APRIL/MAY 2016 action, anarchy, and audacity
A Seijun Suzuki Retrospective
through indian eyes
Native American Cinema
New Czech Cinema Spring Classes & Workshops plus... northwest tracking friday film club
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Thursday, April 7 7 pm Bloodsworth—An Innocent Man
Wednesday, April 20 7 pm If There is a Hell Below
Wednesday, May 4 7 pm The Spaces Between the Cities
Monday, May 16 7 pm Heaven Can Wait
Friday, April 8 5:30 pm Au Hasard Balazar 8 pm Tokyo Drifter
Friday, April 22 5–7 pm Animation By Design 8 pm Tattooed Life
Thursday, May 5 7 pm Erasures and Spaces: The Revisionist Films of Salise Hughes
Wednesday, May 18 7 pm Trudell preceded by Nikamowin (Song)
Saturday, April 9 3 pm A Brighter Summer Day 7 pm Branded to Kill
Saturday, April 23 5 pm Strange Victory 7 pm The Call of Blood 9 pm Gate of Flesh
Friday, May 6 7 pm Home Care
Sunday, April 10 12 pm A Brighter Summer Day 5 pm Smashing the O-Line 7 pm Kanto Wanderer Monday, April 11 7 pm Youth of the Beast Wednesday, April 13 7 pm Notfilm Thursday, April 14 7 pm Notfilm Friday, April 15 7 pm !Women Art Revolution Saturday, April 16 4:30 pm Notfilm 7 pm Passport to Darkness 9 pm The Sleeping Beast Within Sunday, April 17 6 pm Zigeurnerweisen Monday, April 18 7 pm Kagero-za Tuesday, April 19 7 pm Yumeji
Sunday, April 24 7 pm Strange Victory Monday, April 25 7 pm Los Sures
Saturday, May 7 4 pm This May Be the Last Time preceded by A Bentwood Box 7 pm Schmitke Sunday, May 8 3 pm Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner 7 pm The Fabulous World of Jules Verne
Thursday, May 19 7 pm Rhymes for Young Ghouls Friday, May 20 7 pm Black Girl Saturday, May 21 5 pm Kissed by Lightning preceded by ?E?anx: The Cave 7 pm Black Girl
Wednesday, May 11 7 pm All About Chris Freeman: Video by and about Chris Freeman
Sunday, May 22 4 pm Navajo Talking Picture followed by Itam hakim, Hopiit 7 pm The Honour of All (Part I) followed by Tikinagan
Friday, April 29 7 pm Carmen from Kawachi
Thursday, May 12 7 pm Kanehsatake preceded by Lye
Monday, May 23 7 pm Black Girl
Saturday, April 30 4:30 pm NWFC Student Screening 7 pm Fat City
Friday, May 13 5:30 pm Irma Vep 8 pm The Way Out
Thursday, May 26 7 pm Open Screening—Free!
Sunday, May 1 4:30 pm Fat City 7 pm Smoke Signals preceded by Carrying Fire
Saturday, May 14 4:30 pm Heaven Can Wait 7 pm Gangster Ka
Thursday, April 28 8 pm The Complete First Season and Finale Premiere of The Benefits of Gusbandry
Monday, May 2 7 pm Drunktown’s Finest preceded by Shimansi
Sunday, May 15 4:30 pm Naturally Native preceded by Cow Tipping 7 pm Art and Craft
Friday, May 27 7 pm Ran Saturday, May 28 5 pm A.K. 7 pm Ran Sunday, May 29 3:30 pm Ran 7 pm A.K.
Friday, June 3 6:30 pm River of Fundament Part I 8:45 pm River of Fundament Part II Saturday, June 4 4:15 pm River of Fundament Part I 6:30 pm River of Fundament Part II 8:45 pm River of Fundament Part III Sunday, June 5 2:30 pm River of Fundament Part I 4:45 pm River of Fundament Part II 7 pm River of Fundament Part III Thursday, June 9 7:30 pm North South East West Friday, June 10 5:30 pm Persona 8 pm Late Spring Saturday, June 11 4:30 & 7 pm Late Spring Sunday, June 12 4:30 pm Late Spring $9 General Admission $8 PAM Members, Students, Seniors $6 Friends of the Film Center friday film club—$5 northwest tracking subtitles visiting artist
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Gate of Flesh
Action, Anarchy, and Audacity: A Seijun Suzuki Retrospective In a career spanning nearly five decades, Seijun Suzuki amassed a body of work ranging from B-movie potboilers to beguiling metaphysical mysteries. An extremely inventive filmmaker, Suzuki utilized a wide range of film stocks, angles, jump cuts, impressionistic sets, driving jazz soundtracks, and unhinged actors pushed to their limits—and was thus at the vanguard of a new, radical Japanese cinema which flowered in the late 1950s and 1960s. “To experience a film by Japanese B-movie visionary Seijun Suzuki is to experience Japanese cinema in all its frenzied, voluptuous excess.”—Manohla Dargis. Program notes by Tom Vick, Curator of Film at the Smithsonian’s Freer | Sackler Museums of Asian Art and author of Time and Space are Nonsense: The Films of Seijun Suzuki (2015). Action, Anarchy, and Audacity is co-organized and co-presented by the Japan Foundation.
