Engauge Experimental Film Festival 2019

Thu Nov 07 — Sat Nov 09, 2019

Each program in the festival is ticketed individually

Regular pricing for short film programs:

$13 General Admission
$10 Student/Senior
$7 NWFF Member

Special event pricing for Crackpot Crafters live performance on closing night:

$17 General Admission
$13 NWFF Member

Full festival passes:

$70 General Admission
$40 NWFF Member

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Festival - Engauge Experimental Film Festival

On Film

** Engauge will screen only films that originated on film – read on to learn which screenings are presented on celluloid! **

About Engauge:

Each Fall, Engauge Experimental Film Festival hosts screenings sponsored by the Interbay Cinema Society in partnership with Northwest Film Forum. The festival screens only work that originates on film, by filmmakers both local and international.

This year’s festival features films from 20 countries and 11 states:

Countries: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Germany, Greece, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Paraguay, Russia, South Africa, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States

States: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Florida, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, and Washington

The Program:

Nov. 2 from 11am–4pm – Cameraless Filmmaking: Photograms and Ray-o-grams (workshop)

Engauge Experimental Film Festival is pleased to partner with Northwest Film Forum to present their second cameraless filmmaking workshop.

For fans of direct animation, contact printing, and photograms – this is a dream workshop. No filmmaking experience is required to participate. No cameras means no new devices to learn the quirks of, no lenses to focus; no muss!

Experimental filmmaker and Emerson College Visual and Media Arts Prof. Kathryn Ramey will walk students through a range of ultra-accessible filmmaking processes, starting with painting unexposed stock with developer, which can be done with the lights on, and then photogramming in the dark! Small objects and materials (go wild – paper clips, beads, seed pods, earrings, pencil shavings – anything goes) layered on film can be exposed with flashlights, then your film can be turned into a positive by overlaying it on dry, developed film. We’ll even add soundtracks from found footage.

Some processes are immediately satisfying, some more gradually, but all can make it to being looped and projected before the workshop lets out. Let your creativity run wild, experimentalists! For an example of what comes out of Kathryn Ramey’s cameraless workshops, watch a video here >

This workshop takes place at Pound Gallery, 1216 10th Ave. (between Pike and Seneca)

Instructor Kathryn Ramey is the author of the book Experimental Filmmaking: Break the Machine (Focal Press, 2016).

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Nov. 7 at 7pm – Super-8 Hotel (short film program)

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Don’t believe the people who tell you film is dead. This opening program samples the astonishing Super-8 work that is being made all around the world and right here in Seattle, featuring films from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland, the UK and the US. Several films incorporate found footage and/or home movie footage. All films are shot on Super-8 film and transferred to digital.

Image credit: Lynne Sachs, Sean Hanley & Paolo Javier, “Starfish, Aorta, Colossus”

PROGRAM:

Tupianas | Marcos Bonisson & Khalil Charif | Brazil | 2016 | 5:35 | Super 8 to digital
Sleep Mask | Phryne Konti | Greece | 2019 | 3:10 | Super 8 to digital
The Salesman | Aaron Zeghars | Canada | 2016 | 3:30 | Super 8 to digital
Liquid is Light | Kalpana Submaranian | USA | 2016 | 4:02 | Super 8 to digital
The Immortality of the Crab | Giacomo Manzotti | Italy | 2:20 | Super 8 to digital
She World: Enumeration | Ursula Brookbank | USA | 2014| 5:34 | Super 8 to digital
Scenes from the Periphery | Derek Taylor | USA | 2019 | 2:20 | Super 8 to digital
Quaker City Home Movies: Pressing Cider | Taylor Dunne | USA | 2015 | 3:00 | Super 8 to digital
Eigentlich ist das kein Film/Actually, This Is Not a Film | Patrick Müeller | Germany | 2018 | 4:42 | Super 8 digital
Rain, Train, Mother, Son | Gary Hawkins | USA | 2019 | 2:14 | Super 8 to digital
The Last Skate | Sandy McLennan | Canada | 2018 | 4:50 | Super 8 to digital
Please Step Out of the Frame | Karissa Hahn | USA | 2018 | 4:10 | Super 8 to digital
We Had a Hard Freeze | Sean Kenny | USA | 2018 | 3:06 | Super 8 to digital
Lands of the Sea | Azucena Losana | Argentina | 2019 | 5:54 | Super 8 to digital
Symptom | Oisin McFarland Smith | Ireland | 2017 | 3:11 | Super 8 to digital
Magic Explained | Paul Tarragó | UK | 2019 | 7:00 | Super 8 to digital
Starfish Aorta Colossus | Lynne Sachs, Sean Hanley & Paolo Javier | USA | 2015 | 5:00 | Super 8 to digital

Nov. 7 at 9pm – Trapped Ghosts (short film program)

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A mostly Super-8 program with an edgy vibe. These films are shot on Super-8 or 16mm film; each is a reflection on loss, corruption, disappearance, nostalgia, power and change. Several of the films incorporate found footage, manipulated physically or digitally. All are shot on Super-8 or 16mm film and transferred to digital.

