ODD AND ENDS SCREENING SERIES

2012-02-06T08:11:00.000-08:00

EFFPortland is coming! Only one week left to submit, cut off date is 2/15/2012

Also, please check out their Kickstarter project. Thank you.

ODDS AND ENDS @ATA Gallery SF, CA. 5/27/10 8pm.

2010-05-23T19:55:00.000-07:00

Please join us on 5/27 at the venerable Artist's Television Access (ATA) Gallery as the Odds and Ends screening series presents a hyper pixelated homegrown collection of experimental, animated and documentary film and video work made by lot's of Pacific NW based artists and even a few of those damn Californians!

Cost: 6.00
Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia Street (at 21st)
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415)824-3890
ata@atasite.org

Program
* To learn more about the filmmakers click on the their names and peruse their webspaces.

Bryan Boyce S.F.
"Free" (2005)
A decayed public housing project is reduced to rubble. In black and white with ghosts of color. (2 min.)

Jesse Malmed PDX
"I am hiding a poem" (2009)

I AM HIDING A POEM INSIDE OF THIS VIDEO AND THE POEM IS ABOUT WHAT THE VIDEO ISN'T (1.5 min.)

Jennifer Hardacker PDX
"The Night Gardener" (2008)
The life of a garden after dark. (10 min)

Luke Sieczek SEATTLE
"Elsewhere" (2005)
The half-remembered spaces - the obscure but guiding motion of a secret history. (6 min)

Nancy Jean Tucker L.A.
"Kentucky Kingdown" (2008)
A natural disaster strikes a faceless population, bringing an infestation of bugs, drugs, and driving rain. An animated visual feast that defies gravity, logic, and camera angles - all from the point of view of a chicken. (6 min.)

Mallary Abel S.F.
"Limina" (2010)

Perspectives are endless. Thresholds are always open. (3 mins.)

Ben Popp PDX
"Clouds" (2009)

A short animation shot on Hi-Con 16mm film and hand processed. (1 min.)

Jon Behrens SEATTLE
"Meditation in Color and Light" (2010)

An optically-printed celluloid mind melt. (7 min.)

Salise Hughes SEATTLE
"Nothing to fear but nothing itself" (2009)
Robert Vaughn (the man from U.N.C.L.E.) vs. the void. (5 min.)

Dustin Zemel PDX
"More Please" (2009)
This video takes about 30 seconds of a Nancy Grace footage and stretches it to over six minutes. The first two minutes contain a stretched out bumper that normally lasts 10 seconds or so. I do this to emphasize both the intricate compositing television graphics artists achieve in addition to the textual emptiness and redundancy of the content. (6 min.)

Shalo P. S.F.
"Untitled"
New mad freshness from Shalo, I have no idea of what to expect except other than I know it will surf your brain matter.

Ron Mason Gassaway PDX
"Summon the Beast: Black Magic for emerging markets" (2010)
Tickle me Elmo awaits us at the gates of hell. (1 min.)

Ben Popp
"One fine day while walking through a static field" (2006)
"So a black and white matte guy looks through a hole, what does he see? (3 min.)

Andrew Klaus PDX
"Origin: Oceania" (2010)
addresses the nature of creation itself and the evolution of life from the sea citing varied sources including the Torah, Herodotus, Charles Darwin and Inuit mythology; both the modern conditions of technological evolution and the basic biological-geological evolution of the world and how they link our understanding of human origins." (3 min.)

Anthony Schilling PDX
"The Picture Dance" (2009)
Pure analog. This short film consists of many many 35mm film still photographs captured frame by frame with a 16mm movie camera, mixed with the animated subjects captured with just the movie camera. This experiment was designed to portray a journey of random people and places through the portals of photography. (2.5 min.)

Brian Libby PDX
"Pasadena Dreaming" (2009)

The snowy mountain view from my window seat during a New Year's Eve 2009 flight to Los Angeles, interlaced with split-second shots that represent my inner monologue of hope and fear. Music by Beauty Pill. (5 min)

Matt McCormick PDX
music video for Eluvium: the Motion Makes Me Last (2010)
(5.5 min.)

Jeff Guay PDX
"Don't worry, it's a new century" (2009)

In a wry homage to a seminal Northwest short, Crystal Lake explores the concept of “idea recycling.” (9 mins.)

Thad Povey "Martyr" (2009)
Responding to images from the far side of our planet, this is a tribute to a woman who we do not pretend to know, meant to honor a culture that we do hope to understand.
Music - Mark Growden (3.5 min.)

Vanessa Renwick PDX
"Little White Horse" music video for Quasi

This video was made while I was enjoying a residency at Caldera in March of 2010
At Sam Coomes' request, I re-cut the "Red Stallion's Revenge" footage to Quasi's song " Little White Horse". That Sam Coomes had a good idea! Sam also did the mind blowing score for Portrait #2: Trojan. (4.5 min.)

Stephan Nedalman PDX
Music video for Ramona Falls ""I Say Fever" (2009)
(3.5 min)

Rob Tyler PDX
"Ewok Karaoke"
From the PDX eXperimental & Documentary Film Festival's Karaoke Throwdown, 2009. "Celebrate the Love!" (2.5 min.)

Odds and Ends screening at SF's ATA Gallery 5/27, 8pm 6$

2010-05-08T09:57:00.000-07:00

Please join us on 5/27 at the venerable Artist's Television Access (ATA) Gallery as the Odds and Ends screening series presents a hyper pixelated homegrown collection of experimental, animated and documentary film and video work made by lot's of Pacific NW based artists and even a few of those damn Californians!

Including new and infrequently seen work by: Mallary Abel, Bryan Boyce, Nancy Jean Tucker, Thad Povey, Matt McCormick, Vanessa Renwick, Salise Hughes, Jon Behrens, Jeff Guay, Karl Lind, Jesse Malmed, Shalo-P and more!

Complete program info coming soon..

Thank you Seattle!

2010-05-03T11:01:00.000-07:00

We had a really great time sharing yesterday sharing the "From Portland With Love" show with the fine people at the NW Film Forum, we love you Seattle and hope to see you again soon!

Odds and Ends from Portland with Love

2010-04-30T17:00:00.000-07:00

Odds and Ends presents: From Portland with Love.

A rain soaked digital love letter featuring NEW Experimental, Documentary and Animation work from the hearts, minds and souls of Stumptown's finest: Vanessa Renwick, Matt McCormick, Jennifer Hardacker, Autumn Andel, Cassie Cohn, Brian Libby, Jeff Guay, Karl Lind, Cat Tyc, Lori-D, Stefan Nedalman, Carl Diehl, Andrew Klaus, Dustin Zemel, Gabe Van Llewyld, Kevin Forrest, Anthony Schilling and Paul Neff.

Program
* To learn more about the filmmakers click on the their names and peruse their webspaces.

Carl Diehl "Patrolling the Ether" (2009)

documents the work and interests of those fascinated by EVP or Electronic Voice Phenomena. These groups dedicate much of their lives to the detection of voices or images within what has become a rather electric atmosphere. (7 min.)

Andrew Klaus "Origin: Oceania" (2010)
addresses the nature of creation itself and the evolution of life from the sea citing varied sources including the Torah, Herodotus, Charles Darwin and Inuit mythology; both the modern conditions of technological evolution and the basic biological-geological evolution of the world and how they link our understanding of human origins." (3 min.)

Jesse Malmed "I am hiding a poem" (2009)

I AM HIDING A POEM INSIDE OF THIS VIDEO AND THE POEM IS ABOUT WHAT THE VIDEO ISN'T (1.5 min.)

Anthony Schilling "The Picture Dance" (2009)
Pure analog. This short film consists of many many 35mm film still photographs captured frame by frame with a 16mm movie camera, mixed with the animated subjects captured with just the movie camera. This experiment was designed to portray a journey of random people and places through the portals of photography. (2.5 min.)

Jennifer Hardacker "The Night Gardener" (2008)

The life of a garden after dark. (10 min)

Cat Tyc "Umbrella" (2008)

The Lady has plenty to deal with: an unexpected pregnancy, a string of appointments, parties to attend & people to see. But now, to top it all off, she is being followed around by a man around town who keeps hitting her over the head with an umbrella. (12 min)

Kevin Forrest "Endommage" (2010)
A girl wanders the city streets in a haze and emotional state. The city around her is awash in electric colors and confusing sounds. What has happened to this attractive young lady? Has she come from a party? Is she lost? The truth is displayed in a glimpse into her world on an unexpected encounter with a seemingly 'normal' looking gentleman. (6 min.)

Cassie Cohn "Ghost Shift" (2010)

A collaboration between Portland-based composer/musician Amy Hanson and video portrait artist Cassie Cohn, is an exploration of the bicycle in sound and motion. The project started two years ago when Amy approached Cassie about doing the visuals for a musical composition composed entirely of noise created with bike sounds and was made with support of the Northwest Film Center and a grant from Portland State University. This screening will be the premiere of the film in its finalized version." (5 min.)

Brian Libby "Crossings" (2009)

A montage drawn from numerous crossings of the Fremont Bridge in Portland, with music by Beauty Pill. (5 min)

Matt McCormick music video for Eluvium: the Motion Makes Me Last (2010)
(5.5 min.)

Jeff Guay "Don't worry, it's a new century" (2009)

In a wry homage to a seminal Northwest short, Crystal Lake explores the concept of “idea recycling.” (9 mins.)

Paul Neff "Homeless in Portland" (2009)
An interview with a Street Roots newspapaper vendor about her dream of one day owning a home.
Street Roots is a nonprofit, grassroots newspaper that assists people experiencing homelessness and poverty by creating flexible income opportunities. Through education, advocacy and personal expression, we are a catalyst for individual and social change.
www.streetroots.org

Gabe Van Lelyveld "Bars and Tone" (2009)
A short experimental film constructed entirely from a single image and sound frequency; the color bars and tone commonly used to calibrate monitors and speakers. (3 min.)

Autumn Andel music video for Steve Kilby and Martin Kennedy: "All is one" (2010)
(4.5 min)

Dustin Zemel "More Please" (2009)

This video takes about 30 seconds of a Nancy Grace footage and stretches it to over six minutes. The first two minutes contain a stretched out bumper that normally lasts 10 seconds or so. I do this to emphasize both the intricate compositing television graphics artists achieve in addition to the textual emptiness and redundancy of the content.
The middle of the piece is the arbitrary, almost meaningless b-roll footage television news shows include for credibility purposes. (6 min.)

Lori-D "Listen" W/ Music by Paco (2009)

The song, and the animation, are a perfect reminder of how important it is - and how much fun it can be - to stop and listen to the things all around us. (1.5 min)

Liz Lewis "Bobby Beats" (2009)
A glitched out sonic mantra extricated out of the mouths of babes.

(1.5 min.)

Karl Lind "Charles Bronson says" music video for Muscle Beach N' Friend(s) (2010)

Starring everyone's favorite vigilante in a tough guy dance party to the death!
(2.5 min)

Vanessa Renwick "Little White Horse" music video for Quasi

This video was made while I was enjoying a residency at Caldera in March of 2010
At Sam Coomes' request, I re-cut the "Red Stallion's Revenge" footage to Quasi's song " Little White Horse". That Sam Coomes had a good idea! Sam also did the mind blowing score for Portrait #2: Trojan. (4.5 min.)

Stephan Nedalman Music video for Ramona Falls ""I Say Fever" (2009)
(3.5 min)

Cut and Run screening on April 2nd at ATA in SF, CA.

2010-03-06T10:26:00.000-08:00

Just wanted to let everyone know about a fun experimental and avant garde video screening that will be happening at the Artist's Television Access in San Francisco CA. on April 2nd, more info HERE.

Call for entries: Seeking experimental Portland made videos for touring Spring show!

2010-01-09T16:39:00.000-08:00

Howdy and happy 2010 to you all,

For immediate release:

Odds and Ends screening series is putting out a call for Portland made Experimental film and video work. The initial show will take place this Spring at The Northwest Film Forum on May 2nd, 2010 as part of their Third Eye Cinema series, (exact date TBD) additional screenings will also take place in Portland, Eugene, San Francisco and perhaps a few others, please stay tuned.

What we're looking for: Awesome mind bending short films and videos that challenge the viewer to step outside their rote day to day perceptual habits. Blow our minds, please. NO ENTRY FEE REQUIRED!

