nwFilmCenter

Sept/Oct 2007

Sun, Sep 9, 2007 - Thu, Nov 8, 2007

As you experience the diverse films in ECO-SICKO, we hope you'll join us in reflection and wonderment about what or who our environment really is and consider the factors that shape the worlds we live in. We've selected works of passion and imagination that grapple with prophetic eco-systems affecting man, woman, and beast/machine. The implications are myriad, and notions of "inside"and "outside" are swirled. Though survival is a theme, it is even more so a dream. ECO-SICKO is an effort to establish the terms for a filmic enviro-awareness that is both fantasy-friendly and eyes-wide-open committed. Thanks to Portland writer Jacques Boyreau for the inspiration and program notes for this series. Boyreau is the author of "Trash: The Graphic Genius of Xploitation Movie Poster Art," "The Male Mystique," and the upcoming "Supertrash." He is soon to open Night Gallery (nightgallerypdx.com), a salon mixing cinema and fine art. Thanks also to Pacific Film Archive curator Steve Seid

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Human Rights on Film

While cinema can provide entertainment and escape, for many committed filmmakers and viewers it is a vital medium of information and a powerful tool for social change. Tackling wide ranging, thought-provoking issues, activist filmmakers help deepen our awareness of the values of dignity, equality, and justice as they tell universal stories of human struggle, sacrifice, and triumph. We hope that the works presented in Global Concern will broaden understanding and stimulate involvement as they reveal the hardship, courage, and commitment of those whose hearts and minds are focused on the many challenges confronting humanity.

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TBA: On Screen

In partnership with PICA and Cinema Project, we are pleased to present this series of time-based media works informed by visual and performance art practices. For a complete schedule of PICA's Time Based Art performances and events, go to www.pica.org.

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Special Screenings

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