Films & Schedules - SHORT CUTS

82 Minutes    

Interests: Short Cuts.

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AGLAEE

DIRECTOR: Rudi Rosenberg - (France)

Aglaée isn’t interested when Benoit asks her out, but upon discovering it was a cruel playground joke, the tables begin to turn. (19 mins.)

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BIG BANG BIG BOOM

DIRECTOR: Silvia Siberini - (Italy)

An ingenious animation that uses the city as its canvas to tell a short, unscientific story about evolution and its possible consequences. (10 mins.)

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BUKOWSKI

DIRECTOR: Derk Jan Warrink - (Netherlands)

A precocious 12-year-old makes a drolly indelible impression at an Amsterdam hotel. (8 mins.)

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I COULD BE YOUR GRANDMOTHER

DIRECTOR: Bernard Tanguy - (France)

Touched by an old Romanian homeless woman who reminds him of his grandmother, a lawyer starts helping other street people by perfecting their pitches with wit and humor. (19 mins.)

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DIK

DIRECTOR: Christopher Stollerby - (Australia)

A child’s drawing is the inadvertent catalyst in this spirited domestic comedy about sexuality and secrets. (10 mins.)

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THE EAGLEMAN STAG

DIRECTOR: Michael Please - (Great Britain)

Repeat the word “fly” long enough and it sounds like “life.” But this doesn’t help Peter, the cranky protagonist of this darkly comic tale. (9 mins.)

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LA LUNA

DIRECTOR: Enrico Casarosa - (United States)

This Pixar-produced film tells the story of a boy who finds himself conflicted about the ways of his elders as he takes to the sea with his Papa and Grandpa. (7 mins.)

92 Minutes    

Interests: Short Cuts.

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THE FANTASTIC FLYING BOOKS OF MR. MORRIS

DIRECTOR: William Joyce - (United States)

This lyrical love letter to books celebrates the transformative powers of storytelling. (17 mins.)

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GOODBYE MANDIMA

DIRECTOR: Robert Jean Lancomb - (Switzerland)

Drawing on home movies from his African childhood, Lancomb reflects on a pivotal moment: the day friendships, culture, and identity changed forever. (10 mins.)

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LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT

DIRECTOR: Michael Davies - (Great Britain)

Love can be found in the most unexpected places. With John Hurt and Phyllida Law. (13 mins.)

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THE FLYING HOUSE

DIRECTOR: Winsor McCay, Bill Plympton - (United States)

A “re-imagining” of Winsor McCay’s classic 1921 short Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: The Flying House, hand-colored by Plympton using reprints of Winsor’s color comics as a guide. (7.5 mins.)

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TOOTY’S WEDDING

DIRECTOR: Frederick Casella - (Great Britain)

A young couple’s marriage hits the rocks during a weekend wedding in the country. (19 mins.)

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THE WHOLLY FAMILY

DIRECTOR: Terry Gilliam - (Italy)

An American family in the streets of Naples. Their young son steals a Pulcinella doll, which is reputed to bring bad luck. (19 mins.)

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SMALL FRY

DIRECTOR: Angus MacLain - (United States)

Pixar’s new installment in its “Toy Story Toons” finds Buzz hilariously getting trapped at a fast food restaurant support group for discarded Happy Meals toys from over the years. (7 mins.)

84 Minutes    

Interests: Short Cuts.

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NULLARBOR

DIRECTOR: Patrick Sarell - (Australia)

An animated road movie set across the vast and barren landscape of Australia’s Nullarbor Plain. (10 mins.)

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WILD LIFE

DIRECTOR: Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby - (Canada)

A dapper Englishman tries his hand at becoming a “rancher” in Alberta, but his romanticized visions of Canadian prairie life soon take a turn for the worse. (14 mins.)

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PENTECOST

DIRECTOR: Peter McDonald - (Ireland)

When Damian is forced to serve as an altar boy at an important mass, he faces a difficult choice: conform to the status quo or serve an extended ban from his passion in life … football. (11 mins.)

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TWO’S A CROWD

DIRECTOR: Jim Isler, Tom Isler - (United States)

Quintessential New Yorkers Allen and Collette, after four years of marriage, finally decide to move in together. (19 mins.)

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SUMMER BUMMER

DIRECTOR: Bill Plympton - (United States)

A man about to go swimming imagines what horrors are lurking deep in the waters of his backyard pool. (2 mins.)

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TMZ

DIRECTOR: Bill Plympton - (United States)

Plympton animates a new “Weird Al” Yankovic music video. (4 mins.)

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RAJU

DIRECTOR: Max Zähle - (Germany)

When a German couple arrive in an Indian city to adopt a boy, his brief escape triggers a glimpse inside a system of procurement that may not be as altruistic as it first seems. (24 mins.)

79 Minutes    

Interests: Short Cuts.

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SPECKY FOUR EYES

DIRECTOR: Jean-Claude Rozek - (France)

Arnaud’s prescribed glasses interfere with his best views: the fantastical world his shortsightedness enables him to imagine. (9 mins.)

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SAILCLOTH

DIRECTOR: Elfar Adalstein - (Great Britain)

The poignant story of an elderly widower (John Hurt) who sets in motion a series of events to hide his disappearance from a Cornish nursing home. (18 mins.)

