Local Sightings Film Festival 2023

Accept the Mystery: Experimental Shorts

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Spit It Out
An experimental short that explores the filmmaker's lifelong struggle with a speech impediment. Shot on super 8mm film.
Become
An exercise in commitment, this video poem is a collaboration between wife and husband. The outcome is a true love poem, full of the fear, doubt, and hesitation that comes with the willingness to commit to someone, to become family.
Closed captions available
Hemorrhage
An animated work of agit-prop against the end of Roe and the evisceration of women’s rights to choose.
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47°38'51"N, 122°18'04"W Summer Solstice
Expressions of landscape, seasonality, precipitation and a fluid zoom in and out of time-scales create this dynamic portrait of a PNW moment. Phytography, cyanotype, and collage are applied to 16mm film and run at varying speeds, interlaced with found audio of sporting events and poetic stanzas that invite a contemplative state.
berlinmusik
Accidental symphonies of Berlin.
everything circles back to you
This poem is built from six conversations with my queer and trans friends about family, love, and care.
Closed captions available
refrigerator hum
Experiments in reanimating intergenerational, collective memory.
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Echo Park Film Center Workshop Film
A film produced by the students of Local Sightings 2023's 16mm workshop, "16mm Found Footage Fiesta," with instructor Lisa Marr of Echo Park Film Center.
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These poetic experiments incorporate a range of materials and techniques – newspaper collage and hand-painted film, 16mm and Super8 – to interrogate landscape, time, relationships, family history, and other great mysteries of human existence. The program concludes with a short produced by participants in Echo Park Film Center’s two-day found footage workshop. (67 min TRT)



Watch this program in person at NWFF, Sep. 24 at 6:30pm. VIRTUAL, IN-PERSON, and HYBRID (virtual AND in-person) Festival Passes and Individual Tickets are available!


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An experimental short that explores the filmmaker's lifelong struggle with a speech impediment. Shot on super 8mm film.

  • Year
    2023
  • Runtime
    3 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Premiere
    World Premiere
  • Director
    Melina Kiyomi Coumas
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