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Local Sightings 2020 - Notes on Camp (Shorts Program)

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Sep. 18-27, 2020

Tickets are non-refundable.

Festival - Local Sightings Film Festival 2020: Short Film Programs

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Reject philistinism! Embrace extravagance! Transcend the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgement! Because in these films, style is everything.

Film Program:
Warren Dunes "Crosstown Villain"
(Joel Mars & Nicholas Bond, Seattle, WA, 2019, 4 min)

Ropey doesnt feel like an outcast around everybody, but its hard to convince certain people of that.

Skipping Shorewood
(Evan Kubena, Seattle, WA, 2020, 8 min)

In the small town of Burien, Washington, a young musician decides to take up the family mantle of becoming a professional athlete.

Our Troll
(D.J. Walker, Seattle, WA, 2019, 12 min)

A dinner goes awry when a Troll with an agenda of his own arrives.

STUCK
(Allison Beda, Vancouver, BC, 2020, 3 min)

A comedic dance film exploration of our modern urban existence (and psychosis?) and the human struggle to connect with each other in an increasingly technologically connected environment that leaves us physically disconnected/starved for human touch.

Conflation: Air&Water
(Lynn Thompson, Seattle, WA, 2019, 4 min)

Ive long been fascinated by the fluidity and anthropomorphism of those floppy guys, or inflatable tube men, as they are called. Here their motion is amplified.

Chris Poage "Bad Weather"
(Ella Stewart, Mel Solli, Neil Birch & Clyde Petersen, Seattle, WA, 2020, 3 min)

A lonely Sea Dragon yearns for more than Tuna-for-one. Music by Chris Poage.

Grisly
(Katrina Brede, Seattle, WA, 2019, 5 min)

A hiker upsets nature with ghastly results.

Murphy's Law
(Kate Green, Burnaby, BC, 2020, 12 min)

In this dark comedy western, three outlaw sisters plans to flee to Dawson City go awry when one of them catches a case of the strange rabies.

Waking Bear "Bigfoot"
(James Winters, Tacoma, WA, 2020, 6 min)

A shy mythical beast is moved to drastic measures to win the affection of a co-worker.