Image credit: Noemi Pulvirenti, “Torino ’63”

PROGRAM:

ínî/Trapped Ghost | Hanny Hsieh | Taiwan | 2019| 10:00 | Super 8 and 35mm to digital
Monotlith | Gabriel Bullen | Canada | 2018 | 3:20| Super 8 to digital
Beneath a Glass Floor Lobby | Lisa Danker | USA | 2016 | 5:04 | Super 8 to digital
Interzone | Benjamin Poumey | Switzerland | 2014 | 6:28 | Super 8 to digital
Failure/Malogro | Moira Lacowicz | Argentina | 3:37 | Super 8 to digital
Our Great Day 1967 | Roger Horn | South Africa | 2:53 | 2018 | Super 8 to digital
63 Acres | Stephanie Gray | USA | 10:19 | 2019 | Super 8 to digital
Ponchartrain | Adam Sekuler | USA | 4:08 | 2016 | 16mm to digital
Detenerte en el pulso/To hold the pulse | Nicole Remy | Peru | | 6:38 | 2016 | Super 8 to digital
Corruption | Jason Ewert | USA | 2019 | 3:27 | Super 8 to digital
Punctured | Michelle Mellor | USA | 2014 | 3:50 | Super 8 to digital
Trigger Warning | Scott Fitzpatrick | Canada | 2017 | 5:00 | Super 8 to digital
Torino ’63 | Noemi Pulvirenti | Italy | 2017 | 9:40 | Super 8 to digital
Nostaligia Mar/Sea Nostalgia | David Walls | Paraguay | 2018 | 3:10 | Super 8 to digital

Nov. 8 at 7pm – Celluloid Dreams: The Cinema of Janice Findley

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Beloved local filmmaker Janice Findley shows her work and reflects on her oeuvre, while preparing to step behind the camera again to produce a new body of work.

** All films photographed, edited, released, and projected on 16mm! Introduction by Todd Rendleman, Director of Film Studies and Professor of Communication at Seattle Pacific University **

Janice Findley’s fiercely original films explore enchanted, uncharted territory with a wildly imaginative sensibility. Utilizing meticulous stop-motion and live-action techniques, brilliant set and costume design with beguiling musical scores by musician/composer Paul Hansen, Findley creates a subterranean world of emotions that evoke waking dreams. Menacing, inviting and funny, these adventures of the mind dare the viewer to enter into the realm of dreams. Findley’s films have been showcased in a retrospective at MoMA in New York, where her work is part of the permanent collection, and have toured the hinterlands of the U.S. with a widely traveled bicycling projectionist. This remarkable compilation includes Beyond Kabuki, A Nermish Gothic, Tripletime, Faux Paw and I Am The Night.

Findley also produces & directs live stage productions; bringing the spatial energy and incisive focus of the film experience to a theater space. Her third and most ambitious theater production, Caryl Churchill’s The Skriker, 2012, —a dance / theater spectacle — won a Seattle Times Footlight award, critical raves, and two nominations from Theatre of Puget Sound’s Gregory Awards.

In this program:

Beyond Kabuki (1986) 10 min
A Nermish Gothic (1980) 7 min
Tripletime (1978) 4.5 min
Faux Paw (1994) 3 min
I Am the Night (1993) 39 min

“Findley’s plots are difficult to describe: They are driven by equal parts illusionistic film techniques and the filmmaker’s refreshingly untethered imagination. But if you imagine Alice in Wonderland done by a collaboration of …F.W. Murnau …Maya Deren …and Jan Svankmajer, you’ll have something of the idea.” – Randy Gragg, The Oregonian

About Todd:

Todd Rendleman is the Director of Film Studies and Professor of Communication at Seattle Pacific University where he teaches film art, history, and criticism. He is the author of Rule of Thumb: Ebert at the Movies (Bloomsbury, 2012) and he lives in Seattle, Washington.

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Nov. 8 at 9pm – Senses of Time (short film program)

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Films about the play of time in filmmaking, including animation and time-lapse techniques.

