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Arboring Film: Celebrating 15 Years at Northwest Film Forum
Arboring Film: Celebrating 15 Years at Northwest Film Forum
September 25-30, 2010
Fifteen years ago Northwest Film Forum opened its doors with the hope of establishing a local cinema, and the promise of cultivating a distinctly Northwest voice that would forever change the nature of filmmaking. It was a bold mission, inspired by the double notion that the region held in its light, soil and climate all the nutrients that a filmmaker's seeded idea needed to thrive, and that an ideal environment could be found in a habitat other than New York or Los Angeles. And so we began our quest to sow a new cinematic timberland.
Some fifteen years later, a forest of old growth trees now stands tall and is aiding the second growth beneath. Our cinematic promise of a dense Northwest film forest nurtured by a Forum of filmmakers has become reality, all birthed from the seedlings planted by Northwest Film Forum some fifteen years ago.
Join us as we admire the growth of our local filmmaking harvest! This week we present fifteen shorts and fifteen features whose roots are tethered tightly to our filmmaking programs and artist support.
Series pass $15/Film Forum members, $19.95 general
One Shot Films
Free!
Sep 25 - Sep 30, 2010
Join us in Cinema 2 each night as we showcase our commissions of visiting artists, made through the One-Shot Film program! Visiting filmmakers are asked to shoot a one shot film with no edits. We provide gear, casting, locations and all the energy we can muster.
Off Your Rocker
Sep 25, 2010
(Duncan McDougal, 2002, Beta-SP, 80 min)
Filmmaker Duncan McDougal, who spent months sleeping on the Film Forum's couch back in the day, brings us this wild tale of an underground senior citizen's extreme sports club.
Naked Proof
Sep 25, 2010
(Jamie Hook, USA, 2003, 35mm, 108 min)
In honor of our filmmaking co-founders, Debra Girdwood and Jamie Hook, we are giving Seattle another chance to see the film they wrote together. Proof is a philosophical romantic comedy about a PhD candidate whose questions about truth and life are further confused by the unexpected responsibility to care for a mysterious pregnant woman.
The Mountain, the River and the Road
Sep 25, 2010
(Michael Harring, USA, 2008, DigiBeta, 75 min)
An ill-fated road trip leaves Jeff stranded in small town Kernville with the promise that his friend will return shortly. After initial regrets, Jeff’s decision to stay behind to wait is rewarded when he meets local cutie Cat. Growing closer, the couple embarks on adventures that include night sledding, cave exploring and meeting Cat’s family.
Polterchrist
Sep 25, 2010
(Brady Hall, Calvin Reeder, USA, 2001)
Co-directed by Brady Hall (June And July) and Calvin Reeder, who was named one of the "25 New Faces in Film" by Filmmaker Magazine in 2007, this B-grade horror movie about Jesus Christ returning as a bloodthirsty zombie was made for a mere $5000. Rough around the edges, sure, but it marked the beginning of one of the city’s finest film collaborations.
Bingo
Sep 26, 2010
(John Jeffcoat, 1999, USA, 59 min)
What is America's favorite pastime outside of TV? BINGO! It draws more people than the movies, rock concerts or bowling. As John Jeffcoat (Outsourced) demonstrates in this offbeat documentary, which received support from the Film Forum back in 1997, bingo isn't just for blue-haired old church ladies; it's also for blue-haired drag queens, trendy hipsters, impoverished gambling addicts and everybody in between.
First Aid for Choking
Sep 26, 2010
(Meghan Griffiths, USA, 2003, 99 min)
Set in the director's hometown of Moscow, Idaho, and funded through our fiscal sponsorship program, First Aid is filled with likeable and familiar characters that don't always make the decisions you'd like them to. The film is a realistic portrait of the entrapments of small towns and family histories.
Money Buys Happiness
This film has been replaced by Silence! Please see below for details.
Sep 26, 2010
(Gregg Lachow, USA, 1999, 35mm, 109 min)
The first film to receive the innovative Start-to-Finish grant, this charming mid-life crisis comedy follows a Seattle couple as they attempt to push a free piano across the city. "This breezy, Seattle-made film is a charming black comedy with touches of poetic realism reminiscent of Godard or Renior." —1999 Seattle Int'l Film Festival
Silence!
