“Strictly Sacred” World Premier at SIFF

 

“Strictly Sacred” a film about the infamous Tacoma band Girl Trouble by Isaac Olsen.

Screenings at:
May 26, 5 p.m. at SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave. N., in Seattle
May 27, 8:30 p.m. at Renton IKEA Performing Arts Center, 400 S. Second St., in Renton

General admission tickets are $12
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Family, cult, gang, garage band; Girl Trouble has been perceived as all of these things. Strictly Sacred is the intensely personal account of the legendary group’s 30 years in the Northwest music scene. Hailing from the depressed city of Tacoma Washington, the band developed a unique brand of infectious garage dance music which they soon brought to Olympia, Seattle, and the other surrounding territories.

Isaac Olsen is self taught writer, director, photographer, editor, and animator from Tacoma, Washington. Performing the aforementioned roles, he has produced over 10 award winning shorts and three features: Quiet Shoes, a film noir comedy shot in Tacoma, Ich Hunger, a German expressionist art film shot in Flint, Michigan and Strictly Sacred, a documentary on the legendary northwest band Girl Trouble.  Isaac Olsen is a participant of Spaceworks Tacoma.

If you can’t make it to the Seattle International Film Festival, look forward to seeing the film at the Tacoma Film Festival later this year!

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Hard-boiled Tacoma

Tacoma is the scene of the crime in Isaac Olsen‘s hardboiled, film noir comedy, Quiet Shoes. Set in the smoke-and-mirrors world of a private dick named Rick Savage, Olsen’s first full-length feature premiered in June at the Rialto Theater. Quiet Shoes took the Tacoma native more than four years to make, and the naked city never looked so good: “In fashioning this world, Olsen brilliantly utilizes downtown and industrial Tacoma. Around every corner an alleyway looms, and on every horizon great plumes of smoke lurk. It’s a thrill to see Tacoma finally used to all its gritty potential,” raved the Weekly Volcano. “The film is much funnier and far more bizarre than your Maltese Falcon types.”

Spaceworks Tacoma has awarded Olsen’s company, Schnelluloid Film, Inc., a three-month residency at 1114 Pacific Ave. that will allow him to complete post-production work on a new feature film, I Hunger, “about a boyish creature who lives in the German forest.” I Hunger is “a German Expressionist art film [shot] last year in Flint, Michigan,” he explains. He will also continue work-in-progress on various animated and live-action shorts.

A scene from I Hunger, a film by Isaac Olsen

Olsen welcomes those who have never been inside a post-production studio to come take a look at where he shoots in-camera visual effects. A cool array of Schnelluloid merchandise is available for purchase: DVDs, tees, posters and more. Be sure to check out Quiet Shoes – the film stars local actors including Dale Phillips and Kurt Kendall of the legendary garage band, Girl Trouble; with a score by Kendall, Sam Olsen of Red Hex and Dick Rossetti of Twink the Wonder Kid. Schnelluloid Film, Inc., 1114 Pacific Ave., through mid-Sept., 2010; www.schnelluloid.com