All films screen with English subtitles
Friday, April 8, 8 pm Tokyo Drifter (83 mins., DCP) Seijun Suzuki, Japan 1966
Saturday, April 9, 7 pm Branded to Kill (91 mins., DCP) Seijun Suzuki, Japan 1967
Sunday, April 10, 5 pm Smashing the O-Line (91 mins., 35mm) Seijun Suzuki, Japan 1960
7 pm Kanto Wanderer (92 mins., 35mm) Seijun Suzuki, Japan 1963
Monday, April 11, 7 pm Youth of the Beast (91 mins., 35mm) Seijun Suzuki, Japan 1963
Saturday, April 16, 7 pm Passport to Darkness (88 mins., 35mm) Seijun Suzuki, Japan 1959
9 pm The Sleeping Beast Within (86 mins., 35mm) Seijun Suzuki, Japan 1960
Sunday, April 17, 6 pm Zigeurnerweisen (144 mins., 35mm) Seijun Suzuki, Japan 1960
Monday, April 18, 7 pm Kagero-za (140 mins., 35mm) Seijun Suzuki, Japan 1981
Tuesday, April 19, 7 pm Yumeji (128 mins., 35mm)
Through Indian Eyes: Native American Cinema
Native Americans first appeared on film in 1895 but were excluded from any meaningful role in the production of their own cinematic images for virtually the entire century to follow, and they continue to be marginalized in the entertainment industry today. Over the last 25 years, a renaissance in independent First Nations filmmaking has occurred. Since the 1970s, First Nations communities—after centuries-old legacies of genocide, displacement, forced assimilation, poverty, alcoholism, and demeaning media images—have worked incrementally to take command of their destinies and their representation. First Nations filmmakers aim to reach mainstream audiences and Native communities while working to recuperate tribal languages, spirituality, and community. Financed variously by tribal communities and non-Native sources, these films have been guided by Indian eyes, i.e. directed by First Nations. We also see the beginning development of a First Nations film aesthetic: different ways of perceiving space and time, stories that are circular rather than linear, landscapes which are both real and allegorical. This program presents works produced in Canada and the United States, representing a cross-section of tribal communities.—University of California, Los Angeles Film & Television Archive. Through Indian Eyes: Native American Cinema was organized by the UCLA Film & Television Archive with support in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and curated by Jan-Christopher Horak, Dawn Jackson (Saginaw Chippewa), Shannon Kelley, Paul Malcolm, Valerie Red-Horse Mohl (Cherokee), and Nina Rao. Program notes are adapted from the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s Through Indian Eyes: Native American Cinema catalogue. Sunday, May 1, 7 pm Smoke Signals (89 mins., 35mm)
Seijun Suzuki, Japan 1991
Chris Eyre, US/Canada 1998
Friday, April 22, 8 pm Tattooed Life (87 mins., 35mm)
preceded by
Seijun Suzuki, Japan 1965
Marie Burke, Canada 2009
Saturday, April 23, 7 pm The Call of Blood (97 mins., 35mm)
Monday, May 2, 7 pm Drunktown’s Finest (89 mins., Blu-ray)
Carrying Fire (4 mins., DCP)
Seijun Suzuki, Japan 1964
Sydney Freeland, US 2014
9 pm Gate of Flesh (90 mins., 35mm)
Shimasani (15 mins., Blu-ray)
Seijun Suzuki, Japan 1964
Wednesday, May 18, 7 pm Trudell (80 mins., Digibeta) Heather Rae, US 2005 preceded by
Nikamowin (Song) (11 mins., Betacam)
Blackhorse Lowe, US 2009
Thursday, May 19, 7 pm Rhymes For Young Ghouls (88 mins., Blu-ray)
preceded by
A Bentwood Box (5 mins., DVCAM)
Sandy Osawa, Yasu Osawa, USA 1985