Sep 26, 2010
(Gregg Lachow, USA, 2000, DigiBeta)
Gregg Lachow (Seven Mysteries of Live, The Wright Brothers, Money Buys Happiness) has long concerned himself with constructing dreamlike realities. With Silence! He takes on an even more elaborate challenge.
Borrowing Time
Sep 26, 2010
(Web Crowell, USA, 2004, DV, 93 min)
Before he received the first Stranger Genius award for film, animator Web Crowell started his first feature Borrowing Time with a little help and love from Northwest Film Forum. Made on a shoestring, this epic about Victorian aliens, Atomic insects and all around outdated technology is a distillation of 1940s serial adventure films, complete with atomic insects, planes on string and the very theft of history itself.
Buffalo Bill's Defunct
Sep 27, 2010
(Matt Wilkins, USA, 2004, DV, 84 min)
Bill, the aging patriarch of a semi-rural Washington family, is hell-bent on tearing down his barn with a hundred foot cable and a winch. His family watches in horror and fascination as the man they love drifts away from them. The third feature produced through WigglyWorld's Start-to-Finish grant program was made by acclaimed Seattle filmmaker Matt Wilkins.
Sweet Crude
Sep 27, 2010
(Sandy Cioffi, USA, 2009, DigiBeta, 90 min)
We're pleased to once again share this urgent film which chronicles the history of non-violent protest, and the members of a new insurgency, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) who are demanding an end to the environmental degradation (equivalent to 50 Exxon Valdez spills) and a share of the $700 billion oil profits.
Hedda Gabler
Sep 28, 2010
(Paul Willis, USA, 2004, DV, 73 min)
A woman in a small Central Washington town struggles against a new marriage and is forced to reckon with a life that falls short of her ideals. The fourth feature made through the Film Forum's Start-to-Finish grant program, Hedda is a daring, urgent update of the Norwegian masterpiece.
Cthulhu
Sep 28, 2010
(Daniel Gildark, USA, 2007, DigiBeta, 120 min)
Cogswell's feature film Cthulu,directed by Daniel Gildark, is a contemporary adaptation of HP Lovecraft's mythos, was shot throughout the Pacific Northwest. It received support from our fiscal sponsorship program and also reunited much of the crew from Police Beat, including cinematographer Sean Kirby, production designer Etta Lilienthal and producer Alexis Ferris.
Police Beat
Sep 29, 2010
(Robinson Devor, USA, 2005, DigiBeta, 80 min)
Hailed by Art Forumas one of the top ten films of 2005, and proclaimed "the best film of Sundance" by Village Voice critic Dennis Lim, Police Beat follows Z, a young policeman hailing from Senegal, patrols the streets of Seattle by bike, but his thoughts are far, far away. By using his diary and reports as the foundation of the film, this crime movie that has more in common with the early works of Jean-Luc Godard than Michael Mann.
The Gits
Sep 29, 2010
(Kerri O'Kane, 2008, DigiBeta, 80 min)
In the pre-Film Forum years, Seattle was known for its thriving Grunge scene. The Gits were the resident musical underdogs with the unparalleled vocal power of front woman Mia Zapata they set the bar for indie rock in the Pacific Northwest. That was until tragedy struck in 1993 with Ziapata's murder right in the heart of Capitol Hill.
Brand Upon the Brain!
Sep 30, 2010
(Guy Maddin, USA/Canada, 2006, 35mm, 95 min)
Back in 2004 Guy Maddin came to town for a Northwest Film Forum retrospective. As part of his stay we hooked him up with the non-profit film studio The Film Company, who were renting space from us and coordinating productions through our WigglyWorld Studios. When we asked him to produce a short film, he used the opportunity to change the way films are experienced!
We Go Way Back
Sep 30, 2010
(Lynn Shelton, 2006, USA, 35mm, 80 min)
Winner of both Best Narrative Feature and Best Cinematography at Slamdance, We Go Way Backwas Lynn Shelton's entry into the festival world that brought her later to Humpday fame. On her 23rd birthday, Kate (Amber Hubert) opens a letter that she wrote as a precocious adolescent to her imaginary grown-up self. The letter asks, "Are you happy?"
Party like it's 1995!
Oct 01, 2010
Join us for our 15th Anniversary Bash and Local Sightings Opening Night Party. Come dressed like it's the year of our founding, 1995, and dance the night away to tunes from that bygone era.