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Mothlight Microcinema
About —
  1. an artist-run, nomadic film series screening experimental and avant-garde, fiction, documentary, and animated film + video in Detroit, Michigan since 2012.
  2. screening schedules and program line-ups can be found here and on our Facebook page. 
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Upcoming Events
MMC 2025 ++
  1. Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny: Spaces of Exception

Past Programs
MMC 2024 ++
  1. Short Films by Lisa Truttmann
  2. 16mm filmmaking workshop (in partnership with Detroit Narrative Agency)
  3. 16mm filmmaking workshop with Shanna Maurizi (in partnership with Carpenter Creative Cooridor)
  4. Gaza Ghetto (1984), Speakers: Umayyah Cable and Hannah Fahoome

MMC 2023 ++
  1. 16mm filmmaking workshop with the Detroit Narrative Agency
  2. 60th Ann Arbor Touring Program, Q&A with Jerrod Willis

MMC 2022 ++
  1. 59th Ann Arbor Touring Program, Q&A with Ahya Simone 

MMC 2021 ++
  1. Malni: towards the ocean towards the shore, Q&A with Sky Hopinka
  2. Film About a Father Who, Q&A with Lynne Sachs

MMC 2020 ++
  1. The Wolf House (virtual, co-presented with The Film Lab and Cinema Lamont)
  2. Vitalina Varela (virtual, co-presented with The Film Lab)

MMC 2019 ++
  1. Films in Space (Cosmos + shorts on 16mm)
    Curated by Raul Benitez
  2. Remember to Remember: New and Old Films from Niagara Custom Lab
    Curated by Derek Jenkins

MMC 2018 ++
  1. Chicagoland Shorts, Vol 4 
    Curated by Full Spectrum Features
  2. Based in Havana: Documentary Shorts
    Curated by Mary Pena
  3. Clicks Inside My Dreams: Short Films by Margaret Rorison, Q&A with Rorison
  4. Image Bearings: New Video Work by Women in the Midwest
    Curated by Sally Lawton, Q&A with Bree Gant

MMC 2017 ++
  1. The Maribor Uprisings, Q&A with Maple Raza
  2. Kairos Dirt and the Errant Vacuum, Q&A with Madsen Minax
  3. INAATE/SE/, Q&A with Adam Khalil
  4. ANTI-ETHNOGRAPHY, Q&A with Adam Khalil
  5. Untitled (Just Kidding), Q&A with Jesse Malmed

MMC 2016 ++
  1. Chicagoland Shorts
    Curated by Full Spectrum Features
  2. Films by Mothlight Filmmaker-in-Residence Jayne Amara Ross, Q&A with Ross
  3. Films by Ephraim Asili, Q&A with Asili
  4. SÖFNUN: Mothlight Microcinema in Iceland
  5. Seeking: Missed Connections & Loose Associations, Q&A with Chris Collins & LJ Freeza
  6. Films for One to Eight Projectors: Multiple Projector Experiments by Roger Beebe, Q&A with Beebe

MMC 2015 ++
  1. Itinerant Spaces: Films by Stephen Connolly, Q&A with Connolly
  2. Minority Report
    Curated by Nazli Dincel, Q&A with Sky Hopinka
  3. Frenkel Defects III
    Curated by Kevin Rice
  4. Handmade Emulsion workshop with Process Reversal (led by Kevin Rice)
  5. Cellular Cinema VI: Mothlight in Minneapolis
  6. Films by Filmmaker-in-Residence Dan Smeby, Q&A with Smeby
  7. Tale of Two Syrias: Films by Filmmaker-in-Residence Yasmin Fedda, Q&A with Fedda
  8. Paradise: Films by Filmmaker-in-Residence Lydia Moyer, Q&A with Moyer
  9. Failure: Experimental Animation by Kelly Sears, Q&A with Sears
  10. Projection Instructions: Selections from Filmmakers Coop Curated by Josh Guilford, performed by Mothlight

MMC 2014 ++
  1. Synchronicity, Q&A with Jason Sudak
  2. Films by Julie Murray, Q&A with Murray
  3. Films by Fern Silva, Q&A with Silva
  4. Form/Fragment, Q&A with Jen Proctor
  5. 51st Ann Arbor Film Festival Touring Program

MMC 2013 ++
  1. Moving: 16mm shorts
  2. On Holiday
    Curated by Brandon Walley
  3. Peninsulam, Q&A with Jack Cronin
  4. Handmade (Animation)
    Curated by Gary Schwartz, Q&A with Dustin Grella
  5. Portraits of America, Part II, Q&A with Katie Barkel & Oren Goldenberg
  6. Portraits of America, Part I, Q&A with Brandon Walley

MMC 2012 ++
  1. Maximal Minimal (16mm)
Mark
 




MMC08 02212014 / 51st AAFF Touring Program
Featuring Award-winning 16mm fims from The AAFF

Program:

PLACES WITH MEANING
Scott Fitzpatrick
Winnipeg, MB, Canada | 2012 | 3 min | 16mm

ORPHEUS (OUTTAKES)
Mary Helena Clark
Oakland, CA | 2012 | 6 min | 16mm

RITOURNELLE
Christopher Becks, Peter Miller
Berlin, Germany | 2012 | 4 min | 16mm

DECROUX’S GARDEN
Baba Hillman
Amherst, MA | 2012 | 4 min | 16mm

DESPEDIDA (FAREWELL)
Alexandra Cuesta
US/Ecuador | 2013 | 10 min | 16mm

HAY ALGO Y SE VA. (THERE IS SOMETHING. NOW IT’S GONE.)
Kimberly Forero-Arnias
Boston, MA | 2013 | 3 min | 16mm

ENCOUNTERS I MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE HAD WITH PETER BERLIN
Mariah Garnett
Los Angeles, CA | 2012 | 14 min | 16mmIntermission

PERSIAN PICKLES
Jodie Mack
Lebanon, NH | 2012 | 3 min | 16mm

RATING DOGS ON A SCALE FOM 1 TO 10
Mark Toscano
Los Angeles, CA | 2012 | 3 min | 16mm

106 RIVER ROAD
Josh Weissbach
Milwaukee, WI | 2011 | 6 min | 16mm

WEST: WHAT I KNOW ABOUT HER
Kathryn Ramey
Roslindale, MA | 2012 | 20 min | 16mm

CENTURY
Kevin Jerome Everson
Charlottesville, VA | 2012 | 7 min | 16mm
Mark

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