FREE ADMISSION!
Super-8 SWAP MEET & TRADE SHOW +
NON-STOP SCREENINGS
MAY 8 SUN 2 PM-6 PM
WELLS FARGO IMPROMPTU BALLROOM
(1219 SW Park Avenue beside the Portland Art Museum)

1 PM in the Wells Fargo Impromptu Ballroom at the Portland Art Museum (1219 SW Park Avenue), The celebration begins at with a non-stop selection of classic educational films and new works from students of the NWFC School Of Film will be screened. 

At 11 AM and again at 2 PM, Kodak presents "Stop By. Shoot Film", a learning opportunity for anyone interested in that "other" small film format, 16mm.  Participants will have the opportunity to shoot 16mm film with professional cameras and cinematographers, and will receive their footage by mail on DVD.  For more information or to register for the "Stop By. Shoot Film" workshop, go to www.kodak.com/go/stopbyshootfilm.

At 2 PM in the Ballroom, the tables open for our super-8 swap meet.  Bring in your cameras, projectors and accessories to sell at your own table for just $10, or drop it off with Film Center Staff to sell for a 10% consignment.  Contact Andrew Blubaugh for table reservation at 503-276-4264 or e-mail Andrew@nwfilm.org.

At 3 PM in the Ballroom we will host the premiere of SLEEP ALWAYS, a feature film noir from Toronto filmmakers Mitch Perkins and Rick Palidwor.  Called "Stunning" by the Independent Weekly, it is the first and only film shot entirely on "Super-Duper-8, a format invented by the filmmakers utilizing a larger frame size on super-8 film.

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SMALL GAUGE, BIG VISION: SUPER-8 OPERA PRIMA
SUN 8 PM GUILD THEATRE
Portland filmmaker-curator Morgan Currie invited an eclectic group of10 accomplished Portland artists (most of them not media makers) to make their first Super-8 film. Each participant was provided with two rolls of film courtesy of Kodak (and processing by Forde Motion Picture Labs) and cameras from the Film Center. Join us tonight for the premier of their new works—a promising evening of intriguing moving-image visions and inspiration, featuring work by painter Ryan Boyle; video-sound artist Zachary Reno; video-website designers Videominds; painter-sculptors Sean Healey and Andrea U-Ren; visual artist Chris Johanson; video artist-web designer-musician Chris Larson; musician Sarah Dougher, experimental filmmaker Matt McCormick; performance artist damali ayo; and filmmaker-conceptual artist Melody Owen.Live accompaniment will be provided by Tara Jane O’Neil and other acts TBA.

Preceded by
SUPER-8 OPEN SCREENING
Whether it's your first film, your latest opus, a home movie or something you found on a thrift store, bring it in for an uncurated open screening. Projectors provided by Gary Lacher will allow us to project Super-8mm, Regular 8mm and Single 8mm with live acoustic accompaniment.
Got a film to show, contact Andrew Blubaugh, andrew@nwfilm.org

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IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO LEARN HOW TO PLOW BY READING BOOKS
US 1988 DIRECTOR: RICHARD LINKLATER
MAY 9 MON 7 PM GUILD THEATRE — SUPER 8 CELEBRATION
The rarely seen first (Super-8) feature by Richard Linklater can easily be seen as a precursor to his later hits, though READING BOOKS takes a much more silent approach to exploring poignant beauty of the banal than the pointedly verbose SLACKER and WAKING LIFE. A nineteen-year-old Linklater stars in the film, hanging out at his house, taking trips to see old friends, visiting his parents, getting his car fixed, listening to records, and generally personifying youthful ennui, as a “wild” soundtrack composed of music, audio tape letters from friends, snippets of conversation create a floating, meditative atmosphere. (85 MINS.)

Followed by
THAT'S MY FACE
US 2001 DIRECTOR: THOMAS ALLEN HARRIS
Thomas Allen Harris embarked on a quest to find “spirits,” whom he interprets as beings from another dimension calling him to his African ancestry. In voice-over narration, Harris explains that he has always been blessed by double vision—the ability to see both the reality in front of his eyes and the spiritual dimension that hides behind it. Home movie footage of his childhood in the Bronx and a formative adolescence in Tanzania blends perfectly with super-8 footage of his expedition to the Brazilian city Salvador De Bahia, where he discovers a rich history of religions and rites still visible under the Christian deities forced upon the natives by missionaries. (58 MINS.)

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NO SKIN OFF MY *SS
US 1991 DIRECTOR: BRUCE LA BRUCE
MAY 10 TUE 7 PM GUILD THEATER—SUPER 8 CELEBRATION
Bad-boy filmmaker Bruce La Bruce thumbed his nose at the prevailing archetype of queer cinema of the 1980s by making a movie with no mention of AIDS, safe sex, coming out, or “positive”gay role models. Instead, he created a chaotic portrait of himself as an artist. La Bruce stars as a punk Karen Carpenter-loving hairdresser who falls madly in love with a stoic, hyper-masculine skinhead, Klaus Von Buecker. By facetiously centering the film around the stereotypical gay fantasy of the "seduction” of a straight man, La Bruce deconstructs gay pornography, low budget filmmaking, gay eroticism and a plethora of other cinematic ideals. “Sweeter than Warhol, subtler than Kuchar, sexually more explicit than Van Sant,”—Amy Taubin, VILLAGE VOICE. (72 MINS.)

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JOHNNY MOREHOUSE PRESENTS:
THE TRAVELING SUPER-8 SIDE SHOW
MAY 11 WED 7 PM GUILD THEATER—SUPER 8 CELEBRATION
For the past five years, Denver-based Super-8 afficianado Johnny Morehouse has done his part to make sure that small format filmmaking doesn't go by the wayside by promoting his own traveling festival of new work shot on Super-8 by some of the foremost experimental and narrative filmmakers from across the country. Past filmmakers have included Roger Beebe, Paul Tarrago, Reynold Reynolds, Ben Kronberg, Olive Green, Jennet Thomas, Thomas Harris, Gregory King, Richard Newton, Daniel Moldonado, Jamie Shuali and Tony Gault.