Northwest Film Forum

MARCH 5-11, 2010

Presented by Northwest Film Forum and AIGA-Seattle
Sponsored by CapitolHillSeattle.com

ByDesign explores the intersection of graphic design and moving image, and celebrates multidisciplinary artists who push the boundaries to create new techniques, styles and forms. Over the past decade, we’ve had the pleasure of hosting a great number of special guest artists, and presenting hundreds of new and historic films. We’ve seen new technologies developed, old techniques revived and watched as interest has grown in this overlap of design and film.

The tenth annual ByDesign program features a range of film title sequences, animations, documentary portraits and guest presenters. We are especially pleased to present films by Charles and Ray Eames, as the work of the legendary multi-disciplinary husband and wife team was the main inspiration for our starting this program a decade ago.

Curator: Peter Lucas

Program Assistant: Katherine Jardine

APRIL 4-18, 2010

Join us this April as we explore the lives and working styles of some of cinema's undisputed master directors. We kick off the program with a tribute to the recently deceased grandfather of the French New Wave, Eric Rohmer, and continue with new documentaries on comic genius Jacques Tati and a reverent look back at Russia’s existential master Andrei Tarkovsky.

Cinema is a collaborative art form that combines writing, theater, performance and visual art in the creation of something unique. The final edit of a film may be fixed, but cinema has a long history of integrating live performance, from the earliest Magic Lantern lectures and live scores that accompanied silent films to avant-garde performers today.
 
Northwest Film Forum is proud to launch LIVE AT THE FILM FORUM, a showcase of dynamic new work that expands cinema beyond the limits of the screen. The inaugural season brings together dozens of Northwest artists who wield paintbrush, chisel, musical instrument and camera to make innovative works of art. These projects bridge disciplines, connect artists with audiences and integrate the temporary with the lasting qualities of film. Enjoy performances and projections that engage the senses to create ephemeral and exceptional living cinema.
 

Individual tickets:$15 / $12 for NWFF members
Season passes: $50 / $40 for NWFF members
(Choose from Thursday Opening Nights Package, Friday Nights Package or Saturday Closing Nights Package)

Sensory Cinema 1920s-70

APRIL 9-14, 2010

Northwest Film Forum and The Sprocket Society are proud to present this special series celebrating the history of Visual Music. Over the past century, there have been a number of prescient artists who’ve approached cinema as a tool for merging visual art and music in order to create a new synaesthetic art form and explore uncharted areas of experience. Through a vibrant history of cinematic experiments, these pioneers have been inventing the concepts, aesthetics, techniques and technologies on which our modern image-and-sound culture is based. Visual Music is a rare opportunity to see restored film prints of work by such master animators as Oskar Fischinger, Mary Ellen Bute, Jordan Belson and Robert Breer on the big screen. In addition, we’ll host a panel discussion on Seattle's own history of visual music in the 1960s and early 70s. 

Series website: www.sensorycinema.org

Curated by Peter Lucas

Special thanks to the Center For Visual Music, Cindy Keefer, Cecile Starr, Spencer Sundell and Alex Bush. 

This program is made possible by a grant from the National Endowment For The Arts.