Sat Nov 2
11.00am
11.00am
Cameraless Filmmaking: Photograms and Ray-o-grams
workshop
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
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).
Nov. 7 at 7pm – Super-8 Hotel (short film program)
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)
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
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.
Nov. 8 at 9pm – Senses of Time (short film program)
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)
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
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