69
Location:
Northwest Film
1515 Twelfth Avenue
Seattle, Washington
When: November 20, 2009
Starts at: 10:00 AM
Ends at: 10:00 PM
This is not an all day event
Description:
1969 was a moment in-between times. The year was simultaneously the epitome and the end of an era, at the edge of the abyss of an unknown future. With optimism and fear, triumphs and tragedies, freedoms and violations, love and war, a decade of diametric struggles was coming to an end. Filmmakers attempted to reconcile the clash of mixed emotions and a social, political and cultural landscape that had quickly become convoluted. Hollywood studios struggled to keep up with the great shifts of the time, and made awkward dance partners with a new generation of irreverent independent, foreign and avant-garde filmmakers. Forty years later, as we close out the first decade of the 21st Century, 1969 is a reflection of the kinds of issues, dilemmas, creative sparks, contradictions and open future that we face today, in our world and our cinema. Northwest Film Forum presents an in-depth, yearlong exploration of the films of 1969, presenting a diversity of feature films, documentaries and experimental works that were seen on screens during that tumultuous year.
