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Engauge 2023 Radiant Forms [In-Person Only]
Wed Nov 01: 7.00pm PDT
$14 General Admission
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$7 NWFF/SIFF/GI/PCNW member
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Festival - Engauge Experimental Film Festival 2023 [In-Person Only]
On Film
(80 min TRT)
For our opening night program, were featuring films that celebrate experimental forms in a variety of ways: there are memoirs, animations, narratives, documentaries, observational cinema. Were projecting several of these luminous films on 16mm and one on 35mm. In addition, well have a film that is projected and enhanced with the added dimension of an overhead projector and silhouetted objects. Our closing film features a live score written and performed by local composer Frances Woods.
Films in this program:
A Throwing Forth
(Xiao Zhang | color | sound | 6:04 | 16mm to digital | 2023 | China)
A time remnant inhabits a personal space with a secret, private, unspoken word of ones being. Sliding planes of window and time, throwing drifts of the inner and the outer self, the film seeks in the interval of memory for a transitory reunion with my family.
Luminae
(Dominic Angerame | b + w | sound | 4:00 | 16mm to digital | 2023 | US)
For years I had been shooting with an iris attached to my lens, creating a circle. The sun seemed to be a natural progression of the circle, especially its revolutions. The film is an accession into the heavens. Leaving the grittiness of the streets of construction and destruction behind this film was magically created from the soul of my spirit. The music was also magic in that it glides the imagery into its many manifestations. This film is definitely the result of the magic of cinema capturing a spirit of space that would make George Melies cry in wonder.
Flower Rain
(Wei Gao | color | sound | 8:10 | 16mm to digital | 2023 | China)
Do we dream of flowers, or do we enter into the dream of a flower? Flower Rain is an organic film that grew out of the soil, a film psalm that praises nature. Film director Gao Wei completed the film in three steps: planting, making the plants into photos, making the photos into a movie. During a year in Seoul without travel due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Gao Wei began to explore an art project called Plant Light. Photographic images are generated using organic materials such as plants, organic matter, and photosensitive particles. This film allows the viewer to look at plants and flowers at a microscopic level; it also uses surreal qualities of the plant photos, with glowing flowers drifting like nebulae, and transparent petals like jellyfish snorkeling in the deep sea. The energy that plants draw from the sun and the earth is projected into photographs and projected into films. It can be said that these images are a hymn to nature grown from the sun and the soil.
Intersextion
(Richard Reeves | color | sound | 4:00 | 35mm | 2022 | Canada)
Two abstract energies fall in love, unite as one then disappear into a vanishing point. Both sound and picture handmade onto 35mm film. This film expresses a symbiotic interplay between two cosmic energies contrasting the intersection of reality and self-expression. A film without words. No musical instruments or camera used. Abstract visual music film.
and so it came about (A Tale of Consequential Dormancy)
(Charlotte Pryce | color | sound | 13:00 | 16mm to digital | 2023 | US)
A mythological tale the story of Persephone is retold, recast and relocated on the periphery of a common. The entangled intrigues of the seen and the unseen conspire to disclose an underland at once enticing and threatening. But what are the consequences of such trespassing between worlds? The title of this allegorical story refers to the ecological process that occurs when organisms enter a dormant phase in response to adverse conditions. The film was made during the months and years of the pandemic. There were two aspects of this time that I was particularly struck by: firstly, that the virus occurred because of an extraordinary contact between the animal and human worlds, and secondly, that this contact resulted in a global dormancy. Such events seemed terrifying and inexplicable and yet our folklore, myths and fairy tales are replete with such events and occurrences. In turn these stories drew from observation of natural processes. Filmed in England, Scotland and California. Hand processed 16mm, s8 and magic lantern slides
Water Mining (Eaton Canyon)
(Kate Lain | color | sound | 5:10 | 16mm to digital | 2021 | US)
Water Mining (Eaton Canyon) is a nature document(ary) made *with* a stream, rather than about it. Its images come from a combination of cyanotype, a blue-and-white photographic process dating back to the 1840s, and actual plant material adhered to physical film. I hand-coated clear 16mm leader with cyanotype chemicals, then used sunlight to make photogram-style, cameraless exposures of plant matter I had gathered in and around the stream in Eaton Canyon. Cyanotypes are processed using water, and for this film, I used stream water that I had also collected from the canyon. I approached the film as though the stream, what was in it, its surroundings, the film, the chemicals, and I were all extensions of one another.
Washington
(Ursula Brookbank | color | sound | 8:18 | 16mm to digital | 2023 | US)
As I child I spent summers in the San Juan Islands in Washington. My family came in a salmon pink volkswagen bus from Florida to the marine biology labs at Friday Harbor where my father researched embryos, plants and regeneration. Fifty years later I returned to my fathers lab and there was a storm. Washington will be presented using an overhead projector and found objects.
Radiant Forms
(Ryan Marino | color | sound | 7:00 | 16mm | 2022 | US)
Luminous forms merging in time.
Late December, East of the Sierras
(Bill Basquin | color | sound | 21:00 | 16mm | 2015 | US)
I shot this silent, in-camera edit a little east of the Sierras in Late December over the course of a couple of sunrises and a sunset. The film is languid, using landscape cinematography to evoke mood. Late December, East of the Sierras will be presented with a live musical score composed and performed by Frances Woods.
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