Calendar
Capturing Violence: A Community Discussion
Free and open to the public - please RSVP here
Aug 21, 2014
Christa Bell, Pramila Jayapal, Ijeoma Oluo, Charles Mudede, Reverend Harriet G. Walden
On Saturday, August 9, 2014, Raymond Wilford was maced by a Westlake Center security guard while walking to the mall. The guard had been called in to address a shirtless white man who was harassing a group of pro-Palestine demonstrators.
Join us for a community discussion about what happened at Westlake, and what we can do as a community beyond recognizing this events like this as unjust. Led by Charles Mudede, Christa Bell, Pramila Jayapal, Ijeoma Oluo, and moderated by Revered Harriett G. Walden.
Alex Garland will be present to speak about his experience documenting the event.
Heli
Seattle premiere!
Aug 22 - Aug 24, 2014
(Amat Escalante, Mexico, DCP, 2013)
The film selected to represent Mexico for the Best Foreign Picture at the Academy Awards is a melancholic, visceral, unflinching rumination on the brutality of the drug war, and the perseverance of one family that is inadvertently drawn into it.
The Strange Little Cat
Seattle premiere!
Aug 22 - Aug 28, 2014
(Ramon Zürcher, Germany, 2013, 72 min)
Developed in a workshop with Bela Tarr, Ramon Zürcher’s feature debut turns the domestic drama formula inside out by playfully unearthing the everyday rituals of a family of ten in a Berlin flat. Loosely adapted from Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, Little Cat’s style has inspired comparisons to filmmakers ranging from Chantal Ackerman to Jacques Tati to Bresson to Ozu.
Expedition to the End of the World
Seattle premiere!
Aug 29 - Sep 04, 2014
(Daniel Dencik, Denmark, 2013, 90 min)
In 2011, a crew of scientists and artists boarded a three mast schooner and set out for the rugged fjords of Northeast Greenland. Their mission? Simply to explore. Encounters with polar bears, new species, and lingering existential questions are accompanied in this documentary by an eclectic soundtrack featuring Mozart and Metallica.
No No: A Dockumentary
U.S. premiere! Join us for a conversation with Producer Chris Cortez following Friday's opening night screening!
Sep 05 - Sep 11, 2014
(Jeff Radice, United States, 2014, 100 min)
On June 12, 1970, baseball player Dock Ellis threw a no-hitter for the Pittsburgh Pirates—while tripping on LSD. Known for wearing curlers under his baseball cap and refusing to accept the second-class treatment African Americans so often faced in the league, No No: A Dockumentary traces the history of the acid-fueled no-hitter and Dock’s legacy as an outspoken leader of a new wave of civil rights in sports.
Take Three 2014
Sep 05, 2014
An evening of new video and animation work by Seattle area artists Rick Bidlack; Pete Fleming; Stephanie Hargrave with RobRoy Chalmers; Tim Marsden; Joseph Pentheroudakis; Barbara Robertson with sound artist Johanna Melamed; Liz Tran; and Allyce Wood.
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.
Screen Shots at Capitol Hill Art Walk
Free event, 5pm - 8pm!
Happy hour drink prices!
Curated by Vera Petukhova!
Jul 10 - Mar 12, 2015
Join Northwest Film Forum for Screen Shots, a monthly series during Capitol Hill Art Walk. A new program every month features happy hour, video art, and sometimes special guests and lobby installations!
Puget Soundtrack: Vox Mod
Live music! Sponsored by KEXP 90.3!
Sep 13, 2014
Join us for the kickoff of our new Music Movies series, Puget Soundtrack, where we invite Seattle musicians and bands to create a live score for a film of their choosing. In September, local animator and electronic musician Vox Mod sets his encyclopedia sci-fi knowledge loose on a mystery title. Fans have detected influences as far ranging as the ‘90s cartoon Aeon Flux, Carl Sagan’s Cosmos and Jean Giraud’s oil paintings in Vox Mod’s hypnotically cinematic albums and EPs. Looking for insight into which film he’s choosing? Think Japanese, think dystopian future, think canonical anime influence.
The 78 Project Movie
Director Alex Steyermark and Producer Lavinia Jones Wright in attendance!
Sep 14, 2014
(Alex Steyermark, United States, 2014, DCP, 95 min)
The 78 Project Movie is a documentary journey across America to make one-of-a-kind 78rpm records with musicians in their hometowns using a 1930s Presto direct-to-disc recorder. With one microphone. And one blank disc. In one 3-minute take--how America's authentic musical forms were originally captured.