Calendar
All About the Feathers
Por las plumas
Apr 22 - Apr 23, 2014
(Neto Villalobos, Costa Rica, 2013, DCP, 85 min)
Getting an independent production off the ground in Costa Rica (where the film industry pales in comparison with the sway of ecotourism) is about as likely as a lanky security guard raising a prize-fighting rooster. Director Neto Villalobos nimbly charts the trials of Chalo, who covets a local grocer's auspicious-seeming bird that, once possessed, is re-christened 'Rocky' and becomes something of a life partner to the loner who lives, naturally, above a fried chicken joint.
Los Posibles
Apr 22 - Apr 26, 2014
(Santiago Mitre, Juan Onofri Barbato, Argentina, 2013, DCP, 55 min)
The follow-up to Santiago Mitre's student political drama El Estudiante (featured in last year's focus on Argentine films at Northwest Film Forum) comes as an unexpected surprise: Los Posibles is a dance film, albeit as mysterious and propulsive as his first narrative feature.
Salt of the Earth
Co-presented with the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at the University of Washington and the Labor Archives of Washington, UW Libraries Special Collections
Apr 23, 2014
(Herbert J. Biberman, USA, 1954, 94 min)
Blacklisted film professionals, with political beliefs deemed too radical in McCarthy-era Hollywood, collaborated with the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers to make this neorealist classic, which follows the struggle of miners and their families (many of them non-actors from the miners union) as they strike against the Empire Zinc Company in New Mexico.
Summer of Flying Fish
El verano de los peces voladores
Apr 20 - Apr 23, 2014
(Marcela Said, Chile/France, 2013, DCP, 87 min)
Marcela Said's first foray into scripted narrative filmmaking after a series of award-winning documentaries focusing on Pinochet's regime sees her mining discreet (but no less politically sensitive) material: indigenous versus inherited legacies in Chile.
Jonathas’ Forest
A Floresta de Jonathas
Apr 21 - Apr 24, 2014
(Sergio Andrade, Brazil, 2012, DCP, 99 min)
A becalmed but ripe tale of family life in Amazonia is transformed into a haunting rumination on man-in-nature, in this Brazilian take on tropical malady. Banished from the home by a bitter father, Juliano embarks on a defiant camping trip, with his curious brother Jonathas in tow.
videOasis
Co-presented with 12toRain and City Arts Magazine
Happy hour at 7pm—Free tequila tasting bar from Sparkle Donkey (21+)!
Screening at 8pm
DJ Marco Collins in the lobby after the screening!
Apr 24 - Jul 24, 2014
Internet may have killed the video star, but music video culture is alive and kicking in the Northwest. Our quarterly showcase brings the best new PNW music videos out of the Internet ether and throws them big on the silver screen, with musicians and directors in attendance to spill the goods on the process of collaboration. Watch it bigger, listen louder, feel it realer.
La Ultima Pelicula
Apr 25 - Apr 30, 2014
(Raya Martin and Mark Peranson, Canada/Mexico/Philippines, 2013, 35mm, 88 min) U.S. premiere!
A product of DOX:LAB, a Copenhagen-based consortium linking artists from developing and developed countries to collaborate on projects, La Ultima Pelicula is Raya Martin's (the Philippines) and Mark Peranson's (Canada, and first time-feature director) homage to Dennis Hopper's bat-shit crazy film folly, The Last Movie.
Purgatorio: A Journey Into the Heart of the Border
Purgatorio: Un viaje el corazón de la frontera
Apr 25, 2014
(Rodrigo Reyes, Mexico/USA, 2012, DCP, 80 min)
Rodrigo Reyes' harrowing and lyrical documentary goes in search of stories along the U.S.-Mexico border–from Tijuana to Juarez–to piece together a human portrait of migration, xenophobia, corruption and salvation. La Frontera is both gate of heaven, and hell on earth. Show me a fifty-foot wall and I'll show you a fifty-one foot ladder, the saying goes. And yet, the desert is strewn with corpses, while debates about immigration continue to polarize discussion north of the border.
Looking For Adventure
Apr 25 - Apr 26, 2014
(Kimi Takesue, Peru/USA, 2013, PRO-RES, 47 min)
Exploring with rigorous formal composure the “strains, pleasures, and choreography” of group tourism in Peru, documentary filmmaker Kimi Takesue has created a unique ethnography of Andean culture: both its commodification for the exotic-seeking traveler, and the sublime elements that effectively inspire pilgrimages of universal beauty.
Porcelain Horse
Mejor No Hablar de Ciertas Cosas Opening night party for Pulsos Latinos follows the screening on April 18! Featuring a free cachaça bar (21+ only) from Novo Fogo and live music from DJ Chilly!
Apr 18 - Apr 26, 2014
(Javier Andrade, Ecuador, 2012, DCP, 100 min)
A corrosive and funny drama—by turns blackly sardonic and deeply tender—about two brothers trying to grow up amid the torpor of drugs and the insulating comforts of class privilege in Portoviejo, Ecuador.
Framing Pictures
Free event!
Feb 28 - Jul 20, 2014
Join us for a free, lively monthly discussion led by long-time Seattle film critics (and occasional guests) who have much to say on the subject of cinephilia past, present and future. The July conversation includes former Film Comment editor Richard Jameson, Everett Herald/KUOW critic Robert Horton and Bruce Reid.
Nothing Against Life
Co-presented by Northwest Film Forum and Cinerama, in a benefit for the Washington Youth Suicide Prevention Program Seattle premiere! Post-screening cast & crew discussion!
Apr 30, 2014
A fearless, moving drama that addresses the social implications of living with depression, and stigmas surrounding suicide and mental health, Nothing Against Life peers into the lives of four disparate characters whose paths intertwine, as they navigate the razor's edge of life.
