Rhythm Assemblies: Films by Reed O’Beirne

Washington • 70 mins.

“Cinema has more to do with dance, than it does with novels,” says Seattle filmmaker, Reed O’Beirne, “because it is fundamentally rhythm and movement over time.” Join us as Reed screens a selection of films from his 23-year career, including No Time For Shopping (2000), a dynamic look at the anti-WTO demonstrations in Seattle featuring a soundtrack by Tucker Martine; Last of Our Kind (2012), a modern interpretation of the Persephone myth featuring a soundtrack by Robin Guthrie; and Phantom Limbs (2015), a cameraless film created from animated MRI scans with a soundtrack by Seattle band St. Kilda. Reed is a founding member of the un-dependent film group EXcinema in Seattle.

Genres: Narrative, Documentary, Dance

Appears in: Northwest Tracking January – March 2017

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