Thursday December 9, 2004
07:00 PM : Portland Underground Film Festival @ Clinton St. Theater
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The 2004 Festival will offer a Complimentary mix of Independent Features,
Shorts, Documentaries, and Experimental Films, augmented with panels and Nightly Parties.
09:30 PM : Zoo Bomber Movie @ Clinton Street Theater
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Not a lot of info on this. The Zoo Bombers are presenting THE PORTLAND BIKE FILM.
USA, 2004,
90 minutes
The greatest hits in the Portland Underground Biking community. Featuring the Zoobombers.
Presented by: River City Bicycles
OPENING NIGHT PARTY AT LA CRUDA TO FOLLOW THIS SCREENING!
Friday December 10, 2004
08:30 PM : A NIGHT OF FILM and MUSIC with MATT McCORMICK & JAMES MERCER @ WHITSELL AUDITORIUM
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DEC 10 FRI 8:30 PM
WHITSELL AUDITORIUM
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM
TOWLINES:
A NIGHT OF FILM and MUSIC
with MATT McCORMICK &
JAMES MERCER
Portland director Matt McCormick and musician James Mercer premiere their newest collaboration, TOWLINES (2004), an experimental documentary about tugboats. The two first worked together in 2002 when McCormick directed a video for Mercer's band The Shins and they found a fertile partnership. TOWLINES explores the visual and emotional characteristics of tugboats, those hardworking and invaluable contributors to our world and waterways who never seem to get their due recognition and glory. Borrowing the tone of a children's book, a bit of history, beautiful cinematography and a bright soundtrack McCormick give the heroic tug a loving salute. In addition to the screening, Mercer will perform a set of acoustic material while McCormick fills the screen with projected film loops and sequences and the evening will be rounded out with the screening of several of McCormick's earlier works, including GROUNDED (2004). (90 mins.)
Guild Theatre: 829 SW 9th Ave. (Corner of 9th and Taylor)
Whitsell Auditorium: 1219 SW Park (South Wing of the Portland Art Museum)
Admission Prices: $7.00 General, $6.00 Members, Students, Seniors
Saturday December 11, 2004
08:30 PM : PURE SWEET HELL @ Doubletree Jantzen Beach
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PURE SWEET HELL
A New Documentary Exploring the Community of Cyclocross Racing! Features local racers as well as others from the past and present!!
Premieres in Portland, OR Saturday December 11th, 2004 in the OVERTON Rm.at the Doubletree Jantzen Beach. Show times are 4:30pm, 6:30pm, & 8:30pm.
Cost will be $4, Tickets will be available at the Cyclocross Nationals at PIR December 10th and 11th.
Friday January 21, 2005
07:00 PM : powers of ten @ guild theatre
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TRIBUTE TO ELMER BERNSTEIN: SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS - US 1957
DIRECTOR: ALEXANDER MACKENDRICK
This heroically cynical classic pulsates with Bernstein's discordant, jazzy score.
WITH
SHORT: POWERS OF TEN - US 1968
DIRECTOR: CHARLES AND RAY EAMES
The legendary designers' short film set to a Bernstein score.
Friday February 4, 2005
10:00 PM : Prozac Film Series @ Clinton St. Theater
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The Portland Mercury's Upcoming Events!
Things Happening Tonight - FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4 . . .
THE MERCURY'S PROZAC FILM SERIES SCREENING OF:
SMOKEY AND . . .

THE BANDIT!!
$6 | 10PM | Clinton Street Theater | 2522 SE Clinton
Join the Portland Mercury Movie Team for drinks, heckling, and Bandit madness!
Presented by Medoyeff Vodka

Sunday February 13, 2005
06:00 PM : FAMOUS MYSTERIOUS ACTOR SHOW TV PREMIERE PARTY @ Sabala's
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FAMOUS MYSTERIOUS ACTOR SHOW TV PREMIERE PARTY
Presented by the Portland Mercury and Funland Pictures
THE FAMOUS MYSTERIOUS ACTOR SHOW TV PREMIERE PARTY!!
Come see Famous ascend to REAL TV as he joins Comcast Channel 14. Don't have cable? NO PROBLEM!! Join the Mercury and Funland Pictures at Sabala's Mt. Tabor Theater for a Famous Mysterious Actor Show viewing party!
Sunday, February 13
6 PM | Sabala's Mt. Tabor Theater | FREE!!
Friday February 18, 2005
10:00 PM : Evil Dead II @ Clinton St. Theater
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$6
Fridays at 10:00 | Clinton Street Theater | 2522 SE Clinton
Saturday February 19, 2005
09:00 PM : Craneoff @ warehouse
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More details soon, but the Crane Off will be screened for only the second time at Daniel's (urbanhonking.com/kill) studio space in NW. yay!
9:30 - crane off
10:00 - der lovett
11:00 - 1 man play called essoterrorism
and a keg of miller high life - maybe some wine
All for only $2!
The warehouse is on Pettygrove, just off the intersection of 14th and Pettygrove in NW.
Oh, and it is a warehouse so, as Daniel says, "bring coats because it is fucking cold!"
Tuesday March 29, 2005
07:00 PM : I.T. @ nocturnal
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it (Independent Tuesday) handmade film & video night 7pm, free, 21+
theme: Hosts
Wednesday April 6, 2005
09:00 PM : Krystal R. South on TV
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From Krystal:
I am OUT.
They picked the redheaded virgin from the middle of nowhere who attests to never having seen the show. I called it. I am GLAD IT IS OVER.
Now, you can't say I didn't try, and don't think I'll be doing it again next year, either.
BOO YAH.
The show they are making about it airs April 6th and 9pm and again on the 9th at 5. I will get a tape, though, for those who miss it. I am sure it will be most embarrassing.
SORRY DUDES!!!
Saturday June 18, 2005
10:00 PM : 1 min film fest @ holocene
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Telegraph is presenting it's second annual-
1 min film festival + themed art show
Wednesday July 20, 2005
09:00 PM : Ingredients @ Holocene
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10 video artists and 20 musicians create original works in a limited time frame using source materials we provide.
Holocene invites musicians and video artists from around the Portland area to contribute to a one-of-a-kind performance event: Ingredients. This is a game in which sound and video artists will create a work using limited source materials within a limited time frame. The results will surely be improvisational and enlightening, providing a forum in which attendees will see firsthand how the Creative Process adapts under pressure while Portland's most adventurous artists put their skills to the test.
Friday August 12, 2005
07:00 PM : 24 HOURS ON CRAIGSLIST @ Clinton St. Theater
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August 12 - 18
Shows at
7pm and 9pm
Matinee at
5pm (Sat/Sun)
General
Admission
$6
Tuesday
Admission
$4
From a single post on craigslist we assembled 8 film crews to document a random day-in-the-life of what has evolved into the world's largest community board. Not just the "Best-Of" or the "Success Stories", but a real, down-to-earth look at the fastest-growing grassroots cyber-community in the city that started it: San Francisco.
This is that day:
August 4, 2003.
07:00 PM : Rob Tyler @ Crepe Soleil
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Friday, August 12th and Saturday, August 13, 7 p.m., $2
"A Thing of Wonder" and "The Beautiful and the Fine," both by Rob Tyler
Crêpe Soleil, 3120 N. Williams Ave., 503-249-7042
"A Thing of Wonder: The Mind and Matter of Jerry Andrus" (1 hour)
Mad scientist and deep thinker Jerry Andrus explores the ins and outs of reason,
perception and human existence as he leads the viewer through his "Castle of
Chaos," demonstrating his inventions like the "Tri-Zonal Space Warper."
"The Beautiful and the Fine" (30 min.)
This brief documentary presents weird kinds of coi, tulips and carniverous
plants, but what makes it interesting and cohesive is the focus on the passion
and care - verging on fanaticism - of these organisms' human cultivators.
Thursday August 18, 2005
09:00 PM : Death Race 2000 @ Mallory Garage
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DEATH RACE 2000
US 1975 DIRECTOR: PAUL BARTEL
AUGUST 18 THUR 9 PM
Live Music by The Portland Vampires starts at 8 PM
In the year 2000, the nation is captivated by a cross-country car race, where speed only accounts for part of the competition. In the Death Race, pedestrians are run down for points, and the drivers are elevated as national heroes. David Carradine stars as Frankenstein, the returning champ whose conscience may decide the fate of the world, and a pre-Rocky Sylvester Stallone takes a turn as Machine Gun Joe, the gangster-cum-racer. This Roger Corman produced cult classic, like the best cheese, has only gotten better with age.
(79 mins.)
Join us five floors up on the rooftop of the Mallory Hotel's parking structure for some entertaining films, a little music and spectacular city views at dusk. The screenings start at 9 but the doors open at 8, so come early and enjoy a bite to eat, and ice-cold beer or cool tea and mingle in the open-air ambience. Feel free to bring your favorite chair, pad or blanket to sit on, but no pets, or outside food or beverages please. This year's Top Down series is sponsored by the Mallory Hotel, Tazo, Sierra Nevada Brewing and Willamette Week. Special admission $5.
Mallory Parking Garage, SW 15th & Yamhill. Garage parking available
Sunday December 18, 2005
09:00 PM : Claire Fowler @ Holocene
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London filmmaker to present short films at Holocene in Portland, Oregon.
Portland, OR – London filmmaker, Claire Fowler will present an evening of short films at Holocene (1001 SE Morrison) on Sunday, December 18th at 9 PM. Claire will be screening seven of her acclaimed short films as well as providing pre and post commentary and a question and answer session.
Claire Fowler was born in the UK in 1979., and studied Fine Art at Oxford University and the Royal College of Art in London. Her films explore the relationship one has with the world through symbolic representations, and the universality of narrative and the poetic. Claire has shown her work around the UK and Germany, and is now bringing it to the US. She also curates film screenings in the UK, writes for Filmwaves magazine, sustains a successful film blog, and is currently concentrating on her own short fiction and scriptwriting.
Tuesday January 3, 2006
07:00 PM : Claire Fowler @ Holocene (FOR REAL THIS TIME!)
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Hi everyone-
Because of the awful weather, the Holocene (www.holocene.org 1001 SE Morrison) has postponed the film screening to the Tuesday 3rd January at 7pm. I will be in attendance.
Many many apologies if this has caused any inconvenience.
I hope everyone has a great holiday and that i will see you on the 3rd.
claire x
London filmmaker to present short films at Holocene in Portland, Oregon.
Portland, OR – London filmmaker, Claire Fowler will present an evening of short films at Holocene (1001 SE Morrison). Claire will be screening seven of her acclaimed short films as well as providing pre and post commentary and a question and answer session.
Claire Fowler was born in the UK in 1979., and studied Fine Art at Oxford University and the Royal College of Art in London. Her films explore the relationship one has with the world through symbolic representations, and the universality of narrative and the poetic. Claire has shown her work around the UK and Germany, and is now bringing it to the US. She also curates film screenings in the UK, writes for Filmwaves magazine, sustains a successful film blog, and is currently concentrating on her own short fiction and scriptwriting.
