Upcoming
Join us for a screening and conversation with Bebe Miller and Zoe Scofield. See work from their archives, hear about their processes, how their work was made, and what they think about it now. This is an opportunity to experience their pieces not otherwise available!
Learn moreJoin us on Sept. 12 for the screening of By My Own Hand, Part 4: MELODY, a solo work that engages the biomechanics of voice and an interweaving of movement, sound, and specter. As if intoning an elegy to her past selves, Allie conjures a space alive with poltergeist activity—dancing and singing within an intricate tapestry of wails, laughter, overtones, and unplaceable sounds. At once methodical and mundane, otherworldly and operatic, the work lives between elegy and manifesto, between haunted house and an architecture of alteration.
Learn moreSubsisting on car-toasted Pop-Tarts, Michelle Ellsworth and Brian Rogers will drive all day, and edit all night, while weeping their way from Boulder, CO to Queens, NY to PICA, and back again.
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Past
Allie Hankins’ By My Own Hand is a 5-Part series of performances that began in 2022, culminating with Part 5, which will be presented during PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival in September 2026. PICA will be hosting a series of free screenings of Parts 2–3 leading up to the live premiere.
Learn moreAllie Hankins’ By My Own Hand is a 5-Part series of performances that began in 2022, culminating with Part 5, which will be presented during PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival in September 2026. PICA will be hosting a series of free screenings of Parts 1–4 leading up to the live premiere. Please join us for the first screening on Monday, March 2, 2026, at 7:30 PM in PICA’s Annex. Allie Hankins and her collaborators will be in attendance.
Learn moreJoin PICA and the Hollywood Theatre for a screening of "Monk in Pieces," a new documentary about the boundary-breaking artist Meredith Monk.
Learn moreCinema Project presents selections from Madison Brookshire's Number Series, 16mm dual-projector works of shifting colors. Double projection creates an uncanny experience of color as both presence and absence.
Learn morePresented in conjunction with "ja' / buuts' / t'aan," Patricia Vázquez Gómez's immersive installation on the maayat’aan language, join us for an afternoon screening short films from the Yucatec Mayan diaspora!
Learn moreRoger Beebe returns to the road with a program of 16mm multi-projector performances celebrating the 25thanniversary of his first touring program. This evening of expanded cinema will include multiple-projector performances and essayistic videos that “explore the world of found images and the “found” landscapes of late capitalism.” With a fleet of 16mm, Super8, and video projectors, Beebe’s work touches on the themes of labor, structures and structuralism, and the real and virtual, not only in the content of the images, but also in how they appear on screen. This will be his first show in Portland since 2015.
Learn moreAlmost Everyone Is Ready: The Cinema of Stephanie Barber Presented by Cinema Project Stephanie Barber makes films and videos in which verbal communication often takes top billing, but they could also be watched for their elegant imagery alone. She is continually drawing our focus, with the intense work of her art, to the tenderest spots mostly out of reach.
Learn moreJoin cultural workers Alexandria Saleem and Sarah Farahat to steep in Teta’s tea. This is an invitation to grieve, nourish, and connect with what has been passed down through love and lineage, while remembering to cultivate new futures.
Learn moreCurated and hosted by Carla Rossi, Carla Rossi’s Queer Horrors presents short horror films intercut with performances from Portland’s finest ghouls—plus an artist market, psychic readings, and a dance party complete with a Friday the 13th costume contest. It’ll be a scream!
Learn morePAM CUT presents a screening of "The Untold Tales of Tuteremoana" and a discussion with special guest actress Mere Tokorahi Boynton (Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki & Ngāi Tūhoeof Aotearoa New Zealand), who stars in the third episode. Prior to this event, Mere will be performing in Sam Hamilton’s experimental opera Te Moana Meridian as part of TBA:24. Prior to this event, Mere will be performing in Sam Hamilton’s experimental opera "Te Moana Meridian" as part of TBA:24.
