When theater director Penny Allen asked her neighbor, Eric Edwards, to shoot her first feature film, he brought along a friend named Gus Van Sant to do sound.
Poet Walt Curtis (pictured above) was in the cast. Van Sant first read Curtis’ unpublished novella, Mala Noche, as a result of this shoot.
Property is about a group of Portland friends who attempt to pool their financial resources to buy a house together. It gave a start to writer-director Penny Allen, cinematographer Eric Edwards, director Gus Van Sant and actor Cork Hubbert. It built on the careers of writer Walt Curtis (who appears as himself) and painter Henk Pander, who did set design.
I hereby claim Property as an Oregon film.
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1 Un Film De Penny Allen Opens In Paris | Oregon Movies, A to Z // Feb 10, 2010 at 9:34 am
[...] is a seminal figure in Portland film history – her first film, Property, gave two recent art school graduates named Gus Van Sant and Eric Edwards their first [...]
2 Eckhoff & Kaltwasser Defend The City | Oregon Movies, A to Z // Mar 3, 2010 at 2:08 pm
[...] with them. After sound came in, we dropped our feature filmmaking habit. We picked it up again in the 70’s, and it has been building speed. This year we sent Cold Weather and Some Days Are Better Than [...]
3 Scorecard: Who Came Here? | Oregon Movies, A to Z // Apr 26, 2010 at 3:37 pm
[...] Allen shot Property in 1978, and launched the second stage of Oregon [...]
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