Saturday January 7, 2006
09:05 PM : Vision and Hearing feat. White Rainbow and others @ Holocene
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"Vision + Hearing"
A night of ambient music accompanied by abstract film and digital projections and images. Featuring music by White Rainbow, Unrecognizable Now and Very Stereo from Portland, and In Support of Living from Toronto, Canada.
White Rainbow (Portland)
Tonight White Rainbow play ambient, psychedelic vibrations to selected video content from their upcoming 5 CD/1 DVD boxed set on Marriage Records, including films by E*ROCK and New York artist Alex Hubbard.
In Support of Living (Toronto, Canada)
In Support of Living (Brad Ketchen of Southpacific + Hollowphonic) produce emotive, slow-core atmospheric music that incorporates clicky samples and electronic pulses. This will be their American debut, just off a Canadian tour with US filmmaker Rob Tyler, with whom the band collaborates tonight. Rob Tyler projecs colorful hand-painted 16mm films called COLOR & MODULATION.
Unrecognizable Now (Portland)
Combining abstract and wandering sounds with sweeping melodies and gentle instrumentations, Unrecognizable Now create atmospheric collages of sound. Rob Tyler accompanies them with colorful computer-sculpted visuals.
Very Stereo (Portland)
Very Stereo is filmmaker Matt McCormicks's music side project and features the soothing sounds of the Casio run thru multiple delay effects, accompanied by poignant films.
@holocene
21+
$5
9pm
saturday january 7th
Friday February 3, 2006
10:00 PM : Teen Wolf @ Clinton St. Theater
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Portland Mercury's PROZAC Winter Film Festival
It's time to fight back against the winter blues and, to re-inforce the troops, the Mercury is proud to bring you our annual PROZAC winter film festival. Check out our weekly SKITS before every show, drink, and heckle to your heart's content. This year's lineup is awesome:
Friday, February 3 - Teen Wolf
Friday, February 10 - Jackass
Friday, February 17 - Starship Troopers
Friday, February 24 - Beetlejuice
Friday, March 3 - Blue Velvet
Friday, March 10 - Bring it On
All shows start at 10PM
Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton St.
$6 tickets. ALL AGES WELCOME!
Friday February 10, 2006
10:00 PM : Jackass @ Clinton St. Theater
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Portland Mercury's PROZAC Winter Film Festival
It's time to fight back against the winter blues and, to re-inforce the troops, the Mercury is proud to bring you our annual PROZAC winter film festival. Check out our weekly SKITS before every show, drink, and heckle to your heart's content. This year's lineup is awesome:
Friday, February 10 - Jackass
Friday, February 17 - Starship Troopers
Friday, February 24 - Beetlejuice
Friday, March 3 - Blue Velvet
Friday, March 10 - Bring it On
All shows start at 10PM
Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton St.
$6 tickets. ALL AGES WELCOME!
Friday February 17, 2006
10:00 PM : Starship Troopers @ Clinton St. Theater
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Portland Mercury's PROZAC Winter Film Festival
It's time to fight back against the winter blues and, to re-inforce the troops, the Mercury is proud to bring you our annual PROZAC winter film festival. Check out our weekly SKITS before every show, drink, and heckle to your heart's content. This year's lineup is awesome:
Friday, February 17 - Starship Troopers
Friday, February 24 - Beetlejuice
Friday, March 3 - Blue Velvet
Friday, March 10 - Bring it On
All shows start at 10PM
Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton St.
$6 tickets. ALL AGES WELCOME!
Friday February 24, 2006
10:00 PM : Beetlejuice @ Clinton St. Theater
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Portland Mercury's PROZAC Winter Film Festival
It's time to fight back against the winter blues and, to re-inforce the troops, the Mercury is proud to bring you our annual PROZAC winter film festival. Check out our weekly SKITS before every show, drink, and heckle to your heart's content. This year's lineup is awesome:
Friday, February 24 - Beetlejuice
Friday, March 3 - Blue Velvet
Friday, March 10 - Bring it On
All shows start at 10PM
Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton St.
$6 tickets. ALL AGES WELCOME!
Saturday February 25, 2006
09:00 PM : ERIC OSTROWSKI @ VALENTINE'S
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saturday, feb 25 9pm
ERIC OSTROWSKI (seattle)
performing solo violin and
screening films from his DVD titled 'E'
valentine's
232 sw ankeny
503.248.1600
Sunday February 26, 2006
07:30 PM : Mudhoney Video Shoot @ VooDoo Donuts
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Sunday Feb 26th.
Open invite for those 18+ to appear in a Mudhoney video being filmed @ Voodoo Doughnut. 7:30pm Free doughnuts, beer and more.
Contact Nate @ illintechnology@yahoo.com for more info.
Thursday March 2, 2006
07:00 PM : Music Video Screening @ Holocene
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Portland finalist in the Scion xPress Fest!
Hundreds of filmmakers from across the country entered for a chance to make a music video for talented indie bands. Top industry judges chose ten finalists, including one filmmaker from Portland. Ten exceptional music videos were made. Come watch the premier of the music videos and cast your vote to help determine which filmmaker will walk away with the $20,000 grand
prize.
March 2nd
7pm-Midnight
Screening begins at 8:00pm
Holocene (1001 SE Morrison)
Portland OR 97214
21+ | Hosted Bar
Music brought by DJ Beyonda of Stylus503
This event is free but RSVP is required.
RSVP @ http://www.scionxpressfest.com/rsvp
Friday March 3, 2006
10:00 PM : Blue Velvet @ Clinton St. Theater
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Portland Mercury's PROZAC Winter Film Festival
It's time to fight back against the winter blues and, to re-inforce the troops, the Mercury is proud to bring you our annual PROZAC winter film festival. Check out our weekly SKITS before every show, drink, and heckle to your heart's content. This year's lineup is awesome:
Friday, March 3 - Blue Velvet
Friday, March 10 - Bring it On
All shows start at 10PM
Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton St.
$6 tickets. ALL AGES WELCOME!
Friday March 10, 2006
10:00 PM : Bring it On @ Clinton St. Theater
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Portland Mercury's PROZAC Winter Film Festival
It's time to fight back against the winter blues and, to re-inforce the troops, the Mercury is proud to bring you our annual PROZAC winter film festival. Check out our weekly SKITS before every show, drink, and heckle to your heart's content. This year's lineup is awesome:
Friday, March 10 - Bring it On
All shows start at 10PM
Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton St.
$6 tickets. ALL AGES WELCOME!
Friday March 31, 2006
07:00 PM : Who Gets to Call it Art? @ Portland Art Museum
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Who Gets to Call it Art?, the film, reviews the art world of the 1960's from the viewpoint of Metropolitan curator Henry Geldzahler. The film has an updated MTV style, offputting to some, but nonetheless sounds fascinating, including much historical footage.
7PM www.nwfilm.org
Whitsell Auditorium at the Portland Art Museum $7/ 6 members
-Rob, Your Arts and Culture Sherpa
Friday April 7, 2006
09:15 PM : Les Claypool @ The Screening of His New Movie @ Clinton Street Theatre
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Electric Apricot
9:15 pm
$6
Les Claypool from Primus will be in Portland on Friday at the screening of his new film, Electric Apricot, wherein he documents a jam band of the same name best known for their song "Hey, Are You Going to Burning Man." Here's hoping he makes fun of them ruthlessly, crushes any hopes they might have of "becoming the new Phish," and then eviscerates and disembowels the whole band with a galloping bass note at the film's climax. Regardless, I will be there to bear witness. Wait, someone just told me this is a mockumentary. Never mind. I'll still be there. Y'know—just in case somebody tries to eviscerate and disembowel something. Hope springs eternal! Adam Gnade
Saturday April 15, 2006
09:00 PM : Ingredients 2006 @ Holocene
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16 original music videos created in the previous 24hrs by local artist teams using only audio and video samples Sonic Arts provides.
Dj Alter Echo and Dj Othertempo
Sonic Arts, your local audio post-production house, presents Ingredients 2006: 16 original music videos created in 24hrs by local artist teams using only audio and video samples we provide.
Teams will receive audio and video samples the night before to create their 3-6 minute music videos to be presented the following night. Not only will Ingredients showcase Portland's finest musicians and new media artists' music video challenge on this evening, there will be FREE STUFF given away randomly to audience members for just being there. Thanks to the help of M-Audio, audioMIDI and Cycling 74, there is some fabulous hardware and software to be handed out. Sonic Arts will also be giving away an iPod Nano to some lucky person. To boot, the entire night is free, there will be great Djs to keep your feet busy, and Kelley and Jason from The Kelley and Jason Show and Koto y Soto will emcee the evening. So come ready to dance, laugh, and support our city's love for technology and art.
Local artist teams making videos:
1) Scott Mazariegos and John Larsen
2) Gabriel Darling and Co: A Darling Downer with Jeffrey Lobb, An Undoubter and M.E.
3) Hatchet
4) Main Sequence , Pluto, Dj Tant, Jamal Qutub and Melinda Swenson
5) Robert Lewis and Ryan Rothermel (Fashionbuddha Studio)
6) Team Vampire (Marius Libman and Christina Owen)
7) Vigilante Tourist Squad: Señor Frio (Carlo Pearson) SciFiSol (Christina Broussard) 'rillo (Amy Stamiris)
8) Charlie Nanos
9) mise en abyme With Gideon Klindt
10) Stephen Braitsch
11) Team Noboto
12) BROTHER-AND-SISTERHOOD OF THE ETERNAL HEALING SPECTRUM
OF NOW: adam forkner (white rainbow, dark yoga) honey owens (valet, dark yoga) jason frank (valet, paint and copter)
andy brown (paint and copter, etc)
13) Noah Stanlik
14) Mark Davis
15) Jonny Hamilton, Orie Weeks III & Dino Coons: Penny Dreadful Media
16) brian mcCauley(gasp) marc (mapmap) Rob Tyler
TIME - 9 PM
COST - FREE!
Friday April 21, 2006
07:00 PM : Beaver Trilogy @ Hollywood Theater
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3rd Annual Jackpot Records/Clinton St. Video Film Festival
Over seven days, April 17-23, Jackpot Records and Clinton St. Video are hosting their 3rd Annual Film/Music Festival at the historic Hollywood Theater.
Friday, April 21st, 2006 7:00 PM
JACKPOT RECORDS/CLINTON STREET VIDEO FILM FESTIVAL NIGHT FIVE
Hollywood Theatre
4122 NE Sandy Blvd
Price: $7
Beaver Trilogy (Starring Sean Penn, Crispin Glover and Groovin´ Gary)
Filmmaker Trent Harris In Attendance
Tickets on sale now! Cash sales will be handled at Clinton Street Video and both Jackpot Records locations. A limited number of tickets will be sold online here. Seats are limited and not expected to last very long, please plan accordingly.
