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.”
- Ben Russell, program curator
Featuring:
Black and White Trypps Number Three
Ben Russell
(11:30, 35mm, 2007)
Paranoia Trilogy Part One: The Chemical Bath
Xander Marro
(6:00, 16mm, 2001)
Scream Tone
Jo Dery
(3:00, 16mm, 2002)
Echoes of Bats and Men
Jo Dery
(7:00, 16mm, 2005)
The Red and the Blue Gods
Ben Russell
(8:00, 16mm, live sound, 2005)
01/06
Matt Brinkman and Xander Marro
(13:00, 16mm, 2006)
The Great Exodus
Jo Dery
(6:30, 16mm, 2007)
L’Eye
Xander Marro
(2:00, 16mm, 2004)
Third Annual Roggabogga Motion Picture
Forcefield
(6:30, 16mm, 2002)
Saturday April 28, 2007
01:00 PM : (PDXFF) Shorts Program #3 @ Hollywood Theatre
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Shorts Program #3: Friends & Neighbors
Experimental short films by local and regional artists.
Kinetoscopes for the 21st Century
Mack McFarland
4 min, video
A sampling from a larger project in which the artist created one movie a day over a three month period and posted them online at kinetocast.com. The project draws a connection between the single-viewership of early kinetoscopes and current online video streaming.
October of This Year
Rob Tyler
4 min, video
Shot in Portland during the ice storm of 2003, this is a music video for the ambient + abstract duo, Unrecognizable Now.
Invitation
Morgan Currie
9 min, video
While videotaping a FEMA workshop in a poor Gulfport, MS neighborhood three months after Hurricane Katrina, one of the attendees invited me inside his household. He and his partner wanted to go on record about their feelings – on the hurricane, the war, the state of the world. I spent a few hours there recording them, and this film spun out as a distillation of that meeting.
Isi
Chris Larson
3 min, video
A summertime abstraction.
Conquest Blues
Gordon Nickel
2 min, video
What is a conquistador to do when he has nothing left to conquer?
Ring! Ring!
Arman Bohn
10 min, video
A story inspired by a mischievous doorbell. Mysterious gifts are delivered at opportune moments. Who is creating what?
A State
Hanna Craig
5 min, video
A State is a dreamlike depiction of anxiety and the struggle to be.
Transit
Melissa Gregory Rue
7 min, video
16mm found footage leads us on a journey through a dying man’s last moments.
Steve Winwood is Hungry for Breakfast
Jesse England
2 min, video
After a chance hearing of a Steve Winwood song played backwards, a phrase was heard clearly expressing a desire for sausage. Upon examination of other Winwood songs, it was evident that he wanted more food.
I Love Your Music
E*Rock/Wyld File
4 min, video
An animated music video for Swedish ChipTune producer, Tobiah. A boombox toting hero caught in a modernist invasion, fights back with a positive message.
Dear Alphabet
Marina Budovsky
7 min, video
The story of one woman and what happens after a monster eats her mother. The “letter of the law” and the “law of the letter” wrestle under one sky.
Soft
Morgan Hobart
3 min, video
Clouds of fur in the line of fire of the stormy hail stone sun, the sky opens up and passes right over.
Reading Non-Fiction
Cheryl Lohrmann
3 min, video
What happens when one reads about a potentially serious problem that lurks in the shadows of public attention? This experimental animation illustrates a strange mix of conviction and helplessness.
Nora
Grace Carter + Holly Andres
20 min, video
An afternoon encounter between two lovers plays out in an unusual fashion as issues of power, domination and gender reversal are explored.
03:15 PM : (PDXFF) Lunchfilms @ Hollywood Theatre
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Saturday April 28th 3:15PM
Lunchfilms
Cinemad’s Mike Plante joins us to present a smorgasbord of shorts from his ongoing Lunchfilms project:
“By accident, I started a series of lunch shorts. James Fotopoulos and I were eating lunch two years ago and the place only took cash. Fotopoulos didn’t have any. So I made him a deal: I’ll buy the lunch and he’ll trade me a short film for the same cost. We made up rules for the film on a napkin, as a challenge and referring to subjects we talked about over lunch. Since then 25 lunch shorts have been ‘commissioned’. Here are the finished ones. Only one copy of each film exists.
While each film has its own rules and ideas, the overall metaphor is a basic one: it is very easy to help a filmmaker. Be a part of your community. Buy one lunch today.”
–Mike Plante
Featuring Lunchfilms from:
Cam Archer, Roger Beebe, James Benning, James Clauer, Jem Cohen, Ben Coonley, Bill Daniel, Kevin Everson, James Fotopoulos, Sharon Lockhart, Eileen Maxson, Carson Mell, Nina Menkes, Chris Peters, Elizabeth Skadden, Sebastian Wolf and the Zellner Brothers.
Total cost of program (plus tip): $622.71
17 films, 72 minutes
Mike Plante has published Cinemad magazine since 1998, first as six printed issues distributed worldwide, now as a website. Plante is also the Associate Director of Programming for CineVegas, was a Short Film Programmer for Sundance, and writes for other magazines including Filmmaker and Razorcake.
05:30 PM : (PDXFF) Growing Awareness @ Hollywood Theatre
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Growing Awareness
Jade Ajani
90 min, video, 2007
This locally-produced documentary examines Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA), in which consumers buy shares of a local farm's harvest, receiving a weekly supply of fresh food throughout the season. It is also a critique of the Organic-Industrial complex and the modern corporate-controlled globalized food system. Small-scale organic farmers in the South Puget Sound region share their views on the present reality of small-scale CSA farming and its impact on farmers, consumers, and the local community as a whole.
Director Ajani grew up on such a farm in the Independence Valley south of Olympia, and his passion for the subject is evident in the beautiful selection of imagery and music that accompanies the observations and insights shared in the film.