Sunday, May 8, 3 pm Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner (170 mins., Blu-ray) Zacharias Kunuk, Canada 2001
Thursday, May 12, 7 pm Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (119 mins., DCP) Alanis Obomsawin, Canada 1993 preceded by
Lye (5 mins., Beta SP)
Dax Thomas, US 2005
Sunday, May 15, 4:30 pm Naturally Native (107 mins., 35mm) Smoke Signals
(17 mins., DVD) Randy Redroad, US 1991
Kevin Lee Burton, Canada 2007
Sterlin Harjo, US 2014
Seijun Suzuki, Japan 1966
Cow Tipping: The Militant Indian Waiter
preceded by
Saturday, May 7, 4 pm This May Be the Last Time (90 mins., Blu-ray)
Friday, April 29, 7 pm Carmen from Kawachi (89 mins., 35mm)
preceded by
Valerie Red-Horse, Jennifer Wynne Farmer, US 1998
Jeff Barnaby, Canada 2013
Saturday, May 21, 5 pm Kissed By Lightning (89 mins., HDCAM) Shelley Niro, Canada 2009 preceded by
?E?anx: The Cave (11 mins., Digibeta) Helen Haig-Brown, Canada 2009
Sunday, May 22, 4 pm Navajo Talking Picture (40 mins., DVD) Arlene Bowman, US 1985 followed by
Itam Hakim, Hopiit (85 mins., Beta SP) Victor Masayesva Jr., US 1984
7 pm The Honour of All (Part I) (57 mins., Beta SP) Phil Lucas, Canada/US 1986 followed by
Tikinagan (59 mins., Beta SP) Gil Cardinal, Canada 1991
!Women Art Revolution
Northwest Tracking
The Film Center’s Northwest Tracking program showcases the work of independent filmmakers living and working in the Northwest—Alaska, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington— whose work reflects the vibrant cinematic culture of the region. Whether presenting single artist retrospectives, new features, documentaries, or inspired collections of short works, Northwest Tracking offers testimony to the creativity and talent in our flourishing media arts community. Northwest Tracking is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Oregon Cultural Trust. Thursday, April 7, 7 pm Bloodsworth—An Innocent Man Gregory Bayne, Idaho 2015
(82 mins.)
Wednesday, April 20, 7 pm If There Is a Hell Below (94 mins.)
Nathan Williams, Washington / Oregon 2015
Friday, April 22, 5–7 pm—Looping program Animation By Design Various Directors and You, Oregon/Washington
Thursday, May 5, 7 pm Erasures and Spaces: The Revisionist Films of Salise Hughes (80 mins.) 12 pm Brown Bag talk with Salise Hughes NW Film Center, 934 SW Salmon Street
Wednesday, May 11, 7 pm All About Chris Freeman: Video by and about Chris Freeman (80 mins.) Chris Freeman, Oregon 2015
Thursday, May 26, 7 pm Thursday, April 28, 8 pm Open Screening—FREE! The Complete First Season and Finale Contact ben@nwfilm.org for more information. Premiere of The Benefits of Gusbandry (85 mins.) Alicia J Rose, Oregon 2016 Thursday, June 9, 7:30 pm preceded by a reception at 7 pm North South East West (80 mins.) TWO-DAY EVENT! Wednesday, May 4, 7 pm The Spaces Between the Cities (80 mins.) Salise Hughes, Seattle 2015
Vanessa Renwick, Oregon, 2016 Visit Renwick’s exhibition Next Level Fucked Up at the Portland Art Museum, Main Building, APEX gallery, floor 3, starting at 6 pm.
Special Screenings Wednesday, April 13, 7 pm Thursday, April 14, 7 pm Saturday, April 16, 4:30 pm Notfilm (130 mins., DCP) Ross Lipman, US 2015
Friday, April 15, 7 pm
NWFC and University of Oregon present
!Women Art Revolution
Monday, April 25, 7 pm Los Sures
(57 mins., digital) Diego Echeverria, US 1984
Saturday, April 30, 4:30 pm NWFC Student Screening— FREE! (90 mins.)
