THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE FINE - 7 PM
Archipelago / Portland, OR
The trio of crack filmmakers that is Archipelago, Adrienne Leverette, Rob Tyler and Eric Schopmeyer follow up their past Festival hits that include HONKEYTONK DIRT and A THING OF WONDER by exploring the tension between humans’ awe of nature and our compulsion to manipulate it. Their collection of "bio-collectors” include one voraciously engendering carnivorous plants, a couple whose living room is swimming with koi, and a many aiming to collect one of each kind of tulip. Experience the sumptuously photographed captured and collected. (45 min)

Collectors At Large - 7 PM
Patti Lewis / Portland, OR
Packrats On Parade! From a Santa Claus aficionado who loses sleep over the next conquest for his already enormous collection, to the "grape lady" who landscapes the entire circumference of her house with plastic resin grape bunches, more proof that obsession knows no bounds. (25 min)

American Nutria - 9pm
Matt McCormick / Portland, OR
Brought to America from Argentina as a farmable, fur-bearing replacement for the dwindling beaver population, nutria have adapted in the wild and are now causing economic and environmental havoc. (10 min)

Les Nanas - 9pm
Danielle Morgan / Bellingham, WA
Live actors shot with stop motion technique create a film which resembles a turn of the century automaton. But watch out, this tea party is about to get out of hand. (3 min)

Transgenic Romance - 9pm
Morgan Currie / Portland, OR
One of those genetic engineering melodramas–– a torrid romance, they met in a Petri dish. (6 min)

German Lessons - 9pm
Liz Schulze / Burnaby, BC
The filmmaker accompanies her charming grandfather, Bernhard Schultz, on a tour of his homeland where he excavates the tough questions about being a German soldier during WWII. (23 min)
“I was most moved by this film; two very different generations (a young girl and her grandfather) directly confronting horror, one for the first time, and perhaps the other for the first time too. Let's hope recent events won't lead to a film called American Lessons, if it's not too late already.” –JB

Snap Crackle Pop - 9pm
Dawn Jones / Portland, OR
In the wake of a tragedy that is not quite personal, the filmmaker examines the responsibilities of the grieving. “Should I cry for the people that the people I know know?” (2-1/2 min)

Eye for an Eye - 9pm
David Rimmer / Vancouver, BC
Abstract, hand-painted images rhythmically build to the sound of contemporary world music. (10 min)

Do Not Disturb - 9pm
A. Jonathan Benny / Vancouver, BC
Disturbing things overheard in the next hotel room lead to this Hitchcockian suspense fable of the aural voyeur's dilemma. (10 min)

Ananda - 9pm
Mike Smith / Portland, OR
Dali meets Bollywood in this surreal fantasy of a man wandering through the bleak industrial wasteland of his mind where a magical childhood memory ignites a joyous wish that the girl of his dreams might escape a tradition that keeps her from him. (5-1/2 min)

Nocturno - 9pm
Naoko Sasaki / Delta, BC
A mundane task becomes something mysteriously sensual through beautiful slow-motion photography. (6 min)

More Sensitive - 9pm
Gail Noonan / Mayne Island, BC
A broadly painted portrait of a lounge singer of limited talents. Still life with ham. (2 min)

Pan With Us - 9pm
David Russo / Seattle, WA
"A conceptually pastoral poem-film about the creative retirement of the ancient Greek woodland god, Pan."  Employing stop-action techniques honed in POPULI, Awarded Best of the 28th Northwest Film & Video Festival, Russo illustrates a Robert Frost poem in a wildly imaginative rendering.  (4 min)