NW Film & Video Festival - Opening Night

Opening Night kicks of with a collection of short films.

SHORTS I
Preceding tonight’s screening, the 2011 Oregon Media Arts Fellowship will be awarded.

FROG
AUSTIN ANDREWS / VANCOUVER, BC
(NAR) A relationship comes into focus and then back out again all in one long take. “Just how the Prince became a Frog.” —GD. (15 mins.)

POINT NO POINT
JENNIFER CAMPBELL / VANCOUVER, BC
(EXP) The artist trudges into the Pacific Ocean to become a human lighthouse. “A movie for waders lost in darkness at land’s end.” —GD. (4 mins.)

SHUT UP AND RIDE
MICHAEL WARD / PORTLAND
(NAR) The time has come for two friends to sell their tandem bike. Braking up is hard to do. (9 mins.)

CROSSINGS
BRIAN LIBBY / PORTLAND
(EXP) Frolicsome editing turns Portland’s Fremont Bridge into a roller coaster ride. “Celebrates something I do all the time, going and coming—and like doing, more coming than going.” —GD. (4 mins.)

LANDSCAPES
LAUREL DEGUTIS / PORTLAND
(NAR) “A hymn to the mundane things between people, the in-between times, the lovely lulls.” —GD. (7 mins.)

MUMBLES
RICK RAXLEN / VICTORIA
(ANI) Raxlen’s hand-drawn animation sits in with Oscar Peterson. “An abstract, heartfelt illustration of great music.” —GD. (2 mins.)

INTO DARKNESS
JOHN WALLER / PORTLAND
(DOC) Breathtakingly beautiful and surprisingly suspenseful, this voyage underground reveals the wonders just under the surface. “A compelling adventure that takes away the need to ever pursue such a pastime oneself.” —GD. (15 mins.)

DEAR PETER
ORLAND NUTT / PORTLAND
(EXP) This quick and beguiling tête-à-tête is offered as a musical biography of Peter MacArthur. “The Best of Frittering with a Vengeance Films.” —GD. (2 mins.)

THE TRUE BELIEVERS
NATHANIEL BENNETT / MEDFORD
(NAR) Lukas takes to the woods with his endearing and motley crew to prove the vast government conspiracy that is endangering the Bigfoot. “TRUE BELIEVERS makes you realize once and for all why poor Sasquatch must never be found.” —GD. (25 mins.)