Submission requirements: Video must have been made within the last two years (2008 and beyond) and must be 10 minutes or under, acceptable formats for submission: NTSC DVD, or email me a link to your online video (youtube, vimeo, FTP site)

Deadline for submissions is April 1st 2009

Send DVDs to:
Odds and Ends screening series
621 SW Alder St. # 380 C
Portland, Oregon 97205

Email video links to oddsandendsvid@gmail.com

About Odds and Ends: The Odds and Screening series was founded by award winning filmmaker Karl Lind in 2006 and has since gone on to provide curated video programing for the 2008 Taipei Biennial in addition to putting on several regional screening events in the Pacific Northwest. In 2008 Karl served as the editor for Vol.11 of The Journal of Short Film "Portland edition".

Deep Leap Microcinema seeking film entries, due by Nov. 29th

2009-11-23T15:42:00.000-08:00

Looks like there's still a little time to submit a film to Deep Leap Microcinema's next show, entries are due on Nov.19th and they are looking for pieces related to "SACRED GEOMETRIES".

Temporary Roadmaps July 17t + 18th @ Performance Works NW

2009-06-24T07:53:00.000-07:00

Temporary Roadmaps
curated by Karl Lind for the Alembic Series at Performance Works Northwest
July 17th + 18th 8:30 PM
Admission is 8-10.00 (sliding scale)

Performance Works NorthWest
4625 SE 67th Ave.
Portland, OR 97206

phone number for reservations 503 777 1907
and advance ticket purchase
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/71988

Under the auspices of Performance Works NW Alembic series I have curated a selection of brand new and revisited works from three daring experimental video performance artists. What will happen and where will we go? We’ll find out as I put our faithful expeditioners: Ed Mellnik, Stephanie Simek and Adam Keller in charge of this journey.

Ed Mellnik

1) The Moment, A poem for three voices by Toby Lurie will be performed in live and video space.
2)
3) Subjective Space- Third Movement – a short video art work by Ed Mellnik
Music by Roger Luther.

4) Excepts from ‘The Other Side of the Echo’ – a work in progress by Ed Mellnik
This work involves both live actors and projected video. Music by Mother Mallards Portable Masterpiece Company

The Door – a short video art work by Ed Mellnik
Bio for Ed Mellnik

In 1973 Ed earned his BA from the State University of NY at Buffalo.
From 1974 to the present, Video Artist Ed Mellnik has been on the cutting edge of electronic art. He has won numerous awards for his short works as well as having them shown around the world in museums and alternative spaces.
He has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and is an Oregon Arts Commission Fellow.
Several of his short works have been broadcast on stations KQED in San Francisco and has had several programs aired on The Discovery Channel.
Ed Mellnik is well known for his interactive and sculptural gallery installations. He has taught computer animation at the NW Film Center, been an artist in residence in many Oregon Schools. Since 1985 he has been the owner and creative director of EMA Video Productions, Inc. where he produces animation, TV commercials and Corporate marketing and training videos for NW companies.

www.emavideo.com/Vid_Art_Ed.html

Stephanie Simek

Statement for Brea(d)th:

It's sad that the air is the only
thing we share.
No matter how close we get to each other,
there is always air between us.

It's also nice that we share the air.
No matter how far apart we are,
the air links us.
-Yoko Ono

Drawing from the poem “Air Talk” by Yoko Ono (which later became a song on her Approximately Infinite Universe album in 1973), this performance connects participants in various cities around the world in a real-time experience of global community. Brea(d)th uses webcams positioned at the sky from these different locations, with each member reciting a dissected part of the poem, causing the fragments of speech to converge, disengage, and layer when broadcasted together.

Stephanie Simek

Lately I've been thinking about the powers that every individual has and what would happen if everyone decided to use them. If each person inspires another to stretch his or her mind, imagine what we all could do! If you're reading this, then we probably share some things in common. Isn't that nice? You can find me in Portland, Oregon, USA or through the internet at Stephanie@StephanieSimek.com.

http://www.stephaniesimek.com/

Adam Keller

An ArcEnabled Performance

Part ritual, part laser light show, Adam Keller debuts a performance based on a video installation he recently created for Portland's PDXFest in May. Thousands of strings hanging from above form a canopy of colored lights, and are accompanied by sound collage and vocal performance. This piece follows an arc from the quiet hum of nighttime rainfall to a fully enabled state of awareness, where anything is possible, and all choices present themselves at once.

http://www.adamkellerart.com/

About the curator, Karl Lind:
Karl Lind is a filmmaker, videographer and the curator of the ODDS AND ENDS screening series.

ODDS AND ENDS screening @ A Night of Light and Shadows benefit party

2009-06-04T20:46:00.001-07:00

Great news! We just got invited to present a selection of short films in conjunction with, A Night of Light and Shadows, a multi-media event curated by Tiffany Lee Brown to benefit New Oregon Arts & Letters!

A Night of Light & Shadows
Saturday, June 20, 7 pm–midnight
Yoga Shala of Portland
3808 N. Williams Avenue, Portland, Oregon

Admission: $5–20 sliding scale donation
All ages. 21+: Beer & wine available.

ODDS AND ENDS

90 minutes of spectacular short films!
(show screens @ 10:30 Pm)
Featuring short films/videos by:

Mona Huneidi "Katching"
Julie Perini "Suffragette Slasher"
Lara Gallagher & Andrew Ellmaker "Hyper Gospel" Music video for Mega-Church
Ron Gassaway "American Makeover"
Nate Goodman "Eyes and Ears music video for Ohmega Watts"
Shalo P. "The Heart"
Angela Guerra and Mark Walley "The Journey of the Opportunist"
Grace Carter + Holly Andres "Love to love you baby"
Chioke Nassor "The Breakup", "Things I realized in 2002", "My Girlfriend was a mannequin"
Salise Hughes "Shiny Things"
Baby Bird "Rererato"
Mike Celona "Data Stream", Toasted"
Lee Bishop "Light"
Rob Tyler "Oscillating Fan"
Stefan Nedalman "Evil Bee music video for Menomena", "Food Fight"

Valentine's Day the 13th screening update/explanation

2009-02-15T09:06:00.000-08:00

To anyone who made it out to this event, due to technical difficulties beyond our control we were not able to screen the video portion of the show. I apologize for the inconvenience and hope to run the videos again sometime in the future, thank you for your understanding and support.

Valentine's day the 13th bad luck video variety show

2009-01-01T23:36:00.000-08:00

*flyer designed by Ron Mason Gassaway

The ODDS AND ENDS SCREENING SERIES is kicking off the 2009 season with a hellish three ring circus extravaganza of music, performance and film dedicated to the wonder of black cats, broken mirrors and well..."Love"

ODDS AND ENDS
"Valentine's day the 13th bad luck video variety show"

venue/date/time/cost:

Valentine's Cafe Portland, OR.
232 SW Ankeny St. Portland, OR 97204
Friday February 13th, 2009, 9 pm
Cost = 5.00 measly dollars

Featuring music and performances by: Last Prick Standing, Angela Fair, Rush-N-Disco, Eet, PartyKiller and a special appearance by DJ Favorite Machine!

and Film and videos by: Mona Huneidi, Grace Carter, Emilie Sabath Chioke Nassor, Andrew S. Allen, Salise Hughes, Andrew Ellmaker, Lara Gallagher, Gretchen Hogue and more!

+ Delectable sweet treats provided by The Sugarcube

A clip from Chioke Nassor's short film, "Things I realized in 2002"

Still a few days left to submit to PDX Film Fest's early deadline: Dec 12th

2008-12-03T23:28:00.000-08:00

And If you live in Portland you should know that it is absolutely free to submit to this awesome little festival, check it out.

PDX FILM FEST 2009

Grace Carter Films 11/04/08 @ Visage Eyewear Portland, OR.

2008-12-01T06:33:00.000-08:00

First Thursday Film Night Featuring Films by GRACE CARTER and HOLLY ANDRES

FIRST THURSDAY WITH GRACE!!!

Event Info
Host:	Visage Eyewear and Yani Berkshire

Time and Place
Date:	Thursday, December 4, 2008
Time:	7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location:	Visage Eyewear
Street:	1046 NW Johnson Street (11th & NW Johnson - Pearl District)
City/Town:	Portland, OR
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Contact Info
Phone:	5039445475
Email:	yani@visageeyewear.com

Description

Come out for an evening of short films with local Filmmaker Grace Carter. (gracecarterfilms.com)

This First Thursday, December 4th, Visage Eyewear will host an open film night and artist talkback beginning at 7pm.
Featured films: NORA, BRAVE NEW GIRL and DANDELION amongst others.
Celebrate Portland Filmmaking this First Thursday, Dec. 4th.
Grace Carter Films at Visage Eyewear. 7pm Wine, snacks and local films!

11/5/08 Bruce Conner Retrospective presented by the Austin Film Society]

2008-11-07T08:57:00.001-08:00

The Wednesday night I got into town was the evening after America had selected Barak Obama as our next president, my friend Katja informed me that their was a Bruce Conner retrospective being put on by the Austin Film Society. The screening was going down at the Alamo Draft House in downtown Austin, I was happy to see that this theater was much like the Mcmenamin's movie/beer houses in Portland, except in my humble opinion the Alamo draft house was much, much nicer, the sound system was absolutely awesome and perfectly filled the room which seats about 100.

I was a bit exhausted from the flight and the first few Conner films didn't quite hold my tired ass mind well and I drifted in and out. I had up to this point only seen a few of Conner's films, most notably the Mongoloid video he made for Devo, I also had the opportunity to see two of his more well known works Cosmic Ray and Breakaway which starred a very young and incredibly beautiful Toni Basil, you know, the "Oh Mickey your so fine, your so fine you blow my mind HEY MICKEY!" Toni Basil. It was an indulgent treat to get to see these two films again especially seeing as Portland's Cinema Project had programmed them just a few weeks back during their recent 5 day EXPANDED FRAMES symposium.

When Conner's Report suddenly came on, I was absolutely riveted it was constructed from news footage taken the day of the Kennedy assasination, seeing as Barak Obama had not 24hrs earlier taken the election by storm coupled with the fact that I was now visiting the state in which JFK was assasinated this film held an incredibly timely weight. Check out this in depth analysis of Report by Nathan Austin

In my mind Conner's work allows the viewer to meditate upon the act of more truly perceiving projected images. In several of his films a series of frames would play followed by a segment of black immediately followed by what appeared to be a repeat of the previous loop but generally with slightly more or less frames than before. What I found happening was is I began to actually question what my eyes were seeing and whether I was "remembering" or experiencing something "new", I felt that my consciousness was being locked into a rhythm of image and thought where the past and the present were no longer mutually exclusive. This was one of the most impressive collections of work I have seen in quite some time, my hat is off to you Mr. Conner, R.I.P.

To further compound the ever increasingly small worldness of the experimental film world it turned out that the young woman presenting his films by the name of Michelle Silva who was an assistant to Bruce in has last several years and represents the Conner estate is also the star of cinematic madman Craig Baldwin's latest master opus "Mock Up on Mu!", I knew she looked uncannily familiar, unsurprisingly it turns out that she is also a filmmaker as well as a Canyon Cinema associate!

1,2,3 Whiteout at Clinton St. Theatre this Monday 10/27/08 + more

2008-10-25T21:36:00.000-07:00

I am excited to report that a there is some cool stuff happening in Portland for a few nights early next week (and every other night it seems), first up on Monday 10/27/08 at the Clinton St. Theater is a chance to catch a film directed by touring filmmaker James June Schneider called 1,2,3 Whiteout: The End of the Light Age. I remember seeing the description for it when I was at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam in 2007 but for whatever reason I unfortunately ended up missing it. Well, Monday night I am going to finally see it and what's even cooler is that the following evening the filmmaker will be performing in a musical/visual combo that brings together El Mapi + Matterlink and is known as VIDEOLOVE to the awesome Rererato art space in NE PDX! Oh hell yes.

Hope to see you all out there!

1,2,3 Whiteout: The End of the Light Age (72min)
Monday, 10/27/07 times: 7 + 9pm @ Clinton St. Theater, Portland, OR.
2522 SE Clinton St., Portland, OR 97202
Events phone - 503.238.8899 or Message: 503.238.5588
cost: 6 bucks

El Mapi + Matterlink in "Videolove" also playing are Ah Holly Family + more!
Tuesday October 28th, 7pm
5135 NE 42nd Ave Portland, OR 97218
cost: "cheap ass"

Recovering from Cinema Project's "Expanded Frames"

2008-10-22T18:44:00.001-07:00

Hello,

My brain is still recovering from the intensive awesomeness of witnessing the Cinema Project's recent 5 day symposium "Expanded Frames" Full report sometime soon, hopefully.

