Northwest Film Forum

This year's Stranger Genius award winners Robinson Devor and Charles Mudede's first collaboration was our 5th Start-To-Finish film, and our first to screen in the Sundance Film Festival! After premiering in competition, the film took the country by storm. Hailed by Art Forum as one of the top ten films of 2005, and proclaimed "the best film of Sundance" by Village Voice critic Dennis Lim, Police Beat follows Z, a young policeman hailing from Senegal, patrols the streets of Seattle by bike, but his thoughts are far, far away. By using his diary and reports as the foundation of the film, this crime movie that has more in common with the early works of Jean-Luc Godard than Michael Mann. Driven by form rather than story, the film revolves around about Z’s love and homesickness, and trouble understanding the misery that exists on Seattle’s streets.
 
Screens with
Pan With Us
(David Russo, 2003, USA, 35mm, 4 min)
A dexterous short from our 6th Start-To-Finish recipient David Russo, Pan is a conceptually pastoral poem-film about the creative retirement of the ancient Greek woodland god, Pan. It imagines his unseen, forgotten spirit moving amidst a modern world.