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SEA-Nordic Film Festival Opening Celebration

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Kick Off the 2025 SEA-Nordic Film Festival at the Museum!

This free event will feature a screening of trailers from the films shown at the Festival and a conversation between Thomas Christensen, Guest Curator from the Danish Film Institute, and Amanda Doxtater, a film historian and UW Associate Professor and Barbro Osher Endowed Chair of Swedish Studies.

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The annual SEA-Nordic Film Festival draws national audiences to enjoy the latest and greatest films from the Nordic region. This year’s festival shines a spotlight on Denmark’s rich cinematic landscape. Expect a mix of familiar favorites and hidden gems as we showcase the intimate storytelling and global resonance that define Danish cinema.

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Speakers

Amanda Doxtater

Amanda Doxtater is Associate Professor and Barbro Osher Endowed Chair of Swedish Studies in the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington.
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Amanda Doxtater

Amanda Doxtater is Associate Professor and Barbro Osher Endowed Chair of Swedish Studies in the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington.

Her book, Visions and Victims: Art Melodrama in the Films of Carl Th. Dreyer (2024) explores intersections between popular film melodrama and Scandinavian art-cinema. Writing widely on Nordic Cinema, her work engages with melodrama, gender, queer historiography, childhood and the family in the Nordic welfare state; and issues of class, race and ethnicity. Her publications include: “From Diversity to Precarity: Reading Childhood in Ruben Östlund’s Film Play (2011)”, “Terror Melodrama, Race and the Nation: Ulaa Salim’s Sons of Denmark”, and “History as Embodied Encounter: Queer Pleasures and Temporal Drag in Benjamin Christensen’s Witchcraft Through the Ages”. Together with Maxine Savage, she provided a commentary track on a Kino Lorber Blu-Ray edition of Carl Th. Dreyer’s classic of queer cinema, Michael (1924).
Thomas Christensen

This year the SEA-Nordic Film Festival line-up is hand-picked by Thomas Christensen, the Lead Curator at the Danish Film Institute.
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Thomas Christensen

This year the SEA-Nordic Film Festival line-up is hand-picked by Thomas Christensen, the Lead Curator at the Danish Film Institute.

Thomas Christensen is Curator at the Danish Film Institute, a role he has held since 1998. He has an M.A. in film studies from the University of Copenhagen. He has been involved in a number of restorations both nationally and internationally. He served on the FIAF Technical Commission (2003–2015) and has since 2010 been on the Executive Committee of the Association of European Cinematheques (ACE). He has served as an advisor to numerous European film archives, including the Polish Film Institute (FINA), BFI and the Cinematheque Royale. He has recently been involved with a major digitization project, making all 450 surviving Danish silent films freely available on the website www.stumfilm.dk.