Rose City Revue report

2008-10-07T07:18:00.000-07:00

Just got back into PDX from a mighty nice trip to Seattle as guests of the Northwest Film Forum's "Local Sightings" series. Several of the Odds and Ends folks showed up including Peter Hermes and Diana Bayless of Wideshot Studios, (Director and Producer of The Mixtress) Tripper Dungan of Ice Cream Truck Face (Animator and director of The Astro Project) and Grace Carter (Director of Future Series 1-3 and Eldorado) with whom I shared a very nice ride up to Seattle with on the Amtrak.

The opening night party was an absolute blast and as soon as I find the connecting cord for my digi cam I will post some up, it's safe to say Seattleites know how to get down!

Other than that I got to meet some really cool folks and see some sweet films and videos, a standout was bumping into animator Stephan Gruber who was kind enough to give me a DVD with two really rad shorts called "Petting Zoo 1&2", his screening was on Monday night so unfortunately I had to miss it but I am going to be on the lookout for this man's work as it is REALLY SUPERB STUFF!

Also I got to hang out with my friend Salise Hughes and also saw her new film "The Tourist" I really enjoy Salises' approach to filmmaking, and even although Salise is working her particular magic digitally her approach owes much in it's style to direct filmmaking techniques invented and employed by pioneering experimental filmmakers such as Stan Brakhage and Phil Solomon, stylistically I'd say that her work also recalls to mind some of the celluloid territories that handmade film maverick Naomi Uman has scratched the surface of, (I actually mastered Naomi's DVD for PDX based experimental film and video distro. co Peripheral Produce, you should really buy this DVD!) . Her latest film was very enjoyable as well as thought provoking, in "The Tourist" the protaganist of the 1973 film "The Tourist" starring Jack Nicholson is completely removed from his original filmic environment, Hughes effectively "erases" the background from Nicholson and he essentially is walking through a void. Metaphysical thought drifts abounded for me while viewing it and the overall effect was quite hypnotizing, looking forward to more amazing stuff to continue coming from this artist.

A special thanks goes out to everyone at the Northwest Film Forum for graciously hosting the Odds and Ends program, special shout out to Dave Hanagan for the initial invite and to Adam Sekular for the hook up on the hotel. Also be on the lookout Adam's upcoming long form film, I believe it was originally to be called "Stop, action, set" he told me the new name but I am currently spacing it, regardless what I saw was indredibly beautiful and I eagerly anticipate being able to watch it in it's finished state.

Here is a trailer for the Local Sightings Festival, a very nice nod to Bond and it looked fantastic up on the big screen. Also below I have put a few highlights from Odds and Ends V.5 "The Rose City Revue" Enjoy! Hope to see you all soon.

NWFF Local Sightings 2008 "Double Felix" Trailer

Future Series 1-3 by Grace Carter

Nightowl music video for Swan Island Directed by Cat Tyc

The Mixtress documentary by Peter Hermes

Odds and Ends V.5 "The Rose City Revue" program

2008-09-24T09:16:00.000-07:00

Ok, the little video elves have been up late for weeks on end now cobbling together what is sure to be a truly amazing selection of Portland made short films. From experiments in the nether zones of informational societal remapping to beautifully rendered thought poems and awesome music videos, Odds and Ends V.5 "The Rose City Revue" is bound to melt hearts and clear away grey skies for miles, the show will be premiering at the the Northwest Film Forum's "Local Sightings" film festival this coming Saturday!

Odds and Ends V.5
"The Rose City Revue"

Date/Time: October 4th, 5pm
Location: Northwest Film Forum
1515 12th Ave
Seattle, WA 98122
(206) 329-2629

these are the films

1. Line Study by Jeremy Bird 1 min. 2006

synopsis:

casio synthesizer, video feedback (VHS)

bio:

JEREMY BIRD is a videomaker and video editor in Portland, Oregon. His short videos are said to harmonize sound and picture into a series of engaging instants. He has edited music videos, feature films, commercials, and has created projections for live music and dance performance. His latest short, "Spheres", has screened at moving-image festivals around the world.

website
www.jeremybird.net

2. Future Series Pt.1 by Grace Carter 1 min. 2008

synopsis:

The future series is a heartwarming, paranoid trilogy. A portrait of 21st century yearning set in a dim, claustrophobic hotel. Robot voices, digital communication and empty space lend to the slow unraveling of a bachelor who can’t help but feel there’s something wrong in his search for something right."

bio:

Grace Carter has been working in theatre arts and filmmaking for the past six years in Portland, OR. She Co-founded the critically acclaimed defunct theatre and collaborated as a producer, director and actor on several stage performances. Grace’s films have been screened at several regional festivals including the 32nd annual Northwest Film and Video Festival, The PDX Fest and the Oregon Biennial at the Portland Art Museum. Grace has also worked as an actor on many film projects the most recent “Paranoid Park,” a new feature by Gus Van Sant.

website
www.gracecarterfilms.com

3. Moving Staircase by Rob Tyler 2 minutes 20 seconds 2006

An ethereal gaze into neoteric pedestrian travel and a close-up glance at the mechanics of a modern staircase. “Moving Staircase” briefly highlights the movement and motion of an escalator and its interaction with people.

Director, Rob Tyler
Music, Marc Fischer
Escalator Passenger, Amy Rose
Escalator Provider, Bill Naito Company Portland Oregon
Created for the Blu Dot Furniture Film Series

bio:

Rob Tyler is a Video Director and Filmmaker living and working in Portland Oregon. Working in both experimental and documentary mediums, his work has been described and visually stunning and atmospherically beautiful.

website
www.vcr100.com

4. The Forest by John Bacone DV 2008

synopsis:

Having trouble sleeping, this character sets out to find something from his cartoon watching past.

bio:

John Bacone is a sculptor and filmmaker living in Portland, Oregon

5. "Blobsquatch: In the Expanded Field (excerpt)" by Carl Diehl 5 min 2007

synopsis:

articulates over a year’s worth of research and development by Carl Diehl. This audio-visual essay encapsulates Diehl’s intial queries into the space he has since demarcated metaphortean. Premiering on the 40th anniversary weekend of the infamous Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot filmstrip, sightings continue to accumulate in the form of screenings and presentations worldwide.

bio:

Earning his BFA in Art Video from Syracuse University in 2000, Diehl set off for the Bay Area. In San Francisco, he worked as a media arts programmer at Artists' Television Access, where he began the screening series "Rhythm from Wreckage," in 2002. In addition to activities with ATA, Diehl produced independent and collaborative works involving live cinema, sound collage and single-channel video. Re-locating to Oregon in 2004, Diehl completed his MFA in Digital Arts at the University of Oregon in 2007. Current research involves developing Metaphortean modes of understanding vernacular electronics and other activities associated with the interface of malfunction.

website
www.electronicelsewhere.com

6. The Astro Project by Ice Cream Truck Face

synopsis:

Fiver calls up his friends to go dancing at the disco tech on the moon. After arriving they shake a leg and our hero fiver bumps into a robot one too many times. This angers the robot and he punches fiver into an out of body experience. Fiver astral projects and meets God. God approves.

bio:

I was born in Santa Barbara CA and soon learned that I loved cartoons and I loved to draw So much so that I'd get in trouble for drawing on my own walls and coloring in my brothers coloring books before he got a chance. We moved around a lot and I guess driving across the country and back gave me a lot of time to draw in the back seat. After finishing up at the Las Vegas Academy High School I moved north to Oregon to seek like minded creatives and that fresh pine air. This is where I discovered my love for shadow puppets. I've been performing shadow puppets since 2000 the firs show being Stinx and his Quest for the Perfect Banana. And as of late I realized my love for cartoons and started making my own. The first being the Astro Project. I am currently working on a story about my alter ego Ice Cream Truck Face in which he travels to planet north pole in search of the fabled Yeticlause.

website:
www.numberstar.com

7. Rererato by Baby Bird 5 min 2008

Deep in the snowy recesses of an arctic imagination, two creatures experience a magical transformation. Along the way, they encounter colorful visions and psychedelic bursts that illuminate their path. Bizarre incantations and radiant waveforms provide the soundtrack for their journey. Landscapes made up of projected watercolor backgrounds, props made of cardboard, aluminum foil and Christmas lights, and whimsical hand-sewn costumes. This lo-fi style plays against eye-catching animations that are interspersed throughout the film.

Baby Bird summary:
Baby Bird was founded by Adam Keller and Stephanie Simek to explore the possibilities of their collective imagination through the use of various materials and disciplines. The journey began with the development of a vocal style, with the couple joining mouths like a mother bird feeding her young, and weaving their voices to create both harmonious and dissonant tones. The vision continued with explorations in photography, video, animation, etc.

website
www.hellobabybird.com

8. Just then a fawn came wandering by #1 (series): by Melody Owen 2.5 Min 2008

I made recordings of women artists in different countries reading the same passage from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass.  They translated and read it in their own language.  The
passage describes an episode where Alice meets a fawn in a forest where nothing has a name.  Because they are unable to define each other, they are able to be friends and walk through the wood together.  In the end, the fawn remembers it's name and runs away. #1 has the voice of Sonja Kretz reading in Swiss German.  The footage is shot in Berlin and Iceland.

Melody Owen is a Portland artist who works in multiple mediums including video, collage, drawing and installation. She spent much of last year at artist residencies in Iceland, Quebec and Paris. She is represented by Elizabeth Leach Gallery.

website
www.thistlepress.net

9.TO REMEMBER THAT OUR SKIES ARE THE SAME SKIES by Chris Larson 2.5 min 2008

synoposis:
on distance. on environment. on here. on heat. on commonality. on heart. on there.

bio:
Chris Lael Larson is an multi-disciplinary artist, musician and graphic designer who lives and works in Portland, Oregon, USA.

website
www.natural-lightning.com

10. Eldorado music video for Mattress, Dir. Grace Carter 2007

synopsis:

Eldorado takes us on a spare journey through the soul of love. It gets lost in the desert, doubles back to an old crooked house and finishesat a table laden with impossible food. The composition of the song is spare and longing and the visual aesthetic of the video mirrors this searching need.

11. Happy Birthday Mama! By Dicky Dahl 8 min. 2007

synopsis:

A video greeting to my sweet Mama on her 80th birthday.

bio:

website
www.dickydahl.com

12. “The Mixtress” Documentary, by Peter Hermes 7 min. 2008

synopsis:

Taking a stand against the music industry, the Mixtress promotes emerging musicians through her grassroots cd exchange project.

bio:

Peter Hermes has been a director and cinematographer for over ten years. He recently moved to Portland, Oregon from Oklahoma to further explore his passions. “The Mixtess” was made as part of the 2008 International Documentary Challenge where it won the Best Soundtrack award. It is Peter’s 6th documentary film.

website
www.wideshotstudios.com

13. Future Series Pt.2 by Grace Carter 1 min. 2008

14. Eyes and Ears music video for Ohmega Watts Directed by Nate Goodman

synopsis:

Somewhere between a barely remembered classroom daydream and b-boy stance. A typical school day is transformed into a weird imagination trip, when students try to make sense of the film they are watching. They use theatrical props to illustrate the lyrics of MC/DJ/Producer Ohmega Watts. The making of this video was also a bit of social experiment because the kids weren’t told everything that would be happening. Spontaneously trying to capture the feeling of a kid recounting a crazy day at school with excited exaggeration.

bio:

Nate is an artist and adventurer with a thrill-seeking nature and an early obsession with magic. Growing up in small town northern michigan He learned to use video to document his group of goofy friends. Before Youtube and even the internet they were recording and editing on VHS, just to be able to playback the tape and watch each other act like dorks. Nate moved out west after high school to pursue a career as a snowboard bum in the mountains of Oregon. It was there he honed his skills, filming more dorky friends doing crazy stunts on boards. He has since become one of the top action sports filmmakers in the Northwest. For the last six years Nate has also been exploring different aspects of filmmaking by working on various narrative, music video, experimental and documentary projects mostly as a camera assistant and director of photography. He believes filmmaking is a powerful tool that should be used to promote compassion and creative thought, and oh yeah, magic too.

website:
www.reelgoodman.com

15. American Make-Over by Ron Gassaway (1min 41sec) 2008

synopsis:

Evolving the advanced science of rose-colored glasses, American Make-Over aspires to provoke a playful public revolution with paint and plexiglass.

bio:

Ron Mason Gassaway was born in Portland, Oregon in1969. He has worked for nearly 20 years as a commercial artist and is currently a returning student at Portland State University, furthering
his skills as a fine artist through film making, installation work, performance and 2D art.

