Ethnographic Visions: An Extended Shorts Program

In accordance with the recent mandate from Oregon Governor Kate Brown, masks are required during Open-Air Cinema at OMSI. Masks continue to be required for all staff and visitors at the Portland Art Museum, including Venice VR Expanded.

Directed by Various

Showtimes & Past Screenings

An extended shorts program.

Observations on who we were, who we are, and who we might become.

Films in this Program

4th of Ohio

Directed by Emily Wahl

An observational eye is turned on a rural 95-year-old, his multi-generational family, and the public celebrations surrounding them on the …

High Lakes

Directed by Pam Minty

Director Pam Minty returns to the Oregon resort of High Lakes to document the housekeeping staff she had been a …

ARK

Directed by Lynne Siefert

A look at the communities that exist on floating cruise ships in a post-apocalyptic world where water covers the majority …

Appears in: 44th Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival

The Northwest Film Center recognizes and honors the Indigenous peoples of this region on whose ancestral lands the museum now stands. These include the Willamette Tumwater, Clackamas, Kathlemet, Molalla, Multnomah and Watlala Chinook Peoples and the Tualatin Kalapuya who today are part of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, and many other Native communities who made their homes along the Columbia River. We also want to recognize that Portland today is a community of many diverse Native peoples who continue to live and work here. We respectfully acknowledge and honor all Indigenous communities—past, present, future—and are grateful for their ongoing and vibrant presence.