Local Sightings 2015 – Experimentally Yours (Shorts Program)

This event took place on Sep 28, 2015

Distance and intimacy, life and death, and where these intersect.


Featured Films

Everyday Magic
Shannon Stewart – Seattle, WA – 19 min
The intimate moments of a daily routine are captured in this observational piece on bodies and space.

Abandoned Generations
Linda Fenstermaker – Seattle, WA – 10 min
Through overlapping layers of film, Abandoned Generations tells the story of a female farmer living in the 1940s and the distance modern generations have placed between themselves and the land they live on.

Am I Being Clear?
Anna Firth – Olympia, WA – 5 min
Illustrated in the form of fable, this film uses layers of clear materials to show just how muddled our idea of clarity really is.

Surface Waves
Reed O’Bierne – Seattle, WA – 4 min
A woman ruminates on the meaning of self, confronting her own image through movement and dance.

Collision
Abbey Sacks – Kirkland, WA – 2 min
Exploring the intersections of car crashes and human experience, this experimental film uses dance poetry to ask what it means to accept one’s self.

Notes from the Farm
Caryn Cline – Seattle, WA – 7 min
Interweaving “botanicollage” film, scenes of the countryside, and a jazz soundtrack, Notes from the Farm investigates the juxtapositions of urban and rural life.

Frontier Journals 03: Aztec Baldwin Collage
Georg Koszulinski – Seattle, WA – 10 min
Found in the Mission District of San Francisco, Craig Baldwin pieces together bits of found footage, creating works that criticize and condemn the colonization of the American frontier.

Hidden Picture
Hayley Park – Seattle, WA – 8 min
The proof of existence by witness and the role of the indifferent gaze in the cycle of violence.


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