MAR
25 THU 7 pm
GUILD THEATRE—NORTHWEST TRACKING
HOW TO BE A MODEL: A 12 STEP
PLAN
DIRECTOR: ALLISON BEDA After years in the modeling industry director Allison
Beda decided to attend art school and become a filmmaker. In her first
feature documentary, she returns to the biz to explore the reality of
how the 99% of models who don’t have the word “super”
before their job title actually make a living. Her subject , Peggi Lepage,
is a friend from her former life and a struggling model in Toronto. As
she follows Lepage she interviews agents, photographers and even a model-turned-therapist
who helps women adjust to post-career life. The film chronicles both Lepage’s
effort to find work and the difficult undertaking of making a feature
film, as the crew falls ill in Paris, the producer has to be hospitalized
for anorexia, and Lepage decides that the film is hurting her career.
Unfolding in the form of a 12-step program, Beda’s film exposes
the sometimes satisfying, sometimes destructive and definitely addictive
nature of living in the world of high fashion. (93 mins.)
march
31 wed 7 pm
GUILD THEATRE—NORTHWEST TRACKING
REED HARKNESS: THE SAM SHOW
Over the past seven years, Reed Harkness-filmmaker and founding member
of Portland's Tiny Picture Club-has been making whimsical and poignant
Super-8 films with his younger half brother Sam. When Sam's mother Jois
abandoned him at the age of 13, the tone of the films he and Reed made
together shifted, reflecting that loss. In THE SAM SHOW, Harkness offers
a portrait of his relationship with his sibling using slideshows, music
and the films they have made together, recounting the profound impact
that Jois' leaving had on their family. Also featured will be excerpts
from SAM NOW, a new documentary by Harkness about the crisis in his family
and his and Sam's decision to embark on a journey to find Jois. Join us
after the screenuingfor a reception hosted by Sierra Nevada. 21 and over—ID
required. (120 mins.)
Harkness offers a School of Film workshop, HAND-MADE FILMMAKING on May
15. See page 10 for details
APRIL 8 THU 7 pm
GUILD THEATRE—NORTHWEST TRACKING
OPEN SCREENING
Come see up-and-coming filmmakers show work so new we haven’t seen
it before it’s thrown on screen. If you have work you’d like
to show, send an e-mail to andrew@nwfilm.org with your name, the title
of your film, the running time (under 15 minutes, please) and your projection
format (35mm, 16mm, miniDV, VHS, BETA SP or DVD formats). FREE ADMISSION
APRIL
21 wed 7 pm
GUILD THEATRE — NORTHWEST TRACKING
WEIRD SCIENCE: AN EVENING WITH MORGAN CURRIE
Writer, curator and filmmaker Morgan Currie's latest films investigate
the dramatic implications of biotechnology. Mixing playfulness with admonition,
her films invite the viewer to make their own predictions about where
technology is leading us. In TRANSGENIC ROMANCE, deadpan yet absurd voiceover
describes a love affair between a Rhesus monkey and a jellyfish, the two
species whose genes were successfully spliced together by Oregon Health
Science University scientists in 2002. OOPS, EMBRYO examines the startling
impact that human error can make when tampering with human reproduction.
Accompanying these films will be other works by women selected by Currie,
including PEGGY AND FRED IN HELL by Leslie Thornton, a film "about
children and apocalypse-a blend of innocence and fatality that could also
characterize biotech research and its relation to baby-making," and
SOOTHING THE BRUISE, by Betzy Bromberg, whose films have inspired Currie's
latest documentary in progress. Also featured will be a film installation
with live score and other surprises to be announced. (120 mins.)
APRIL
23 24 25 FRI 7 pm, SAT & sun 4 & 7:30 pm
WHITSELL AUDITorIUM
YVES ST. LAURENT — HIS LIFE AND TIMES
FRANCE 2002
DIRECTOR: DAVID TEBOUL For the last 40years, Yves St. Laurent has reigned
as one of the most influential and brilliantly inspired couturiers of
our times. His dramatic designs, emphasizing the body and a seductive
elegance, and his conceptual innovations completely revolutionized women's
fashion. David Tebould’s affectionate film follows his career, from
his precocious privileged youth in colonial Algeria to his emergences
as Christian Dior's teenage protégé, and then heir at age
22, to the dazzling debut of his first line under his own name. Rare interviews,
photographs and evocative period footage featuring longtime supporters
like Catherine Deneuve and Lee Radizwell, as well as contemporary interviews
with this longtime business partner and companion Pierre Berge, fashion
a portrait one of the 20th century's key cultural figures. "Captivating!
