Event
South Sound Experimental Film Festival - Film Program A [In-Person Only]
FILM PROGRAM A: November 23 (Saturday)
45:30 | TONY CONRAD: Completely in the Present
5:306:30pm | intermission / Lobby Performance
6:308:30pm | Short Film Program A
8:30-9pm | Ceremonial Abyss Plays Tony Conrad
$17 General Admission
$15 Student/Senior
$13 NWFF Member
TONY CONRAD: Completely In The Present:
(Tyler Hubby, US, 2016, 96 min, in English)
From performing in Jack Smiths legendary Flaming Creatures to creating a series of groundbreaking experimental films to playing a pivotal role in the formation of The Velvet Underground, Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present, twenty-two years in the making, examines the pioneering life and work of artist, musician, and educator, Tony Conrad.
Short Films (In Order of Screening):
Eulogy, Elegy
eulogy, elegy is intended to be understood as a private conversation between myself and the viewer. During the course of our conversation I relate stories about the loss of my mom, about finding trans-identity and about the ways that our actions make lasting meaning for the people they touch.
Lily King
13:12, Portland, OR
Melencolia: The End of the Alphabet
A sadness rolls over me as I gaze into the entrails of this pandoras box and my shadow cranks a lost appendage for the sake of ontological tangents and bewitched spaces. I want you to witness The Hallucinatory Zone of Neo-Liberal death hounds and lost gazes that expand and contract time.
Made of multiply-exposed 16mm film, mostly edited in camera. Starring Zora Zajicek
M Woods
15:36
Hemorrhage
Animated agit-prop: against the end of Roe and the evisceration of womens rights to choose.
Ruth Hays
4:06, Olympia, WA
Bread & Honey
Cole and Lux coexist in their own miniature state of existence while striving to become one. Fully embracing this goal, they decide to consume each other.
This film was written and created to be, overall, a love letter. The idea behind this film was to portray multiple essences of sublime moments in time while the world feels like it is tumbling around us, thus creating a tiny world with the person you love. They have poetic conversation on the outer chaos, existential-like dreams, and reading excerpts about what it would be like to be eaten and become a martyr through that act. The narrative of Bread and Honey is all metaphorical. What is it like to love the peace of being with someone so much that you want to live with them forever? Accompanied by an experimental score by Vanille Onyx (Kyndra Lee), Takeshita & Minus Two
Kyndra Lee
8:06, Seattle, WA
Gab
This piece continues my exploration of nature alongside significant queer individuals in my life. Filmed across various forests, arboretums, and gardens in Seattle and Vancouver with artist and friend Gabby Follett, this film employs intricate visual layering, hand-processed film, and biofeedback sound to delve into themes of queer ecology. The work celebrates the beauty of non-hierarchical, non-binary, and non-human-centric ways of experiencing queerness in and as part of nature.
Hogan Seidel
3:19, Seattle, WA
,,,so thee lilac never wilt alone,,,
under every garden, lies a ritual. within this ritual, a blaq flora grieves for their long lost flowers & a desire to create forever blooms. created by elijah jamal asani & shot/edited by Jonathan Woods, ",,, so thee lilac never wilt alone ,,," is a short film accompaniment to the experimental album "ephemerals' forever(s)" by bà.
Elijah Jamal Asani
14:36, Portland, OR
Woman On A Rocket
Through a turbulent transition, Woman finally embraces change. A nod to Maya Deren. My first time shooting on color film. An exploration of color, scale and play.
Sierra Cosmidis Grove
4:08, Olympia, WA
Mechanical Eye
A representative piece about women's beauty standards. Constructing oneself to the eye of media and the need to alter ourselves to fit into societal standards.
Deb Seitz
5:30, Portland, OR
Oh Then Until
Oh Then Until is a short film that depicts a candid moment of the film maker becoming grounded in her own body through material connection, queer heritage, and a much needed bath. The audience is allowed into an otherwise private moment of bathing, exploration and relaxation where Hawk Ferdig is able to find the absurdity of queer materials, her own body, and historical context. This work is simultaneously a powerful means of portraying her own identity, as well as demonstrating the dissociative self objectification required to exist within her body on a day to day basis.
Hawk Ferdig
10m,Portland, OR
CEREMONIAL ABYSS PLAYS TONY CONRAD FEAT. (THE FLICKER)
Ceremonial Abyss Plays Tony Conrad presents a live collaboration based around an unknown, found mixtape of Tony Conrads work. Transcending the fixed constraint of the medium, the cassette will be acting as a Present Source, (e.g. as an instrument in the room), by way of generative modular processing from the performer. The performer (Abyss) will be responding to the tape with additional live electronics as a secondary musician in an improvisational setting, letting the ghost of Tony Conrad completely lead the way.
Ceremonial Abyss (1987-) is an aleatoric tape artist, curator and writer based in the Pacific Northwest. He has toured the U.S. extensively in support of his releases 23, Betrayal, and Tape Study for Four Variants. Along the way, he has performed with musicians and authors such as Pete Swanson (Yellow Swans), Jennifer Soong, Zan da Perry, Vi Khi Nao, DIIV, and Will Alexander.
Tony Conrad (1940-2016) was a multidisciplinary artist known for his groundbreaking art, music, films, and videos, although his work doesnt fit comfortably within any of these disciplines. He eschewed categorization and actively sought to challenge the constraints of media forms, their modes of production, and the relationships of power embedded within them. Conrad was an early member of the Theatre of Eternal Music, along with La Monte Young, John Cale, Angus Maclise, and Marian Zazeela.
The Flicker is a 1966 American experimental film by Tony Conrad. The film consists of only 5 different frames: a warning frame, two title frames, a black frame, and a white frame. It changes the rate at which it switches between black and white frames to produce stroboscopic effects.
Conrad spent several months designing the film before shooting it in a matter of days. He produced and distributed The Flicker with the help of Jonas Mekas. The film is now recognized as a key work of structural filmmaking.
*Warning - this film may cause epilepsy (though there has been no recorded instances of this occurring). Heavy strobing occurs and is not recommended for those who are prone to seizures.
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LocationNorthwest Film Forum (View)
1515 12th Ave.
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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