Portland will get the chance to see the rarely seen, cult classic Beaver Trilogy in its entirety. It begins in 1979 with the chance meeting in a Salt Lake City parking lot where filmmaker Trent Harris is approached by an earnest small-town dreamer from Beaver, Utah. Harris jumps at the chance when the young man invites him to come to the small town of Beaver to film a talent show. At the show, the man dons black leather, blond wig and performs in drag as Olivia Newton John. What unfolds is a strange, funny, and ultimately poignant portrait of a true outsider.
Not willing to let the story go, Harris then created a dramatic piece, "Beaver Kid 2" based on the documentary. This interpretation, shot in 1981 on a home video camera with a budget of $100, features the young Sean Penn as the Beaver Kid re-enacting the same scenario.
Still possessed, Harris then rewrote the script, cast Crispin Glover in the lead, and in 1985 created the final segment, "Orkly Kid" as an American Film Institute project. The three pieces were re-edited, compiled, and finally screened at the Lincoln Center in New York.
Beaver Trilogy unveils the inner world of a fantastic character compelled to hide, yet at the same time, tell the world about his secret life.
"Of all the films that have ever been or will be, nothing compares to Beaver Trilogy." SUNDANCE FESTIVAL
Best Independent/Experimental film of the year--Los Angeles Critics Association
Saturday April 22, 2006
07:00 PM : Nut Magnet: The Slightly Messed Up World Of Jeff Krulik @ Hollywood Theater
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Saturday, April 22nd, 2006 7:00 PM
JACKPOT RECORDS/CLINTON STREET VIDEO FILM FESTIVAL NIGHT SIX
Hollywood Theatre
4122 NE Sandy Blvd
Price: $7
Nut Magnet: The Slightly Messed Up World Of Jeff Krulik
Filmmaker Jeff Krulik in attendance
Premiere of "Heavy Metal Field Party"
The beloved and unforgettable films of Jeff Krulik and his circus of fascinating subjects roll into town. Best known for the bootleg-video classic Heavy Metal Parking Lot—that notorious time capsule of Reagan-era metal head teendom, made with John Heyn in 1986—Washington, D.C.'s Jeff Krulik has achieved a fascinating post-Parking Lot career as folk documentarian, TV producer, and film programmer. In his own work and in the various media artifacts he's collected, Krulik keenly zeros in on that zone of existence where the intoxicating energy of micro-fame seeps into the daily lives of everyday schmoes. Cult classics such as "Heavy Metal Parking Lot", "I Created Lancelot Link", and "King of Porn 2: The Retirement" will rub shoulders with premieres such as "The Maryland Trilogy" and the much anticipated "Heavy Metal Field Party". Shot a year before "Parking Lot" Jeff promises another poignant but disturbing look into the dirtbomb culture of 1984.
"Bereft of the mean-spiritedness that under girds reality TV, Krulik is an honest friend of the freaks, lacing his street-level ethnography with self-deprecating humor and amiable humanity"—THE VILLAGE VOICE
Sunday April 23, 2006
07:00 PM : In the Beginning Was the End - The Music Films of Chuck Statler @ Hollywood Theater
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Sunday, April 23rd, 2006 7:00 PM
JACKPOT RECORDS/CLINTON STREET VIDEO FILM FESTIVAL NIGHT SEVEN
Hollywood Theatre
4122 NE Sandy Blvd
Price: $7
In the Beginning Was the End—The Music Films of Chuck Statler
Filmmaker Chuck Statler in attendance
Chuck attended Kent State in Ohio and found kindred spirits with fellow students Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerry Casale, the nucleus for DEVO. Their film collaborations became a hallmark of DEVO's act, and soon Stiff, TwinTone and other upstart record labels commissioned Chuck to produce films for their talent.
And since these films circulated among the midnight movie series so prevalent in the late 70s, it seems only fitting that we re-create that spirit tonight---Highlights of our program include rare 16mm film print screenings of Elvis Costello, , Nick Lowe, Madness, James Chance, Graham Parker Suicide Commandoes and, of course, DEVO. Also, videos with Pere Ubu, El Vez, Moldy Peaches, the Wipeouters, Stan Ridgway, and the last filmed appearance by Tiny Tim. Plus selections from Chuck's commercial spots, an 'American Splendor' clip light years before the theatrical feature, and selections from his most recent project 'Sonic Burlesque.'Chuck has also unearthed unseen footage of DEVO performing as their own opening band, DOVE--The Band of Love, as well as new footage of James Chance and the Contortions from 1979.
"There's no expiration date on weirdness."
Wednesday April 26, 2006
07:30 PM : [PDXFF] Old Joy @ Guild Theatre
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 7:30 - Opening night!
Old Joy
Kelly Reichardt, 78 min, 2006
Portland premiere with filmmakers in attendance
The PDX fest is excited to present the Portland premiere of the new feature film OLD JOY, directed by Kelly Reichardt. Shot in and around Portland with a small crew, OLD JOY has enjoyed much-deserved success in recent festivals including Sundance and The Rotterdam Film Festival (were is won a Tiger Award). Kelly, as well as key members of the cast and crew, will be present for this special screening.
OLD JOY is the story of two old friends, Kurt (Will Oldham) and Mark (Daniel London), who reunite for a weekend camping trip in the Cascade mountain range east of Portland, OR. OLD JOY is a minimalist story of friendship, loss and alienation in the Bush era. For Mark, the weekend outing offers a respite from the pressure of is imminent fatherhood; for Kurt, it is part of a long series of carefree adventures. As the hours progress and the landscape evolves, the twin seekers move through a range of subtle emotions, enacting a pilgrimage of mutual confusion, sudden insight, and recurring intimations of spiritual battle. When they arrive at their final destination, a hot spring in an old growth forest, they must either confront the divergent paths they have take, or somehow transcend their growing tensions in an act of forgiveness and mourning.
“Reichardt offers a contemplative anatomy of the fragility of friendship, bringing Jonathan Raymond’s acute, melancholy story vividly to life, drenching the screen with the lush greenery of the Pacific Northwest. The film combines Reichardt’s keenly observant storytelling with sharp visual skills, resulting in an individual work that is both impressive and unique in today’s indie milieu.”
-Emmanuel Levy
Proceeded by
Two-Week Vacation
Kevin Jerome Everson, 1:15, 16mm
09:30 PM : [PDXFF] PDX FILM FEST OPENING PARTY @ HOLOCENE WITH WHITE RAINBOW'S PRISM
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TIME
9 PM
TICKETS
@ the door
COST
FREE with festival pass
or $5
white rainbow audio/video/light/prisms/performance/full spectrum temporary art installation/healing experience
free beer provided by Pabst!
more info PDX FILM FEST
Thursday April 27, 2006
05:00 PM : [PDXFF] Lay Down Tracks @ Guild Theatre
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THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 5:00
Lay Down Tracks
Danielle Lombardi + Brigid McCaffrey, 60 min, 16MM
This documentary follows the stories of five American workers who have chosen occupations, and thus a life, based around travel. A trucker, a carnival worker, a railroad executive, a surfer and a riverboat pilot welcome us into the intimacy of their daily rituals and the environments they construct as their transitory homes. Their stories meld into a conversation about the freedom of travel, fitting into new surroundings, the mundane aspects of work, and the persistent question: to move or to settle? Through the exchange of personal narratives, we look beyond the daily routine of work to explore the balance of intention and necessity in one’s chosen path. Together these transient lifestyles speak of local backgrounds, personal identity, and the nature of opportunity.
Shows with:
Vertical City: Morgan Currie (12.5 min, digital video)
Getting Up: American Street Art Culture: Colin Brown (15 min, digital video)
Meeting with a Mortician: Tom Hanson (2 min, digital video)
07:15 PM : [PDXFF] A Quest of Origins: Films by Larry Gottheim @ Guild Theatre
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Thursday, April 27, 7:15
Cinema Project presents:
A Quest of Origins: Films by Larry Gottheim
Tree of Knowledge (Elective Affinities IV) [1981, 16 mm, 58 min]
Our Television Traveler [1991, 16 mm, 17min]
Artist in attendance!
Since the late 1960’s Larry Gottheim has a been deeply involved with cinema, teaching himself 16 mm filmmaking then developing the Department of Cinema in Binghamton, N.Y. This extremely influential department attracted the most talented artists, academics, and filmmakers of the day including Ken Jacobs, Hollis Frampton, Peter Kubelka, and Ernie Gehr among many others. In the 1990’s Gottheim has also served for a brief time as director of the Filmmaker’s Co-op in New York.
Gottheim’s early film prints have been restored in connection with an "Avant Garde Masters" grant through the Media Center of the Donnell Library, the Art Library of the NY Public Library. Elective Affinities is a series of four feature-length films Gottheim started in the early 1970’s. The Films are formal investigations edited into a structure involving formal patterning, with repetition and permutation of elements. Elective Affinities explores not only the film’s image and the relation of sound to image, a recurring theme in his work, and time but issues such as family, psychology, education, freedom, the theme of "nature" in art. Tree of Knowledge, the final installment of the series, serves as summation of Gottheim’s aesthetic as it contains within its epistemological questioning of the authority of images a self-referential return to the ground of experience and being as the camera returns to nature, the earth, and the tree of knowledge. Gottheim describes his newer work, Our Television Traveler, as “The history of space, the place of mystery, the mystery of trace, the space of history.”
09:30 PM : [PDXFF] Who is Bozo Texino? @ Guild Theatre
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THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 9:30
Who is Bozo Texino?
Bill Daniel, 56 min, digital video
Shot entirely aboard speeding freight trains and in secret hobo jungles, Who is Bozo Texino? documents a twenty-year never-ending rail journey in dogged pursuit of the true identity of the world's greatest boxcar artist. Daniel uncovers a 100-year-old tradition of hobo and rail worker graffiti and includes interviews with some of the railroad's greatest graffiti legends: Colossus of Roads, The Rambler, Herby (RIP) and the granddaddy of them all, Bozo Texino. Here is the everyday grit, myths, mulligan stews, hobo gatherings and, above all, the mis-understood and fascinating history of a hobo subculture that could only have been made by a wanderlust spirit like Bill Daniel.
