Engauge 2025 Embodied Landscapes
Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA
Fri Nov 07: 4.30pm PDT
Festival - Engauge Experimental Film Festival 2025
(70 min TRT)
Filmmakers in this program work with landscape, broadly defined, using it as a prism for their concerns and passions and to speak truth to power.
Films In This Program:
Portrait #2: Trojan
(Rankin Renwick | color + sound | 16mm to digital | 5:00 | US)
good riddance to bad rubbish
Catch Us on the Way Down
(Cali M. Banks | color + sound | 16mm to digital | 6:48 | US)
A poetic and reflexive documentary approach to reproductive healthcare access in North Carolina, specifically on Indigenous reservations.
Butterfly Maneuvers
(Gor Margaryan | b & w + sound | 16mm to digital | 7:05 | Germany)
An experimental essay film based on old, private film footage of fighter planes, Butterfly Maneuvers documents the preparations and training for war, recorded as historical evidence. A central motif of the film is the contrast between the destructive fighter planes and the fragile, seemingly lost images of butterflies. This juxtaposition symbolises the transience and irreversible destruction caused by war. Butterfly Manoeuvres is therefore not only a documentary record, but also a profound reflection on war, loss and the fleeting beauty of life.
Suspicions About the Hidden Realities of Air
(Sam Drake | color + sound | 16mm to digital | 9:07 | US)
Fragmented records reveal a concealed history of Cold Warera human radiation experiments, surfacing through a haze of manipulation and embedded studies. Desert dust settles into teeth, inscribing a residual record. Contaminated images conjure the unseen.
Rain
(Vasilios Papaioannu | b & w + color + sound | 16mm and S8 to digital | 6:01 | US)
Rain, as circular shapes of memory imprinted on the fast paced celluloid or as liquid moving sculptures of the present in digital form, documents a verbal interaction between two people.
Night Collections #1
(Britany Gunderson | color + sound | 16mm to digital | 3:28 | US)
Peripatetic portrait; unearthing and burying an archive of collected images; ghostly remnants.
Transit
(Telemach Wiesinger | b & w + sound | 16mm to digital | 14:43 | Germany)
TRANSIT is a 16mm film poem with a soundtrack by Martin Bergande, a visual journey with the aid of tangential force and the means of transport car, train, ship and aeroplane across the internal borders of the EU to the external edges of Europe.
In the Maritime Frequencies
(Greta Snider | color + sound | 16mm to digital | 15:00 | US)
Well remember the earth as if it were a dream. For the past year, I have been working on a project exploring the coastal landscapes of San Francisco, using darkroom developers made from the solutions of our times bay water, hand sanitizer, and safe detergent. The resultant movie is a conversation about how we internalize our climate emergency, letting mortalities large and small emerge only when the night puts our guard down. Inspired by the San Francisco Bay, dreams, and novelist Octavia Butlers vision of a future California. This film embraces the aesthetics of a crumbling society expired and cast off film, backyard developing, hand cranked camera because it is a premonition, a goodbye, and a last look over the shoulder. Featuring Bill Basquin, Ivy McClelland, Juan Aguirre, Annalise Velasquez, Valerie Soe, Mark Klatte, and Mayuran Tiruchelvam. |
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Northwest Film Forum
1515 12th Ave.
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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| Start: | Friday Nov 07, 2025 4:30 PM | | End: | Friday Nov 07, 2025 6:00 PM |
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| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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Ticketing, concessions, cinemas, restrooms, and our public edit lab are located on Northwest Film Forum's ground floor, which is wheelchair accessible. 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.
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 rajah@nwfilmforum.org
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