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SUMMER 2011
Letter from the
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Jennifer Roth, President
Peter Vogt, Vice-President
Steven Schardt, Vice-President
Line Sandsmark, Treasurer
Northwest Film Forum is
Seattle’s premier film arts
organization, screening
over 200 independently
made and classic films
annually, offering a yearround schedule of filmmaking classes for all
ages, and supporting filmmakers at all stages of
their careers.
Founded in 1995 by filmmakers Jamie Hook and
Deborah Girdwood, the
Film Forum’s programming
embraces film production
as well as film exhibition, with two cinemas,
film production and postproduction facilities and
equipment, educational
workshop space, filmmaker offices, a film vault
containing over 1,000
titles and a filmmaking
library in our space at
1515 12th Ave. With over
1,000 members (and counting!) the Film Forum is a
John DeShazo, Secretary
Slow Revolution
Alan Pruzan, Immediate Past President
Jim Brown, Nicholas Hanauer, Brad Lenz,
Rebecca Luke, Megan Griffiths, Shep Salusky
“I dreamed of the future, and I arrived there in a kind of time machine.”
—from Uncle Boonmee
STAFF
Lyall Bush, Executive Director
Dave Hanagan, Studio Director
Adam Sekuler, Program Director
A
quiet film isn’t the same as a silent one. Ingmar Bergman and
Michelangelo Antonioni spent some of their creative capital imagining the noise of inner worlds and the clock-ticking muteness of
external ones. Blow-up and Persona, both striking, Modernist films,
examined cut-off states through silence, an instant metaphor about
isolation, automatically psychological. Watching, you feel the parallels
with the Modern poem, the fragmented Modern painting.
Quiet, which characterizes a lot of great, recent cinema is an invitation. Recent Chinese films by Hou
Uncle Boonmee
Hsiao-Hsien and Jia Khangke turn
the slow pan, the flat camera gaze,
the medium shot with characters visible from head to toe, into new ways to
see. And they are quiet: the train that
circles in Café Lumiere becomes is a
kind of soliloquy. The new films are
spellbound documentaries, in a way,
about made-up people.
The Thai filmmaker, Apitchatpong
Weerasethekul, makes films that may be another evolution yet. His
latest film, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, won the
big Cannes prize last year, and will open here June 17. It looks a little
neo-neo-realist but wrung through a dreamy postmodern filter. (The
director names its six styles as “old cinema with stiff acting and classical staging, documentary style, costume drama and my kind of film
when you see long takes of animals and people driving.”)
Like previous Apitchapong films such as Syndromes and a Century,
it is concerned with still worlds. A long middle sequence in the bush,
before a waterfall, shot in hazy gray-green color, is wobbly and twilit: a
Princess talks to her younger reflection, a warrior, a ghost fish. Above
all, it asks us to listen.
We have a lot to hold your attention this summer—our expanded
summer camps, a series on New York Noise, Harry Shearer—but Uncle
Boonmee might change the way you look at everything.
Ryan Davis, Communications Director &
Development Associate
Liz Shepherd, Children’s Cinema Curator
Matt Cunningham, Technical Director
Wen Marcoux, Business Manager
Shanika Davis, Membership Services
Heather Ayres, Grantwriter
Ilana Holmes, House Manager
INTERNS
Blake Van Zile, Volunteer Coodination Intern
Stephen Anunson, Administrative Intern
Priscilla Ahn, Children’s Film Festival Intern
Amaira Gallagher, Development &
Programming Intern
PROJECTIONISTS
Matthew Witschonke, Amber Adams, Brenan
Chambers, Catherine Matson, Voleak Sip,
Spencer Sundell, Jagger Gravning,
George Kloss, Jake Lin, Beverly Breckenridge,
Tyler Milligan, Matt Brannock, Samantha Everett
BOX OFFICE VOLUNTEERS
Shelly Prieditis, Anthony Bellotti, Andrew
Birchall, Jimmy Bontatibus, Robert Brager,
Chris Day, Andrew Dimitrov, Garrett Hodgins,
Daniel Howes, Nik Keating, Rachel Livingston,
Louie Romo, Andre Sanabria, Matt Shannon,
John Taylor, Daniel White
OFFICE VOLUNTEERS
David Ayala, Venus Volante, Webster Polk,
John Behr, Kim Drever, Brian Perkins,
Dylan Paschke, TJ Mino, Tess Martin,
Doug Arney, Tony Marsicano, Salise Hughes,
Shaun Scott, Mark D’Auria
CINEMATIC SPLENDOR
Corianton Hale, Quarterly Design
Ross Patton, Quarterly Design Assistant
Mark D’Auria, Proofreading
Eduardo Sandoval & John Ned, Videography
Margaret Schuler, Event Photographer
Josephine Merril, Blog & Callboard Coordinator
Lee Thelen, CPA
John Mullen, Financial Consultant
Jon Behrens, Steve Dumas, Luke Sieczek, Salise
Hughes, Joe Milutis, Spencer Sundell,
3rd Eye Program Assistance
María Rodríguez, Distribution Assistant
Meg Stalcup, Program Assistant
Sarah Crowe, Box Office Assistant
community inspired by the
Founders
love of film.
Lyall Bush, Executive Director
Tickets
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Cinemas
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My Perestroika
Beijing Taxi
(Robin
Hessman,
2010,
SEATTLE USA/UK/Russia, DigiBeta,
88 min) Like a Russian version of Michael Apted’s 42 Up, My Perestroika makes the political personal and
follows five classmates (Borya, Lyuba,
Andrei, Olga and Ruslan) who came of age
during the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Raised on communist ideals as children,
the classmates must adjust to a postSoviet reality as adults.
PREMIERE
“Playful, insightful, hypnotic, and, ultimately, superb.” —Bilge Ebiri, New York
Magazine
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Foreign Parts
(Verena Paravel, J.P. Sniadecki, 2010, USA/
France, 35mm, 81 min) In few corners of
the United States is the gulf between rich
and poor more dramatic than in Willets
Point, a small neighborhood in Queens,
New York. Dominating the landscape is
the colossal Citi Field, home of the Mets—
one of the country’s wealthiest and most
famous baseball teams. But only yards
away lies a very different reality. Screens
with Trees Tropiques (Alex Fattal,
2009, Brazil, Blu-ray, 30 min)
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Barbara Ireland DVD
Release Party
Seattle singer Barbara Ireland’s first career
was as an award-winning film director,
with films that have often been compared
(Miao Wang, 2010, China/
USA, DigiBeta, 78 min) In
this
new
documentary,
three Beijing taxi drivers—two male, one
female—prepare for an explosion of international customers in the days leading up
to the 2008 Summer Olympics. Fifty-something Bai Jiwen came of age during the
Cultural Revolution, and faces some harsh
realities with hardened humor; Thirtysomething Zhou Yi remains optimistically
grounded in his traditional lifestyle; and
thirty-something mother Wei Caixia is a
financially minded go-getter driven on finding a more comfortable life. Director In
Attendance!
SEATTLE
PREMIERE
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Special
Two-Week
Uncle Boonmee Who Can
Recall His Past Lives
Engagement!
