Calendar
Water on the Table
Visiting filmmaker Liz Marshall, plus World Water Day panel on The Human Right to Water: Connecting Local and Global Struggles Co-presented with Stop Veolia Seattle and The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice
Mar 23, 2014
(Liz Marshall, 2010, Blu-ray, 79 min)
Water On The Table features the story of Maude Barlow, lauded as an “international water-warrior” for her crusade to have water declared a human right. The film shadows her life on the road, in Canada and the United States, over the course of a year, documenting her public face as well as the unscripted woman behind the scenes. Water on the Table presents a riveting film portrait of an activist, framed by cinematic, haiku-style images that linger on watersheds, wetlands, rivers, estuaries, waterfalls and lakes—elevating water beyond the political and into the realm of a meditation on where our soul lies, as a species dependent on planet Earth.
In Bloom
Mar 21 - Mar 27, 2014
(Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross, Germany/France/Georgia, 2013, 102 min)
Loosely based on debut writer and co-director Nana Ekvtimishvili’s memories of growing up in Georgia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, In Bloom follows Eka and Natia, inseparable fourteen-year-old friends navigating the everyday of family, school and young love in a newly independent and not yet stable country. Jury award winner at 2013 Berlinale.
Jari Mari: Of Cloth and Other Stories
Co-presented with Tasveer
Mar 26, 2014
(Surabhi Sharma, India, 2001, 75 min)
Jari Mari is a sprawling slum colony near Mumbai’s main international airport. Its narrow lanes house hundreds of small sweatshops, where women and men work without the right to organize. Their existence is on the edge: their illegal dwellings could be demolished at any time by the airport authorities, and jobs have to be found anew every day, from workshop to workshop. This documentary explores the lives of the people of Jari Mari, and records the changes to the nature and organization of Mumbai’s workforce, over the past two decades.
Color Field
A new work by Salt Horse World premiere live performance
Mar 27 - Mar 29, 2014
In Salt Horse’s Color Field, unique and hidden spaces are activated throughout Northwest Film Forum’s venue, generating kinetic architectures of shape, color and form. Images arise and dissolve—a large eye of light soars above the horizon, a man emerges and then disappears in plain sight, and a blackened corner harbors a hovering body. Abstract Expressionist painters such as Stella, Frankenthaler and Gorky are sources of inspiration. Joining local Seattle artists in Salt Horse (Corrie Befort, Beth Graczyk, and Angelina Baldoz) are a vibrant cast of dancers, including Ariana Bird, Belle Wolf, Kathleen Hunt and Steven Gomez.
Hari Kondabolu's Guilty Pleasure
Mar 27, 2014
In the six years since The Stranger dubbed him a "national comedy treasure," Hari Kondabolu has more than delivered on this high praise. Hari started his already illustrious career as a standup in Seattle: he returns to his spiritual home city this March for a show at the Neptune, and an appearance at Northwest Film Forum to present his favorite guilty pleasure flick. The catch: Hari's selection will be a mystery till the lights go down and the projector beams up. Come find out which delightfully bad slice of cinema Hari knows by heart and would defend to the death. Hint: it's probably hilarious.
Bogota Cambio
Co-presented with Capitol Hill EcoDistrict Project Post-screening panel conversation!
Apr 02, 2014
(Andreas Møl Dalsgaard, Denmark, 2009, DVD, 58 min)
Out of crisis comes radical experimentation. Few cities have hit rock bottom as Bogota, Columbia did in 1994, ravaged by the violence and corruption of the war on drugs. Bogota Cambió tells the story of how two “crazy, extraordinary politicians,” Antanas Mockus and Enrique Peñalosa, road waves of public discontent that enabled them to transform the city, break the old political system and upend approaches to public safety, transportation and the use of public space.
Members Only: Season Launch Party
Free member event!
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Apr 03, 2014
Join us on April 3 for a celebration of our new April/May season, have a drink on us, and watch a program of Yugoslav Kino Club films: a free screening and discussion for members only, hosted by our program director Courtney Sheehan.
Music Craft: Thin Lizzy
Apr 03, 2014
(71 min)
Throw down quality time with the band many consider to be the best (more or less!). This program includes the BBC doc Bad Attitude and uncut live performances from Dublin, 1975. Part of Music Craft, our ongoing series of rare concert footage from music legends.
Hide Your Smiling Faces
Apr 04 - Apr 10, 2014
(Daniel Patrick Carbone, United States, 2013, DCP, 81 min)
In this meditative tale of life lessons learned one rural American summer, 14-year-old Eric (Nathan Varnson) finds his kid brother Tommy’s (Ryan Jones) friend dead on a wooded riverbank. The mysterious death raises questions about the gruff father of the young boy, and Eric and Tommy struggle to process their unexpected introduction to mortality.
The Raspberry Reich
Late night!
21+ screening!
Apr 04 - Apr 05, 2014
(Bruce LaBruce, Germany/Canada, 2004, Digibeta, 90 min)
Sexual revolution crass meets tongue-in-cheekery, as a terrorist group, led by the militantly sexually liberated Frau Gudrun, sets out to kidnap a bourgeois pig. Bruce LaBruce, one of queer cinema’s bawdiest bad boys, has created a film where plot is secondary to the stylistic critique of both terrorist chic and neoliberal identity politics.
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.
