Alex MacKenzie's Apparitions

Inspired by early stereo imaging and the clash and collusion of socioeconomic forces, this work seeks to dismantle cinematic codes while foregrounding projector and light as sculpture: a conscious corruption of and interference with the apparatus to evoke the unexpected, reshaping representation into the realm of material and space. Using colour gels, masking, lens interference and projector movement in tandem with an exploration of binocular disparity, perspective, patterning and the film surface itself, APPARITIONS explores the transitional space between image and abstraction, nature and culture.
"MacKenzie is a key player in the revival of expanded cinema forms...his projects stretch the possibilities of the analogue form, manipulating images to beyond our received expectations." Chris Kennedy, Early Monthly Film Segments.

Grand Illusion Cinema
February 28th, 2017
7:00pm

LOA

 EXcinema co-sponsoring with Northwest Film Forum presents Loa.

From documentary filmmaker Georg Koszulinski comes a visual chronicle of the Vodou religion as practiced in the rural mountains of Haiti. Loa presents an expressive account of rural Vodou via a portrait of the houngan Extanta Aoleé, who has served the Loa, or sacred spirits of Haiti, for over a half century. Koszulinski’s film employs affective elements of documentary practice—Loa features an original ambient-drone soundscape and meditative editing techniques to offer an ethnographic experience more representative of the work of Nathaniel Dorsky than Robert Gardner.

January 25th, 2017
Northwest Film Forum
7:30 pm

GROUP SHOW

New and almost new works from Seattle, Olympia, Coupeville, and Colliguay, Chile. Includes 16 mm and video investigations of nature, indigenous cultures, hand painted films, found footage manipulations, a live projector performance by Devon Damonte, and more. Jon Behrens, Caryn Cline, Linda Fenstermaker, Pablo Molina Guerrero, Georg Koszulinski, Salise Hughes, Reed O'Beirne, Eric Ostrowski, Brian Short, Omar Willey.
Still from Linda Fenstermaker's Partical

December 6th, 2016
Grand Illusion Cinema
7:00 pm

FALL 2016

This fall we will continue our series of solo screenings featuring the work of local northwest filmmakers.

All programs are at Grand Illusion Cinema and begin at 7:00 pm.
$5.00 Grand Illusion Members/  $9.00 General Admission/ $6.00 Students (with valid ID) Seniors (65+)

September 27th

solid objects: Films by Brian Short
Local filmmaker Brian Short will screen a collection of his experimental films, a study in time distortion and visual diffractions from locations ranging from Iceland, Berlin, Utah, and his home on Whidbey Island. His films have screened at New York Film Festival's Views from the Avant-Garde, and his feature All My Love won best film at NWFF's Local Sightings 2007. He will screen the center section from All My Love titled Hermaphrodesiac, as well as a series of shorter works.

 October 11th

SCREENING CANCELED

Juxtaposed Aesthetix: Films by Ben Popp
Beginning with the basics of the frame and the photographic principles allowing for multiple images to exist upon a singular plane,  Portland filmmaker Ben Popp has set a course of exploration through the many realms of cinematic possibilities. Working mostly with 16mm film, the films presented will race between the different forms of construction by which Ben has chosen to tell a particular tale and sometimes that tale is one of the medium itself.  Ben was was a member of the Portland experimental group Grand Detour, co-founder of the experimental film festival EFF Portland, and currently Filmmaker Services Manager for Northwest Film Center. His films have travel the world including a retrospective at 2014 MUMIA International Festival of Underground Animation in Brazil. The films will span the last ten years.



 November 15th

Erasures and Spaces: The Revisionist Films of Salise Hughes
Seattle filmmaker and EXcinema founder Salise Hughes will screen a collection of her digitally erased revisionist short films based on hollywood genres and other found and repurposed footage from popular culture. Her films have screened continually at SIFF’s Alt-Shorts program, International Film Festival Rotterdam, and won awards at Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Documentary and Short Film Festival Belgrade.
 

