Event
Guy Maddin's Seances Member Preview Night!
Thu Oct 23: 6.309.30pm
Free Member Preview + Reception
¿¿¿ WHAT IS A SEANCE? HOW DOES THIS WORK? ???
When you are ushered into the cinema for a Seance, watch closely, for what you are watching will never be seen again. Viewers are admitted in groups of no more than 15, and the experience will be 10 to 20 minutes long. Seances are powered by an indefatigable film-generating-and-destroying machine that deliberately creates films only to render them inaccessible after a single viewing.
Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson & the National Film Board of Canada
Canada
2016
Series - Maddin Mini-Retrospective
Visiting Artist
** Guy Maddin will be in attendance at all of the feature-length, non-Seance screenings in the Maddin Mini-Retrospective, Oct. 26 & 27! **
About
** Copresented with On the Boards! **
Never before seen films, never to be seen again.
Seances presents a new way of experiencing film narrative, framed through the lens of loss. In a technical feat of data-driven cinematic storytelling, films are dynamically assembled in never-to-be-repeated configurations. Each exists only in the moment, with no pausing, scrubbing or sharing permitted, offering the audience just one chance to see this film before it disappears.
The project was born from the mind of one of the worlds foremost outré directors, Guy Maddin, who has long been haunted by the idea that 80% of films from the silent era have been lost. Driven by the desire to reincarnate this vanished history, an abundance of these films have been reimagined by Maddin and brothers Evan and Galen Johnson, with the express goal of combining and recombining them to create infinite narrative permutations.
In this trios inimitable ethos and aesthetic which takes the language and spirit of early sound cinema and runs it through a filter of their invention, bound up in history, melodrama and bromance-infused neuroses Seances has been co-created by the NFB as an installation- and web-based film experience. In both iterations, the audience has an opportunity to influence the film they are about to see, but it will be the only instance of that particular film that will ever exist. There is only that moment to watch.
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LocationNorthwest Film Forum (View)
1515 12th Ave
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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