(319 mins.—Part I-115 mins.; Sunday, May 15, 7 pm Art and Craft (89 mins., DCP) Part II-108 mins.; Part III-96 mins; DCP)
(83 mins., DCP) Lynn Hershmann-Leeson and Harmonic Sam Cullman & Jennifer Grausman, Laboratory, US 2010 US 2014
Friday Film Club
Matthew Barney, US 2014
—Special $5 Admission
Friday, April 8, 5:30 pm Au Hasard Balthazar
(95 mins., 35mm) Robert Bresson, France 1966
The Benefits of Gusbandry
Friday, June 3—Part I & II, 6:30 & 8:45 pm Saturday, June 4—Part I–III, 4:15, 6:30 & 8:45 pm Sunday, June 5—Part I–III, 2:30, 4:45 & 7 pm River of Fundament
Friday, May 13, 5:30 pm Irma Vep
Friday, June 10, 5:30 pm Persona
Saturday, May 14, 4:30 pm Monday, May 16, 7 pm Heaven Can Wait
Friday, May 27, 7 pm Saturday, May 28, 7 pm Sunday, May 29, 3:30 pm Ran (162 mins., DCP)
(99 mins., 35mm) Olivier Assayas, France 1966
(85 mins., 35mm) Ingmar Bergman, Sweden 1966
(Re)discoveries Saturday, April 9, 3 pm Sunday, April 10, 12 pm A Brighter Summer Day (237 mins., DCP) Edward Yang, Taiwan 1991
Saturday, April 23, 5 pm Sunday, April 24, 7 pm Strange Victory (71 mins., DCP) Leo Hurwitz, US 1948
Saturday, April 30, 7 pm Sunday, May 1, 4:30 pm Fat City (100 mins., DCP) John Huston, US 1972
(112 mins., DCP) Ernst Lubitsch, US 1943
Friday, May 20, 7 pm Saturday, May 21, 7 pm Monday, May 23, 7 pm Black Girl
(65 mins., DCP) Ousmane Sembene, Senegal 1966
Akira Kurosawa, Japan 1985
Saturday, May 28, 5 pm Sunday, May 29, 7 pm A.K. (75 mins., DCP)
Chris Marker, France/Japan 1985
Friday, June 10, 8 pm Saturday, June 11, 4:30 & 7 pm Sunday, June 12, 4:30 pm Late Spring (108 mins., DCP) Yasujirô Ozu, Japan 1949
The Way Out
New Czech Cinema
The legacy of the Czech New Wave, the period of stylistic experimentation and social critique that accompanied political and social reforms in mid-1960s Czechoslovakia, still resonates in a new generation of voices offering skilled takes on diverse genres from comedy to gritty realist drama, from stylish period thrillers to animation and more. They share a deft eye for lyrical beauty and absurdist humor even in the most mundane or difficult circumstances as they probe social and economic conditions and questions of Czech identity and culture. The Northwest Film Center presents this five-film selection in conjunction with the nationally touring program Czech That Film, organized by the Czech Center, New York; Embassy of the Czech Republic, Washington, D.C.; Consulate General of the Czech Republic, Los Angeles; Honorary Consul of the Czech Republic, Portland; and the Czech Society of Oregon. CZECH Special thanks to Pavol Šepelák, THAT Consul General of the Czech FILM Republic in Los Angeles, for making these films’ presentation in Portland possible.
All films screen with English subtitles.
Friday, May 6, 7 pm Home Care (92 mins., DCP)
Slávek Horák, Czech Republic 2015
Saturday, May 7, 7 pm Schmitke (94 mins., DCP)
Stepan Altrichter, Czech Republic / Germany 2014
Sunday, May 8, 7 pm The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (84 mins., DCP) Karel Zeman, Czech Republic 1958
Friday, May 13, 8 pm The Way Out (102 mins., DCP)
Petr Václav, Czech Republic 2014
Saturday, May 14, 7 pm Gangster Ka (98 mins., DCP)
Jan Pachla, Czech Republic 2015
River of Fundament
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SPRING CLASSES & WORKSHOPS
Saturday, April 30, 4:30 pm
Art of Filmmaking
iFilmmaking Basics
Short films created by students during Winter Term 2016
Basic Lighting
Inside The Avid Edit Room
Canon Camera Operation
Lighting On Location
Claymation Studio
Screenwriting: Advanced
Digital Cinematography In-depth camera operation Starts April 13 (nine weeks)
Sound Recording
Digital Editing
Steadicam Operation
The 101 of digital filmmaking Starts April 7 (12 weeks) Primer on our rental light kits April 23 (one day) Primer on our rental cameras April 23 (one day)
With the inventor of Claymation June 15-19 (five days)
The basics of Final Cut Pro Starts April 20 (four weeks)
Film Directing Studio Shooting scenes with actors June 15-19 (five days)
Shoot and Edit on your iDevice April 2 or May 14 (one day) Break in as an assistant editor Starts April 12 (nine weeks)
Different settings, different looks Starts April 14 (nine weeks) Take your script to the next level Starts April 12 (nine weeks)
How to record high quality audio May 15 & 22 (two days) Get that fluid, hand-held look May 14 (one day)
Super 8 Filmmaking
The ultimate analog format April 30 & May 7 (two days)
Hands-On Learning for Creatives & Community Members. Complete information at nwfilm.org.
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