Vee Hua 華婷婷At the start of The High Sun, Jelena (Tihana Lazovic) and Ivan (Goran Markovic) sunbathe at a lakeshore, playing instruments and wrestling flirtatiously in the sunshine. The unfettered young couple seems like it has no worries in the world —...
All May, posters have abounded in Seattle’s historically gay-friendly neighborhood of Capitol Hill, advertising Transgender Arts Month. Lumped within that was Translations, a five-day Transgender Film Festival, now on its eleventh year. In...
As per usual, we here at REDEFINE have done the hard work of going through SIFF 2016 (Seattle International Film Festival)‘s extensive three weeks of programming to bring you a carefully curated short-list of films you should actually go out...
"The human body is a beautiful thing and it should be commonplace. We all have one. They all look simultaneously similar and different. There should be no shame around it." - Johnny What, Director & Band Member of BRÅVES
With Opposing Forces, Seattle choreographer Amy O'Neal, who is equally well-versed in hip-hop and contemporary dance, has coordinated a clever study of gender roles, by intimately exploring "femininity" through the eyes of five male breakdancers who...
Elizabeth Perry"I think what ended up happening with the film is not so much about us as it is about listening through us. Seeing the landscape through our ears... Our goal was to keep a ‘deep listening’ attitude, so that included anything we met and anyone we...
Allen HuangOut of all the inventions to have contributed to the increasingly relevant history of electronic music, the TR-808 from Roland likely has the strongest legacy. From Brian Eno to Marvin Gaye to Kanye West, the unique sounds of the TR-808 have...
Hajooj Kuka's short yet powerful Beats of the Antonov is a poignant documentary on the war-ravaged border between North and South Sudan, set against the backdrop of refugee communities who have only one another to cling on to. Yet thanks to Kuka's...