Portland Documentary & eXperimental Film Festival

Temporary tattoos applied to 35mm for eternity. An energetic conjuring of Manitoban spirits.

“… in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through water, and think that thick water the thinnest of air.” –Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Shot on a still camera with 16 lenses, 16-18-4 documents The Japanese Derby at the Tokyo Racecourse.

An investigation into the world’s minute reactions. One of the most basic of chemical interactions, heat applied to liquids, is transformed from a scientific investigation to a study of the intricate details of the natural world. The resulting microcosmic environment seems a lush, rich primordial soup.

Near the Egress is a non-traditional stop-motion animation of a circus that is comprised of over 800 original tintypes. From the entrance of the elephant to the egress of the tightrope performers, this dark and poetic animation melds together terror with delight.

Notes from the distant future and forgotten past. An ethereal flower and disembodied voice guide you through the spaces in between.

A pursuit for a departed presence within faded memory.

On the 13th of each month, hundreds of people gather at a site in the Mojave Desert to see visions of the Virgin Mary appear in the sun. They point Polaroid, cell phone, and video cameras at the sun, and compare interpretations of the resulting images.

A film in the three parts of a dialectic. Hoagy Land’s song is played and interrupted as guitar makes sound, two women, a bed an armchair, and the beautiful outside. After Bruce Baillie´s All My Life. The lyrics of the song reference the eternal sunshine of California and its promises.

To rise, before. Part of the “Elysium” series, a stage in a journey.

A metaphor of celluloid gradually drowning in our present age of cinema, Plastic Opera incorporates fourth and fifth generation optical printing to exploit the silver granules that compose the image.

A short treatise on the semiotics of capital, happiness, and phenomenology under the flickering neon of global capitalism.

3D photographs of human vulvae are animated and interwoven with surfaces and textures from natural and human-made environments. The genital images were taken from a set of ViewMaster 3D reels that accompanied a textbook entitled The Clitoris, published in 1976 by two medical professionals. Sound by Greg Headley.
Contains sexually explicit material; viewer discretion advised.