ByDesign 2022 – touristic intents
In-person screening: Mar. 20 at 4:30pm
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!
Visiting Artist
** Director Mat Rappaport in attendance! A Q&A hosted by Arabelle Liepold, Managing Director of Goethe Pop Up Seattle, will follow the in-person screening. **
About:
** Northwest premiere! Co-presented with Goethe Pop Up Seattle. Available only in the Pacific Northwest virtually (WA, OR, AK, ID, MT, BC, Yukon). **
Developed by the Nazis as a propagandistic site, Prora was a vacation resort designed to help build sympathies between working-class vacationers and the Nazi party. Though its intended use never fully came to fruition, the site was later used as a military training site which also housed a large group of East German Conscientious Objectors. Today, taking influence from American industry titan Henry Ford, the building is being redeveloped into a contemporary vacation destination, which includes a youth hostel, apartments, condominiums, and hotels.
touristic intents traces Prora’s history across many decades and uses, drawing contrasts and connections between the Nazi, East German identity, and contemporary political moment, while acknowledging the influence of American industrialization and globalism. It features archival footage and propaganda dating back to the height of the Nazi movement, and interviews with everyone from former conscientious objectors and historians to modern-day architects and designers. The film raises important questions about what role history should play in determining contemporary uses of land and architecture; what does full reclamation of a space look like, and how can it be achieved?
(Mat Rappaport, US, Germany & Netherlands, 2021, 73 min, in English & German with English subtitles)
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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.
Festival Directory
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.