From Treeverse (2011) directed by John Waller
Cinema Project partners with the 35th Portland International Film Festival this year to bring a full program of short films by Oregon directors.
This is the really fast way to see ten films by nine directors.
From the PIFF website.
SHORT CUTS VI: MADE IN OREGON
Sponsored by Pro Photo Supply.
67 Minutes
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DIRECTOR: Lawrence Johnson -
A middle-aged man and his young female student take an awkward trip through America’s Southwest. (7 mins.)LANDSCAPE WITH DUCK
DIRECTOR: Patrick Neary -
A wayward duck tries to catch up with his companions on their migration south in this hand-drawn animated short. (4 mins.)ENTERING THE ATMOSPHERE
DIRECTOR: Brian Libby -
This catchy edit of the filmmakers’ home movies and astronomic images compares the concepts of birth and arrival. (4 mins.)MOSSGROVE/BED OF MOSS
DIRECTOR: Kurtis Hough -
Hough slugs it out in the forested Northwest in this memorable diptych. (10 mins.)DEAR PETER, GOATS
DIRECTOR: Orland Nutt -
Nutt successfully documents the normal goats of Glacier National Park for his friend, the unreliable videographer Peter. (2 mins.)DEAR PETER, YAKS
DIRECTOR: Orland Nutt -
In this video letter to Peter, filmmaker Nutt confesses that yaks confuse him and ice should fear him. (2 mins.)SHINE
DIRECTOR: Jesse Blanchard -
Members of a barbershop quartet fear their moment out of the spotlight. (3 mins.)SALTY
DIRECTOR: Malia Jensen -
Possibly hilarious, possibly erotic (depending on your sexual and comedic fetishes) art converges with behavioral science when cattle find an anatomically correct salt lick in their pasture. (13 mins.)TREEVERSE
DIRECTOR: John Waller -
Two arborists spend five days traversing the canopy of a grove of Oregon white oaks. (15 mins.)271
DIRECTOR: Spencer Alexander -
A dumpster diver (Andy Copeland) has no difficulty holding up both ends of a conversation with his new friend in Oregon’s “Best Picture” winner of the 2011 48-Hour Film Project. (7 mins.)
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1 Brian Libby // Feb 14, 2012 at 8:54 am
Thanks for sending out this notice. Here’s a link to my short “Entering The Atmosphere” playing in this PIFF program: http://vimeo.com/27667578. It asks for a password, which is: petepuma
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