SEATTLE (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010, Thailand, 35mm, 114
PREMIERE min) Winner of the Palme d’Or (2010 Cannes Film Festival,
jury headed by Tim Burton), Uncle Boonmee is a dreamy, gently reassuring tale told by a man at the end of his life as he contemplates
reincarnation. A ghost story told with the calm and patience of a
prosaic tale of country living, the film concerns the final days of
Boonmee (Thanapat Saisaymar), an aging farmer suffering from a
kidney disease. The film moves at the tranquil pace of a lazy afternoon,
and this quiet grace allows the frequently outrageous and bizarre elements of the story to blend seamlessly into reality, appearing as natural as the background hum of insects or the gentle murmur of the
wind. Boonmee is the latest and most memorable of Apichatpong’s
tender, poetic, supernatural and semi-autobiographical reveries.
“If you still believe in the cinema’s capacity to inspire magic and
wonder, you need to see this” —Mike McCahill, METRO
to David Lynch and Federico Fellini. We
are happy to announce that she is releasing a DVD collection of her strangest and
most mesmerizing short films—and the
Film Forum is hosting the release party!
The evening will begin with a wine and
cheese reception and, true to form, Ireland
says she has other “secret plans” to make
this an event you won’t want to miss!
sponsored by easy street records
“Barbara Ireland is to short films what
Stanley Kubrick and Roman Polanski are
to the cinema...except without the Ritalin!”
­—Robert Williams, Juxtapoz Magazine
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STIFF
As film festivals across the country strive
to raise their profile, many often pass over
inventive, risk-taking films to make room
for a sneak preview of the newest Hollywood
film before its worldwide release. Somebody
needs to help these TRUE independent
gems find an audience on the lookout for
the unusual! Seattle’s True Independent
Film Festival is a celebration of offbeat
independent film from the Northwest and
the rest of the world. You can view the full
schedule at www.trueindependent.org.
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AT 7 , 9 P M
!Women Art Revolution
(Lynn
Hershman-Leeson,
2010, USA, DigiBeta, 83 min)
Deftly combining reportage
and personal memoir, !Women Art Revolution is a seminal and groundbreaking documentary exploring the evolution of the
Feminist Art Movement in America. Director Lynn Hershman-Leeson was an active
participant in this movement and has
spent 42 years documenting it. Through
intimate interviews, provocative art and
rarely seen historical film and video footage, she illuminates what many historians
feel is the most significant art movement of
the late-twentieth century.
SEATTLE
PREMIERE
“Part social survey, but mostly celebration. Hershman-Leeson’s film is a valuable resource on a movement whose issues
remain relevant.” —Variety
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SHORT SHORTS
On e-n igh t-o nly
sh or t fil m ev en ts!
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CFI: Shorts in Support
of Iran
A program of short films influenced
by the Iranian New Wave protesting
the recent arrests of filmmakers Jafar
Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof
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Shorts From the
Flaherty Seminar
Highlights from the annual Flaherty Seminar, programmed on the theme “work.”
SUMMER 2011
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7, 9PM
Uncle Kent
(Joe Swanberg, 2011, USA,
Blu-ray, 72 min) Joe Swanberg made his first Sundance appearance with his most mature
film, Uncle Kent, an achingly true-to-life
modern comedy about aging, loneliness,
desire and the awkward intimacies of
online friendship. Shot on location in Los
Angeles, Uncle Kent advances many themes
and elements found in Swanberg’s early
films (Hannah Takes The Stairs, Nights and
Weekends, Alexander the Last), including
freely improvised dialogue, art-mirrors-life
setups and a renewed emphasis on how
technology and other social media enable
(or disable) human connection.
SEATTLE
PREMIERE
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Inter-Action
This collection of shorts by SEAT, Seattle Experimental Animation Team, features work by talented local artists.
“The prolific and daring independent filmmaker Joe Swanberg captures the loneliness of the long-term D.I.Y. artist in the age
of social networking.” —Richard Brody,
New Yorker
AUGUST 10, WEDNESDAY AT 7PM
Visions: Animation and
Abstraction, 1908–1994
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7, 9PM
A rare selection of outstanding animated and abstract experimental
short films by some of the most highly
acclaimed masters of the form(s). Copresented by the Sprocket Society and Third
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Steam of Life
(Mika Hotakainen, Joonas Berghäll, 2010, Finland, DigiBeta, 81
min) Saunas are part of the fabric of life in Finland, as integral
to the Finnish landscape as crystal-clear lakes and snowy pine
forests. If you can hot-box it, you can turn it into a sauna, and
the saunas in this film are as diverse as trailers, phone booths,
tents and underground mines. From the inner woods of Lapland to
the urban landscapes of Helsinki we follow several men and their
touching stories. This documentary about life and death, loss and
happiness, reveals that it’s not alcohol exclusively that opens up
the Finn’s minds and hearts. A functioning sauna and a handful
birch brushwood is often more than enough.
Eye Cinema
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9pm
A Useful Life
(Federico Veiroj, 2010, Uruguay, 35mm, 67 min) This
tale of the Montevideo cinematheque and its denizens is the latest
reminder that venues like our own beloved
Film Forum are an endangered species.
Shot in beautiful black and white, Veiroj
depicts the efforts of a small group of cinephiles struggling to keep open this increasingly antiquated venue. Starring real-life
Uruguayan critic Jorge Jellinek, the film is
practically a documentary of the effort
curators go through to bring works such
as this to art houses near you. A Useful
Life is co-presented by the Global Film Initiative and is part of the Global Lens 2011
film series. For more information, visit
www.globalfilm.org.
SEATTLE
PREMIERE
Secret Country
Close your eyes and imagine a long ago
world, where Nudie Suit clad legends
stormed stages at county fairs and longhaired outlaws lounged beneath live oak
trees in Luckenbach, Texas. The cares and
the woes of the modern day will melt away
when you slip into this world of Northwest
Film Forum’s summertime Secret Country Series—a place where hot live music,
cheap frosty beers and vintage celluloid
celebrations of country music converge to
take you back to a shimmering and soulful place and time. Each evening includes
a secret country feature film and live
performances by some of the Northwest’s
most talented and twanging musicians.
sponsored by easy street records and KBCS 91.3 fm
“An elegy to cinephilia and the lives less
ordinary keeping it on life support in this
3D-obsessed age of ever-materializing
megaplexes.” —Slant Magazine
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I Want To See
(Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil
Joreige, 2009, Lebanon/
France, Beta-SP, 75 min)
With the current unrest in the Middle East,
there’s no better time for this exceptional
hybrid documentary. Operating between
the lines of documentary and fiction,
French icon Catherine Deneuve, playing herself, asks actor Rabih Mroué, also
playing himself, to show her the aftermath
of the 2006 Lebanon war. Deneuve both
denies and takes advantage of her status
as an icon of cinema to lend a fresh glance,
and to gain physical access, to a landscape
whose representation has been exploited
and saturated by the media.
