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
MMC13 03072015 / Projection Instructions
curated by Josh Guilford, The Filmmakers’ Coop
Join Mothlight Microcinema and the Film-Makers’ Cooperative at MOCAD for an evening of seminal and rarely-screened avant garde cinema. Each of the films shown requires that the presenter follow special instructions to screen them properly. Multiple projections, superimpositions, unconventional angles, external sound, light, and actions: this will be a rare opportunity to see these experimental classics of expanded cinema the way you are supposed to. Featuring work by Storm de Hirsch, Ken Jacobs, Malcolm LeGrice , Rose Lowder, and Paul Sharits.
Mark