Whitsell Auditorium
1219 SW Park Ave
Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 8pm

Event type: OPB Standard Event
Event Description: OCT 15 WED 8 PM, CINEMA PROJECT AND NORTHWEST FILM CENTER PRESENT, AN INTERVIEW BY SCOTT MACDONALD:, TODD HAYNES AS AVANT-GARDE FILMMAKER, US 2008, Film writer Scott Macdonald interviews Portland iconoclast Todd Haynes on the evolution of his work, from his early experimental shorts to the stylistic grandeur of films like VELVET GOLDMINE, FAR FROM HEAVEN and I'M NOT THERE.
Cost: $8 general, $7 PAM members, students and seniors, $5 SSC Members
Ticket Phone: 503 2211156
More info: www.nwfilm.org

TJ NORRIS: INFINITUS [Tribryd Pt III] @ New American Art Union 922 SE Ankeny Street @ 10th May 7 - June 22, 2008 Hours: Thursday through Sunday, 12-6PM Sound by C. Renou RECEPTION: Saturday, May 10th, 6-9PM Install week has finally arrived. Preparations are being made, the Video Gentlemen's station wedge has been de-installed and the dust cleared, Cinema Project has completed their [...]

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Cast: Jordan Dykstra

Hey Beautiful People! It's the last few days of TJ Norris' multimedia show "Infinitus" at the New American Art Union, so get yourself down there! It's exciting to see TJ work his magic here, thanks in part to a generous artists' stipend from the New American Art Union which allowed him to have all the details of this show made just right.

Enter the room and you immediately hear the urban soundscape written by Christian Renou. All visuals associated with this show are placed either at floor or ceiling level, so the viewer is really forced to use their body to experience the work (something I've always been a champion of with installation art.) ...

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One of the best pieces of advice I ever received as a reader was to watch a ton of Laurel and Hardy before delving into the works of Samuel Beckett. Not only did that tip introduce me to a whole new world of deconstructable silliness that I could unpack with the aid of my then-trusty bong, but it took the intimidating edge off of reading Krapp's Last Tapes and More Pricks Than Kicks. To this day, I have a hard time picturing Vladimir and Estragon as anything but a beanpole and butterball in bowler hats, but that advice helped me tune into on Beckett's bleak humor.

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Mini-reviews of four Hollis Frampton films screened at Cinema Project last week (thanks to David Abel for the recommendation):

NOCTILUCA (MAGELLAN'S TOYS) (1974) Meditations on the aperture (Galileo's Magellan's, the Lumieres'), with uncanny resolve into MasterCard logo.

OTHERWISE UNEXPLAINED FIRES (1976) If you're going to San Francisco, wear those sad trees that lean into the wind above the Sutro Baths, chrome clockwork horse in Musee Mechanique (still there), & birds from Brakhage's Colorado chicken ranch in your hair. (Come from the east, so movement is against the eye's home syntax.)

WINTER SOLSTICE (SOLARIUMAGELANI) (1974) Primordial fire porn.

MINDFALL PARTS I & VI (BIRTH OF MAGELLAN) (1980) Spanish handhelds taxonomize plant life outside the mission walls.