Preceded by:
I Heart Edmars
Camela Christopher
5 min, video, Chicago
A sweet elegy to the close of a neighborhood market.
Sunday April 29, 2007
01:00 PM : (PDXFF) The SCREEN GRAMMAR CINEMA & POETRY EXPERIMENT @ Hollywood Theatre
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The SCREEN GRAMMAR CINEMA & POETRY EXPERIMENT
NYC filmmaker David Gatten has co-conspired with local artist Cat Tyc to wrangle up a wild gang of poets and filmmakers, from both near and afar, for a special afternoon of projected visions and live poetry sounds.
"If you could see the words I whisper, if you could hear the sights I see…"
Words will be spoken and pictures will move.
Letters will shake and images will murmur.
What to do when you lose someone?
What to do when you find them?
How to tell the difference?
Instructions will be furnished, advice will be given.
Offerings from Cat Tyc, David Abel, Michael Robinson, Ashley Edwards, Mary Helena Clark, David Gatten and surprise Special Guests!
03:15 PM : (PDXFF) Shorts Program #4 @ Hollywood Theatre
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Shorts Program #4: The Cult of the Mustache and Other Cultural Phenomena
Coconut
Chris Hoag
1.5 min, 16mm, Wankesha, WI
Spatially and temporally isolated windows through which an event in a larger context can be indexed.
I’m Keith Hernandez
Rob Perri
19min, video, Hollywood
Part baseball documentary, part anti-drug film, part socio political satire, I'm Keith Hernandez utilizes a version of Hernandez’s life to discuss how male identity is shaped by media, celebrity, and consumerism.
No One Touches The Floor
John Bacone
video, 1 min, Portland
Slowing down movement allows understanding of what’s happening, and what’s happening is magic, but commonplace.
Valery’s Ankle
Brett Kashmere
33 minutes, video, Syracuse. NY
Valery’s Ankle explodes the spectacle of hockey violence and its representation in North America media. Taking Bobby Clarke’s breaking of rival Russian star Valery Kharlamov’s ankle during the 1972 Summit Series as its departure point and site of research, the film uncovers a disturbing history of unforetold and abject Canadian behavior.
Spheres
Jeremy Bird
1 min, video, Portland
The simplest toys illuminate, ricochet, whosh and explode in a noisy microcosmos.
Dear Bill Gates
Sarah J. Christman
17 min, video, Philadelphia
A simple correspondence evolves into a poetic visual essay exploring the ownership of our visual history and culture. Combining original and archival film, video and images from the internet, “Dear Bill Gates” draws unexpected connections among mining, memory and Microsoft.
Light Is Waiting
Michael Robinson
11 min, video, Chicago
A very special episode of Full House eats itself from the inside out, excavating a hypnotic nightmare of a culture lost at sea.
05:30 PM : (PDXFF) Helen Hill Remembered @ Hollywood Theatre
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Helen Hill Remembered
On January 4th, 2007, the experimental film community lost one of its brightest stars. Helen Hill, a filmmaker and animator who lived in New Orleans, was shot and killed in her home by an intruder. She was a marvelous and gifted artist, filmmaker, mother, wife, and friend.
Helen Hill with husband Paul Gailiunas and their son Francis Pop
Helen was an incredible filmmaker and highly regarded in the experimental film community. She made wonderful, quirky animations, often manipulating the film surface by hand with various techniques that resulted in stunningly beautiful abstract images. She was so good at hand-made, direct to film animation that she taught workshops all across the country, and even released the heralded 'Recipes For Disaster' booklet that has served as the quintessential direct-animation resource since it was published. Helen’s home was flooded after Hurricane Katrina, and a crazy mold grew on many of her films. I remember her joking that some of the mold created patterns on the film that were so interesting that she might need to add a chapter in her book about them.
Helen never seemed too interested in her own success, but instead viewed filmmaking as a folk-art and put her emphasis into building community. I imagine that her vision of success would be a world of people living together in peace, sitting around a giant table making animated films. She was a much-loved member of the experimental film community. I used to joke that Helen was so sweet that when you first met her you might think she was going to try to sell you something. But it wouldn't take long to realize that she was just a wonderful, beautiful human being who had a profound sense of compassion and generosity.
In this program we are proud to screen a selection of Helen’s work along with films made by some of her closest colleagues. Revenue from this program will be donated to a college fund that has been set up for her 2-year-old son Francis Pop. A memorial website for Helen has been set up at www.helenhill.org
-Matt McCormick
08:00 PM : (PDXFF) Helvetica @ Hollywood Theatre
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Helvetica
Gary Hustwit
80 min, HD, 2007
Filmmaker Gary Hustwit and Designer David Carson in attendence!
From its modest beginnings on the drafting board of a little-known Swiss designer in 1957, Helvetica has since grown to become the most commonly used font in the contemporary cultural landscape. It is the official font for thousands of corporate logos, used for signage in transportation systems around the globe, and is the default typeface for Apple Macintosh’s OS. Through insightful interviews with design moguls like David Carson, Matthew Carter, Massimo Vignelli, Erik Spiekermann, Experimental Jetset, and many others, filmmaker Gary Hustwit uses the proliferation of a single font to guide the viewer through an intelligent conversation about the evolution of design over the last half century and how graphic design is impacting us in our everyday lives. Filmed in the United States, England, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, France and Belgium, Helvetica takes the viewer on a tour of our urban spaces to illustrate how design is impacting the visual culture.
Helvetica is Gary Hustwit’s directorial debut. He has produced a number of feature documentaries, including I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, the award-winning film about the band Wilco; Moog, the documentary about electronic music pioneer Robert Moog; and Drive Well, Sleep Carefully, a tour film about the band Death Cab for Cutie.
Preceded by:
How to Draw Clouds
Salise Hughes
2min, video, Seattle
A poetic meditation on the desire to make permanent what is ephemeral.
