Local Sightings 2024 – The Eternal Ephemeral: Experimental Shorts [Hybrid]
Watch in person: Sep. 21 at 7pm
Ticketing, concessions, cinemas, restrooms, and our public edit lab are located on Northwest Film Forum’s ground floor, which is wheelchair accessible. All doors in Northwest Film Forum are non-motorized, and may require staff assistance to open. Our upstairs workshop room is not wheelchair accessible.
The majority of seats in our main cinema are 21″ wide from armrest to armrest; some seats are 19″ wide. We are working on creating the option of removable armrests!
We have a limited number of assistive listening devices available for programs hosted in our larger theater, Cinema 1. These devices are maintained by the Technical Director, and can be requested at the ticketing and concessions counter. Also available at the front desk is a Sensory Kit you can borrow, which includes a Communication Card, noise-reducing headphones, and fidget toys.
The Forum does NOT have assistive devices for the visually impaired, and is not (yet) a scent-free venue. Our commitment to increasing access for our audiences is ongoing, and we welcome all public input on the subject!
If you have additional specific questions about accessibility at our venue, please contact our Patron Services Manager at suji@nwfilmforum.org. Our phone number (206-329-2629) is voicemail-only, but we check it often.
Made possible due to a grant from Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, in partnership with Sensory Access, our Sensory Access document presents a visual and descriptive walk-through of the NWFF space. View it in advance of attending an in-person event at bit.ly/nwffsocialnarrativepdf, in order to prepare yourself for the experience.
As of August 2024, NWFF has adjusted its mask policy from universally required to strongly encouraged at the majority of screenings. In the interest of accessibility, the requirement is still in place for Thursday night screenings and Saturday and Sunday matinees; occasional exceptions will be noted on each event’s page.
Disposable masks are available at the door for those who need them.
Read more about NWFF’s policies responding to the present pandemic here.
About
(58 min TRT)
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 film, including Super8 and 16mm!
Header photo credit: Resistance Meditation, dir. Sara Wylie
BUY TICKETS HERE
- Purchase your ticket through Northwest Film Forum’s Eventive virtual cinema. A free Eventive login is required.
- From the Eventive virtual catalog page, purchased tickets will appear under “My Content Library” under your user menu (upper-right). From the Eventive festival landing page, they will appear under “My Tickets” on the site’s menu bar (at top).
- Your confirmation email will also route you back to these pages to watch. (Can’t find it? Check spam!)
- If all else fails, please contact alison@nwfilmforum.org
- Purchase your ticket through Brown Paper Tickets; come to the show!
- You can also purchase a ticket on the day of the screening at Northwest Film Forum’s box office (1515 12th Ave, Seattle).
- If you have purchased a Hybrid or In-Person-Only Festival Pass, we’ll be able to look you up at Will Call by the name you purchased under.
Films in this program:
,,, so thee lilac never wilt alone ,,,
(elijah jamal asani, Portland, OR, 2023, 15 min, nonverbal)
under every garden, lies a ritual. within this ritual, a blaq flora grieves for their long lost flowers & a desire to create forever blooms. Trailer >
La Jolla
(Matthew Wilbur, Seattle, WA, 2023, 8 min, nonverbal)
Shot in stunning 4K, La Jolla lingers on the flora, fauna, and sunsets that define Seattle’s beautiful Discovery Park. Trailer >
Perennial
(Isaac Forsland & Laura Clark, Vancouver, BC, 2023, 4 min, nonverbal) West Coast premiere!
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. Trailer >
Resistance Meditation
(Sara Wylie, Vancouver, BC, 2024, 5 min, in English) World premiere!
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
(Laura Shelly, Seattle, WA, 2024, 4 min, in English) World premiere!
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 mixes modern and vintage styles of storytelling, creating a unique silent film experience.
Passenger
(Patrick Connelly, Seattle, WA, 2024, 3 min, nonverbal) Seattle premiere!
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 _ _ _ _
(Neely Goniodsky, Bellevue, WA, 2024, 1 min, nonverbal) World premiere!
Today, I <3 U _ _ _ _ challenges traditional societal norms surrounding relationships and sexuality, openly embracing non-traditional relationship structures and rejecting stigmatization of diverse expressions of sexuality. Made from high resolution scans of three intaglio prints of 14-frame animated loops, etched on plexiglass. Trailer >
Fermata in G Minor
(Silas Gobat, Burien, WA, 2023, 5 min, in English) Northwest premiere!
A viola player struggles to fall asleep as she battles the silence around her and the noise inside her mind. Trailer >
synch : swim
(Rana San, Seattle, WA, 2023, 2 min, nonverbal)
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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(Juliet McMains, Seattle, WA, 2023, 4 min, nonverbal) US premiere!
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. Trailer >
120,000 lumens
(Scott Oshima, Seattle, WA, 2023, 13 min, in English) Northwest premiere!
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.
Festival Directory
Presented by Seattle’s Northwest Film Forum, the 27th Annual Local Sightings Film Festival is a virtual-and-in-person showcase of creative communities from throughout the Pacific Northwest. The 2024 program, which runs from September 20–29, features a competitive selection of curated short film programs and feature films, inviting regional artists to experiment, break, and remake popular conceptions around filmmaking and film exhibition.
Local Sightings champions emerging and established talent, supports the regional film industry, and promotes diverse media as a critical tool for public engagement.