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Flickering Light film series shutters early
Sara Zia Ebrahimi, the founder and curator the of the Flickering Light Film series, announced that her project would have to end its season early due to a rent increase at its Sedgwick Theater home.
Flickering Light’s mission is to screen the unseen, from shorts — which rarely have a platform outside of film festival in the U.S. — to works by often neglected filmmaking communities — like women, LGBTQ-ers and people of color. But for Ebrahimi, Flickering Light also symbolizes a neighborhood unifier, a place where the people of Germantown, East and West Mt. Airy can gather and see films they can’t find anywhere else. “That’s where I live, own a house and that’s my community,” she says. “No matter what the screening series will continue, and it will continue in Northwest Philadelphia.”
As Ebrahimi points out, Flickering Light isn’t dead, simply taking another look at their format. The series, which began early this year as a monthly screening and to weekly events for the second season, drew 25-100 people. Looking to the future, Ebrahimi says she’s eyeing several possibilities, including renting a permanent storefront, joining with other business partners or even staying at the Sedgwick, depending on whether they come down on their rent increase. Flickering Light has two more programs on the docket — “Limits of Reason”: An International Collection of Short Films About Alternate Worlds and States of Mind on Saturday, November 14 and “I’m So Into You”: The Best of the Small Changes Screening Series on Saturday, November 21 — before closing up shop until next spring. As always, admission is $5.
Ebrahimi says she was thinking about the recent TLA closure and how it effects how we are able to see movies that don’t have blockbuster marquees, to say the least. “You can’t get them on DVD, you can’t watch them on the internet,” she says of the films Flickering Light shows. “There needs to be a place to screen this work.
Limits of Reason, Sat., Nov. 14, 7 p.m., $5, Sedgwick Theater, 7137 Germantown Ave., flickeringfilms.com.
I’m So Into You, Sat., Nov. 21, 7 p.m., $5, Sedgwick Theater, 7137 Germantown Ave., flickeringfilms.com.
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