Local Sightings Film Festival 2023

Accept the Mystery: Experimental Shorts

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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