Northwest Film Forum

SJ Chiro, Britta Johnson, Susan Robb, Luke Sieczek and Rick Stevenson each produced a short film or video that explores water quality stewardship and drainage issues. Each short feature is intended to raise public awareness of environmental stewardship, especially as it connects to SPU's work.

Water Calling films include:

A Water Tale
SJ Chiro
Told in a fairy-tale style format, Chiro's film follows a young girl who is transported to an underwater kingdom, where the "Kingfish" informs the girl of the impact of pollution—caused by increased storms and storm water runoff—on the sea.

Waterway
Britta Johnson
This stop-animation film follows large drops of water as they travel through rocks, ferns, plant roots, microbes and other creatures that naturally filter and clean water.

Water Lab
Susan Robb
Investigating the interface that tap water creates with nature and our homes, Robb's video explores SPU's interventions through abstracted aerial shots captured in the Cascades and inter-spliced with quick cuts of sci-fi-like images of a "water laboratory."

Space, the air, the river, the leaf
Luke Sieczek
Composed of four parts or movements, Sieczek's film marks the passage of water from sky to soil to stream to waterway. Along this path we see the various small and local efforts designed to transform the flow to a controlled, clean and filtered state.

Displaced
Rick Stevenson
The importance of water as a healing, symbolic, life-giving and redemptive force in our lives is at the center of this story of two foster children in search of family who, despite the odds, find each other as brothers.
 
 
The Water Calling projects are commissioned by the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs with Seattle Public Utilities  (SPU) 1% for Art funds. The projects reflect SPU's management of the complete cycle of hydrology for Seattle's water resources from drinking water through drainage, and Restore Our Waters, the city's initiative to protect and restore Seattle's urban waterways.
 
Please arrive early as seating is limited.  Tickets will be provided on a first come, first serve basis.  The box office opens at 6pm.