ByDesign 2022 – Mud Frontier: Architecture at the Borderlands (screens w/ We Do It for Awá)
In-person screening: Mar. 20 at 7:30pm
To accommodate evolving public health recommendations regarding COVID-19, we are using a hybrid virtual-and-in-person festival model in 2022. There are three categories of festival pass: VIRTUAL, IN-PERSON, and HYBRID (virtual AND in-person), all available here. Vaccination and DOUBLE-masking are required for NWFF patrons!
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In areas of Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico, Indigenous and Hispanic communities have lived in both harmony and conflict since the late 16th century – but in the late 19th century, the impact of U.S. imperial expansion and the legacy of Indigenous enslavement eclipsed that history. Using adobe architecture as its main throughline, Mud Frontier explores the complex cultural confluences in this region and its painful legacy of colonialism, while grounding its focus on the earth and the land.
Mud Frontier: Architecture at the Borderlands offers an intimate, tactile look at Mud Frontiers, a project led by artist-architects Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello, who use 3D-printing technology to build adobe structures on Rael’s ancestral homelands in Colorado’s San Luis Valley. Using energy-efficient, ecologically-friendly, and affordable construction methods, Mud Frontier draws upon the long-lasting links between Indigenous and Hispanic cultures of the area, paying homage to the past while simultaneously moving towards a more sustainable future.
(Chris J. Gauthier, US, 2021, 63 min, in English & Spanish with English subtitles)
Screens with the short film "We Do It for Awá"
Northern Brazil, state of Maranhão. TIBÁ architects build earth houses in indigenous villages as a part of a compensation policy against the impact of an industrial railway which passes next to the territory. Architecture becomes a pretext to talk about the complex situation of the native Brazilian population which faces rapid modernization of its culture and an intensifying invasion from the neighbouring Brazilian villages. The efforts of the Guajajara tribe focus on guarding the forest and ensuring that the last uncontacted Awá tribes can continue their traditional way of life, undisturbed.
(Natalia Kobylinska, Brazil, 2021, 18 min)
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NWFF is adapting to evolving recommendations to protect the public from COVID-19. Read more about their policies regarding cleaning, masks, and capacity limitations here. We reserve the option to shift the festival to virtual-only on short notice.
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ByDesign Festival is a cross-cultural exploration of people, structures, and ideas at the intersection of design and the moving image.
Featuring a broad, inclusive selection of films, performances, and interactive activities, ByDesign invites festivalgoers to interrogate their own relationships to personal and collective identity, by examining how humanity’s understanding of itself is central to the ways in which it creates the physical world.
The 2022 edition of Northwest Film Forum’s annual ByDesign Festival, held March 17–20 in-person and March 17–27 online, is curated and promoted in close partnership with Seattle Design Festival, a strategic initiative of AIA Seattle dedicated to unleashing the design thinker in everyone.
⚠️ Please note: ⚠️
For the sake of public safety, NWFF patrons ages 5+ will be required to present proof of COVID-19 vaccination and to double-mask while in the building. Disposable masks are available at the door for those who need them.
NWFF is adapting to evolving recommendations to protect the public from COVID-19. Read more about their policies regarding cleaning, masks, and capacity limitations here. We reserve the option to shift the festival to virtual-only on short notice.