This series is presented in partnership with the Indiana University Department of Communication and Culture and Film and Media Studies. Thanks to the Underground programming team that includes Mark Benedetti, Laura Ivins-Hulley, Natasha Ritsma, Andy Uhrich, Russell Sheaffer and Joan Hawkins. Screenings are free, but ticketed. 50th Anniversary Ann Arbor Film Festival 16mm Package Friday - January 25 - 6:30 p.m. The Ann Arbor Film Festival is America’s longest-running festival focused on independent and experimental work, and this vital institution celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2012. The AAFF also pioneered the traveling film festival tour, and this year’s 16mm touring package is as strong as ever, featuring work by established filmmakers like Robert Todd, Jodie Mack, and Jennifer Reeves, as well as emerging artists like Fern Silva and Jonathan Schwartz. A wide variety of styles, forms, and techniques are on display here, from found footage to optical printing to hand processing to pinhole cameras. (16mm. 70 min. Not rated.) Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2012) Directed by Pip Chodorov Friday - February 8 - 6:30 p.m. Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film provides a welcome introduction to experimental cinema. Taking its name from Len Lye’s Free Radicals (1958), the film includes segments on Hans Richter; Robert Breer, who died last year; Stan Brakhage, eloquent soon before his 2003 death; Jonas Mekas, the artistic director of Anthology Film Archives; and Ken Jacobs, who self-mockingly recalls his youthful ambition to “capsize” America. Austrian filmmaker Peter Kubelka explains the rhythmic precision of his editing, and Stan Vanderbeek’s animation shows the avant-garde as technologically ahead of its time. This is an accessible film, full of joie de cinema. (HD Cam. 82 min. Not rated.) 18 Underground Film Series Tickets: (812) 855-1103