FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12
7 PM GUILD THEATRE

RIDIN’ & RHYMIN’
Dawn Smallman, Greg Snider/Portland, OR
“Forget about that ropin’, it makes callouses on your hand, and you know it takes soft fingers to land yourself a man.” So rhymes Georgie Sicking, 81-year-old poet, mother, and ranch-hand, as she recalls people’s reaction when, at age 5, she decided that she wanted to be a cowgirl. Thankfully, she did not forget about roping, instead devoted her life to it and writing poetry to boot. Despite experiences like killing her father’s horse out of mercy and essentially raising herself from the age of 15, Georgie’s strength and tenacity shine through in her buoyant, optimistic poetry. Smallman and Snider follow her through the good days and the bad, being inducted into the Cowgirl Hall of Fame one day and literally burying her youngest child the next. Such is life in the (still) Wild West, and one gets the feeling that, good or bad, Georgie wouldn’t have it any other way. (57 mins.)

With
THE PATHOLOGIST
Jim Neidhardt, Portland, OR
In 1968, a young Jim Neidhardt turned a camera on his eccentric father, a recently retired pathologist living on Haight Street in San Francisco. The footage captures the spirit of the era as well as a very unique family dynamic, father and son sharing stories, quarreling and experimenting with drugs as if they are old friends. Whether familiar with Neidhardt’s later abstract films or not, this personal time capsule fascinates. (26 mins.)

9 PM GUILD THEATRE
SHORTS III: Eyes on The Prize

See Sunday, November 7 for description