The Schnitzer Cinema, the monthly film series co-presented with the Cinema Pacific film festival and featuring free popcorn and other refreshments, returns in February its winter season of new independent films and filmmaker dialogues.
featuring Skype dialogue with filmmaker Alysa Nahmias
Unfinished Spaces (2011, 86 min.) follows three architects as they return to Cuba, after forty years in exile, to finish what was considered the world’s most spectacular and futuristic art school, which the country’s revolution had inspired and then abandoned. Todd McCarthy for the Hollywood Reporter describes Unfinished Spaces as “an apt and unstressed metaphor for the history of the Cuban revolution itself … lucidly filmed and absorbing.”
featuring Skype dialogue with Black Maria festival director John Columbus
The Black Maria Film and Video Festival returns to Eugene for the third year. The festival is an international juried competition with a mission to exhibit and reward cutting-edge works from independent film and video makers. Animated, documentary, and experimental films by established and emerging artists will be featured in this year's program.
Artist and filmmaker Sharon Lockhart's luminous work of landscape and portraiture explores labor, ritual, and multiple senses of time. Co-sponsored by the University of Oregon Department of Art.
The Animated Films of Stacey Steers
with guest filmmaker Stacey Steers
On the opening night of Cinema Pacific (April 18-22) Steers will take the audience on a tour of her media installation, Night Hunter, on display at the JSMA April 18-May 13. Preceding this will be a program of the artist’s animated films. Totem (1999, 11 min.) explores our evolving relationship to the animal world. Phantom Canyon (2006, 10 min.) explores a woman’s fantastical journey through memories and incorporates figures from Eadweard Muybridge’s motion studies. In Night Hunter (2011, 16 min.), composed of more than 4,000 collages, the actress Lillian Gish is seamlessly appropriated from silent-era cinema and plunged into a new and haunting role.
Lech Majewski’s The Mill and the Cross (2011, 92 min.) makes use of traditional and contemporary film technologies, allowing the audience to live inside The Procession to Calvary, an epic 1564 painting by Flemish master Pieter Bruegel. Rutger Hauer plays Bruegel, Michael York portrays his friend Jonghelinck, and Charlotte Rampling plays Mary.
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