South Sound Experimental Film Fest 2023

Program 1

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13 films in package
Amulet
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.
Nimueh
"Nimueh" is a hybrid 16mm and digital experimental film that explores the mythologizing of the body after violence and death.
Konstantin
Through triple-exposed, high-contrast B&W film, Konstantin explores themes of queer love and queer ecology. It invites the viewer to enter a unique and poetic world, where the boundaries between the human and natural realms blur and merge.
Signal
We burn away our bonds from old forms and ideals and stagnancy due to a global pandemic. This film is a spell cast to help us all break our self-limiting bonds and remember to lean on each other, and continue to inspire each other to keep walking forward. To keep burning.
She's Watching
When she wakes up trapped in a nightmare, she must find a way out by facing her biggest fear: herself.
moto baby
A love letter magnifying the intersection of transgender identity, nature, and motorcycles.
Home
A Tibetan refugee shares his story growing up as part of the first wave of Tibetans to settle in India as his daughter responds and connects through narrative movement.
1000 Waters (Oceans & Friends)
A video meditation on the element of water. When I feel disconnected from myself, loved ones, or the Earth, I find it helpful to remember that water is relentless in its efforts to connect. Water is in constant motion, changing and transforming, linking everything to everything else on this planet and beyond.
66 Motel
"66 Motel" explores the misconnections, the unspoken thoughts, and the delusions we experience in our digitally connected world.
Cameras are clocks for seeing
Incorporating text fragments from Roland Barthes as stanzas interspersed into personal meditations on landscape photographs taken by my beloved as a teenager. I meditate on how Seattle (the city where we met) and the time that we have spent there (together and apart) has shaped how we experience place, identity, and our relationship.
Bubblegum
Star and Cleo – two siblings from a small town – have to choose between personal gain or honest sacrifice when they stumble upon a life-changing reward.
unwavering/unfettered
Hammered into 16mm found footage of a police propaganda film, subtext emerges letter for letter from the redundancy of repeated text—a reclamation of bodily autonomy from those who pose as protectors.
Spetunia Rising
In the depths of far away places, what do we discover that stirs the smile, entices the light, that lures the fish?

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.

  • Runtime
    2 minutes
  • Country
    United States
  • Director
    Ruth Hayes
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