Shows with:
Grand Luncheonette: Pete Sillen (5 min, digital video)
Branson: Music Land USA: Pete Sillen (12 min, 35 mm)
Twenty Minutes: Kevin Jerome Everson (3 min, 35mm)
High Plains Winter: Cindy Stillwell (10 min, digital video)
Friday April 28, 2006
05:30 PM : [PDXFF] Shorts Program #1: underground + experimental @ Guild Theatre
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FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 5:30
Shorts Program #1: underground + experimental
Short works to twist and turn your brain cells
Here Take these Drugs (Andy Spore, 1:00, digital video. Iowa City)
Inhale Exhale (David Borengasser, 7:00, digital video, San Francisco)
28 Years In the Implicate Order (Pascual Sisto, 1:00, digital video, Los Angeles)
Five County Fair (David Ellsworth, 8:05, digital video, Grand Rapids
This Video Edited By Computer (Jesse England, 1.5 min, video, Eugene)
Bobby XP1 (Tommy Becker, 3:45, digital video, San Francisco)
The White Bunny (Katja Straub, 7:00, digital video, Germany)
Square Millimeter: Cars (Luke Lamborn, 2:00, digital video, Syracuse)
Tops (Brian Nelson, 5.5, digital video, Boise)
Drew Getting Hit by a Car on Belmont (Andrew Francisco, 1:00, dv, Chicago)
Shoot (Joe Nanashe, 2.5, digital video, New Brunswick, NJ)
For Laika (Bryan Boyce, 1:00, digital video, San Francisco)
Animal Animal (Tommy Becker, 1:50, digital video, San Francisco)
Jawswipe (Jesse McLean, 2.5, digital video, Pittsburgh)
Hotel Pinball Venus (Anne McGuire, Katya Knyazeva, Stan Yan, 1:00, digital video, Korea)
(Dis)Placement (Aaron Valdez, 5:00, digital video, Iowa City)
Square Millimeter: Houses (Luke Lamborn, 2:00, digital video, Syracuse)
I'm in the Mood (Bryan Konefsky, 4:30, digital video, Albuquerque)
Five More Minutes (Dena Decola + Karin Wandner, 17:00, digital video, L.A.)
Lanka (Kevin Allen, 6:00, digital video, New York)
Diagrams 1-5 (Colin Polombi, 5:00, digital video, Chicago)
08:00 PM : [PDXFF] Arachnogasmic! short films by Martha Colburn @ Guild Theatre
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FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 8:00
Arachnogasmic! short films by Martha Colburn
PDX special guest Martha Colburn presents a thrilling retrospective of her captivating and explosive hand-made animations.
Filmmaker in attendance!
Martha Colburn is an animator, filmmaker and artist originally from Pennsylvania. A self-taught filmmaker, she began making films in 1994 using found footage, a Super 8 camera and her own unique combination of painting and collage. She has since completed over 40 films. Based between Amsterdam and New York, Martha travels extensively worldwide exhibiting her work. Her films have been featured in museums and festivals internationally including The Whitney Art Museum, The Anthology Film Archives, and The Rotterdam Film Festival.
"The uniqueness of Martha Colburn, to me, is the explosive energy and craft with which she brings up-to-date, and pushes further, the film form of found-image-collage established by Stan Vanderbeek and Dick Preston in the Sixties. She has invented her own techniques and language that permits her to fuse the grotesque images of our popular civilization as produced by our image industries, to make film songs of universal sadness of our times." - Jonas Mekas (2000)
Program includes:
Cosmetic Emergency
A Little Dutch Thrill
XXX Amsterdam
Secrets of Mexuality
Skelehellavision
Groscher Lansangriff: Big Bug Attack
Cats Amore
Spiders In Love: An Arachnogasmic Musical
Lift Off
There's A Pervert In Our Pool!
I Can’t Keep Up
Evil Of Dracula
What's On?
Persecution in Paradise
Hey Tiger
Asthma
10:00 PM : [PDXFF] Wild Tigers I Have Known @ Guild Theatre
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Friday, April 28, 10:00
Wild Tigers I Have Known
Cam Archer, 98 minutes, HD
“Logan, soft spoken, lonely, and 13 years old, is a boy with a crush. Unlike his equally lonely friend Joey, who obsesses over the sexual exploits of the slightly older, postpubescent boys, Logan is fixated on the boys themselves, particularly Rodeo Walker. Rodeo is the only one of the group of cool kids who shows any friendliness toward Logan, meaning he doesn't go out of his way to make Logan's life miserable. As Logan and Rodeo strike up a mismatched friendship, the kind that only works on walks deep into the forest when no one else is around, Logan's infatuation with Rodeo inspires him to create a new persona named Leah. Leah and Rodeo grow close through whispered late-night phone calls, and when Leah agrees to meet Rodeo face to face, it is Logan who must finally prove that he can ask for what he so achingly wants. Wild Tigers I Have Known is an ethereal exploration of adolescent longing. Cam Archer's storytelling is unconventional, fresh, and overflowing with the kind of heart that is touching and familiar to anyone who remembers junior high as a time of painful desire, confusion, and questioning. The well-crafted story, beautifully photographed, draws us back into this moody world of teenage isolation and eventual hope–a world that, perhaps mistakenly, we think we moved past long ago.”
Preceded by:
Brother Boy (Jalal Jemison, 16 minutes, digital video, Portland)
Saturday April 29, 2006
03:30 PM : [PDXFF] Blockade + How Little We Know @ Guild Theatre
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SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 3:30
Blockade + How Little We Know
Blockade
Sergei Loznitsa, 50 min, 35mm, Russia/Germany
“Impressive visual material of the siege of Leningrad as a breathtaking reanimation of reality. The images comprise only material Sergei Loznitsa found in the archives in Moscow about the siege of Leningrad during the World War II. By providing the originally silent images with a meticulously reconstructed and almost perfect soundtrack, the scenes from everyday life under siege seem to be set in the present. By not intervening in the montage but giving the scenes room to tell a story, the scenes transcend the specific historic events and lead a new life. They do not evoke memories of the past, but become a breathtaking reanimation of reality.”
How Little We Know of Our Neighbours
Rebecca Baron, 49 min, video, LA
How Little We Know of Our Neighbours is an experimental documentary about Britain’s Mass Observation Movement and its relationship to contemporary issues regarding surveillance, public self-disclosure, and privacy. At its center is a look at the multiple roles cameras have played in public space, starting in the 1880s, with the introduction of the hand-held cameras. The film proceeds to trace the history of Mass Observation from anthropological studies in 1930s through its reincarnation as a civil spy unit during World War II to its present-day uses in police surveillance, web cams and reality television, all the while questioning our notions of privacy and self-definition.
06:00 PM : [PDXFF] The Tailenders @ Guild Theatre
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SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 6:00
The Tailenders
Adele Horne, 72:00, digital video, Los Angeles
Gospel Recordings is an evangelical organization founded in 1939 whose mission is to record and distribute stories from the bible in all the languages and dialects of the world. Now, more than sixty years into their effort, the organization has honed their sights on the population they call the tailenders, so dubbed because they are the last to be reached by the evangelicals. Outfitted with recording devices and primitive playback appliances, the missionaries frequently target communities in crisis because they have found these communities to be particularly receptive to the evangelical message. The Tailenders, filmmaker Adele Horne’s feature debut, follows Gospel Recordings as they interact with indigenous cultures and in doing so, weaves a complex commentary on global capitalism, religion, and the power of the human voice.
Preceded by:
Pvt. Boro (Alma Boro, 8:50, digital video, Chicago)
09:00 PM : [PDXFF] The 2006 Peripheral Produce Invitational! @ Guild Theatre
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SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 9:00
The 2006 Peripheral Produce Invitational!
The Peripheral Produce invitational is an annual rock-em-sock-em film showdown that is widely considered the World Championship of experimental cinema. The qualifying artists are selected up to a year before the event and invited to make a new project for competition. Some artists complete their films months in advance, while others cloak themselves in mystery and work on their piece right until the final moment. All the competing artists must be in attendance, and there is a ten-minute time limit. To cap it all off, bingo is played during the evening’s format changes.
In 2005, history was made as Vladimir became the first ever Back-to-Back winner. In similar fashion as ‘04, Vladimir showed up to the theatre with 400 view-masters in tow, distributed them amongst the capacity crowd, and conducted her signature “communal view-master experience” with disks that she photographed, cut-out, and glued together by hand.
The Invitational has proven to be the perfect platform for non-conventional film presentation. PPI 2001 featured Craig Baldwin and Bill Daniel simultaneously running twelve 16mm film projectors. 2001 also featured an Animal Charm live video mix as well as Melinda Stone and Kate Haug incorporating the audience to supply the soundtrack for their film. The 2002 Invitational featured film-projector-performances from Sandra Gibson and Louis Recoder as well as the Distance Formula. In 2004, Reed Harkness shot a Super 8 film at the theatre as the audience was arriving, and then quickly processed the film in the men’s restroom and projected it during the second half of the show. In ’05 Eric Ostrowski taped film to the sidewalk in front of the theatre for days leading up to the event, and then spliced it together and projected it with an accompanying live soundtrack.
What will happen this year? Who will walk away with the trophy? Tune in to find out.
The PPI V roster of competitors:
Returning champion:
Vladimir : Portland
Chel White : Portland
David Gatten : New York
Ryan Jeffery : Portland
Martha Colburn : New York
Julie Orser : Los Angeles
Jalal Jemison : Portland
Anne McGuire : San Francisco
Jim Blashfield : Portland
Alex Mackenzie : Vancouver, BC
Karl Lind : Portland
Ted Passon : Philadelphia
Orland Nutt : Portland
Salise Hughes : Seattle
plus surprises
Sunday April 30, 2006
03:15 PM : [PDXFF] Shorts Program #3: short documentaries @ Guild Theatre
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Sunday, April 30, 3:15
Shorts Program #3: short documentaries
The Power of the People Don’t Stop
Like Being Pursued By A Boulder (Brian Coffey, 6:00, 16mm, Milwaukee)
Jean Genet in Chicago (Frédéric Moffet, 25:00, digital video, Chicago)
Don’t Call Me Crazy on the 4th of July (Richard Pell, 29:30, digital video, Ann Arbor)
lot 63, grave C (Sam Green, 9:30, digital video, San Francisco)
One Dead in Ohio (Robert Greene, 10:00, digital video, Brooklyn)
Thursday May 4, 2006
07:00 PM : Burn to Shine 03: Portland DVD Release @ Guild Theater
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Check out the Burn to Shine DVD Release, featuring: Quasi, The Decemberists, The Thermals, Mirah, Lifesavas, Tom Heinl, The Gossip, The Shins, Teh Ready (from the Rock 'n Roll Camp for Girls), Sleater-Kinney, The Planet The, and Wet Confetti.
And . . .
Tiny Victories: a mini music video festival cebrating locally made videos including work for Mud Honey, Sleater-Kiinney, The Shins, The Decemberists and Wet Confetti!
May 4th, Guild Theater - 829 SW 9th Avenue
7pm doors, all ages, $5
Friday May 5, 2006
10:00 PM : Burn to Shine 03: Portland DVD Release @ Acme
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Check out the Burn to Shine DVD Release, featuring: Quasi, The Decemberists, The Thermals, Mirah, Lifesavas, Tom Heinl, The Gossip, The Shins, Teh Ready (from the Rock 'n Roll Camp for Girls), Sleater-Kinney, The Planet The, and Wet Confetti.
And . . .
