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Once Upon a Time In Seattle
Fri Sep 11:
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$15 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 NWFF Member
Collide-O-Scope
United States
2026
1h 25m
About
(Collide-O-Scope, 2026, United States, 85 min, in English)
Comprised of moments from over 40 films shot in Seattle, and a few irresistible facsimiles, Once Upon a Time in Seattle is part love letter, part loony action adventure, and part free-associative meditation on the transience of landscape in a city that has always had a complicated relationship with honoring its past while moving swiftly (recklessly?) into the future.
There is no linear narrative, and dialogue is kept to a minimum. The city itself is both location and protagonist, while the function of the human characters, or perhaps more accurately, ciphers, is that of a vessel to move us through the city and occasionally offer loose context or comic relief. With one exception, no single existing shot or sequence is sustained longer than a minute, with most individual shots lasting less than 20 seconds, and over half clocking in at 5 seconds or less. The result is a deceptively complex amalgamation of wholly unrelated material, and an impressively unique editorial/directorial achievement.
Surprisingly weaving numerous throughlines from the many disparate existing narratives, while leaving much open to the viewer’s interpretation, scene chronology floats between seemingly non sequitur, to surprisingly, quietly poignant, depending on the viewer’s own history with the city. A hyper-local, one-of-a-kind film experience and an opportunity to examine Seattle’s ever-changing landscape as seen through the camera lens, Once Upon a Time in Seattle offers a unique portal to examine our city’s topography (and vibe!) of the past, both near and distant.
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Ticketing, concessions, cinemas, restrooms, and our public edit lab are located on Northwest Film Forum’s ground floor, which is wheelchair accessible. All doors in Northwest Film Forum are non-motorized, and may require staff assistance to open. Our upstairs workshop room is not wheelchair accessible.
The majority of seats in our main cinema are 21″ wide from armrest to armrest; some seats are 19″ wide. We are working on creating the option of removable armrests!
We have a limited number of assistive listening devices available for programs hosted in our larger theater, Cinema 1. These devices are maintained by the Technical Director, and can be requested at the ticketing and concessions counter. Also available at the front desk is a Sensory Kit you can borrow, which includes a Communication Card, noise-reducing headphones, and fidget toys.
The Forum does NOT have assistive devices for the visually impaired, and is not (yet) a scent-free venue. Our commitment to increasing access for our audiences is ongoing, and we welcome all public input on the subject!
If you have additional specific questions about accessibility at our venue, please contact our Patron Services Manager at suji@nwfilmforum.org. Our phone number (206-329-2629) is voicemail-only, but we check it often.
Made possible due to a grant from Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, in partnership with Sensory Access, our Sensory Access document presents a visual and descriptive walk-through of the NWFF space. View it in advance of attending an in-person event at bit.ly/nwffsocialnarrativepdf, in order to prepare yourself for the experience.
⚠️ COVID-19 Policies ⚠️
NWFF patrons are encouraged to wear masks that cover both nose and mouth while in the building. Disposable masks are available at the door for those who need them. Recent variants of COVID-19 readily infect and spread between individuals regardless of vaccination status.
Read more about NWFF’s policies regarding cleaning, masks, and capacity limitations here.
Refund & Late Policy
Northwest Film Forum reserves the right to release tickets to anyone on standby if there are open seats 5 minutes after a sold out show’s scheduled start time. If you arrive and your seat has been given away, we will happily refund your ticket.
If you’re not feeling a particular movie you’re already watching, we will refund a ticket if you ask within the first 30 minutes of a film.
If you are unable to make it to a screening (sickness, forgot to come, dog ate your homework, etc.) please email rajah (at) nwfilmforum (dot) org to get a refund.
About Collide-O-Scope
Collide-O-Scope is the creative partnership of Shane Wahlund and Michael Anderson, and the name of the live monthly show they have produced here in Seattle for over 16 years. Curated, edited, and hosted by the duo, both lifelong, obsessive collectors and conservators of pop culture, Collide-O-Scope began in 2010 at Seattle’s legendary (and sorely missed) Re-bar. Since then, they have been delighting and confounding audiences with their singular brand of video entertainment at venues like SIFF Cinema Egyptian for their spectacular Halloween celebrations, Central Cinema, Seattle Center (on a wall of water at the International Fountain!), MoM, and Here-After at The Crocodile).
Their popular monthly shows continue to play to sold-out audiences at Beacon Hill’s Clock-Out Lounge, every second Monday, with keenly curated vintage video, freaky film, and found footage, all masterfully woven into hilarious mind- melting montage. An expertly edited fantasia of sight and sound, packed with absurd pop culture ephemera, obscure oddities, and awesome music, all remixed and mashed into one epic entertainment. Perfect for stoners, drinkers, thinkers, and all seekers of the unusual.
These two don’t just pull from iconic pop culture – they create it. Proficient filmmakers in their own right, Shane and Michael have produced elaborate video content for a variety of other artists, including drag superstars Dina Martina and BenDeLaCreme, and J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr.