Event

Abendland

Aug 31 - Sep 06

(Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Austria, 2011, 35mm, 88 min)

Seattle Premiere!

Friday, Aug 31 at 07:00PM
Friday, Aug 31 at 09:00PM
Saturday, Sep 01 at 07:00PM
Saturday, Sep 01 at 09:00PM
Sunday, Sep 02 at 07:00PM
Sunday, Sep 02 at 09:00PM
Monday, Sep 03 at 07:00PM
Monday, Sep 03 at 09:00PM
Tuesday, Sep 04 at 07:00PM
Tuesday, Sep 04 at 09:00PM
Wednesday, Sep 05 at 07:00PM
Wednesday, Sep 05 at 09:00PM
Thursday, Sep 06 at 07:00PM
Thursday, Sep 06 at 09:00PM

Abendland might be summarizedthough hardly done justiceby looking at its English title: The West. Famous for his documentaries created without music or narration, in Abendland Nikolaus Geyrhalter collages 170 hours of nighttime footage of Europe in an attempt to "capture" the continent on film. His scenes of hospitals, border patrol stations, sex clubs and TV studios offer beautiful glimpses of places that enable the "ideal" Western lifestylewhile inquiring wordlessly what makes that lifestyle preferable.