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Le Pont Du Nord
May 19, 2013 7:00 PM - May 23, 2013 9:30 PM
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Jacques Rivette's classic, absent from our 2007 retrospective and presented here in a new print, features Bulle Ogier and her daughter Pascale as two marginal characters who find themselves dead center of a political adventure. |
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Joe McHugh: Slaying the Gorgon
May 23, 2013 7:00 PM
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Since earliest times people have used stories to entertain, inform, and pass on cultural values. They have also used stories to persuade. In today's fast-paced world, corporations use stories to sell products and gain competitive advantages, while political parties use stories to elect candidates and promote their agendas. |
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Greetings From Tim Buckley
May 24, 2013 7:00 PM - May 30, 2013 9:00 PM
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It's 1991, and the organizer of a tribute concert for musician Tim Buckley has asked his son Jeff to make his debut performance. Wrestling with confusing feelings about the father he never knew, Jeff travels to New York City, exploring the city like his father (whose story is also told in Greetings) once explored America on a cross-country tour. |
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Venus and Serena
May 24, 2013 7:00 PM - May 30, 2013 9:00 PM
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The Williams sisters are unlike any other sports celebrities in America today, and so well-known that their last name need never be mentionednot even in this documentary's title. |
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Movie Night
May 24, 2013 8:00 PM
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DJs Jon Francois and Nik Gilmore turn "silent film piano accompaniment" up a notch with Movie Night: featuring a film whose soundtrack is re-mixed live, and sampled with some of the finest vinyl records. |
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Raw, Raucous and Sublime
May 31, 2013 8:00 PM
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There are few living artists as in tune with the rugged spirit of the Pacific Northwest as Vanessa Renwick and her Oregon Department of Kick Ass. |
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Let Your Light Shine: Experimental Animations By Jodie Mack
June 01, 2013 8:00 PM
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Jodie Mack's insightful, handmade films use collage to explore the relationship between graphic cinema and storytelling. Combining the formal techniques and structures of abstract/absolute animation with those of cinematic genres, her film work explores the tension between form and meaning. |
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Ghosts of Piramida
June 02, 2013 7:00 PM - June 02, 2013 9:00 PM
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In the most thoughtful and affecting music documentary of the year, Danish band Efterklang travels to an abandoned Russian town where, decades earlier, miners and their families managed to live outside the rules and reality of a Soviet authority. |
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Within Reach
June 03, 2013 7:00 PM
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Within Reach documents one couple's pedal-powered journey across the United States in search of a new home in a sustainable community. |
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Remix
June 04, 2013 8:00 PM
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From the basements of samizdat film geeks to the more well lit purlieus ofThe Huffington Post, remix filmmaking has transitioned from oddball, obsessive tinkering to a central way our culture communicates. |
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R/Evolve
June 06, 2013 7:00 PM
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Lucas and Lincoln just got engaged. Marriage equality may soon be legal, and finally Lucas will have everything he wants: a career and a stable home with Lincoln. |
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Music Craft: Esperanza Spalding
June 07, 2013 7:00 PM
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Winner of Best New Artist Grammy 2011 (she beat Bieber!), Portland-raised musician Esperanza Spalding brings her young jazz act to Spain, in collaboration with flamenco specialist Nino Josele. |
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One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das
June 07, 2013 7:00 PM - June 13, 2013 9:15 PM
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In 1970, Jeffrey Kagel walked away from the American dream of rock 'n' roll stardom, turning down the chance to record as lead singer for the band soon-to-be-called Blue Oyster Cult. Instead, he sold all his possessions and moved from the suburbs of Long Island to the foothills of the Himalayas in search of happiness and a little known saint named Neem Karoli Baba. |
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An Evening With Screenwriter Fred Rive and Director Sameh Zaobi
June 09, 2013 8:00 PM
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In 2010, Seattle-based writer Fred Rice's screenplay for Man Without A Cell Phone found financing and finally went into production with director Sameh Zaobi at the helm. |
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Search and Rescue
June 11, 2013 8:00 PM
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More of a film situation than a film series, Search and Rescue is an ongoing effort to review, present and (hopefully) preserve a 1500 title archive of 16mm films, produced between the 1930s and 1980s. |
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The Invisible Forest
June 12, 2013 8:00 PM
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Antero Alli's The Invisible Forest is a surrealistic trip through the internal landscape of one man's subconscious to a place beyond belief, beyond words and beyond the mind itself to. |
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Dreambody/Earthbody
June 13, 2013 8:00 PM
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Since 1977, underground filmmaker Antero Alli has been developing a medium of "paratheatre," inspired by the late Polish visionary of theater, Jerzy Grotowski. |
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Hey Bartender
June 14, 2013 7:00 PM - June 20, 2013 9:00 PM
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Hey Bartender is the story of the rebirth of the bartender and the comeback of the cocktail, as two bartenders reach for their dreams. |
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Old Farts and Jackasses
June 20, 2013 8:00 PM
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Calling all feisty fogies and savvy whippersnappers: we're presenting a big screen rebuke to all things "new country." |
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Portrait of Jason
June 21, 2013 7:00 PM - June 27, 2013 9:00 PM
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Shirley Clarke's Portrait of Jason befriends one of the most unforgettable people you'll never meet. The year, 1967: an African-American gay man in a fitted blazer rehearses show tunes for an act he's never performed. |
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How to Make Money Selling Drugs
June 28, 2013 7:00 PM - July 04, 2013 7:00 PM
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How ironic is the title of How to Make Money Selling Drugs? That's for you to decide. This film compiles interviews from drug dealers, activists, artistic celebrities and prison inmates, to create a step-by-step guide to becoming the most profitable drug dealer you can be. |
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The Rambler
June 28, 2013 7:00 PM - July 04, 2013 7:00 PM
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If you've ever comforted yourself with the knowledge that the worst of America's horrors were safely locked behind bars, The Rambler will make you think twice. |
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