DESIGNS FOR LIVING is a disrespectful, disapproving collection of films depicting capitalist designs and their ignominious flops, through company-spread industrial musicals by General Motors and others, to the biting rejoinders of filmmakers throughout South America, and lastly, to some truly bizarre, hippy-anarchist fantasies of different cities and homes. Far out, square, hilarious and troubling!
Portland visual artist Eatcho and musician Pink Buddha join forces for the second Blessings Movie Night of 2024 with an original live score to GHOST IN THE SHELL (1995) based on Masamune Shirow's manga, directed by Mamoru Oshii and adapted by Kazunori Itō.
While most of the Palestinian film archive was seized and destroyed, this collection pulls together five remaining pieces by the Palestinian Film Unit, preserving the legacy of the artists who sacrificed and gave their lives for the images.
Screening presented by Third Eye Books.
In 1968, the first chapter of the Black Panther Party outside of California was started in Seattle. This is the untold story of the founders, brothers Aaron and Elmer Dixon. Directed by Rick DuPree and Marques Du Pree with editing by Gabrielle Johnson and cinematography by Che Sehyun.
Fantasy A, real-life autistic Seattle rapper, suffers trials and tribulations from total creeps as he attempts to become a superstar. After being kicked out of his group home onto the grim summer streets, Fantasy A sets off on an odyssey to achieve fame and find a good mattress to sleep on in this ensemble comedy filmed entirely on location in Seattle.
Exclusive Portland engagement! 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.
In the Summer of 1968 in Mexico City, a student strike grew into massive walk-outs and demonstrations of hundreds of thousands. As the city prepares for the Olympic ceremonies in October, the government makes a horrifying decision to save the Games (and themselves).
HISTORY'S WITNESS showcases three of Jocelyne Saab's major films documenting the Lebanese Civil War, as well as her banned TV documentary short, PALESTINIAN WOMEN.
Presented by KMHD, with a special DJ set from KMHD Silver Linings host Bryson Wallace followed by an introduction of the film by KMHD Program Director Matt Fleeger.