SEATTLE
PREMIERE
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The Big Uneasy
(Harry Shearer, 2010, USA,
DigiBeta, 98 min) Natural
IN ATTENDANCE! disasters have a way of
repeating themselves. Such is the case
with the recent tsunami in Japan, and it
could be the case for New Orleans, which
almost five years ago was struck by Hurricane Katrina. In his feature–length documentary, comedian and New Orleans
resident Harry Shearer gets the inside
story of a disaster that could have been
prevented. Shearer speaks to investigators
and whistle–blowers, revealing that some
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of the same flawed methods responsible
for the levee failure during Katrina are
being used to rebuild the system to protect
from future peril.
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Screening Merce
We continue our yearlong celebration of
the films of Merce Cunningham with three
short works that contributed to innovations
in the exploration of film/video and dance.
Special introduction by Velocity Executive
Director Tonya Lockyer. Program includes:
Beach Birds For Camera (Elliot Caplan,
1993, USA, Digital, 28 min); Deli Commedia (Elliot Caplan and Merce Cunningham,
1985, USA, Digital, 18 min); Locale (Charles
Atlas, 1980, USA, Digital, 30 min).
J ULY 2 9 – A UGU S T 4 , FRI D AY – THUR S D AY
Nicolás Pereda: Perpetual Motions
Director In
Attendance
August 1–4!
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Joel Schlemowitz:
Short Experiments
Joel Schlemowitz presents
a screening of experimental
IN ATTENDANCE! documentaries and short
poetic cinema, including Loudmouth Collective/Ugly Duckling Presse, a film-portrait of
the anarchic poetry happenings known as
“anti-readings,” and Teslamania in which
the Collective Unconscious fires up their
Tesla coil creating giant sparks of lightning
in a demonstration of “Tesla cooking.” Other
works include the Brooklyn-based filmmaker’s collaborations with the poet Wanda
Phipps, a short film-portrait of comix artist
Dame Darcy, and a “correspondence film”
collaboration with Seattle’s Jon Behrens.
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Co-Presented by Third Eye Cinema
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Special support provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
R
ecently selected to appear in the presti-
edition of the Venice Film Festival by jury chair
gious New Directors/New Films program,
Shirin Neshat. Summer, along with his first
Nicolás Pereda stands as one of Mexico’s
films, Together, Perpetuum Mobile and Where
finest discoveries. Don’t be deceived
by his assured style and risky subjects—Pereda is just 27, though he
threatens to become one of world cinema’s dominant voices. His ultra low-
“A distinctive
voice from fertile
Mexican soil!”
—Jay Keuhner,
Senses of Cinema
Are Their Stories? provides a portrait of the difficult lives in 21st century working-class Mexico. Pereda
is not just the latest to blur the lines
between documentary and fiction;
budget films were described by film critic Robert
his films also have moments of humor and sad-
Koehler as each having “its own thrusts, quirks,
ness. Simply put, he is one of the technique’s
obsessions and concerns, they flow together and
finest practitioners. Series passes $15 Film Forum
interconnect, forming a kind of gestalt which is
members, $25 General
rare with a director born as recently as 1982.”
His latest film, Summer of Goliath (2010), was
awarded the Orizzonti Jury Prize at the 67th
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Join Nicolás Pereda
for a masterclass Aug 2nd!
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Perpetuum Mobile
(Nicolás Pereda, 2010, Mexico/
Canada/France, 35mm, 90
min) Pereda’s feature debut,
winner of Best Mexican Feature at the Guadalajara Film Festival, is a compelling portrait
of family relations in urban Mexico today.
SEATTLE
Werewolves Across
America
(James Hall and Edward
Lovelace, 2010, UK, DigiIN ATTENDANCE! Beta, 85 min) What happens when you decide to opt out of the
American Dream? Werewolves Across America, a portrait of modern youth culture,
stars nomadic folk icon Viking Moses as he
guides us through the world of the American “DIY” music scene. We meet a variety of
characters, including a young Lutheran
priest, a Manhattan real estate agent and
an ex-drug addict from Florida. All have
chosen to reject the American Dream in
search of something else—but what are
they seeking and at what cost? Featuring
performances from Deer Tick, The Shivers
and Phosphorescent. West Coast Premiere!
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Summer of Goliath
(Nicolás Pereda, 2010, Mexico/Canada/France, 35mm,
76 min) It’s a hot summer in
Huilotepec, in rural Mexico, and there is
more going on than appears on the surface.
The emotional presence and visual absence
of Mexico’s drug cartels haunt the residents
of this forested community.
SEATTLE
PREMIERE
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Juntos (Together)
(Nicolás Pereda, 2009, Mexico/Canada/France, 35mm,
73 min) Though Juntos
moves slowly, it truly engages the viewer.
The camera hovers over details and lets
images speak for the characters, bringing
cinematography and visual arts close
together. Screens with Interview With
The Earth.
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Dónde Están Sus Historias?
(Where Are Their Stories?)
(Nicolás Pereda, 2007, Mexico/Canada/France, 35mm,
73 min) Pereda’s debut feature shows an elegant and understated style,
capturing the enormity of family conflicts
without relying on familiar dramatic territory. Winner of the Best Feature Film Award
at the Morelia International Film Festival.
SEATTLE
PREMIERE
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Putty Hill
(Matthew Porterfield, 2010,
USA, Blu-ray, 85 min) After
IN ATTENDANCE! a young man overdoses on
heroin in a poor, working-class suburb of
Baltimore, his family and friends gather on
the eve of his funeral to commemorate his
life. Their shared memories paint a portrait
of a community hanging in the balance,
skewed by poverty and a generational
divide, but united in their pursuit of a new
American Dream. Gifted young filmmaker
Matthew Porterfield (Hamilton) casts nonactors, utilizes improvised dialogue and
skirts documentary techniques to generate
an awe-inspiring realism that is remarkable for its candid emotional honesty.
Seattle Theatrical Premiere!
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12–18
oin us for these rarely-seen
Smith, John Waters and the
films from a defining period
French New Wave, many of
in the history of American
the films combined elements
New
of documentary and loose nar-
York Noise or Tales From the
rative structure with stark,
No Wave offers selected screen-
even
ings from New York’s explosive
ery. Featuring Lydia Lunch,
yet fleeting era of underground
James Chance, Jean-Michel
filmmaking, known as “No
Basquiat, Debbie Harry, Rich-
Wave” Cinema.
ard Hell, Vincent Gallo, Steve
underground
cinema!
No Wave filmmakers threw
confrontational
imag-
Mueller
their own brand of vanguard
Series passes $20/Film Forum
moviemaking. Inspired by the
members, $25/General.
films of Andy Warhol, Jack
by the Hideout and easy street records
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(Céline Danhier, 2010, USA,
DigiBeta, 94 min) Featuring
interviews with Richard
Kern, Susan Seidelman, Nick Zedd,
Lizzie Borden, Amos Poe and Jim Jarmusch, as well as performers Debbie
Harry, Steve Buscemi and Lydia Lunch,
Blank City is an exhilarating oral history of
“No Wave Cinema” and the transgressive
movement that electrified America’s modern independent film scene.
