The Film and Media Studies Program and the Visual Studies Workshop welcome the Ann Arbor travelling film festival tour for the first time in Rochester with Program Director, David Dinnell in person. 

The 16mm program includes 13 new films from Austria, the UK, Canada, and the United States including Things, the most recent work by Ben Rivers; The Peacock by Andrew Kim; Mark Toscano’s The Song Remains the Same; Accent Grave on Ananas by Vancouver artist Tamara Henderson (with sound by Dan Riley) and three works receiving the 53rd AAFF Best Cinematography Award - vindmøller by Margaret Rorison, A Symptom by Ben Balcom, and Blue Loop, July by Mike Gibisser. Other works include new films by Friedl vom Gröller, Mary Helena Clark, Robert Todd, Jennifer Reeves, Jonathan Schwartz, and Sarah Christman.

The Improbable Made Possible is a roaming screening series that showcases contemporary avant-garde cinema, exposing the traditions of direct observation and speculative fiction. Since 2011, this annual initiative has invited recognized pioneers and emerging practitioners to partake in curated programs at renowned venues. Through projection and participation, it advances alternative modes of moving images and challenges the pursuits of those in attendance. Previous destinations include Anthology Film Archives, Antimatter Film Festival, UnionDocs and Spectacle Theater.

A Displaced People marks the fifth appearance of this series. It begins with a familiar farewell. A shared, secreted commute then makes way for apalpable, parading façade. The presence and absence of maternal lineage leads to depth defying processions. Celebrity personas, on stage and off, are soon re-imagined in séance fictions of disillusioned selves. Customs that challenge complacency on an isolated yet integrated island prophesy the occurrence of a cataclysm. Memoirs are finally transformed by means of tormented home video tapes and the nervous illness that follows, inside and out.