Anyone who's glanced at this blog more than a few times knows that I have a big ol' soft spot in my heart for Cinema Project. While they're not the only ones in town putting together incredible programs of experimental film (don't worry, EFF Portland, I love you, too), CP has kept their public exhibitions of outré cinema going for longer than most anyone would ever have expected possible. You think it's difficult for indie and non-profit cinemas to turn a buck nowadays? How's about a tight little crew of curators/film lovers without a permanent exhibition space and an exclusive focus on non-commercial works of art? Needless to say, these folks are doing it for love, not money.
Which is why it's so fantastically inspiring that the organization is launching their 10th season this Saturday. To celebrate their "tin" anniversary, CP is using their first screening of the fall to throw themselves a birthday party with a "best of" film presentation culled from the first 10 years of Cinema Project.
Undefeated by Kevin Jerome Everson
Which is why it's so fantastically inspiring that the organization is launching their 10th season this Saturday. To celebrate their "tin" anniversary, CP is using their first screening of the fall to throw themselves a birthday party with a "best of" film presentation culled from the first 10 years of Cinema Project.
Here's what the good folks at the Project have to say about Saturday night's events:
Over the past ten years Cinema Project has organized and presented more than 100 unique film and video programs and only in rare instances do we ever show the same thing twice. The beginning of a ten-year anniversary, however, seems like a good time to break the rules and break into our own program archive. The first of two “best of” screenings (to be continued in Spring 2014), this program brings together a fun and unlikely mix of work that demonstrates the variety, breadth, and unique curatorial vision that Cinema Project is known for. Each past and present collective member has selected a favorite short film or video that he or she thinks deserves a second look, or that speaks anew to current political and cultural landscapes and personal outlooks. Older, newer, black-and-white, color, sound, silent, representational, abstract, psychedelic, poetic, diaristic, heavy, light: each is a skilled and personal production close to the artist who made it. This is the type of work we champion.
At 10pm join us downstairs at the VFW Hall for a post-screening party and fall fundraiser kick-off, with DJs Cuica and Calle Danger, snacks, drinks, and sparkling conversation. Bring your dancing shoes!
Here's what's on tap for that evening:
[US, 2008, video, b&w, sound, 1.5 min.]
Associations by John Smith
[US, 1975, 16mm, color, sound, 7 min.]
a-b-city by Brigitte Buhler and Dieter Hormel
[West Germany, 1985, S8 transferred to video, color, sound, 8 min.]
RE:THE_OPERATION by Paul Chan
[US, 2002, Digital Video, color, sound, 26 min.]
Nocturne by Phil Solomon
[US, 1980/1989, 16mm, color, silent, 10 min.]
Portrait, Tea Time, and Red Curtain by Helga Fanderl
[Germany, 1992-2009, S8 blown up to 16mm, 18fps, color, silent, 7 min.]
Offon by Scott Barlett
[US, 1968, 16mm, color, sound, 10 min.]
Ninety-Three by Kevin Jerome Everson
[US, 2008, video, b&w, silent, 3 min.]
They had me at the inclusion Phil Solomon's Nocturne. Need convincing? How's about a look at another one of Solomon's films, PSALM III: "NIGHT OF THE MEEK" to wet your whistle before Saturday arrives. It lives here.
Cinema Project celebrates their 10th year of existence on Saturday, September 28th at the VFW Hall (825 SE Mill St.). More info available here.
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