16. "Nightowl" music video for Swan Island Directed by Cat Tyc 2008

Cat Tyc is a filmmaker, video artist, and poet. Her films have screened at the Anthology Film Archive, the Camac d’ Art in Paris, PDX Fest and the High Energy Constructs Gallery in Los Angeles. She has directed music videos for Portland, OR artists Aweather and Swan Island; the latter piece was voted “Best Film of the Week” on MTVu. A Tyc-directed commercial for the Art Institute’s Annual Fashion Show at the Portland Art Museum was voted ‘Best Commercial’ in the Collegiate Nationals. Her short film "Umbrella" debuts in December 2008.

website
www.cat-tyc.com

16. Skidders the Movie by Lars C. Larsen

synopsis:

A mini-doc on the beauties of Skidding.

bio:

Lars C Larsen is an underground filmmaker in Portland, Oregon. He
creates short, "experimental B films" and is currently working on
Practical Effects for LAIKA's Coraline, due out feb 09.

Neglected website:
http://www.nanofarm.tv/

17. Test Anthem by Michael Paulus 3 min 30 sec. 2008

synopsis:

198 national anthems from the world’s countries arranged in a vertical,symmetrical stack. Played for the duration with bell curve as defined parameter with demarcation line representing point of departure to the - unattainable?

The longest – Uraguay’s begins and ends the audio with a nice, loping intro. The shortest anthem from Qatar comes in a mere 36 seconds and is sandwiched directly in the middle with most others as most anthems come in at a minute or less. I was curious to see if at the apex, beyond the expected dissonant sounds on the sides of the curve, there might be almost a pure, white nose. Static. It comes close though.

Based on government tests (atomic blasts, plane military test crashes) we are taken through a test – this time with themes closer to the human condition: want, desire, and spiritual transcendence if you will. The parameters are already set though. Could be construed as ultimately fatalistic and pessimistic. That’s possible.

bio:

Michael Paulus is an artist living in Portland Oregon. The marriage of science and art play prominently in his work, often times creating objects that are inherently misguided or dysfunctional in design. A parody of types on the sometimes absolute efficiency and logic that we come to expect
from tools and technology. The figures in his moving image work are usually ‘specimens’ to be observed and usually find themselves in absurd situations they are ill adept to comprehend.
In his static work often times there is an interchange between object and viewer. Sometimes testing the perceptions of the viewer and often times using an established medium or tool/design and tweaking it a bit to put it in a critical context.

website
www.michaelpaulus.com

18. Future Series Pt.3 by Grace Carter 1 min. 2008

19. Weathergirl 1 By Liz Haley Portland, OR. USA 2008 4 min.

synopsis:

weathergirl 1 explores relationships between patterns of organic energy,
new scientific discoveries, human emotional experience and the weather.

bio:

liz haley is a conceptual artist using installation, photography, video and performance to investigate connection, trust, urban-rural,future-past, quantum physics and love. her work has been widely shown,including exhibits in new york, portland tba festival and the miami museum of contemporary art.

website
www.lizhaley.com

20. Losing 1983 by Ali Cotterill

synopsis:

Losing 1983 is a short documentary about life, loss and the Pepsi-Coke challenge. Through interviews, Super-8, and animation, the short follows the narrator, Ali Cotterill, as she fills in the gaps in her memory surrounding the death of her father when she was four.

bio:

Ali was raised deep in the suburbs of New Jersey with a
burning desire to be a child star. She is now a filmmaker based in Portland,OR, who loves pop art, Kinder Surprise, and synchronized dance. Losing 1983 is her thesis film from the Art Institute of Portland’s Digital Film and Video program. Her films have appeared in many festivals including Outfest (L.A.), Milan LGBT Film Festival (Milan, Italy), and TBA Festival (Portland, OR)

website
www.astrofilms

21. Gates of Steel Karaoke Music Video by Karl Lind 4 min 20 sec. 2008

synopsis:

The Gates of Steel Karaoke Music Video allows viewers to become part of the action and sing along with a zany tail that illustrates the beginning of the end for all of mankind. Audience participation is highly encouraged!

bio:

Karl Lind is a filmmaker and the curator of
the Odds and Ends screening series, he currently lives in Portland, Oregon. His short films and videos have screened at various venues around the Earth, Including: Dallas Video Festival, PDX Film Festival,Other Cinema and Rotterdam International Film Festival.

website
www.inthecanllc.com

Odds and Ends V.5 @ Northwest Film Forum's Local Sightings Film Festival on Oct.4th

2008-09-14T20:20:00.000-07:00

Portland Oregon's very own Odds and Ends screening series is very happy to announce that we have been invited to program a recent survey of Portland made films and videos at the Northwest Film Forum's upcoming Local Sightings Film Festival.

Odds and Ends Volume 5 "The Rose City Revue"

will make it's world premiere on Oct 4th and is a Fall Harvests worth of Portland made goodies, featuring works by:

Melody Owen, John Bacone, Ali Cotterill, Cat Tyc, Rob Tyler, Grace Carter (world premiere), Peter Hermes, Liz Haley, Dicky Dahl, Ron Gassaway, Nate Goodman Jeremy Bird, Chris Larson, Ice Cream Truck Face, Lars Larsen, Carl Diehl, Baby Bird, Carl Diehl, Karl Lind and more!

complete show program up soon!

Date/Time: October 4th, 5pm
Location: Northwest Film Forum
1515 12th Ave
Seattle, WA 98122
(206) 329-2629

The Odds and Ends screening series is the brainchild of filmmaker, videographer and curator Karl Lind and will be two years old in November of this year.

FreeForm Film Fest aftermath

2008-09-03T21:13:00.000-07:00

On August 30th we Had a great little old time over at Rererato with our new friends Adam and Stephanie who were kind enough to invite the touring FreeForm Film Festival over for an evening, it was labor day weekend so there was a lot o competition as far as things to go out and do. We were super stoked to see some people come out and join in the festivities! The Freeform Film Fest rolled and I found that I had a newly found appreciation for just about every film in the lineup once, perhaps it had to do with being able to finally see it on a bigger canvas than my computer monitor at home.

Then PartyKiller took the stage, and they certainly lived up to their name - I found myself in a weird tranced out state, it was intense and a definite cleansing of sorts. Afterwards we went to hang out with friends new and old and inbetween over at NE Portland's very own Spare Room Lynyrd Skynyrd covers and post cougar action a plenty, pretty damn tasty onion rings and tater tots abounded. Went home and slept off the beers and grease and woke up the next day a new human being, this was a really good night.

Odds and Ends V.4 "United State of Mind" @ 2008 Taepei Biennial

2008-08-21T17:13:00.000-07:00

Odds and Ends Volume 4
“United State of Mind”
programmed by galleryHomeland film and video curator Karl Lind
TRT: 34 mins.

* many thanks go out to galleryHomeland Director Paul Middendorf for introducing Odds and Ends to the Urban Nomad Film Festival and vice versa!

Please join us for a very special edition of the Odds and Ends screening series which will be presented by the Urban Nomad Film Festival on Oct 11th at the Taepei Biennial. In This edition we we present a tasty sampling of films and videos made by a smattering of artists hailing from the good old USA (except for one German citizen currently living in Texas: Katja Straub) who each present us with their own colorfully diverse vision of life, liberty and the pursuit of pursuing happiness.

Program:

1. TO REMEMBER THAT OUR SKIES ARE THE SAME SKIES by Chris Larson 2 min 30 sec. 2008 Portland, OR. USA

Synoposis:
on distance. on environment. on here. on heat. on commonality. on heart. on there.

Bio:
Chris Lael Larson is an multi-disciplinary artist, musician and graphic designer who lives and works in Portland, Oregon, USA.

website
www.natural-lightning.com

2. Night Falls by John Bacone, 1 min. Portland, OR. USA 2006

Synopsis:
a triumphant struggle against motor vehicles.

Bio:
John Bacone is a sculptor and filmmaker living in Portland, Oregon.

3. Brave New Girl by Holly Andres and Grace Carter 2.5 min. Portland, OR. USA

Synopsis:
BRAVE NEW GIRL examines what it means to be female in our culture as defined by the media. With its saturated colors and super 8mm nostalgia, the film puts the heroine in a confined space and tempts her with artificial confections. What does it mean to consume an identity? What effects might it have on girls and women? These are some of the questions the viewer is left to ponder when this short whirlwind of consumption is over.

Bio:
Holly Andres approaches her art in a multidisciplinary manner, and works in film, photography, sculpture and installation. In collaboration with performer/filmmaker Grace Carter, Andres created the short films DANDELION, BRAVE NEW GIRL and their newest narrative, NORA. Their work has been featured in the NW Film + Video Festival, Best of the Northwest Touring Program, the Portland International Film Festival, the Portland Experimental Film Festival, the Oregon Biennial at the Portland Art Museum and the Perpetual Art Machine in New York. Andres teaches video production and foundation art classes at PSU and the Art Institute of Portland.

website
www.hollyandres.com

Bio:
Grace Carter has been working in theatre arts and filmmaking for the past six years in Portland, OR. She Co-founded the critically acclaimed defunct theatre and collaborated as a producer, director and actor on several stage performances. Grace’s films have been screened at several regional festivals including the 32nd annual Northwest Film and Video Festival, The PDX Fest and the Oregon Biennial at the Portland Art Museum. Grace has also worked as an actor on many film projects the most recent “Paranoid Park,” a new feature by Gus Van Sant.

website
www.gracecarterfilms.com

4. Taco Day, music video for Mr. Len featuring Jean Grae directed by Chioke Nassor, 3min 45 sec. 2001 NY, NY USA.
Bio: Chioke Nassor is a filmmaker, philanthropist and all around good guy. He recently completed an animated short film adaptation of the McSweeney’s story “Things I realized in 2002” by Sarah Manguso.

website
www.chiokenassor.com

5. The White Bunny by Katja Straub, Germany 2006 6.5 min.

synopsis:
Transformation in a train compartment. “The White Bunny” explores the conscious and sub-conscious longings of the human mind, told through the story of a woman, an injured boy, a small girl in a red dress, and a white bunny. A tale of four strangers as they travel together on a visual exploration of pain, love, memory, and the loss of innocence. The woman’s trauma reveals itself through the haunting form of a German nursery rhyme and we follow her into her past.

Bio:
Katja Straub is an artist, writer, and filmmaker whose films have screened in numerous festivals around the world including the Images Festival in Toronto, the Viper Basel in Switzerland and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her short film "All White People Are French" received the Special Jury Award at the South By Southwest Film Festival in Austin in 2005.

website
www.rocketfilm.de

6. Test Anthem by Michael Paulus 3 min 30 sec. Portland, OR. USA

Synopsis:
198 national anthems from the world’s countries arranged in a vertical,
symmetrical stack. Played for the duration with bell curve as defined parameter with demarcation line representing point of departure to the - unattainable?

The longest – Uraguay’s begins and ends the audio with a nice, loping intro. The shortest anthem from Qatar comes in a mere 36 seconds and is sandwiched directly in the middle with most others as most anthems come in at a minute or less. I was curious to see if at the apex, beyond the expected dissonant sounds on the sides of the curve, there might be almost a pure, white nose. Static. It comes close though.

Based on government tests (atomic blasts, plane military test crashes) we are taken through a test – this time with themes closer to the human condition: want, desire, and spiritual transcendence if you will. The parameters are already set though. Could be construed as ultimately fatalistic and pessimistic. That’s possible.