SEATTLE
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and
many
(Asiel Norton, 2010, USA,
35mm, 105 min) Described
as an avant-garde Western,
Redland is the type of American independent film we haven’t seen for years. Shot
stunningly on 35mm, the film is set during
the 1930s Depression era in a tiny outpost
in Redland County, California. A family
struggles to survive in a mountain shack
while their daughter conceals her love
affair from her zealous father. With starvation and death in the air, the family has to
make painful moral sacrifices, which entail
dire consequences.
SEATTLE
PREMIERE
“With its hypnotic, singular aesthetic, Redland still casts a spell that’s hard to shake.”
—LA Weekly
others.
Director
John Tuturro
Sponsored
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Unmade Beds
(Amos Poe, 1977, USA, 16mm, 77 min) Amos
Poe, considered by many to be the father
of modern independent American cinema, made his first feature film, Unmade
Beds in 1976 as an homage to Godard’s
Breathless and the French New Wave. He
cast a remarkable group who, for the most
part, had never acted before: Debbie Harry
from Blondie, the artist Duncan Hannah
and recent arrivals like Patty Astor.
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Permanent Vacation
Downtown 81
(Jim Jarmusch, 1980, USA, 16mm, 75 min)
Jim Jarmusch made his debut with a film
rich in autobiographical references, featuring the “misfits” who would go on to populate most of his cinema. Made with the
help of friends and artists of New York’s
underground scene, like John Lurie and
the future director Tom DiCillo, the film
was presented at the European festivals of
Rotterdam and Mannheim.
Redland
Buscemi, Nan Goldin, Cookie
out the old rules and embraced
Blank City
“A deeply felt evocation of a place and a
people.” —New York Post
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(Edo Bertoglio, 1981/2000, USA, 35mm, 72
min) Featuring Jean Michele Basquiat,
Vincent Gallo and Debbie Harry, amongst
other downtown New York luminaries of the
era, Downtown 81 depicts the extreme creative ferment of the Lower Manhattan music
and art scenes in the early 80s. It’s a romantic immersion into a world that few took seriously at the time, but formed a blueprint for
bohemianism for years to come.
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Passione: A Musical Adventure
SEATTLE (John Turturro, 2010, Italy, USA, 35mm, 95 min) John Tur-
PREMIERE turro’s unconditional commitment to Italy and its culture
has developed into a unique film experience. Passione’s antique
scenery, distinctive sounds and beautiful music take the viewer into
the streets of Naples and on a voyage through time and space. The
film’s strength lays in the diversity of the soundtrack, each song its
own universe, each its own poem. Naples becomes the ideal setting
for a breathtaking odyssey, where the musicians perform on the
streets and take over the city’s plazas, ultimately capturing the
hearts of its spectators. Turturro (Barton Fink, O Brother Where Art
Thou) brings Naples and its heritage to the big screen in a way that
confirms its essential contribution to our civilization.
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ancholy aesthetics. With its refusal of conventional narrative structures and relentless allusions to social, political and
cinematic history, it’s unlikely you’ll leave
the screening echoing its already famous
final line—a quintessentially Godardian
departure to cinema—”no comment.”
“I was impressed not only by the film’s singularly fresh, daring, and often beautiful
employments of sound and image, but also
by its tenderness towards virtually all the
contemporary characters and figures in the
film (including the many animals).” —Jonathan Rosenbaum
Into Eternity
(Michael
Madsen,
USA,
SEATTLE 2009, DigiBeta, 75 min)
After
the
devastating
nuclear crisis in Japan, Michael Madsen’s
Into Eternity—part documentary, part science fiction—is a prescient exploration of
how Finland handles its spent nuclear fuel
rods. The film begs the question: Since
nuclear waste is dangerous for hundreds
of thousands of years, how do you communicate the danger to distant generations?
Screens with Karn Junkinsmith’s Interpretive Site: Hanford Reach.
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60 Second
Film Challenge
PREMIERE
“Jaw-dropping! Tackles a subject almost
beyond comprehension. One of the most
extraordinary factual films to be shown this
year.” —The Guardian
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5, 7, 9PM
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6th Annual Seattle Bike-In
This year for the Bike-In we decided to do something special. We’re
commissioning a new live score from the folks who’ve brought you
movie night at Bauhaus Coffee. Jon Francois, Marcy Stone and Jordan Jamhammar will compose an original soundtrack with vinyl
records to the 1986 classic bicycle movie Quicksilver! Jack Casey,
a successful young floor trader played by Kevin Bacon, loses all
of his money after a risky business decision. Deflated and disenchanted with his profession, he decides to become a bicycle messenger. As always, the Bike-In will feature live music curated by the Vera
Project, and booths from local bicycle organizations and merchants.
Come early and stay late for this amazing outdoor bicycling extravaganza! sponsored by CapitolHillSeattle.com and easy street records
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w e d n e sday )
Winston Churchill: Walking With Destiny
(Richard Trank, 2011, USA,
35mm, 97 min) Narrated by
Ben
Kingsley, Winston
Churchill: Walking With Destiny examines
Churchill’s years in the political wilderness, his early opposition to Adolf Hitler
and Nazism, his support for Jews under
threat by the Nazi regime and his ascension to the Prime Ministership in 1940. Sir
Martin Gilbert, historical consultant for
the film and Winston Churchill’s official
biographer, theorizes that Western Civilization as we know it was saved by Churchill
during the period when he, alone among
world leaders, stood up to Hitler and
Nazism. With Special Guests!
SEATTLE
PREMIERE
at Cal Andersen Park
Film Socialisme
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The Sky Turns
(Mercedes Álvarez, 2005,
Spain, 35mm, 110 min) Mercedes Álvarez was three
years old when her parents decided to leave
the village of La Aldea at the end of the
1960s. Today, only fourteen inhabitants
live in this barren corner of northern Spain,
a population which is probably the end of
over a thousand years of uninterrupted
settlement. Alvarez, who was the last child
to be born in La Aldea, returns after many
years to the land of her ancestors to film a
portrait of its handful of settlers.
35mm
P RINT !
“An informative look back at one of the 20th
century’s most celebrated figures.” —Los
Angeles Times
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Taxi Driver
(Martin Scorsese, 1976, USA,
35mm, 113 min) One of the greatest collaborations of the 1970s
was Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, a film
that alchemized Paul Schrader’s script,
Michael Chapman’s cinematography, Bernard Herrmann’s music and Robert De
Niro’s totally credible Travis Bickle. Scorsese’s searing images bubble up out of the
streets of Manhattan, with violence waiting
to be unleashed when you least expect it.
With memorable supporting performances
from Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey
Keitel, Peter Boyle, and
C y b i ll
Shepherd, Taxi Driver
looks as good on the
big screen for it’s 35th
anniversary as
when it was
originally
released!
This quarter we take brevity to the extreme
as we ask filmmakers to produce an original and imaginative film that works within
the confines of sixty seconds. It only takes
a minute! All films submitted are accepted
for screening and must be no longer than
60 seconds. For information on how to
submit your film, please see page XX.
