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Films & Schedules
- SHORT CUTS
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Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 12:30 PM (WH)
Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 1:45 PM (WH)
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SHORT CUTS I: INTERNATIONAL TIES
SHORT CUTS
90 Minutes
Interests:
Short Cuts.
STARS DON’T TWINKLE IN OUTER SPACE
DIRECTOR: Peter Thwaites - (Great Britain)
A young boy’s fantasy about a trip to a strange planet in a rocket ship morphs into a different kind of trip altogether as reality sets in.
10 Minutes
PLEASE SAY SOMETHING
DIRECTOR: David O’Reilley - (Ireland/Germany)
A troubled relationship between a cat and mouse set in the distant future.
10 Minutes
RUNAWAY
DIRECTOR: Cordell Barker - (Canada)
Happy passengers are having a great time on a crowded train, oblivious to the fate that awaits them around the bend.
9 Minutes
POSTE RESTANTE
DIRECTOR: Marcel Lozinski - (Poland)
What happens to letters addressed to Santa? To deceased relatives? To God? The birth, delivery, and reincarnation of undeliverable letters in Poland.
14 Minutes
GRANNY O’GRIMM’S SLEEPING BEAUTY
DIRECTOR: Nicky Phelan - (Ireland)
Granny O’Grimm, a seemingly sweet old lady, loses the plot as she tells her version of Sleeping Beauty to her terrified granddaughter.
6 Minutes
NEXT FLOOR
DIRECTOR: Denis Villeneuve - (Canada)
During an opulent and luxurious banquet, complete with hordes of servers and valets, eleven pampered guests participate in what appears to be ritualistic gastronomic carnage.
12 Minutes
ALMA
DIRECTOR: Rodrigo Blaas - (Spain)
Alma, a little girl, skips through the snow-covered streets of a small town. Her attention is caught by a strange doll in an antique toy shop window. Fascinated, Alma decides to enter…
5 Minutes
THE GROUND BENEATH
DIRECTOR: Rene Hernandez - (Australia)
Kaden’s troubles give way to self-discovery through a young girl and boy who loiter on his street.
20 Minutes
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Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12 PM (WH)
Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 8:15 PM (WH)
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SHORT CUTS II: INTERNATIONAL TIES
SHORT CUTS
98 Minutes
Interests:
Short Cuts.
SHE WHO MEASURES
DIRECTOR: Veljko Popovic - (Croatia)
Put on a happy face or the scary clown will keep you in line.
7 Minutes
GOOD ADVICE
DIRECTOR: Andreas Tibblin - (Sweden)
Tired of his parents never listening to him, 10-year-old Rasmus decides to run away from home. But before leaving, he records a cassette tape for his yet-to-be-born new brother with advice on how to handle life.
15 Minutes
MADAGASCAR
DIRECTOR: Bastien Dubois - (France)
A visual travel journal demonstrating the importance of dance, death, and custom in a vibrant Malagasy society.
12 Minutes
MIRACLE FISH
DIRECTOR: Luke Doolan - (Australia)
Eight-year-old Joe has a birthday he will never forget. After friends tease him, he wishes everyone would just go away. He wakes up to find his dream may have become a reality.
18 Minutes
CAGES
DIRECTOR: Juan José Medina - (Mexico)
As an old man collects his traps in the desert, an unearthly spirit is stalking his own prey.
10 Minutes
SLAVES
DIRECTOR: David Aronowitsch, Hanna Heilborn - (Sweden)
The harrowing stories of Abouk, 9, and Machiek, 15, who were abducted by a government-sponsored militia in Sudan and used as slaves in their war effort.
15 Minutes
THE ARMOIRE
DIRECTOR: Jamie Travis - (Canada)
In the third installment of his Saddest Children in the World trilogy, following Why the Anderson Children Didn’t Come to Dinner and The Saddest Boy in the World, a young boy descends into an abyss of secrets, fantasies, and memory when he realizes that his best friend has gone missing.
21 Minutes
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Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 1 PM (WH)
Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:45 PM (WH)
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SHORT CUTS III: MADE IN PORTLAND
SHORT CUTS
81 Minutes
Interests:
Short Cuts.
HOUSE OF SOUND
DIRECTOR: Vanessa Renwick -
Homage to the House of Sound, a North Portland record store and community anchor razed in 2008.
11 Minutes
LAST THROES
DIRECTOR: Sal Strom -
Political undertones are the binding agents in an aural and visual collage.
4 Minutes
MISSED ACHES
DIRECTOR: Joanna Priestley -
An ode to the fallibility of spell-check.
4 Minutes
SACK LUNCH
DIRECTOR: Sean Whiteman -
A shirtless man in a windowless bathroom talks some sense into the world.