Interviews are insightful, entertaining and surprisingly frank.”
—VARIETY. (77 minutes)
FOLLOWED BY
YVES SAINT LAURENT: 5, AVENUE MARCEAU, 76116
PARIS
FRANCE 2002
DIRECTOR: DAVID TEBOUL “At three years old, he told his aunt he
didn’t like the dress she was wearing; at 21, he took over the house
of Dior.” In 1962 Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge opened their own
fashion house and in 2002 they closed their custom dressmaking business.
But before that moment, Teboul’s YSL: 5, AVENUE MARCEAU, 75116 PARIS
was in the can— a record of the master examining final versions
of his designs. The clothes themselves have a starring role: spectacularly
beautiful, made of the most exotic and fragile materials, modeled by women
whose dimensions defy reality. ‘Seduction has replaced elegance’
is still a potent shocker, and an intelligent assessment of Mr. Saint
Laurent’s approach."—Elvis Mitchell, NEW YORK TIMES.
(85 mins.)
APR 24 SAT 11
AM
GUILD THEATRE
FLICKER : FILM CLUB FOR TEENS
anouck iyer
Meet Portland experimental animator, Anouck Iyer, and view several of
her short films, including HIKE, HIKE, HIKE, which screened at this year’s
Sundance Film Festival. Anouck’s award-winning films have screened
at festivals worldwide, in addition, she also works as a successful freelance
producer. FREE ADMISSION
APRIL
22 23 24 25
thu 7 pm, FRI 7 pm, SAT & SUN, 4 & 7 pm
GUILD THEATRE
OSCAR SHORTS
This year's Oscar nominees and winners for Best Animated and Live Action
Short.
-- ANIMATED
BOUNDIN'
US 2003
DIRECTOR: BUD LUCKEY A woolly lamb is sheared and falls into a deep funk,
until the mythical Jackalope sets him straight.
(7 mins.)
DESTINO
US/FRANCE 2003
DIRECTOR: DOMINIQUE MONFERY & Roy Edward Disney Shifting dream-like
images convey Salvador Dali's surreal story of love and destiny. (6 mins.)
GONE NUTTY
US 2002
DIRECTOR: CARLOS SALDANHA & John C. Donkin
Scrat crams one final nut into the center of his gigantic stash...and
the result is cataclysmic. (5 mins.)
HARVIE KRUMPET
AUSTRALIA 2003
DIRECTOR: ADAM ELLIOT Harvie Krumpet is an ordinary man whose lifelong
bad luck is offset by occasional episodes of joy. (23 mins.)
NIBBLES
CANADA 2003
DIRECTOR: CHRIS HINTON A father takes his sons fishing in the forests
of Canada...with a few stops along the way. (4-1/2 mins.)
-- LIVE ACTION
THE RED JACKET
GERMANY 2003
DIRECTOR: FLORIAN BAXMEYER A jacket thrown in the trash by a grieving
German father makes its way into the hands of a boy in war-torn Sarajevo.
(20 mins.)
MOST (THE BRIDGE)
US 2003
DIRECTOR: BOBBY GARABEDIAN & William Zabka
When a drawbridge worker takes his son to work with him, the decision
will alter both his life and that of the troubled young woman who sees
them. (29 mins.)
SQUASH
FRANCE 2003
DIRECTOR: LIONEL BAILLIU Alexandre's boss belittles him as they play squash,
and then challenges him to either win the game or lose his job. (27 mins.)
TORZIJA ([A] Torsion)
SLOVENIA 2003
director: Stefan Arsenijevic The members of a choir in Sarajevo are awaiting
safe passage through a tunnel when a farmer begs them to help his injured
cow. (15 mins.)
TWO SOLDIERS
US 2003
DIRECTOR: AARON SCHNEIDER & Andrew J. Sacks
A little boy is determined to enlist in the army along with his adored
older brother in this adaptation of William Faulkner's short story. (15
mins.)