ByDesign 2023 – A New POV: Short Film Program [Hybrid]
Mar. 18 at 6pm & Mar. 19 at 7:30pm
Watch online: Mar. 17–26, 2023
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 maria@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.
A number of seats will be held at each show for members of the community for whom ticket cost is an obstacle. If you’d like to attend free of charge, please email María and Paul (maria@nwfilmforum.org, paul@nwfilmforum.org) to let them know which program and showtime you’re interested in!
NWFF patrons will be required 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. We are not currently checking vaccination cards. 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
These imaginative, lovingly crafted shorts take on the POV of objects, materials, and edifices around us, imbuing them with hopes and regrets, dreams and purpose.
Header image credit: Our Ark, dir. Deniz Tortum & Kathryn Hamilton
BUY TICKETS HERE
- Purchase your ticket through Brown Paper Tickets; come to the show!
- You can also purchase a ticket on the day of the screening at Northwest Film Forum’s box office (1515 12th Ave, Seattle).
- If you have purchased a Hybrid or In-Person-Only Festival Pass, we’ll be able to look you up at Will Call by the name you purchased under.
- Purchase your ticket through Northwest Film Forum’s Eventive virtual cinema. A free Eventive login is required.
- From the Eventive virtual catalog page, purchased tickets will appear under “My Content Library” under your user menu (upper-right). From the Eventive festival landing page, they will appear under “My Tickets” on the site’s menu bar (at top).
- Your confirmation email will also route you back to these pages to watch. (Can’t find it? Check spam!)
- If all else fails, please contact paul@nwfilmforum.org
Films in this program:
Bad Neighborhoods
(Webster Crowell, US, 2021, 2 min, nonverbal)
The architecture of the urban world, while responsive and living in its own right, is not necessarily hospitable.
Aurora – The Street That Wanted To Be a River
(Radhi Meron, Brazil, 2021, 10 min, in Portuguese with English subtitles)
“If the streets could talk, what would they say?” Aurora is a sad and lonely street of a big city. On a rainy day, she remembers her trajectory and dreams about the future, asking herself: “Is it possible for a street to die?”
Chorus
House of Existence (Jon-Jae-Ui Jib)
(Joung Yumi, South Korea, 2022, 8 min)
There it is, the house, drawn in pencil. It’s starting to fall apart. The bricks come loose from the wall, the front door falls off its hinges and the walls break away. Everything sinks into endless nothingness. Rooms become visible. Furniture shatters, objects fall to the floor and the roof slides off. Melancholy and the opportunity to leave are all that remains.
Papagalo, What’s the Time?
(Ingel Vaikla, Belgium, 2022, 4 min)
An exploration of the architecture of the former Yugoslavian pavilion from the Brussels World Expo (1958) in its current function as Sint-Pauluscollege.
Our Ark
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