10 Minutes
122 RANDOM SECONDS
DIRECTOR: Karl Lind -
A real-time doc that encourages you to “keep Portland weird” and always carry your camera.
2 Minutes
THE MOUSE THAT SOARED
DIRECTOR: Kyle Bell -
A famous flying mouse reflects on his humble beginnings in this high-altitude adventure in aerodynamics.
6 Minutes
SEAGULLS AND WAVES
DIRECTOR: Brian Libby -
Music by Colleen playfully seasons contemplative footage of the title subjects.
6 Minutes
AXIOMS OF A DISHWASHER
DIRECTOR: Vance Malone -
Philosophic musings on the most thankless job in the kitchen.
7 Minutes
FAMILY HISTORY
DIRECTOR: Shelley Jordon -
New experience is filtered through perceptions of past experiences.
5 Minutes
LAST YEAR
DIRECTOR: Jarratt Taylor -
What feels like a loosely edited home movie evokes the moods, more than the events, of a year in review.
5 Minutes
ASCENDING THE GIANTS
DIRECTOR: John Waller -
Charming arborists tackle Oregon’s tallest trees.
12 Minutes
DON’T WORRY, IT’S A NEW CENTURY
DIRECTOR: Jeff Guay -
In this wry homage to a seminal Northwest short, a narrator explores the concept of “idea recycling.”
9 Minutes
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Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 6 PM (WH)
Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:30 PM (WH)
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SHORT CUTS IV: INTERNATIONAL TIES
SHORT CUTS
92 Minutes
Interests:
Short Cuts.
WHATEVER TURNS YOU ON
DIRECTOR: Declan Cassidy - (Ireland)
The well-ordered running of an electronics store is disrupted when a homeless man arrives to make a purchase.
4 Minutes
TEN FOR GRANDPA
DIRECTOR: Doug Karr - (Canada/United States)
Was Grandpa a manipulative antihero or simply a victim of the McCarthy-era witch hunt?
7 Minutes
THIS IS HER
DIRECTOR: Katie Wolfe - (New Zealand)
“This is me. This is my husband. And this is the bitch who will one day steal him and ruin my life.”
12 Minutes
THIS WAY UP
DIRECTOR: Adam Foulkes - (Great Britain)
Laying the dead to rest has never been so much trouble.
9 Minutes
NETHERLAND DWARF
DIRECTOR: David Michôd - (Australia)
Harry really wants a rabbit; Harry’s dad really wants his wife back. They’ve both forgotten that they already have each other.
15 Minutes
SHORT TERM 12
DIRECTOR: Destin Daniel Cretton - (United States)
Denim, the supervisor for a residential facility housing 15 kids affected by child abuse, begins to realize that, in a lot of ways, he is no different from the children he tries to help.
22 Minutes
THE DINNER
DIRECTOR: Karchi Perlmann - (Hungary)
A day in the life of a small rural Hungarian family during the riots of September 2006. “A stewed-up existential, cultural and political pot of goulash.”
23 Minutes
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Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 6 PM (WH)
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SHORT CUTS V: RESILIENT STRUCTURES
SHORT CUTS
A program of experimental films presented by Cinema Project and the Northwest Film Center.
A program of experimental films presented by Cinema Project and the Northwest Film Center.
80 Minutes
Interests:
Short Cuts.
LUMPHINI 2552
DIRECTOR: Tomonari Nishikawa - (United States/Japan)
Black-and-white images of plants and trees taken with a 35mm still camera at Bangkok’s Lumphini Park construct an emotional rhythm and illusion of movement of beautiful defamiliarization.
3 Minutes
SHINONOME OMOGO ISHIZUCHI
DIRECTOR: Shiho Kano - (Japan)
A travelogue of images inspired by filmmaker Mansaku Itami, including visits to Shinonome Shrine, Omogo Valley, and Ishizuchi Mountain in Ehime, Japan.
15 Minutes
BLOCK B
DIRECTOR: Chris Chong Chan Fui - (Malaysia)
A stationary camera looks from one apartment block in a Kuala Lumpur neighborhood directly onto another. As a modernist interchange of private and public space, Block B attempts to grasp the scope and use of monolithic architecture.
20 Minutes
TREES OF SYNTAX, LEAVES OF AXIS
DIRECTOR: Daïchi Saïto - (Canada/Japan)
Accompanied by the contrapuntal violin of Malcolm Goldstein, Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis examines the natural language of a familiar landscape: the formations of maple trees and the spaces they inhabit as poetic expressions of visual and aural patterns.
10 Minutes
EMPIRE BORDERS
DIRECTOR: Chen Chieh Jen - (Taiwan)
Chen Chieh Jen explores the various and sundry checks that Taiwanese citizens must endure when applying for a U.S. visa and how the “empire” employs every means to maintain an imperialist control.
27 Minutes
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