Tiny Victories: a mini music video festival cebrating locally made videos including work for Mud Honey, Sleater-Kiinney, The Shins, The Decemberists and Wet Confetti!
May 5th, ACME - SE 8th and Main
10PM, 21+, $5
Friday May 12, 2006
08:00 PM : Friday Night Horror Film Screening @ The Sweatshop
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From Paige Saez:
Friday Night Horror Film Screening at The Sweatshop on 34th and Belmont
Sundown on most Fridays 916 se 34th st. across from stumptown in the parkinglot.
(contact paige saez: paige@platial.com)
FREE BIKE IN HORROR FILMS SCREENED OUTDOORS-EVERYONE WELCOME!
F*ck it's Summer! Back to the bike-in screenings. Now that my sorry ass is out of the warehouse we are starting up a right proper horror film screening series on friday nights. Get your drink on across the street at Aalto, bring your flasks, and there will be dolla beers.
This Fridays screening will feature two of my all time fav's:
BRAIN DAMAGE and FUNNY GAMES
Big Fat FYI: Brain Damage is lighter weight than Funny Games which to be perfectly honest is a fucking creepy film.
BRAIN DAMAGE
1988 Directed by Frank Henenlotter
Comedy / Horror
Frank Henenlotter's 'Brain Damage' is easily the director's best film. Aylmer, a rather large, penis-shaped parasite, gives unsuspecting Brian brain damage by getting him hooked on an hallucinogenic, blue fluid that Aylmer himself produces. Oh, the colors! But the thousand-year-old worm-like parasite demands something in return for the buzz - human brains! Aylmer and his actions seem to be a metaphor for drug use and addiction and convey very graphically how substances foreign to our bodies can alter our own thoughts and actions.
via imdb, David Ross Smith
FUNNY GAMES
1997 Directed by Michael Haneke
Horror / Drama / Thriller
Michael Haneke's "Funny games" shows up. Two friendly and ordinary looking young blokes dressed in white neat clothes turn out to be a pair of sick and perverted psychopaths and the sadistic molestation, tormenting, harassment and torturing of a perfectly innocent family gets started without even a tiny warning. Although we can't practically see even a one clear act of physical violence during the entire film and we spot hardly a drop of blood, "Funny games" is probably one of the most violent films there is. It's so overfilled with mental cruelty the pressuring anxiety grows up to be something highly enormous. For example when the torturer orders the desperate mother to undress, camera only concentrates on showing her agonized and painful crying face when she strips off.
Via imdb, Mika Pykalaaho
Wednesday May 17, 2006
09:30 PM : Movie Night @ Less Distracted
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Rooftop movie series : Head
Join us this Wednesday, May 17th, for our second rooftop movie of the summer. This week we'll be showing the 1968 comedy (?), Head.
A plotless collection of various musical encounters and adventures by the famous rock band "The Monkeys" which follows Davy, Peter, Mike and Mickey as they travel through an assortment of places in search of meaning.
Same rules as last time. Be here at 9:30pm. Movie starts at 10.
Monday May 29, 2006
07:00 PM : YACHT VIDEO SHOOT @ TOWNE LOUNGE
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DUDES, DUDES, DUDES!
Lucky Dragons and I made a split CD together made up entirely of Nirvana samples (and nothing else). We're really excited about it and it should have come out a while ago, but I've been totally busy with other stuff.
We're going to make a grunge video on Monday (5/29) night at Towne Lounge (714 SW 20th PL, Portland, OR) from 8 - 10 PM. I'm trying to round up everyone here and everyone you know to come over and be in this club/mosh/coreographed dance scene! I'm gonna wrestle up some 2 liters and pizza and everything.
The homie TRUDI is coming up from Los Angeles to film the video on 16mm and I'm stoked.
I'm looking for dudes in ripped jeans, chucks, flannels, Dinosaur Jr tees, ANYTHING grunge.
Fee free to pass this around, re-post it, whatever! We need as many people as possible! The more packed, the totally better!
Love,
Jona
You can hear "Healthy Student" here:
http://www.myspace.com/yacht
(last song in the list)
TRUDI: http://www.hellotrudi.com
In the Portland Mercury's Blogtown, USA:
http://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2006/05/dress_grunge.php
Thursday June 8, 2006
07:00 PM : P.U.F.F. @ Clinton Street Theater
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Seth from Clinton Street says:
Summary: The 2nd Annual Portland Underground Film Festival. 18 months in the making. The #1 film
festival event of the year. More underground films, more filmmakers, and better parties then any film
festival in town. This is the underground film festival that will define underground film festivals
for the next 10 years. Includes local heros James Westby and Jack G, plus Bike Film Mayhem AND the
Pacific NW premiere of the best film of the year: Mad Cowgirl. 4 days of non-stop film chaos. Our advice
to you: Don’t Miss it!!
All Info at:
http://www.portlandundergroundfilmfestival.com
Friday June 30, 2006
07:00 PM : The Future of Pinball @ Clinton Street Theater
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This was the situation facing the pinball designers at Williams Electronic Games in 1998: come up with something new, or see the world's largest pinball manufacturer be shut down forever. And Williams' designers did come up with something amazing: a brand new kind of pinball machine that fused new video technology with classic pinball gameplay, preserving what was great about pinball, yet opening up a whole new world of game possibilities.
The Future of Pinball is a documentary that tells the story of the extraordinary Pinball 2000(tm) machines built by Williams in an effort to save not just the company, but the product that had defined coin-operated entertainment for eighty years.
There will be a Director Q&A on Fri and Sat night.
Shows at
7pm and 8:30pm
General
Admission
$6
NO SHOWS
ON 7/4
Thursday July 20, 2006
08:00 PM : Portland Expose @ deLux Hotel
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The Film Center presents Portland Expose, a 1957 film noir, set here (!). It's exposure of corruption and vice is "Hotter than Phenix City Story", a potboiler of the time.
It's on the roof of the Mallory/deLux Hotel parking garage and kicks off a series of films at that location. doors 8 music 9, film at dusk. http://www.nwfilm.org/nowshowing/top_down/top_down.html $5
Friday July 21, 2006
07:00 PM : Herzog Festival @ Cinema 21 July 21-23
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German Director Werner Herzog, who has a pretty good shelf going at Movie Madness will be sampled on the big screen at Cinema 21. To be prepared, consider renting there Burden of Dreams in advance, a film about the making of Fitzcarraldo, which will be shown at the festival in large format where it can be fully appreciated. In the film, taking 5 years to complete, Herzog recreated an historic event in which a steamship was hauled by block and tackle over a mountain in the Amazon. I am not making this up. http://www.cinema21.com
Saturday July 29, 2006
07:00 PM : Cosmonaut Romance on Film @ Film Center Whitsell Auditorium
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Wow another strange thing happening the same night right underneath the Biennial party! I'll just reprint the Film Center's description, I would not know where to begin rewriting it:
'"Jim Finn's INTERKOSMOS, a retro gust of Communist utopianism, is set to open the New York Underground Film Festival. A cosmonaut romance set aboard a 1970s East German space mission to colonize the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, INTERKOSMOS weaves together lovingly faked archival footage, charmingly under-motivated musical numbers, propagandistic maxims (Capitalism is like a kindergarten of boneless children), stop-motion animation (of a suitably crude GDR-era level), a Teutonic (and vaguely Herzogian) voiceover, and a superb garage-y Kraut-rock score (by Jim Becker and Colleen Burke). Finn's deadpan is immaculately bone-dry, and his antiquarian fastidiousness is worthy of Guy Maddin." -Dennis Lim, THE VILLAGE VOICE. How can you miss it? (71 mins.) Jim Finn will introduce his film.'
Tickets $7/6/4 - general/members/under 12 7PM
Friday August 25, 2006
07:00 PM : Old Joy @ Cinema 21
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The film was
an Official Selection at the Sundance Film Festival and is currently the
most critically acclaimed American independent film of the year. It also
includes an original soundtrack by Yo La Tengo.
'Old Joy' is about two college friends Kurt (Will Oldham) and Mark (Daniel
London) who reunite after many years to go on a hiking trip in the Cascade
mountain range east of Portland, OR. The film is a meditative look at the
beauty of nature and the passing of time. While the two friends never fully
regain the connection they once had, the trip into the wilderness allows
them to step back and appreciate the joy in their past. For a more detailed
description, please see the NY press release attached or visit the website.
Monday September 11, 2006
08:00 PM : TBA: ODOKA @ The Works
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The Oregon Department of Kick Ass odoka.org
Presents
Follow Me to Certain Death
1 hour 15 minutes
As part of TBA/PICA
At the works @audio/cinema
226 Se Madison 8PM 8-12 dollars
Presented on Sept. 11th, an evening of films that cast a meditative gaze on life and death in many forms.
The program begins with Renwicks Britton, South Dakota, (8 min)
http://www.odoka.org/filmography/britton_south_dakota/
a mesmerizing film constructed solely of haunting portraits of children filmed standing in the street of a desolate town in 1930. The footage (obtained from Prelinger Archives) was shot by the owner of the towns movie theater to be screened before the features as a promotional gimmick to bring in the local folks. 70 years later the sometimes smiling, sometimes tortured faces of these children seem to tell everything that has happened since that windy, sunny day in South Dakota. The film is made all the more melodramatic by Portland artist Johnee Eschleman's emotive score. The lack of narrative invites dressing these cinematic dolls with futures, now histories. The melancholic drone of the accompanying organ music tends to lead them into sad tragic finery. (Awarded Best Experimental Film at the NW Film Festival by James Benning in 2003/ Gecko Award, Cinematexas 2004/ Best Experimental Film, Gus Van Sant Award, Ann Arbor Film Fest 2005)
2. Selective Service System Story 7 minutes
http://www.billdaniel.net/
A video by Bill Daniel about a film by Warren Haack and Dan Lovejoy
Bill Daniel in person!
In 1970 a young film student at San Francisco State College devised a scenario for a short documentary film, Selective Service System, that would simultaneously make a bold, graphic statement against the Vietnam War, and secure his own physical deferment from the military draft. Three decades later Bill Daniel interviews director and subject Dan Lovejoy and cameraman Warren Haack about the violence of those times and the violence manifested in their uncompromisingly honest and brutal protest film. (Originally produced for John Piersons Split Screen show)
3. Next is Travis Wilkerson's National Archives V.1, (15 min)
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/oct2002/wilk-o04_prn.shtml
(Screened at the Viennale in 2001) A daring exercise in agit-prop that utilizes imagery obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, in which gun-camera footage of U.S. bombing runs over Vietnam is disturbingly and poetically juxtaposed with a soundtrack created by Sonic Youths Jim O'Rourke. The footage of lush blue-green jungle passing below the jet is superimposed with the pilots electronic gun site. The constant gunning creates a trance-inducing rhythm that is syncopated by simple intertitles that name the targets. Converted from raw documentation into sublime meditation, much like Bruce Conners atomic mushrooms in Crossroads, the film becomes an ethical bomb, exploding issues of hi-tech imperial warfare that we are faced with again.
