THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF SEATTLE
Dir. Nick Toti, 2016.
USA. 74 mins.
SATURDAY AUGUST 27 – 7:30 PM
ONE NIGHT ONLY – with director in person!
WHAT IS THIS FUCKING LIFE: THE SHORT FILMS OF NICK TOTI
Dir. Nick Toti, 2011-2016
USA, approx 90 mins.
SATURDAY AUGUST 27 – 10:00 PM
ONE NIGHT ONLY – with director in person!
“Weird, pretentious, inspiring, fragmented and impossible to shake off. And if that isn’t a perfect summation of a spiritual quest, I don’t know what is.” – Tony Kay, City Arts Online
“A documentary that very well could blow your mind” – Jake Uitti, The Monarch Review
THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF SEATTLE is a ballad about the bizarro-art-punk band Raft of Dead Monkeys, who rose from the ashes of two 90s Christian rock bands and an Adam Sandler joke. Disenfranchised and pissed off, they quickly became notorious for their radical live shows/performance art which included vomiting, bloody nurses, and male strippers. Nick Toti takes this story beyond a talking heads doc, and deploys Errol Morris-esque vignettes, which are then funneled through a nightmarish Dušan Makavejev strainer. THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF SEATTLE is a wholly unique endeavor- one in which the filmmaker’s results evoke the intended image of the short-lived band.
Following up THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF SEATTLE is a collection of Nick Toti’s short films that range from his peculiar focused docs in the vein of Les Blank to his more recent transgressive output. Included in this program is his obsessed fan doc GAGA, ME, HER BOYFRIEND, & THE RIVER; 3+3+3-2 (A DOG’S LIFE), a compact look into what truly was a shit year for one woman; the lower-classy avant-comedy narrative WHEN YOU CALL ME THAT SMILE; and a recently realized shorter alternate cut of THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF SEATTLE called ONCE WE MADE A RAFT OF DEAD MONKEYS.