Engauge 2026 – Beyond Borders
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- $15 General Admission
- $10 Student/Child/Senior
- $7 NWFF/SIFF/GI/PCNW member
INDIVIDUAL TICKETS TO SPECIAL EVENTS:
- $18 General Admission
- $13 NWFF/SIFF/GI/PCNW member
- $70 General
- $50 Student/Child/Senior
- $35 NWFF/SIFF/GI/PCNW member
On Film
Some films presented on 16mm
Visiting Artist
** Filmmakers in attendance! **
About
This seemingly disparate collection of films takes us beyond the often artificial boundaries of countries, equipment, formats, frames, genres, species, states, and styles.
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.
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.
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Films in this program:
Some Place to Stand
(Sandy McLennan | color/sound | 16mm to digital | 4:04 | CA)
An Expo ’67 song on 45, current hand-processed film footage, reflecting on social concepts then and now.
The Spider
(Shanna Maurizi color/sound | 16mm to digital | 8:45 (time updated?) | US)
Nighttime visions emerge from a dusty roadside and out of the depths of the subconscious as two characters are drawn together by a shared experience. “The Spider” mines family history by developing an ancestral mythology where time is simultaneous, but loss is real.
Hurricane Season
(Michelle Trujillo | b&w/sound | 16mm to digital | 6:22 | US)
Hurricane anxiety takes a visceral form as the image searches for an escape route. Inspired by true events. Created on 16mm film and developed with comfrey, mint, yerba mate and willow leaves.
Jonah
(Daniel Cortés Ramírez | b&w/sound lomokino to digital *wide* | 10:40 | Colombia)
Jonah, the anti-prophet, escapes once again from the god who humiliated him.
He boards a ship to Tarshish, and out on the vast sea, a distant yet familiar echo calls to him. His body trembles from the trauma, but a deep embrace gathers him up and holds him close.
This film uses 35mm Lomokino footage to imagine an alternative fate for the perpetrators’ violence.
En La Paz
(Jeremy Moss | b&w/sound | 16mm to digital | 3:00 | US/Bolivia)
Created in-camera on a rooftop in La Paz, Bolivia in July on B&W reversal film with my Bolex as dusk was approaching. The city’s sea of antennas and surrounding mountains pointing to the sky inform the film’s sound.
Kaze No E (or Why the Wind Whispers Among the Leaves)
(Takahiro Suzuki | color/sound | 16mm to digital | 7:05 | US)
Four young researchers in Big Sky Country begin to wonder about the vastness of the world and greater cosmos. If non-human presences were capable of harboring intelligence and communicating, what information could they pass along? Using the trees and wind as messengers, the researchers record and decipher writings and recordings from the trees and wind, relating them back to the land and universe, before finding ways to embody them through sound and movement as a form of empathy and communion with a greater intelligence.
Transmission
(Douglas Urbank | b&w/sound | 16mm to digital | 7:20 | US)
Layers of patterns generate sound.
Toss a Rose Over
(Janelle VanderKelen | color/sound | 16mm to digital | 10:44 | US)
The green ones share stories of change in this travelogue from the vantage point of plants. In a canyon where all things move, these ancient beings urge humanity to reconsider acts of interspecies and intraspecies relation during a current period of anthropogenic climate change.
Leaf Peeper
(Vito Rowlands | color/sound | Super 8 to digital | 2:54 | US)
A frantic frolic in Fall foliage. A stop-motion autumn adventure. A symphony in blaze orange.
Run
(Robert Schaller | b&w/silent | 11:51 | 16mm print | US)
An optical quest to capture the feeling of running through the Colorado mountains on and around the Continental Divide.
Alpine Tundra
(Kathleen Rugh | color/sound | 5:35 | 16mm print | US)
At an elevation of 14,264 feet above sea level, the peak of Mount Blue Sky is too harsh for trees and common vegetation. Instead, the ground is covered with fragile tundra grass, weak soil, and rock. In this harsh climate exists the highest paved road in North America, that allows visitors traveling by car to partake in striking views and a sense of awe in the extremes of nature.
