Engauge Experimental Film Festival 2020 [Online]

Tue Oct 27 — Sun Nov 01, 2020

Programs in the festival will be ticketed individually, but passes make experiencing the festival a breeze!

Full festival passes on sale now:

  • $50 General Admission
  • $35 NWFF Member

About Engauge:

Celebrating sprocket-driven, artist-made work.

 

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 42 short films by filmmakers from 14 countries and 10 US states.

Five programs unfold over five days online. Each program runs for 24 hours, from noon on the day it is scheduled until 11am PT the following day. Live conversations with available filmmakers will take place each day at 11am PT.


The Program:

Oct. 27 noon – Oct. 28 at 11am PT |  Program A: Letters To and From

Filmmakers use the short form to address their concerns, remember loved ones, or celebrate an environment. (62 min.)

Films include:

  • * Stephanie Hough, CENTURY: Summer
  • John Barlow, Slate
  • * Rana San, letters to [and from] Pablo
  • * Matt Whitman, THE MEDICATION (ON BLUE)
  • * Asher Coffield, 10 Things to Remember
  • * Alex Morelli, Becoming
  • Vasilios Papaioannu, How
  • Sofia Theodore-Pierce, Hear Me Sometimes
  • * Matthew Wolkow, Des lignes pour colorier l’intérieur/Lines to Color Within

Live conversation with available filmmakers on Oct. 28 at 11am PT! Participating filmmakers marked with an asterisk *

Image credit: John Barlow, “Slate”


Oct. 28 noon – Oct. 29 at 11am PT | Program B: Lumen

Light is central to cinema. These filmmakers play with and interrogate light in a variety of forms. (60 min.)

Films include:

  • * Richard Ashrowan, Prima Luce
  • * Sarah Seené, Lumen
  • Roger Horn, cultural leap (non-linear)
  • * Miles Sprietsma, Harmonium
  • * Paul Turano, Backyard on Saint Rose
  • * Vivian Ostrovsky, Wherever Was Never There
  • * Vito A. Rowlands, Entre Les Images
  • * Melina Coumas, Aquí
  • * Kate Lain and others, Tangled Up in Blue

Live conversation with available filmmakers on Oct. 29 at 11am PT! Participating filmmakers marked with an asterisk *

Image credit: Richard Ashrowan, “Prima Luce”


Oct. 29 noon – Oct. 30 at 11am PT | Program C: Camera Sick

You don’t necessarily need a camera to create short films, but these filmmakers wield the mechanical camera and lenses with aplomb, deftly using a variety of techniques to explore their relationships to others and their environments. (70 min.)

Films include:

  • * Linda Fenstermaker, Sometimes All of Summertime
  • Gregorio Méndez, Hel City
  • * André Silva, Black River
  • * Jean-Jacques Martinod, La Bala de Sandoval/Sandoval’s Bullet
  • * Anna Kipervaser & Rhys Morgan, No Garden Beyond
  • * Jeremy Moss, Camera Sick
  • * Mike Rollo, Eidolon

Live conversation with available filmmakers on Oct. 30 at 11am PT! Participating filmmakers marked with an asterisk *

Image credit: Gregorio Méndez, “Hel City”


Oct. 30 noon – Oct. 31 at 11am PT | Program D: Perilous Experiments

Filmmakers explore the possibilities and promises of experimental film, working with found footage, handmade sequences, double exposures, animation, and digital post-production techniques. (60 min.)

Films include:

  • Jeroen Van der Stock, Stone
  • Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Dada Ship
  • * Federica Foglia, 04/19/68
  • * Matt Soar, ASANASA
  • * Dagie Brundert, Yksi Kaksi Kolme
  • Roger Deutsch, The Flame of the Spent Hour
  • * Karel Doing, Phytography
  • Yuri Muraoka, Transparent, the World Is
  • Michael Higgins, I’m Not a Doctor
  • * Ruth Hayes, Perilous Experiment

Live conversation with available filmmakers on Oct. 31 at 11am PT! Participating filmmakers marked with an asterisk *

Image credit: Yuri Muraoka, “Transparent, the World Is”


Oct. 31 noon – Nov. 1 at 11am PT | Program E: Stories Not for Children

Filmmakers examine the cosmic, mythic, disturbing, edgier aspects of images and sounds. (68 min.)

Films include:

  • Nicole Baker, Imagine None of This is Real
  • Malic Amalya, RUN!
  • A. Moon, How Do They Do It?
  • Michelle Trujillo, Cuentos Para Niños #2/Stories for Children #2
  • * Elizabeth Lowe, Drift
  • James Hollenbaugh, Animal Farm
  • * Georg Koszulinski, New Mexico Death Wish Diatribe
  • * Kamila Kuc, Noonwraith Blues

Live conversation with available filmmakers on Nov. 1 at 11am PT! Participating filmmakers marked with an asterisk *

Image credit: Nicole Elaine Baker, “Imagine None of This Is Real”




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