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(DOC) Brodsky’s new film tells the gripping story of the rescue of pelican “LA 895”—one of the oiled bird victims of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill—by the Fort Jackson Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Louisiana. Neither a story that compounds the horrors we already know about our nation’s worst oil disaster nor a treatise on oil production or consumption, SAVING PELICAN 895 is the tale of a single animal and the compassionate people deployed to save him, showing how the process of saving one life restored a degree of humanity for the rest of us.

Screening follows SPOIL.

(DOC) Brodsky’s new film tells the gripping story of the rescue of pelican “LA 895”—one of the oiled bird victims of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill—by the Fort Jackson Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Louisiana. Neither a story that compounds the horrors we already know about our nation’s worst oil disaster nor a treatise on oil production or consumption, SAVING PELICAN 895 is the tale of a single animal and the compassionate people deployed to save him, showing how the process of saving one life restored a degree of humanity for the rest of us.

Screening follows SPOIL.

FILM REVIEW

Whitsell Auditorium     40 Minutes    

Interests: Documentary.

(ANI) “A highly stylized gritty twist on the film noir genre.”—AG

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(ANI) “A highly stylized gritty twist on the film noir genre.”—AG

See SHORTS II to purchase tickets.

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Whitsell Auditorium     3 Minutes    

Interests: Animation, Shorts.

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Whitsell Auditorium    

Interests: Animation, Documentary, Narrative, Experimental.

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META ABERRATIO

DIRECTOR: TIMOTHY FIRTH - (SEATTLE, WA)

(ANI) “This gorgeous black-and-white animation makes three typewriters and their guts come to life, calling to mind a century of stop-motion animation from Georges Méliès to the Brothers Quay.”—AG

12 Minutes    

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BASIN

DIRECTOR: DAVID GEISS - (VICTORIA, BC)

(DOC) “Images of the once pristine landscape of northern Alberta scarred by industrial development compels us to take environmental action.”—AG

8 Minutes    

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OLD-TIME FILM

DIRECTOR: BARBARA TETENBAUM, MARILYN ZORNADO - (PORTLAND, OR)

(ANI) “A fiddle and some antique engravings make for good times in this short toe-tapper.”—AG

3 Minutes    

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LASZLO LASSU

DIRECTOR: BEN POPP - (PORTLAND, OR)

(ANI) “This masterful cut-paper animation has an Eastern European folk art flare to its lines and narrative.”—AG

4 Minutes    

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MT. PARNASSUS

DIRECTOR: JESSE LARSON, KYLE PARKER - (WILSONVILLE, OR)

(DOC) “A lovely story of a man and his airplane home, with striking compositions of fuselage in the forest.”—AG

4 Minutes    

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WOMAN WAITING

DIRECTOR: ANTOINE BOURGES - (VANCOUVER, BC)

(NAR) “This powerful narrative uses minimal dialogue and long takes to depict a middle-aged woman on the edge of homelessness and invisibility.”—AG

15 Minutes    

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STRANDS, A MUSIC VIDEO

DIRECTOR: ROB TYLER - (PORTLAND, OR)

(EXP) “A visual celebration of the ghosts of mixtapes past.”—AG

4 Minutes    

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THE SWIMMER

DIRECTOR: SALISE HUGHES - (SEATTLE, WA)

(EXP) “Burt Lancaster from the 1968 film THE SWIMMER free-styling his way through a strange hand-painted landscape, peppered with synchronized swimmers.”—AG

4 Minutes    

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THE BIG SAYONARA

DIRECTOR: DON HAMILTON - (SPOKANE, WA)

(NAR) “Some of the funniest understated dialogue I’ve heard in a short independent film about a former Wall Street employee hitting rock bottom in rural Rosalia, Washington.”—AG

15 Minutes    

Whitsell Auditorium    

Interests: Animation, Documentary, Experimental.

