THE OCULARIST
DIRECTOR: VANCE MALONE A gorgeous documentary about a man working in the intersection of art and medicine, and his passion for both. Honorable Mention, shorts program, Sundance Film Festival. (8 mins.)

COLLECTORS AT LARGE
DIRECTOR: PATTY LEWIS Glass grapes, novelty candy, insects and Santa Clauses- a touching view of collections and the people whose lives they consume. (20 mins.)

THE IMPORTANCE OF
SEARCH ENGINES
DIRECTOR: SARAH MARCUS In a world where what is recorded as history is decided by a select few, the ability to tell our own stories is a necessity. Marcus exposes one technique of self-preservation known as blogging: keeping a diary on the Internet for all to see. (15 mins.)

BLOT OUT THE SUN
DIRECTOR: HARRELL FLETCHER Half documentary, half dramatic reading, BLOT OUT THE SUN consists of excerpts of James Joyce's ULYSSES read by the employees, customers, and random passers-by at Jay's Garage in Southeast Portland. (25 mins.)

MERIDIAN DAYS
DIRECTOR: TREVOR FIFE ""Meridian Day' is a navigational term that refers to the phenomenon of temporarily losing or gaining a day when you cross the International Dateline. The film stems from audio and visual material collected on a three-week "luxury" ship cruise taken with my 82-year-old grandmother." (11 mins.) Grand Prize Winner, 2002 Peripheral Produce Invitational.
the filmmakers will introduce
their films.

APRIL 4 FRI 7:30 P.M.
WHITSELL AUDITORIUM - Visiting Artists
NW FILM CENTER SCHOOL OF FILM FACULTY EXHIBITION
Much of the strength of the Northwest Film Center School of Film lies in its instructors, all of whom are active in filmmaking outside of their teaching, and bring their constantly expanding experience into the classroom. Though their films are shown in festivals around the world, tonight's exhibition brings them together to show the wealth of knowledge the School Of Film makes available to our community.

THREE POSSIBLE SCENES
DIRECTOR: LAWRENCE JOHNSON One hallway of impassable darkness, a dozen alienating roses, and one very stubborn fly. THREE POSSIBLE SCENES attempts to break the cinematic language into its basic parts and communicate with the barest of means. (16 mins.)

THREE NOCTURNES FOR TROMBONE
DIRECTOR: KEVIN T. ALLEN Marching band zombies play funeral dirges, a man belches smeared notes and a trombone slithers and slides its way across a room in this comic journey to the depths of band geek hell. Judges Award Winner, Best Experimental Film, Northwest Film & Video Festival 2002 (8 mins.)

NO NEWS. . .
DIRECTOR BUSHRA AZZOUZ "Having lived half of my life in the Middle East and the other half in the America, NO NEWS… is a personal response to the events of September 11 and a reflection on the cycles of violence that have plagued both regions. (13 mins.)

THE LONE RANGER
Jim Blashfield A collaboration with Seattle jazz guitar great Bill Frisell, Blashfield twists ordinary imagery- a rainy windshield, a lamp, a streetlight- into abstract video collage. A montage of translucency, reflection and the light at night. (8-1/2 mins.)

NEW YORK
DIRECTOR: CHEL WHITE A poem in pictures created in response to the events of September 11th. Air is a recurring element-essential for life but also a conduit for harm. (10 mins.)

UNWINDING THE THREAD
DIRECTOR: enie vaisburd An examination of geographic, cultural and emotional displacement between mother and daughter. (10 mins.)

APRIL 18 FRI 7:30 P.M.
WHITSELL AUDITORIUM- VISITING ARTISTS
SHORTCUTS THROUGH PORTLAND
April is the midway point between last year's 29th Northwest Film & Video Festival and the application deadline for this year's, so it is a good time to check in with local filmmakers to see what they have been working on. Come down for a sneak peek at the stars of the future - you can tell your friends that you saw them before they were famous.

DINNER AT FIVE
DIRECTOR: TONY FUENTES A romantic dinner takes a morbid turn. (2-1/2 mins.)

BLENDER ROTATION TEST 1-3
DIRECTOR: ROB TYLER The secret life of a blender, revealed. (4 mins.)

TWO
DIRECTOR: NICK PETERSON A semi-sequel to his first film ONE, TWO takes a look at the painful dynamics of relationships. (10 mins.)

GOING TO THE OCEAN
DIRECTOR: MATT MCCORMICK The drone of ships passing in the night hypnotizes us as merry vacationers seemingly wander into the middle of a harbor. (5 mins.) Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival

EXIT INTERVIEW
DIRECTOR: JOHN STEINHORST An exiled human clone struggles to make sense of the heartless human world that has incubated him into existence. Subversive behavior leads him to fail his exit interview with his pharmaceutical parent. (18 mins.)

GTD
DIRECTOR: TOM DUDLEY A stream-of-consciousness tour through a building occupied by ghosts of memory. (3 mins.)

THE MIRACLE OF LIFE
DIRECTOR: STEVE MACDOUGALL, CAMELA RAYMOND A stylized view of marital bliss gone awry. A husband and wife preparing for a peaceful dinner must fight a bizarre organism growing in their oven. (13 mins.)

INERTIA
DIRECTOR: CURLEY JOHNSON Taylor, a young career woman living in an isolated world dominated by cell phones and computers, encounters a mysterious stranger who forces her to see the bigger picture. (23 mins.)

APRIL 19 SAT 7:30 P.M.
WHITSELL AUDITORIUM
MONSOON WIFE
US 2001
DIRECTOR: MARLIN DARRAH Having originally traveled to Cambodia to make a documentary video about the burgeoning sex trade there, Darrah, a Eugene native, instead decided to realize his dream of shooting a dramatic feature film. The result is MONSOON WIFE, a moving account of Americans caught in the seedy underbelly of a Phnom Phen swept along by the forces of societal change.The film tells the story of Thomas McIntyre, a spititually lost expatriate trying to escape his life by losing himself in the sex and drug culture. He meets and falls in love with Teeda, a strong and beautiful and woman, but warry of commitment that might give his life purpose, continues his immersion into the world of cheap prostitution. The surprise arrival of his estranged American girlfriend sets off a complicated triangle through which the sense of personal dignity, honor and maturity that has escaped him finally takes root. (92 mins.)
Marlin Darrah will introduce and diScuss his film.

APRIL 25 fri 7 P.M.
WHITSELL AUDITORIUM
visitng artist
THE GAS CAFÉ
PORTLAND 2002
DIRECTOR: KELLEY BAKER "Angry Filmmaker" Kelley Baker has made a name for himself by working on five of Gus Van Sant's feature films, his eclectic body of witty personal shorts, and for his website-www.angryfilmmaker.com -which chronicles his frustrations with the independent film community. Frustrations aside, he has found success at festivals in Chicago, Edinburgh and even at Sundance. THE GAS CAFÉ is his second feature, shot entirely on digital video with a budget of under $4000. It is an enigmatic story of three friends and two strangers thrown together in a roadside cafe on a rainy night in Oregon. One is dead, one never lived, and the other three are lying. Join us after the show for a discussion with Kelley about the experience of shooting THE GAS CAFÉ, and why he is so angry. (90 mins.)
kelley baker will introduce his film.