The Ann Arbor Film Festival is one of America’s longest running film festivals and also one of its most innovative, culling each year a daring selection of independent and experimental films. Today and tomorrow the festival’s touring program stops in the UWM Union Theatre for a two-day showcase. If there’s a thread that runs through the first night’s offerings, it’s city life: Most of these shorts examine, in their own singular way, what it means to live in a city. The German short Six Apartments, for instance, looks at six residents of six apartments who live their solitary lives in isolation from each other. Nicole Macdonald’s A City to Yourself examines the upsides of a decaying Detroit—less traffic and more outdoor art—and Michael Langan’s animated Dahlia celebrates the hustle and bustle of the city with vibrant animation.
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