Calendar
Two films by Michael Snow
16mm prints!
Dec 08, 2016
Wavelength: (Michael Snow, Canada, 1967, 16mm, 45 min) To Lavoisier, Who Died in the Reign of Terror: (Michael Snow, Canada, 1991, 16mm, 52 min)
Canadian artist Michael Snow is one of the world’s most influential avant-garde filmmakers. His structuralist opus Wavelength will screen at the Forum alongside the melancholy and surreal La Voisier, Who Died in the Reign of Terror.
Holiday Party
Free, all ages, open to the public!
Sponsored by Naked City Brewery
Music by DJ Emmanuelle & DJ Retina Burn
RSVP to the Facebook event (not required)
Dec 09, 2016
Our legendary annual holiday potluck/dance/karaoke/dreidel/egg-nog bash is back, with Cineoke host Three Dollar Bill Cinema!
Fire at Sea
Seattle premiere!
Dec 08 - Dec 11, 2016
(Gianfranco Rosi, Italy/France, 2016, DCP, 108 min)
For residents of Lampedusa, life continues at a steady pace. Samuele, observant 12-year-old Lampedusan, likes playing on land, even though everything around him speaks of the sea and those who try to cross it to get to his island. Gianfranco Rosi simultaneously documents Samuele's life and a few of the many battered boats that wash ashore, as migrants finally reach land after a harrowing journey. What’s next?
Family Holiday and Children's Film Festival Launch Party!
All ages! Milk and cookies!
Dec 11, 2016
Join us to usher in the holidays and be among the first to find out what's on tap for Children's Film Festival Seattle (Jan. 26 to Feb. 11) at the Forum! We'll have animation and crafting stations, classic TV holiday specials playing in Cinema 2, dreidel, milk and cookies, and a special sneak peek at the highlights of CFFS 2017.
Movement Material
Artists in attendance!
Dec 11, 2016
(Jeremy Moss & Pamela Vail, US, 2012-2016, 60 min)
Movement Material is a 60-minute program of video, 16mm projection, and live performance that highlight transfigurative gestures via the collision of camera and dance. This program explores the roles and functions of both the cinematographer (Jeremy Moss) and the dancer (Pamela Vail) while engaging questions of space, movement, and the ways in which the frame and the cut create alternate walls and rhythms.
Peter and the Farm
Seattle premiere!
Dec 14 - Dec 15, 2016
(Tony Stone, US, 2016, DCP, 91 min)
Imbued with an aching tenderness, Peter and the Farm is both a haunting and heartbreaking documentary, a mosaic of its solitary and singular subject’s transitory reflections on life. The poetic idealism of 1960s counterculture has left Peter Dunning, and in its vacuum he has developed increasingly self-destructive habits, alienating his wife and children.
The Eyes of My Mother
Dec 14 - Dec 18, 2016
(Nicolas Pesce, US, 2016, DCP, 76 min)
One horrific act forever alters a young woman’s life on a farm. We follow Francisca, a surgeon’s daughter, from this traumatic event to an isolated adulthood, as she seeks to fulfill her parents’ legacy in increasingly gruesome ways.
Oyster Factory (Kaki kouba)
Seattle premiere!
Dec 15 - Dec 17, 2016
(Kazuhiro Soda, Japan, 2015, 145 min, in Japanese with English subtitles)
Oyster Factory immerses us in the intimate labor of traditional small factory fishing and processing of oysters, work which is steeped in the history of local culture but is threatened by depopulation and globalization. The fastidious process is matched by a similarly nimble filmmaking technique, rich in small details but also revealing a broader portrait of Japan post-disaster.
Sin Alas
Seattle premiere!
Dec 16 - Dec 18, 2016
(Ben Chace, US/Cuba, 2015, DCP, 84 min, in Spanish with English subtitles)
The first American film shot in Cuba since the revolution, this Havana-set memory film is a melancholic love story that evolves into a universal meditation on life. An old man, Luis (Carlos Padrón), reads the obituary of a famous dancer who was once his lover, and in doing so begins a melancholic, Wild Strawberries-esque journey through a passionate but painful past.
The Eyes of the Totem
Seattle premiere!
Followed by panel discussion with the composer
Dec 18, 2016
(W. S. Van Dyke, US, 1927)
Shot in 1926 by H.C. Weaver Studios in Tacoma, WA and lost for decades, this film was recently rediscovered in the archives of a museum in New York City. The Eyes of the Totem was directed by W.S. Van Dyke, who went on to direct the Thin Man series, as well as many other feature films. This screening will include a panel discussion with the composer of the modern musical score and local film preservationists that have been involved in its return to Pacific Northwest audiences.
Seattle Documentary Association: America Lost
We are limiting attendance to 15 attendees, so reserve your spot now!
Dec 18, 2016
America Lost is a feature-length PBS documentary that explores the decline of family, economic, and civic life in three of America’s “forgotten cities”—Stockton, California, Youngstown, Ohio, and Memphis, Tennessee.
Power Your Media Film Festival & Party
Dec 29, 2016