Bio:
Michael Paulus is an artist living in Portland Oregon. The marriage of science and art play prominently in his work, often times creating objects that are inherently misguided or dysfunctional in design. A parody of types on the sometimes absolute efficiency and logic that we come to expect from tools and technology.
The figures in his moving image work are usually ‘specimens’ to be observed and usually find themselves in absurd situations they are ill adept to comprehend.
In his static work often times there is an interchange between object and viewer. Sometimes testing the perceptions of the viewer and often times using an established medium or tool/design and tweaking it a bit to put it in a critical context

Website: http://michaelpaulus.com/

7. Weathergirl 1 By Liz Haley Portland, OR. USA 2008 4 min.

synopsis:
weathergirl 1 explores relationships between patterns of organic energy,
new scientific discoveries, human emotional experience and the weather.

bio:
liz haley is a conceptual artist using installation, photography, video
and performance to investigate connection, trust, urban-rural,
future-past, quantum physics and love. her work has been widely shown,
including exhibits in new york, portland tba festival and the miami museum
of contemporary art.

website
www.lizhaley.com

8. Timor Mortis by Sare Rane, 4.5 min Portland, OR. USA

Synopsis:
A dance for sea and air inspired by and created for the song Timor Mortis by Rio En Medio.

Bio:
Sare Rane is originally from the high desert of northern New Mexico but now makes her home in Portland, Oregon. She began making videos three years ago with a desire to capture the unexpected poetry of the world we live in. She has degrees in Theater and Cultural Anthropology from UC Santa Barbara.

website
www.onehorseproductions.blogspot.com

9. Phototrope by Randy Wakerlin 1 min. 2007, Portland, OR. USA

Synopsis:
Multi-Cam Pixelation

Bio:
Randall Davis Wakerlin holds a BA in Film/Animation from Hampshire College, (MA) and an MFA in Experimental Animation from California Institute of the Arts, (CA). Wakerlin’s film figure 1: Scar (detail) won Best Animation awards in both the Pacific Coast Film Festival (Del Mar, CA) and the Seattle Underground Film Festival (Seattle, WA) in 2000 and has been widely screened around the U.S. His most recent work In Good Spirits features live action documentary footage of the Hilltribe cultures of Northern Thailand with animated segments of Hilltribe textiles. Recent projects include various short animation pieces such as Twenty-Six, a documentation of one year of Mr. Wakerlin’s life, and collaborations with Portland, OR composer Matt Marble and Emily Stone entitled Chroma where Wakerlin's animation was projected behind dancers in a performance based on the color orange at Gallery 500 (Portland, OR). He is currently collaborating with Los Angeles composer Nicholas Chase creating an interactive work for video and solo piano entitled Star Trenching. Mr. Wakerlin resides in Portland, Oregon where he is working with animators Chel White and David Daniels at Bent Image Lab and teaches animation at Pacific University.

website
www.secondaday.com

10. John Bacone “Support your library" 1 min. 2007 Portland, OR. USA
synopsis:
Borrowed Library video = fun

11. American Make-Over by Ron Gassaway (1min41sec) 2008 Portland, OR. USA

Evolving the advanced science of rose-colored glasses, American Make-Over aspires to provoke a playful public revolution with paint and plexiglass.

Ron Mason Gassaway was born in Portland, Oregon in 1969. He has worked for nearly 20 years as a commercial artist and is currently a returning student at Portland State University, furthering his skills as a fine artist through film making, installation work, performance and 2D art.

12. Gates of Steel Karaoke Music Video by Karl Lind 4 min 20 sec. 2008 Portland, OR. USA

Synopsis:
The Gates of Steel Karaoke Music Video allows viewers to become part of the action and sing along with a zany tail that illustrates the beginning of the end for all of mankind. Audience participation is highly encouraged!

Bio:
Karl Lind is a filmmaker and the curator of the Odds and Ends screening series, he currently lives in Portland, Oregon. His short films and videos have screened at various venues around the Earth, Including: Dallas Video Festival, PDX Film Festival, Other Cinema and Rotterdam International Film Festival.

website
www.inthecanllc.com

FreeForm Film Festival in PDX 8/30/08!!!!

2008-08-02T18:23:00.000-07:00

8/30/08 PDX screening of the 2008 FreeForm Film Festival @ Rererato!
Featuring Special Guest Partykiller

The FreeForm Film Festival is coming to PDX! The ever traveling screening series hasn’t been through our little slice of the NW since 2005, for this year’s screening they’ve brought a shiny new bag of tricks with them and we’re very excited to welcome them back! THIS WILL BE AN ALL AGES SHOW.

When and Where: Saturday, August 30th 7pm @ Rererato
5135 NE 42nd Portland 97218

Cost: Suggested 5.00 donation

About the FreeForm Film Festival:

The Free Form Film Festival (FFFF) is a traveling festival of film and music created by loaf-i productions and inner mission productions. Events include, shorts and features across all genres, live music and multimedia performance, and installation. We are a continuously touring festival without beginnings or endings. In other words, we do it here and there, whenever and wherever possible.

Program features new works by:

Tyrone Davies, Ryan Wylie, Chad Gooch, Van Mcelwee, Johnny Rogers, Animal Charm, Elizabeth Henry and more!

Additional info:

The Portland screening of the FreeForm Film Festival is being organized and presented by Karl Lind, curator of the Odds and Ends Screening series, and is gratefully being hosted by the very lovely Rererato artspace in NE Portland

Contact info for PDX FFFF show:

Karl Lind
P. 503.407.3161
E. karl@inthecanllc.com

Rererato
www.rererato.com
E. info@rererato.com

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Coming soon FREEFORM FILM FESTIVAL 08!

2008-05-20T18:19:00.001-07:00

This Summer in collaboration with our friends at the FreeForm Film Festival we will be presenting their 2008 touring program, more news on that very soon.

Journal of Short Film Vol.11 "PDX" release date 5/20 + NW Tracking screening 5/28 + After Party!

2008-05-07T21:56:00.000-07:00

Greetings people of Portland and beyond,

I am very proud to announce that the Ohio based Journal of Short Film is set to release Vol.11 of their quarterly DVD compilation, pay attention folks a this one will be close to home as it features 100% Portland made films and videos! Yep, this is their first regionally focused edition and I was honored that they asked me to sign on as an editor for this project as it highlights a ton of PDX's best and brightest (not too mention incredibly resourceful) video and film artists. As we all know a DVD can only hold so much content and while I had a good hand in gathering a bounty to whittle down the fine folks at the Journal eventually came to an agreement upon including a mere 26 shorts (!)

Additionally in conjunction with the Journal of Short Film PDX DVD release on May 20th there will be a NW Tracking screening at the Whitsell Theatre on May 28th @7 PM, and I hope you can make it out - did I mention that there will be an after party at the incredibly cozy environs of Valentine's (they have a bar and great food!) afterwards and that up and coming acapella group The Repair will be playing a set and that DJ Bird will be on deck spinning some tunes as well? No? Well please consider yourself invited and come out and celebrate the release of this fine digital harvest of PDX made and bred media and come party down with us!

With Love,

Karl Lind

Save these dates and remember this info:

on May 20th the Journal of Short Film Vol.11 "PDX edition" hits the streets and I'd like to mention that you should be able to find copies locally at Reading Frenzy, which if you didn't know carries a ton of cool independently produced media including art books, zines and DVDs.

NW Film Center Presents NORTHWEST TRACKING/PORTLAND PREMIERE
JOURNAL OF SHORT FILM: VOL. 11
PORTLAND
Director: VARIOUS
Wed May 28 7:00 PM Whitsell Auditorium
1219 SW Park Ave WHITSELL AUDITORIUM
Portland, OR 97205

JOURNAL OF SHORT FILM: Vol.11 after screening party @ Valentine's
Wed. May 28th 9:00 PM
232 SW Ankeny
Portland,OR, 97204
503-248-1600

Christ, press releases are Teedeeus! Whew.

NW Tracking Premiere: Journal of Short Film Vo.11

2008-03-31T13:21:00.000-07:00

While this is not an Odds and Ends screening I want to give it a huge push because there are a ton of PDX O+E Alum packed into this surefire hit of a DVD that I edited for the Journal of Short Film! This disc will be hitting the shelves in April, and I am eagerly awaiting the arrival. This is really exciting for a couple of reasons:

1. The DVD is composed of 100 PERCENT PORTLAND MADE MEDIA!
2. This is the first time the Journal of Short Film has seen fit to focus on a specific region, that it happens to be Portland Oregon shows me that these cats know what the heck they are doing, recognize.

Huge thanks go out to the JSF and our own beloved Northwest Film Center for eagerly entertaining and actualizing my idea to do this program.

- KL

NORTHWEST TRACKING/PORTLAND PREMIERE
JOURNAL OF SHORT FILM: VOL. 11
PORTLAND
Director: VARIOUS
Wed May 28 7:00 PM Whitsell Auditorium

The Journal of Short Film, published in Columbus, Ohio, is a DVD quarterly featuring award-winning work from all over the world. The first ten volumes have included over one hundred filmmakers and a diverse selection of interesting pieces in all genres. Tonight we are pleased to premiere the Journal’s first geographically themed collection, which highlights the filmmaking hotspot that is Portland, Oregon. Assembled by Portland film maker and curator, Karl Lind, VOL. 11 includes: SPHERES, by Jeremy Bird; TO WATCH IN PREPARATION OF THE DEEP FALL, by Mack; THE FOREST, by John Bacone; COSMOS, by Randy Wakerlin; BLOBSQUATCH, by Carl Diehl; SILENCE IN 60 SECONDS, by Andy Mingo; STRATEGERY, by Jim Lowry; PLANET EARTH: OUR RESPONSE, by Arman Bohn; DANDELION, by Grace Carter and Holly Andres; DARKCLOUD, by Gretchen Hogue; LE PUZZLE, by Uli Beutter; 3 OUT OF 4, by Stephen Slappe; STEVE WINWOOD IS HUNGRY FOR BREAKFAST, by Jesse England; FROM THE JOURNAL OF JOHN MCGILLICUTTY, by Michael Paulus; and CIRCLE OF PURITY, by Liz Haley. (100 min)

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Thank you!

2008-01-13T15:05:00.000-08:00

On behalf of Odds and Ends & galleryHomeland I would just like to give an immense shout out and thank you to everyone who showed up and made last night's event such a huge success. It truly blew my mind how many people made it out, sorry if you tried to converse with me and I appeared to be going in a thousand different directions (actually that is not so unusual for me anyhow, come to think of it) and I hope to catch up with all of you folks soon and have a relaxed and focused conversation, I hope 2008 is the best year yet for all of you!

Love,

Karl

Just Out Says

2008-01-11T17:26:00.001-08:00

We just wanted to give a big shout out to Just Out for this awesome write up they gave us!

I Want My MTV

Remember when MTV was good? Karl Lind does. He is the head of film and video programming for Gallery Homeland, an exhibition and project space for visual and performing artists founded in Southeast Portland in 2005. Lind has curated Odds and Ends Volume 3: The Sight and Sound of Music Videos, a screening of short films and animation by artists ranging from local to international. "The idea with this year’s program was to recapture those long-forgotten moments back in the day when you could zone out watching a certain corporate Music Television channel for hours on end," he says.

The resulting collection is diverse in terms of both music and visuals, ranging from a delightfully sugary confection by Kara Blake, to a ludicrous romp in which pink-wigged nurses help pregnant men deliver babies set to a bouncy rap track by Plastic Little, to director Chioke Nassor’s disturbing vignette of a Columbine-style school slaying with a female protagonist interlaced with statistics on child sexual abuse and rape. The program also showcases work by local queer artists Ali Cotterill and Vanessa Renwick.

Cotterill, founder of the exalted drag king troupe DK PDX (which called it quits last year), recently earned a bachelor’s degree from The Art Institute of Portland and founded Astro Films. She directed "Toi et Moi" for Scream Club, a queer electro duo out of Olympia, Wash. The video features some of Portland’s hottest queer glitterati—including members of Sissyboy, DK PDX and Glam Star Burlesque—and has popped up at film festivals across the country as well as on gay television channel Logo. (See it along with other Cotterill productions at www.astrofilms.org.) Of her future projects, Cotterill says, "I’m searching for the subject of my next documentary." Attention, interesting subjects!

You have to write fast when interviewing Renwick: Her quicksilver mind spills words out like Lego blocks from an upended container. As "founder and janitor of the Oregon Department of Kick Ass," she has been busy creating installations and making film and video since 1983. Her short film "Red Stallion’s Revenge" tells the story of a colt that serves vengeance on the bear that killed its mother. The fight between bear and horse lasts a full five minutes, with a crowd of animal onlookers, but no adult humans. Renwick assembled the film from vintage movie clips, cutting out all the speaking parts and splicing the footage together to fit her concept. Lind describes the clip as "an absolute hoot and a total show-stealer." Learn more about Renwick and her impressive body of work at www.odoka.org.