(Jean Luc Godard, 2010,
France/Switzerland,
101
min) Jean-Luc Godard’s
rumored final film is neatly divided into
three sections, all of which are open to any
number of interpretations. From the
opening movement, set aboard a
cruise ship sailing lazily through
the Mediterranean, to its visit with
a family who run a petrol station
and keep a pet llama, the film comprises
a strata of times compressed with mel-
SEATTLE
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PREMIERE
Search And Rescue:
Sound Off
Educational documentaries from the 1960s
and 70s are becoming a rare breed. For the
past decade they have been phased out by
modern technology and the HD revolution,
but the organic and timeless feel to the films
has yet to be recaptured. We’ve commissioned a small group of musicians to recontextualize these films by turning the sound
off and providing them a live original score.
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EQUIPMENT N
RENTAL
WFF has digital video, 35mm, 16mm and Super-8 cameras, sound and lighting gear available for rental by
active members at affordable rates, as well as Super-
8, 16mm and non-linear editing systems. Proficiency with
cameras is required. If you are unfamiliar with our equipment but would like to rent it, call the studio director to
coordinate a time for a certification workshop.
Equipment rentals MUST be scheduled in advance. For information and scheduling contact the Studio Director,
Dave Hanagan, at (206) 329-2629 or [email protected].
* Listed rates are for WigglyWorld level members. Non-members and commercial projects will be charged twice the listed rate.
D I G I TA L V I D E O C A M E R A S
loading footage from the P2
cards while on set.
Includes Marantz solid-state
handheld PMD661 recorder,
one 2GB SD memory card,
headphones, carry case and
assorted cables.
**Certification or prior experience
is required. See Workshops page
for certification dates. Rental requires $500 credit card deposit.
Panasonic DVX100A
24p Camera Package
Canon EOS 60D DSLR
$125 day / $250 weekend
Canon’s next generation after the
7D, this DSLR shoots full 1080p
HD video, with all the loveliness
of a shallow depth of field and
one of Canon’s best zoom lenses.
Package includes: Canon L series
24-105mm zoom lens, two 16 GB
SDHC memory cards, Beachtek
DXA-SLR audio mixer, Marshall
5” monitor, Manfrotto tripod, batteries and assorted cables.
**Certification or prior experience
is required. See Workshops page
for certification dates. Rental requires $500 credit card deposit.
Panasonic HVX200
High Definition Camera Package
$125 day / $250 weekend
with PowerBook G4 Laptop:
$150 day / $300 weekend
Similar in feel to the DVX100, the
HVX shoots in a wide variety of
frame rates including 1080/24p,
720/24p, 30p and 60p and it also
offers true variable frame rate.
You have the option of shooting in DV mode, DVCPRO50 and
DVCPRO-HD. Additionally, it offers the revolutionary P2 solidstate memory cards.
The package comes with two
8gig P2 cards, Manfretto fluidhead tripod, three batteries and
rain-proof cover. A PowerBook
G4 is also available with the
package for conveniently down-
$65 day / $125 weekend
The 24p MiniDV camera can
shoot either traditional inter laced video, progressive 30fps
or progressive 24fps. Package
comes with Manfretto fluidhead tripod, two batteries and
shoulder bag.
Sennheiser Wireless
Lavalier Mic
A camera of renowned craftsmanship and pivotal to both
indie and commercial film production for decades! Package
includes 15-150mm Angenieux
zoom lens, two 400’ mags, matte
box and follow focus, tripod,
changing bag and batteries.
Canon GL1 Camera
$50 day / $100 weekend
Both Eclair packages are for syncsound shooting. Package comes
with a 12-120mm Angenieux
zoom lens, one 400‘ mag, longlife battery, charger, filters, slate,
light meter and Sachtler uidhead tripod.
35MM CAMERA
Konvas KCP-1M
Camera
$10 day / $20 weekend
Russian 35mm reflex motion
picture camera, with variablespeed, wild motor (or hand
crank), 200’ magazine and two
prime lenses.
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E D I T I N G FA C I L I T I E S
HD Non-linear
Editing Suite
$5 hour
iMacs: 21.5” HD displays, 3.06
Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo Processors,
with 4Gb Ram, blue tooth keySnow Leopard. Also includes Final
$50 day / $100 weekend
Also available, Sony 8” CRT Field
Monitor. Call or visit nwfilmforum.org for details.
terfly Overhead with Silk. Call or
boards and mice, running OSX
Eclair ACL II
Camera Package
**Certification or prior experience
is required. See Workshops page
for certification dates.
$45 day / $85 weekend
Three-chip digital video camera. Features include firewire
and RCA connections, 16 bit
PCM audio, interlaced and progressive video capture. Includes
wide-angle adapter.
$10 day / $20 weekend
Includes EW112PG3-A Wireless lav
kit: EK 100 G3 diversity receiver,
SK 100 G3 bodypack transmitter,
ME2 omnidirectional lav mic, XLR
output cable.
Also available: C-Stand, 8’x8’ But-
Cut Pro, After Effects, DVD Studio
Pro, GarageBand and Flash.
Film to Video
Transfer
Eclair NPR Camera
Package
Bolex Package
$5 hour
Audio Technica Short
Shotgun Mic
$10 day / $20 weekend
Includes Audio Technica 4073a
shotgun mic, boom pole, shock
mount, and XLR cables.
Shure FP33
Field Mixer
$15 day / $30 weekend
16mm Bolex (Rex 4) H16
Reflex comes with assorted
prime lenses, 18-85mm VarioSwitar zoom lens, Sekonic light
meter, Bogen fluid-head tripod
and accessories.
$10 day / $20 weekend
Three channel mixer with XLR
inputs/outputs.
SUPER 8 CAMERAS
LIGHTING GEAR
User-Friendly Super-8
Cameras
Light Kit #1
$5 day / $10 weekend
$15 day / $30 weekend
Includes 3 Lowell Omnis, stands
and assorted gels.
SOUND GEAR
Light Kit #2
Aaton LTR Super 16mm
Camera Package
Marantz PMD661
Handheld Recorder
$50 day / $100 weekend
$20 day / $40 weekend
$15 day / $30 weekend
Includes 1 Arri 600watt, and 2
Lowell 500 watt Totas, stands
and assorted gels.
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available as a self-serve 16mm or
Super 8mm telecine. It captures
frames individually onto a G4
hard drive. It captures about two
minutes of footage per hour (for
footage shot at 24fps).
**Certification
is
required.
See
Workshops page for certification
dates.
Also available: Animation Suite an-
Also available: DAT and NAGRA
sound recorders. Call or visit nwfilmforum.org for details.
16MM CAMERAS
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Our modified JK Optical Printer is
Reserve: (206) 329-2629
d16mm / Super 8 Edit bench. Call
or visit nwfilmforum.org for details.
PROJECTORS
AND SCREENS
Video Projector
$20 day / $40 weekend
Super-8 and 16mm
Projectors
$5 day / $10 weekend
Also available: Portable screen and
16mm Educational Film Prints. Call
or visit nwfilmforum.org for details.
