“To Die For” & “Kids” Film Set Photo Exhibit

Oregon Film is proud to sponsor an exhibit at Koerner Camera featuring photos from the sets of Gus Van Sant’s “To Die For” and Larry Clark’s “Kids” taken by #OregonMade cinematographer Eric Alan Edwards to celebrate the 30th anniversary of those film’s release.

Born in Portland, Eric Alan Edwards is a veteran of more than fifty narrative projects, including cult favorites like “My Own Private Idaho,”  “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues,” period biopics like “Lovelace,” high-end comedies like “The Change-Up” and “Knocked Up,” as well as John Krasinski’s “The Hollars.”

From Eric’s statement about the exhibit:

We filmed “To Die For” in Toronto Canada in late 1994.

This was the first large studio film (Columbia) for Gus Van Sant and me. We had done “My Own Private Idaho” and “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” prior to that, but this didn’t seem particularly intimidating largely because Gus was such a benevolent and unworried director. We still had innocence in us.

We were telling Buck Henry’s multi-layered acerbic modern tale in a bold and interesting way by using flash forward, flashback, by crosscutting narratives simultaneously using the different mediums of: broadcast news video; 16mm film (a la BBC documentary style), and with amateur/consumer home video, using surveillance camera photography and, employing both omniscient and objective camera (the actor delivering straight to the camera like Woody Allen in “Annie Hall”).

The exhibit will officially open on Tuesday, September 17 at Koerner Camera, 2828 SE 14th Ave, Portland.

There will be an opening night reception. Further information for that can be found here.