Calendar
Join the Crowd
Free industry event!
Happy hour at 6pm!
May 17, 2015
Various
Join the Crowd is an offline platform for filmmakers to spread the word about their projects, connect with fellow crews and support each other's work. Join the Crowd features short presentations of projects currently in the midst of a campaign, plus a recent crowdfunding Success Story, with the filmmaker on hand to offer wise words to anyone who wants to learn tips and tricks of crowdfunding.
Heaven Adores You
Seattle premiere!
Sponsored by KEXP 90.3!
Extended run by popular demand!
May 15 - May 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.
Dance Film Salon: One Day Pina Asked. . .
7:15pm: Free Work-in-Progress Screenings
8pm: Ticketed Dance Film Salon Screening
May 18, 2015
(Chantal Akerman, 1983, 57 min)
Local choreographer and director Dayna Hanson hosts a new work-in-progress screening opportunity for local dance film work, followed by a screening and discussion of films from the dance canon.
Slovenian 8mm Experiments: Karpo Godina and Davorin Marc
May 20, 2015
(63 min, Super 8mm/35mm/digital video, 1965-1981)
Karpo Godina launched his career in the mid-sixties with a succession of 8mm experimental shorts, predominantly designed to question everything he was being taught at the state film academy. In retrospect, it seems as if Godina had to go through this romantic, frantic phase in order to arrive at what he became famous for: extracting as much (political) action and dynamics as possible from meticulously framed, perfectly still images. Emerging a decade after Godina, the post-punk Davorin Marc remains a subject for further research. Notoriously reclusive and with over 150 super-8mm and 16mm films under his belt, he modestly describes his work as “small films.”
Workers Film and Photo League Newsreels
Co-presented with MayWorks
16mm film prints
Introduced by Kraig Schwartz
May 21, 2015
MayWorks is a month-long festival (throughout the month of May) that celebrates labor culture and history in Washington State. This archival film program celebrates the history of worker rights by diving into a lost canon of worker-made films from the 1930s.
The Sacrifice
New 35mm print!
May 22 - May 28, 2015
(Andrei Tarkovsky, Russia, 1986, 35mm, 142 min)
Andrei Tarkovsky made his final film far from his own home, on the Swedish island where his peer Ingmar Bergman lived. Anchored by his signature distance long shots and poignant silences, the film opens on a man’s birthday, as he plants a tree with his son. Soon, the peaceful quiet is interrupted by rumblings of war. Ebert ranked Tarkovsky alongside Bergman, Kurosawa, Ray and Bresson as the five filmmakers who "concerned themselves primarily with ultimate issues of human morality."
Croatian Avant-Garde Filmmakers of the 1960s
May 24, 2015
(80 min, 16mm/35mm, 1963-1968)
“The filmmakers represented in this program are among the most prominent members of the enormously vibrant Croatian experimental scene of the 1960s. All of them were members of the amateur cine-clubs that formed in all the major cities of Yugoslavia at the time, as well as participants in the Genre Film Festival, a unique festival of experimental film in Zagreb that was the most important gathering point for “film researchers” and other independent filmmakers from Yugoslavia.” —Diana Nenadić
The Experimental Film Movement in Serbia: Formative Years (1950s-60s)
May 25, 2015
(75 min, digital video, 1957-1964)
With the establishment of cine-clubs in Yugoslavia after World War II, the filmmakers at the front ranks of experimental (and, later, professional) cinema in Serbia in the 1950s and the beginning of the 1960s—including Dušan Makavejev, Živojin Pavlović, Vojislav Kokan Rakonjac, and Želimir Žilnik—created a number of films that used narrative experimentation to pose questions related to the essence of the socialist social system.
Open House: One-Year Film Comprehensive
Free event!
May 27, 2015
Join us for a Film Comprehensive Open House to learn more about our new one-year film education program. You'll hear more details about our progressive curriculum, plus in-depth class overviews from program instructors. Ask us questions about class schedules, professional opportunities for students, tuition payments, how to make your application stand out in our competitive admissions process, and more.