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SUMMER
Education
techniques and secrets of DSLR cinematography and workflow. Sessions will provide in-depth emphasis on the following:
lens options and the consequences of your
choices on depth of field, lens speed and
mobility; camera support options (steadicam and sliderdolly) and using external monitors; lighting and lens filtration;
handling the post production workflow,
introducing the issues and pitfalls of common codecs and comparing quality loss vs.
preserving hard disk space. Time will also
be spent discussing screen direction with
demonstrations about how to accomplish
visual storytelling without dialogue.
SCHEDULE
MULTISESSION CLASSES
Screenwriting 101: The
Eight Week Screenplay
Eight Tuesdays, June 7-July 26, 7-9pm
Instructor: Walter Dalton
Tuition: $230/Film Forum members,
$260/general
Max Attendance: 8
Whether you want to pitch your film to
Hollywood or make your independent
feature, students will learn the substance
of a good screenplay. With his decades
of with his decades of experience writing
and directing for television and films,
Walter will lead frank discussions about
character development, plot structure and
themes. Expect to talk about your ideas
and receive regular feedback as you make
progress in your writing. Students will
work towards completing a feature-length
screenplay in eight weeks. Students
should come to class with an idea for a
feature film, and will benefit from reading
about proper screenplay formatting
techniques before attending class.
Cinematic Storytelling
TBA, 7-9pm
Instructor: Brian McDonald
Tuition: $150/Film Forum members,
$180/general
Max Attendance: 20
If you are working toward writing a feature film or just have an interest in learning about storytelling, Brian’s class will
sharpen your awareness of telling stories
for a visual medium. Most of us have been
taught the elementary rules of prose writing and so it is with this that we are most
familiar. But telling stories in a visual
medium has its own set of rules that few
of us have ever been taught. This class
will focus on story structure in general,
but with an emphasis on film storytelling. Discussions and discourses will be
interspersed with clips from popular films.
Students will also participate in storytelling exercises. Anyone interested in telling
stories in any form, but particularly in a
visual medium, will benefit from this class.
Lighting for Film & Video
Saturday & Sunday,
May 21 & 22, 10am-4pm
Instructor: Erik Vilinskas
Tuition: $250/Film Forum members,
$280/general
Max Attendance: 8
Lighting sets the tone of every
scene. Learn how to use creative lighting
techniques to establish a mood and
direct your viewer to the most important
Having basic experience with either digital
photography or prosumer video cameras is
recommended.
Filmmaking Boot Camp
Explore filmmaking by doing it.
We offer a wide range of classes and workshops that can be
taken at whatever pace you prefer. Whether you are new to
the art and plan to plunge into filmmaking as a career, or
you have purchased your own equipment and wish to drop in
on a few certifications to learn more, our classes are for you.
NWFF’s curriculum offers a complete education in nearly all
aspects of filmmaking. Multi-session classes meet weekly and
offer in-depth, hands-on experience with filmmaking tools,
while one-day workshops offer both insightful lectures and
practical techniques on current filmmaking topics.
NWFF classes and workshops are designed to
instruct filmmakers on both the mechanical
skills required by current filmmaking technology and the artistic application of tools to
explore the critical and emotional range of
the cinematic experience. Classes and workshops are taught by working artists: filmmakers, writers, producers and editors.
Financially strapped students interested
in attending classes are invited to volunteer for NWFF. Volunteers gain free access
to workshops in exchange for time spent
parts of your shot. With examples taken
from the films of today and yesteryear,
we will learn how to examine a shot to
determine how it was lit. Hands-on
exercises will take us from the basics
of a three-point lighting setup to more
specialized techniques used to create
emotional impact on-screen. Special
attention will be given to creating
professional looking lighting setups on
a limited budget, as well as correctly
incorporating available daylight sources.
No prior experience is required.
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doing volunteer chores. For more information, contact: [email protected]
All workshops are held at Northwest Film
Forum (1515 12th Ave).
For bios of the instructors and descriptions
of the complete class list, visit our website,
www.nwfilmforum.org
Students MUST register and pay the tuition
in advance. Register online at www.
nwfilmforum.org, or contact Studio
Director Dave Hanagan at 206-3292629 or [email protected]
DIY Cinematography
with a DSLR
Five Wednesdays, June 8, 15, 22, 29 & July
6, 6:30-9pm
Instructor: Rylan Morris
Tuition: $200/Film Forum members,
$230/general
Max Attendance: 10
With the introduction of video-capable
digital SLR cameras, indie filmmakers now
have an unparalleled tool to capture visually compelling images. In this five week
course, students will be immersed in the
Register: (206) 329-2629
Two Weekends, Saturday & Sunday, June
18, 19, 25 & 26, 10am-4pm
Instructor: Daniel White
Tuition: $400/Film Forum members,
$430/general
Max Attendance: 8
Start with the nuts and bolts and then
dive headfirst into filmmaking in this
comprehensive, hands-on lab for anyone wanting to learn the ropes of film
and video production by participating
in a live shoot. The workshop will provide a broad overview of the production
process, starting with budgeting, insurance, scheduling tasks and continue
with live, hands-on participation and
culminating on day four with an intro
to editing where the students will edit
their scenes on Final Cut Pro. During the hands-on segment, students
will work with local actors and NWFF’s
production equipment to shoot 4 to 8
scenes from which they will each cast,
set dress, light, block and rehearse.
Emphasis will be placed on understanding the choices that a director makes to
pull a scene together, both behind the
camera and in front of the camera.
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Beginning Editing with
Final Cut Pro
Sections to choose from:
Saturday & Sunday, June 4 & 5,
10am-3pm
Saturday & Sunday, July 23 & 24,
10am-3pm
Instructor: Chris Julian
Tuition: $250/Film Forum members,
$280/general
Max Attendance: 5
The class is for students who intend to work
in digital video productions and who want to
knowt the basics of non-linear editing with
Final Cut Pro. This class will cover settings,
basic principles, effects, titles, sound and
printing to video with hands-on experience
for each student. This class is for students
who intend to work in digital video productions who want to know some of the basic
skills of editing in a non-linear environment.
Prior experience in non-linear editing is not
required, but basic computer skills are necessary. Time is available in NWFF’s edit
suite for students to work between classes.
After Effects Basics
Dates TBA
Instructor: Cory Kelley
Tuition: $280/Film Forum members,
$310/general
Max Attendance: 5
AfterEffects is a powerful animation and
compositing tool, with a wide range of
applications. Commonly used for film, television and multimedia, this program can be
difficult to crack at first. Once the basics
are mastered, it offers a rich and nearly
unlimited range of creative possibilities.
We’ll be learning from the ground up how
to animate typography, as well as combine
and manipulate footage and other elements
to create effects and motion graphics.
REQUIRED VIEWING
Orson Welles: From Citizen
Kane to Chimes at Midnight
will show that Welles’s accumulated
body of work -- which ranged from the
bold to the bad (but still fascinating!) to
the beautiful -- continues to influence
filmmakers today. This six week seminar
offers the film lover and filmmaker alike
a rare opportunity to view, discuss and
draw inspiration from films that include
Citizen Kane, Chimes of Midnight, The
Magnificent Ambersons, and F for Fake.
Dickey Nesenger was fortunate to have met
and worked with Orson Welles during the last
years of his life.
