Vee Hua 華婷婷Now in its fourth year, the Lynn Shelton “Of a Certain Age” Grant awards $25,000 in unrestricted funds to one woman, nonbinary, transgender, and/or intersex filmmaker over 39 who has yet to make their first narrative feature film. In...
Saelyx FinnaDreaming: that thing we all do every night, whether or not we remember it, like it, or can make any sense of it. Through most of human history, dreams have played a central role in shaping daily life. And yet, many of us rarely talk about dreaming...
NNAMDÏ is the type of multidisciplinary artist whose playful approach to creativity renders him instantly disarming. The Chicago-based musician, whose real name is Nnamdi Ogbonnaya, makes art that is bursting — no, EXPLODING! — with...
Zach FrimmelIn Even Hell Has Its Heroes, Clyde Petersen’s feature documentary, the Washington animator and filmmaker opens a mesmerizing, 108-minute portal into the many layers of Earth — the Olympia-to-Seattle band, led by Dylan Carlson, which...
“There’s this kind of an unspoken language between some Native artists … in terms of setting our own definitions of Indigeneity and not having it be the defining throughline in all of our art … we kind of have our own little internal...
Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound Interview: Saving Magnetic Media from the Race Against Time
Alison Jean SmithWhen 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...