OPENING NIGHT
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5

7PM GUILD THEATRE
SHORTS I: Sacrifice and Redemption

PATH
Marilyn Cherenko/Delta, BC
Animated photographs take the viewer on a stop-motion stroll through nature. (2 mins.)

MIZPAH
Morgan Currie/Portland, OR
Currie constructs a portrait of her friend Ashley using super-8, AM-radio recordings and interviews about her religious childhood. (5 mins.)

SALAD SHOOTER
Rob Tyler/Portland, OR
Tyler returns to the world of the inanimate with a look at a machine that turns delicious vegetables into homogenous mush right before your eyes! (3 mins.)

SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM STORY
Bill Daniel/Portland, OR
In this film about a film, Daniel examines a movie made 30 years ago in graphic, violent response to the Vietnam War. Viewed today, with commentary by the filmmakers, the images are no less disturbing and resonant. Judges’ Award, Best Documentary. (7 mins.)

MAN FEEL PAIN
Dylan Aiko Smith/Vancouver, BC
When a self-made Christ figure nails his own hand to the wall of his apartment, he becomes a hero to his entire building. But even the Lord is not exempt from competition. Who’d have thought that martyrdom could be so difficult? (11 mins.)


NEAR THE END OF AUGUST
Tobin Addington/Bonner, MT
In this scrambled tale of consequences, a young girl gets caught between love and the truth when she is the only witness to a brutal beating on the outskirts of town. (16-1/2 mins.)

TAUBMAN SUCKS
Theo Lipfert/Seattle, WA
Henry Mishkoff just wanted to make a web site about his favorite shopping mall, but when the owners found his site they sent their lawyers in, setting the ball rolling for what would become a major chapter in Internet law history. (6 mins.)

FACT #9
Dan Ness/Portland, OR
A handmade film constructed of found imagery painted onto wood and manipulated by stop-action photography. (4 mins.)

BIOGRAPHY OF AN AMERICAN HOSTESS
Shilpa Sonthankar/Portland, OR
She is courteous, helpful and polite, even as her guests are arrogant, ignorant and often rude. Such is the life of a restaurant hostess, in Sonthankar’s examination of the many “innocent” forms that racism can take. (18 mins.)

CONTINGENT
Nick Peterson/Portland, OR
A study of interpersonal relationships, emotional distance, infidelity and sexual restlessness are revealed in a young woman’s various seductions. (20 mins.)

THE BRAND NEW TRIATHALON
Rick Raxlan/Victoria, BC
An animated how-to guide on the perfect two-step, the proper way to bowl and engaging your enemies with kung-fu tricks. (3 mins.)

MAGDA
Chel White/Portland, OR
Animated entirely with mannequins, White’s enchanting film tells of a love affair between a contortionist and her devoted fan turned sour by greed. Judge’s Award, Best Animation. (5 mins.)

Program repeats November 13 at 4:30 pm