Portland Documentary & eXperimental Film Festival

My days pass behind a desk. At least I have a window. My view points out away from other buildings (identical) in the office park.

Every year the people of the eastern Fjords celebrate the first rays of light that reach over the mountaintops by drinking loads of coffee. Shot in Seydisfjordur, Iceland.

A playful, ruminative study of the ephemeral sidewalk frontier emerging from San Francisco pedestrian by-ways.

Hand-processed, black and white film animation using paper dolls, magazine cutouts and vintage valentines to play with ideas of metamorphoses, gender variance, narcissism, and (somewhat subliminally) President W. Bush.

An alien boy falls to Earth and tries to get directions to Center Street.

Computer animation that interprets the human mind and uses hermit crabs to represent personality.

Time-based space montage spars with space-based time collage while each anachronistic entity vies for your semblance of “now”.

This animation pays respect to author and activist, Edward Abbey.

A view of a Tokyo subway station through upside-down, double-vision glasses.

In the majestic palace filled with coin operated movie machines, 25 cents buys you one minute of Goat Chase Raccoon, located in the North tower, machine number 37B.

An interaction of three simultaneous projections questions media and memory.

“After every period of time which has at some instant an end, there must be another period of time. For either there will be swans subsequent to a period T, or there will not.”

Don’t fear life’s misunderstandings—let a philosophical tape recorder be your guide to a world of fireworks, flowers, and thrill-rides.

Describes the reproduction of human life through scientific experimentation, haunting score of electronic improvisations by Rob Walmart.