The 39th Annual Sundance Film Festival 2023 returns virtually and in-person, with events taking place from January 19 to 29. REDEFINE presents a shortlist of feature films worthy of mention, due to the importance of their subject matter, their...
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Terence Nance and I leapfrog through time and space. Numerous missed connections and mutual schedule misalignments occur until — two weeks later — we finally manage to get on the phone to speak about Nance’s new record, V O R T E X...
When a visitor walks into the office of Seattle’s Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound (MIPoPS), their eyes immediately take in racks of blocky recording equipment and bundles of multicolored wires. Many of these tape players are...
Sundance Film Festival 2023 returns virtually and in-person, with events taking place from January 19 to 29. This list of short films represents our favorites out of this year’s nine short film programs — which include six focused...
Khu.éex’ (pronounced koo-eek; “potlatch” in Tlingit) is a 10-piece intergenerational band whose musical style is fluid, with improvisational prowess that allows them to span genres as wide-ranging as funk and hip-hop to jazz and...
It’s been over ten years since I first interviewed musician and interdisciplinary visual artist Jimmy Edgar – who goes often these days as simply JIMMY – at a hotel room in Seattle. At the time, he was flying all over the world, DJing world...
Confession: the live shows of Portland duo Phone Call are one of the few things I miss about living in PDX, because no lie: their delightful electro-funk synth pop vibes are just feel-good, limb-flailing goodness. Now, emerging from nearly three...
Filmmaker Emin Alper, director of several award-winning drama films, cites An Enemy of the People, Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play about a doctor’s crisis of conscience, as a chief inspiration for his narrative film Burning Days (Kurak Günler)...
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