Local Sightings Film Festival 2024

The Eternal Ephemeral

Expired September 30, 2024 6:59 AM
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11 films in package
,,, so thee lilac never wilt alone ,,,
under every garden, lies a ritual. within this ritual, a blaq flora grieves for their long lost flowers & a desire to create forever blooms.
La Jolla
Shot in stunning 4k, La Jolla lingers on the flora, fauna, and sunsets that define Seattle's beautiful Discovery Park.
Perennial
Shot on Super8 film to hypnotic effect, Perennial finds poignancy and sensuality within a mundane domestic scene: dish-washing. Delicate imagery is used to explore themes of transcendence, the porous boundaries between ourselves and the world, and the natural cycles of life.
Resistance Meditation
A meditation on crip time as resistance by a chronically ill filmmaker. Shot on Super 8 and non-toxically eco-processed with plant materials by hand.
FEMME
A fanciful, darkly comedic look at periods, as viewed through the dreamy lens of a day in the life of the title character, Femme. FEMME mixes modern and vintage styles of storytelling, creating a unique silent film experience.
Passenger
Passenger is a 16mm scratch animation about the experience of commuting by train, exploring the movement of repeating patterns and shapes that pass by on the familiar route.
Today, I <3 U _ _ _ _
Today, I
Fermata in G Minor
A viola player struggles to fall asleep as she battles the silence around her and the noise inside her mind.
synch : swim
A deconstructed how-to haiku for staying afloat through the endurance sport of life. Featuring "Polycalia Myrtifolia" from the album Seeds by Pablo Schvarzman.
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Peering through a purple chain-link fence, a voyeuristic camera reveals a dancer at play. Confined by a fence, bordering a picnic table that surrounds a tree encased in concrete crosshatches, the dancer explores how this architecture impacts her movement.
120,000 lumens
At risk of erasure, Los Angeles' Little Tokyo community fought to build a permanent home for its Japanese American arts and culture in 1980. In the quiet of the pandemic, 120,000 lumens observes the time and memory embodied by a building.
Closed captions available

Blending poetry, autofiction, and landscape study, these films tackle such heady topics as the queer disabled experience and our relationship to time. Featuring a smorgasbord of techniques, including eco-processing, intaglio printing, and direct animation. More than half are shot on Super8 or 16mm!



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

A fanciful, darkly comedic look at what it means to be a person who bleeds, as viewed through the dreamy lens of a day in the life of the title character, Femme. FEMME mixes modern and vintage styles of storytelling, creating a unique silent film experience.

  • Year
    2024
  • Runtime
    4 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Premiere
    World
  • Note
    (Laura Shelly, US, 2024, 4 min, in English) World premiere!
  • Director
    Laura Shelly
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