Nuero Economy
Jill Kennedy
5 min, video, Auckland, New Zealand
A short animated film set to a real audio recording found on a telephone answering machine.
Saturday June 2, 2007
08:30 PM : Artists' Films Outdoors @ Artemesia
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Tonight see films by some seminal artists, outside. Showing will be Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson, Railroad Turnbridge by Richard Serra and Sun Tunnels by Nancy Holt. It is no accident that these these films were made in the West with its grand landscapes which resist human alteration.
Serra is known for large steel sculptures of minimal form. They are fabricated with a steel formulated to develop a uniform patina of plain old rust. One public piece, "tilted arc" was removed and destroyed because people didn't like it, or like walking around it. It was a success in every dimension. Railroad Turnbridge documents the machinery that can reverse a locomotive. It was filmed in Portland. I must admit that a kinetic Sera could be quite dangerous, so I'm glad the artist stopped his exploration of movement with this film
Smithson's most famous piece, Spiral Jetty, is exactly that in a remote corner of the Great Salt Lake. Holt's Sun Tunnels are in an even remoter Nevada spot as noted by Portland filmmaker Matt McCormick
The Portland environs are ripe for outside art. The old Horsehead series had a nice run completing with about 10 invited works a year on a wooded and meadowed tract in Duvall, Washington. One summer day, artists visited to picnic and explore the new pieces and some old ones decaying into the landscape. There was no map, just word of mouth and the joy of discovery and exploration. (One year there was a side project raffle by disgruntled artists with the prize the opportunity to smash a Chihuly) Scott Wayne Indiana did a great outdoor show at Mt Scott Park last year - let's see more!
Tonight's films are 16mm analog, with that rich tonal range. The site a sweet urban garden. Music by J.P. Jenkins + Bird Costumes. A Cinema Project project. Music at 8:30, films 9
Artemisia Garden & Gallery 110 SE 28th Avenue xAnkeny $6
Friday June 8, 2007
08:45 PM : Bike Porn @ Clinton Street Theater
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“A series of short films from various artists on the theme of bike porn. People often talk about the “pornography of violence” as a way of describing the graphical nature of violent content that seems gratuitous. Some say that something is pornographic when we get a visceral reaction to the material, when we are either compelled to turn away, or find ourselves so transfixed by what we see the images are burned into our memories.”
Bike Porn
Friday, June 8th
Clinton St Theater
26th & SE Clinton
8:45 pm
Thursday June 21, 2007
08:00 PM : VIDEO BANQUET @ Rake Gallery
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VIDEO BANQUET
Venue location: Rake Art Gallery
325 NW 6th Ave. Portland Oregon 97209
Time: 8pm (both nights)
Cost: A suggested donation of 7.00 covers your entry
Refreshments: We will be serving Beer, Wine and Snacks (Cash bar)
* Please note that both shows are 21 and Over
June 21st 8 PM, SHOW INFO:
Opening this evening’s festivities we are pleased to welcome:
A special mystery guest (it’s a surprise!)
Then, immediately following our mystery guest we have tonight’s headliner:
"A German and a Mexican Tour"
Straight from Austin, TX "A German and a Mexican Tour" showcases work from filmmakers Katja Straub and Miguel Alvarez. Both love, tell and collect stories - narrative or documentary - always with an emphasis on visual exploration. Their rather non-traditional shorts range from personal documentary to narrative film, from experimental to cinema veritÈ. Drawing upon their unique cultural roots, Katja and Miguel offer up stories of Bavarian weather candles, inherited music toys in the forest of Latin America, imprisoned African magic in Berlin, and the like.
The Lineup:
All White People are French
documentary, 12min, miniDV (c)2004
The childhood memory told by an asylum-seeker living in Berlin. These stories of African magic meet drawings on the walls of a prison in Berlin, where refused asylum seekers are kept prior to their expulsion to their countries of origin.
The White Bunny
experimental short, 7min,16mm (c)2005
Explores the conscious and sub-conscious longings of the human mind, told through the story of a woman, an injured boy, a small girl in a red dress, and a white bunny.
Veterans
documentary,13min, Super8 (c)2007
A documentary portrait of the filmmaker's father and grandfather, two men whose lives are ultimately defined by the wars they've waged both abroad and within themselves.
You're Not a Cowboy Unless You Got a Hat
documentary, 16min, miniDV/Super8 (c)2006
Explores the difference between German and American perceptions of the American West. The film follows three elder gentlemen who all claim to be cowboys. They talk about the cowboy mentality and lifestyle and how it feels for them to live in a world where these values are more and more shifting.
Tadpoles
short narrative, 8min, 16mm (c)2005
A story, told through the eyes of a young boy, about the tendency that people have to ignore the lessons learned from allowing inhuman actions to pervade humanity in times of war.
The Greeting From my Mother
documentary, 12min, 16mm/Super8 (c)2007
Traces the sublime and almost invisible bonds of motherhood, daughterhood and sisterhood over "one hundred years and two world wars." Notes of faith and the passage of time, are combined in a collage of images.
Filmmaker Bios
Katja Straub comes from Berlin. She studied experimental media at the University of the Arts and worked as a scenic painter and art director before traveling to the US.
Miguel Alvarez comes from San Antonio. Depending when found, he is at times, an engineer, writer, or photographer. Both are award-winning filmmakers whose work has screened in the Museum of Modern Art, on PBS, and at numerous festivals around the world. They met in 2004 as graduate students at the University of Texas at Austin and have been friends ever since.
For more info, please visit:
http://www.rocketfilm.de
http://www.estebandido.com
For our post film live music entertainment this evening playing an unplugged acoustic congo set we have the Blue Ballerz
Blue Ballerz
June 22nd 8 PM, SHOW INFO:
Opening this evening’s festivities we are pleased to welcome:
Do I Need to Draw you a Map? presents: The Sleeper in the Valley: Live Shadow Theatre
The Sleeper in the Valley is live shadow theatre based loosely on the
poem of the same name by Arthur Rimbaud.
