Engauge Experimental Film Festival 2021

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9 films in package
Parenthesis
In this lonely contemplation of a past summer, the ancient promontory becomes a parenthetical projection of frantic lines and alternating impressions.
Because the sky is blue
A short piece paying tribute to my hometown Wuhan, China, applying cyanotype methods to 15-second social media videos from my childhood friends' feeds.
LIMEN
threshold. between two states of being. the boundary of perception.
five miles Another (for Diana)
A meditation on loss and what is left behind. A letter to a friend.
A Return
Peering into layers, sliding planes of windows and time, the fragmentary gesture of the dance. A series of rapid contrasts, a synthesis of elemental and everyday experience. Structures shift and intermingle, two worlds become one.
Psychic Meat
"The film is a diary and act of bearing witness in which Wardell tells of his father’s artificial heart valve, the industrial farming industry that both provided the tissue for it and arguably hastened its necessity, and their somewhat distant father-son relationship." Poetically hand-developed in salt, a curing agent for meat. (Excerpt from a synopsis by Ben Nicholson for Alt/Kino)
Black
Black is made entirely using images from found 16mm footage. The movie reflects the director's observations of the political and cultural turmoil after the 1979 revolution in Iran, along with her experiences of everyday life abroad.
Out in the Sky Nobody Sleeps
“Put me on the train, send me back to my home. Couldn't live without you when I tried to roam.”
Film for Storm de Hirsch
Rephotographed psychedelic painted and scratched images, collaged and abstracted. An homage to underground experimental poet and filmmaker, Storm de Hirsch; one of the great unsung women in avant-garde film in the 1960s.

These films occupy the thresholds among nostalgia, sorrow, renewal, loss, longing and memory.


** All film programs during Engauge 2021 include a virtual filmmaker Q&A that is free to view through the festival’s Vimeo page. Whether you experience the festival in person or at home, check in afterwards to hear from the filmmakers! **

“I don't want to put any labels on my films… I never impose on you; you need to find what you have to find.”

― Storm de Hirsch


Film for Storm de Hirsch (AKA Women's Time) is a handmade film and a tribute to legendary filmmaker Storm de Hirsch, one of the pioneers of underground experimental cinema in the 1960s, along with other female directors such as Marie Menken, Barbara Hammer, Gunvor Nelson, Joyce Wieland, Shirley Clarke, Barbara Rubin and many others.


Film for Storm de Hirsch includes images of clothespins and film leader, slowed down to suggest the idea of women's waiting, women's time, women's spaces; women artists and filmmakers "waiting" to be rediscovered. Their work lives on and inspires so many young experimental filmmakers and female video artists who search for the path that many avant-garde women paved in experimental film, video and art.

  • Year
    2021
  • Runtime
    4 minutes
  • Language
    n/a
  • Country
    United States
  • Director
    Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
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