4. Next is 9 is a Secret, 6 min.,
http://www.odoka.org/filmography/9_is_a_secret/
an experimental essay about a time that Renwick had many crows and ravens enter her life. A graphically stark, metaphysical diary on helping a terminally ill friend die.
5. The screening continues with Renwicks new 25-minute, 3-screen projection piece Hope and Prey
http://www.odoka.org/filmography/hope_and_prey/
which features stunning wildlife cinematography of animals hunting and being hunted., and a thundering, hyper-dynamic LIVE soundtrack by Portlands infamous underground composer, Daniel Menche. The adrenal-pumping dramatic and sometimes brutal nature cinematography is transformed and elevated through black and white high-contrast recomposition.
Two things are always here. Snow and leafless trees. Black and white. Running toward and running away from. Nothing else is certain.
Endless white field beneath your feet, hooves, paws, and endless white sky around you. Your wings push against it and relax, push against it and relax.
Vanessa's film is not about death. It is about life. It is almost obsessed with life, life in its humor, elegance and almost unimaginable cruelty. Life reduced to its grim skeleton: running toward and running away from. That is all we have ever done, will ever do. Very quickly we forget what it is we are running toward, what we are running away from. All we know is to run. That, and white, etched with black. And then, there is a moment, a singularity, when black becomes white, white becomes black. From this there is no return.. Halliday Dresser
6. Superior Elegy by Travis Wilkerson 20 Minutes, 2006
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/oct2002/wilk-o04_prn.shtml
Superior Elegy is a portrait of a 25 hour-long improvisational concert
held in Duluth Minnesota, in honor of a murdered friend. Despite being
scheduled for the weekend following September 11th, the events
organizers chose to perform as planned. In so doing, the event acquired
an unintended poignancy. Very simple means were used to document the
concert: a hand-wind Bolex, a super-8 camera, and available light. The
filmmakers were often on stage with the musicians and tried to regard
themselves as participants rather than observers. The resulting film
reads almost like a prayer: quiet, formal, and full of inexplicable
power.
Tuesday September 26, 2006
07:00 PM : Film on '60/70's Political Activists @ Cinema Project
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So long ago, as the idealistic promises of the 1950's and early 60's waned, France's colonial failures were questioned even as the all powerful United States of America overthrew foreign governments and sank deeper into Vietnam's insurgency, ultimately into a war which it lost, while almost loosing its soul, and that of its children..
Filmmaker Chris Marker was there and made this film, Le Fond de l'air est Rouge "A Grin Without A Cat" about the rise of political left in Paris, Bejing, Prague, Chile, Iran and the United States. Marker examines the street battles between police and idealists, the fall of politicians such as Richard Nixon, the assassination of Salvadore Allende and Che Guevara (the formation of whose political ideas were brought to film in The Motorcycle Diaries), the Soviet invasion of Prague (which provides the background for The Unbearable Lightness of Being), the student riots in Paris (depicted in Bertolucci's The Dreamers), the beginning of China's Cultural Revolution, US antiwar protests (The War at Home) and the American Civil Rights Movement (Eyes on the Prize I and II).
At 3 hours it is more an impressionistic collection of impressive footage than an explanation of the left's psychic history worldwide. The Voice sums it up - skip past the Spiderman review: http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0218,hoberman,34342,20.html. Here's hoping the film will be released to video as a source of astonishing historical samples or raw material for video term papers.
September 26 + 27
Northwest Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium [1219 SW Park Ave] 7:00 p.m. | $7
www.cinemaproject.org
Friday October 6, 2006
06:00 PM : HP Lovecraft Film Festival @ Hollywood Theater
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Author Lovecraft (1890-1937) is considered to be the father of modern horror, more focused on dark occult themed stories than what passes today for horror in cinema. Afflicted with childhood disease, he suffered from poikilothermism leaving his body cold to the touch. He also suffered insomnia and is reported to have written for 60 hours without sleep to complete one story. His prolific letter writing, over 87 thousand letters in his lifetime, qualifies him as the first blogger.. His father was hospitalized for psychosis when Lovecraft was 3 and remained so for the rest of his life, later his mother was committed to the same asylum. He suffered a nervous breakdown at age 18, never completing high school. Many of his stories were inspired by his nightmares.
The festival features films, panel discussions and artwork on Lovecraftian themes.
Details: http://www.hplfilmfestival.com
Friday, Saturday and Sunday October 6,7,8
Sunday November 5, 2006
07:00 PM : MELINDA STONE @ PSU
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I'LL SHOW YOU MINE IF YOU'LL SHOW ME YOURS AN EVENING
WITH MELINDA STONE
Director: MELINDA STONE
Sun Nov 05 7:00 PM Whitsell Auditorium
A somewhat anachronistic filmmaker, curator and
researcher, San Francisco based Stone dabbles in it
all to create an eclectic show that highlights her
on-going interest in land use, amateur filmmaking,
history and outdoor film extravaganzas. Stone's
impresario instincts borrow from the past and infuse
each unique show with a mix of sing-alongs and other
participatory fare and she stands behind the implied
promise of her show's title. Come find out what she
means as she presents selections from her most recent
site-specific film events-"The California Tour" and "A
Trip Down Market 1905/2005,"-at least one amateur film
club offering, a brand new sing-along, and a couple
films from her on-going Audience Analysis series. For
her Film Center show she is also looking for
adventurous folk to participate in her "Pioneer Woman
Film Screen Tests." Participants will shoot and
hand-process the film during an afternoon workshop and
premiere it at tonight's screening. Registration
information is in the School of Film section. (90 min)
Wednesday November 8, 2006
08:00 PM : Drift:, Sonic Youth Shorts, DJ Yeti @ Holocene
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Wednesday, November 8th
@ Holocene
1001 SE Morrison
8 pm
$5
The Cinema of Sonic Youth
(stop-and-pause)is proud to present 2 rare pieces by filmmaker Leah Singer & SY member Lee Ranaldo and a collection of live performance collaborations chronicled by both filmmakers along with one Fluxus homage performance film by Chris Habib.
DJ Yeti (Mike McGonigal) will spin No Wave/noise experiments during the intermission part of the evening.
This screening would not be possible without the generosity of Plexifilm and the artists.
DRIFT
Leah Singer & Lee Ranaldo
58 minutes
DRIFT is a collaboration started in 1991 between visual artist Leah Singer and musician and poet Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. DRIFT is an immersive sonic/visual environment consisting of music, sounds and texts by Ranaldo in response to two 16mm analytical film projectors performed in real time by Singer. Much as a DJ scratches a vinyl record, Singer manipulates her films in a live improvisation with Ranaldo's guitar, poetry and soundscapes.
DRIFT has been performed live in museums, galleries, concert halls and performing arts centers worldwide since 1991 and was performed live in Los Angeles at the LA Museum of Contemporary Art as part of a Robert Smithson Retrospective in Oct 2004.
Lee Ranaldo is the guitarist and a founding member of the band Sonic Youth. His books of poetry and prose include JRNLS80s and Road Movies among others. Leah Singer is a visual artist and photographer and her work has been seen in print, performances and in exhibitions around the world.
DRIFT is a production of Gigantic ArtSpace.
"DRIFT flows into our nervous system along concurrent multiple streams... and reveals a complex and layered cinema." -Tom Lesser
"DRIFT manages to combine long, dreamlike sequences with a rough hyperrealism, merging a punk aesthetic with the poetics of a happening. It's an equal meeting of music, image and text: at a dirty New York street corner, in trips through the desert and the heart, freaked out LA parties and pensive bookstores. Filmic observations teamed up with wild wild music." -Roland Spekle
Sonic Youth Shorts
42 minutes
A selection of short films produced by the band (shot by Ranaldo & Singer), including four "noise" films: live footage of SY along with Pavement, Afrirampo, Wolf Eyes, Merzbow and others, accompanied by live or manipulated soundtracks that chronicle the immediate free form experience from the stage in Ranaldo’s immediate diarist style ; and Chris Habib's film of the band's 1999 performance of George Maciunas' "Piano Piece #13" (for Nam June Paik).
www.stopandpause.com
www.plexifilm.com
www.sonicyouth.com
Wednesday November 15, 2006
07:00 PM : Sublime Frequencies Film Screening
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Exiled Records presents: A Sublime Frequencies Film Screening
Wednesday, November 15th at the Clinton Street Theater (www.clintonsttheater.com) 2522 SE Clinton St., Portland, OR. 2 films playing. First film, Musical Brotherhoods from the Trans-Saharan Highway, starts at 7pm. The 2nd film, Sumatran Folk Cinema, starts at 8:15. $7 for both films, $5 after 8pm. The filmmakers, Alan Bishop and Hisham Mayet, will be in attendance and do a Q&A session after the 2nd film.
MUSICAL BROTHERHOODS FROM THE TRANS-SAHARAN HIGHWAY
A Film by Hisham Mayet (57 Minutes)
"An assortment of spectacular musical dramas presented live and unfiltered on the home turf of the world's most dynamic string/drum specialists performing and manifesting the ecstatic truth! Ancient mystical brotherhoods have been flourishing for centuries in and around the cities of Marrakesh and Essaouira in Morocco where the trade caravans have gathered from their long journeys across the Trans-Saharan Highway. This is some of the last great street music on Earth.
SUMATRAN FOLK CINEMA
A Film by Mark Gergis & Alan Bishop (60 minutes)
"A psychedelic collage of images and sounds from the heart and soul of Sumatran culture. Witness classic Dangdut rock music, street and country scenes, Pop culture, raw TV excerpts, Minang Orchestras, night markets, folk music, and much more wrapped in a 60-minute kaleidoscope complete with an epic soundtrack. Filmed in and around Medan, Padang, Bukitinggi and beyond with some of the most amazing pre-tsunami footage ever captured from Aceh province. Shot by Mark Gergis and Alan Bishop on location in 2004 with a segment from Bandah Aceh filmed by David Martinez in 2003."
EXILED RECORDS
4628 SE HAWTHORNE BLVD
PORTLAND, OR 97215
Friday November 17, 2006
08:00 PM : Odds and Ends @ Gallery Homeland
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Odds and Ends: an eclectic mix of music videos, animation and short experimental films @ Gallery Homeland curated by Karl Lind.
Featuring the visualistic stylings of Animal Charm, Dan Ackerman, Holly Andres and Grace Carter, Ray Brigleb, Uli Beutter and Alec Cohen, Melanie Brown, E*Rock, Tony Gault, Kurt Nishimura, Kiri Hargie, Steev Hise, Cat Tyc, Michael Paulus and Stephen Slappe
Nov. 17th, 8pm @ Gallery Homeland HQ, 916 SE 34th, PDX 97214
Friday November 24, 2006
11:00 AM : Star Wars! @ CubeSpace
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What: Star Wars!