A soldier is shot as he marches in the desert. A jaunty young ghost in
the finest military regalia flys out of his lifeless body as blood
fills the screen. A series of adventures and mishaps ensue as he is
flung through hell on earth on the back of a riverboat queen.
Then, immediately following our opening act we have tonight’s headliner:
The (traveling) Super 8 Side Show……….
Celebrating its 8th year, the Super 8 Side Show has amassed a number of short films from around the globe; all of which were shot with Super-8 film.
And because of this, we choose to program and project these moving images
for audiences that are into watching these sorts of things.
Many genres and sub-genres, quasi-genres, and anti-genres will be present.
Because, not only are these movies really unique to look at, most of them are pretty good. And the people who make them really appreciate a crowd.
So come out and watch a whole bunch of short films that were shot by the likes of your grandparents, or your brother, or your bratty/art-school/know-it-all-friend, who is actually not really your friend
Johnny Morehouse (Super 8 Sideshow Curator and Filmmaker) and his Bio…….
Johnny Morehouse is in his thirties.
He lives in Denver.
And he loves the moving image.
He took one class at the NW film center,
One semester at NYU,
And a bunch of semesters at the University of Denver.
He works in the mediums of Super 8 film, 16mm film,
And digital capture.
He has no strong argument toward using one medium as opposed to another,
But will argue very strongly for fostering each for their unique qualities.
Mostly, Johnny occupies himself by promoting creative endeavors such as
Art shows, film shows, stage shows and the like.
He likes shooting sub-pop documentary stuff.
In fact, he is currently producing COLFAX versus BROADWAY,
A seedy look into two of the longest boulevards in the U S of A.
Monday June 25, 2007
09:00 PM : Platform Festival @ PCPA
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OPENING PARTY
Monday, June 25th
9 pm
Portland Center for Performing Arts
Live music by Laura Veirs & Saltbreakers
Hosted by Cartoon Network
On June 25, 2007, PLATFORM International Animation Festival will debut the only major animation festival in the United States, located in beautiful Portland, Oregon. The mission of the festival is to give artists from around the world a non-commercial forum that allows for continued inspiration and growth of this multi-million dollar industry.
The PLATFORM six day (June 25 – 30th) program features premieres and retrospectives, rare screenings, guest speakers, exhibitions, workshops with leading artists, parties, a picnic and plenty of opportunities for meeting new friends and likeminded artists. There will be something for everyone, from animation professionals to students, to the general public.
This is an important time for animation with the rapid growth of technology changing our craft every day. Aiming to empower fellow artists, we have created a literal Platform for young and established animators to come together to explore the new challenges and possibilities that contemporary and future technologies bring to animation. Whether the animation has been created for theaters or cell phones or the side of a building, if it is brilliant and interesting, we will show it.
Friday June 29, 2007
07:00 PM : ANIMATION FEST @ FLOATING WORLD COMICS
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This week Platform International Animation Festival takes over Portland.
Next Friday June 29th, they take over the 5th & Couch corner with events
and parties at the Portland Art Center, Ground Kontrol, Backspace,
Someday, etc... With their blessing, Floating World Comics has teamed with
Psilo Design to curate our very own animaton festival!
Local and lo-fi, international and extrasensory, hand drawn, stop motion,
cgi and puppetry, electricity and torches. Influential animator Joanna
Priestly, comic creators Lilli Carre, Max Andersson, Graham Annable, Paper
Rad, Dearraindrop. Award winning shorts from Howie Shia, Rob Chiu, and
Guilherme Marcondes.
In addition to the 100 minute program I put together, the show will also
feature a special 30 minute section curated by e*rock, a halftime
performance by Hooliganship, and a 30 minute retrospective on 70's
animator/special effects innovator Adam Beckett.
Extra special thanks to our licensed volunteers, 5th Ave Cinemas for the
projector, Jacques (Night Gallery) for the speakers, New Deal for the
vodka, and Pabst for the blue ribbon. 21+, free
THE PROGRAM (last minute additions tba):
7PM - "FLOATING WORLD ANIMATION FESTIVAL"
Joanna Priestly - "VOICE"
Ola - "MICHAEL JACKSON'S FIVE"
Christophe Blanc - "FRONTON"
Luke Holden, Sam Liberto, Carolyn Main - "OPERATION AWARENESS"
Howie Shia - "FLUTTER"
Max Hattler - "EVERYTHING TURNS"
Christophe Blanc - "ARRACHENEZ"
Mariola Brillowska - "PORNO KARAOKE INTERNATIONAL"
Aidan Koch - "LIQUID MAGIC"
William O'Brien - "WHEN YOUR HEART IS ON FIRE, SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES"
Mariana Abasolo - "RIGHT WRONG OR DON'T KNOW"
Bruno Dicolla - "SCOOTER & JINX"
Rafael Coutinho - "AQUELE CARA"
Lilli Carre - "WHAT HITS THE MOON"
Graham Annable - "SPACE WOLF"
Zane Kozak - "GRE GRE"
Tripper Dungan III - "ASTRO PROJECT"
Rob Chiu - "BLACK DAY TO FREEDOM"
Stefan JH Van Dinther - "ALLOW TO INFUSE"
Vivian Wong - "KILL JOHN WAYNE"
Aidan Koch - "THE TREACHERY"
Christophe Blanc - "PORK DAMAGE 2"
Max Andersson - "NO COMMENT"
Max Hattler - "NACHTMASCHINE"
Guilherme Marcondes - "TYGER"
Max Andersson - "100 YEARS"
8:45 PM - "ADAM BECKETT RETROSPECTIVE"
Flesh Flows(1974)
"Intricate animated line drawings, erotic and surreal, are transformed
during three chapters from their base existence at the beginning into a
continuous flight through a space filled with luminous clouds of flowing
purple and turquoise gases. Hence we are shown a path from the carnal to
the cosmic."
