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 ++ Short Films by Lisa Truttmann
Past Programs
MMC 2024 ++ 16mm filmmaking workshop (in partnership with Detroit Narrative Agency) 16mm filmmaking workshop with Shanna Maurizi (in partnership with Carpenter Creative Cooridor)Gaza Ghetto (1984), Speakers: Umayyah Cable and Hannah Fahoome
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)
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MMC10 07192014 / The Films of Fern Silva
with Fern Silva
Mothlight Microcinema and Mobile Frames International Filmmakers in Residence present the work of Fern Silva.
Program
Concrete Parlay
18 mins, 16mm, 2012
Tender Feet
10 mins, 16mm, 2013
In the Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails
13 mins, 16mm, 2010
Passage Upon the Plume
7 mins, 16mm, 2011
Peril of the Antilles
6 mins, video, 2011
Spinners
7 mins, video, 2008
photo credits: Cedric Tai
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