For 2015, the Cinema Pacific Fringe Festival was an exercise in media creativity inspired by the 1969 “wuxia” martial arts classic A TOUCH OF ZEN. Participants were invited to re-appropriate images and sounds from A TOUCH OF ZEN into a 2-5 minute video and/or audio remix that responded to the film. The best entries, selected by a jury of filmmakers and curators, were displayed during the Cinema Pacific film festival and on this website. The three top jury winners received cash awards of up to $500.

See the 2015 guidelines, original film clip, and the winners below:

 

 

2015 WINNERS

 

FIRST PRIZE
Brittney Reinholtz
“You Don’t Scare Me”
2:09
A resampling of “A Touch Of Zen,” with emphasis on the use of speed, fast-forwarding, and reversing. Scanned images of hand drawn watercolor Chinese lettering is also overlaid on the video to further define the internal struggle of the battling characters in the video. A few of the words written in the Chinese watercolors are “zen”, “peace”, and “courage.”

 

SECOND PRIZE
Jacinta Filiaci
“Touches of Zen”
2:02

 

THIRD PRIZE
Alex Kramer
“A Trap of Zen”
3:08
A Trap of Zen is a quickly cut narrative with some sweet beats produced by yours truly. Even with an unfinished narrative, the beats stay groovy with an original soundtrack sampled from “A Touch of Zen”.

 

HONORABLE MENTION
Matt Cornelius
“Hunted”
2:54
Ou-Yang Nin tracks his prey deep into the forest. What isn’t clear is who is hunting who. This remix shows the power of editing and how it can be used to change a narrative.

 

 

$10 public/$5 students and seniors and museum members

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SCREENINGS AND PERFORMANCES

8:00 p.m. Fringe Festival Video Remix Awards

See the winning video remixes of the wuxia martial arts classic A Touch of Zen and meet the artists.

8:30 p.m. The Animated Worlds of Joanna Priestley

Joanna Priestley will present her latest film Bottle Neck and a selection of works from her illustrious career. “One of America’s leading non-narrative animators, Priestley has pushed the walls of the medium.” (Jim Ridley, City Pages).

 

9:30 p.m. Game App Demo by Mountain Machine Studios (Portland)

Mountain Machine Studios, one of five innovative companies selected to be part of Oregon Story Board’s first accelerator program, will demonstrate their remarkably creative game apps, including Mayday Deep Space and the soon-to-be-released The Second River.

 

10:15 p.m. Performance by Filipino filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik

Kidlat Tahimik, in between tonight’s Bijou screening of his classic The Perfumed Nightmare and tomorrow night’s premiere of Balikbayan #1, will present a live solo performance.