…including promotional material announcing the premiere of Idiot Savant, the film whose postering campaign made Karl into City Attorney Doug Jewett’s public enemy #1! Mailed by MIPoPS via USPS (fingers crossed) at the end of the festival. Watch for an email from us to the address you registered with on BPT.

This materially psychedelic time-warp launches viewers through a chaotic recounting of “how the West was won,” warts and all. Overwhelmingly inventive, Eggnog’s rapidfire recombination of claymation, live action, dolls, action figures, and miniature sets is nauseatingly effective at conveying the existential and physical carnage of American history.

According to Krogstad Studios, the film is famous for hosting one of the most bloody animation sequences of violence ever recorded; consider that a disclaimer.

Typical of his working mode, Krogstad had neither Temple on a Stick nor Fork on a Filling ready until shortly before they premiered at Seattle Art Museum. The former tells the story of a filmmaker making a film, while the latter is the film that she makes. While the filmmaker depicted is female, Krogstad still describes this diptych as autobiographical. In his words, “It’s a story about good and evil and about God sort of laughing.“

As a group of scientists, blown off course, crash land their plane, world leaders begin to spontaneously combust. Coincidence? You be the judge. This film is cited by Krogstad’s Geocities site as his most surreal, but considering his filmography, there is no way that nomination could be easily made.

Around 1989, the City of Seattle was prosecuting Karl for postering on telephone poles and deserted buildings. Facing a decade of prison time, he countered that the sentence was unconstitutional, violating his first amendment rights, and won. Janice Findley has provided clips from local TV news outlets that covered the story.

Engauge Experimental Film Festival will be streaming experimental short films by filmmakers from 14 countries and 10 US states between Oct. 27th and Nov. 1st.

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Presented by Seattle’s Northwest Film Forum, the 23rd Annual Local Sightings Film Festival [Online] virtually showcases creative communities from throughout the Pacific Northwest. The 2020 program, which runs from September 18-27, features a competitive selection of curated shorts and feature film programs, inviting regional artists to experiment, break, and remake popular conceptions around filmmaking and film exhibition.

Local Sightings 2020 champions emerging and established talent, supports the regional film industry, and promotes diverse media as a critical tool for public engagement. This year’s festival also celebrates NWFF’s 25th Anniversary as an organization.

• FEATURE FILMS
• SHORT FILM PROGRAMS
• WORKSHOPS & PANELS
• SPECIAL EVENTS
• 25TH ANNIVERSARY

Vote for your favorite films by 12pm PDT on Closing Day, Sep. 27; BEST FEATURE and BEST SHORT winners receive a future screening opportunity at NWFF!

ICS was founded by filmmakers Jon Behrens and Caryn Cline. Our mission is to provide material support for filmmakers working experimentally with celluloid film. Our organization includes

• Lightpress Grants providing artists with the means to digitize their film work,
• Engauge Experimental Film Festival, showcasing sprocket-driven, artist-made work on screen, and
• ICS Educational Initiative, hosting workshops and screenings to practice and understand experimental filmmaking techniques.

We support emerging and established filmmakers through the grant and our festival, and we encourage new filmmakers with our educational initiative. Our ultimate goal is to foster more work on celluloid and to help offset the enormous costs of making film work available in high quality digital formats.

MIPoPS is a nonprofit whose mission is to assist archives, libraries, and other organizations with the conversion of analog video recordings to digital formats according to archival best practices.

Find out more about MIPoPS at mipops.org
Watch past screenings on their YouTube Channel
Browse hundreds of videos they’ve digitized on their Internet Archive collection
Connect with MIPoPS on social media:
Twitter @mipops_seattle
Facebook & Instagram @mipopsseattle

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