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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.

Genre: Northwest Filmmaker

[Who]

Directed by Abbey Sacks

Faces and objects come into view and suddenly vanish in this texturally dense, surprising animation.

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$500 of Party

Directed by Nandan Rao

Rao offers $500 he won in a grant to whomever sends him the most compelling video explaining how they would …

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198

Directed by Josh Lunden

Under the pressure of a hanging marriage proposal, a young woman attempts to avoid reality during an ill-conceived night of …

3rd Degree

Directed by Sal Strom

Strom pairs found footage with an oral history from a World War II veteran.

9

Directed by Kimberly Warner

A young ballerina glimpses a hidden truth about her future as she teeters between light and dark, order and chaos.

A Beginning, A Middle, and An End

Directed by Jon Behrens

A truck explodes into a kaleidoscope of painted, optically printed animation.

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A Love Story

Directed by Brandy Svendson

This moving story of loss in the early days of the AIDS epidemic celebrates the timelessness and universal qualities of …

A Place of Truth

Directed by Barrett Rudich

Abigail Mott is a 21-year-old woman traveling from city to city as a nomadic street poet. Inspired by watching a …

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A Tale of Momentum & Inertia

Directed by Kirk Kelley, Kameron Gates

Rock Giant holds the fate of a small coastal village in his hands.

A Year & A Day

Directed by Pam Minty

A series of images of Bond Butte taken each month over the course of a year precede a series of …

Abandoned Generations

Directed by Linda Fenstermaker

Generations of a family’s commitment to its Pacific Northwest farmland are portrayed through a 1945 diary and the haunting reminiscences …

All About Chris Freeman: Video by and about Chris Freeman

Directed by Chris Freeman

Portland filmmaker Chris Freeman’s work explores issues of masculinity and identity through video, photography, and performance. Fashioning short self-portraits in …

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.