The screening starts 8 p.m. Jan. 12 at 2505 S.E. 11th Ave. The suggested donation is $7. For more information visit www.galleryhomeland.org.

—Tony LeTigre

Odds and Ends Vol.3 Update

2008-01-10T22:20:00.000-08:00

Odds and Ends Volume 3. is just about here and I am feeling pretty good about it, although it was just earlier today that I realized something seemed a bit off like with the whole deal - as if it were in need of just a slight.... ahem: REPAIR, luckily I figured it all out! I am very excited to announce that Portland's up and coming vocal/beatbox trio THE REPAIR will be laying it down Acapella style with a mini set during the intermission between rounds of music videos this Saturday night. Come for the videos and live music, enjoy some beer and grub and maybe even another surprise or two.

KL
Odds and Ends

ODDS AND ENDS V.3 1/12/08 @ galleryHomeland

2007-12-24T10:14:00.000-08:00

flyer by Ron Gassaway

Welcome to 2008! Odds and Ends Vol. 3 "The Sight and Sound of Music Videos" is just about here!

To celebrate we will be ringing in the New Year by bringing a bevy of local PDX as well as international Music Video making stars together under one roof for an evening of really rad independently produced music videos.

For artists including:

Lederhosen Lucil, Ohmega Watts, Mattress, Arthur and Yu, A Weather, Jean Grae, Plastic Little, Dan Deacon, Future Islands, Jakarta, Scream Club, Unrecognizable Now, Montague +?

Made by filmmakers such as:

Allen Cordell, Nate Goodman, Whitey McConnaughey, Kara Blake, Chioke Nassor, Ted Passon, Autumn Andel, Matt McCormick, Uli Beutter, Cat Tyc and Adam Long, Grace Carter, Melanie Brown, Tyrone Olsen, Mike Mudd, Ron Gassaway, Gretchen Hogue, John Bacone, Chris Bennett, Rob Tyler, Ali Cotterill, Vanessa Renwick +?

The idea with this screening was to re-capture some of those long forgotten moments back in the day when you could just zone out watching a certain corporate Music Television channel for hours on end (back when they actually played music vids) and for nostalgia's and ART's sake ODDS AND ENDS will be reclaiming the airwaves from the corporate buffoons for one evening and doing it how it should be done: All Art all the time. Does anyone else remember USA's "Night Flight"? Am I showing my age now or what....

As usual I didn't have to go farther than my backyard of Portland to begin locating some quality music vids, I also found a few more gems from the East Coast in Allen Cordell's videos for Future Islands and Dan Deacon, soon after not far away in Philly I found Ted Passon's video for Plastic Little and then I stumbled upon the most delectable treat in the form of Canadian Filmmaker Kara Blake's video for Lederhosen Lucil.

So on January 12th bundle up and head down to Gallery Homeland, we're looking forward to welcoming you to our new digs at the Ford Building and having a few brews and checking out and enjoying a fun packed evening of independently produced music videos SO PLEASE JOIN US!

Food and Beverages will be available

When: Jan 12th @ 8pm ( Doors will open at 7, we encourage you to come early and peruse galleryHomeland's Inauguaral Exhibit: A NW Thang )
Where: Gallery Homeland, 2505 SE 11th Portland
How Much: 7.00 suggested donation

GALLERY HOMELAND GRAND OPENING "A NW THANG"! 12/14/07

2007-12-09T10:00:00.000-08:00

Hello,

It is with much excitement and eager anticipation that I announce the opening of Gallery Homeland's Inaguaral Exhibition "A NW Thang", this event features NW based artists Marc Dombrosky, Saya Moriyasu, Patrick Rock, Paige Saez, Cynthia Star and Jason Wood. For my part I will be showing some recent video work by awesome local PDX Filmmakers Gretchen Hogue, John Bacone, Ron Gassaway and Jeremy Bird, the videos will be projected on a loop so you will have an opportunity to view the work throughout the evening.

Gallery Homeland's Inaguaral Exhibition "A NW Thang"
Location: 2505 SE 11th Ave (Ford Bldg)
Date: 12/14/07
Time: 7pm
Cost: FREE!

Also, please join us two days after the Grand Opening on Sunday 12/16 @ 7pm when we will be welcoming some special out of town guests who will be presenting the 59 Seconds Video Festival.

59 Seconds Video Festival
Location: 2505 SE 11th Ave (Ford Bldg)
Date: 12/16/07
Time: 7pm
Cost: Suggested donation of 5.00

And last but not least, stay tuned for the next edition of the Odds and Ends Screening Series which will take place on Jan.12th 2008, more on that soon.....

Happy Holidays,

Karl Lind
Head of Film and Video Reprogramming for Gallery Homeland
www.galleryhomeland.org
www.oddsandendspdx@blogspot.com

59 Seconds Video Festival December 16th @ Gallery Homeland

2007-11-20T08:42:00.000-08:00

Nope, not an official Odds and Ends screening - instead we are proud to host some visitors from afar for an evening of short (very short) videos.

Gallery Homeland is very excited to announce that we will be hosting the 59 Seconds Video Festival on Dec 16th at our new location!

Date: December 16th
Time: 7 pm
Location: 2505 SE 11 th Ave. Portland , OR 97202
Cost: Suggested donation of 5.00

Launched by Project 59 in the spring of 2005 at 59 Franklin Street in Tribeca, the 59 Seconds Festival is an alternative festival and research media project. Unlike traditional annual or biannual film/video festivals, 59 Seconds is a one time project. Artists are encouraged to submit 59 seconds long works that incorporate number 59 in any manner. Works are being collected through a series of open calls until the final collection of the best 59 videos has been selected with help of national and international audiences during a series of 59 screenings.

59 Seconds Festival is a play off as well as a metaphor for the short video format, that gives an opportunity to introduce 59 international artists and a wide range of video works - mini documentary, political satire, metaphorical, narrative, experimental, edgy, controversial, including a unique collection of videos that integrate number 59.

59 Seconds Festival is a video storm of a variety of techniques, ideas and visions that is sampling an emerging contemporary international video art scene. "Maximum entertainment in minimum time" San Francisco Bay Guardian 12/7/05.

59 Seconds Festival is developing a network and popularization of participating artists while introducing as broad an international audience as possible to a unique collection of works, providing an exchange of ideas and information.

A collection of 59 select videos, 59 seconds each by 59 international artists, shown 59 times around the globe is the ultimate goal of 59 Seconds Festival.

Special thanks to Ron Gassaway for designing the flyer and Dave Bamford of SoundViewRecording www.soundview-recording.com for lending us a PA.

If you have any questions or comments please contact:

Karl Lind
Head of Film and Video Reprogramming for Gallery Homeland
www.galleryhomeland.org
www.oddsandendspdx@blogspot.com

Odds and Ends to screen @ OUT/EX in Utah Nov. 17th

2007-10-31T16:32:00.000-07:00

Winter is here and while we are in the midst of assembling Volume 3 of Odds and Ends our good friends over at the OUT/EX Screening series in Salt Lake City, Utah will be keeping a choice assortment of films from shivering out in the cold for an evening.

Odds and Ends is proud to present an evening of eclectic and electrifying films and videos from Stacey Steers, Grace Carter and Holly Andres, John Bacone, Alec Cohen, Jeremy Bird, Vanessa Renwick and more! This selection combines elements from Odds and Ends Volumes 1 and 2 plus a few new treats.

Date: Saturday the 17th at NoBrow Coffee and Tea in Salt Lake City Utah (315 E. 300 S.) and will begin at 8pm

THE LINE UP:

1. No One Touches the Floor (2006) video
John Bacone (PDX)

“’No One Touches the Floor’ by John Bacone uses a simple equation—Swimming + Flying + Time Control = AWESOME!”
Christine S. Blystone (PORTLAND MERCURY)

John Bacone is a sculptor and filmmaker living in Portland, OR. Currently working with two dance companies, Polaris Dance Theater and a-wol Dance Collective, as set/sound designer, and videographer; he also carves frames for the work painted by elephants and dolphins at the Indianapolis Zoo.

2. The Birthday, 8 min.
by Stephen Slappe

Synopsis:

The Birthday depicts the reproduction of human life through scientific experimentation. The video was created using appropriated animation, x-rays and microscopic photography culled from 16mm educational films. The Birthday usurps the intent of the source material with the help of a haunting score of electronic improvisations by Rob Walmart.

Filmmaker BIO:
Stephen Slappe is a multidisciplinary artist working in Portland, Oregon.

website
www.stephenslappe.com

3. Spheres 1 min
By Jeremy Bird

JEREMY BIRD is a videomaker and video editor in Portland, Oregon. His short videos are said to harmonize sound and picture into a series of engaging instants. He has edited music videos, feature films, commercials, and has created projections for live music and dance performance. His latest short, "Spheres", has screened at moving-image festivals around the world.

www.jeremybird.net

4. I got shot with a bullet, video 16 min.
by Alec Cohen

Years after being accidentally shot in downtown Manhattan, Alec Cohen has retreated to Portland, OR to escape the danger of his past. Now, equipped with $50 and some newfound courage, Alec and his near-silent, 12-year old best friend Raymond are on a quest to buy a gun. I Got Shot with a Bullet investigates Pop-Culture American Manhood and its relationship to violence. It's also funny.

Filmmaker Bio:

Alec is one of the founding members of Sandymontana, a Portland based director's collective. He is from Long Island, NY and is inspired by nonsense and important social issues.

Website
www.sandymontana.com

5. Neuro-Economy
Created by Jill Kennedy

Liner Notes:
“Neuro Economy” is a short animated film to a real audio recording found on a telephone answering machine.
Set in a composite domestic setting of both past and present a recorded message starts to play back on a telephone answering machine in the living room. An anonymous caller from 21 years ago describes himself. The caller goes on to explain a Neuro Economy and details his plans for a Quantum Computer Emulator. The message continues to diverge further and further from reality. Animated graphics sourced from learning material of the 1960’s and 70’s begin to appear, eventually taking over the living room as we glimpse a cross section of reality as perceived by the anonymous caller.

Bio:
Jill Kennedy was born 1981 in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1982 her family moved to Auckland, New Zealand. She has been living in Auckland where she has recently graduated from a Graduate Diploma in Design studying at Unitec Institute of Technology.
Prior to this, she completed a Bachelor of Design majoring in Fine Art Painting in 2002 at Unitec Institute of Technology. She has been involved in several group shows exhibiting work at Enjoy Gallery in Wellington, Snow White Gallery and Room 401 in Auckland.
After the completion of the course, Jill moved back to Glasgow. She spent time traveling Europe and returned to study animation in 2006. She completed a Graduate Diploma in Design and spent the last four months of her course completing her first animated short film “Neuro Economy”.
Recently, she has collaborated on work with the New Zealand Painter Mark Braunias. She completed an animation of Mark’s drawings which showed at the Jonathan Smart Gallery in August 2007. She is currently working on a new piece with Mark, which will be on show at the opening of the new Tauranga Art Gallery in October 2007.

6. Tidal Wave 1.5 min
by Salise Hughes

One man’s nightmares take physical taking the form of each and every figure in the crowd.

BIO

Born January 11th 1955 in Tacoma Washington. Studied visual art at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle and the San Francisco Art Institute. Artworks included in Microsoft and Seattle Arts Commission collections. Visiting drawing instructor at Cornish College of the Arts from 1991-93. Began making films as a self-taught filmmaker in 2005. Lives in Seattle.

7. God Provides, video 9 min
by Brian Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky

Synopsis:

Shot in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and bound by elements of fiction, this unexpected documentary short is a glimpse into faith-based sentiment and inexplicable loss in the American South. While a man searches for his kitchen appliances in the bushes, elsewhere a grinning preacher takes souvenir snapshots for his congregation, and a woman with a disability journeys to a quieter place.

Filmmaker Bios:

Brian M. Cassidy (b. 1977, Poughkeepsie, USA) and Melanie Shatzky (b. 1976, Montreal, Canada) met in 2004 in New York City and shortly thereafter began collaborating on both narrative and documentary films. The duo have shown their work at the Sundance Film Festival, the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Silverdocs, South by Southwest (SXSW), the Kunsthalle Wien, and the European Media Art Festival (EMAF). Their short fiction, The Delaware Project, was nominated for a Tiger Award at Rotterdam, and won the 2007 EMAF Award at the European Media Art Festival. They were recently profiled in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film.

