FILM PROGRAMS ALTERNATE CINEMA This year’s Alternate Cinema program takes forms that seem familiar, 2045 Carnival Folklore like “documentary” or “musical,” and spins them into something Alternate Worlds Beyond Zero: 1914-1918 entirely new. Anyone looking for a sample need look no further than the Dreams Rewired Alternate Worlds Shorts program, with its surreal stories and the formal natural history experiments that are sure to blow your mind. After that, we encourage The Royal Road you to explore the feature-length picks. natural history (the lowercase intentional) uses a complex theory based on the digits of Pi to give a look at the life of inanimate objects in Vienna’s Museum of Natural History. The Royal Road combines nostalgia, California’s urban landscapes, the pursuit of an impossible lesbian relationship, and the Mexican-American War into one autobiographical poem. Dreams Rewired combines clips from nearly 200 films and newsreels with a Tilda Swinton commentary on our eternal love/hate relationship with a hyper-mediated world. Beyond Zero: 1914-1918 is an exclusive archival look at the fire and fury of WWI through previously unseen 35mm nitrate footage from the Great War, featuring music by Aleksandra Vrebalov performed by the Kronos Quartet. And 2045 Carnival Folklore is a black and white fever dream of a science fiction story that resembles a noise rock combination of Brave New World and Alphaville. BLACK BOX 2.0 | MAY 6 - JUNE 7, 2015 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Black Box is an international art, film, May 5: Opening Night, Seattle and technology festival that presents Art Museum Olympic Sculpture contemporary artists who expand the Park language of cinema. A multi-platform May 6 - June 7, 2015: Citywide program of significant scope, Black Box exhibitions in arts venues and is focused on experimental film, video, shipping containers and new media art. Challenging our ideas about what art is and what art can be, May 10: SAM Screening I the festival transmits energetic ideas May 30: Special Performance across industries. It takes place during the May 31: SAM Screening II Seattle International Film Festival and is June 6: Closing Night organized independently by Aktionsart. Black Box 2.0 is free and open to Black Box 2.0 is curated by Julia Fryett (Founder, Aktionsart) and Anne the public, but tickets are required. Couillaud (Independent Curator), exhibiting over 50 emerging and established Please visit www.blackboxfestival.org artists from around the world. It is organized thematically throughout diverse to view the full program and RSVP. community locations, including movie theaters, living rooms, art galleries, Partners: Seattle Art Museum, museums, public spaces, commercial properties, and shipping containers. Seattle International Film Festival, An online channel premieres new work to audiences in Seattle and beyond. Cornish College of Arts, Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media at the University of Washington 41ST SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2015 WWW.SIFF.NET 81 FILM PROGRAMS AMBIENTE: NEW SPANISH FILMS To make the perfect Valencian paella, you need more than vegetable Alyam, Alyam and meats. An exceptional paella is built with short grain rice, sweet The Apu Trilogy: Song of the Little Road The Apu Trilogy: The Unvanquished pimenton, and saffron—just a few of the flourished that careful cooks The Apu Trilogy: The World of Apu include. In progress, the dish is observed using all the senses, as the rice Black Girl begins to caramelize, crackle, and smell sweetly toasted. Caught While actors and directors are fundamental in a movie’s construction, they’re The Cave of the Silken Web supported by cinematographers to achieve the most pleasing look; by Cave of the Spider Women composers to enhance the visual moods; and by editors to bring it all together. Color of the Pomegranates Are you now hungry for established as well as emerging Spanish films? Then The Dark Mirror SIFF is the place. Satisfying Spanish filmmaking makes up one of SIFF’s favorite The Old Dark House showcases each year. Que Viva Mexico Rebel Without a Cause The Red Shoes Saved From the Flames— A Trip to the Moon and Other Trips Sherlock Holmes The Son of the Sheik Trudell 41ST SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2015 WWW.SIFF.NET 83 STORIES THAT SHAPE AND REFLECT YOUR WORLD KUOW 94.9 FM | KUOW.ORG | NPR NEWS & INFORMATION PROUD SPONSOR OF THE SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FILM PROGRAMS ARCHIVAL FILMS Time travel may still just be a dream in the scientific world, but in Alyam, Alyam cinema it is practically inevitable, as every film captures several distinct The Apu Trilogy: Song of the Little Road The Apu Trilogy: The Unvanquished moments in time: the period of the story, the era of the film’s creation, The Apu Trilogy: The World of Apu and the instance of discovery and even rediscovery by the filmgoer. Black Girl Released only