February 11, 2021 · 2 min read

‘Little Fish’ and ‘The Mirror’ open at the Ross

A scene from "Little Fish"

Two new films, “Little Fish” and “The Mirror,” open at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center on Feb. 12.

“Little Fish,” the fourth feature film from director Chad Hartigan, is a romance set in a near-future Seattle teetering on the brink of calamity. Starring Olivia Cooke, Jack O’Connell, Soko and Raul Castillo, the film opens in the midst of a global epidemic: Neuroinflammatory Affliction, a severe and rapid Alzheimer’s-like condition in which people’s memories disappear. Couple Jude Williams and Emma Ryerson are grappling with the realities of NIA, interspersed with glimpses from the past as the two meet and their relationship blooms. But as NIA’s grip on society tightens, blurring the lines between the past and the present, it becomes more and more difficult to know what’s true and what’s false.

“Little Fish” is showing at the Ross through Feb. 25.

Trailer: "Little Fish"

“The Mirror” is Andrei Tarkovsky’s sublime reflection on 20th century Russian history that has received a brand new restoration.

In a richly textured collage of varying film stocks and newsreel footage, the recollections of a dying poet flash before our eyes. Dreams mingle with scenes of childhood, wartime, and marriage, all imbued with the mystic power of a trance. Largely dismissed by Soviet critics upon its release due to its elusive narrative structure, “Mirror” has since taken its place as one of the titan director’s most renowned and influential works, a stunning personal statement from an artist transmitting his innermost thoughts and feelings directly from psyche to screen.

“The Mirror” is showing at the Ross through Feb. 18.