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Isa Willinger Interview: No Mercy Documentary Questions “Harshness” in Femme...

“The truth is, women make the harsher films,” Kira Muratova once told a young Isa Willinger. Such an observation might not be surprising coming from Muratova, the legendary Ukrainian filmmaker known...

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Crystal Quartez Musician Interview: Erospace is the Sound of Love That...

With their third full-length record, Erospace, Portland-based electronic musician and producer Crystal Quartez — real name Crystal Cortez — offers a sonic reimagining of the definition of love. Based...

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#skoden Documentary Film Review: The Man Behind the NDN Country Meme

Beginning with a light-hearted tone that introduces the Internet meme origins of the word “skoden,” the documentary #skoden then radiates outwards to encompass a larger world of mental health,...

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To a Land Unknown & Khartoum Film Reviews: The Plight of Palestinian &...

Danish-Palestinian director Mahdi Fleifel’s narrative film, To a Land Unknown, and the Sudanese documentary film Khartoum, which is directed by in multiple segments by multiple directors, both center...

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Seattle International Film Festival 2025: Feature Film Selections

As the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) moves into its 51st year, it comes with a shortened screening schedule but continues to offer many notable short and feature films from all over the...

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Khu.éex’ Music Video Interview: “We Pray” for a Better Future

In Indigenous rock band Khu.éex”s latest single, “We Pray,” listeners may just find a remedy for hope in a time of great pain and need worldwide. With band members based in both Washington State and...

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TASWIRA Gallery Interview: Contemporary African Art in the Pacific Northwest

For gallerist and curator Avery Barnes, opening her first art gallery, TASWIRA, has been an intentional journey of learning in public. The gallery has slowly evolved and honed its vision in the Pacific...

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Mongrels Film Interview: Jerome Yoo’s Korean-Canadian Exploration of Grief...

In Korean-Canadian filmmaker Jerome Yoo’s debut narrative feature film, Mongrels (2024), Yoo depicts a family attempting to put back the pieces of their broken lives. Building invisible walls between...

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The Falling Sky Documentary Interview: Davi Kopenawa & the Yanomami Dream the...

In 2014, Yanomami shaman and activist Davi Kopenawa co-authored The Falling Sky, a landmark work chronicling the Yanomami’s Indigenous worldview and warning of the dire consequences of environmental...

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All We Carry Documentary Film Interview: A Migrant Family Seeks a New Beginning

Documentarian Cady Voge‘s heart-touching documentary feature film, All We Carry (Lo que llevamos) (2024), offers an extensive look into the arduous journey of refugees and immigrants traveling through...

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Cierra G. Rowe Artist Interview: Connections in Spirit, Energy & Nature

According to rural Kentucky-based painter Cierra G. Rowe, she doesn’t live in a region of country that is particularly known for its contemporary or challenging art. Yet through many years of using the...

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Bizhiki Band Interview: Blending Powwow, Ojibwe Culture & Contemporary Sounds

Bizhiki‘s debut album, Unbound, released on JagJaguwar, presents a powerful reimagining of contemporary Native music, born from Ojibwe homelands of the present-day Midwest. A multi-genre, multicultural...

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Soo Hong Artist Interview: Repetition, Reinvention & Not Staying Still

Painter and visual artist Soo Hong refuses to stay still. As an artist who constantly challenges herself to experience fulfillment through her artistic practice, Hong’s paintings mirror the fluidity of...

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Sujo Film Interview: A Young Boy’s Journey through Innocence and Cartel Violence

A narrative feature film co-written and co-directed by Mexican filmmakers Fernanda Valadez and Astrid Rondero, Sujo is a powerful, multidimensional work of art about the forces that keep young Mexican...

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Moloka’i Bound Film Interview: A Native Hawaiʻian Family Drama of Redemption...

Based off of writer-director Alika Tengan (Kanaka Maoli)’s 2019 short film of the same name, Moloka’i Bound is an intimate narrative feature film about a man’s return to society, his family, and his...

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Songs From the Hole Documentary Film Review: An Incarcerated Artist’s Musical...

Hosted at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute on April 26, the 21st annual Seattle Black Film Festival celebrated opening night with Songs from the Hole, a powerful and moving documentary...

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Seagrass Film Interview: Meredith Hama-Brown on Discomfort, Uncertainty & Death

By the time one arrives at the half-resort, half-therapeutic center which serves as the main setting for writer-director Meredith Hama-Brown‘s narrative feature film, Seagrass, it’s already quite...

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Three Promises Film Interview: A Remarkable Story of Family Filmmaking in...

Palestinian filmmaker Yousef Srouji has called himself an “accidental filmmaker.” Divine timing could be another way of interpreting the creation of his first film, Three Promises, which premiered in...

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There Was, There Was Not Film Interview: Emily Mkrtichian Shines a Light on...

“There was, there was not” is a common opening line for Armenian fairy tales. Filmmaker and multimedia artist Emily Mkrtichian adopts this line as the title for her feature debut — a documentary that...

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Invisible Landscapes Documentary Film Interview: Media to Sonically Explore...

A multi-platform multimedia project, Future Landscapes approaches climate change in a novel way. At its centerpiece is a documentary short film entitled Invisible Landscapes — which visits sites of...

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