We are now reviewing works no longer than 5 minutes that fit within the following categories of video poetry for inclusion in Cadence Video Poetry Festival. Works that exceed 5 minutes may be submitted in the Wild Card category.
I have been in Seattle for a little over ten years now, and it’s safe to say that Northwest Film Forum has been the defining voice of this city for me. In early 2011, the Forum quickly became my home away from home when I began volunteering at the box office during Children’s Film Festival. Once I became a regular on Monday nights, I found my people: the weirdos, the effortlessly artistic, and the defiantly independent.
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The cinematography, particularly in the black and white archival footage, evokes the warm and diffuse grey palette of some French New Wave films. By juxtaposing the footage of Saint-Laurent’s last years against the modern shows being prepared in the same corridors, the film celebrates not only Yves Saint-Laurent the man, but more pointedly, Yves Saint-Laurent as a generational dynasty and a name recognized in general conversation.
There is something about the pageantry of rarefied European …
With his long, static takes and general lack of non-diegetic music, director Ulrich Köhler conjures a world of troubled silences and stoic, deliberate movements in his droll, minimalistic survival drama, In My Room. In My Room is the story of a man who awakens from his dull, quotidian life to discover the earth is suddenly uninhabited, and must abruptly face the full weight of complete self-reliance.
Our protagonist Armin is shown livi…
A sprawling seven-hour narrative portraying events which transpire over a single winter at a single farm in Warsaw Pact Hungary, Béla Tarr’s Sátántangó is truly an epic of the microcosmic. Béla Tarr finds grave and wondrous significance in the mundane, using a stark, piercing and lustrous style of black and white imagery which focuses in on the textures of everyday objects – torrential rain thru a gauzy window curtain, the corduroy jacket of a stumbled-over drunk – to the poi…
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Seattle, WA – October 29, 2019 – The 2nd Annual Engauge Experimental Film Festival, in partnership with Northwest Film Forum and Interbay Cinema Society, presents three days of only work that originates on film.
Engauge Experimental Film Festival was founded by two Seattle artist/filmmakers, Caryn Cline and Jon Behrens, working in 16mm and 35mm.
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by Jackie Moffitt
In today’s era of $400 three-day passes and $10 water bottles, it’s easy to take the notion of big music festivals in expansive natural settings for granted. But the earliest incarnations of this concept were something far rawer and weirder, more communal and more inclusive, comprising a story of punk rock brilliance and madness that long went untold.
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Northwest Film Forum (NWFF)’s 22nd Annual Local Sightings Film Festival (September 20-29, 2019) once again showcased the growing complexity of creative communities in the Pacific Northwest. Featuring a competitive selection of curated shorts and feature film programs, its 2019 edition invited regional artists to experiment, break,…