Kitsch in Synch (1975)
"This is an abstract animation that seems to get laughs. The soundtrack is
why, mainly; it sounds like a large group of demented ducks
enthusiastically and persistently seeking oneness with the all, via
energetic chanting. BUBUBABU!!! The imagery is elaborate, brightly
colored, and every single damned beat in the soundtrack has its own little
bump."
Adam's work was ground-breaking at the time - 1970-1975. His personal work
was side-tracked when he entered the film effects industry. He was hired
as the head of animation and rotoscoping on the first Star Wars. He left
three films unfinished at his untimely death in 1979, not quite two years
after the theater release of Star Wars.
For more info on Beckett and The iotaCenter's project see
http://www.iotacenter.org/projects/beckett.
9:15 - HOOLIGANSHIP LIVE PERFORMANCE
9:45 - e*rock
Mumbleboy & e*rock - "SUPER HEROES"
Paper Rad - "COOL SONG"
ghxyk2 - "MY ZAZA"
Matt Lock - "BURNOUT"
Nate Boyce - "SCEPTER QUEST"
Jeff Kriksciun - "UNTITLED"
Shobo Shobo - "POLOPO"
Famicom Group - "BART THE GENERAL PT. 1"
Michael Bell-Smith - "WHILE WE SLEPT"
e*rock - "DAY-GLO SUPERNOVA (excerpt)"
Watch the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUk1Gjj2JyM
Thursday July 19, 2007
07:30 PM : The Faithful @ Hollywood Theatre
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Thursday. July 19th. 7:30 p.m.
And this location:
Hollywood Theatre. 4122 NE Sandy Blvd.
Justin Sanders and Chris Robinson shall hold the glorious premiere of our very first feature-length film: THE FAITHFUL.
They've been working on this dark little comedy for over two years now, been talking about it at various social functions for way too long, and are very excited (read: abjectly terrified) to share it in the public sphere. It is the end result of a true, Portland-style community effort, with contributions from pretty much everyone they could think of, including music from their friends and local stalwarts Small Sails, John Weinland, MBilly and Charlie Campbell.
They do hope you'll come. Here's a trailer to get your interest piqued--there's also a little more info here about the project:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSDUWAel97w
It will be $5 to get in, and they're all going to party down afterwards at the Goodfoot, near 28th and SE Stark.
Thursday July 26, 2007
09:00 PM : WESTWORLD @ Hotel Deluxe Parking Lot
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Join us five stories up atop the Hotel deLuxe's parking structure (729 SW 15th Ave) to enjoy the magic of a balmy summer night in Portland (yes, we have them) with 360 degree, moonlit views of the city at its most urban and urbane. The evenings begin at 8pm with live music and refreshments. Gracie's Restaurant will offer easy-to-juggle meals, snacks and cocktails, and additional beverages will be available from TAZO and Sierra Nevada Brewing. The screenings start at dusk-around 9pm-depending on the somewhat predictable, but ever-changing, whims of darkness. Bring your favorite portable chair or blanket, but please, no pets or outside food, or drink. Admission $7.
WESTWORLD
US 1973
DIRECTOR: MICHAEL CRICHTON
THU JUL 26 8:00 PM HOTEL DELUXE - 729 SW 15TH AVE
"Welcome to Westworld, where nothing can go wrong." A futuristic amusement park becomes a deathtrap when the androids begin to run amok. You can contemplate the psychosocial ramifications of technology out of control, or consider the American predisposition to indulgence, or you can just enjoy Yul Brynner's stoic performance as the whacked-out android sheriff in this 70s camp classic. (88 min)
Music: Charlie Girl & The Big Package
TIMES:
Music starts at 8pm, Movies at 9pm
Top Down Outdoor Film Series starts July 26!
Thursday August 2, 2007
09:00 PM : The Killing @ Hotel Deluxe Parking Lot
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Join us five stories up atop the Hotel deLuxe's parking structure (729 SW 15th Ave) to enjoy the magic of a balmy summer night in Portland (yes, we have them) with 360 degree, moonlit views of the city at its most urban and urbane. The evenings begin at 8pm with live music and refreshments. Gracie's Restaurant will offer easy-to-juggle meals, snacks and cocktails, and additional beverages will be available from TAZO and Sierra Nevada Brewing. The screenings start at dusk-around 9pm-depending on the somewhat predictable, but ever-changing, whims of darkness. Bring your favorite portable chair or blanket, but please, no pets or outside food, or drink. Admission $7.
THE KILLING
US 1956
DIRECTOR: STANLEY KUBRICK
THU AUG 02 8:00 PM HOTEL DELUXE - 729 SW 15TH AVE
After spending five years in Alcatraz, Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden) decides that if he's going to commit crimes, the risk had better be worth the punishment-so he masterminds a brilliant scheme to steal $2 million from a local racetrack. The beauty of the plan is that it's foolproof and "no one will get hurt..." Hitchcockian suspense and a fresh take on noir enrich this classic heist film from a young Kubrick, subject of a NWFC retrospective indoors) through August. (85 min)
Music: Bright Red Paper
Thursday August 23, 2007
09:00 PM : KANSAS CITY BOMBER @ Hotel Deluxe Parking Lot
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Join us five stories up atop the Hotel deLuxe's parking structure (729 SW 15th Ave) to enjoy the magic of a balmy summer night in Portland (yes, we have them) with 360 degree, moonlit views of the city at its most urban and urbane. The evenings begin at 8pm with live music and refreshments. Gracie's Restaurant will offer easy-to-juggle meals, snacks and cocktails, and additional beverages will be available from TAZO and Sierra Nevada Brewing. The screenings start at dusk-around 9pm-depending on the somewhat predictable, but ever-changing, whims of darkness. Bring your favorite portable chair or blanket, but please, no pets or outside food, or drink. Admission $7.
