LOCALS ONLY 2024

Friday, April 26, 2024
Olympia Film Society presents:
Locals Only
Free Admission
Hosted by Olympia Film Society’s Board President Damian Magista
6:30pm doors / 7pm films

We’re screening a curated selection of short films from directors around the Pacific Northwest. See experimental animation, food fights, hallucinatory dreamscapes, retreats gone wrong, and much more.

Queen
While visiting their estranged grandfather in a rural trailer park, a teenager searches for their father’s ethos amid socioeconomic, environmental, racial, and gendered binaries.
Dir. Kai Nealis / 9 min

Call Me Back
On January 3rd, 2023 at 10:42 p.m., David Van Os took his last breaths after a four-year-long harrowing battle with cancer. Through voice messages he sent to his daughter Maya when he was alive, “Call Me Back” tells a story of fatherly love in the midst of a painful journey.
Dir. Maya Van Os / 2 min

Untitled (mom project)
untitled (mom project) is intended to be understood as a private conversation between myself and the viewer. During the course of our conversation I relate stories about the loss of my mom, about finding trans-identity and about the ways that our actions make lasting meaning for the people they touch.
Dir. Lily King / 13 min

Finned
A paper cutout animation short about the dangers sharks face from human practices of shark finning and fishing.
Dir. Kelly Ramirez / 3 min

Pasta Party
A stop-motion short where sea creatures are made with a few shapes of pasta
Dir. KT Howard / 1 min

Dark Gold
An avant-garde symphony of psychedelia.
Dir. Christopher Gallo / 2 min

The Retreat
David is brought along by his boyfriend Anthony to what seems like a week-long retreat hosted by Anthony’s boss, Krystal, and her husband – he quickly learns that things are not what they seem.
Dir. Tommy Heffernan / 7 min

Artificial Limb Reliquary
While on an afternoon stroll, a woman encounters a mysterious being and finds herself drawn into a hallucinatory dreamscape where a picnic of fake food waits for her arrival and glass ornaments grow like fruit on a tree.
Dir. Amethyst de Wolfe / 5 min

Water: Poetry & Dance
Against the backdrop of an Oregon coast sunset, writer and dancer Zaji Cox pairs expressive movement with a dramatic reading of her poem “Water”
Dir. Adam Patrick Sweeney / 3 min

The Tin Woods
While exploring an abandoned cabin, the Tin Woodman finds…his original head? Based on the original Oz books by L. Frank Baum, this short stop-motion film explores the origins of the Tin Woodman and how he came to be made of tin.
Dir. Nick Boxwell / 10 min

Lovey Dovey
Music Video for “Lovey Dovey” by nightmayor
Dir. James William Clark / 4 min

Goodnight Kelley
Its’s 1950 and top of his game hitman Joachim Kelley has one last job to do before he retires for good.
Dir. Nehemiah Suko / 8 min

The Perfect Night
A 1960’s housewife runs into her ex lover at the nightclub where her current beau plays saxophone. Shenanigans, music and murder ensue…
Dir. Isabel Nixon Klein / 8 min

SCREENING: FRI 4/26 7PM