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Seattle’s Flatcolor Gallery is taking a hiatus for the summer! But before then, they will be moving out of their long-standing Pioneer Square location (528 1st Ave. S, Seattle), and are inviting you to join them for a folkloric show of Stacey Rozich‘s new works.
The opening is tomorrow, April 5th, from 5:00pm to 9:00pm. Select pieces are displayed below, and more can be see here.
See our interview with Stacey Rozich, Patterns Of Renewal
“I used to write a lot of stories as a kid. They would just be really long meandering fairytales, and then I realized I maybe wasn’t that good at it. As I got older, I learned that if you can convey a story with an image, then you’re good; you’re golden. So I focused on having this background narrative that wasn’t quite obvious, yet each piece has a little vignette — a little drama in it.”
— Stacey Rozich, in an interview with REDEFINE
See our interview with Stacey Rozich, Patterns Of Renewal
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![Thrilled today to share with you an interview with filmmakers and visual artist @kolbyrowland -- whose new debut feature film CITY BY THE SOUND is what he describes as “the end result of years of daydreaming about making a movie about Seattle that isn’t such a normative film."
READ THE FULL INTERVIEW: bit.ly/redefinecitysound
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Fascinating in its unconventional narrative structure and deeply personal to Rowland, City by the Sound loosely connects vignettes in a way that renders the film itself a daydream, largely driven more by emotions and visuals than clear directives. Edited by Rowland himself and with sound design that gives the visuals ample room to unfold expansively, City by the Sound speaks through “approachable abstraction,” a term the filmmaker began using years ago, while he was getting his BFA in New Genres at the San Francisco Art Institute. Without being told exactly how or what to think, viewers are guided along through the power of suggestion, as the film mixes stories about mythology with lush naturalistic visuals and characters who feel as much fiction as they are real.
“Ironically, [Seattle] is a very photographed city, but I think it is still a very misunderstood city, just visually and also culturally…” Rowland shares. “Some things in the movie were just dreams coming true — finally making these images that have been with me for so long that I thought would really represent the more underlying energies and spirits of this city, better than I’ve seen in the past. Other images just come from being present in any given moment, and being present enough to notice, ‘Whoa, this is aesthetically or conceptually a really loaded situation.'”
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Watch City by the Sound at @nwfilmforum during Local Sightings between September 16-26 virtually with in-person on the 25th @ 8pm: localsightings.org for details.
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