Local Sightings Film Festival 2022

Living Experiments

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12 films in package
Garden Glimpses
"Garden Glimpses," inspired by Marie Menken's "Glimpse of the Garden," is the second in a series of films about artists of the everyday. Camera double exposures capture the colors and textures of landscape architect Keith Geller's Seattle garden on an early summer day.
a valley myth
Cold work and dark cattle, many things to form a valley.
Bad Neighborhoods
The architecture of the urban world, while responsive and living in its own right, is not necessarily hospitable.
Safe and Seen on 82nd
As Unit Souzou’s taiko drum tracks pound in the foreground, a pedestrian of Asian descent in Portland, OR struggles to be seen. The struggle is both metaphorical and literal, as their walk traverses Portland's Jade District, where pedestrian safety suffers from the neglect of infrastructural racism. Growing increasingly frustrated, our character's anger reaches an internal fever pitch before entering a transformative emotional turning point and joyful release.
Thoughts on Time & Lessons Learned
An experimental audio/visual diary consisting of a group of people discussing their thoughts regarding time, aging, and lessons learned.
Closed captions available
Untwined
Untwined is a dance film highlighting the transformative choreography of Bennyroyce Royon alongside four students with no formal dance training, who struggle with daily insecurities until they are transformed by the healing force of a Banyan tree. Individually and collectively weaving through pain, self-doubt, and inner conflicts, they arrive at their own growth and connectivity.
This is Concrete II
Experimental Seattle-based performance and dance company MALACARNE responds to the architecture and history of the decommissioned Georgetown Steam Plant in this excerpt from a five-hour durational dance piece exploring relationship to bodies and time.
Made on a Mac
When a library of over 2,000 stock images, thumbnails, and sound bites were inexplicably imported onto the filmmaker's laptop, what started off as a found footage project on the 2011 Occupy Wall Street movement became a piece about being corrupted.
THE CALLING
Weaved with undertones of Greek mythology, this genre-bender screen dance is an allegory for the power struggle between the divine feminine and masculine energies.
Amulet
The bells, or koudounia, that goats and sheep in Crete traditionally wore served as amulets to ward off evil spirits. Still in use, they also help shepherds know where their flocks are and what they are doing. Animated to a track composed of koudounia samples, this film’s abstract imagery originated in cameraless techniques that include stencil and bleach on 16mm color stock, and cyanotype.
Window Circumstance
Window Circumstance is an experimental film poem that creates a parallel between windows, vision, and cinema. The viewer is invited to reflect on the act of filmmaking as a rectangular container for one’s experience of reality.
Garden Haiku
Handmade 16mm phytography sequences interact with a homegrown haiku inspired by spring in the filmmaker's garden.

To be alive is to try. To take form and dissolve. In Living Experiments, plant matter, tech clutter, bodies, and buildings collide—abstracting movement, sound, space, and time. Co-presented with Engauge Experimental Film Festival & Velocity Dance Center!


Watch this program in person at NWFF, Sep. 21 at 7:30pm. VIRTUAL, IN-PERSON, and HYBRID (virtual AND in-person) Festival Passes and Individual Tickets are available!


⚠️ Please note: NWFF patrons will be required to wear masks that cover both nose and mouth while in the building. Disposable masks are available at the door for those who need them. We are not currently checking vaccination cards. Read full Covid policies here.

Untwined is a dance film highlighting the transformative choreography of Bennyroyce Royon alongside four students with no formal dance training, who struggle with daily insecurities until they are transformed by the healing force of a Banyan tree. With the help of two mysterious dancers, the students are transported into a kaleidoscopic world of seasonal changes as bodies flow, extend, and intertwine against natural and unnatural landscapes. Individually and collectively weaving through pain, self-doubt, and inner conflicts, they arrive at their own growth and connectivity.

  • Year
    2022
  • Runtime
    6 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    WA
  • Premiere
    World Premiere
  • Director
    Joshua Kong
  • Producer
    Melissa Lopez
  • Cast
    Darwin Black, Bennyroyce Royon, Jessica Alter, Jose Cuevas-Lopez, Nicole Burnett, Robert Hawley
  • Cinematographer
    Valerie Lo
  • Editor
    Joshua Kong, Robert Hawley, Valerie Lo
  • Sound Design
    Anirudh Rao, Nour Currie, Carla Cedeno
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