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local sightings: Shorts: Abstractions

Tuesday, Oct. 6, 9pm
Shorts: Abstractions

Pulled From the Ground
(Michael Bragg, Creswell, 2009, 11min.)
Pulled from the Ground documents a struggle for stability against the constant flux of existence within the exaggerated setting of an obsession with roots.

The Heart is What Remains
(Alexandra Roxo, Seattle, 2009, 13min.)
Two lovers meet and experience the birth, life, and death of love.

Kicks 4 Cranes
(Matt Cibelli, Seattle, 2009, 8min.)
Kicks 4 Cranes is a documentary. Actually it's two documentaries-about women's shoes and tower cranes.

A Moment's Reverie
(Tess Martin, Seattle, 2007, 10min.)
While on a train trip, the letters in a girl's book come alive and take her on a journey through thoughts and memories.

When Heron's Dream
(Serge Gregory, Seattle, 2009, 10.5min.)
When Herons Dream imagines the perspective of a great blue heron as it moves through the seasons and a Northwest landscape shaped by water.

Final Heart Beats Black
(Michael Harring, Seattle, 2009, 3min.)
A music video for Sleepy Eyes of Death. An ancient sleeping being (looking very much like a beautiful young woman) must end one world in order for another to be reborn. This involves the regurgitation of a magic flying crystal.

Oov
(Thom Heileson, Wyndel Hunt, Seattle, 2007, 4min.)
Videography, photography, motion graphics and digital manipulation are combined to create visual interpretations of abstract aural compositions.

Claire
(Colin Cooper, Vancouver B.C., 2008, 9min.)
A young woman faces subconscious manifestations of various aspects of her own vulnerability.

Endless Tunnel
(Tommy Thompson, Olympia, 2008, 5min.)
An exploration of a stress-saturated world, examined using the stratastencil animation technique.

Television and the Public Interest
(Amber M. Rose, Olympia, 2009, 4min.)
Combining clips from educational films of the '70s and a speech by the FCC chairman in 1961, this piece is a campy commentary about the state of television.

Two Dots
(Britta Johnson, Seattle, 2009, 4.5min.)
Marbles illustrate the subtle math of a relationship in this video made for Lusine's song Two Dots.