ByDesign 2022 – Show Me the Change: Short Film Program
In-person screening: Mar. 19 & 20 at 6pm
To accommodate evolving public health recommendations regarding COVID-19, we are using a hybrid virtual-and-in-person festival model in 2022. There are three categories of festival pass: VIRTUAL, IN-PERSON, and HYBRID (virtual AND in-person), all available here. Vaccination and DOUBLE-masking are required for NWFF patrons!
About:
How do physical objects and built-environments synchronously shape and reflect the emotional spaces in which we dwell? In this collection of shorts, color-coded memories, embodied explorations, and culturally-conscious rearrangements honor the stories of those seeking expression, protection, and connection.
“The change is for good, you say. Show me. Show me the change.” – Moving Barcelona
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- Purchase your ticket(s) in advance through Brown Paper Tickets.
- You can also purchase a ticket on the day of the screening at Northwest Film Forum’s box office (1515 12th Ave, Seattle).
- If you have purchased a Hybrid or In-Person-Only Festival Pass, we’ll be able to look you up at Will Call by the name you purchased under.
For the sake of public safety, NWFF patrons ages 5+ will be required to present proof of COVID-19 vaccination and to double-mask while in the building. Disposable masks are available at the door for those who need them.
NWFF is adapting to evolving recommendations to protect the public from COVID-19. Read more about their policies regarding cleaning, masks, and capacity limitations here. We reserve the option to shift the festival to virtual-only on short notice.
In This Program:
Colour Study
US premiere! Meditative and evocative, this experimental short film organizes objects and locations by their exact colour. Writers Charles Demers, Chelene Knight and Shazia Hafiz Ramji take us on a dreamy journey through ROYGBIV, sorting memories into the spectrum.
(Anthem Jackson (Graham Kew & Daniel Code), Canada, 2020, 13 min, in English)
13 Square Meters
US premiere! Co-presented with Goethe Pop Up Seattle. Facing a growing immigration crisis, Berlin developed “Tempohomes,” a new design of refugee camp with an allowance of 13 square meters of space per two people. These new constructions overlooked important and distinct cultural norms among those they would house, but became reference points in a valuable conversation: Is it possible to design mass housing and emergency shelters that consider the concepts of caring and home, allowing room for cultural expression? Watch the trailer >
(Kamil Bembnista & Ayham Dalal, Germany, 2021, 15 min, in Arabic, English & German with English subtitles)
Moving Barcelona
Co-presented with Velocity Dance Center. One of a series of films that uses experimental dance to honor cities around the world, Moving Barcelona jostles together scenes that express the city’s relationships to progress and beauty as well as its healing scars, all of which synthesize into essential elements of its identity.
(Jevan Chowdhury, United Kingdom, 2021, 6 min, in Catalan with English subtitles)
Abolishing Prisons One Garden at a Time
Artist jackie sumell’s project The Solitary Gardens develops plots of land the size of solitary confinement cells into garden beds, assigning the beds’ horticultural supervision to a “prisoner” known as a “Solitary Gardener.” Cultivation and nurture gradually cause the garden plot to outgrow its bounds, creating a profound symbolic inversion that speaks to the potential power of prison abolition and transformative justice.
This screening of Abolishing Prisons One Garden at a Time is made possible by A Blade of Grass, a nonprofit organization dedicated to nurturing socially engaged art.
(Ava Wiland and Rafael Salazar, US, 2018, 8 min, in English)
One Last Ride
Co-presented with Velocity Dance Center. Against shifting backdrops of crumbling architecture, concrete structures, and freeway systems, dancers of Seattle’s Whim W’Him company pay homage to the Alaskan Way Viaduct, which was demolished in 2019, its 65th year.
(Anastasia Babenko, US, 2021, 8 min, nonverbal)
We Do It for Awá
Presented by Travessias Brazilian Film Festival in collaboration with the Center for Brazilian Studies at UW. The Guajajara tribe, indigenous people of what is now Maranhão in Northern Brazil, are beset by industrialization and the “march of progress.” The government’s compensatory plan to build them earthen houses is an important gesture, but cannot repay the increasing challenges the tribe faces in stewarding their land and protecting remaining uncontacted tribes from their same fate.
(Natalia Kobylinska, Brazil, 2021, 18 min)
Festival Directory
ByDesign Festival is a cross-cultural exploration of people, structures, and ideas at the intersection of design and the moving image.
Featuring a broad, inclusive selection of films, performances, and interactive activities, ByDesign invites festivalgoers to interrogate their own relationships to personal and collective identity, by examining how humanity’s understanding of itself is central to the ways in which it creates the physical world.
The 2022 edition of Northwest Film Forum’s annual ByDesign Festival, held March 17–20 in-person and March 17–27 online, is curated and promoted in close partnership with Seattle Design Festival, a strategic initiative of AIA Seattle dedicated to unleashing the design thinker in everyone.
⚠️ Please note: ⚠️
For the sake of public safety, NWFF patrons ages 5+ will be required to present proof of COVID-19 vaccination and to double-mask while in the building. Disposable masks are available at the door for those who need them.
NWFF is adapting to evolving recommendations to protect the public from COVID-19. Read more about their policies regarding cleaning, masks, and capacity limitations here. We reserve the option to shift the festival to virtual-only on short notice.