Calendar
The Tribe
Seattle Premiere!
Jul 10 - Jul 16, 2015
(Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, Ukraine, 2014, DCP, 130 min)
Set in a boarding school for the deaf, The Tribe weaves a harsh tale of love and hate without ever uttering a spoken word. Director Myroslav Slaboshpytsky's feature debut also declines to subtitle the sign language used by all characters. Instead, the angst and fury of adolescence plays out in a series of terrific performance, all portrayed by deaf actors. The results have been earned universal critical acclaim and multiple awards at Cannes.
Watch, Listen, Drink: A happy hour for musicians and filmmakers
Free event!
Co-presented by the Seattle Composers Alliance
Jul 17, 2015
A happy hour for musicians, composers, and filmmakers to meet up, discover each other's work and spark new collaborations. Filmmakers, composers and musicians of all stylistic stripes, genres and skill levels are encouraged to attend. Bring work samples to share at listening and watching stations in the lobby. The more the merrier, so come with your audio or visual media on a charged laptop or phone. Mingling and media sharing in the lobby will be followed by a curated match-making of local film and music.
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
Held over!
Seattle Premiere!
Jul 17 - Jul 27, 2015
(Roy Andersson, 2014, Sweden, DCP, 101 minutes)
Through a series of (mostly) unconnected painterly vignettes, legendary Swedish auteur Roy Andersson deftly delivers the finale to his humanist trilogy. Pigeon might be the oddest, funniest, deepest movie-going experience you've ever been to, and you'll be stumped trying to explain it to your friends. Irreducible to advertising, the entire trilogy has received a limited release in North America, even as it is hailed by critics as a masterpiece in our time.
Boom!
Get your Boom Boom! Ticket stub holders get 20% off their bill at Boom Noodle restaurant on Saturday.
35mm print!
Introduction by Steven Fried!
Jul 18, 2015
(Joseph Losey, 1968, UK, 35mm, 113 min)
Elizabeth Taylor is a sultry, medusa-haired wealthy widow. Richard Burton is the brooding, penniless poet who mysteriously appears on her private island. Both actors appear to be mildly intoxicated throughout as they act out their tabloid dramas with a tongue-in-cheek zest that’s not to be missed.
RADAR: Exchanges In Dance Film Frequencies
Jul 19, 2015
Join us for a program dedicated to the exploration and evolution of dance film through connecting artists scene by scene. Curated by filmmaker/curator Adam Sekuler and choreographer Shannon Stewart, RADAR features movement based films of many budgets, styles and perspectives, creating a platform of local, national and international exchange that allows artists to publicly screen their work, discuss, get feedback and meet other artists working in the same form. Each screening features at least one film or dance artist from the screening city.
Not on Netflix: Polk County Pot Plane
Presented with Scarecrow Video! One Night Only!
Jul 22, 2015
(Jim West, 1977, United States, VHS, 90 min)
Scarecrow Video's own Matt Lynch presents one of his all-time favorites: POLK COUNTY POT PLANE. A plane full of weed, a mountain runway in Georgia, a couple of good ol' boys, and a singular piece of regional exploitation. All based on a true story!
Do I Sound Gay?
Jul 24 - Jul 30, 2015
(David Thorpe, 2014, United States, DCP, 77 min)
Journalist-turned-documentarian David Thorpe turns the camera on himself and his own personal quest to sound straight. He's joined in this funny and insightful documentary by queer celebrities, including Dan Savage, David Sedaris, George Takei, and others. The documentary surveys popular media, personal anecdotes, psychological theories, and speech science that tries to explain 'sounding gay' as a phenomenon.
Heaven Adores You: Encore Screening
Encore Screening!
Jul 26, 2015
(Nickolas Rossi, United States, 2014, DCP, 104 min)
A smart and complex portrait of Elliott Smith and his music, Heaven Adores You is neither fawning nor critical, but simply honest. The film is narrated through the memories of Smith’s closest friends and fellow musicians, supplemented with personal interviews conducted over the course of his career. Director and cinematographer Nickolas Rossi tracks the musician through life, tracing the fascinating trajectory of an artist finding his own unique sound.
Our Lives in Google
Filmmaker in attendance!
Live performance!
Jul 27, 2015
(Adam Sekuler, United States, 2015, 24 min)
Cotton Road
Director in attendance!
Seattle Premiere!
Introduction and Q&A moderated by Amy Benson
Jul 28, 2015
(Laura Kissel, 2014, United States, 72 min)
Americans consume nearly 20 billion new items of clothing each year. Yet few of us know how our clothes are made, much less who produces them. Cotton Road follows the commodity of cotton from South Carolina farms to Chinese factories to illuminate the work and industrial processes in a global supply chain.
Yellow Fish Epic Durational Performance Festival
Free event!
Part of the Yellow Fish Epic Durational Performance Festival
Jul 29, 2015
This performance will take place in our lobby from 6-10pm. Audiences are welcome to come at any point, and stay for as long as they'd like.
Miracle Mile
WITH DIRECTOR STEVE DE JARNATT IN ATTENDANCE! Happy hour and DVD signing with Steve at 6:30pm! Co-presented with Scarecrow Video
35mm print!
