Portland Documentary & eXperimental Film Festival

A portrait of an elderly projectionist and an ode to the faded movie palace.

Sometimes the supernatural lingers plainly in the most ordinary places, secret only in as much as its trace goes unnoticed. Both a letter to an alchemist-filmmaker friend, and a quiet tribute to the vanishing art of celluloid, this film is full of ghosts.

A portrait of Astika, who lives on an island in Denmark. He has lived in a run down farmhouse for 15 years and his project has been to let the land around him grow unchecked, but now he has been forced to move out by people who prefer more respectable neighbors.

Kieu, loosely translated as “foreign”, is the name given to thousands of Vietnamese refugees and their children who have journeyed “home.” Traversing notions of origin and belonging by way of luscious Kodachrome travel footage and field recordings, Kieu explores the stories of three Viet-Kieu as they “return” to Vietnam.

A woman moving in the water and the gaze of a man lead the viewer toward an effervescence of feeling- a desire for merge among the knowledge of separateness.

This film traces the sublime and almost invisible bonds of motherhood and daughterhood over "one hundred years and two world wars".

A documentation of personal change, distraction and devotion, shot on film over 3 months.

Shot in and around John Day, Oregon, Wood follows the journey of timber from the forest through the sawmill and presents a portrait of the workingmen we find along the way. Despite the heated controversy that surrounds the timber industry, Wood eschews easy politics, focusing instead on the actual workers, machines, and raw material involved in this complex situation.