Jon Behrens’s Seattle: A City in Four Parts [In-Person Only]
This event took place on May 12, 2023
Film still from Kerry Park, by Jon Behrens & Dominique Tranchina (2021)
$14 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 Member
On Film
A celebration of the Seattle-based filmmaker on what would have been his 59th birthday
Jon Behrens (1964-2022) was a tireless documentarian of the Seattle scene and its iconic landscape. For almost forty years, Behrens created experimental films that ranged from Super 8 visual recordings of the early punk and grunge scenes, to documents of a vanishing Seattle (perhaps his most famous film, The Last Ten Minutes of Existence, captures the last moments before the Kingdome implosion), to celebrating the ongoing beauty and mystery of our local landscape in double-exposed, optically printed, hand-painted, sculptural films. Behrens died suddenly last year at the age of 58, leaving behind a vast body of works on film, including many that have rarely or never been seen. Curated by Caryn Cline, with whom Behrens co-founded Interbay Cinema Society, this program will include both 16mm and digital prints of previously released and unreleased films.
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Films in this program:
Part 1
Pictured: Girl and a Bike
- Minute Movie #4 | 2013 | 16mm to digital | color/sound | 1 min
- Girl and a Bike | 1995 | 16mm | b&w/sound | 15 min
- Proustian Neuroses | 1999 | 16mm to digital | tinted b&w/sound | 5 min
- The Gits | n.d. | 16mm to digital | color/silent | 3 min
Part 2
Pictured: The Movement of Light at Night
- Minute Movie #7 | 2013 | 16mm to digital | color/sound | 1 min
- Reflections | 1992 | 16mm | tinted b&w/sound | 12 min
- The Movement of Light at Night | 1996 | 16mm | color/sound | 7 min | made with Steve Creson
Part 3
Pictured: A City in Four Parts
- Minute Movie #8 | 2013 | 16mm to digital | color/sound | 1 min
- Cinematic Abstractions | 2002 | 16mm | color/sound | 6 min | made with Ryan K. Adams
- The Six Arms | 2005 | 16mm to digital | color/sound | 2 min
- A City in Four Parts | 2016 | 16mm to digital | color/sound | 6 min
Part 4
Pictured: A Winter’s Song
- Driving Down to Alpha Cine One Last Time in the Rain in One Minute | 2013 | 16mm to digital | b&w/sound | 1 min
- Revolve | 2014 | 16mm to digital | color/sound | 8 min
⚠️ Sensory advisory: This film has a strong flickering/strobing effect that could affect photosensitive viewers - A Winter’s Song | 2019 | 16mm to digital | b&w/sound | 3 min
- Kerry Park | 2021 | 16mm to digital | color/sound | 3 min | made with Dominique Tranchina
Additional film TBA