ABOUT
Welcome. This weblog is brought to you by Women in Film Seattle. I am your Lookout and guide here. My name is Annie Grosshans. I write. I am a veteran of the Seattle film industry and before that, and still, of the city’s
book and art community. I am currently a Board member of WIF Seattle. And most importantly for this endeavor, I am an eager immigrant to this digital world, so bear with me.
I’ve been working for some time now with a growing suspicion that by and large our inherited narratives have exhausted their ability to provide meaning and that we are living through a shift toward what I term a Narrative Otherways. In order to track this shift I built this weblog under the umbrella of Women in Film Seattle. I named this project a Movie Salon and Discourse Parlor.
I am not a reviewer. I believe in critical thinking but am not a critic. The essayist Rebecca Solnit has a term, being an “indigenous intellectual.” Maybe that fits me best.
I see my role here as your guide through our cultural cacophony on the lookout for emergence of this Narrative Otherways. Stories that bring to surface some truth of life as I experience it. I track that heat. For me, a woman, gender’s at the core of this molten flow but it moves in ways not always expected. And in the unearthing is the new matter.
For this writing business as you must know by this time, that it is not as easy to pick up as it looks, a whole lot of them never learn it in their whole life, unless this gift is born in you, it is better to leave it alone. Andrew Garcia, Tough Trip Through Paradise, Montana 1878.
