Engauge 2026 – We Are All Together
INDIVIDUAL FILM PROGRAM TICKETS:
- $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
Screening on film!
Visiting Artist
** Filmmakers in attendance! **
About
This phrase, borrowed from Lynne Sachs’ film “A Month of Single Frames,” perfectly captures the relationality that this program embodies: birth, death, motherhood, illness, widowhood, friendship, family, gender, artistry. These films, deeply anchored in the challenging realities of the everyday, are ultimately uplifting.
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.
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 strongly 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.
Films in this program:
Explant/Implant
(Josh Weisbach | color/sound | 3:16 | 16mm print | US)
A lifetime of surgeries continues with an upgrade in battery life and a downgrade in scar tissue when the filmmaker has his original pacemaker replaced after sixteen years.
Objectionable Fruit
(Gabby Follett and Hogan Seidel | color/sound | 15:00 16mm to digital | US)
“Objectionable Fruit” is an experimental documentary examining the Ginkgo tree—a living fossil celebrated for its resilience and unique capacity to change sexes, defying human-imposed binaries. Using the Ginkgo as a metaphor for fluidity and endurance, the film weaves together themes of gender identity, ecological interconnectedness, and the nuanced complexities of trans existence.
Dyade
(Carole Thibaud & Bertille LaFarge | b&w/sound | 6:50 | 16mm to digital | France)
A film made by two sisters, filmmaker and dancer. Written by four hands, shot and danced in turn. Witness to a shared experience, created through the inspiration of the moment, the light, and the place. A story of gesture, transmission, play, and poetry. The film images were shot in 16mm at the Bressieux farm (Savoie, France) in February 2023, developed in Mire’s shared laboratory in Nantes, and edited back and forth.
You May Laugh at Me a Little
(Yuula Benivolski | color/sound | 22:35 | 16mm to digital | CA/Palestine)
A film about a glassblower in Hebron—a place historically known for glass production, which dominated the region for centuries. Each family in the business was known for their own traditional recipe. A couple of years ago I interviewed the last glassblower in Hebron’s old city, and filmed him during a regular day at his studio.
The Algae
(Ursula Brookbank | b&w/sound | 5:45 | 16mm to digital | US)
Three sisters of sorrow bring tears and comfort to a widow.
Moving Feelings
(Rendro Aryo | color/sound | 5:38 |Super 8 to digital l Indonesia)
An experimental poetry film shot using a super 8 mm camera from 1975. A film that plays with poetry through poetic images. A man and a woman searching and questioning the meaning of youth.
To My Son
(Linda Fenstermaker | color/sound | 6:40 | 16mm to digital | US)
A visual exploration on the transition to motherhood and how time shifts in this phase of life seen through the landscapes of the Pacific Northwest.
A Month of Single Frames
(Lynne Sachs | color/sound | S 8 to digital | US)
In 1998, filmmaker Barbara Hammer had a one-month artist residency in the C Scape Duneshack which is run by the Provincetown Community Compact in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The shack had no running water or electricity. While there, she shot 16mm film with her Beaulieu camera, recorded sounds with her cassette recorder and kept a journal. In 2018, Barbara began her own process of dying by revisiting her personal archive. She gave all of her Duneshack images, sounds and writing to filmmaker Lynne Sachs and invited her to make a film with the material.
“While editing the film, the words on the screen came to me in a dream. I was really trying to figure out a way to talk to the experience of solitude that Barbara had had, how to be there with her somehow through the time that we would all share together watching her and the film. My text is a confrontation with a somatic cinema that brings us all together in multiple spaces at once.”
— Lynne Sachs