Debacle Records Presents: A Night of A/V Pairings
Live music!
May 28, 2015
Local experimental music festival Debacle takes over our stage for live performance (Marisa Anderson, Garek Druss, Marcus Price) paired with work by local video artists (Jodi Darby, Nick Bartoletti, Coldbrew Collective).
The Experimental Film Movement in Serbia: Years of Structure (1960s-80s)
May 31, 2015
(80 min, digital video, 1968-1984)
Film as a medium of expression and film in which the structure plays the dominant role were the most widespread in the 1960s and 1970s in Belgrade. The films of Zoran Popović, Slobodan Šijan, and Ljubomir Šimunić explored diverse visual structures. Vjekoslav Nakić, Nikola Djurić, and Radoslav Vladić created films with pure structures and atmospheres. Ivan Obrenov and Bojan Jovanović, through the predominant postmodernist style of their works, again began to pose questions related to the topics of unfinished revolutions and neocolonialism.
Open Screenings at the Film Forum
Feb 09 - Feb 06
* FEB. 6th OPEN SCREENING CANCELED FOR INCLEMENT WEATHER *
Are you a local filmmaker looking to share your work? Seeking feedback on your film? Want to see what other people are currently working on? Come join us for our monthly opening screening! Hang out with new and established filmmakers and experience films being made right here in our community.
Queer Vision 20/20: Different From the Others
Co-presented with Three Dollar Bill Cinema!
Jun 04, 2015
Join us during four Thursdays in June to celebrate queer cinema throughout the 20th century, in honor of the 20th anniversary years of Northwest Film Forum and the Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival!
La Sapienza
Seattle Premiere!
Jun 05 - Jun 11, 2015
(Eugène Green, 2014, France/Italy, DCP, 100 min)
An architecture lover’s dream come true, La Sapienza luxuriates in the awe-inspiring beauty of contemporary and baroque Italian architecture. In CinemaScope, Blake Williams writes that “Green creates in La Sapienza’s middle hour one of the great documents of an architect’s magisterial brilliance to appear in cinema.”
Transit Movie Nite
Free event!
Jun 10, 2015
Transit Movie Night: It's Ride Transit Month! Come watch Speed (1994) on the 21st Anniversary of its original release date; June 10. FREE. Doors open at 6:30 pm, movie starts at 7:00 pm. Visit RideTransitMonth.org or email [email protected] for more information.
Queer Vision 20/20: Now, Voyager
Happy hour at 7pm, screening at 8pm Co-presented with Three Dollar Bill Cinema 35mm print!
Jun 11, 2015
Join us during four Thursdays in June to celebrate queer cinema throughout the 20th century, in honor of the 20th anniversaries of Northwest Film Forum and Three Dollar Bill Cinema!
Losing Ground
Jun 12 - Jun 21, 2015
(Kathleen Collins, United States, 1982, 86 min)
In her second and final feature, made in 1982, independent director Kathleen Collins captured a subtle inner conflict between mind and spirit. As one of the first American films directed by an African-American woman, Losing Ground is a seminal work of independent cinema, whose theatrical release has been long overdue.
Heaven Knows What
Jun 12 - Jun 18, 2015
(Josh and Benny Safdie, 2014, United States, DCP, 94 min)
The Safdies' latest, biggest, and most fraught star to date is Arielle Holmes, whose real life struggles with homelessness and heroin addiction on the streets of New York inspired Heaven Knows What. Arielle plays a version of herself in the film, with the rest of the cast fleshed out by her real friends and acquaintances, including the endlessly wired Buddy Duress. One of the only professional actors is Caleb Landry-Jones (X-Men: First Class, Byzantium) who portrays her alluringly nihilistic boyfriend, Ilya.
Drylongso
Jun 15, 2015
(Cauleen Smith, 1998, United States, 86 min)
Paired with our run of Losing Ground by Kathleen Collins, Drylongso examines femininity and African-American identity in 1990s Oakland. Director Cauleen Smith shot this introspective first feature while still a student, under the tutelage and creative influence of Angela Davis and Trin T. Minh-ha.