Urban Subversions
Co-presented with PubliCola at Seattle Met Hosted by Josh Feit
Apr 09, 2014
A tour through movies where urbanism—particularly the electric youth culture fed by city life—is as radical and subversive as Marxism and Anarchism. Agit-prop teens translate music into politics and tech smarts into transgression, upending the government and corporate status quo, in this collection of urban-themed films. Multiculturalism, mass transit and the kismet of streets (all fixed features of cities) also factor in to the revolution at hand.
Exhibition
U.S. premiere!
Apr 11 - Apr 17, 2014
(Joanna Hogg, Great Britain, 2013, DCP, 104 min)
Britain's pre-eminent excavator of bourgeois angst hones in on a marriage between two professional artists, who may not possess the creativity to keep the artifice of their relationship intact.
Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian
Co-presented with Longhouse Media Join us for a conversation with actress Misty Upham after the screenings on Saturday!
Apr 11 - Apr 12, 2014
(Arnaud Desplechin, France, 2013, DCP, 117 min.)
Oscar winner Benicio del Toro gives a soulful performance as the title character, whose brain fracture (suffered in WWII) has led to intense physical and behavioral issues. Mathieu Amalric (who should have won an Oscar for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) is the progressive psychiatrist whom, through intensive therapy, unearths surprising revelations regarding his condition. Filled with breathtaking vistas from the American West, Jimmy P, a true story, offers a rare unsentimental glimpse into Native American culture.
Wretches & Jabberers
Co-presented with the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network
Apr 13, 2014
(Gerardine Wurzburg, 2011, 90 min)
In Wretches & Jabberers, two men with autism embark on a global quest to change attitudes about disability and intelligence. Determined to put a new face on autism, Tracy Thresher, 42, and Larry Bissonnette, 52, travel to Sri Lanka, Japan and Finland. At each stop, they dissect public attitudes about autism and issue a hopeful challenge to reconsider competency and the future.
Citizen Autistic
Co-presented with the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network
Apr 13, 2014
(William Davenport, 2013, 52 min)
William Davenport's film Citizen Autistic brings us an inside look at the front lines of the autistic civil rights movement, showcasing autistic activists and self-advocates on the front lines of this struggle for inclusion, and freedom from persecution.
Loving Lampposts: Living Autistic
Co-presented with the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network
Apr 13, 2014
(Todd Drezner, 2010, Blu-Ray, 84 min)
Loving Lampposts: Living Autistic takes a look at two movements: the “recovery movement,” which views autism as a tragic epidemic brought on by environmental toxins, and the “neurodiversity movement,” which argues that autism should be accepted and that autistic people should be supported. After his son’s diagnosis, filmmaker Todd Drezner visits the front lines of the autism wars to learn more about the debate and provide information about a condition that is still difficult to comprehend.
W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism
Post-screening discussion with Rich Jensen and Allena Gabosch (executive director of the Foundation for Sex Positive Culture)
Apr 16, 2014
(Dušan Makavejev, Yugoslavia, 1971, 84 min)
In what might be the zaniest cinematic rendering of Soviet-Yugoslav-American relations, Serbian maverick Dušan Makavejev employs his characteristic style of associative montage to create a comedic manifesto for sexual revolution. Makavejev collages documentary footage and fiction to create a mashup of American counter-culture, Soviet ideology and Nazi propaganda.
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.
The Unity of All Things 物之合
Visiting filmmaker Daniel Schmidt in attendance!
Apr 19, 2014
(Alexander Carver and Daniel Schmidt, United States, 2013, 97 min)
Shot in three languages, two types of film (16mm and 8mm) and in locations ranging from China to Chicago to CERN in Switzerland, The Unity of All Things is a work of experimental science fiction about the construction of a particle accelerator on the U.S./Mexico border.
We Are Mari Pepa
Somos Mari Pepa
Apr 19 - Apr 21, 2014
(Samuel Kishi Leopo, Mexico, 2013, DCP, 95 min)
Breathing unexpected life into the naturally jaded (but hormone-riddled) body of male youth/buddy/skate/band movies, Samuel Kishi Leopo's debut is utterly faithful to its milieu of bored and confused teenagers hanging out and playing hooky on the outskirts of Guadalajara: skating, trying to meet girls, and practicing for an upcoming battle of the bands.
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.
Puget Soundtrack: Kingdom of the Holy Sun presents Fantastic Planet
With live score by Kingdom of the Holy Sun! Screening followed by DJ Mamma Casserole and DJ Veins! After party at Vermillion: bring your ticket stub and get $1 off your first drink at the split tape release party!
Apr 20, 2014
(René Laloux, France, 1973, 35mm, 72 min)
A stop-motion sci-fi cult classic of such cosmically epic proportions that it was awarded the 1973 Special Jury Prize at Cannes (a rare feat for animated films), Fantastic Planet is a work of exquisite psychedelia-infused surrealism.
The Thomas Crown Affair
Hosted by Mark Mitchell and Chiyo Ishikawa!
Apr 21, 2014
(Norman Jewison, United States, 1968, 35mm, 102 min)
This steamy heist starring Faye Dunaway and Steve McQueen gets a custom makeover, as designer/artist Mark Mitchell and SAM curator Chiyo Ishikawa bring us a whole new way to watch the ultimate chess game between a millionaire sportsman and a saucy insurance investigator: by delighting in the fashion, style and design on display in this 1968 classic.
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.