking workshop with the Detroit Narrative Agency
60th Ann Arbor Touring Program, Q&A with Jerrod Willis MMC 2022 ++
59th Ann Arbor Touring Program, Q&A with Ahya Simone MMC 2021 ++
Malni: towards the ocean towards the shore, Q&A with Sky Hopinka
Film About a Father Who, Q&A with Lynne Sachs
MMC 2020 ++
The Wolf House (virtual, co-presented with The Film Lab and Cinema Lamont)
Vitalina Varela (virtual, co-presented with The Film Lab) MMC 2019 ++
Films in Space (Cosmos + shorts on 16mm) Curated by Raul Benitez
Remember to Remember: New and Old Films from Niagara Custom Lab Curated by Derek Jenkins
MMC 2018 ++ Chicagoland Shorts, Vol 4
Curated by Full Spectrum Features Based in Havana: Documentary Shorts Curated by Mary Pena
Clicks Inside My Dreams: Short Films by Margaret Rorison, Q&A with Rorison
Image Bearings: New Video Work by Women in the Midwest Curated by Sally Lawton, Q&A with Bree Gant
MMC 2017 ++
The Maribor Uprisings, Q&A with Maple Raza
Kairos Dirt and the Errant Vacuum, Q&A with Madsen Minax
INAATE/SE/, Q&A with Adam Khalil ANTI-ETHNOGRAPHY, Q&A with Adam Khalil
Untitled (Just Kidding), Q&A with Jesse Malmed
MMC 2016 ++
Chicagoland Shorts
Curated by Full Spectrum Features
Films by Mothlight Filmmaker-in-Residence Jayne Amara Ross, Q&A with Ross
Films by Ephraim Asili, Q&A with Asili
SÖFNUN: Mothlight Microcinema in Iceland
Seeking: Missed Connections & Loose Associations, Q&A with Chris Collins & LJ Freeza
Films for One to Eight Projectors: Multiple Projector Experiments by Roger Beebe, Q&A with Beebe
MMC 2015 ++ Itinerant Spaces: Films by Stephen Connolly, Q&A with Connolly
Minority Report
Curated by Nazli Dincel, Q&A with Sky Hopinka
Frenkel Defects III Curated by Kevin Rice Handmade Emulsion workshop with Process Reversal (led by Kevin Rice)
Cellular Cinema VI: Mothlight in Minneapolis
Films by Filmmaker-in-Residence Dan Smeby, Q&A with Smeby Tale of Two Syrias: Films by Filmmaker-in-Residence Yasmin Fedda, Q&A with Fedda Paradise: Films by Filmmaker-in-Residence Lydia Moyer, Q&A with Moyer Failure: Experimental Animation by Kelly Sears, Q&A with Sears Projection Instructions: Selections from Filmmakers Coop Curated by Josh Guilford, performed by Mothlight
MMC 2014 ++
Synchronicity, Q&A with Jason Sudak
Films by Julie Murray, Q&A with Murray Films by Fern Silva, Q&A with Silva Form/Fragment, Q&A with Jen Proctor 51st Ann Arbor Film Festival Touring Program
MMC 2013 ++ Moving: 16mm shorts On Holiday
Curated by Brandon Walley Peninsulam, Q&A with Jack Cronin Handmade (Animation)
Curated by Gary Schwartz, Q&A with Dustin Grella Portraits of America, Part II, Q&A with Katie Barkel & Oren Goldenberg
Portraits of America, Part I, Q&A with Brandon Walley
MMC 2012 ++
Maximal Minimal (16mm)
Mark
MMC05 07202013/ Peninsulam
with Jack Cronin
This month's Mothlight will feature Ann Arbor - based filmmaker, Jack Cronin's trilogy of Michigan films. If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you! As always, this event is free and open to all, so feel free to bring your friends and fellow cinephiles. Ring the white doorbell on John R to be let in. Hope to see you there!
Program
When Michigan Was Young , Portafilms, 1964,
28 min, 16mm
Sleeping Bear , Jack Cronin, 2010, 11 min,Super 8mm (video transfer)
Roaming Through Michigan , James A. Fitzpatrick,
1950, 10 min, 16mm (video transfer)
Rivergarden , Jack Cronin,
2013, 10 min, Super 8mm (video transfer)
Michigan in Motion , William H. Murray,
1967, 28 min, 16mm (video transfer)
Invisible City , Jack Cronin,
2006, 11 min, Super 8mm (video transfer)
Mark