• Purchase your ticket through Brown Paper Tickets; come to the show!
• You can also purchase a ticket on the day of the screening at Northwest Film Forum’s box office (1515 12th Ave, Seattle).
• If you have purchased a Hybrid or In-Person-Only Festival Pass, we’ll be able to look you up at Will Call by the name you purchased under.

Taking inspiration from Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto and French philosopher Jean Baudrillard, SEA 404 questions the current fashion where people learn everything in the computer world.

(Cherlyn Hsing-hsin Liu, US, 2019, 3 min)

A meditative journey through colour, form and sound. This direct animation music video was created for Toronto chamber music composer Frank Horvat. The musical composition is performed by Canadian percussionist Beverley Johnston.

(Richard Reeves, Canada, 2021, 11 min)

The cinema is a machine. Kopierwerk testifies to that, lets itself be carried by industrial rhythms, and in doing so, negotiates the analogue era, whose end meant also new beginnings, creative deviations: as complement to digital mass culture, taking place before our eyes is a movement largely freed from the pressure to generate a profit, a niche revolution of sorts in analogue media.

(Stefanie Weberhofer, Germany, 2020, 7 min)

An intimate exploration into how private, domestic acts such as washing your hair, or putting on makeup become a significant re-acquaintance with the body, before and after navigating the politics of one’s outward appearance.

(Kourtney Jackson, Canada, 2020, 10 min, in English with English closed captions)

A portrait of an island on the edge of Union Bay in Seattle. An uneasy, but ever-evolving juxtaposition of the human and the natural; the hard thrum of the highway and swirling churn of the wetland.

(Luke Sieczek, US, 2021, 8 min)

** Content warning: This film contains a pronounced strobing effect, and may pose a risk to those with photosensitive epilepsy. **

Our front window from inside and out.

(Richard Tuohy, Australia, 2021, 12 min)

An in-depth reflection on beauty.

(Linda Fenstermaker, US, 2021, 4 min)

During the coronavirus lockdown, Seattle filmmaker Serge Gregory rummages through his work to create an ode to the lost art of shooting, editing and projecting film.

(Serge Gregory, US, 2020, 5 min)

The story unfolds on the Eve of Midsummer: on the day when the threshold between worlds is porous, and an idle gesture can tempt fate.

(Charlotte Pryce, US, 2020, 5 min)

Engauge Experimental Film Festival celebrates sprocket-driven, artist-made work.

Each Fall, Engauge hosts screenings sponsored by the Interbay Cinema Society in partnership with Northwest Film Forum. The festival screens only work that originates on film, by filmmakers both local and international.

This year’s festival will be a hybrid model, taking place both on the web and at NWFF’s cinema in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.

⚠️ Please note: For the sake of public safety, NWFF will require both face-coverings and proof of vaccination from audiences. We reserve the option to shift the festival to virtual-only on short notice.