La Notte

Mar 03, 2015

(1961, Italy, 115 min)

Screening held at the Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Avenue
Post-screening discussion moderated by Sean Nelson!

La Notte is the second film Antonioni made in a year, and it tells the story of a day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their deteriorating relationship. The plot is not a good index for the film, however; the key is the use of the camera as a pen that explores the world as a visual corollary of inner life. Please note, this screening is hosted at the Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Avenue. Special ticket pricing: $12/General Admission, $10/SAM and NWFF Members, $8/Students and Seniors.

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Series tickets may be purchased online, at the Ticketing Desk at the Seattle Art Museum or the Asian Art Museum, or over the phone with a credit card by calling the SAM Customer Service Center at 206.654.3210.

  • Don't miss our post-screening panel discussion with Adriana Prengler, Justine Barda and Sudhir Mahadevan, moderated by Sean Nelson!

Panelist Bios

Sean Nelson worked at The Stranger on and off between 1996 and 2006. His job titles included: Associate Editor, Arts Editor, Film Editor, Copy Editor, Web Editor, Slog Editor, and Associate Editor Emeritus. He has contributed extensively to every section of the paper. His writing, if you can call it that, has also appeared in/on The Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, MSN, Alternative Press, The Seattle Times, Seattle Weekly, The Portland Mercury, DIW, and Heeb Magazine. His book about Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark was published by Continuum Books, as part of the 33&1/3 series. He has also had essays in Da Capo Press’s Best Music Writing anthologies, in 2008 and 2010. Regrettably, Nelson is also a musician. He has recorded and performed with Harvey Danger, Death Cab for Cutie, The Decemberists, Robyn Hitchcock, the Minus 5, The Long Winters, and many others. Nelson also works on independent movies, taught a songwriting class for UW extension, and hosted a show on KEXP for several years.

Adriana Prengler, LMHC, FIPA maintains a private practice in Bellevue, where she offers psychotherapy and psychoanalysis to adults, couples, adolescents and children. She did her undergraduate and graduate school training in clinical psychology in Caracas, Venezuela and practiced there for 30 years. She received her psychoanalytic training at the Caracas Psychoanalytic Society, a component society of the IPA. Adriana immigrated to the Seattle area in 2010 and joined the Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (NPSI) as a full member and training analyst. In Caracas she created and chaired a psychoanalytic film forum for mental health practitioners to learn psychoanalytic concepts through the discussion of films. She presented an essay on The Hedgehog (Achache, 2011) at the 2014 International Evolving British Object Relations conference in Seattle.

Justine Barda teaches on the Film Studies faculty at Seattle University and is a longtime programmer for film festivals including Sundance and the Seattle International Film Festival.  She is also president and founder of Telescope, a digital distribution company sourcing foreign film content for a variety of platforms in North America.  

Sudhir Mahadevan is Assistant Professor of Film Studies (PhD in Cinema Studies, NYU, 2009) in the Comparative Literature department at the University of Washington, where he teaches courses on film history, theory and aesthetics. He is the author of A Very Old Machine: the Many Origins of the Cinema in India, forthcoming from SUNY Press as part of its Horizons of Cinema Series. His other writing can be found in journals such as Framework, Bioscope: the Journal of South Asian Screen Studies, and TransAsia Photography Review

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