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Experimental Shorts Program #1

Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA

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Experimental Shorts Program #1

Sat Sep 21: 4.30pm

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Festival - Local Sightings Film Festival 2019: Short Films
Experimental works from up-and-down the coast from Portland to Vancouver BC engage viewers in a variety of styles, mediums, and techniques.
* Co-presented by Engauge Experimental Film Festival, which takes place at NWFF every November. *

Program curated by guest programmer and filmmaker Linda Fenstermaker, who will be introducing the screening.

Additional filmmakers in attendance for post-screening Q&A!

Aspect to the Sun
(Mauri Bernstein, Vancouver, BC, 2018, 4 min)

A 16mm visual song of physical expression.

DBSR
(Hannah Piper Burns, Portland, OR, 2019, 5 min)

A challenge to our notion of female beauty and modern fashion, with succinct editing that allows viewers to fully embrace the intimacy of the images.

AJE IJO SERIES (2nd INSTALLMENT): UNCONSCIOUS WOMB
(Kianna Harris, Seattle, WA, 12 min)

The second installment of the AJE IJO Short Dance Film Series centers the humanity, resiliency, vulnerability of black & african diasporic people [of all genders], interrogating the western gender binary and interrupting accompanying notions of masculinity and femininity.

Blindfolded
(Rachael Benson, Seattle, WA, 4 min)

A shared experience can occur more often than one might think; it brings people to recognize that humanity, as unique as it is, repeats itself endlessly in infinite circumstances.

Here I Breathe
(Linda Fenstermaker, Seattle, WA, 7 min)

A tender exploration of memory and the passing of time, focusing on the embodiment of nostalgia in youth and old age.

She Who Invites
(Sarah El Bakkouri, British Columbia, 2018, 7 min)

An abstract visualization of the Shinto tale of Izanami; the Goddess of Death and Creation.