Hi AAAFF Friends,

Hope y’all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Earlier this month, we hosted an event at AFS Cinema called Art In Motion: Expressions Through Film with our friends at aGLIFF, Cine Las Americas, IndieMeme, and Austin Jewish Film Festival in collaboration with Big Medium’s Studio Tour. This showcase explores art in practice, expressionism, and performance through the medium of film.

Take a look at the selections below to learn more and check out our gallery of photos from the event.

GEFILTE FISH (AJFF)

Directed by: Yuliya Lanina

On its surface, Gefilte Fish is a story of one family meal in the Bronx. That brief moment in time connects past, present, and future, revealing trauma from the Holocaust, incest, and loss of parents -- and the silence that perpetuates the pain.

HER CANVAS (IndieMeme)

Directed by: Sagar Devram Minde

On a cloudy melancholy evening Myra, a visual artist, experiences an overwhelming surge of emotions. Hinged between past and present she tries to make sense of reality around her. Deeply drenched in fantasy and memories she reflects on her relationship with Surbhi.

I HAVE NO TEARS, AND I MUST CRY (Cine Las Americas)

Directed by: Luis Fernando Puente

Maria Luisa is ready to escape immigration limbo, but when her green card interview takes an unexpected turn, she faces the anxiety of losing the life she had planned.

IZZY IMAN: THE JOY OF DRAG (aGLIFF)

Directed by: Isabella Kaya Walton

Isabel Adomakoh Young (Izzy Aman in the drag world) delivers a genderbending revolutionary performance as Joy-of-Painting Bob Ross, and through the art of thrusting, painting and mimicry creates a candid and powerful conversation about how we can create social change with drag.

THE THINGS I HAVEN’T TOLD YOU YET (AAAFF)

Directed by: Maya Wanner

The Things I Haven't Told You Yet is a collage-style, personal narrative composed of emotionally complex memories, questions, thoughts, and stories that meditate on identity, race, transnational adoption, grief, and intergenerational trauma. Filmmaker, Maya Wanner, pieces them together to create a mosaic of a mother-daughter relationship shaped by things left unsaid.