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“Movies in the Pearl” begins Wednesday. This is the latest entry in free summer movies in Portland. They still haven't released a full schedule (added the full schedule after the jump), but there will be early works from NW Directors including: Gus Van Sant, Jim Blashfield, Will Vinton, Joan Gratz, Todd Korgan, Mitchell Rose, and John Callahan.

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Press Release:

BridgePort Brewing Company, Oregon's oldest craft brewery, is teaming up with Asa Flats + Lofts to present "Movies In The Pearl", featuring shorts from local area filmmakers commissioned by the Northwest Film Center.  Movie trivia will be held from 7:30-8:30 p.m. followed by a collection of short films from approximately 9 — 10 p.m. every Wednesday night from July 29th to August 26th.

The events will take place between Marshall and Northrup on NW 13th Avenue just outside of BridgePort Brewpub + Bakery in the Pearl.

Free and open to the public, movies are shown in an urban outdoor theater setting where guests are encouraged to bring their own chairs, as seating is limited.  BridgePort Brewpub will offer guests an assortment of freshly baked pizza by the slice as well as a selection of signature BridgePort Brews.  A portion of all beverage sales on movie nights will go to benefit the NW Film Center and its mission to encourage the study, appreciation, and utilization of the moving image art

Movies in the Pearl
Every Wednesday from July 29th to August 26th
BridgePort Brewpub + Bakery
Between Marshall and Northrup on NW 13th Avenue (1313 NW Marshall Street, Portland, OR 97209)
Cost: FREE

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7/29/09……………………………………………………

AND SHE WAS

Jim Blashfield / Portland

Selected as one of Rolling Stone's 100 Best Music Videos of All Time, the Talking Heads' song comes to life with lawn mowers, vacuum cleaners and other suburban artifacts levitating through a shifting, photocopied landscape.

(4-1/2 mins.)

MOON GIRL

Henry Selick / Portland

When avid night fisher Leon gets swept into the Moon by a magic constellation, he meets the Moon Girl, the latest in a long line of proprietors who carefully guard the moonlight against the monsters who seek to destroy it.

(9 mins.)

DARLING DARLING

Matthew Lessner / Nehalem

A fine exercise in sweet surreal suburban behavior, centering on a few priceless visual conceits, audacious lighting, and a superb performance by Mr. Michael Cera.”

(8 mins.)

MONA LISA DESCENDING A STAIRCASE

Joan Gratz / Portland

This seamless survey of modern art takes the viewer on an astonishing journey through this century's greatest works by recreating them in clay painting.

(9 mins.)

WIND

Chel White / Portland

This allegorical perspective on climate change offers a haunting and ultimately empowering view of our planet.

(5 mins.)

DANDELION

Grace Carter and Holly Andres / Portland

A stream of consciousness tour through the filmmakers' memories of the loss of their mothers.

(7 mins.)

BASTARD WANTS TO HIT ME

Courtney Booker and Aaron Sorenson / Portland

A weirdly lucid cartoon nightmare.

(3 mins.)

PILEDRIVER

Calvin Lee Reeder / Seattle

Why bother with background checks when you're in love?

(14 mins.)

8/5/09……………………………………………………

THE BIG ASS WORLD OF SCIENCE

Mike Wellins / Portland

A wild, break-neck spoof of instructional science videos.

(5 mins.)

NICKEL AND DIMIN' IT WITH BUDDY

Tomas Soderberg / Portland

Buddy, a homeless man in Portland, makes his living returning cans and bottles.

(7 mins.)

BRIDE OF RESISTOR

Mark Gustafson / Portland

An AC-DC dilemma gives Mr. Resistor a whole new outlook on life.

(6 mins.)

A PAINFUL GLIMPSE INTO MY WRITING PROCESS

Chel White / Portland

Noir-like praise to a prose writer's problems.

(1 min.)

I THINK I WAS AN ALCOHOLIC

John Callahan with Kelley Baker & Laura di Trapani / Portland

Callahan exposes the history of his own drunken self-destruction and recovery with zero self-pity, sub-zero righteousness and maximum laughs.

(4-1/2 mins.)

TWO

Nick Peterson / Portland

The universal saga of love lost.

(10 mins.).

GROWN-UP

Joanna Priestley / Portland

Growing up, growing old. What about middle-aging?

(7 mins.)

THE PULL

Andrew Blubaugh / Portland

Before Andy and John made the transition from friends to boyfriends, they decided the exact date that they would break up.

(8 mins.)

JUNIOR

Gus Van Sant / Portland

A man, a cat, and a guitar. All the entertainment you need.

(3 mins.)

POPULI

David Russo / Seattle

An utterly fantastical journey of humanoid sculptures through various time-lapsed environments of the Northwest region.

(8 mins.)

8/12/09……………………………………………………

PANCREAS

Jim Blashfield / Portland

Blashfield animates Weird Al Yancovik with the appropriate wackiness and bravado.

(4 mins.)

DEERE JOHN

Mitchell Rose and Jamey Hampton / Portland

Absurdist and elegant, heavy machinery makes for an unlikely pas de deux.

(5 mins).

NATE PRESTON: KING OF PORTLAND

Andrew Dickson / Portland

Performer Dickson gets out from in front of the camera to investigate a member of the Portland hipster glitterati.

(7 mins.)

CREAMERY BIRDS

Brian Libby / Portland

This portrait of a creamery in Portland's central eastside observes the balletic movements of the birds that gather there.

