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It’s alive! Experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison, known in the art world for his collage film Decasia, stitches together a patchwork of old nitrate films in Spark of Being, a 2010 homage to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Each sequence in the...
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The documentary of Seattle sonic artist and musician Trimpin screens tonight at Central Cinema, exploring the artist's large-scale sonic sculptures and a collaboration with the Kronos Quartet. First screened at SXSW in 2009, Trimpin:...
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Alert your local talented youth: the National Film Festival for Talented Youth has extended their submission deadline through Tuesday, February 15. The work of filmmakers 22 and under will be screened in April, and over 10,000 audience...
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The Children's Film Festival is a ten-day affair of family-friendly movies, and we asked the experts of the Northwest Film Forum's Children's Jury for their reviews. Plan your weekend accordingly (the festival runs through Sunday). ...
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At last Friday's show at the Sunset, soft-spoken Anacortes musician Karl Blau paused between songs to talk up Boating With Clyde, a Kickstarter-funded video series captained by Clyde Petersen. Likening itself Pee-Wee's Playhouse, The...
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Creative competition for City Arts – 2011 Short film contest for 2011 SIFF Film Festival
Are you an aspiring filmmaker who dreams of showing at SIFF? Here’s your chance. City Arts challenges you, the filmmaking community, to use...
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Psst! Local filmmakers Lynn Shelton (writer and director of 2009's fittingly-titled Humpday) and Megan Griffiths--who recently returned from the Sundance screening of her first feature The Off Hours--will be among those silently reading...
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The sun has set on this year's Sundance festival, where four independent films with local ties screened to Park City audiences.
The Details was the most-buzzed of the bunch but also had the most Hollywood connections; filmed in...
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The selling point to The Otherside -- a project from filmmakers operating under the moniker M.A.D. Northwest -- seems to be that speedskating Olympian JR Celski, aka Celskeet, is involved. Which is cool and all, but do we really want our...
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From least to most important:
3. They're short films, none clocking in over 15 minutes. Short, sweet and distilled to their crucial elements. (And if you hate it, it'll be over soon.)
2. You can spend $9 to see a) Rachel Bilson traipsing...
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Crispin Glover’s four-night run at Northwest Film Forum was as much a meditation on celebrity and performance as a screening of his experimental films. Monday's final night occurred in three parts: a slideshow of altered books and images...
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1. Dead stillness requires perfect calm of the mind and emotions.2. Here they are leisurely shot, or killed with clubs. 3. There are two kinds of books. 4. After the reptile was hatched it got its food.5. Somewhere in the distance a dog...
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Got a few extra hours this afternoon? Head on over to Urban Light Studios in Greenwood where the National Film Festival for Talented Youth will be shooting their 2011 ad campaign. Volunteers of all ages are needed from 4:30-6:30 pm....
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This weekend the National Film Festival for Talented Youth is hosting a set of workshops for young filmmakers featuring classes in cinematography and production design. NFFTY has partnered with Station Next, a film program for high...
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Four Seattle films are Sundance-bound, cast off tonight at Pre-Funk (5 - 7pm), a happy hour at Queen Anne's Solo Bar held by Washington Filmworks and the Seattle Office of Film + Music.
After a banner year for Washington film in 2009—one...
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When GlassForest Entertainment asked local cinematographer Sam Graydon which big-name star he’d like to cast in his short film Jenny, he immediately thought of Gary Busey.
And while most young filmmakers can only dream of...
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With the help of MTV, local filmmaker Lynn Shelton (of Humpday fame) has put together a twelve episode docudrama about the Seattle music scene, titled $5 Cover: Seattle. Featuring acts like the Moondoggies, THEESatisfaction, Champagne...
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In this month's issue of City Arts, Jonathan Shipley's Fast Fact column recounts Thomas Edison's famous Kinetoscope stop off in Seattle way back in 1894.
The Kinetoscope was one of the first ways to view motion pictures, though only through...
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In the past few weeks, several Seattle cinemas have announced they are closing (or possibly closing), including:
the Uptown
the Neptune
the Columbia City Cinema
Seattle Theatre Group announced yesterday that it was taking over the...
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You might not know it from the general direction of my CAB posts, but my favorite film genre is the romantic comedy. It’s just that there aren’t so many good ones to see these days. There was a great one in Seattle just last week called The...
