Sun Nov 23
5.30pm
5.30pm
South Sound Experimental Film Festival 2025 – Halcyon Days of Symmetry & Dolls vs Dictators
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South Sound Experimental Film Festival 2025 – Cloaven Theater & Evil of Dracula
Sat Nov 22: 5.30pm
- $48 General
- $32 Student/Senior/Child
- $23 Member
- $24 General
- $16 Student/Senior/Child
- $11 Member
- $15 General
- $10 Student/Child/Senior
- $7 NWFF Member
Festival - South Sound Experimental Film Festival 2025
About
SSEFF is proud to present the first-ever screening of films by Sun City Girls.
Cloaven Theater (1994) (VHS)
A mind control experiment shot and edited at the cable public access studios of Viacom in Seattle (after TCI pulled the rug out from under us). It was supposed to be aired, but Viacom’s tech guy screwed up the dub and it never did. So it was released on VHS.
Guest appearances by: Eddy Detroit and Adam Burke (percussion on “The Venerable Song”), Eddy Detroit (goat calls on “Sam Manilla” and “Brothers Unconnected”). Includes a “video comic book” by Blaine Thurier, narrated by Charles Gocher. Filmed by: Charles Gocher, Greg Hynes, Javier Gallegos, Keith Parry, Steve Reetz, Erin Lofton, and Bohemia Afterdark.
Evil of Dracula
Super 8mm color stop motion animated film with hand painting of painted collages of vampires from throughout 1960’s and 70’s advertising.
“A Hypno-Physycho-Vampiric spazzm of fanged advertisements with money-hungry, blood-thirsty grins. This animated film in FANGTASTIC color is enough to cause a line-up at your local Blood Bank. Made with home-spun special effects of funnel-vision and hand-colored film. With a Blood Draining soundtrack by the legendary Lyrical Monster Song Master Jad Fair and musical madman Jason Willett. Originally super-8. “Like a punk-rock offspring from a glue-sniffing union of Carol Burnett and Bruce Conner, Colburn shows us, through found-footage and a camera that won’t sit still the reality of our sick, seventies heritage … filtering it through layers of color and grime to reveal the uneasiness that accompanies the freewheeling attitudes that make up our current cultural consciousness.” – Jeff Lambert
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