RESIST, REBEL, SURVIVE

A collection of short films around the theme of resist, rebel, survive. Includes Georg Koszulinski’s Inauguration Day shot on the streets of Washington DC, Caryn Cline and Luke Sieczek’s Womxm’s March films, Reed O’Beirne’s No Time for Shopping, Kelly Sears’s Pattern for Survival, Salise Hughes’ MEOW, and a special screening of a 1960s Yugoslavian educational film on bomb shelter etiquette.

June 13th, 2017
Grand Illusion Cinema
7:00 pm

JUXTAPOSED AESTHETIX: FILMS OF BEN POPP

Beginning with the basics of the frame and the photographic principles allowing for multiple images to exist upon a singular plane, Portland filmmaker Ben Popp has set a course of exploration through the many realms of cinematic possibilities. The films presented will race between the different forms of construction by which Ben has chosen to tell a particular tale and sometimes that tale is one of the medium itself.

Ben was was a member of the Portland experimental group Grand Detour, co-founder of the experimental film festival EFF Portland, and currently Filmmaker Services Manager for Northwest Film Center. His films have travel the world including a retrospective at 2014 MUMIA International Festival of Underground Animation in Brazil. The films will span the last ten years.

May 16, 2017
Grand Illusion Cinema 
7:00 pm