Program Notes
For most of our film screenings, The Sprocket Society provides free booklets of program notes for audience members. In addition to background information about the films and filmmakers, they include a bibliography of suggested reading, listings of available home video releases, and similar resources.
Archived here (in reverse chronological order) are PDFs of our past program booklets. In some cases they have been revised from the original versions in order to correct typos and errors. Most also have reproductions of the original poster art appended at the end.
- Jon Behrens Memorial Screening
Produced by the Interbay Cinema Society
October 9, 2022 | Northwest Film Forum11 pages - Spring 2021 AMIA Archival Screening Night Roadshow Edition
November 18, 2021 | Grand Illusion Cinema8 pages - Talking Pictures: Origins of Sound Cinema 1913–1929
August 21, 2018 | Grand Illusion Cinema12 pages - Film Dada: Cinema of the Bearded Heart (second version)
January 26, 2018 | Base: Experimental Arts + Space (Seattle)
January 27, 2018 | The Church House (Bellingham, WA)20 pages - Hans Richter's Dreams That Money Can Buy (1948)
December 11, 2014 | Northwest Film Forum7 pages, plus poster art - Silent Magic: Trick Films and Special Effects, 1895-1912 (expanded edition)
May 20, 2014 | Northwest Film Forum15 pages, plus poster art - Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922/1968)
October 31, 2013 | Grand Illusion Cinema2 pages, plus poster art - Silent Magic: Trick Films and Special Effects, 1895-1912
October 20, 2013 | Alamo Drafthouse Ritz (Austin, TX)10 pages - First Stories: Early Film Narratives, 1901-1913
September 16 | Northwest Film Forum2 pages, plus poster art - Funny Business: Silent Comedies and Cartoons
May 14, 2013 | Grand Illusion Cinema13 pages, plus poster art - Pioneers of the Avant Garde
January 24, 2013 | Grand Illusion Cinema2 pages, plus poster art - Experimental Memoria III: Adolfas Mekas
May 23, 2012 | Northwest Film Forum16 pages, plus poster art - Impaired: Movies Under the Influence, 1908-1978
April 27, 2012 | Grand Illusion Cinema10 pages, plus poster art - Experimental Memoria II: Robert Breer
April 18, 2012 | Northwest Film Forum15 pages, plus poster art - Experimental Memoria I: George Kuchar
March 20, 2012 | Northwest Film Forum14 pages, illustrated, plus poster art - First Light: The Birth of Cinema, 1894–1901
November 16, 2011 | Northwest Film Forum11 pages, illustrated, plus poster art - D.W. Griffith's Intolerance (1916)
October 25, 2011 | Northwest Film Forum8 pages, illustrated, plus poster art - Visions: Animation and Abstraction. Experimental Masterpieces, 1908–1994
August 10, 2011| Northwest Film Forum24 pages, illustrated, plus poster art - Funny Stuff: Silent Comedies and Cartoons
July 16, 2011 | Grand Illusion Cinema10 pages, illustrated, plus poster art - The Heart of Life: Robert Enrico's trilogy of Ambrose Bierce Films
May 8, 2011 | Grand Illusion Cinema2 pages, plus poster art - Michael Snow's Wavelength (1967)
February 9, 2011 | Northwest Film Forum7 pages, plus poster art - Breakaway: Films by Bruce Conner 1958–2006
November 11, 2010 | Northwest Film Forum12 pages, illustrated, plus poster art - First Words: The Birth of Sound Cinema, 1895–1929
September 23, 2010 | Northwest Film Forum10 pages, illustrated, plus poster art - Stan Brakhage's Dog Star Man (1961–1964)
August 4, 2010 | Northwest Film Forum10 pages, illustrated, plus poster art - Sixties Synaesthetics
April 14, 2010 | Northwest Film Forum
Presented as part of the series Visual Music, Sensory Cinema 1920s–1970s9 pages, plus poster art - Focal Points: Documentary Shorts from 1969
October 14, 2009 | Northwest Film Forum
Presented as part of the year-long series 69, celebrating the films of 19697 pages, plus poster art - Heavy Visuals '69: Electronic Cinema and Experimental Film
September 23, 2009 | Northwest Film Forum
Presented as part of the year-long series 69, celebrating the films of 19697 pages, plus poster art - Georges Melies: Impossible Voyager
May 15, 2008 | Northwest Film Forum15 pages, illustrated