For journalists at Mvskoke Media, the Muscogee Creek Nation’s only newspaper, November 8th, 2018 was “fucking D-Day.” That was the day that the tribal government voted to repeal the...
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Alison Jean SmithSeattle is a city that wears its Scandinavian heritage proudly, and so it’s only fitting that Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF)’s Nordic lineup is such a standout this year. In particular, two films from Denmark, Superposition...
The first time I saw Seattle photographer Eirik Johnson‘s Leviathan series, I was both transfixed and confused. What exactly was I looking at? One piece depicted great swaths of navy blue, striped with light like layers of sediment. Another...
When filmmaker Reed Harkness was growing up in 1990s Seattle, he never left the house without his Super 8 camera. He threw himself into making the “Sam Films”: arty, experimental shorts featuring his half-brother, Sam. The two siblings...
In the half-hour experimental documentary, What Shall We Do With These Buildings? (2022), two men dance atop giant pink squares, climbing on and hanging from them like monkey bars. Viewers may be surprised to learn that these squares are attached to...
Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound Interview: Saving Magnetic Media from the Race Against Time
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...
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)...
Swedish director Magnus Gertten‘s stunning documentary Nelly & Nadine (2022) is bookended by a triumphant black-and-white film reel of hundreds of women with fists in the air, kissing each other’s cheeks. In 1945, they arrived in...