High Rise
Co-presented with ARCADE
Charles Mudede will introduce the screening, connecting the film's themes and ARCADE's spring issue feature, “After Growth: Rethinking the Narrative of Modernization”
Apr 30, 2014
(Gabriel Mascaro, Brazil, 2009, 66 min)
In High-Rise (Um Lugar ao Sol), nine penthouse residents in three of Brazil's largest cities (Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Recife) divulge what it's like to live at the top. Through revealing interviews with the residents, in the comfort of their high-rise lofts, director Gabriel Mascaro exposes a world of wealth gone wild.
May Day at the Film Forum
Featuring the Seattle Labor Chorus!
May 01, 2014
Happy hour at 6pm!
For International Workers' Day, we wrap up Red Renewal and kick off May Works, a month-long celebration of workers in Seattle, with a performance by the Seattle Labor Chorus, accompanied by worker films, a final community discussion and a proper May Day party.
Work-in-Progress: Northwest Film Forum's 13th Annual Gala
at 415 Westlake with your Master of Ceremonies, James Keblas and your Auctioneer, Laura Michalek
May 02, 2014
Glamour. Grit. Work-in-Progress.
Northwest Film Forum turns 19 this year—ready for a bigger role, but still a kid at heart. Join us as we roll out the red carpet, and roll up our sleeves, for a Gala evening of celebration.
Othello
New digital restoration!
May 02 - May 08, 2014
(Orson Welles, U.S.A., 1952, DCP, 90 min)
When historians discuss the blighted career of Orson Welles, they generally hone in on the meddlesome studio mutilations of Magnificent Ambersons or Touch of Evil, but there is no more star-crossed Welles work than his 1952 adaptation of Othello.
Navajo Star Wars
Free screening!
Co-presented with Longhouse Media
May 02 - May 24, 2014
Seventy voice actors speaking 5 Navajo dialects enact Star Wars: A New Hope, in the first major theatrical movie to be dubbed into a Native language.
PANDEMIC: Viral Videos
Hosted by Adam Sekuler and Lauren Berliner!
Mar 04 - Jul 07, 2014
Each month, PANDEMIC turns Northwest Film Forum’s cinema into a virtual examination room, as two cultural curators poke and prod viral blights from across the interwebz. This month, meme-machines Adam Sekuler and Lauren Berliner guide us on a quest to answer the nebulous koan of cloud life—yes, you can haz cheeseburger. . .but can you digest it?
Remembering Michael Glawogger
May 08, 2014
Various
Renowned and beloved filmmaker Michael Glawogger passed away on April 22, 2014. Tonight, we pay tribute to him by viewing some of the work he made and participated in while visiting Seattle in 2012 to screen his Globalization Trilogy at NWFF. The program includes the world premiere of a short film he shot at the Panama Hotel in Seattle, as well as his rarely screened 35mm short film, Haiku.
It Felt Like Love
May 09 - May 15, 2014
(Eliza Hittman, U.S.A, 2013, DCP, 82 min.)
Eliza Hittman’s debut feature landed her on Filmmaker Magazine's 25 faces of Independent Cinema list. Set in Brooklyn, it concerns 14-year old Lila (the brilliant Gina Pierasanti), who, utterly neglected by her father, is left alone to break out of her awkward adolescent shackles (by emulating her far more promiscuous friend). Lila’s pursuit of a boyfriend from the wrong side of the tracks leads to circumstances that may be inevitable, but, in Hittman's sensitive handling, never stray into the realm of judgment.
Women in Film – The Second Tuesday
Happy hour + program! Free event for WIF and NWFF members!
Mar 11 - Sep 09, 2014
Every second Tuesday of the month, join Women in Film Seattle and Northwest Film Forum to connect with your peers and share stories of your latest gig, show off a finished project or a work-in-progress, and network to your heart’s content. Special ticket pricing: $6 for guests.
Metropolis
With a live musical score by GRID!
May 16, 2014
This canonical, 1927 German Expressionist sci-fi opus by Fritz Lang is accompanied by a new score from GRID, the Seattle-based live music-to-film project founded by drummer Jen Gilleran.
John Hubley Centennial
New 35mm prints! Get a copy of The Believer with DVD of Hubley shorts included!
May 17 - May 18, 2014
(John and Faith Hubley, 35mm, 80 min)
American film animator John Hubley began his career working on classics like Bambi and Fantasia at Disney. In the late ‘40s, Hubley created the character of Mr. Magoo; in the ‘50s, he founded Storyboard Studios, where he worked on Sesame Street and directed classic shorts like Moonbird. We present a program of newly restored 35mm prints of some of the most beloved of John Hubley’s works, on the 100th anniversary of his birth.
PNW Film Party
Free event!
Music by DJ Chilly!
Fiscal Sponsorship Session at 8pm
Party at 9pm
May 17, 2014
It's time to launch summer (and SIFF season) with Northwest flair: you are invited to our celebration party for Northwest film luminaries on May 17! More than a third of Northwest films selected for SIFF this year have been supported by our fiscal sponsorship program, and we are throwing a bash to celebrate their stellar work. Join us for a film community get-down; for the people who know, film folk + Film Forum make the perfect party formula. Beer will flow and bass beats will drop in prime time for local film high-fiving, as we raise a glass and bust a move together.
Silent Magic: Trick Films and Special Effects, 1895-1912
May 20, 2014
(Various directors and countries, 1895-1912, 16mm, approx. 90 min)
At the dawn of the previous century, a new breed of sorcerer emerged: blending the ancient arts of stagecraft and prestidigitation with experimental movie trickery, these modern magicians transported audiences to entirely new realms of wonder.