Learn morePart beer garden, party happy hour, and part afterparty, BEFORE & AFTER is an opportunity to come together with the TBA:24 community at PICA. These dedicated gatherings bookend the festival experience with a blend of celebration, conversation, and decompression, offering space to grab a drink or a bite before the first performance of the day, or cap off the evening after daily events have wrapped up. With a variety of food and drink options to explore, BEFORE & AFTER is more than a pit stop—it's a time to deepen your connections and extend the magic of TBA.
Learn moreJoin us for an in-person group listening session of the new audio documentary about Black Cross Healthcare Collective (BCHC).
Learn moreDo Not Resist (2016): Thursday, April 18, 7:00 p.m. Short: Conditioned Response (2017)
Learn moreAlien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse (2013): Thursday, April 4, 7:00 p.m. Short: Just a Dog (2016)
Learn moreArresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, Oregon (2015): Thursday, March 21, 7:00 p.m. Short: State of Oregon (2017)
Learn moreReimagining Safety (2023): Thursday, March 7, 7:00 p.m. Short: Is Portland Dying? (2024) Q&A with directors Matthew Solomon and Cory Elia, moderated by Alex Vitale
Learn moreThis exhibition examines policing practices in Portland, Oregon, and their relationship to longer local and national histories of oppression through the lens of artists who call Portland their home and those who played witness and documentarian from across the globe.
Learn moreTrue to the title, we’ll slowly share more information about each Time-Released program over the coming months. Read on to learn more.
Learn moreIn 2001, artist and filmmaker K8 Hardy set out to document her daily outfits on video.
Learn moreTHE ACHE is the third installment of Allie Hankins’ five-part performance series of projects entitled, By My Own Hand. Developed in collaboration with Hannah Krafcik, THE ACHE calls attention to the myriad of ways selfhood can be constituted and remixed through creative acts of self-determination; it takes shape as 1) a video exhibition 2) a publication release and 3) a series of free intergenerational art-making workshops facilitated by local artists dee bustos, Muffie Delgado-Connelly, Midori Hirose, and Ralph Pugay.
Learn moreCommissioned by PICA in 2022 and now being released in full,ﾠCove of Harmony, Episode 1 is a musical film about a mysterious and transformative encounter, showcasing an in-studio performance by vocalist and composer Holland Andrews, and a conversation between Joseph and Holland.
Learn moreSeba Calfuqueo (b. 1991, Santiago, Chile) is an internationally celebrated artist of Indigenous Mapuche origin. Their work appeals to their Indigenous inheritance to propose critical reflections on the social, cultural, and political status of the Mapuche subject in contemporary Chilean society, in Latin America and the world. Calfuqueo’s work marshals, among other elements, installation, ceramic, performance, and video art to explore the cultural similarities, differences, and stereotypes produced by the melding of Indigenous and Western ways of thinking. Their work often starts from the broad field of performance art, but also extends into videos that are often exhibited later and sometimes together with elements used in the action itself.
Learn moreCurated by Roya Amirsoleymani and Felisha Ledesma, Remembering to Remember: Experiments in Sound is a multifaceted program of 15+ international, national, and local artists spanning six live performances; five newly commissioned multichannel compositions; four film/video works at the intersection of sound and moving image; and one month of artist residencies, community workshops, and public engagements. The container for this breadth of programming is an exhibition that will be on view at PICA from February 17 to March 19, 2023, with an opening reception on Friday, February 17, 2023, 6:00 - 8:000 pm. Artists include Adee Roberson, Alison O’Daniel, bone lattice, Crystal Quartez, Hiro Kone, Kite & Robbie Wing, Lucy Liyou, Nivhek, Nyokabi Kariũki, Reese Bowes, Saint Abdullah, Sholeh Asgary, Synth Library Portland, Takashi Makino, and Tomoko Sauvage.
Learn moreCelebrated New York and Florida filmmaker Sasha Wortzel debuts her films on the West Coast in this one-night screening. Blending the archival and the imaginary, Wortzel uses film to examine queer place-making, geographies of resistance, and the systems that marginalize, extract, and erase communities, peoples, and histories. The films will be followed by a Q & A with Wortzel.
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