Event Schedule 11:45 AM - Doors Open, Filmmaker Check-in 12:15 PM - Awards Presentation and Film Introductions12:45 PM - Social, Networking and Photos1:15 PM - Session 1 Film…
In a rapidly gentrifying city, the construction of a luxury condominium threatens a local mural forcing the artists and a neighborhood to rally to protect its history, voice, and land.
From witchy Gogol adaptations, sinisterly psychedelic Alice in Wonderland serials and cigarette ads, to surrealist parables, antifascist poems, and even Stephen King (!), Ukrainian animators rebuilt their industry after the second world war and made Kievnauchfilm one of the most distinguished animation studios in the world.
Executive produced by award winning actress and humanitarian Rosario Dawson and directed by Emmy nominated director Linda Goldstein Knowlton, SPLIT AT THE ROOT follows the emotional journey of mothers separated from their children at the U.S. border and the grassroots initiative that, against all odds, reunites those families.
In this taut psychological thriller by Karyn Kusama (JENNIFER’S BODY), the tension is palpable when Will shows up to a dinner party hosted by his ex-wife Eden and new husband David (Michiel Huisman).
Roberta (Arquette) is a bored housewife from the suburbs with a wealthy bonehead of a husband that is taken on a maniacal fairytale journey through 1980s new-wave New York’s East Village. Following a mysterious series of personal ads seeking a meeting with a woman named Susan, Roberta decides to rock her suburbia boat and see the fascinating woman in person at the most recent location in the paper. A bonk on the head, a sick jacket, and a career in stage magic later, DSS is a delightful slapstick caper.
Written and directed by Sophia Coppola. Academy Award winner for Best Original Screenplay and Golden Globe winner for Best Motion Picture.
One of Agnès Varda's most provocative films examines, with a deceptively cheery palette and the spirited strains of Mozart, the ideas of fidelity and happiness in a modern, self-centered world.
Rescheduled from the night of the big snowstorm! Old Dr. Faust attends the opera, a performance of his famous ancestor's pact with the Devil. Actually, the Devil is there too, and has a deal for the old man... here we go again!
Maybe the New Wave’s most anarchic entry, Věra Chytilová’s absurdist farce follows the misadventures of two brash young women. Believing the world to be “spoiled,” they embark on a series of pranks in which nothing—food, clothes, men, war—is taken seriously. Daisies is an aesthetically and politically adventurous film that’s widely considered one of the great works of feminist cinema.
Escape Reality is exactly the medicine you need for our current reality. Join the gang in March to watch absurdity unfold in a sketch comedy adventure that will tickle you to your core. Prepare for your life to change age as you witness...Fine Art!!
Escape Reality is exactly the medicine you need for our current reality. Join the gang in March to watch absurdity unfold in a sketch comedy adventure that will tickle you to your core. Prepare for your life to change age as you witness...Fine Art!!
Join our weekly screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show that started in April of 1978!
Event Schedule 2:00 PM - Doors Open, Filmmaker Check-in 3:00 PM - Awards Presentation and Film Introductions4:00 PM - Social Networking and Photos5:30 PM - Film Screenings (Attending…
The director turns her camera on the business owners whose shops are the street’s lifeblood: bakers, tailors, butchers, perfumers, music-store clerks, driving instructors, and others, who, between the everyday rituals of their work, talk of their lives, relationships, and dreams. Blending her photographer’s eye for still portraiture with her filmmaker’s gift for finding visual rhymes and resonances between images, Varda reveals the rich social fabric of an entire world—all without leaving her block.
Ulrike Ottinger, then a young painter, lived in Paris in the 1960s. Now a film-maker, she looks back on that time, weaving memories of the Parisian life and the upheavals of the time into a cinematic poem with the city at its center.
A fading Lothario and bureaucrat plies his rapidly diminishing charms on Prague's young women, and in the process confronts the spectre of Death! A reversal of perspective on their beloved classic Daisies, and teeming with the same frenetic energy, THE VERY LATE AFTERNOON OF THE FAUN saw director Věra Chytilová and writer & designer Ester Krumbachová teaming up once again for an encore of savage feminist comedy!
Hosted by Marla Darling and Sonnei Verbena.
Featuring performances by: Tula Petals, XO Skeleton, They Blade, Eva D'Luscious, Papa Stardust, Essie Hex, Mr. EEE, Violet Hex, Kat Van Dayum, DeVa VaVoom, Aras Arcadia, Selene Latrine, Umbruh, and BeeBee Sanchez!
