16mm Nyback Showdown

Watch as two 16mm programming teams (Darkroom Associates and Astral Projections) fire up their projectors and trade cinematic jabs back and forth by screening selections from the world-famous Dennis Nyback 16mm film archive!  No one knows what will be screened next – cartoons, music, educational films, documentary shorts and weird advertisements run amok! There are no rules, no prisoners, and no show is the same! A one-of-a-kind film free-for-all that will amuse, confuse and contuse your cinematic soul! 

Dennis Nyback (1953-2022) was the former owner of the Clinton St. Theater and an internationally renowned film curator and programmer. Over his 40 year career he amassed one of the most unique and rare film collections in the United States, an archive he regularly would draw from to create one-of-a-kind film programs that screened in the Pacific Northwest and around the world. We celebrate Dennis’ legacy by doing what he did best; putting on a show and sharing some of the coolest unseen cinema projected on 16mm film!  

FEATURED PROJECTIONISTS:

DARKROOM ASSOCIATES – aka Greg Hamilton a 20-year Portland film programmer known for the PSYCHOTRONIC AFTER SCHOOL SPECIAL and TRAILERMANIA.

ASTRAL PROJECTIONS – aka Garrett and Ioana – known for their muti-faceted 16mm programs at the Hollywood Theatre.