Cassidy and Shatzky’s work often forgoes conventional storytelling methods in order to accommodate stark imagery, elusive characters, a deadpan realism, and has been described by Glenn Kenny of Premiere Magazine as “cogent and sickly surreal”. In 2005, they founded their production company, Pigeon Projects, which continues to develop and evolve as an outlet for their personal work as well as a commercial studio. Both Cassidy and Shatzky hold MFAs in Photography, Video & Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

website
www.pigeonprojects.com

8. Michael Paulus (PDX)
The Journal of John Magillicutty 2006 dv [2:20]
“Strenuous but an intermission...”

Michael Paulus is an artist living in Portland Oregon. The marriage of science and art play prominently in his work, often times creating objects that are inherently misguided or dysfunctional in design. A parody of types on the sometimes absolute efficiency and logic that we come to expect from tools and technology.
The figures in his moving image work are usually ‘specimens’ to be observed and usually find themselves in absurd situations they are ill adept to comprehend.
In his static work often times there is an interchange between object and viewer. Sometimes testing the perceptions of the viewer and often times using an established medium or tool/design and tweaking it a bit to put it in a critical context

website
www.michaelpaulus.com

9. The Places left in passing 2.5
by Kiri Hargie

an animated movie about the inbetween spaces, both physical and mental,
that are left behind after the passing of a loved one.
In Memory of Martha Hargie

Filmmaker Bio:

Live, love, learn, create, leave ripples, go man go! Whether automatic writing, sculpting, animating, photographing, drawing, or moshing media interactively mixed media artist Kiri Hargie collages the minutiae of the extraordinary ordinary. A consummate world lover, she one day wishes to drive around the world in an ice cream truck collecting stories and art.

www.hargie.com

10. Nora
by Grace Carter and Holly Andres

Synopsis:

An afternoon encounter between two lovers plays out in an unusual fashion as issues of power, domination and gender reversal are explored.

Holly Andres approaches her art in a multidisciplinary manner, and works in film, photography, sculpture and installation. In collaboration with performer/filmmaker Grace Carter, Andres created the short films DANDELION, BRAVE NEW GIRL and their newest narrative, NORA. Their work has been featured in the NW Film + Video Festival, Best of the Northwest Touring Program, the Portland International Film Festival, the Portland Experimental Film Festival, the Oregon Biennial at the Portland Art Museum and the Perpetual Art Machine in New York. Andres teaches video production and foundation art classes at PSU and the Art Institute of Portland.

website
www.hollyandres.com

Grace Carter has been working in theatre arts and filmmaking for the past six years in Portland, OR. She Co-founded the critically acclaimed defunct theatre and collaborated as a producer, director and actor on several stage performances. Grace’s films have been screened at several regional festivals including the 32nd annual Northwest Film and Video Festival, The PDX Fest and the Oregon Biennial at the Portland Art Museum. Grace has also worked as an actor on many film projects the most recent “Paranoid Park,” a new feature by Gus Van Sant.

website
www.gracecarterfilms.com

11. Phantom Canyon 10 min.
by Stacey Steers

Stacey Steers lives in Boulder, Colorado where she teaches for the Film Studies Program at the University of Colorado. Her labor-intensive films are composed of thousands of individual, handmade works on paper. Her animations have screened worldwide and won national and international awards. She has been awarded residencies at The MacDowell Colony, Harvard University and Sacatar Foundation.

Synopsis for Phantom Canyon:

A curious woman meets an alluring man with bat wings in this personal recollection of a pivotal journey. This animated film was created from over 4000 hand-made collages incorporating the figures from Eadweard Muybridge’s Human and Animal Locomotion, first published in 1887.

or

Meticulous handmade collages explore a woman’s fantastical journey through memories.

Production Notes for Phantom Canyon:

Phantom Canyon is composed of over 4000 6X8” collages. These were constructed from Xeroxed elements of 18th and 19th century engravings (primarily Dover clip art) combined with the figures from Eadweard Muybridge’s Human and Animal Locomotion, first published in 1887. The Muybridge figures were themselves collaged to create the movements necessary for the narrative flow of the film. The bodies of some with the heads of others, the arms of one on the torso of another etc. The collages were then shot on an old Oxberry animation stand onto 35mm film stock. There were texture layers added using transparencies.

website
www.staceysteers.com

12. 9 is a secret

By Vanessa Renwick, video 6 minutes 2002
score by Donovan Skirvin

"Renwick recounts a sad time in her life, when a friend was dying and she suddenly became aware of the presence of crows. The dark birds in turn point her to the practice of counting crows, which is both a children's rhyming game and a form of divination in which the number of crows suggests events in the future. Eight crows auger death: nine crows reference a secret. Renwick combines these fragments with glimpses of imagery- a bed, the crows captures as silhouettes, a man's twisted body - to craft a lyrical and moving essay that works its magic through poetic accretion rather than narrative logic."

-Holly Willis, L.A. Weekly

Vanessa Renwick
Founder and janitor of the Oregon Department of Kick Ass

A filmmaker by nature, not by stress of research. She puts scholars to rout by solving through Nature's teaching problems that have fretted their trained minds. Her iconoclastic work reflects an interest in place, relationships between bodies and landscapes, and all sorts of borders. Working in experimental and poetic documentary forms, she produces films, videos and installations that explore the possibility of hope in contemporary society. She is a naturalist, born, not made : a true barefoot, cinematic rabblerouser, of grand physique, calm pulse and a magnetism that demands the most profound attention.

Represented by PDX Contemporary Art
www.pdxcontemporaryart.com

Filmmaker website
www.odoka.org

13. Blue Tapes 7 min
By Jeremy Bird

14. in perpetuity Circle of Purity 2.5 min
by Liz Haley

In Perpetuity, Circle of Purity (2006) is a video conceived during a 10 day silent meditation retreat.

Artist Bio:

Liz Haley, born in 1972 the youngest of six children, was raised with community and escape as equally strong and polar influences. Haley has used video, photography, audio, installation and performance to explore concepts including the weather, physics, love, progress and other vulnerabilities of humanity. Her work has been exhibited in New York, San Francisco and Miami at the Museum of Contemporary Art. As part of her work, she is an independent curator and in 2005, co-founded a performance, cafe and exhibition space called Valentines in Portland, OR. She has an upcoming book on YETI publishing.

website
www.lizhaley.com

call for music videos for Odds and Ends Vol. 3

2007-09-02T17:48:00.000-07:00

Hello,

I am just putting the word out that I am on the hunt for independently produced music videos
to include in volume 3 of the Odds and Ends (O+E) screening series,
titled: "The Sight and Sound of Music Videos"

The exact date of the show is not yet set so there is still some time to get your work to us! There are no submission fees but feel free to send me as much money as you like, if you like.

What we need:

we are specifically looking for concept driven and creative music vids,
what I am not looking for are performance documentation of bands. So
if anyone out there has some links to work they would like to have me
check out please send them my way, I can also preview from DVD and you
can send them to the address below

Odds and Ends
1925 NE Liberty St.
Portland, OR 97211

Odds and Ends is a rolling video and film screening series founded by
Filmmaker/Curator Karl Lind way back in November of 2006.

Thank you,

Karl Lind.

In The Can Productions
www.inthecanllc. com
www.karllindfilm. com

Phantom Canyon takes honors at CUFF 07'!

2007-08-26T12:19:00.001-07:00

A huge congrats goes out to O+E alum Stacey Steers who's film Phantom Canyon took top honors for "Best Animation" at this Years CUFF (Chicago Underground Film Festival)

ODDS AND ENDS THANKS YOU!

2007-08-03T10:39:00.000-07:00

I am happy to say that the screening of ODDS AND ENDS VOL.2 was a success! We filled every chair in the house and best of all we even made some money for Gallery Homeland's Scratching the Surface 2007

Once again a huge thanks goes out to the Rake Gallery for hosting the event, Gallery Homeland for staffing and general support, Ron Gassaway for the awesome flyer design and each and every one of you awesome people that came out to support independent cinema; you all rock!

ODDS AND ENDS will re-appear in the not too distant future with a new show dedicated to the art of the music video...... PLEASE STAY TUNED!

Karl

Here's a few pics of the 7/27/07 O+E V.2 show

Paul and Kazu relaxing after bringing the chairs on.

Scratching the Surface flier, very nice.

Gallery Homeland's Co-Director opening the show up.

Intermission time outside of the Rake Gallery.

Filmmaker Holly Andres eating pizza with two Pauls (the one on the right is her hubbie)

Filmmaker Uli Beutter of SandyMontana fame (L) and friend (R)

Filmmaker Grace Carter (L) and Uli Beutter

Karl Lind, I kind of look posessed in this picture.

ODDS AND ENDS VOl. 2, 7/27 @ Rake Gallery Portland, OR

2007-07-12T12:05:00.000-07:00

Gallery Homeland Presents: Odds and Ends Vol. 2

Friday, July 27th 8pm at the Rake Gallery
325 NW 6th Portland, OR 97209

Suggested donation of 7.00+
Drinks and Refreshments to be served

* proceeds from the screening will benefit Gallery Homeland’s upcoming Scratching the Surface 2007

Greetings, we hope that you will be able to join us for the second “official” summer edition of Odds and Ends. This time we have some tales of transformation and disorientation for you, a hybrid cinematic journey through the annals of the human soul if you will.

Joining us on our inward expedition are filmmakers from both near and far, with work ranging from the intricately hand animated award winning film “Phantom Canyon” by Stacey Steers, two awesome short films by Melanie Shatzky and Brian Cassidy, a short piece from Seattle animator Salise Hughes as well as work from the likes of Portland powerhouses Grace Carter and Holly Andres, Alec Cohen,Vanessa Renwick, Stephen Slappe, Kiri Hargie and Liz Haley.

The Line up

1. The Birthday, 8 min.
by Stephen Slappe

Synopsis:

The Birthday depicts the reproduction of human life through scientific experimentation. The video was created using appropriated animation, x-rays and microscopic photography culled from 16mm educational films. The Birthday usurps the intent of the source material with the help of a haunting score of electronic improvisations by Rob Walmart.

Filmmaker BIO:
Stephen Slappe is a multidisciplinary artist working in Portland, Oregon.

website
www.stephenslappe.com

2. God Provides, video 9 min
by Brian Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky

Synopsis:

Shot in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and bound by elements of fiction, this unexpected documentary short is a glimpse into faith-based sentiment and inexplicable loss in the American South. While a man searches for his kitchen appliances in the bushes, elsewhere a grinning preacher takes souvenir snapshots for his congregation, and a woman with a disability journeys to a quieter place.

Filmmaker Bios:

Brian M. Cassidy (b. 1977, Poughkeepsie, USA) and Melanie Shatzky (b. 1976, Montreal, Canada) met in 2004 in New York City and shortly thereafter began collaborating on both narrative and documentary films. The duo have shown their work at the Sundance Film Festival, the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Silverdocs, South by Southwest (SXSW), the Kunsthalle Wien, and the European Media Art Festival (EMAF). Their short fiction, The Delaware Project, was nominated for a Tiger Award at Rotterdam, and won the 2007 EMAF Award at the European Media Art Festival. They were recently profiled in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film.

Cassidy and Shatzky’s work often forgoes conventional storytelling methods in order to accommodate stark imagery, elusive characters, a deadpan realism, and has been described by Glenn Kenny of Premiere Magazine as “cogent and sickly surreal”. In 2005, they founded their production company, Pigeon Projects, which continues to develop and evolve as an outlet for their personal work as well as a commercial studio. Both Cassidy and Shatzky hold MFAs in Photography, Video & Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

website
www.pigeonprojects.com

3. I got shot with a bullet, video 16 min.
by Alec Cohen

Years after being accidentally shot in downtown Manhattan, Alec Cohen has retreated to Portland, OR to escape the danger of his past. Now, equipped with $50 and some newfound courage, Alec and his near-silent, 12-year old best friend Raymond are on a quest to buy a gun. I Got Shot with a Bullet investigates Pop-Culture American Manhood and its relationship to violence. It's also funny.

Filmmaker Bio:

Alec is one of the founding members of Sandymontana, a Portland based director's collective. He is from Long Island, NY and is inspired by nonsense and important social issues.