two weeks after his death, Rudolph Valentino gives the performance Caught of his career in the silent 1926 adventure film Son of the Sheik, a National Film The Cave of The Silken Web Registry preservation selection. In another unfortunate instance of a film being Cave of the Spider Women released after its star’s death, 1955’s Rebel Without a Cause finds James Dean Color of the Pomegranates and his iconic red motorcycle jacket in a classic teen angst narrative guaranteed The Dark Mirror to tear you apart. In honor of our screening of Bill Condon’s Mr. Holmes, we’re The Old Dark House showing 1916’s Sherlock Holmes, starring William Gillette in one of the earliest film Que Viva Mexico appearances of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective. Another archival feature linked Rebel Without a Cause to a SIFF 2015 film is Sergei Eisenstein’s Que Viva Mexico, the landmark Rus- sian director’s unfinished 1932 film and focus of Peter Greenaway’s raunchy and The Red Shoes over-the-top biopic Eisenstein in Guanajuato. From overseas, our offerings include Saved From the Flames— Senegalese author/director Ousmane Sembène’s feature debut Black Girl (1966), A Trip to the Moon and Other Trips Sergey Parajanov’s Armenian avant-garde masterpiece Color of the Pomegranates Sherlock Holmes (1969), and Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy, considered by many to be three of the The Son of the Sheik greatest works in cinema history. And for our short film program, archivist and Trudell documentarian Serge Bromberg presents Saved from the Flames, a series of previously lost and unknown films restored from deteriorating nitrate reels. 41ST SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2015 WWW.SIFF.NET 85 TO OUR OPENING NIGHT GALA THANK YOUCATERING PARTNERS FILM PROGRAMS ASIAN CROSSROADS Exploring the rich diversity of Asia, SIFF has brought together a Angkor’s Children carefully curated collection of films for 2015. Representing a wide array Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories The Birth of Saké of styles and themes, the selection this year highlights 36 films from 15 The Blue Hour countries including China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Tibet, Bangladesh, Bonifacio the Philippines, Vietnam, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand. From a The Chinese Mayor samurai drama (Snow on the Blades) to Pakistan’s first road trip thriller The Coffin in the Mountain (Dukhtar) to a comedic documentary about courtship (Meet the Dearest Patels) and everything in between, there’s something for everyone. Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll Take in the neon lights and sweltering slums of Saigon with Phan Dang Di’s Big Fa- Dukhtar ther, Small Father and Other Stories. From there, head west to Thailand for a haunt- Gentle ing ghost story with an LGBT twist (The Blue Hour) or an unconventional romantic The Golden Era comedy (The Teacher’s Diary). Head into the mountains for Nepal’s The Golden The Golden Hill Hill and Tibet’s The Sacred Arrow, or down to the Philippines for two biopics—one about a heralded nationalist (Bonifacio), the other glimpse into Manny Pacquaio’s Haemoo youth (Kid Kulafu). Over in China, witness a trio of tales revolving around a mysteri- A Hard Day ous death (The Coffin in the Mountain) and a documentary about the mayor of the How to Win at Checkers (Every Time) country’s most polluted city (The Chinese Mayor). Among our Hong Kong offerings, Kid Kulafu there’s The Golden Era, a bold, beautiful epic about author Xio Hang, and Dearest, Little Forest — Summer / Autumn a kidnapping drama that unravels some startling truths about the adoption industry Little Forest — Winter / Spring in China. In Japan, we have a mouthwatering quartet of hour-long culinary chamber The Look of Silence pieces (Little Forest) and the latest from Studio Ghibli (When Marnie Was There). Margarita, With a Straw Explore the best and brightest of new Asian cinema at SIFF. A Matter of Interpretation Meeting Dr. Sun Meet the Patels Mountain Spirits Overheard 3 Paradise in Service Partners in Crime Revivre The Sacred Arrow Snow on the Blades The Teacher’s Diary Temporary Family Under Construction When Marnie Was There Where I Am King 41ST SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2015 WWW.SIFF.NET 87 Happy Hour Daily Join us in the Lobby Bar 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. $4 Draft Beer $6 Well Drinks Featured wine specials 2125 Terry Avenue | FILM PROGRAMS CATALYST Each year, the SIFF Catalyst program presents some of the most Chatty Catties unique narrative feature films produced by American filmmakers. Circle Fourth Man Out Pushing beyond the typical indie fare vetted by major festivals Front Cover occurring earlier in the year, SIFF Catalyst has a mandate to take Happy 40th curatorial risks and make adventurous programming choices. And this A Rising Tide year, the program’s fourth, may just be its most adventurous yet.