Live at the Film Forum

Live at the Film Forum

September 2009-May 2010

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. Our 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.

 

 

Bridging Wounds

Sep 17 - Sep 19, 2009

Paris Hurley (Degenerate Art Ensemble, Kultur Shock), Ezra Dickinson (Zoe Scofield, The Maureen Whiting Company), Jamie Iacoli (i&m), Tilla Kuenzli (The Maureen Whiting Company), Amanda Moore (filmmaker), and Paurl Walsh (Degenerate Art Ensemble, X-Ray Press) integrate original music, movement, and animation to explore the connection between words and perception.

"A wry meditation on belated perception...has a genuine unpredictable charm to it" -Seattle Times

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too

Mar 25 - Mar 27, 2010

Choreographed and directed by Amy O'Neal, "too" is an ecstatic interplay of live and recorded movement by dancers O’Neal and Ellie Sandstrom. The duo interacts with strangers, friends, acquaintances and family in dance of physical extremes. Drawing inspiration from the rural/urban divide, karaoke, and Japanese love hotels, "too" ruminates on the increasing challenges of human contact in a fractured and complex technological age.

"Recommended: O'Neal's work combines funky moves with structural precision; Sandstrom is as sensual as she is scary. This is definitely one of those times when you come to see the artists, no matter what they're doing—or whom they're watching." -Seattle Weekly

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Condo Millennium

May 13 - May 15, 2010

Join us for a performance exposition written and directed by Marya Sea Kaminski. Inspired by the transformation of Seattle’s Pike-Pine corridor and developed from live interviews with Seattle politicians, activists, developers, children, comedians and residents at large, this event brings performance, video, song, dance and absurd fantasy together to sketch a picture of our evolving urban landscape and the places we call home. 

"A probing, vibrant take on our town and its development...[It] could become the lasting word on Seattle's fiscal and real-estate upheavals of the last few years." —Seattle Times

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