Jul 31, 2015
(Steve De Jarnatt, United States, 35mm, 87 min)
Miracle Mile occupies a special place among Hollywood genres: the LA romantic-nuclear-apocalypse at the high water mark of 80s style. Writer-director Steve De Jarnatt spent years having his lauded script stuck in Hollywood production limbo before he took the reins himself and created this cult classic.
Court
Seattle Premiere
Co-presented with Tasveer
Jul 31 - Aug 06, 2015
(Chaitanya Tamhane, India, DCP, 116 min)
Court is a complex portrait of a country divided, visibly riven by caste and class differences that are accepted and perpetuated through behavior that is both intrinsically human and artificially imposed through the registers of postcolonialism. A prize winner at Venice, this quiet epic is unquestionably one of the greatest modern films to come out of Indian cinema.
Dark Cool Quiet
Free Event!
Aug 01 - Aug 02, 2015
Dark Cool Quiet is a programmed block of video art and experimental films addressing similar concerns, shown in an air-conditioned, schmooze-free theater space. The program gathers together meditative works with themes of place, space, light, time, and human discomforts and euphorias.
New Vacation: Installation Opening
Co-presented with Satellite Seattle
Free Event!
Aug 01, 2015
Join us as we kick off a month-long, a multi-channel video and storefront installation, New Vacation features artists that are exploring commercialism, and gender roles through a contemporary internet aesthetic. New Vacation uses feminine aesthetics to present a larger retrospective into contemporary new media art making.
Her Wilderness
Seattle Premiere Director in Attendance!
Aug 05, 2015
(Frank Mosley, 2014, United States, DCP, 65 min)
Both a feature installation film and an online interactive experience, Her Wilderness is an investigation into responsibility, choice, and identity: a fairy tale for adults. The film weaves an elliptical, minimalist narrative of a lost, wandering child in the wake of an affair that may or may not have even happened.
A-Bomb: 70 Years Since Hiroshima
Co-presented by The Sprocket Society.
Aug 06, 2015
Rare 16mm short movies about The Bomb, from Hiroshima through the mid 1970s -- the first 30 years of the atomic bomb era. Presented on the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing.
You’re Lookin’ at Country: Invitation to Infidelity
Followed by Country-Oke!
Aug 07, 2015
Slide off of your satin sheets and join us for an all-you-can-cheat banquet of vintage country music videos, followed by Country-Oke! Our salute to adultery will kick off with classic country clips culled from 1960s, 70s and 80s film and TV performances.
The Look of Silence
Aug 07 - Aug 13, 2015
(Joshua Oppenheimer, Denmark, 2014, DCP, 99 minutes)
An ambitious companion film to his Academy Award-nominated documentary, The Act of Killing, director Joshua Oppenheimer returns to the aftermath of the 1965 Indonesian genocide of communists and ethnic Chinese people in The Look of Silence. The documentary picks up the thread of its predecessor, and confronts the aging perpetrators of mass murder with the consequences of their crimes.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Remixed
Live soundtrack remix by DJ Nicfit!
Aug 08, 2015
(Robert Wiene, 1920, Germany, 71 minutes)
This classic horror film from the canon of German Expressionist cinema gets a soundtrack remix by DJ Nicfit. In the gloomy, forbidding town of Holstenwall, the mysterious Dr. Caligari wields the otherworldly power of a serial killer somnambulist named Cesare. Francis, our hero, must defeat Cesare by discovering the source of his power. The hunt for the truth will takes Francis to an insane asylum, and the twists in the story and sharp shadows in the town reveal the filmmakers' deep distrust of authoritarian power in post-WW1 Germany.
Classy Credits: An Evening with Jennifer Roth
Free Event with Industry Vet! After party to follow!
Aug 10, 2015
From craft service to the road to the Oscars, Jennifer Roth has done (and seen) a great deal as a line producer. Tonight she divulges tales and tips from an illustrious career of making movies happen.
Seattle Send-off for Calvin Reeder
Local Filmmaker Makes Good! Shorts Collection and Q&A moderated by Megan Griffiths!
Aug 12, 2015
Filmmaker and former Seattleite Calvin Reeder returned this month to shoot two new short films. We welcome this Local Sightings alum back for a wrap party with old school (digibeta!) screenings of his early short films, paired with conversation about Calvin's involvement in Seattle's film scene.
The Damned: Don't You Wish That We Were Dead
Aug 14 - Aug 20, 2015
(Wes Orshoski, 2015, USA, DCP, 110 min)
Fresh off its festival premiere, Don’t You Wish We Were Dead is the definitive story of THE pioneering punk band: THE DAMNED, from their formation in 1976 through to present day. It’s a rollicking, yet complicated journey, unflinchingly portrayed, and a must-see for any punk.
Advantageous
Aug 14, 2015
(Jennifer Phang, 2015, United States, DCP, 97 min)
In a not-too distant future, mind and body are malleable. What do intelligence and beauty mean when they become products to be picked off the shelf? What does a society look like in this ‘perfect’ new world? How about a family? Join Director Jennifer Phang and Editor Sean Gillane for a screening of their Sundance hit!