It’s been a hard couple of years. These films negotiate the recent or remote past with empathy and even humor. ** All film programs during Engauge 2021 include a virtual filmmaker Q&amp;A that is <a href="https://vimeo.com/showcase/8922398" target="_blank" class="ql-size-large">free to view through the festival’s Vimeo page</a>. Whether you experience the festival in person or at home, check in afterwards to hear from the filmmakers! **

Lightmare was inspired by a group of youths who used to race motorcycles by my house. They would sometimes ride when I was trying to get my young daughter to sleep and caused great aggravation for me. The neighbors became quite worried as well and eventually the police were engaged to stop the racing, unsuccessfully. Stories began to spread about who the youths were and what poor conditions their parents were raising them in. The film attempts to capture the anxiety of the neighborhood, using negative space as a mask to subvert the audience’s expectations of horizon and depth. In contrast, much of the content underscores the triviality of the perceived threat. High levels of film grain enhance the effects of pareidolia, paralleling the human impulse to create stories for the unknown riders. Lightmare was shot on Fomapan R100 Super8mm with in-camera double and triple exposures using the Zenit Quarz 1x8s-2 camera with Kaccema reloadable cartridges. A mixture of lab and home-processing techniques were used. Further matting effects were added in post-production. Final audio mix by Emeen Zarookian.

Lightmare

“Lightmare” attempts to capture the sense of anxiety of a neighborhood plagued by youths night-riding motorcycles. The neighbors' pareidolic response to the situation began to generate stories for the unknown riders...

First Hypnotic Suggestion conjures telepathic transference, hypnosis and collective dream space. Through its spectral tele-cinematic waves, the analogue horror-film protagonists participate in paranormal and fringe scientific experiments, attempting to comprehend the immaterial and incomprehensible expanses of their perception—simultaneously aided and obstructed by the temporal interventions and technological mediations of their transitory parallel dimension. This double-projected film may either be presented and augmented by the filmmakers using components of live sound and manipulated projections, or screened “traditionally” with sound produced from dual, independent optical tracks. Left and right soundtracks, synchronized with their respective images, are intended to engage in subtle, unpredictable shifts and alignments, naturally fluctuating from screening to screening.

First Hypnotic Suggestion

"First Hypnotic Suggestion" conjures telepathic transference, hypnosis and collective dream space.

The actions of the Mexican police during one day of this pandemic. Forms, strategies, decisions, incongruities.

Gatillo

The actions of the Mexican police during one day of this pandemic. Forms, strategies, decisions, incongruities.

Same shot of my house, thinking about moving. Moving out/moving in, emptying boxes one at a time.

Moving, parts one and two

Same shot of my house, thinking about moving. Moving out/moving in, emptying boxes one at a time.

Using anonymous home movie footage of Expo ’67 in Montréal, the artist sets out to recreate a memory that perhaps never existed. Celluloid manipulation and sound decay techniques coalesce to transform the mythic landscape into a sublime expanse of disintegrated memory.

Expo Film (this film is my memory)

Using anonymous home movie footage of Expo ’67 in Montréal, the artist sets out to recreate a memory that perhaps never existed through film manipulation.

Underground hand-developed film, shot on 16mm, represents a deeply personal attitude of the film directors to their hometown of St. Petersburg. The city appears as a place of the Unconscious, where obscure pictures of the houses interpenetrate with images of abstract art, in parallel with newsreel footage of the destruction of the city during WWII. The film is made as a trip, where a real walk through the city transforms into mindflow, depicting the play of memory, phantasms and traumatic history.

Dislocations

Underground hand-developed film, shot on 16mm, represents a deeply personal attitude of the film directors to their hometown of St. Petersburg. The film is made as a trip, where a real walk through the city transforms into mindflow, depicting the play of memory, phantasms and traumatic history.

Spring to Spring in Seattle - Landscape during the pandemic created with footage, cyanotype, and hand-painted Super 8mm and 16mm film.

Spring to Spring

Spring to Spring in Seattle - Landscape during the pandemic created with footage, cyanotype, and hand-painted Super 8mm and 16mm film.

Allostatic load - The cumulative burden of chronic stress and life events. Super 8mm. 2021.

Wear and Tear

Allostatic load - The cumulative burden of chronic stress and life events. Super 8mm. 2021.

Wear & Tear

Sliding Scale

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Below are all of the film programs in the 2021 festival. On each virtual listing, you'll find a link to that program's in-person showtime at NWFF. Virtual programming will be available continuously from Oct. 28 – Nov. 8; in-person programming at NWFF runs Oct. 28–31.

Each Fall, Engauge Experimental Film Festival hosts screenings sponsored by Interbay Cinema Society in partnership with Northwest Film Forum. The festival screens ONLY work that originates on film, by filmmakers both local and international. 2021 marks their return to in-person screenings at NWFF!