STUFF 2026: Mutable Archive (Shorts)
In-person tickets
$15 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 Member
Festival passes
$72 General Admission
$48 Student/Child/Senior
$33 Member
Full Festival Passes and Individual Tickets are available!
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 rajah@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.
NWFF patrons will be required to wear masks that cover both nose and mouth while attending STUFF. 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.
About
(66 min TRT)
How does time alter how we interact with our personal records and artifacts? How can we create friction within memory, photographs, and videos? A palpable collection of stories that intertwine the past, present, and self, on the way into the unknown.
Films In This Program:
In Another Life
(Tristan Blue, United States, 9m)
An elder queer hermit searches through coastal soundscapes in pursuit of a mysterious cave they believe will allow them to commune with a past self.
CW: Flashing lights
My 50 Minute Breath-Hold Speedrun Challenge
(Emery Joan, United States, 2m)
“I try to hold my breath for 50 minutes in real time as quickly as I can.”
giiwe πρό bizhiw / bizhiw πρό giiwe
(mystery byrd, Canada, 3m)
“A home video, dedicated to my baby.”
b.longing
(mystery byrd, Canada, 7m)
A dialogue and poetic home video about belonging, from young people living in modern capitalist colonial society.
Somewhere within me
(Andoeni Padilla, Mexico, 18m)
A story of a friendship told through childhood archival material. They try to answer who they are, who they wish to be, and inevitably, they turn to who they have been.
Unhappy Sexy Girl
(Cassidy Civiero, Canada, 7m)
A transmasc filmmaker revisits his past as an unhappy sexy girl coping through constant marijuana and sexual objectification.
Vollúpya
(Éri Sarmet, Jocimar Dias Jr., Brazil, 20m)
In a post-apocalyptic future, an intergalactic explorer lands at an abandoned museum on a quest to find traces of his long-lost ancestors, and ends up being teleported to the dance floor of a Brazilian queer nightclub in the 1990s.
CW: Flashing lights