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MOSSGROVE

DIRECTOR: KURTIS HOUGH - (PORTLAND, OR)

(EXP) “Gorgeous images of slugs traversing a mossy Oregon landscape—looks like National Geographic on LSD.”—AG

10 Minutes    

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CAMERON’S BOOKS

DIRECTOR: JIN RYU, YI-FAN LU - (PORTLAND, OR)

(DOC) “This documentary touched my soft spot for another endangered species: the independent bookseller.”—AG

6 Minutes    

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EYE LINER

DIRECTOR: JOANNA PRIESTLEY - (PORTLAND, OR)

(ANI) “Our capacity for facial recognition in the most basic forms is considered through this whimsical patterned animation.”—AG

4 Minutes    

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WITH YOU

DIRECTOR: JONATHAN MARRS, JOSH FERDASZEWSKI - (PORTLAND, OR)

(EXP) “A strange series of conceptual performances by two men in a domestic, suburban setting.”—AG

17 Minutes    

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I AM INTO YOUR FIRE

DIRECTOR: ORLAND NUTT - (PORTLAND, OR)

(EXP) “A mind-bending animation in which a coquettish woman pops in and out of a surreal landscape reciting staccato poetry by James Broughton.”—AG

3 Minutes    

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THE GR8 TASK REMAINING B4 US

DIRECTOR: KARL LIND - (PORTLAND, OR)

(EXP) “Do we know Abraham Lincoln in any other form than animatronic or wax figure? In this uncanny scenario, an animatronic Abe Lincoln recites the Gettysburg Address in a shopping mall which then folds in behind him.”—AG

2 Minutes    

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MIGHTY TACOMA

DIRECTOR: VANESSA RENWICK - (PORTLAND, OR)

(EXP) “Shot in the active port city of Tacoma, this narration-free meditation complicates one’s feelings about humanity’s monumental feats of engineering and the impact on the natural coastline.”—AG

9 Minutes    

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KOSMOS

DIRECTOR: FANTAVIOUS FRITZ - (PORTLAND, OR)

(NAR) “This film has the playful energy of a surf journey film with exuberant experimental camera work.”—AG

15 Minutes    

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SEXY NOIR

DIRECTOR: BEN POPP - (PORTLAND, OR)

(ANI) “A highly stylized gritty twist on the film noir genre.”—AG

3 Minutes    

(NAR) “Delicately weaving together the lives of three lonely strangers, the story explores the elusiveness of personal fulfillment as McCormick’s characters bump up against the discarded and are forced to confront their own impermanence and need for human connection. Subtle, convincing performances by musicians James Mercer (The Shins) and Carrie Brownstein (Sleater-Kinney) and lyrical cinematography reveal McCormick’s finely tuned directorial eye. As a silent main character, the city of Portland is the common thread—a reminder that, as bleak as things may seem, in small, unexpected moments around unlikely corners, the possibility for hope and beauty remains. McCormick establishes himself as...

(NAR) “Delicately weaving together the lives of three lonely strangers, the story explores the elusiveness of personal fulfillment as McCormick’s characters bump up against the discarded and are forced to confront their own impermanence and need for human connection. Subtle, convincing performances by musicians James Mercer (The Shins) and Carrie Brownstein (Sleater-Kinney) and lyrical cinematography reveal McCormick’s finely tuned directorial eye. As a silent main character, the city of Portland is the common thread—a reminder that, as bleak as things may seem, in small, unexpected moments around unlikely corners, the possibility for hope and beauty remains. McCormick establishes himself as an insightful storyteller and a bright new talent.”—AFI Film Festival

FILM REVIEW

Whitsell Auditorium     93 Minutes    

Interests: Narrative.

(DOC) SPOIL follows the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP) and the Gitga’at First Nation people of British Columbia in their search for the elusive spirit bear. All white but not albino and rarer than the panda, the spirit bear lives only in the Great Bear Rainforest on the north coast of British Columbia, a place at risk from a proposed oil pipeline. In an effort to oppose the pipeline, the ILCP’s mission is to create images of this rare bear and the unique ecosystem that it relies on. (44 mins.)

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SAVING PELICAN...

(EXP) “A visual celebration of the ghosts of mixtapes past.”—AG

See SHORTS I to purchase tickets.

(EXP) “A visual celebration of the ghosts of mixtapes past.”—AG

See SHORTS I to purchase tickets.

Whitsell Auditorium     4 Minutes    

Interests: Experimental, Shorts.

(EXP) “Burt Lancaster from the 1968 film THE SWIMMER free-styling his way through a strange hand-painted landscape, peppered with synchronized swimmers.”—AG

See SHORTS I to purchase tickets.

(EXP) “Burt Lancaster from the 1968 film THE SWIMMER free-styling his way through a strange hand-painted landscape, peppered with synchronized swimmers.”—AG

See SHORTS I to purchase tickets.

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Whitsell Auditorium     4 Minutes    

Interests: Experimental, Shorts.