SIFF & CFC Present The Dark Crystal with DJ NicFit
May 20, 2025
Join the Gelflings (and Fizzgig!) on their quest to defeat the evil Skeksis in this very special presentation of The Dark Crystal. This time, Seattle’s own DJ NicFit will create a live soundtrack to accompany Jim Henson and Frank Oz’s cult 1982 fantasy adventure.
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Tuesday, May 20, 2025
- Limited Availability
- On Standby
- Matinee
Following the success of his first two Muppet movies, Jim Henson sought to push his storytelling and puppeteering craft even further with his next film, a dark, weird fantasy tale that would be unlike anything before it. And while The Dark Crystal met with mixed critical reviews and modest box office success, it quickly became a cult classic for Gen X kids and those who followed in their wake. On a distant, blighted world, a powerful magic crystal cracked a thousand years ago, a single shard lost. Two new races appeared: the cruel Skeksis and the wise Mystics. The Mystics went into exile as the Skeksis seized control of the Crystal and its castle, corrupting the surrounding lands and cruelly eradicating the Gelfling peoples for fear of a prophecy: “When single shines the triple sun / What was sundered and undone / Shall be whole, the two made one / By Gelfling hand, or else by none.” Now, as the great conjunction approaches, Jen, a young Gelfling rescued and hidden by the Mystics’ leader, departs upon a quest to find the missing shard and heal the crystal. Featuring iconic creature designs by Henson and Brian Froud and such memorably strange characters as the Skeksis Chamberlain and one-eyed Aughra, The Dark Crystal remains a bold, singular vision and one of cinema’s great fantasy films.
This year, Cross-Faded Cinema (curated by Seattle’s own DJ NicFit) returns to the Festival to provide an all-new soundtrack to Jim Henson and Frank Oz’s classic, promising a trippy, ultra-sensory time done live on two turntables. Previous SIFF appearances include the all-Queen soundtrack to Highlander (1986) and infusing 1996’s The Craft with a séance full of emo/new wave tunes. What will DJ NicFit deem worthy of The Dark Crystal for this one-of-a-kind music and film hybrid event?
- Director: Jim Henson, Frank Oz
- Principal Cast: Jim Henson, Kathryn Mullen, Frank Oz
- Country: USA
- Year: 1982
- Running Time: 93 min.
- Producer: Jim Henson, Gary Kurtz
- Screenplay: Jim Henson, David Odell
- Cinematographers: Oswald Morris
- Editors: Ralph Kemplen
- Music: Trevor Jones
- Language: English
- Format: DCP