KANSAS CITY BOMBER
US 1972
DIRECTOR: JERROLD FREEDMAN
THU AUG 23 8:00 PM HOTEL DELUXE - 729 SW 15TH AVE
Roughhousing Roller Derby diva K. C. Carr (Raquel Welch)-"the hottest thing on wheels"-is reluctantly traded by her Kansas City team to slam for the "Portland Loggers." As divorcée K. C. tries to balance her climb to B stardom with the strains of single motherhood and sexual harassment, the difficulties of a gritty, nomadic lifestyle take their toll. Glimpses of Portland in the 70s (The Expo Center, Kenton Club and more) and the seedy world of a once-hot but dying sport provide atmospheric backdrop for hard-hitting, over-the-top derby action. BOMBER boasts a standout performance from Welch (who did her own skating, and even broke her wrist!) and an early glimpse of a nine-year-old Jodi Foster as her daughter. (99 min)
The Rose City Rollers will be in attendance! Music: Sexton Blake
Friday August 24, 2007
08:45 PM : THE KING OF KONG @ Cinema 21
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One Week: August 24 - 30
THE KING OF KONG
Premiere (2007, 79 minutes)
Called one of the great rivalries of all time, the competition between diehard video game fans Steve Sanders, a middle school science teacher, and Billy Mitchell, a hot sauce mogul, reaches a fever pitch when the duo battle for the Guinness world record on the arcade classic video game Donkey Kong. Director Seth Gordon's account of their rivalry is "thoroughly engaging" according to Steven Rea of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Wesley Morris of the Boston Globe calls the film an "hilarious and moving study," while Edward Douglas of ComingSoon.net says that The King of Kong is "up there with some of the greatest sports docs." Eugene Novikov of Film Blather believes that the film plays like "a real-life version of a Christopher Guest mockumentary." Scott Weinberg of Cinematical thinks the film is "as fascinating as something that Ken Burns put together," while Pete Vonder Haar of Film Threat says it is "compelling and involving."
A middle school science teacher and a hot sauce mogul battle for the guinness world record on the arcade classic, Donkey Kong.
Sunday August 26, 2007
08:00 PM : boathouse cinema double feature
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Psychedelic Primates from THE CARTUNE XPREZ
plus
Marianna Ellenberg's "Broken Synapses and Frozen Hallucinations"
SUNDAY AUGUST 26, 2007 8PM
BOATHOUSE CINEMA
822 N RIVER STREET
CARTUNE XPREZ presents PDX-PSY-PRI, a special event featuring animated visions by Adrian Freeman, Shana Moulton, and James Duesing. Follow these videos through a landscape of shrunken technology as each artist escapes with distinctly warped visions of a strange new world. Featuring a sneak-peek of some of Freeman's video work before his debut performance with MEAN AGE at the TBA festival on September 13th!
Peter Burr, Christopher Doulgeris, and Cassandra C Jones started CARTUNE XPREZ in 2006 as a way to highlight the energy and spirit of contemporary artists who utilize highly accessible tools to make sophisticated video work. For PDX-PSY-PRI, Peter Burr has scooped up a potent dose of artists that capture a sense of magic and the supernatural in their motion pictures.
--followed by--
"Broken Synapses and Frozen Hallucinations"
A program of Psychedelic and Psychotropic incursions by Marianna Ellenberg.
Silverized teeth, plutonium meltdowns, dripping spirals, quarky tunes and broken neurons—this is your brain on drugs and it may never get off! These videos explore a psychedelia that is underhanded and overused, the mind altering platittudes of internet surfing and tv injection, the highs of everyday objects to the lows of cinematic de-ja vou. The fix is free, but the flashbacks are re-calcitrant.
Marianna Ellenberg is a video artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Her creative practice centers around research into the contemporary body-psyche, through an aesthetic investigation into the discourse of mental health culture and advertising semiotics. Through video and sound installation, texual animation and hyppereal photography, she unveils the conditioning of the symbolic self and its inevitable breakdown. Ellenberg's work spans from abstract Super8mm animations, to video installation, sound work and color photography. Her films and videos have been shown widely, in such venues as The N.Y. Underground Film Festival (2007), The Collectif Jeune Cinéma (2003), LA Freewaves (2006), and The Dallas Video Festival (2007).
SUNDAY AUGUST 26 8PM // $5 donation
BOATHOUSE CINEMA
822 N RIVER STREET
PORTLAND OREGON 97227
General directions: From Interstate Ave, turn onto Tillamook headed
towards the river, take your first right, then the next right, then
the next - making a circle under the tillamook overpass. Before you will be the Boathouse. its a square blue building with red doors right on the river between the large Glacier silos and the large brown River Street Studios. Entry is around back, riverside.
Saturday September 1, 2007
07:30 PM : Stars Are Beautiful - films @ Artemisia Nursery
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The Stars Are Beautiful is a film from Stan Brakhage, American experimental film luminary. He taught at the University of Colorado, sending forth a generation of students. He is known for hand processed film, including hand scratching exposed leader after developing allergies to film chemistry.
It is also this evening's title for a collection of shorts shown outside at Artemisia Nursery:
Bridges Go-Round by Shirley Clarke [1958, 16mm, color, sound, 4 min.]
Glimpse of the Garden by Marie Menken [1957, 16mm, color, sound 5 min.]
BOUQUETS 21-30 by Rose Lowder [2001-2005, 16mm color, silent, 14 min.]