Website
www.sandymontana.com

4. The Places left in passing 2.5
by Kiri Hargie

an animated movie about the inbetween spaces, both physical and mental,
that are left behind after the passing of a loved one.
In Memory of Martha Hargie

Filmmaker Bio:

Live, love, learn, create, leave ripples, go man go! Whether automatic writing, sculpting, animating, photographing, drawing, or moshing media interactively mixed media artist Kiri Hargie collages the minutiae of the extraordinary ordinary. A consummate world lover, she one day wishes to drive around the world in an ice cream truck collecting stories and art.

www.hargie.com

5. The Delaware Project 13min
by Brian Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky

The Delaware Project centers around a young woman's fledgling sense of connection in a landscape that is undergoing rapid development. A precarious highway carries her to a series of doctors' appointments, where it is unclear what ails her. She speaks to no one and expresses nothing. More a tone poem than a traditional narrative, this film defies linear convention in an attempt to show the unceremonious demise of person and place.

6. Tidal Wave 1.5 min
by Salise Hughes

One man’s nightmares take physical taking the form of each and every figure in the crowd.

BIO

Born January 11th 1955 in Tacoma Washington. Studied visual art at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle and the San Francisco Art Institute. Artworks included in Microsoft and Seattle Arts Commission collections. Visiting drawing instructor at Cornish College of the Arts from 1991-93. Began making films as a self-taught filmmaker in 2005. Lives in Seattle.

7. Nora
by Grace Carter and Holly Andres

Synopsis:

An afternoon encounter between two lovers plays out in an unusual fashion as issues of power, domination and gender reversal are explored.

Holly Andres approaches her art in a multidisciplinary manner, and works in film, photography, sculpture and installation. In collaboration with performer/filmmaker Grace Carter, Andres created the short films DANDELION, BRAVE NEW GIRL and their newest narrative, NORA. Their work has been featured in the NW Film + Video Festival, Best of the Northwest Touring Program, the Portland International Film Festival, the Portland Experimental Film Festival, the Oregon Biennial at the Portland Art Museum and the Perpetual Art Machine in New York. Andres teaches video production and foundation art classes at PSU and the Art Institute of Portland.

website
www.hollyandres.com

Grace Carter has been working in theatre arts and filmmaking for the past six years in Portland, OR. She Co-founded the critically acclaimed defunct theatre and collaborated as a producer, director and actor on several stage performances. Grace’s films have been screened at several regional festivals including the 32nd annual Northwest Film and Video Festival, The PDX Fest and the Oregon Biennial at the Portland Art Museum. Grace has also worked as an actor on many film projects the most recent “Paranoid Park,” a new feature by Gus Van Sant.

website
www.gracecarterfilms.com

8. Phantom Canyon 10 min.
by Stacey Steers

Stacey Steers lives in Boulder, Colorado where she teaches for the Film Studies Program at the University of Colorado. Her labor-intensive films are composed of thousands of individual, handmade works on paper. Her animations have screened worldwide and won national and international awards. She has been awarded residencies at The MacDowell Colony, Harvard University and Sacatar Foundation.

Synopsis for Phantom Canyon:

A curious woman meets an alluring man with bat wings in this personal recollection of a pivotal journey. This animated film was created from over 4000 hand-made collages incorporating the figures from Eadweard Muybridge’s Human and Animal Locomotion, first published in 1887.

or

Meticulous handmade collages explore a woman’s fantastical journey through memories.

Production Notes for Phantom Canyon:

Phantom Canyon is composed of over 4000 6X8” collages. These were constructed from Xeroxed elements of 18th and 19th century engravings (primarily Dover clip art) combined with the figures from Eadweard Muybridge’s Human and Animal Locomotion, first published in 1887. The Muybridge figures were themselves collaged to create the movements necessary for the narrative flow of the film. The bodies of some with the heads of others, the arms of one on the torso of another etc. The collages were then shot on an old Oxberry animation stand onto 35mm film stock. There were texture layers added using transparencies.

website
www.staceysteers.com

9. 9 is a secret

By Vanessa Renwick, video 6 minutes 2002
score by Donovan Skirvin

"Renwick recounts a sad time in her life, when a friend was dying and she suddenly became aware of the presence of crows. The dark birds in turn point her to the practice of counting crows, which is both a children's rhyming game and a form of divination in which the number of crows suggests events in the future. Eight crows auger death: nine crows reference a secret. Renwick combines these fragments with glimpses of imagery- a bed, the crows captures as silhouettes, a man's twisted body - to craft a lyrical and moving essay that works its magic through poetic accretion rather than narrative logic."

-Holly Willis, L.A. Weekly

Vanessa Renwick
Founder and janitor of the Oregon Department of Kick Ass

A filmmaker by nature, not by stress of research. She puts scholars to rout by solving through Nature's teaching problems that have fretted their trained minds. Her iconoclastic work reflects an interest in place, relationships between bodies and landscapes, and all sorts of borders. Working in experimental and poetic documentary forms, she produces films, videos and installations that explore the possibility of hope in contemporary society. She is a naturalist, born, not made : a true barefoot, cinematic rabblerouser, of grand physique, calm pulse and a magnetism that demands the most profound attention.

Represented by PDX Contemporary Art
www.pdxcontemporaryart.com

Filmmaker website
www.odoka.org

10. in perpetuity Circle of Purity 2.5 min
by Liz Haley

In Perpetuity, Circle of Purity (2006) is a video conceived during a 10 day silent meditation retreat.

Artist Bio:

Liz Haley, born in 1972 the youngest of six children, was raised with community and escape as equally strong and polar influences. Haley has used video, photography, audio, installation and performance to explore concepts including the weather, physics, love, progress and other vulnerabilities of humanity. Her work has been exhibited in New York, San Francisco and Miami at the Museum of Contemporary Art. As part of her work, she is an independent curator and in 2005, co-founded a performance, cafe and exhibition space called Valentines in Portland, OR. She has an upcoming book on YETI publishing.

website
www.lizhaley.com

GALLERY HOMELAND PRESENTS A VIDEO BANQUET

2007-06-08T14:37:00.001-07:00

Hello,

Starting tonight, Gallery Homeland cordially invites you to join us for some fine films, videos, shadow puppetry and live music and more at the Video Banquet hosted by the Rake Art Gallery

Read an article about the Video Banquet in this weeks Portland Mercury!

VIDEO BANQUET

Venue location: Rake Art Gallery
325 NW 6th Ave. Portland Oregon 97209

Time: 8pm (both nights)

Cost: A suggested donation of 7.00 covers your entry

Refreshments: We will be serving Beer, Wine and Snacks (Cash bar)

* Please note that both shows are 21 and Over

June 21st 8 PM, SHOW INFO:

Opening this evening’s festivities we are pleased to welcome:

The Puppet Fucks: A Brief and Innacurate History of the French Revolution

Then, immediately following our mystery guest we have tonight’s headliner:

"A German and a Mexican Tour"

Straight from Austin, TX "A German and a Mexican Tour" showcases work from filmmakers Katja Straub and Miguel Alvarez. Both love, tell and collect stories - narrative or documentary - always with an emphasis on visual exploration. Their rather non-traditional shorts range from personal documentary to narrative film, from experimental to cinema veritÈ. Drawing upon their unique cultural roots, Katja and Miguel offer up stories of Bavarian weather candles, inherited music toys in the forest of Latin America, imprisoned African magic in Berlin, and the like.

The Lineup:

All White People are French

documentary, 12min, miniDV (c)2004
The childhood memory told by an asylum-seeker living in Berlin. These stories of African magic meet drawings on the walls of a prison in Berlin, where refused asylum seekers are kept prior to their expulsion to their countries of origin.

The White Bunny

experimental short, 7min,16mm (c)2005
Explores the conscious and sub-conscious longings of the human mind, told through the story of a woman, an injured boy, a small girl in a red dress, and a white bunny.

Veterans

documentary,13min, Super8 (c)2007
A documentary portrait of the filmmaker's father and grandfather, two men whose lives are ultimately defined by the wars they've waged both abroad and within themselves.

You're Not a Cowboy Unless You Got a Hat

documentary, 16min, miniDV/Super8 (c)2006
Explores the difference between German and American perceptions of the American West. The film follows three elder gentlemen who all claim to be cowboys. They talk about the cowboy mentality and lifestyle and how it feels for them to live in a world where these values are more and more shifting.

Tadpoles

short narrative, 8min, 16mm (c)2005
A story, told through the eyes of a young boy, about the tendency that people have to ignore the lessons learned from allowing inhuman actions to pervade humanity in times of war.

The Greeting From my Mother

documentary, 12min, 16mm/Super8 (c)2007
Traces the sublime and almost invisible bonds of motherhood, daughterhood and sisterhood over "one hundred years and two world wars." Notes of faith and the passage of time, are combined in a collage of images.

Filmmaker Bios

Katja Straub comes from Berlin. She studied experimental media at the University of the Arts and worked as a scenic painter and art director before traveling to the US.

Miguel Alvarez comes from San Antonio. Depending when found, he is at times, an engineer, writer, or photographer. Both are award-winning filmmakers whose work has screened in the Museum of Modern Art, on PBS, and at numerous festivals around the world. They met in 2004 as graduate students at the University of Texas at Austin and have been friends ever since.

For more info, please visit:
http://www.rocketfilm.de
http://www.estebandido.com

For our post film live music entertainment this evening playing an unplugged acoustic congo set we have the Blue Ballerz
Blue Ballerz

June 22nd 8 PM, SHOW INFO:

Opening this evening’s festivities we are pleased to welcome:

Do I Need to Draw you a Map? presents: The Sleeper in the Valley: Live Shadow Theatre

The Sleeper in the Valley is live shadow theatre based loosely on the
poem of the same name by Arthur Rimbaud.
A soldier is shot as he marches in the desert. A jaunty young ghost in
the finest military regalia flys out of his lifeless body as blood
fills the screen. A series of adventures and mishaps ensue as he is
flung through hell on earth on the back of a riverboat queen.

Then, immediately following our opening act we have tonight’s headliner:

The (traveling) Super 8 Side Show……….

Celebrating its 8th year, the Super 8 Side Show has amassed a number of short films from around the globe; all of which were shot with Super-8 film.

And because of this, we choose to program and project these moving images
for audiences that are into watching these sorts of things.

Many genres and sub-genres, quasi-genres, and anti-genres will be present.

Because, not only are these movies really unique to look at, most of them are pretty good. And the people who make them really appreciate a crowd.

So come out and watch a whole bunch of short films that were shot by the likes of your grandparents, or your brother, or your bratty/art-school/know-it-all-friend, who is actually not really your friend

Johnny Morehouse (Super 8 Sideshow Curator and Filmmaker) and his Bio…….

Johnny Morehouse is in his thirties.
He lives in Denver.
And he loves the moving image.

He took one class at the NW film center,
One semester at NYU,
And a bunch of semesters at the University of Denver.

He works in the mediums of Super 8 film, 16mm film,
And digital capture.

He has no strong argument toward using one medium as opposed to another,
But will argue very strongly for fostering each for their unique qualities.

Mostly, Johnny occupies himself by promoting creative endeavors such as
Art shows, film shows, stage shows and the like.

He likes shooting sub-pop documentary stuff.
In fact, he is currently producing COLFAX versus BROADWAY,
A seedy look into two of the longest boulevards in the U S of A.

For our post film live music entertainment this evening we are happy to have a very alive set from Portland's very own Partykiller
PartyKiller

Please direct any inquiries about this show to Gallery Homeland Film and Video Curator Karl Lind

karl@inthecanllc.com
503.407.3161

some other stuff karl does...
karllindfilm

Coming in June 07': Odds and Ends Vol 2. "Even Odder"

2007-03-28T13:46:00.000-07:00

Greetings,

I have just begun to put together a new volume of Odds and Ends which will take place at the end of June at as of yet undetermined Portland location ( but already we have a darn good lead on an awesome venue! )
We are planning to have two full nights of awesome programming as Odds and Ends will be joining forces with "The Super 8 sideshow" which is a really rad Denver Co. based screening series dedicated to screening small gauge filmmaking.
Once again Gallery Homeland http://galleryhomeland.org will be presenting the event, more news to follow soon!

Portland Mercury review of ODDS AND ENDS V.1

2007-02-14T05:47:00.000-08:00

A review of the Nov. 16th 2006 premiere screening of ODDS AND ENDS by Chas Bowie of the Portland Mercury.

http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Content?oid=81233&category=22127