Local Sightings 2016 – Northwestern Experiments (Shorts Program)
$12 General Admission
$9 Student/Senior
$7 Member
Join the vanguard of the avant-garde for a baker's dozen of the best recent experimental shorts from the I-5 corridor.
Perilous Experiment
Ruth Hayes | Olympia, WA | 3 min
Seattle Premiere!
A three screen exploration of common word roots, letterpress printed on 16mm film leader.
Painted Hills
Kurtis Hough | Portland, OR | 7 min
Seattle Premiere!
A sculptural and painterly look at the geometry of geology.
Welcome to the 5th Facade
Olson Kundig | Seattle, WA | 6 min
Seattle Premiere!
After spending decades in cryopreservation, a once deceased man struggles to make sense of a strange and unfamilar futuristic city.
Disarmed
Rana San and Will Myers | Seattle, WA | 4 min
Some things are better left unsaid.
We Are Fucked: An Environmental Film
Andrew Sobey | Bothell, WA | 11 min
Northwest Premiere!
A unique environmental film that interrogates its genre, offering a new formula for structure and content in environmental filmmaking.
Dead Mall
Dustin Morrow | Portland, OR | 6 min
Northwest Premiere!
Filmed inside a mostly vacant mall, this haunting experimental film is a meditation on capitalism, consumerism and the gradual decline of the American Shopping mall in recent years.
Flegetone
Steve Demas | Seattle, WA | 5 min
A family on a road trip has no idea about the post-apocalyptic world to come in this experimental film that combines original footage with 1950’s commercials.
Effulgence
Alex MacKenzie | Vancouver, BC | 6 min
Seattle Premiere!
Contrasting refilmed vintage Vancouver tourist bureau promos with original footage, effulgence is an audiovisually meticulous ode to childhood and nature’s passing in an urban world.
Woolgather's House
Anna Firth | Olympia, WA | 6 min
World Premiere!
A doorway to the daydreamed home that forms an oneiric portrait of the spaces we occupy when our minds wander.
Psycho Path
J.P Schmidt | Seattle, WA | 1 min
World Premiere!
PSYCHO PATH is a sensor painting about anxiety, depression, and anger. The questions one will repeat over and over in their head. With strong influences pulling from Japanese Thrash, Punk Rock, and Noise artists
Fake Bird in a Cage
Amy Enser | Seattle, WA | 2 min
World Premiere!
An observational short film showing the life cycle of a wind-up bird in a cage.
Camellia Portraits 1-5
Pam Minty | Portland, OR | 4 min
World Premiere!
An old family photo is a starting point for a journey into the world of its subject, the Camellia.
Meandering
Jon Behrens | Seattle, WA | 6 min
A woman meanders. Moments in the woods. With optical printing and hand-painted frames, nearly freezing time.
solidobjectsinwhich
Brian Short | Coupeville, WA | 5 min
Fragments of beauty and light collide with a dark rhythm.
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