(3 mins.)

JOHNNY BAGPIPES

Todd Korgan / Portland

Meet the hardest rocking bagpipe player to ever walk Portland streets. Coming out to his Irish father wasn't easy; nor will realizing his dreams to have a plaid tour bus, or jet, and to open for Metallica.

(12 mins.)

DIRT

Chel White / Portland

Oddly reminiscent of a 50's sci-fi film, a man's strange obsession with dirt starts as a childhood game, but eventually manifests itself on a most surreal level.

(4 mins.)

MUSICAL OFFERING

Nick Peterson / Portland

Homage to Esquivel.

(7 mins.)

A EULOGY FOR MEMORY

Karl Lind / Portland

Utilizing imagery inherent in digital image making, Lind's film imbues the familiar genre of found footage filmmaking with a new visual urgency.

(2 mins.)

ANANDA

Mike Smith / Portland

Dali meets Bollywood in this surreal fantasy of a man wandering through the bleak industrial wasteland of his mind where a magical childhood memory ignites a joyous wish that the girl of his dreams might escape a tradition that keeps her from him.

(5 mins.)

FOUND FOOTAGE

Clancy Dennehy / Vancouver, B.C.

Found inside a Super 8 camera at a garage sale, you can you can appreciate the images as objet d'art or just enjoy the rollicking guitar soundtrack and sunny images of a boy and his mom frolicking amongst the old growth.

(4 mins.)

8/19/09……………………………………………………

SYMPATHIQUE

Pink Martini / Portland

A punchy, post-modern language lesson delivered a la mode by Pink Martini.

(3 mins.)

THE GREAT COGNITO

Barry Bruce & Will Vinton / Portland

In the course of his free-associating account of WWII, a stand-up comic whose shtick is mutating into the people he impersonates becomes everyone from the Andrew Sisters to Winston Churchill to the Japanese army.

(4 mins.)

TO REMEMBER THAT OUR SKIES ARE THE SAME SKIES

Chris Lael Larson / Portland

Exquisite, state-of-the-art motion graphics poetically render the universality of humanity.

(3 mins.)

NO BIKINI

Claudia Morgado Escanilla / Vancouver, BC

A young girl defies convention during her summer swim .

(8 mins.)

A MAN AND HIS PANTS

Christopher Tenzis / Portland

Dissecting a pratfall evolves into the editor's rollicking drum solo. Elmer Fudd goes Dada.

(4 mins.)

THE SUBCONSCIOUS ART OF GRAFFITI REMOVAL

Matt McCormick / Portland

Reclassifying graffiti as art is not a new idea in art circles — but what about those patches of paint that city workers and establishment owners roll over the graffiti?

(16 mins.)

BRITTON, SOUTH DAKOTA

Vanessa Renwick / Portland

The lack of narrative invites dressing these cinematic dolls with futures, now histories.

(8 mins.)

3 OUT OF 4

Stephen Slappe / Portland

A charming portrait of a dying breed: the giant rotating sign.

(1 min.)

SCAREDYCAT

Andrew Blubaugh / Portland

A thoughtful and provocative essay stemming from the filmmaker's violent mugging and its aftermath.

(13 mins.)

BY MODERN MEASURE

Matthew Lessner / Nehalem

Two young Americans meet outside a Taco Bell in this stylish spree right out of the French New Wave.

(6 mins.)

8/26/09……………………………………………………

HAVE YOU SEEN PATSY WAYNE?

Todd Korgan / Portland

In this pseudo-documentary, the love child of Patsy Cline and John Wayne is a woman whose charming insanity and breathless observations on family, identity and sexual disabilities are truly stranger than fiction.

(7 mins.)

PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN 1947-2007

Margot Quan Knight / Seattle

A woman, well documented by home snapshots, ages before our eyes.

(2 mins.)

THE GOOGLIE EYE MOVIE

Zak Margolis / Portland

In 1974, Howard Lester began obsessively taking photographs of people wearing funny glasses known as: googlie eyes." The first was of a newborn baby named Zak Margolis. 25 years later, the subject returned to create this homage to an amazing collection.

(10 mins.)

I AM (NOT) VAN GOGH

David Russo / Seattle

A misfit artist proposes a film production to a confused public arts festival panel.  Just give him the money!

(5 mins. )

TRANSGENIC ROMANCE

Morgan Currie / Portland

One of those genetic engineering melodramas—— a torrid romance, they met in a Petri dish.

(6 min)

MAGIC HOSTESS, THE ELECTRIC CAN OPENER

Rob Tyler / Portland

An homage to the beauty of old-school domestic appliances and obscure canned cuisine.

(3 mins.)

STREETCAR NAMED PERSPIRE

Joanna Priestley

Portland

Priestley's animated roller coaster rides through menopause both previews and celebrates—depending on your age—one of life's most thrill-filled experiences.

(6 mins.)

HELLO, THANKS

Andrew Blubaugh / Portland

Weaving off the cuff commentary and interviews with re-enactments and text, Blubaugh recounts his romance with personal.

(8 mins.)

THE DOWAGER'S FEAST

Joan Gratz / Portland

In Gratz's unique "clay painting,” powerful, abstract images swirl to the music of Portland's Three Leg Torso.

(5 mins.)

THE DISCIPLINE OF D.E.

Gus Van Sant / Portland

Everything could be so simple.

(9 mins.)