** Four films projected on 16mm. **

Image credit: Robbie Land, “Matters of Bioluminescence”

PROGRAM:

Just a Minute | Allison Beda | Canada | 2008 | 1:00 | 35mm to digital
Archeopsychic Time Zones | Georg Koszulinski | USA | 2017 | 5:06 | 16mm to digital
Senses of Time | Wenhua Shi | USA | 2018 | 5:00 | 16mm to digital
Failing Up | Jackie Goss | USA | 2019 | 7:10 | 16mm to digital
Erosion of Blue | Frank Fang | China | 2019 | 3:22 | 16mm to digital
Darkness | Hossein Moradizadeh | Iran | 2018 | 3:00 | 35mm to digital
A Collection of Attempts in Astral Travel | Ryan Betschart + Rachel Nakawatse | USA | 2016 | 7:00 | 16mm to digital
Unless You’re Living It | Sarah Bliss | USA | 2019 | 8:22 | 16mm to digital
A Slower Speed of Light | Stuart Pound | UK | nd | 5:56 | 16mm to digital
Winter’s First Mooons | Kathleen Rugh | USA | 2018 | 3:17 | 16mm
Matters of Bioluminescence | Robbie Land | USA | 2015 | 8:00 | 16mm
Oz | Lawrence Jordan | USA | 9:00 | 16mm
Helios | Eric Stewart | USA | 5:00 | 16mm

Nov. 9 at 4.15pm – Please Step Out of the Frame (short film program)

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Films that, for the most part, elide the human figure in favor of abstraction, handmade film, direct animation, and urban and rural landscapes.

Image credit: Richard Reeves, “Twilight”

PROGRAM:

Before | Cecilia Araneda | Chile/Canada | 2017 | 3:35 | 16mm to digital
Non-Stop Beautiful Ladies | Alee Peoples | USA | 2015 | 9:00 | 16mm to digital
The Lilac Game | Emma Piper-Burkett | USA | 2019 | 4:15 | 16mm to digital
Picture Particles | Thorsten Fleisch | Germany | 2014 | 16mm to digital
Grabados del ojo nocturno/Engravings of the Night Eye | Jean-Jacques Martinod | Ecuador | 2016 | 6:40 | Super 8 and 16mm to digital
Letter I | David Webber | USA | 2018 | 2:01 | 16mm to digital
Fetish Frames_1 | Masha Godovannaya | Russia | 2013 | 3:31 | 16mm to digital
The Woman with a Suitcase | Ana Bravo-Perez | Colombia | nd | 8:00 | 16mm to digital
Agar Agar | Alex Mackenzie | Canada | 2017 | 2:00 | 16mm to digital
Knee Jerk | Kerry Laitala | USA | 2018 | 5:53 | 16mm to digital
Before After Again | Michele Smith and Zoe Kirk-Gushowaty | Canada | 2015 | 6:55 | 16mm to digital
Untitled | Eric Ostrowski | USA | 2019 | 3:41 | 35mm to digital
Le dernier jour du papillon lune/The Last Day of the Luna Moth | Guillaume Vallée | Canada | 2019 | 4:52 | 16mm to digital
Not (a)part | Vicky Smith | UK | 2019 | 6:00 | 16mm to digital
Twilight | Richard Reeves | Canada | 2018 | 2:00 | 35mm to digital

Nov. 9 at 8pm – Closing Night Expanded Cinema Performance and Party

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Expanded Cinema Performance with Live Sound
Performance takes place at the West Ballroom on the 2nd Floor of Oddfellows Hall (915 E. Pine St., two blocks from NWFF)

On Saturday night, the Olympia-based filmmaking collective Crackpot Crafters return to Engauge with their special, immersive brand of LocaLoop craziness. This multi-artist, multi-projector expanded cinema event will fill the capacious West Ballroom with a phantasmagoria of projected and reflected new work, including 16mm photograms, scratched and painted film leader, and adulterated found footage, accompanied by live sound performance integrating synthesizer and cello. We invite you to roam the room, drinks in hand, interacting with projections and projectionists. Each guest receives a free drink with their ticket at the Tin Table bar.

Photo credit: A Crackpot Crafters performance at The Evergreen State College (2016). Photo courtesy Rob Saecker

This festival, presented by Interbay Cinema Society and Northwest Film Forum, is supported by EXcinema and The Sprocket Society.

Sat Nov 2
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Cameraless Filmmaking: Photograms and Ray-o-grams

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Engauge Experimental Film Festival 2019

On Film

About Engauge:

The Program:

Nov. 2 from 11am–4pm – Cameraless Filmmaking: Photograms and Ray-o-grams (workshop)

Nov. 7 at 7pm – Super-8 Hotel (short film program)

Nov. 7 at 9pm – Trapped Ghosts (short film program)

Nov. 8 at 7pm – Celluloid Dreams: The Cinema of Janice Findley

Nov. 8 at 9pm – Senses of Time (short film program)

Nov. 9 at 4.15pm – Please Step Out of the Frame (short film program)

Nov. 9 at 8pm – Closing Night Expanded Cinema Performance and Party

This festival, presented by Interbay Cinema Society and Northwest Film Forum, is supported by EXcinema and The Sprocket Society.

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