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South Sound Experimental Film Festival 2023 [Hybrid] - Program A
Sat Nov 25: 7.30pm PT
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$17 General Admission
$13 NWFF Member
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Festival - Local Festivals Hosted at NWFF
About
The South Sound Experimental Film Festival is a celebration of experimental filmmaking from local artists in the Pacific Northwest. Our intention is to harbor a community for the exploration and development of the creative potentialities of the growing medium. Our mission is to platform independent work which may otherwise get pushed to the fringe due to identity, insufficient resources, or qualifications of practice or technique.
The inaugural festival of 2021, in partnership with Northwest Film Forum, was a complete success. We are beyond grateful for the incredible support we have received from NWFF, and thanks to their continual sponsorship, we are looking forward to another year of screening the best experimental independent cinema we can find in the PNW.
In collaboration with NWFF, we are further able to contribute to a vast international network of experimentation, new filmic vocabulary and contemporary hybriditywithin the usage, development, and screening of film.
We invite you to join us on November 25 & 26 at Northwest Film Forum! Thank you for your support.
Films in this program:
Amulet
(Ruth Hayes, Olympia, WA, 2:17)
The bells, or koudounia, that goats and sheep in Crete traditionally wore served as amulets to ward off evil spirits. Still in use, they also help shepherds know where their flocks are and what they are doing. Animated to a track composed of koudounia samples, this films abstract imagery originated in cameraless techniques that include stencil and bleach on 16mm color stock, and cyanotype.
Nimueh
(Abigail Hendrix, 14:59)
Nimueh is a hybrid 16mm and digital experimental film that explores the mythologizing of the body after violence and death.
Konstantin
(Hogan Seidel, Seattle, WA, 3:13)
Konstantin is an experimental film shot on high-contrast black and white 16mm film using a single 100ft reel. The film is an in-camera edit with triple exposures, creating a layered and complex visual language. Through this aesthetic, the piece explores themes of queer love and queer ecology. It invites the viewer to enter a unique and poetic world, where the boundaries between the human and natural realms blur and merge. Pushing against human exceptionalism and into a world where there is no natural or unnatural.
Can a walk in the forest, a kiss between lovers, a roll of film, the touch of lichen, liberate ourselves from these hierarchies?
Signal
(Heather Hindes, Portland, OR, 7:52)
Isolated in the desert, something is created out of nothing. Signal was made in research between the creative habit and the elemental symbol of fire and its many images. We burn away our bonds from old forms and ideals and stagnancy due to a global pandemic. This film is a spell cast to help us all break our self limiting bonds and remember to lean on each other, and continue to inspire each other to keep walking forward. To keep burning.
She's Watching
(Ruby Lee, Seattle, WA, 2:59)
You are your own worst critic.
When she wakes up trapped in a nightmare, she must find a way out by facing her biggest fear: herself.
moto baby
(Awa Moon, Seattle, WA, 3:37)
A love letter magnifying the intersection of transgender identity, nature and motorcycles.
Home
(Sonam Tshedzom Tingkhye, Seattle, WA, 11:05)
A Tibetan refugee shares his story growing up as part of the first wave of Tibetans to settle in India as his daughter responds and connects through narrative movement. She dances with gesture, expansion, and carves through her childhood home while recognizing the adaptive nature of the Tibetan identity across generations. As the story progresses, the camera expands on movement with match cut editing, shifting perspective, and magnifying expression. Metaphors reveal themselves and the father recalls returning to his homeland after 50 years.
Dance, camera, and story merge as Home creatively unveils the Tibetan resilience by uniting both immigrant and first-generation voices.
1000 Waters (Oceans & Friends)
(Julie Perini, Portland, OR, 4:14)
When I feel disconnected from myself, loved ones, or the Earth, I find it helpful to remember that water is relentless in its efforts to connect. Water is in constant motion, changing and transforming, linking everything to everything else on this planet and beyond.
1000 Waters (Oceans & Friends) is part of the 1000 Waters series; video meditations on the element of water. All of the shots in 1000 Waters are culled from my archive of daily video shooting with a consumer camera, a Flip camera or iPhone. Since April 1, 2011, I have been shooting a single-take, 60-second video each day, called a Minute Movie. I recently organized the Minute Movies into a massive database of over 5000 shots. About 20% of the shots in the archive contain water in the form of streams, lakes, the ocean, fountains, waterfalls, bath tubs, sinks, rain, hot springs, and more.
66 Motel
(Jalen Thompson, Eugene, OR, 12:51)
Cameras are clocks for seeing
(Chelsea Werner-Jatzke, Seattle, WA, 3:30)
Drawing on Roland Barthes, Cameras are clocks for seeing incorporates text fragments from Barthes as stanzas interspersed into personal meditations on landscape photographs taken by my beloved as a teenager. As a curator of Good Symptom (3rd Thing Press, 2023), a serial publication of time-based literature, I have been spending a lot of time with Barthess Camera Lucida, the source material for the title of the publication. During this time, I discovered these photographs in my husbands childhood dresser and was inspired to meditate on how Seattle (the city where we met) and the time that we have spent there (together and apart) has shaped how we experience place, identity, and our relationship.
Bubblegum
(Celestine Ocean, Seattle, WA, 12:00)
Star and Cleo two siblings from a small town have to choose between personal gain or honest sacrifice when they stumble upon a life-changing reward.
unwavering/unfettered
(Rana San, Seattle, WA, 2:34)
Hammered into 16mm found footage of a police propaganda film, subtext emerges letter for letter from the redundancy of repeated texta reclamation of bodily autonomy from those who pose as protectors.
Spetunia Rising
(Meriden Vitale, Quilcene, WA, 7:30)
In the depths of far away places, what do we discover that stirs the smile, entices the light, that lures the fish? What else could but mingle beastly desires with such innocence? Spetunia is ready to find out.
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