EXPERIMENTAL SUMMER

Convergence and Cacophony: experimental documents from Dustin Zemel
On June 28th we will present Convergence and Cacophony: experimental documents from Dustin Zemel. Dustin Zemel is an award-winning video artist and scholar. His works and curated programs have screened at Experiments in Cinema (Albuquerque), Horse Hospital (London), PDX Film Fest (Portland), ACRE TV (Chicago) and more. He is the founder and former director of Grand Detour, a microcinema, curatorial group, and educational hub for experimental filmmakers and new media artists in Portland, OR. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD at Louisiana State University as an EDA scholar studying experimental and documentary media.

June 28th
Grand Illusion Cinema
7:00pm

Eric Ostrowski
Seattle's Eric Ostrowski presents a multi-projector performance comprised of 16 mm film loops, video feedback, violin and manipulation of optical soundtracks! Ostrowski will also screen his hallucinatory Avenue of the Dead, a hand-painted barrage offering “subconscious meltdown” amidst “the ruins of Teotihuacán.” Several new films will also be on the program.

July 19th
Grand Illusion Cinema
7:00pm  



 

GROUP SHOW

Our annual survey of Seattle based experimental cinema. This program includes Caryn Cline: The More You Do It, Linda Fenstermaker: Abandoned Generations, Georg Koszulinski: Frontier Journals 02: In the Land of Ancient Light Machines, and Frontier Journals 03: Aztec Baldwin Collage, Eric Ostrowski: Spaceships and Timemachines, Jon Behrens: Desert Abstractions, Salise Hughes: The Tourist, Rob Zverina: excerpts from RobZtv,  and more….

7:00pm, February 23rd at Grand Illusion Cinema

Still from Georg Koszulinski's Frontier Journals 02: In the Land of Ancient Light Machines

The Spaces Between Cities

A world premiere presentation. EXcinema commissioned twenty films by international experimental filmmakers spread across four continents to create one feature length road film. The Spaces Between Cities is a collaboration made in the form of an exquisite corpse. Each film connects randomly to the next by way of a series of prompts creating a continuous road trip, or journey that will connect these different parts of the world.

Filmmakers: Amy Bassin, Mark Blickley, Stephen Broomer , Charles Chadwick, Pip Chodorov, Konstantinos-Antonios Goutos, Pablo Molina Guerrero, Salise Hughes, Douglas Katelus, Anna Kipervaser, Kate Lain, Insa Langhorst, Jesse Malmed, Milan Milosavlijevic, Reed O'Beirne, Arto Polus, Ben Popp, Blanca Rego, Margaret Rorison, Dustin Zemel, Robert Zverina

December 8th, 7:00pm
Grand Illusion Cinema

Dustin Zemel, Shooting Locations: Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Bellingham, Dash Point, & Olympic National Park, Washington; Seaside, Oregon; Montreal, Quebec; Boulder, Colorado; Washington DC; Durham, North Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina and the spaces between.

Amy Bassin and Mark Blickley, Shooting Location: New York

Arto Polus, Shooting Location: (defunct) Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

Anna Kipervaser, Shooting Locations: Colombia; Colorado; New York; North Carolina

Blanca Rego, Shooting Location: Barcelona, Spain

Douglas Katelus, Shooting Locations: San Francisco & Port Costa, California

Insa Langhorst, Shooting Locations: Brandenburg and Berlin, Germany

Jesse Malmed, Shooting Location: Chicago

Kate Lain, Shooting Locations: the nine cities that Huntington Drive passes through over the course of its 16-mile length (there are no spaces between these cities)—Los Angeles, Alhambra, South Pasadena, San Marino, San Gabriel, Arcadia, Monrovia, Duarte, Irwindale

Konstantinos-Antonios Goutos, Shooting Location: Marburg, Germany

Milan Milosavlijevic, Shooting Location: Ruma, Serbia

Margaret Rorison, Baltimore County, Maryland

Pablo Molina Guerrero, Shooting Location: Colliguary, Chile

Pip Chodorov, Shooting Location: Seoul, Korea

Ben Popp, Shooting Location: Portland, Oregon

Reed O'Beirne, Shooting Locations: Washington State, Oaxaca Mexico, Red Rock Canyon, Nevada.

Robert Zverina, Shooting Location: Seattle

Salise Hughes, Shooting Location: Cascade Mountains, Washington State

Charles Chadwick, Shootlng Locations: Porta Costa- San Jose- Colma, New Almaden, California

Stephen Broomer, Shooting Location: Toronto, Canada