Fast Forward - 7pm
Melisa McGregor / Victoria, BC
Courtship, infidelity, deceit and redemption, all in less time than an episode of The Fifth Wheel. A quirky courtship comedy. (9 min)

Two - 7pm
Nick Peterson / Portland, OR
In the second film of his trilogy that began with last year’s festival favorite, ONE, Peterson weighs in on the universal saga of love lost. (10 min)
“Perhaps the best image-maker in the festival.” –JB

Fifty Fifty - 7pm
Kevin Eastwood / Vancouver, BC
On a road trip to his high school reunion, a man steers into the 50/50 cafe, where a little perspective is the special of the day. (8 min)

Three - 7pm
Nick Peterson / Portland, OR
This final film of Peterson’s trilogy infuses humor into the formula and focuses on a different kind of love. (12 min)
“My favorite narrative film of the festival. And done without a spoken word. The NEA should see this film; maybe they would again give grants to young emerging artists. Shame on them for turning their backs on young people– like the one in this film with the camera.” –JB

49? - 7pm
Eric Frith / Vashon, WA
Sherman Alexie responded to a request from the Seattle International Film Festival to make a five-minute film about music with this solemn yet humorous look at a forgotten musical genre: the Indian 49. (6 min)

A Man and His Pants - 7pm
Christopher Tenzis / Portland, OR
Dissecting a pratfall evolves into the editor’s rollicking drum solo. Elmer Fudd goes Dada. (3-1/2 min)

Blender: Rotation Test 1-3 - 7pm
Rob Tyler / Portland, OR
A surprisingly suspenseful journey into the turbulent world of frappe and puree. (3 min)

Resurrection - 7pm
Trish Van Hussen / Vashon, WA (3 min)
"Direct animation" of scratching, bleaching and painting applied to the emulsion of a film about the unveiling of a woman.

Britton, South Dakota - 7pm
Vanessa Renwick / Portland, OR
The lack of narrative invites dressing these cinematic dolls with futures, now histories. The melancholic drone of the accompanying organ music tends to lead them into sad tragic finery.(8 min)
“Not only found footage, but a found film made 60-some years ago directly addressing contemporary structural concerns. I wish I had made this film today. Oh, it was made today.”
–JB

Eclipse - 7pm
Chel White / Portland, OR
Enigmatic images follow the path of a poem about grief. The controversial subject of a woman’s right to choose is depicted from a perspective that is pointedly more personal than political. (3 min)

Why the Anderson Children Didn't Come to Dinner - 7pm
Jamie Travis / North Vancouver, BC
Three seven-year-olds endure the culinary abuse of their ogreish mother. Heroically succulent and frolicsome art direction with a hilariously deadpan delivery. (16-1/2 min)

Wrong Number Phone Message - 7pm
Bruce Alcock / Vancouver, BC
A rambunctious illustration of some cantankerous audio footage found in a phone machine. “You’d better shake your head and think twice.” (2 min)

THE NAKED PROOF - 9pm
Jamie Hook / Seattle, WA
Henry Rawitcher is stuck. The 34-year-old philosophy student's relationship with his girlfriend is going nowhere; work on his vast dissertation on the meaning of life is swiftly approaching–it's tenth year– and his university is threatening to pull his funding if he doesn't finish in a month. Confused and overwhelmed, he runs into Miriam, 7 1/2 months pregnant, whose real problems quickly dwarf his theoretical ones. Soon she is everywhere, luring him into all manners of random acts and threatening to infuse his life with some real perspective. Jamie Hook's latest feature is a refreshingly intelligent romantic comedy, like a Hepburn-Tracy screwball as rewritten by your favorite college philosophy professor. (95 min)