Event

The Unspeakable Act

Jul 12 - Jul 18

(Dan Sallitt, 2013, United States, HD, 91 min)

Seattle premiere!

Friday, Jul 12 at 07:00PM
Friday, Jul 12 at 09:00PM
Saturday, Jul 13 at 07:00PM
Saturday, Jul 13 at 09:00PM
Sunday, Jul 14 at 07:00PM
Sunday, Jul 14 at 09:00PM
Monday, Jul 15 at 09:00PM
Tuesday, Jul 16 at 07:00PM
Tuesday, Jul 16 at 09:00PM
Wednesday, Jul 17 at 07:00PM
Wednesday, Jul 17 at 09:00PM
Thursday, Jul 18 at 07:00PM
Thursday, Jul 18 at 09:00PM

Sometimes the only storytelling task harder than shocking an audience is normalizing the shockor, in this case, the unspeakable. Dan Sallitt's pensive fourth feature film follows a young woman who could be everyone's heroine were it not for her "unspeakable" feelings for an older brother, feelings that Sallitt carefully and hauntingly picks apart using the camera-as-microscope. Featuring a groundbreaking performance from leading lady Tallie Medel, the sights and sounds of The Unspeakable Act redefine what we comfortably conceive as typical, while coloring our own typical experiences as grotesque.

"Moves with confident boldness from the incestuous gauntlet its prologue impishly hurls down." Slant