Where: CubeSpace
622 SE Grand Ave
When: 11/24/6 at 11 a.m.
We will watch Star Wars back-to-back-to-back. It's a traditional day-after-Thanksgiving event.
We'll provide lunch and dinner if you RSVP for those meals. We could also use a little help judging a pumpkin bread competition.
Check http://www.cubespacepdx.com/about_cubespace/starwars for more info, including specific start times of each movie.
Sunday November 26, 2006
07:00 PM : Very Funny Movie @ Valentines
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Valentines continues their five buck French film series with a Jacques Tati film. The director plays the part of Monsieur Hulot in touching slapstick adventures which need no subtitles to be hilarious! In Playtime, the bumbling Mr Hulot meets a hyper efficient mid century modern Paris and encounters equally puzzling tourists. Tati made several films in the Mr Hulot series, all of which are recommended! 232 SW Ankeny 7pm $5
Sunday December 3, 2006
04:30 PM : Darling film @ Valentines
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Valentines film series shifts from France across the channel to London in the 60's with Julie Christie staring in Darling, for which she won the best actress academy award. Discovered in a street interview, Christie rises Courtney Love-style through London's heartless and snobby social ranks from hipsters to princes, ultimately learning money can't buy you love, which of course is what Holly Golightly discovered.
232 SW Ankeny 4:30 pm special time this week $5
Monday December 11, 2006
07:30 PM : Warhol Films @ Cinema Project
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Artist Warhol took Duchamp's art of the ordinary into the era of mass reproduction and celebrity. The same is true of his films. Tonight the Cinema Project presents Outer and Inner Space. Two projectors, side by side, show Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick in each frame, and in each frame there is also a television monitor with Sedgwick, for a total of four images as she converses with off frame characters. The sound is poor for these essentially home movies, but made in 1965, they are Warhol's first double screen films and a fascinating view into the the Factory scene and the tragic short life of Sedgewick. The Speed Monolog Myspace remix is particularly prescient, another look may be found in Plimpton's biography and a feature film Factory Girl due at year end.
Warhol also produced over 500 screen tests, silent video portraits of Factory visitors, the three minute length of a reel of film. These screen tests presage Robert Wilson's HD video portraits. Ten of Warhol's screen tests will be shown. The film will be followed by a reel 18 of Warhol's Screen Tests featuring Nico, Susan Sontag, John Palmer, John Cale's eyes and Lou Reed.
www.cinemaproject.org New American Art Union [922 SE Ankeny]
7:30 pm | $6
Tuesday January 2, 2007
07:30 PM : Kamikaze Girls Film Free @ Camellia Lounge
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Repurposing the lounge for free films on a slow night predates 2601's Sunday film night and tasty burgers. Valentines has Sundays, Pix Mondays and the Camellia Lounge now adds Tuesday.
Tonight they show Kamikaze Girls. This film is a bit hard to describe, but it's the funnest film since Katakuri-ke no kôfuku, The Happiness of the Katakuris. Set in Japan today, the small town protagonist, Momoko, lives in a cosplay world, sews herself fantastical gothic-Lolita/Victorian clothes and dreams of tea parties and a life in distant Tokyo's fashion world. Meanwhile the small town is terrorized the most colorful all girl scooter gang since Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Portland scooter clubs, watch and learn!
Momoko becomes the target of bad-assed Ichiko, the gang's leader, but ultimately these two lonely individualists become best friends, leading to a poignant happy ending. The film is shot and scored music video-style with a J-pop soundtrack. Check the trailer at http://www.kamikazegirls.net/
The Tea Zone's bland suburban front room, themed UK kitsch, gives way to the up to date Camellia lounge in the back with a full bar specializing in tea infused liquor. http://teazone.com/ 510 NW 11th 7:30PM Free
Tuesday January 16, 2007
07:00 PM : Before The Music Dies @ Whitsell Auditorium
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Musicians Union, Local 99 and the Northwest Film Center present:
Before the Music Dies
A featured film of REEL MUSIC 24
Reel Music Film Festival
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 (7:00 PM)
Whitsell Auditorium, Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park, Downtown Portland
$7.00
Co-sponsored by Northwest Film Center and AFM Local 99, the event is a fundraiser for the Music Education Assistance Project (MEAP) to provide music scholarships for gifted, financially strapped middle and high school students.
Immediately following the screening, the audience is invited to participate in a moderated discussion of issues raised in the film, as well as challenges faced in our local music community. Special guests, including Tim Ellis, musician, producer, and owner of Kung Fu Bakery Studios, will participate in the discussion.
For more information about REEL MUSIC 24, go to: www.nwfilm.org
For more information about the film, go to: www.beforethemusicdies.com
Film Synopsis
The Future of American Music Hangs In the Balance
Never have so few companies controlled so much of the music played on the radio and for sale at retail stores. At the same time, there are more bands and more ways to discover their music than ever. Music seems to have split in two - the homogenous corporate product that is spoon fed to consumers and the diverse independent music that finds devoted fans online and at clubs across the country.
BEFORE THE MUSIC DIES tells the story of American music at this precarious moment. Filmmakers Andrew Shapter and Joel Rasmussen traveled the country, hoping to understand why mainstream music seems so packaged and repetitive, and whether corporations really had the power to silence musical innovation. The answers they found on this journey=96ultimately, the promise that the future holds=96are what makes BEFORE THE MUSIC DIES both riveting and exhilarating.
At the heart of BEFORE THE MUSIC DIES are interviews with musicians, industry insiders, music critics, and fans that reveal how music has reached this moment of truth. Featured performances from a truly diverse group of artists, ranging from The Dave Matthews Band and Erykah Badu to Seattle street performers and Mississippi gospel singers show us that great music is always out there=85 as long as you know where to look. BEFORE THE MUSIC DIES will renew your passion for great music, and inspire you to play an active part in its future.
Friday January 19, 2007
09:30 PM : Burn To Shine Film @ NWFVC
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The intensity of creativity is deep inside, so invisible. Burn To Shine mixes mataphor with reality to make it manifest. In the Portland instance of the project, The Thermals, Quasi, The Planet The, Wet Confetti, Lifesavas, Tom Heinl, Mirah, The Decemberists, The Shins, The Gossip, The Ready and Sleater-Kinney play an intimate living room show in a derelect house, with the intensity of their basement house party roots, for a few friends. In the evening, the house is burned to the ground. This film is the result. More details may be found at the filmmakers' website.
http://www.nwfilm.org 9:30PM Whitsell Auditorium $7, $6 students
Monday February 12, 2007
07:30 PM : Rock Star Film @ Valentines
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Neo spinal tap? Who has not dreamed of rockstaring? Many of you have done it live in person. Maybe band touring, like many things, is better in its retelling than actually living it.
Tonight Valentines reprises that reality, with a film of almost now ancient 1998 rock star reality, on the road. As we see, rock star reality TV is anything but.
Radiation focuses on a promoter who in mid tour looses it all in a spiral of chaos. Never happens in real life on the road - right? Shot in Spain, it shows that the rock star life and all its peripheral elements are universal, worldwide.
This is part of a film series in which artists choose a favorite. Tonight's artist is Cat Tyc.
232 Ankeny Valentines 7:30
Tuesday February 20, 2007
06:00 PM : Yubiwa Hotel @ Living Room Theater
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Candies was a sold out performance at TBA last year by Yubiwa Hotel. They describe it as "Girlish Hardcore .. an eccentric procession of shape- shifting schoolgirls, ghosts, strippers, and cartoon animals who poetically interrogate sexual stereotype and cultural liberation." I saw it, and there was certainly a lot of energy, perhaps it's best seen in the context of Tokyo's neverending quest for the new. There's 40 seats to see it free available by reservation - 503-242-1419 ext.221 6PM
Friday March 16, 2007
08:30 PM : Addictive TV and Peter Greenway @ Optronica Festival
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Addictive TV performs live visuals. While their dissing Voila is massively disingenuous, they are one of the leaders in the genre, which has stronger and deeper roots in the UK. Joining Addictive will be Peter Greenway. Greenway is known for a series of spectacularly self indulgent art films, presaging Mathew Barney, who expanded the concept. In neither case this is not necessarily a bad thing. Born 1942, in Wales, Greenway, director of 59 films, has been awarded Commander of the British Empire by the Queen. Tonight he will perform live samples from the 92 Tulse Luper series, accompanied by DJ Radar. Greenway performs on a purpose built touch screen video server presaging future tools for live performance.
Both artists perform on the British Film Institute IMAX.
The Optronica Festival runs through Sunday. Pioneers EBN, who mixed visuals on VHS tape in the wayback, will be represented by Gardiner Port and Brian Kane. Ryoichi Kurokawa also performs.
All this is happening in London.
Note all the links here from the site http://www.optronica.org annoyingly trash the browser address bar. Poor form gents!
Monday April 9, 2007
07:00 PM : Funny Free Summer Camp Film @ Mississippi Studios
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NWISC are showing a campy summer camp film "Wet Hot American Summer", starring Janeane Garofalo, for free tonight. It's a benefit though, so they will have opportunities to spend some money if you have it. Their program this summer starts with a campout in virgin forest; progresses to an intense summer camp session of classes on politics and media; the finish are students turned loose on social-political change projects in Portland proper. Mississippi Studios 3939 N Mississippi 7PM Free
Friday April 20, 2007
07:00 PM : Jandek Represents @ Hollywood Theatre
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April 20th - Jandek Represents - April 20, 2006, Hollywood Theatre, Portland
In cooperation with Corwood Industries, Jackpot Records presents the raw footage from this sold out performance at last years festival. Jandek is accompanied by Emil Amos (Grails) on drums and Sam Coomes (Quasi) on bass. Shot by local filmmaker extraordinaire, Matt McCormick who captures the essence of this bewildering and breathtaking evening. (120 min)
Hollywood Theatre
4122 NE Sandy Blvd.
Portland, OR
Price: FREE!
Monday April 23, 2007
08:00 PM : Animations @ Valentine's
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Monday the 23rd: James Sumner, E*Rock, and Friends from Hooliganship are all screening animations. James (a recent transplant to Portland who finished an Artist in Res. at the Department of Safety in Anacortes in December) is screening the Dirty Projectors' opera, The Getty Address, an animated epic he made about Don Henley. Hooliganship will present some CARTUNE XPREZ (huh?), and E*Rock...who knows what the F he's doing. It should be a great night! Starting around 8pm, and of course, FREE.
Wednesday April 25, 2007
07:00 PM : (PDXFF) Charged in the Name of Terror @ Hollywood Theatre
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Charged in the Name of Terror
Four video portraits by contemporary artists that look at the Patriot Act and abuses of power.
at the Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd in Portland.
Thursday April 26, 2007
04:30 PM : (PDXFF) Shorts #1 @ Hollywood Theatre
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Shorts Program #1
Eye of the Beholder: Experimental Portraiture
Hattenhorst
Ove Sander
5 min, 35mm, Germany
A portrait of an elderly projectionist and an ode to the faded movie palace.
