South Sound Experimental Film Festival 2025 – Halcyon Days of Symmetry & Dolls vs Dictators
Sun Nov 23: 5.30pm
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$48 General
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$32 Student/Senior/Child
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$23 Member
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$24 General
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$16 Student/Senior/Child
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$11 Member
- $15 General
- $10 Student/Child/Senior
- $7 NWFF Member
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South Sound Experimental Film Festival 2025
About
Halcyon Days of Symmetry (2004) (VHS)
SSEFF is proud to present the first-ever screening of films by Sun City Girls.
Twenty-two different songs, performances, and other mysterious things (like a film collage by Bonniebon). Filmed by Sun City Girls, Steve Reetz, Javier Gallegos, Zev Acher, M. Healy, and JP/CYK Productions.
Dolls vs Dictators
A stop motion animated film made as a commission for the Museum of Moving Image in Queens NY and features ten top dictators and American TV and movie star dolls, with a soundtrack by Greg Saunier.
Dolls vs Dictators: the last remaining dictators of the history are slaughtered by the triumphing power of puppets and dolls. Colburns violent narrative is placed in an unsettling, science fiction-like landscape and includes familiar faces like Pee Wee Herman and Brooke Shields who take on the likes of Kim Jong-Il and Gadaffi’s female body guards. Witnessing this bloody battle of puppets, pop culture figures and political leaders is at once unnerving, amusing and darkly satisfying.
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Ticketing, concessions, cinemas, restrooms, and our public edit lab are located on Northwest Film Forum’s ground floor, which is wheelchair accessible. All doors in Northwest Film Forum are non-motorized, and may require staff assistance to open. Our upstairs workshop room is not wheelchair accessible.
We have a limited number of assistive listening devices available for programs hosted in our larger theater, Cinema 1. These devices are maintained by the Technical Director, and can be requested at the ticketing and concessions counter. Also available at the front desk is a Sensory Kit you can borrow, which includes a Communication Card, noise-reducing headphones, and fidget toys.
The Forum does NOT have assistive devices for the visually impaired, and is not (yet) a scent-free venue. Our commitment to increasing access for our audiences is ongoing, and we welcome all public input on the subject!
If you have additional specific questions about accessibility at our venue, please contact our Patron Services Manager at rajah@nwfilmforum.org. Our phone number (206-329-2629) is voicemail-only, but we check it often.
Made possible due to a grant from Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, in partnership with Sensory Access, our Sensory Access document presents a visual and descriptive walk-through of the NWFF space. View it in advance of attending an in-person event at bit.ly/nwffsocialnarrativepdf, in order to prepare yourself for the experience.
⚠️ Covid-19 Policies ⚠️
NWFF patrons will be strongly encouraged to wear masks that cover both nose and mouth while in the building. Disposable masks are available at the door for those who need them. Recent variants of COVID-19 readily infect and spread between individuals regardless of vaccination status.
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