Northwest Film Forum

Danny Williams Factory Films

Sponsored by Easy Street Records and KEXP 90.3 FM

Danny Williams

As a perfect companion piece to A WALK INTO THE SEA, we present Danny Williams: Factory Films, a rare movie and music spectacular. This event will showcase four of Williams' shorts in their entirety: THE FACTORY FILM, HAROLD STEVENSON PART 1 AND PART 2, and the US premiere of THE VELVET UNDERGROUND. All will be screened silent with the exception of the 40-minute Harold Stevenson film, which will feature live accompaniment by A WALK INTO THE SEA composer T. Griffin, along with Catherine McRae. Griffin and McRae are part of the critically acclaimed electronic Americana band The Quavers. They are also known for their creative collaborations with film cult legend Jem Cohen, and others including, Vic Chesnutt, members of Godspeed you! black emperor, and Patti Smith. Now, drawing on bubblegum pop, Lamon Young-inspired drones and of course The Velvet Underground, they will lend their intricate and immersive sounds to Williams' luminous work.

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Clockwork Reduction Live

Sponsored by Easy Street Records and KEXP 90.3 FM

BACK TO THE FACTORY: Revisiting Stories and Works From The Warhol Factory

A Conceptual Project By Seattle School 

FEATURING:
Virginia Bogert - "Tootie Pie"
Sue Corcoran - "She's a Dog"
Daniel Gildark - "Cthulhu"
Kris Kristensen - "Inheritance"
Christian Palmer - "Forcefields"
Lynn Shelton - "We Go Way Back"

  WITH: 
Rob Millis - Climax Golden Twins
Jacob Stone - Punch Drunk Productions
Kris Moon - Fourthcity

  AND:
Aaron Allshouse, JD Barton, Kyle Bliss, Danielle Gibeson, Dustin Kemp, Abby Klein, Caitlin Ngo, and more ...

Six years before Stanley Kubrick’s A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, Andy Warhol adapted the Anthony Burgess novel for his classic, black and white Factory film, VINYL. In homage to Warhol, Seattle School will transform the entire Northwest Film Forum building for a unique Factory-style recreation of the film. This grand, live happening restages the film in parts, with simultaneous live performance, filming, and screening in our two cinemas and lobby. Northwest filmmakers Lynn Shelton, Daniel Gildark, Virginia Bogart, Sue Corcoran, John Jacobsen and Kris Kristensen will direct models cum actors in cinema 1. Their footage will be projected live in cinema 2, where the audience intervenes in the creative process and composers (including Rob Millis of Climax Golden Twins) perform an improvised score. In the lobby, VJs (including Jacob Stone of Opticlash and Kris Moon from the Decibel Festival) will merge and edit the video and audio feeds from both cinemas in real time, creating a live finished film projected onto a translucent screen. The audience can move around freely between rooms throughout the evening, witnessing the different stages of the event’s unique filmmaking process. The event ends when the final new interpretation of VINYL is complete. In keeping with Seattle School tradition, everyone is invited to stay after for fresh waffles (and yes, there will be Cool Whip.)

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DEC 16, Sunday at 8pm SPECIAL SCREENING

Attending this Sunday night screening event will get you inside the muddy heads of the filmmakers. Both of the previous nights' films will be screened in both theaters, with the directors adding their own live dvd-style commentary. Admission is free for those who attended Friday and Saturday events! All others are standard admission prices.

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A Walk in the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory

Sponsored by Easy Street Records and KEXP 90.3 FM

Esther B. Robinson, USA, 2007, BETA-SP, 75 min

BACK TO THE FACTORY: Revisiting Stories and Works From The Warhol Factory
Esther Robinson in person Friday & Sunday  

Esther Robinson's engrossing, dream-like portrait is of her uncle Danny Williams, Warhol's onetime lover and collaborator and a filmmaker in his own right. Robinson's behind-the-scenes peek into the Factory era and the story of William's mysterious disappearance at age 27 offer both an homage to Williams' largely unrecognized talent and another chapter in the saga of the enigmatic Warhol legend and its many causalities. Winner of Best Documentary at the Berlin Film Festival.

"It's always useful to be reminded that Warhol perversely got off on setting acolyte against acolyte and standing back to survey the emotional (and sometimes physical) damage (and, of course, profiting immensely) . . . Fascinating stuff." -David Edelstein, NEW YORK MAGAZINE

Read an interview with Esther Robinson

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