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Generic name: Paranoi Cinemide

Street name: 16 mm Madness and Digital Disorders (tonight at the Olympia Film Fest)

Common Uses: 16 mm Madness and Digital Disorders is a presentation from the family of films known as objective serotonin reuptake accelerators, or OSRAs. It is used in treatment for those suffering from concrete reality. It may also be used to treat other conditions as determined by your doctor.

Possible Side Effects: Side effects that may occur while experiencing 16 mm Madness and Digital Disorders include dry mouth, weight gain, paranoia, itching, change in taste or dizziness. You should contact your doctor immediately if any of these symptoms persist.

Do you ever have that dream where you're back in school and suddenly realize you have to take a final for a class you've forgotten to attend for months? 16 mm Madness and Digital Disorders doesn't really feel like that, but the Weekly Volcano wondered if you had that dream too. We have it all the time and it weirds us out.

No, 16 mm Madness and Digital Disorders feels much more like that dream where you're being stalked by some nameless horror and you want desperately to run, but your legs are frozen.

16 mm Madness and Digital Disorders may cause slight anxiety, or in extreme cases, uncertainty about the strength of your relationships or the wisdom of your college degree. 16 mm Madness and Digital Disorders may provoke feelings of helplessness, especially when talking to mechanics.

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The Olympia Film Festival presents 16 mm Madness and Digital Disorders tonight. Anchoring 16 mm Madness and Digital Disorders will be five short films from Pacific Northwest born video artist Erica Schreiner. According to the OFF film synopsis, "the videos create a hazy, magical, and sometimes startlingly violent dreamland, filled with food and animals on precarious edges of destruction. Cakes are baked, live butterflies are eaten, and the viewer is taken on an abstract, stunningly visceral journey into an unsettled reality."

Schreiner's work will be accompanied by new compositions for dual 16mm projectors from Florida-based filmmaker Christopher Harris, a premiere 16mm documentation of Bulgarian folk singers by Joe Denardo and a curated selection of long-unseen 16mm surprises from the archives.

The films screen tonight at 5:30 p.m. at The Mark in downtown Olympia. For more information on the Olympia Film Festival, and today's film schedule, go here.

For a sneak peek of Erica Schreiner's talents, check the trailer below ...