4TH AE FILM FESTIVAL / JUNE 1-3

All screenings will be held at The Southern Theater. The festival is an official ARTshare event. We have two free screenings and 3 screenings at sliding scale ticket prices ($5-$24). Please spread the news and feel free to pass this email along. This is my last year leading the festival so I am looking forward to seeing many familiar faces! Please make it out!

Altered Esthetics Film Festival - Full Schedule 
June 1-3, 2017
The Southern Theater
1420 Washington Ave South
Minneapolis, MN 55454

Unravel / Reclaim
to cause to come apart; to resolve the intricacy, complexity, or obscurity of; to demand or obtain the return of; to regain possession of

As part of ARTshare , the Altered Esthetics Film Festival presents its fourth season at The Southern Theater , June 1-3 with screenings, performances, and discussions. Each year a theme is selected based upon trends noticed in the selected submissions.This year's theme, Unravel/Reclaim , brings a wide variety of moving-image-based works together. The festival screens local, national, and international artists. 

Altered Esthetics is a volunteer-driven nonprofit art gallery and organization located at The
Southern Theater on the West Bank in Minneapolis. 

Full Schedule: http://aefilmfest.weebly.com/all-events-2017.html
Tickets: https://southern.ticketworks.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=86
Facebook event pages: https://www.facebook.com/pg/AlteredEsthetics/events/

Thursday, June 1 / 7:30 PM - Creative Vision Award - Ticketed Event
Screening event length time: approximately 2 hours
Pick Your Ticket Prices / General Admission: $5, $10, $15, $20 or full $24 price
ARTshare Members:  FREE

Screening work from:
Nik Nerburn (Minnesota) (Featured Artist)
Emily Fritze (Minnesota)
Elizabeth Davis (Missouri)
Sami Pfeffer (Minnesota)
Soyeeon Kim (California)
Madie Hamilton (Minnesota)
Emily M. Van Loan (New York)
Chamindika Wanduragala (Minnesota)
Dan Murphy (Minnesota)
Xiaolu Wang (Minnesota) (Creative Vision Award)
Peter Nelson (Minnesota) (Creative Vision Award)
Kiera Faber (Minnesota) (Creative Vision Award)
Sharlene Bamboat (Canada) (Creative Vision Award)
Nishat Hossain (Pennsylvania) (Creative Vision Award)
Tanin Torabi (Iran) (Creative Vision Award)

Six Families opens the screening with an immersive performance of dance and moving image inspired by the festival's Unravel / Reclaim theme. They begin at at 7:15pm. Arrive early! 

Friday, June 2 / 7:30 PM - Sleeping Between Worlds - Ticketed Event
Screening event length time: approximately 2 hours
Pick Your Ticket Prices / General Admission: $5, $10, $15, $20 or full $24 price
ARTshare Members:  FREE
The festival is presented by Altered Esthetics, a nonprofit art gallery and organization based out of The Southern Theater

Opening films by John Akre and Micah Dahl

With a special presentation of Sleeping Between Worlds facilitated by Midwest Special Services

More details here: http://aefilmfest.weebly.com/sleeping-between-worlds.html

Opening with music from Eddie Estrin and Mike Croswell
"Drawing on our experience as theatrical and soundtrack composers, we create ambient sonic environments in realtime by playing and sculpting beautiful and captivating layers of music. Every show is unique as we create spontaneous soundscapes with percussion and guitar and effects."

Friday, June 2 / 9:45 PM - The Other Side - Free Screening
Screening event length time: approximately 2 hours
The festival is presented by Altered Esthetics, a nonprofit art gallery and organization based out of The Southern Theater

The films of The Other Side explore the bizarre and the eccentric, the beautiful and the horrendous.  From baroque labyrinths to sexual politics, our late night program unravels concepts of humanity and identity to reveal something even more twisted.

Featuring work from:
Anders Nienstaedt (Minnesota)
Martin Gonzales (Minnesota)
Sami Pfeffer (Minnesota)
Liberty Antonia Sadler (United Kingdom)
Marinah Janello (Massachusetts)
Alyssa Costopoulos (Minnesota)
Laura Iancu (Iowa)

Simone LeClaire (Minnesota)

Saturday, June 4 / 4 PM - Feminist Video Quarterly - Free Screening
Screening event length time: approximately 2 hours
The festival is presented by Altered Esthetics, a nonprofit art gallery and organization based out of The Southern Theater

Feminist Video Quarterly is a growing community of women and gender non-conforming artists in the Twin Cities.

"Our mission is to create a network of support for artists by developing a community around their artwork. With funding from Midway Contemporary Art, we host quarterly screenings at underground art spaces around the cities. At the Ae Film Fest, we have collected films from our first five screenings, showing a vast representation of our community."

Featured Artists:
Sarah Abdel-Jelil
Tamara Alswager
Kaytee Callahan
Jae Shin Cross
Sophie Deutsch
Emile Downes
Eve Hernandez
Nadia Honary
Lizzie Hutchins
Claire King
Anne Labovitz
Kat St. Martin-Norburg
Olivia McCreary
Sarah Olander
Chelsea Arden Parker
Sami Pfeffer
Jes Reyes
Nyala Sarita
Amelia Silbert
Nanne Sorvold
M. Parker Stuart
Paige Tighe
Wreck Family

Opening with music from Tamara Alswager

Saturday, June 3 / 7:30 PM - Featured Artists - Ticketed Event
Screening event length time: approximately 2 hours
Pick Your Ticket Prices / General Admission: $5, $10, $15, $20 or full $24 price
ARTshare Members:  FREE
The festival is presented by Altered Esthetics, a nonprofit art gallery and organization based out of The Southern Theater

Opening Film:
Prairie Dreamers - A film by Nik Nerburn (Minnesota) (Featured Artist)
Celebrate 5 years of Springboard for the Arts in Fergus Falls with this documentary film!
Fillmmaker Nik Nerburn and Laura Zabel, Executive Director of Springboard for the Arts, will introduce the film.

Also Screening:
Jeremy Speed Schwartz (New York)
Sébastien Pins (Belgium)
Anne-Marie Bouchard (Canada)
Edward Ramsay-Morin (Texas)
Madsen Minax (Tennessee)
M. Parker Stuart (Minnesota) (Featured Artist)
Chelsea Arden Parker (Minnesota)
Karolina Neiduza (United Kingdom)

Opening with music from Eddie Estrin and Mike Croswell

"Drawing on our experience as theatrical and soundtrack composers, we create ambient sonic environments in realtime by playing and sculpting beautiful and captivating layers of music. Every show is unique as we create spontaneous soundscapes with percussion and guitar and effects."

More details here: http://aefilmfest.weebly.com/prairie-dreamers.html

Many thanks,
Jes