The Passenger
Mar 24, 2015
(1975, 119 min, 35mm)
Screening held at the Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Avenue
Post screening panel discussion!
The Passenger stars Jack Nicholson as a television reporter in Africa who assumes the identity of a dead stranger. Tired of his work, his marriage and his life, he senses an opportunity for a fresh start in life, realizing—but too late—the danger he has put himself in. Nicholson considers this his finest performance. 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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- Don't miss our post-screening panel discussion with Kenneth A. Kimmel, Claudio Mazzola and Charles Mudede!
Panelist Bios
Kenneth A. Kimmel, MA is a Jungian psychoanalyst in Seattle with over thirty years of clinical practice. He is co-founder and faculty member of The New School for Analytical Psychology. He has authored the book, Eros and the Shattering Gaze--Transcending Narcissism (Fisher King Press, 2011); a chapter entitled, "Dreaming the Face of the Earth: Myths, Dreams and Ritual of the Maya Shaman," from The Dream and its Amplification, (Fisher King Press, 2013); and a 2011 review in the Journal for Analytical Psychology of "When the Third is Dead: Memory, Mourning, and Witnessing in the Aftermath of the Holocaust," a paper by Samuel Gerson. (International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2009). Kenneth makes extensive use of the genre of cinema in his psychoanalytic writing and teaching. His work incorporates contemporary cultural themes found in such films as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, (2004), Reign Over Me, (2006), High Fidelity, (2000), The Graduate, (1967); and gothic horror themes in films such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, (1945) Bram Stoker's Dracula, (1992), Wuthering Heights, (1939) and The Curse of the Cat People, (1944).
Claudio Mazzola is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Washington. He received a degree in Cinema Studies in Milan. He has taught at the University of Michigan and Vassar College. His interests are mainly in contemporary Italian Literature, Cinema and culture. He has written articles on major Italian directors like Michelangelo Antonioni, Francesco Rosi, Giusppe Berolucci, ecc. He has been collaborating with SIFF at the annual film festival Cinema Italian Style.
Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory of this birth, but he does remember noticing himself in the mirror for this first time—it happened on May 3, 1972. Mudede is also a filmmaker: Two of his films, Police Beat and Zoo, premiered at Sundance, and Zoo was screened at Cannes. Mudede has written for The New York Times, Cinema Scope, Ars Electronica, C Theory, and academic journals. He also wrote the liner notes for Best of Del Tha Funkee Homosapien: Elektra Years. Mudede has lived in Seattle since 1989.