SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7
4:30 PM GUILD THEATRE

SCARED SCARED
VELCROW RIPPER/VANCOUVER BC
Inspired by theological history, millennium cults, and the six o'clock news, Velcrow Ripper (BONES OF THE FOREST, NWFEST 23) began a five-year journey to chronicle the human spirit in the face of ultimate disaster. Visiting the sites of massive destruction and violence, Ripper asks if these monuments of pain can be spiritually "reclaimed" as holy places. From Hiroshima and Flanders Field to Afghanistan and 9/11's Ground Zero, Ripper is able to find human compassion, resilience and creative genius where despair seems the only reality. While visiting India, the Dalai Lama reflects on current global violence in the age of manic industrialism and fundamental extremists. "The concept of war is based on the concept of 'we' and 'they' and that the first disarmament must be internal." Ripper's narrative is a vividly panoramic world tour, while maintaining an introspective, personal subjectivity. Honored by critics and lauded at international festivals, SCARED SACRED is his deeply moving look into global politics, art and spirtuality—an attempt to avoid "filling my pockets with images while leaving my heart untouched." (104 mins.)

7 PM GUILD THEATRE
SHORTS III: Eyes on the Prize

JOE BLOW
Mark Gustafson/Portland, OR
Poor Joe puts his all into making his first date a perfect evening, only to have the effort of seduction get the better of him. (4-1/2 mins.)

GROUNDED
Matt McCormick/Portland, OR
In this melodic, twilight-tinted essay, Portland’s southeast industrial district is further charted by its artistic godfather. Judge’s Award, Best Experimental Film. (10 mins.)

THE BEES
Joel Baird, rick phillips/Missoula, MT
A quick glimpse at the spastic lives of those maligned insects. (1 min.)

CYCLE
Sam Brosnan/Portland
The path of a cyclist is mirrored by the imagination of a child. Frantic cinematography and a passionate score combine to create a sense of desperate urgency. (14 mins.)

FOUR DAYS ONE YEAR
Haley Islieb/Portland, OR
Through bittersweet recollection, the history of a doomed relationship is told in four poignant turning points that strike close to home. (15 mins.)

MARY KLEIN: STREET ARTIST
Steve Utaski/Seattle, WA
“I’m a hustler. I’m out here hustling every day.” So says Mary Klein, a mother and sculptor who makes her living on the streets doing whatever it takes to make the art she lives for work for the way she lives. (7 mins.)

ROOZENGAARDE
Jeremy Bird/Portland, OR
A sweet tumble through the tulip. (1 min.)

MARIE TYRELL
Pat “flick” Harrison/Vancouver, BC
A powerhouse film that uses a pastiche of text and imagery to tell the story of a young revolutionary on death row through her lover’s song, her psych report and her teenaged diaries. Judges’ Award, Best Narrative Film. (26 mins.)

HOPE AND PREY
Vanessa Renwick/Portland
Using three projectors and a beefed-up sound amplification system, Renwick captures the brutality and intensity of the hunt while disrupting the audience’s perception of comfort. (25 mins.)
Program repeats November 12 at 9 pm

9:30 PM @ STUDIO 1050
FILMMAKERS’ LOUNGE
Join us after the show for a drink, a chance to talk and relax and if you like, an opportunity to screen your film at the Filmmakers’ Lounge Open Screening. Hosted by Studio 1050 and Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, the Lounge invites any and all filmmakers to take part in the Festival. Submit a short film by November 1 and see it projected with a live soundtrack by DJ Talk Demonic and others TBA. Filmmakers interested in screening, contact Andrew Blubaugh (andrew@nwfilm.org). Otherwise just come. Studio 1050, 1050 Water Avenue, under the Morrison Bridge.