Thu Feb 5
7.15pm
7.15pm
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo
film
Outside In — Home Movies from Immigrant & Queer Communities
Sun Dec 14:
$15 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 NWFF Member
United States
1968-2009
1h 7m
About
Northwest Film Forum welcomes the Al Larvick Conservation Fund (ALCF) to present Outside In—Home Movies from Immigrant & Queer Communities, a program from the national anniversary screening series In Another Light: Cinema of Memory, marking the Fund’s 10th year supporting the preservation and public sharing of home movies and community recordings.
This program features work curated and edited by filmmaker and activist Jim Hubbard, drawn from his extensive body of 8mm and 16mm films — many of which he shot and hand-processed while documenting and making films about LGBTQ+ life, activism, and community organizing. The program also includes two additional collections that Hubbard stewards: home movies from the González family, relatives on his husband’s side, recorded by earlier generations; and personal recordings by his long time friend Mario Perez, a member of New York’s queer community. Hubbard serves as the custodian of his own media as well as the González and Perez film and video collections, bringing these intertwined personal and community archives into public view. Together, these interwoven personal and community archives demonstrate how intimate filmmaking becomes a living testimony of identity, resilience, cultural expression, and political struggle — showing how everyday documentation expands public history from the inside out.
“When I film demonstrations, I look for individuals — to evoke the diversity of the crowd and the meaning of the event.”— Jim Hubbard
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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 suji@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.
⚠️ COVID-19 Policies ⚠️
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.
Co-Presented with Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound (MIPoPS)
Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound is a non-profit 501-(c)(3) corporation formed to help preserve our cultural heritage by assisting archives, libraries, and other organizations with the conversion of analog video recordings to digital formats according to archival best practices.