Radical Experiments
Saturday, October 26, 2019
8:00 PM
SIFF Film Center
*This screening may not be suitable for all ages.
ADULT: $13 | YOUTH: $12 | GROUP: $11
They say experimentation unlocks your inner genius. Actually, nobody says that but it sounds good, right?! If it's true, these directors are well on their way to Marie Curie-levels of ingenuity. Open your mind and take an impressionistic trip into the deep psyche of underground NFFTY imaginative inventiveness. En garde, avant-garde!
Ayana Mitchell - 24, Carl Brown - 24
California
In what I like to call “Ethereal horror”, we peer into a voyeuristic window of a young girl watching television, unawares-- spooked by a visitor in the night (a poltergeist!) a sentient body of light and altogether darkness, murmuring sweet nothings and emanating light and static.
Qin Ziwei - 22
Massachusetts
Based on a personal stalker story. An emotional journey through love, sex, obsession, and violence.
Mitchell Griffith - 24
California
When I was 8, I told my mom I was meant to live among birds. I lied.
Kara Grace Miller - 21, Chris Felix - 24, Devon Wilson - 23, Cody Terreson - 23
New York
22 recounts an assault at a high school party, and how it has followed the protagonist through the coming years.
Tessa Hill - 18
Canada
Through scanned photographs and drawings, the filmmaker immerses herself in the process of understanding her mother and, in turn, herself through the eyes of her future daughter.
Varun Sreedharan - 14
California
This is a comprehensive guide by the Deutsche Demokratische Republik on how to assemble a sandwich.
Indica DeRose - 16
California
A 1950s perspective of how a young lady is supposed to act takes a dark turn.
Jules Chin Greene - 22
California
Driven out of their homeland, an endling, or the last remaining member of a species, reflects on displacement, colonialism, and extinction.
Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan - 23, Hannah Schierbeek - 22, Keaton McQuarrie - 22, John Eblahan - 18
Phillippines
In modern day Philippines, a metaphysical merging of past and present permeates through the landscape as ancient deities are reawakened, causing people to experience the spiritual connection between body and nature.
Ella Fields - 15, Soleil LaMontagne - 16, Alina Foley - 15
California
A girl battles with peer pressure and finding her happy place inside a dreamlike world.
Sam Tubbs - 18, Jeanette Velasquez - 17
Washington
A collection of loosely related sequences representing a wandering train of thought.
Pedro Tamames - 21, Isabel Padilla - 22, Britney Ngaw - 18, Rhea D'Souza - 24
Spain
A girl spends her time eavesdropping on a young couple whose relationship is falling apart.