EVIL ALIEN CONQUERORS -2pm
Chris Matheson / Corbett, Oregon
Local screenwriter and Northwest Film Center School Of Film faculty member Chris Matheson's feature directorial debut is a wacky farce on the science fiction genre. True to its title, the film involves the efforts of Matheson's bickering characters to eliminate every member of the human race, out of fear that they temselves will be annihilated by the Crocker, a giant monster inetent on intergalactic domination. Starring Saturday Night Live alum Chris Parnell along with Drew Carey Show stalwart Diedrich Bader and none other than Tori Spelling, Evil Alien Conquers is a guilty pleaseure too damn good to pass up. Ticket includes admission to THE ART AND BUSINEES OF SCREENWRITING panel, where Matheson will be joined by Chris McQuarrie (THE USUAL SUSPECTS) and MIKE RICH (FINDING FORRESTER) for a discussion of the difficult task of writing for the big screen in the Northwest. (80 min)

The Environment - 7pm
Sarah Halpern / Portland, OR
A bit of educational found film footage with the environment of the medium rendered in chattering frames, ambient sound and visible tape splices. (5 1/2 min)

Crowfilm - 7pm
Edward P. Davee / Portland, OR
A Vertovian celebration of the beauty and intelligence of the common crow also recognizing the process of the documentation. (20 min)

The Home - 7pm
Erin Brown / Victoria, BC
“What makes this film compelling is not so much the easy solution to its narrative but rather the uneasiness of the characters' movement, the strangeness of their "computer" faces, and the way they gaze.” –JB (5 min)


Afterthought - 7pm
Michael Cross / Seattle, WA
Roy and Macaela wander through a relationship where time never seems to be quite on their side. Makes traditional "chronological" dating seems a piece of cake. (20 min)

Out of Our Hands - 7pm
Cheryl Slean / Seattle, WA
Vic and Kendra meet for their date at a truck stop motel. Bob arrives to stake a claim that Kendra vehemently denies. Who is Vic to believe? A film that resists the pressure to resolve the narrative question, instead exploring the conundrum of truth in a relative mind. (22 min)

Andaluz - 7pm
Joanna Priestley, Karen Aqua / Portland, OR
Two animators met by chance in a Mediterranean village in southern Spain. They fell in love with the locale and spent three years collaborating on this mellifluous tribute to Andalusia. (6 min)

Entry - 7pm
Dayna Hanson,Gaelen Hanson / Seattle
With Seattle dance-theater company 33 Fainting Spells, a single phrase of movement occurs within the narrow bounds of an overgrown sidewalk. (5 min)
“I don't want to spoil this film with description, but when it's over think about how it engages movement and space; it dances from beginning to end. My favorite film of the festival.” –JB

Meridian Days - 7pm
Trevor Fife / Portland, OR
A gorgeously photographed, elegantly paced sepiatone pleasure cruise with the filmmaker and the grandmother he gently observes and whose language he threatens to understand. (11-1/2 min)