A group of misfits, artists, and drug users operates a renegade safe injection site in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Love in the Time of Fentanyl is an intimate portrait of a community fighting to save lives and keep hope alive in a neighborhood ravaged by the overdose crisis.
Sex work is portrayed with radical nonjudgment in Lizzie Borden’s immersive, richly detailed look at the rhythms and rituals of society’s most stigmatized profession.
This locally produced feature has Portland talent in front of and behind the camera. Settings in St. Johns, North, and Northeast Portland feature prominently. The soundtrack is a mix of folk/pop, EDM, traditional Irish tunes, and hip hop originals by Q.Z. Tha Leader and Mic Capes.
This discussion series is meant to bring working people together to discuss what we have the power to change in our day-to-day lives, and how those changes should be made.
Broke, punk, and ambitious! The low-budget breakout film by Susan Seidelman, Smithereens is a snapshot of the dying East Village NYC punk scene in 1982 that takes you along like a down-and-out Nights of Cabiria.
After returning to Los Angeles from France in 1979, Agnès Varda created this kaleidoscopic documentary about the striking murals that decorate the city. Bursting with color and vitality, Mur Murs is as much an invigorating study of community and diversity as it is an essential catalog of unusual public art.
A shorts and featurettes program of love, death, and the sea! Our headline film, DAINAH LA DAINAH LA METISSE (1931) is an early masterpiece by French master Jean Gremillon. A strange, stylized and alluring film, DAINAH is a jazzy, nightmarish poem about racial tension and sublimated colonial guilt, set amidst the strange parties and magic-laced maskarades on...
Kristal is a young, ambitious Philadelphian driven to keep families connected to their incarcerated loved ones. But when her father and brother return from prison, she confronts the ultimate question: can she reunite her own family?
Wendy (Michelle Williams), a near-penniless drifter, is traveling to Alaska in search of work, and her only companion is her dog, Lucy. Already perilously close to losing everything, Wendy hits a bigger bump in the road when her old car breaks down in Oregon and she is arrested for shoplifting dog food. When she posts bail and returns to retrieve Lucy, she finds that the dog is gone, prompting a frantic search for her pet. Directed by Kelly Reichardt.
Join our weekly screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show that started in April of 1978!
A Drama of Magical Realism. Charlie Atterbury, a former professional Mentalist, is interviewed by a documentary filmmaker about how he came upon his mind-reading talents after a fatal fall in the forest and mysteriously returns to life with amnesia and starts hearing voices.
Filmmaker in-person for Q&A. Special benefit show for the theater.
Let's celebrate the beginning of Spring, with some performances that'll leave you SPRUNG!! It's an open themed show, so anything goes! Join us as we heat up the last of those cold nights!!
“If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes. If we opened me up, we’d find beaches.” Originally intended to be Agnès Varda’s farewell to filmmaking, this enchanting self-portrait, made in her eightieth year, is a freewheeling journey through her life, career, and artistic philosophy.
Curious about psychedelics, but don’t know where to start? Join Portland Psychedelic Society for an evening of conversation with local experts as we break down the psychedelic basics.
A masterwork of atmospheric gothic ghastliness! Featuring the rarely seen full length cut of this film.
Event Schedule 4:00 PM - Doors Open, Filmmaker Check-in 4:15 PM - Awards Presentation and Film Introductions5:15 PM - Social Networking and Photos5:30 PM - Film Screenings (Attending…
Written and directed by Isabel Sandoval, LINGUA FRANCA follows an undocumented Filipina trans woman Olivia (Isabel Sandoval) after she has secured a job as a live-in caregiver for Olga (Lynn Cohen), an elderly Russian woman in Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach neighborhood.
Working with no-name stars on a bargain-basement budget, B auteur Edgar G. Ulmer turned threadbare production values and seedy, low-rent atmosphere into indelible pulp poetry. Long available only in substandard public domain prints, Detour haunts anew in its first major restoration.
SMART DUMB is a comedy showcase featuring Portland's funniest up and coming comedians. Join us for a night of foolery April 1st as we bring the funny to Clinton Street Theater. This month's showcase includes Pedro Andrade, Meanroth Ny, Sabrena Contreras, Imani, Julia Corral, David Lopez, Tory Ward and Jaren Geroge.
Join our weekly screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show that started in April of 1978! This show includes performances by the Clinton Street Cabaret.
