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TBA:10 Dayna Hanson THE SHORT FILMS OF DAYNA HANSON

This program of dance films, experimental shorts and kinesthetic music videos spans film, music, dance and theater.

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TBA:10 The Wooster Group THERE IS STILL TIME..BROTHER

Controlled by the audience, this 360-degree interactive war takes on a new narrative scope with each choice to look or turn away.

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TBA:10 ON SIGHT: Charles Atlas

A five-channel video installation based on Atlas’ early memories of tornado alerts in his childhood home of St Louis, Missouri.

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TBA:10 ON SIGHT: John Smith

A commanding voiceover appears to direct the action in a busy street, until the audience realizes that the director is fictional.

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TBA:10 ON SIGHT: Ronnie Bass

Synth-based soundtracks underscore two videos that dream of an escape to a better place, and the start of a new world.

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TBA:10 Shirin Neshat WOMEN WITHOUT MEN

Adapted from a novel by Iranian author Shahrnush Parsipur, Neshat's debut feature weaves the stories of five women during the 1953 coup.

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TBA:10

Join us September 9-19, 2010 in Portland, Oregon for a ten-day happening of contemporary performance, dance, music, and new media, with an additional month of visual arts installations.

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TBA:09 THE WORKS: Winnipeg Babysitter

In Winnipeg in the late 1970s, anyone with a dream, concept, or exhibitionist politic would be endowed with airtime and professional production services.

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TBA:09 OUTSIDE: Tyler Wallace & Nicole Dill

This mobile performance-based outdoor video installation examines the lines between private and public, voyeurism and exhibitionism.

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TBA:09 ON STAGE: Daniel Barrow

Overhead projection combines with video, music, and live narration to tell the story of a garbage man with a vision to create an independent phone book.

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TBA:09 ON SCREEN: Erased James Franco

Denied the charged interplay with other actors, Franco adopts a strangely flat affect, imbuing the film with a dialectic quality.

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TBA:09 ON SCREEN: Kalup Linzy

Kalup Linzy has been creating episodes of Conversations Wit De Churen since 2003 as part of a multidisciplinary practice that includes videos, performances, and music.

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TBA:09 OUTSIDE: Hitoshi Toyoda

Toyoda has worked exclusively in the medium of slideshows, consisting of images taken in the course of his daily life, for the past decade.

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TBA:07 ON THE STAGE: KOMMER

KOMMER, Dutch for "sorrow," traces the intersecting paths of six people as they race through inventive evasions, slapstick parlor tricks and dialogue culled from a soap opera in their search for something human and familiar.

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TBA:07 ON SITE: The Lincoln Film Conspiracy (LFC)

The Lincoln Film Conspiracy is a 30-minute film that combines archival footage, new video segments and digital image manipulation.

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TBA:06 ON SCREEN: TREVOR PAGLEN & THE SPECULATIVE ARCHIVE

Artist, writer, and “experimental geographer” Trevor Paglen, and The Speculative Archive (Julia Meltzer and David Thorne) join forces in a program investigating the secret underworld of government and the war on terror.

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TBA:06 THE WORKS: OREGON DEPARTMENT OF KICK ASS

On September 11, the Oregon Department of Kick Ass presents an evening of films assembled by Vanessa Renwick which cast a meditative gaze on death in many forms.

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TBA:06 ON SCREEN: LAURIE ANDERSON FILM

Commissioned by EXPO 2005 Aichi, Japan, Hidden Inside Mountains is a high definition film that debuted in Japan at WORLD EXPO 2005 on the largest high definition Astrovision screen in the world and features an original score written and recorded by Laurie Anderson with additional vocals by singer/performer Antony (of Antony and the Johnsons).

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TBA:06 OUTSIDE: MACK MCFARLAND & DENNIS NYBACK

Portland-based artist Mack McFarland teams up with film archivist Dennis Nyback to revamp our collective memory...

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TBA:06 ON SIGHT: BETH CAMPBELL

Campbell’s single-channel piece is a voyeuristic view into a personal history playing out with multiplying endings.

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