The Ann Arbor Film Festival Traveling Tour is coming to the Grosse Pointe Public Library on Thursday, October 24, 7:30 p.m. at the Woods Branch. Executive Director Leslie Raymond will present the program featuring 10 award-winning and favorite new short films, followed by a discussion. The AAFF is the longest-running independent and experimental film festival in North America. Internationally renowned as a premiere forum for film as an independent art form, the AAFF screens works across a broad range of genres including: experimental, animation, documentary, narrative and hybrid works. The AAFF is steeped in a rich tradition of ground-breaking cinema as thousands of filmmakers screened early work at the AAFF, including luminaries such as: Kenneth Anger, Agnes Varda, Andy Warhol, Yoko Ono, Gus Van Sant, Barbara Hammer, James Benning, Bruce Conner, Chick Strand, Les Blank, Lawrence Kasdan, and George Lucas. Register on the library's online calendar, or give the library a call at 313-343-2074 ext. 220.