Lions and Tigers and Bears by Rebecca Meyers [2005, 16mm, 12 min, color,
sound]
There's A Pervert In Our Pool! by Martha Colburn [1998, 16mm, color,
sound, 3 min.]
The Stars Are Beautiful by Stan Brakhage. [1974, 16mm, color, sound, 19min.]
Music by Presents! + Kelvin Tippan kicks 7:30, films at 8:15.
The Cinema Project, which usually presents inside, is creating this evening with support from NAAU. Bring your own absinthe.
Artemisia Garden & Gallery, 110 SE 28th Avenue x Ankeny $6 7:30PM
Saturday September 8, 2007
11:00 AM : Adventures in Television 2007 @ Hollywood Theatre
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Portland Community Media & MetroEast Community Media invite you to:
Adventures in Television 2007
A big screen premiere showcasing documentaries and dramatic shorts created by local youth about their communities and lives.
Saturday September 8, 11:00 A.M. - 1:00 p.m.
Screening at 11:15 A.M.
Hollywood Theatre
4122 NE Sandy Boulevard
Portland, OR 97212
ATV Partners for 2007:
Boys and Girls Aid, Portland YouthBuilders, and the Police Activities League
Adventures in Television 2007 was made possible in part by grants from The Mt. Hood Cable Regulatory Commission, The Collins Foundation, John and Jane Youell Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation,
William G. Gilmore Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation, Spirit Mountain Community Fund, Nike Factory Store Portland, Juan Young Trust, and Employee’s Community Fund of Boeing Portland
Saturday October 27, 2007
10:00 PM : HEIMA - A FILM BY SIGUR ROS @ Hollywood
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On Saturday, October 27th at 10pm, we are pleased to present a very special screening of the highly anticipated documentary and concert film
HEIMA - A FILM BY SIGUR ROS
Heima - which translates as both "At Home" and "Homeland" - chronicles a series of free concerts Sigur played in their native Iceland during the summer of 2006. The culmination of more than a year spent promoting their hugely successful album Takk... around the world, the Icelandic tour was free to all-comers and went largely unannounced. Playing in deserted fish factories, outsider art follies, far-flung community halls, sylvan fields, darkened caves and the huge horseshoe-shaped Asbyrgi canyon, the band reached an entirely new spectrum of the Icelandic population; young and old, ardent and merely quizzical, entirely by word-of-mouth.
Material from all four of the band's albums is featured, including many rare and notable moments. Among these are a heart-stopping rendition of the previously unreleased "Gitardjamm", filmed inside a derelict herring oil tank in the far West Fjords; a windblown, one-mic recording of "Vaka", shot at a dam protest camp subsequently drowned by rising water; and first time acoustic versions of such rare live beauties as "Staralfur", "Agaetis Byrjun" and "Von".
Fans of the band and Icelandiphiles in general won't want to miss this visually stunning documentary and concert film. Check out the trailer and learn more here:
http://www.heimafilm.com/
Thursday November 29, 2007
07:00 PM : Oregon "Film Challenge" Showcase @ Hollywood Theatre
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Oregon "Film Challenge" Showcase at the Hollywood Theatre on Thursday,
November 29 at 7:00pm.
Tickets are $7 and can be purchased at the Hollywood Box Office or online at:
http://www.filmaction.org/engaging/coming_soon.html
Below is a listing of the films that will be screening.
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OREGON FILM CHALLENGE SHOWCASE LINEUP
(Alphabetical by event)
2007 National Film Challenge
"The Abe Team"
by a3o Studios
Portland, OR
Genre: Comedy
"Dragon Breath"
by No Montage
Portland, OR
Genre: Spy
"Gardening with Rusty"
by EG Productions
Portland, OR
Genre: Comedy
"High Speed Resolution"
by Skitzo Studios
Scappoose, OR
Genre: Sci-Fi
"Officious"
by FilmWorkz Studios
Beaverton, OR
Genre: Action/Adventure
2007 International Documentary Challenge
"Everyone Can Cook"
by EG Productions
Portland, OR
Genre: Character Study
Theme: Faith
"The True Nature"
by Cinema Queso
Portland, OR
Genre: Nature
Theme: Faith
"Visual Vitriol: The Art Of Punk"
by Willamette Valley Film Collective
Monmouth, OR
Genre: Art
Theme: Faith
2006 National Film Challenge
"All Sales Final"
by Team CPR
Eugene, OR
Genre: Comedy
2006 International Documentary Challenge
"Flight Animal"
by Willamette Valley Film Collective
Monmouth, OR
Genre: Nature
Theme: Freedom
"Rose City Rumble"
by Atypical Blueprint
Portland, OR
Genre: Sports
Theme: Freedom
Thursday January 24, 2008
06:00 PM : interactive documentary night @ THE DISCOVERY CENTER
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NORTHWEST DOCUMENTARY ARTS & MEDIA:
interactive documentary night
MEET FILMMAKERS AND INSTRUCTORS, including Emmy-award winning filmmaker
and ELOQUENT NUDE Director IAN MCCLUSKEY
6:00 - 8:00 P.M. | THURSDAY, JANUARY 24 | THE DISCOVERY CENTER
*WIN a $335 tuition gift certificate for NW Documentary’s workshop, Exploring Documentary Production!
Join NW Documentary Arts & Media, the people who brought you Eloquent Nude, for an interactive documentary night. You’ll get a taste of filmmaking through equipment demonstrations, hands on film stations and filmmaker presentations. You’ll also have an opportunity to view works by budding documentarians of all ages.
NW Documentary has a long history of helping others bring true stories to film. Their students have produced works on topics ranging from Russian defectors to radical cheerleaders to Pez collectors. The evening will feature screenings of some of those films. NW Documentary’s Selected Works, Vol. 2 on DVD will be available for purchase.
Thursday January 31, 2008
08:00 PM : LOST on TV
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LOST returns.
