The Engauge Experimental Film Festival, celebrating its 6th year, will take take place in Seattle Nov 1-4, 2023 at Northwest Film Forum. See the full program here. Festival highlights include a celebration of experimental filmmaker Harry Smith’s centenary (Smith is from Anacortes, WA), featuring a live performance by Lori Goldston and other musicians (Saturday, Nov. 4), as well as a solo show by San Francisco-based filmmaker Greta Snider (Friday, Nov. 3).
2023 Filmmakers:
Kevin T. Allen | Dominic Agerame* | Malic Amalya | Bill Basquin* + Frances Woods** | Yuula Benivolski | Nicole Blundell | Anne-Marie Bouchard | Louise Bourque | Ursula Brookbank* | Charles Cadkin* | Cláudia Cárdenas | Philip Cartelli | Thomas Javier Castillo | Cassandra Celestin | Charles-André Coderre | Patrick Connolly | Devon Damonte* | Karel Doing* | Josh Drake + James Hollenbaugh + Jeremy Moss + Caleb Smith | Sam Drake | Federica Foglia | Todd Fraser | Wei Gao | Madelyn Gowler | Cosma Grosser + Markus Maicher | Lucas Haynes | Jonathan Onsuwan Johnson | Anna Kipervaser* | Ben Kujawski | Kate Lain* | Robbie Land* | Sally Lawton | Patrica Delso Lucas + Johanna Wagner | Alex MacKenzie* | Ryan Marino* | Jean-Jacques Martinod + Bretta C. Walker* | Penny McCann | Abinadi Meza | Pam Minty* | Martin Moolhuijsen | Jason Moyes | Callon Murphy | Victor Navarro | Raymond Rea* | Jennifer Reeves | Richard Reeves* | Nisha Platzer* | Charlotte Pryce | Kevin Roy | Rana San | Mars Saude | Hogan Seidel | Erica Sheu | Wenhua Shi* | Abigail Smith | Harry Smith + Lori Goldston and friends** | Greta Snider* *** | Krista Leigh Steinke | Sofia Theodore-Pierce | Richard Tuohy | Janelle VanderKelen* | Stephen Wardell | Josh Weissbach | Telemach Wiesinger | Matt Whitman | Xiao Zhang
*Lightpress Grant recipients
**live musical composition and accompaniment
***solo show