Directed by Various
98 mins.
Films in this Program

Fainting Spells
Directed by Sky Hopinka
Told through recollections of youth, learning, lore, and departure, this is an imagined myth for the Xąwįska, or the Indian Pipe …

Vever
Directed by Deborah Stratman
A cross-generational binding of three filmmakers seeking alternative possibilities to power structures they're inherently part of. The film grew out …

Wishing Well
Directed by Sylvia Schedelbauer
Gushing colors. A time disjointed, yet synchronous. A transcendent turn, a quest for agency, a reunion with currents of the …

Altiplano
Directed by Malena Szlam
Filmed in the Andes and set in a geological universe of ancestral salt flats, volcanic deserts and colored lakes transform …

Translations
Directed by Tinne Zenner
A reflection on the power of language as a colonizer of foreign landscapes. A critical and graceful 16mm film in …

Between Relating and Use
Directed by Nazli Dinçel
Borrowing words from Laura Marks' "Transnational Object" and DW Winnicott's "Transitional Object," this film is an attempt to ethically make …

Fallen Arches
Directed by Simon Liu
Global in scope but intimate in spirit, Fallen Arches is a dizzying assembly of footage shot between the bucolic English …

Polly One
Directed by Kevin Jerome Everson
Across Polly One's two exquisite shots, veteran filmmaker (and amateur meteorologist) Kevin Jerome Everson utilizes 16mm film and unconventional lenses to …
Genres: Short
Appears in: 42nd Portland International Film Festival, PIFF 42: Short Cuts, PIFF 42: Ways of Seeing