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THE RENTER

DIRECTOR: Jason Carpenter - (United States)

On a young boy’s Lynchian visit to his grandmother’s farm he learns that caring can be shown in unexpected ways. (10 mins.)

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COLD BLOOD

DIRECTOR: Martin Thibaudeau - (Canada)

A mother brings her reluctant son to the hospital for an ambiguous procedure. (4 mins.)

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THE STRANGE ONES

DIRECTOR: Christopher Radcliff, Lauren Wolkstein - (United States)

A man and a boy traveling to an unknown destination find respite in a motel swimming pool. On the surface all seems normal, but nothing is what it seems to be. (5 mins.)

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DAS TUB

DIRECTOR: James Cunningham - (New Zealand)

A witty homage to submarine action films. (4 mins.)

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SUNDAY

DIRECTOR: Patrick Doyen - (Canada)

On a gray afternoon, a young boy creates his own form of entertainment when the family makes its weekly trek to visit the grandparents. (9 mins.)

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TIME FREAK

DIRECTOR: Andrew Bowler - (United States)

Chronology goes comically awry for a wacky inventor trying to change his life using his time machine. (10 mins.)

FILM REVIEW

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WEST OF THE MOON

DIRECTOR: Brent Bonacorso - (United States)

An old man plays cards with a robot, has a grenade instead of a heart, and pines for his long-lost love. (10 mins.)

A program of short avant-garde works presented by Cinema Project and the Northwest Film Center.

A program of short avant-garde works presented by Cinema Project and the Northwest Film Center.

69 Minutes    

Interests: Short Cuts.

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A PREFACE TO RED

DIRECTOR: Jonathan Schwartz - (Turkey/United States)

“A single recording, recorded in a tunnel that one passes through after exiting a boat taking you from one continent to another, where people are selling bright colored toys and bright white sneakers.”—Jonathan Schwartz (6 mins.)

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BY FOOT-CANDLE LIGHT

DIRECTOR: Mary Helena Clark - (United States)

“Scenes from the proscenium wings. A film imagined and recounted by foot-candle light. You close your eyes and suddenly it is dark.”—Mary Helena Clark (9 mins.)

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IN THE ABSENCE OF LIGHT, DARKNESS PREVAILS

DIRECTOR: Fern Silva - (Brazil/United States)

“Silva’s film suggests a future already arrived, merging the destruction with the creation of life. ... The film resides in a well of deep time, civilizational history swallowed by the life of the planet.”—Genevieve Yue, Reverse Shot (13 mins.)

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SOUNDING GLASS

DIRECTOR: Sylvia Schedelbauer - (Germany)

A man in a forest is subject to a flood of impressions; structurally rhythmic waves of images and sounds give form to his introspection. (10 mins.)

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SACK BARROW

DIRECTOR: Ben Rivers - (Great Britain)

A sulphurous portrait of a London suburb plating factory established in 1931 for limbless and disabled war veterans. Documenting a vanished world, the film’s decelerated rhythm and focus on surface—from chemical aggregate to nostalgia-era pin-up girls—lend a portentous feel. (21 mins.)

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SEA SERIES #10

DIRECTOR: John Price - (Canada)

“Hovering at the brink of widescreen extinction with Fukushima in mind.”—John Price (10 mins.)

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67 Minutes    

Interests: Short Cuts.

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DEVICE

DIRECTOR: Lawrence Johnson -

A middle-aged man and his young female student take an awkward trip through America’s Southwest. (7 mins.)

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LANDSCAPE WITH DUCK

DIRECTOR: Patrick Neary -

A wayward duck tries to catch up with his companions on their migration south in this hand-drawn animated short. (4 mins.)

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ENTERING THE ATMOSPHERE

DIRECTOR: Brian Libby -

This catchy edit of the filmmakers’ home movies and astronomic images compares the concepts of birth and arrival. (4 mins.)

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MOSSGROVE/BED OF MOSS

DIRECTOR: Kurtis Hough -

Hough slugs it out in the forested Northwest in this memorable diptych. (10 mins.)

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DEAR PETER, GOATS

DIRECTOR: Orland Nutt -

Nutt successfully documents the normal goats of Glacier National Park for his friend, the unreliable videographer Peter. (2 mins.)

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DEAR PETER, YAKS

DIRECTOR: Orland Nutt -

In this video letter to Peter, filmmaker Nutt confesses that yaks confuse him and ice should fear him. (2 mins.)

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SHINE

DIRECTOR: Jesse Blanchard -

Members of a barbershop quartet fear their moment out of the spotlight. (3 mins.)

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SALTY

DIRECTOR: Malia Jensen -

Possibly hilarious, possibly erotic (depending on your sexual and comedic fetishes) art converges with behavioral science when cattle find an anatomically correct salt lick in their pasture. (13 mins.)

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TREEVERSE

DIRECTOR: John Waller -

Two arborists spend five days traversing the canopy of a grove of Oregon white oaks. (15 mins.)

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271

DIRECTOR: Spencer Alexander -

A dumpster diver (Andy Copeland) has no difficulty holding up both ends of a conversation with his new friend in Oregon’s “Best Picture” winner of the 2011 48-Hour Film Project. (7 mins.)