Films & Schedules - 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