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South Sound Experimental Film Festival 2023 [Hybrid] - Program B
Sun Nov 26: 7.00pm PT
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$17 General Admission
$13 NWFF Member
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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, 7pm at Northwest Film Forum! Thank you for your support.
Films in this program:
Annie Schultz - "Waiting"
(Nick Roetemeyer, Olympia, WA, 4:15)
Official Music Video for Waiting by Annie Schultz from Trailing Twelve Records.
Cortex
(Wesley Adam Klingele, Kent, WA, 2:30)
The human memory and the invention of the camera converge in an impossible new change.
Ayethowe
(Jay Anthony Baker, Corvallis, OR, 3:50)
An experimental film about senses of place and journeys of emotional locatedness.
Made with help from Val Chang, and dance from Shane Scopatz & Ayelet Nadav.
little blue clown
(blue jaye corvidae, Portland, OR, 2:30)
An experimental, traumacore short film written and directed by blue jaye corvidae, shot by buq corvidae-schulte.
Video opens on the [Projected Soul Impression] of the [Audience]s anticipation and expectation of the [Performer]. The [Performer] enters the stage dressed as a [Ghost of Themself], projected upon with the [Audience]s memory of prior performance, the [Performer] as [Ghost of Themself] begins to perform. Struggling to maintain the pressure of performance and expectation, the [Performer As Ghost of Themself] is distorted by panic, pulled into [Panic Attack], unable to maintain [Self], they excavate, dissociate, disappear into a small terrified inner place, seeing you, seeing them.
Spit It Out
(Melina Kiyomi Coumas, Portland, OR, 3:30)
An experimental short exploring the filmmakers lifelong struggle with a speech impediment. Shot on super 8mm film.
Polly, Paulina, Pauline
(Misty Shipman, Newport, WA, 10:44)
When ballet dancer Polly wakes up in a fugue state, she is haunted by hallucinations and visions of her best friend, whose tragic death haunts her.
gatekeeper
(Eric Michael Acosta, Seattle, WA, 16:06)
The negotiation on moving through.
Peisinoe
(Mary Evans, Eugene, OR, 5:05)
The title Peisinoe is the name of a Greek siren. I imagine Carolines character luring in her victims with mystery and innocent wonder. Not to drown them in the ocean, but to trap them in an in-between state of consciousness.
Creolese Curry
(Zoë Gamell Brown, Eugene, OR, 5:20)
Creolese Curry is an homage to diasporic connectivity through poor images and hyperreal extensions of geographies from the Caribbean to the States. The intention behind this video was to hear more about my mothers childhood in Guyana and her experience growing up on the farm. The story turned into how my mother uses food to physically and mentally heal herself while recognizing her tense relationship with food.
In 2020, my mom had two strokes, requiring her to wear light-sensitive glasses and be even more cautious about her health. My mother and I have dreamt of creating a Guyanese American cookbook for years, and this recent scare reminded us that life doesnt wait for opportunities as sweet as these to occur. The video occasionally glitches and sits out of sync, reflecting our imperfect but functioning relationships centered around food, medicine, and stories.
As a queer Boviander Guyanese American practicing placemaking from the Caribbean to the Gulf and now the Northwest, I grapple with how my mother and I can often connect through paralleling laughter and disconnect through distance over ideas of life. Invoking Legacy Rusells Glitch Feminism, my video also celebrates Hito Stereyls poor image, Sky Hopinkas vignettes of home, and Duval Timothys integrative form of sharing diasporic knowing.
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Germination
(Sean Waple, Seattle, WA, 6:04)
Germination is a formal and temporal reinterpretation of vegetative life cycles.
Score written and performed by Victoria Jordanova.
Disfigured Flames
(Sepia Katsoolis, Seattle, WA, 5:00)
Disfigured Flames is an analog 16mm experimental short film about a cyborg rebirth. The transsexual body is branded inhuman for its transformation, for transcending sex, it becomes an object; can it become more than human? How have we created a separation of transgender and cisgender bodies along the false lines of genetics and biology? A white pigeon is sacrificed for the transformation. A transmasc couple rises from a claw-foot bathtub filled with homemade soy milk; the film itself is eco-processed in homemade soy milk, creating a dreamy, sparkling texture on the film. The characteristic white liquid is reminiscent of artificial beings and cyborgs in dystopian Sci-Fi: bridging the gap between natural and constructed or human and artificial. Using direct filmmaking, I scratch-wave rows of lines and shapes into the emulsion of the film itself using a drypoint needle, drawing and painting directly on the film with India Ink. The flame or root-like white shapes are the surviving headlines and newspaper clippings from around the PNW about Robert Gaffney (1872-1916), a Transmasc who lived as a man openly for 20 years in Seattle, screen printed directly onto clear film leader.
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Twin Seas
(Hali Autumn, Portland, OR, 30:00)
Began fierce and tender. Waves coming toward each other in flesh and in water. Interruptions of rock formations. Intertwining spirals formed by the body crawling across the sand
Featuring Vanessa Skantze; presented with a live score by To End It All
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