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Filmmaker, anthropologist, painter, and musicologist Harry Smith worked on Film #18 Mahagonny, his final film, for over ten years and considered it his magnum opus. His cinematic transformation of Kurt…

Portland visual artist Eatcho curates this month’s Blessings Movie Night with an original live score to LOST IN TRANSLATION (2003) by local musicians.

In his narrative feature debut, director Rick Charnoski’s history as a skate video director informs the frenetic storytelling style, as he combines Red’s nihilist musings with a collage of documentary and B-movie meta-narratives that paint a seedy picture of life on the outskirts of town.

A powerful new documentary reveals how Christian Nationalist leaders have spread fear and anger for decades, distorting political issues into Biblical battles between good and evil. Financed through the secretive Council for National Policy, Christian Nationalists have succeeded in taking over the Republican Party, turning it into a powerful weapon to demolish democracy from within. Discover the origins of this organized grasp for power and the grassroots coalition of secular and interfaith leaders bravely confronting the unholy forces threatening democracy.

In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.

An impressive collection of unique homespun filmmaking from Portland and beyond, from a jello cave, to a Russian village, to the suburbs of Eden. Torment and bliss! Peculiar and profound!