OMG.
Friday March 7, 2008
09:30 PM : Short Films @ RAW
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Friday, March 7
9:30pm - Short films: G&g's I give this to you for something to do (Dad, is that you?), Paper Rad's new film Problem Solvers, a selection of Reed student films followed by Peter and Matt's Ghost Opera. (Chapel)
Later:
Saturday, March 8
7pm - Lucky Dragons (Chapel)
Sunday, March 9
6pm - Closing Event: Lucky Dragons and dessert (Vollum Lounge) *Featuring desserts by Grant Yarolin
Friday April 4, 2008
08:00 PM : THE ROAD WARRIOR @ Backspace
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BEER, TRIVIA, & GASOLINE: OLD TOWN COMPUTERS' GEEK MOVIE NIGHT TO SHOW "THE ROAD WARRIOR" 4/4/08.
Lord Humungus. The Feral Kid. Finger-amputating boomerangs. The precious juice. Gyrocopters. The last of the V8 Interceptors. And most of all, the biggest bad-ass ever to spew drunken anti-semetism to the Malibu Police Dept, Max "Mad Max" Rockatanski, will be gracing the big screen at Backspace for a showing of the greatest post-apocalyptic film ever made, THE ROAD WARRIOR. Part of Old Town Computers' first-Friday monthly Geek Movie Night series, the 8:00 showing at Backspace is an free all-ages event with a cash beer garden and pub style trivia with prizes provided by Old Town Computers.
Something about Cold War era (possibly the constant daily threat of nuclear annihilation) prompted one of the greatest outpouring of post-apocalyptic film, and the crown jewel of this genre is, hands-down, the 1981 classic The Road Warrior. Featuring a cast of truly bizarre characters, incredible car chases, violence and gore that perfectly skirts the line of squirmy and campy, more hockey pads then the Detroit Red Wings, and one seriously bad-ass Australian Shepherd, The Road Warrior is just what Portlanders need to get them through their lingering Seasonal Affective Disorder. Plus, beer, a trivia contest, and prizes can't hurt either.
This monthly first-friday event, which is all-ages, starts at 8:00 with a pub style trivia contest, with a questions touching on the theme of " The Apocalypse". After trivia we will begin the movie, and announce the winning trivia team after the end of the movie. There will also be a 21+ beer garden area, with $3 microbrews on tap. Backspace also has Stumptown Coffee, a full vegan kitchen, Hot Lips Pizza, and a wide selection of non-alcoholic beverages for the under-21 crowd (who probably don't even remember a pre-krazy-katholic Mel). Rowdy movie-viewing behaviour is welcomed and encouraged, so if you feel like shouting "Looks like I found myself some gasoline!" or hooting triumphantly whenever an 18-Wheeler demolishes a dune buggy, don't hold back.
Backspace is located at 115 NW 5th Ave, and Old Town Computers is a full service computer shop located inside of Backspace.
Wednesday April 9, 2008
08:00 PM : Matt McCormick at Northwest Film Center
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what: an evening with Matt McCormick
when: April 9, 2008 8:00pm
where: The Northwest Film Center / Whitsell Auditorium (Portland Art Museum)
On the precipice of shooting his first feature length film, Portland filmmaker Matt McCormick talks about and screens a collection of his recent short films and music videos at the Northwest Film Center.
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This summer, local filmmaker Matt McCormick will begin production on his first feature-length film Some Days are Better than Others; a story that follows an awkward web of characters who have a difficult time navigating typical forms of communication. But in the meantime, he will be presenting a collection of recent short works, including the local premiere of The Problem with Machines that Communicate (2008, 13 minutes) and a clip from his on-going installation project Future So Bright.
The Problem with Machines that Communicate, which made it’s world premiere at the 2008 South x Southwest Film Festival, is an experimental narrative that examines three lonely characters interacting with technology in a world that otherwise doesn’t seem to notice them. Don is a custodian who is never taken seriously, George is a very old man exploring the vivid detail of the world around him, and Hazel is an office worker who is desperate to engage in real conversation. But while each struggle with traditional forms of communication, the inadvertent by-products of their loneliness produces entirely new, abstract forms of communication. Features Marty Crandall, Elyse Sewell, and George Andrus.
Future So Bright is an art project mapping and cataloging the abandoned relics of American western expansion. First exhibited at the Elizabeth Leach Gallery and recently included in the curated portion of Art Basil Miami Beach, it is a series of film installations that detail and document abandoned structures in the American west. Captured on 16mm film and then transferred to digital video, the images create a visual time capsule of forgotten and disregarded spaces, many of which are quickly being reclaimed by nature or new development. Future So Bright examines the disposable mentality of American Western expansion and creates a catalog of the forgotten spaces and abandoned relics that are quickly disappearing.
Also included will be recent music videos for bands such as The Shins, YACHT, and Sleater-Kinney, his brand-new short Sea Foam Blue, as well as other random and miscellaneous tidbits such as PSAs made for MTV and some interactive video performance art!
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Sunday April 13, 2008
08:00 PM : "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" Benefit Movie Night @ The Artistery
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"My plan was to kiss her with every lip on my face." - Rigby Reardon
Hi again. More last minute info brought to you by your pals at Food Fight. Time again for SHAC7 benefit movie night! Yay!
WHAT, WHEN, AND WHERE?
"Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid", April 13th, 2008, 8PM @ The Artistery (4315 SE Division)
Darn funny movie. Check the trailer out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixAyGhUgr0E
Come hang out and experience "camaraderie" as they call it. Ok? Please? GREAT! YOU"LL MAKE IT! WE'RE SO VERY HAPPY!
xoxo
Emiko and Chad and Dave and Eben / Food Fight!
1217 SE Stark Street
Portland, OR 97214
503-233-3910
www.foodfightgrocery.com
ps. www.letliveconference.org