The Magician’s House
Deborah Stratman
6 min, 16mm, Chicago
Sometimes the supernatural lingers plainly in the most ordinary places, secret only in as much as its trace goes unnoticed. Both a letter to an alchemist-filmmaker friend, and a quiet tribute to the vanishing art of celluloid, this film is full of ghosts.
Astika
Ben Rivers
9min, 16mm, Brighton, UK
A portrait of Astika, who lives on an island in Denmark. He has lived in a run down farmhouse for 15 years and his project has been to let the land around him grow unchecked, but now he has been forced to move out by people who prefer more respectable neighbors.
Kieu
Kevin T. Allen
18min, video, Brooklyn
Kieu, loosely translated as “foreign”, is the name given to thousands of Vietnamese refugees and their children who have journeyed “home.” Traversing notions of origin and belonging by way of luscious Kodachrome travel footage and field recordings, Kieu explores the stories of three Viet-Kieu as they “return” to Vietnam.
My Person in the Water
Leighton Pierce
6 min, video, Iowa City
A woman moving in the water and the gaze of a man lead the viewer toward an effervescence of feeling- a desire for merge among the knowledge of separateness.
Der Gruß von Meiner Mutter (The Greeting from my Mother)
Katja Straub
13min, video, Austin
This film traces the sublime and almost invisible bonds of motherhood and daughterhood over "one hundred years and two world wars".
Walk
Meg Knowles
3 min, video, Buffalo
A documentation of personal change, distraction and devotion, shot on film over 3 months.
Wood
David Fenster
22 min, video, Miami
Shot in and around John Day, Oregon, Wood follows the journey of timber from the forest through the sawmill and presents a portrait of the workingmen we find along the way. Despite the heated controversy that surrounds the timber industry, Wood eschews easy politics, focusing instead on the actual workers, machines, and raw material involved in this complex situation.
at the Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd in Portland.
06:30 PM : (PDXFF) From the Outside In @ Hollywood Theatre
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From the Outside In: New Videos by Jacqueline Goss and Lynne Sachs
Stranger Comes to Town
Jacqueline Goss
28 minutes, video
They say there are only two stories in the world: man goes on a journey, and stranger comes to town.
"Stranger Comes to Town" re-works animations from the Department of Homeland Security, combining them with stories from the border, impressions from the on-line game World of Warcraft, and journeys via Google Earth to tell a tale of bodies moving through lands familiar and strange. Through the stories of six different people who have entered the U.S. as foreigners, Goss focuses on the questions and examinations used to establish identity at the border, and how these processes in turn affect one's own sense of self and view of the world.
States of UnBelonging
Lynne Sachs in collaboration with Nir Zats
63 min, video
Filmmaker in attendance!
The core of this haunting meditation on war, land, the Bible, and filmmaking is a portrait of Revital Ohayon, an Israeli filmmaker and mother killed in a terrorist act on a kibbutz near the West Bank. Avoiding easy political polarizations, the film is structured around an exchange of letters between Sachs and her Israeli friend Nir Zats. Together, they reveal Revital's story through her films, news reports, and interviews, culminating in heartbreaking footage of children discussing the violence they've witnessed and an unforgettable visit with Ohayon's grieving family. Without taking sides or casting blame, States of UnBelonging becomes a cine-essay on fear and filmmaking, tragedy and transformation, violence and the land of Israel/Palestine.
Lynne Sachs will also be teaching a workshop at the NW Film Center during the fest.
Preceded by:
Lost
Jeanne C. Finley + John Muse
4min, video, San Francisco
A quiet observation of the moral ambiguities at work in a story from the frontlines, excerpted from Chaplin Major Eric Olson’s audio diary.
09:00 PM : (PDXFF) Sublime Frequencies @ Hollywood Theatre
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Thursday April 26 9PM
Sublime Frequencies: From the Archives
filmmakers in attendance!
The world explorers of Sublime Frequencies journey to us from Seattle to premiere two new video collections from their extensive travels throughout Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
MY FRIEND RAIN
Sublime Frequencies Archives Volume 5
45 minutes, video
A collage of musical segments, tropical backdrops, and mysterious celebratory events, from rainy mornings in the lowlands of the Ayerwaddy River to the humid nights of Java's Dangdut scene. Captured live and in the moment by Robert Millis, Hisham Mayet,and Alan Bishop on location in Thailand, Burma, Indonesia, and Laos.
PALACE OF THE WINDS
a film by Hisham Mayet
45 minutes, video
An entrancing look at the culture and music of the Saharawis from the Western Sahara and Mauritania. This film explores the rich heritage of a culture that is cloaked in mystery and mired in struggle. Journey from the northern fringes of the Western Sahara to the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott. Explore the intoxicating tapestry of sight and sound that this obscure region has to offer from some of its most legendary musicians.
SUBLIME FREQUENCIES LISTENING PARTY
Rotture, 315 SE 3rd Ave
Thursday April 26, 11:30ish
After the Sublime Frequencies program, please join us at Rotture where the Sublime Frequencies gang will be spinning an assortment of music from their own catalog and beyond.
SUBLIME FREQUENCIES is a collective of explorers dedicated to acquiring and exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and traditional, urban and rural frontiers via film and video, field recordings, radio and short wave transmissions, and other forms of human and natural expression not documented sufficiently by academic research, the modern recording industry, media, or corporate foundations. SUBLIME FREQUENCIES is focused on an aesthetic of extra-geography and soulful experience inspired by music and culture, world travel, research, and the pioneering recording labels of the past.
Explore the catalog at www.sublimefrequencies.com
Friday April 27, 2007
05:30 PM : (PDXFF) Shorts Program #2 @ Hollywood Theatre
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Friday April 27 5:30PM
Shorts Program #2
Eye See Different: Experimental & Underground Shorts
Orbit
Kerry Laitala
9 min, 16mm, San Francisco
Candy apple light emissions create a series of photic stimulating events that tickle the retinas.
Where You Are Is Not Where You Are Going
Jennifer Hardacker
3 min, 16mm, Ann Arbor
Should I stay or should I go? Is the grass always greener on the other side or is there no place like home?
Mannequins Harlequin
Jodie Mack
3 min, video, Chicago
A mannequin hoedown.
Mundane Expositions
Manuel Abady
4 min, video, Brighton, MA
An homage to Ernie Gusella's Exquisite Corpse (1978). A barrage of oscillating images, which create a new perspective of a seemingly "mundane" world.
Bloodlines
Vanara Taing
11 min, video, Brooklyn
Bloodlines intertwines the use of interview, archival footage and images of a traditional healing practice called gha kchal to explore the relationship between the video maker and her mother, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge genocide.
Hwang Sa Shield Us From the Sun
olivia ciummo
2 min, video, Pittsburgh
Inspired by the Hwang su – Korean name for the thick yellow dust that is a seasonal phenomenon effecting many parts of Northern Asia.
Welcome to Normal: A Seven Minute Exercise
Marianna Ellenberg
7 min, video, Brooklyn
You CAN get better! An Exquisite Corpse compendium of hypnotic sounds, symptoms, and neurological disorders – treatment is just around the corner! (Warning: may induce side effects.)
The Mountain Where Everything is Upside Down
Shana Moulton
5 min, video, Oakhurst, CA
Household rituals meant to reduce stress trigger a disruption in the space-time continuum, causing objects in the room to have supernatural properties.
For A Blonde… For a Brunette… For Someone… For Her… For You…
Mike Olenick
6 min, video, Columbus, OH
An interactive (karaoke-style) reenactment of a key scene from Vertigo as performed by the filmmaker and the audience.
Untitled (Silver)
Takeshi Murata
10 min, video, Saugerties, NY
Ghostly images appear to slip in and out of real time, creating a haunting and ethereal experience, set to a soundtrack composed by musicians Robert Beatty and Ellen Mollé.
Filthy Food
T. Arthur Cottam
5 min, Video, Burbank
Eat it. Lick it. Suck it. Swallow it. Relax, its just food.
Throws
David Dunn
2min, video, Philadelphia
The joys of the CVS disposable DV camera.
Whirr
Timo Katz
2 min, video, Bielefeld, Germany
With mechanical precision this ‘landscape animation’ captures the tension between differences and repetitions of form sampled in a suburban housing estate.
It will Die Out In the Mind
Deborah Stratman
4 min, video, Chicago
A short meditation on the possibility of spiritual existence and the paranormal in our information age.
08:00 PM : (PDXFF) Strange Culture @ Hollywood Theatre
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Strange Culture
Lynn Hershman Leeson
75 min, video 2007
Artist and college professor Steve Kurtz was preparing for a MASS MoCA exhibition about genetically modified food in May 2004 when, days before the opening, his wife, Hope, suddenly and tragically died of heart failure. Distraught, Kurtz called 911, but when medics arrived, they became suspicious of his art supplies and called the FBI. Soon after, dozens of agents in haz-mat suits sifted through his home and impounded his computers, books, cat, and even his wife's body. The government held Kurtz as a suspected terrorist, and, nearly three years later, the charges have not been dropped. He still faces up to 20 years in prison. Because Kurtz cannot legally talk about the case, Leeson enlists actors, including Tilda Swinton, Thomas Jay Ryan, and Peter Coyote, to interpret the story. Leeson skillfully weaves dramatic reenactment, news footage, animation, testimonials, and footage of Kurtz himself into a sophisticated documentary about post-9/11 paranoia and the risks artists face when their work questions government policies.
— Shari Frilot (Sundance)
Preceded by:
Flagged
Jefferson Goolsby and The JiRCs
4min, video, Eugene
Several anonymous figures attempt to erect a flag in a hostile environment.
Patriotic
Pascal Lievre + Benny Nemeofsky Ramsay
4 min, video, Montreal
The language of anti-terrorism takes an unexpected form in this seductive propaganda video.
10:00 PM : (PDXFF) Last Refuge for The Senses @ Hollywood Theatre
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Last Refuge for The Senses or Noise Hippies Against All War
Filmmaker/Curator Ben Russell in attendance
“A new breed of noise/psychedelia has sprung up as the only rational response to an increasingly alienating form of global capitalism. Like the American psychedelic cinema of the 60’s and 70’s, this crop of contemporary 16mm films enunciates an emotional response to an overwhelming historical moment (now). Their use of analog technologies, of live soundtracks and camera-less processes is indicative of a DIY approach that has its political roots in resistance and its aesthetic roots in a gentler past. Geography has conspired to create a micro-movement, for these are all works from the same community - Providence, RI. The strength of these films lies in their denial of total escapism, in their collective decision to create a communal experience that can move beyond the screen and into the world outside. This is the cinema of deliverance, the theater of psychic hearts and radical love – bleeding your eyes and ears clean of the sorrow of the everyday, swelling your body full with hope for the possibilities of today.”
- B