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Short Exposure
Short Exposure
Spring-Summer 2009
Northwest Film Forum celebrates the achievements of local film with a new slate of shorts by Pacific Northwest filmmakers shown before feature films. Short Exposure offers up beautiful works by the regions best filmmakers. Enjoy our latest selection of films being made in our own backyard!
Sponsored by City of Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs
Crustvaska
Plays before Ex-Drummer
Aug 07 - Aug 13, 2009
(Benjamin Kasulke, USA, 2007, 6 min)
An unusual conversation at a train station in Berlin, made by Seattle filmmaker Ben Kasulke for a special Slamdance Film Festival program.
This True Story Of Dad Club
Mar 27 - Apr 02, 2009
(Craig Downing, 2006, 5 min)
Plays before Tokyo Sonata.
A memoir about the dark distance between a daughter and her father.
Chronicles Of A Professional Eulogist Field Report No. 3
Mar 27 - Apr 09, 2009
(Sarah Jane Lapp, 2006, 7 min)
Plays before Silent Light.
Jurors' Choice Award from the 25th Black Maria Film & Video Festival, in this hand drawn animated film a rabbi—make that a “grief facilitator”—shares the secrets of his trade.
Gray Days
Apr 10 - Apr 16, 2009
(Katherine Leagget, 2005, 13 min)
Plays before Hunger.
A graying American population and a record number of people incarcerated present a new and disturbing issue: a dramatic increase of elderly in our state prisons.
Eros
Apr 24 - Apr 27, 2009
(Megan Griffiths, 2008, 2 min)
Plays before Bird Song.
Set to the score of "Eros," a spoken-word recording by 60's beat poet Rod McKuen, Eros is a stylish examination of the rituals of a mysterious man preparing for a potentially criminal evening out.
Portrait of a Ghost
Apr 24 - Apr 30, 2009
(Bruce Henderson, 2008, 5 min)
Plays before Examined Life.
A portrait of a lost and decomposing jazz musician who struggles to face his past, present and future.
Super-8 Diaries
May 08 - May 14, 2009
(Joe Milutis, 2005)
Screens before 24 City.
Fragments of sun, corners of time, moments of space and a question of place.
Bachianas No. 5
Plays before Know Your Mushrooms
Jun 13 - Jun 18, 2009
(Curtis Taylor, USA, 2007, 7 min)
In a Tacoma strip club, three women dream of an ideal place for love. Framed within the opera Bachianas Brasileiras (movement No. 5)
Cookies For Sale
Plays before Treeless Mountain
Jun 26 - Jul 02, 2009
(Wes Kim, USA, 2007, 4 min)
A little girl selling cookies door-to-door engages in a battle of wills with a very grumpy neighbor.
Shikashika
Plays before Pressure Cooker
Jul 10 - Jul 16, 2009
(Stephen Hyde, USA, 2008, 10 min)
Filmed in Peru, this rhythmic portrait documentary reveals the process of making a colorful shave ice called Shikashika.
Taco Truck
Plays before Lake Tahoe
Jul 24 - Jul 30, 2009
(Tobi Nussbaum, USA, 2007, 3 min)
A poetic documenting of a Westside Olympia taco truck.
Manquér
Mar 20 - Mar 26, 2009
(Matt Daniels and Sean Pecknold, 2006, 7 min)
Plays before Harvard Beats Yale.
On Alain's 10th birthday he is given Suzette, the bicycle that carried his father to 12 Tour de France victories. Robert Henri, a notorious Tour de France loser, thinks that by stealing Suzette he may finally have a chance at victory.