Saturday, May 3, 2008 @ 1:00 PM
Shorts Program #2: Local Shorts
Cardboard
Kenny Higdon
5 min, video
Hunger and thirst. A dream within a dream within a dream. It’s all cardboard.
The More Things Stay The Same
Marc Moscato
12 min/video
An endearing portrait of the colorful life of Dr. Ben Reitman, known in his day as “The Clap Doctor”, “king of the Hobos” and” the most vulgar man in America”. From labor unrest to sex education to the genesis of the homeless crisis in America, Reitman’s work continues to have importance and relevance to the hard-hitting issues of today.
Wild Mountain Nation
Orie Weeks III
3 min/video
A music video for the band Blitzen Trapper. A call to a better place.
Trail Memories
Terry Chatkupt
6 min/video
An attempt to construct a narrative on childhood memory, nostalgia, nature, and loneliness.
Small Movements
Nickey Robare
7 min/Super 8
An open love letter to Portland’s one and only mini-bike dance troupe – The Sprockettes!
The Pull
Andy Blubaugh
8 min/video
What if you find a mate but decide to break up on an agreed-upon date a few months in the future? GWM looking for MTR?
Bunnyheads
Jim Blashfield
5 min/35mm
A film about a strange hive of archetypal beings who inhabit a netherworld reminiscent of both Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and some mysterious place under someone’s basement stairs.
Blobsquatch: In the Expanded Field
Carl Diehl
12 min/video
Under the influences of a search-engineered information culture, many Bigfoot aficionados have dismissed “blobsquatches” (photos too blurry to be discernible as sasquatches) as impediments to serious cryptozoological research. Probing the Blobsquatch itself as an unknown “animal,” a speculative counter argument emerges.
Super Nonpareils
Jeremy Bird
1 min/video
Chaos, hypnosis, cupcake decorations gone wild.
There is More Light if I Close My Eyes
Liz Haley
3 min/video
A galactic meditation. I want to be amazed.
The Problem with Machines that Communicate
Matt McCormick
13 min/video
A short experimental narrative that examines three lonely characters interacting with technology in a world that otherwise doesn’t seem to pay attention to them. While each character struggles with traditional forms of communication, the inadvertent by-products of their loneliness produces entirely new, abstract forms of communication.
Thanks to our generous sponsors, there will be hot Stumptown Coffee (coutresy of The Gladstone Coffee) and delicious pastries (from The Blue Gardenia Bakery) available before the screening to keep you fueled up for the exciting day of cinema ahead!