ONE-DAY WORKSHOPS
Documentary Workshop
with Miao Wang
Sunday, June 12, 12–3pm
Instructor: Miao Wang
Tuition: $12/Film Forum members,
$15/general
Max Attendance: 25
Observing and exploring the
human condition is second
FILMMAKER nature to New York based
filmmaker Miao Wang (Beijing Taxi). After
emigrating from China a year after the
Tiananmen Square massacre and working as an apprentice at Maysles Films,
Miao’s focus turned toward documentary
filmmaking as a poetic and cinematic platform to inspire human connections. In
this masterclass, Miao will show pieces of
her feature film, Beijing Taxi (nominated
for Best Doc at SXSW 2010), share experiences from the production, and discuss
the choices that shaped the film.
VISITING
digital camera, the most glamorous camera
in town! This certification is required for
anyone interested in using our DVX100
without having prior experience on the
camera. Learn how to take full advantage
of the camera’s features: XLR audio inputs,
24 or 30 frame progressive acquisition,
time-lapse interval recording and cine-like
gamma control.
Summer Camps for
Kids & Teens
Sections to choose from:
Wednesday, June 1, 6:30-8:30pm
Wednesday, July 20, 6:30-8:30pm
Wednesday, Sept 7, 6:30-8:30pm
Instructor: Dave Hanagan
Tuition: $25/Film Forum members,
$35/general
Max Attendance: 6
Prerequiste: Students must first take the
DVX100 certification or have prior experience
with the DVX100
Similar in feel to the DVX100, the HVX
shoots in a wide variety of frame rates
and it offers the revolutionary P2 solidstate memory cards.This workshop will
continue where the DVX leaves off, and
cover advanced camera features, menu
settings, and workflow recording in HD
using the P2 cards. After attending this
certification, members will have access to
rent NWFF’s HVX200 camera.
Two Weeks, Monday-Friday,
Aug 1-12, 9am-3pm
Instructor: Cheryll Hidalgo
Tuition: $500/general
Max Attendance: 10
Recommended for ages 11-14
Taking a hands-on, in-depth approach,
students will spend time learning all
aspects of filmmaking, from story and concept to finished product. The two-week
class will begin by focusing on characters and plot, storyboarding and planning
before the shoot. Students will then use
professional video cameras, microphones
and lighting kits to create their films.
Teams will come up with multiple pieces,
perfecting their craft by trying out different roles and ideas. Students can choose
the method and style of filmmaking, even
focusing on different variations of an idea.
Their final film will be shot, edited and
polished in time for a screening in NWFF’s
theater on the last day of class.
Panasonic HVX200 Camera
CERTIFICATIONS
Master Class with
Matthew Porterfield
Saturday, July 16, 12-3pm
Instructor: Matthew Porterfield
Tuition: $12/Film Forum members,
$15/general
Max Attendance: 25
Spend time with visiting
writer/director
Matthew
FILMMAKER Porterfield
(Metal
Gods,
Putty Hill). As one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent
Film,” Matthew has earned acclaim for
his films that walk between the worlds of
documentary and fiction. Matthew will be
on hand to discuss his experiences and
approach to filmmaking, with emphasis on
the tools available to directors to heighten
realism, and processes for casting and
working with non-professional actors.
VISITING
YOUTH WORKSHOPS
Mixed Animation Camp
Six Mondays, July 18-Aug 22, 7-9pm
Instructor: Dickey Nesenger
Tuition: $120/Film Forum members,
$140/general
Max Attendance: 30
When he was only twenty five years old,
Orson Welles revolutionized the art of
movie-making with his seminal film
Citizen Kane, which introduced filmgoers
to complex storytelling, deep focus and
a multitude of other dizzying tricks and
devices that have changed cinema. This
seminar intends to upend the belief that
his career went downhill from there and
learn these traditional animation techniques
by working with drawings, collage, clay,
puppets or objects. Each student will create
his or her own short film by going through
the whole process: planning a project with
scripts and storyboards, using movement
to give characters expression, and finishing
pieces with voiceovers and sound. Finished
films will be compiled on a DVD for students
to take home and share.
Two Weeks, Monday-Friday,
Aug 22-Sep 2, 9am-3pm
Instructor: Britta Johnson
Tuition: $500/general
Max Attendance: 10
Recommended for ages 14-17
Are you a first-time animator or a seasoned
filmmaker looking to pick up some new
tricks and skills? Come join us for two solid
weeks of animation! Classic Disney films and
TV shows like Gumby were all made before
computers and demonstrated a variety of
hands-on animation styles that are still used
today in films like Coraline. Students will
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Canon 60D Camera
Sections to choose from:
Tuesday, May 31, 6:30-8:30pm
Wednesday, July 13, 6:30-8:30pm
Wednesday, Aug 31, 6:30-8:30pm
Instructor: Dave Hanagan
Tuition: $25/Film Forum members,
$35/general
Max Attendance: 6
Moviemaking with a DSLR camera presents
both advantages and pitfalls when compared to traditional video cameras. In this
certification class to use NWFF’s Canon’s
60D, students will learn the camera’s basic
functionality and be made aware of the
issues videographers should be thinking
about before, during and after a shoot.
Panasonic DVX100 Camera
Sections to choose from:
Monday, May 23, 6:30-8:30pm
Thursday, July 7, 6:30-8:30pm
Wednesday, Aug 24, 6:30-8:30pm
Instructor: Dave Hanagan
Tuition: $25/Film Forum members,
$35/general
Max Attendance: 6
Get trained on NWFF’s Panasonic 24p
Register: (206) 329-2629
Self-Serve Film Transfer
Sections to choose from:
Monday, June 20, 6:30-8:30pm
Tuesday, Aug 16, 6:30-8:30pm
Instructor: Dave Hanagan
Tuition: $25/Film Forum members,
$35/general
Max Attendance: 6
Learn how to transfer your own 16mm
and Super -8 movies to digital video
using NWFF’s Sup’d-Up-Bad-Ass-Optical-Printer -From-Hell. This certification
class is required to use our low-cost,
flicker -free, rock-solid-registration telecine. After being taught the basics, par ticipants will be able to sign up and use
the optical printer for the room’s filmmaker -friendly rate of $5/hour.
SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Summer at a Glance
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My Perestroika (7 & 9pm)
5
STIFF (see website)
12
Beijing Taxi (7 & 9pm),
CFI: Shorts in Support of
Iran (7pm)
19
Uncle Boonmee Who Can
Recall His Past Lives
(7 & 9:15pm), !Women Art
Revolution (7 & 9pm)
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Uncle Boonmee Who Can
Recall His Past Lives
(7 & 9:15pm), Steam Of Life
(7 & 9pm)
3
Uncle Kent (7 & 9pm),
A Useful Life (7 & 9pm)
10
I Want To See (6 & 8pm),
The Big Uneasy (7 & 9pm)
17
Passione: A Musical
Adventure (7 & 9pm), Putty
Hill (7 & 9:15pm)
Redland (7 & 9:15pm),
Into Eternity (7 & 9pm)
24
31
Winston Churchill: Walking With Destiny (5, 7 &
9pm), Summer of Goliath
(7:15 & 9:15pm)
7
14
21
The Sky Turns (7 & 9pm)
My Perestroika (7 & 9pm)
6
STIFF (see website)
Beijing Taxi (7 & 9pm)
13
20
Uncle Boonmee Who Can
Recall His Past Lives
(7 & 9:15pm), !Women Art
Revolution (7 & 9pm)
27
Uncle Boonmee Who Can
Recall His Past Lives
(7 & 9:15pm)
4
A Useful Life (7 & 9pm)
11
I Want To See (8pm),
The Big Uneasy (7 & 9pm)
18
Passione: A Musical
Adventure (7 & 9pm), Putty
Hill (9:15pm)
Redland (9:15pm), Into
Eternity (7 & 9pm)
25
AUG
1
Juntos (Together) (8pm),
Summer of Goliath
(9:15pm)
Taxi Driver (7 & 9pm),
Film Socialisme (7 & 9pm)
Blank City (7 & 9pm),
Permanent Vacation
(7 & 9pm)
30
8
Taxi Driver (7 & 9pm),
Film Socialisme (9pm)
Blank City (7 & 9pm),
Unmade Beds (9:15pm)
15
22
The Sky Turns (7 & 9pm)
31
My Perestroika (7 & 9pm),
Foreign Parts (7pm)
7
STIFF (see website)
Beijing Taxi (7 & 9pm)
14
21
Uncle Boonmee Who Can
Recall His Past Lives
(7 & 9:15pm), !Women Art
Revolution (7 & 9pm)
28
Uncle Boonmee Who Can
Recall His Past Lives
(7 & 9:15pm)
A Useful Life (7 & 9pm)
I Want To See (8pm),
The Big Uneasy (9pm),
Screening Merce (7pm)
5
12
19
Passione: A Musical
Adventure (7 & 9pm), Putty
Hill (7 & 9:15pm)
Redland (7 & 9:15pm),
Into Eternity (7 & 9pm)
26
2
Summer of Goliath (7:15 &
9:15pm)
9
Taxi Driver (7 & 9pm),
Film Socialisme (7 & 9pm)
Blank City (7 & 9pm),
Unmade Beds (7:15 &
9:15pm)
16
23
The Sky Turns (7 & 9pm),
Search and Rescue: Sound
Off (7pm)
JUN
My Perestroika (7 & 9pm),
Barbara Ireland DVD
Release Party (8pm)
1
8
STIFF (see website)
15
Beijing Taxi (7 & 9pm),
Shorts From the Flaherty
Seminar (7pm)
22
Uncle Boonmee Who Can
Recall His Past Lives
(7 & 9:15pm), !Women Art
Revolution (7 & 9pm)
29
Uncle Boonmee Who Can
Recall His Past Lives
(7 & 9:15pm)
6
A Useful Life (7 & 9pm)
13
I Want To See (8pm),
The Big Uneasy (9pm),
Joel Schlemowitz: Short
Experiments (7pm)
20
Passione: A Musical
Adventure (7 & 9pm), Putty
Hill (7 & 9:15pm)
Redland (7 & 9:15pm),
Into Eternity (7 & 9pm)
27
3
Perpetuum Mobile (8pm),
Summer of Goliath (7:15 &
9:15pm)
10
Taxi Driver (9pm), Film
Socialisme (7 & 9pm),
Visions: Animation and
Abstraction, 1908-1994
(7pm)
Blank City (7 & 9pm),
Downtown 81 (7 & 9pm)
17
24
The Sky Turns (7 & 9pm)
M AY
2
9
STIFF (see website)
16
23
Uncle Boonmee Who Can
Recall His Past Lives
(7 & 9:15pm), !Women Art
Revolution (7 & 9pm)
30
Uncle Boonmee Who Can
Recall His Past Lives
(7 & 9:15pm), Secret
Country (7pm)
A Useful Life (7 & 9pm)
I Want To See (8pm),
The Big Uneasy (9pm),
Werewolves Across
America (7pm)
7
14
21
28
4
Donde estan sus historias? (Where are their
stories?) (8pm) Summer of
Goliath (7:15 & 9:15pm)
11
Taxi Driver (7 & 9pm),
Film Socialisme (7 & 9pm),
Blank City (7 & 9pm),
Downtown 81 (7 & 9pm)
3
STIFF (see website)
STIFF (see website)
10
17
Uncle Boonmee Who Can
Recall His Past Lives
(7 & 9:15pm), !Women Art
Revolution (7 & 9pm)
24
Uncle Boonmee Who Can
Recall His Past Lives
(7 & 9:15pm), Steam Of Life
(7 & 9pm)
JUL
1
Uncle Kent (7 & 9pm),
A Useful Life (7 & 9pm)
Passione: A Musical
Adventure (7 & 9pm), Putty
Hill (7 & 9:15pm)
Secret Country (7pm),
Redland (9:15pm), Into
Eternity (7 & 9pm)
27
My Perestroika (7 & 9pm)
My Perestroika (7 & 9pm)
Beijing Taxi (7 & 9pm),
Inter-Action (7pm)
SATURDAY
18
25
Secret Country (7pm), The
Sky Turns (7 & 9pm)
The Big Uneasy (7 & 9pm)
8
15
Passione: A Musical
Adventure (7 & 9pm), Putty
Hill (7 & 9:15pm)
Redland (7 & 9:15pm),
Into Eternity (7 & 9pm)
22
29
Winston Churchill: Walking With Destiny (5, 7 &
9pm), Summer of Goliath
(7:15 & 9:15pm)
5
Taxi Driver (7 & 9pm), Film
Socialisme (7 & 9pm)
Blank City (7 & 9pm),
Permanent Vacation
(7 & 9pm)
12
19
The Sky Turns (7 & 9pm),
60 Second Film Challenge
Screenings (7pm)
26
28
My Perestroika (7 & 9pm)
4
STIFF (see website)
Beijing Taxi (7 & 9pm)
11
18
Uncle Boonmee Who Can
Recall His Past Lives
(7 & 9:15pm), !Women Art
Revolution (7 & 9pm)
25
Uncle Boonmee Who Can
Recall His Past Lives
(7 & 9:15pm), Steam Of Life
(7 & 9pm)
2
Uncle Kent (7 & 9pm),
A Useful Life (7 & 9pm)
I Want To See (6 & 8pm),
The Big Uneasy (7 & 9pm)
9
16
Passione: A Musical
Adventure (7 & 9pm), Putty
Hill (7 & 9:15pm)
Redland (7 & 9:15pm),
Into Eternity (7 & 9pm)
23
30
Winston Churchill: Walking With Destiny (5, 7 &
9pm), Summer of Goliath
(7:15 & 9:15pm)
6
Taxi Driver (7 & 9pm), Film
Socialisme (7 & 9pm)
Blank City (7 & 9pm),
Permanent Vacation
(7 & 9pm)
13
20
The Sky Turns (7 & 9pm)
27
6th Annual Seattle Bike-In
(6pm, at Cal Anderson Park)